Have you ever thought how easy is nowadays to get yourself into the heart of action? You can browse yourself into anywhere in just a few seconds. Internet is crucial media for minor sports and affairs. World Wide Web crushes the borders of time, size and space.

Think about Disc Golf without internet? Would you call to you buddy to hear how their local tournament went? Maybe, but would you do it consistently? Would you like to wait DGWorld to see National Tour reports and pictures? Would you like to wait that all?

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Disc Golf is considered a professional sport - at least in PDGA where tournaments have money prizes. What this means?

This means pro division players are playing for money. They pay entry fee to get into tournament and they try to qualify to top 1/3 to cash. Most of the purse is from players pockets. Most of the players are good friends. There are few touring players who competes 30 events in the 10-month long season. Few make living - most not.

I have faced following question many times in the last 2 years: Can you make living with playing Disc Golf?

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Why Disc Golf is not growing faster? Why there is still a lot of people who do not even know our sport? Why our Major events do not get more on-site spectators? Why Frisbee´s still sells more than golf discs?

There is only one answer: TV and Media coverage
Scenario: You have arranged a superb tournament. Players are happy about generous payout and amateurs are exited about killer player package. There was only few non-disc-golfing spectators watching the finals. Not a single story on papers next day…This seems to be a story too common. What should be done differently?

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New Disc Golfing season is right behind the corner! More and more people considers Disc Golf as a year-around-sport. For example in Finland there is 10–15 winter tour tournaments (during December-March) even there is a lot of snow and the temperature gets below 0 degrees (Celsius).

We have experienced a great year 2006 and looking into 2007 seems as promising. We are truly one of the fastest growing sports out there and we will maintain this pace. Still we need to look into future and set long term goals and visions. PDGAs upcoming headquarters will see the true revolution of this sport. Here´s one vision of 2010:

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Season has came to an end and disc golfers are preparing for holidays. It´s good time to list the best of 2006.

Disc Golf “World Tour 2006″. Now we can really say that professional disc golf is world wide! Three amazing Majors in three contingents were held this year. These events have been awarded with a PDGA Major status this year. It all started from Japan and Japan Open (The first ever PDGA Major outside North America). Kozo Shimbo (Disc Golf Hall of Famer) put together a awesome tournament in a place extraordinary. The atmosphere in Japan was something unexpected. There were record field of international players (75+) and we all stayed in the same resort for that week. Some decided to stay longer to learn more about that magnificent country. The tournament was held at Nasu High land Golf Club and we played in world-class ball golf course. It was Steve Rico who clinched the title from playoff against Avery Jenkins.

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To start something new is always exciting. So is this blog. The first thing I want to write here is a short review to What has happened in the last 10 years in Disc Golf. Easiest way to do this is to take you into the past. In this Internet, MMS, Skype and Youtube world we too often forgot how it was back then? We should ask Brian Hoeniger (PDGA Executive Director) for more statistics, but we can also look into past with Wayback Machine. Try these URL addresses for starters:

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