Sport in which players attempt to throw a disc into a target
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Disc golf
Highest governing body
Professional Disc Golf Association
Registered players
255048 (as of April 2023)[1]
Clubs
Yes
Characteristics
Contact
No
Team members
Single competitors, doubles
Type
Outdoor, passive recreation
Equipment
Flying disc, target, tee off location
Presence
Olympic
No
World Games
2001
Disc golf, also known as frisbee golf,[2][a] is a flying disc sport in which players throw a disc at a target; it is played using rules similar to golf.[4]
The sport is usually played on a course with 9 or 18 holes (baskets). Players complete a hole by throwing a disc from a tee pad or tee area toward a basket, throwing again from where the previous throw landed, until the basket is reached. The baskets are formed by wire with hanging chains above the basket, designed to catch the incoming discs, which then fall into the basket. Usually, the number of throws a player uses to reach each basket is tallied (often in relation to par), and players seek to complete each hole in the lowest number of total throws.[5] Par is the number of strokes an expert player is expected to make for a given hole or a group of holes (usually 9 or 18). [6]
The game is played in about 40 countries and, as of April 26, 2023, there are 107,853 active members of the Professional Disc Golf Association (PDGA) worldwide.
^"PDGA Player Search". Professional Disc Golf Association. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
^Delaney, Tim; Tim Madigan (2021). The Sociology of Sports: An Introduction (3rd ed.). McFarland. p. 439. ISBN 9781476644097 – via Google Books.
^Williamson, Alex (26 September 2022). "Frisbee Golf: The Same Thing as Disc Golf, Just Not in the U.S." ReleasePoint. UDisc.
^"What is disc golf". Disc Golf Association. Retrieved 6 May 2017.
^"On Your Own; Connecting a Fairway". The New York Times. 2 July 1990. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 10 May 2017.
^"Golf Scoring Terms (Par, Bogey, Birdie, Eagle, Albatross, and More)". GolfBit. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
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