What is Disc Golf?

Disc Golf, also known as Frisbee Golf, D-Golf or FROLF, is a relatively new type of sport that is somewhat similar to throwing frisbees, but adhere to golf rules. The subject of the game is to get a plastic disk in a large basket on the net in as few attempts. Some disk golf variations allow players only three throws, while other forms allow an unlimited number of throws. The more times they try, the fewer points the player accumulates.

Once the disc lands into the trash, the player goes to the next basket. Most movements, equipment and events in disc Golf are named the same as in golf. For example, the starting point is known as the "designated area of ​​the tees" and each basket is called "hole" or pole hole®. There are nine or 18 hole courses in Disc's Golf, which completed players for up to two hours. Golf courses of professional discs can be established in forest areas or near lakes or rivers to provide added trouble. Players who want fun from the game without competition can buy their ownHole® Online field and install it on their backyards.

The oldest form of disk golf was known as the Frisbee® golf course and was invented in the mid -sixties Amanda Citro, which founded the game in the local park to entertain children. The disc Golf slowly caught up with local teenagers who eventually took sport to their universities across the country. Disco golf has become so popular to U.C. Berkeley Campus that a few years later officially set up the interim golf course Frisbee® officially university officials.

Many parks across the US and Canada offer a disk golf courses that anyone who visits the area can be used, provided they bring their own disk. The Golf Golf Association (PDGA) was founded at the age of 90 and now has 9253 members, most of whom are male play. PDGA oversees more than 2000 disc playgrounds in more than a dozen countries. In aUgusta in Georgia is also an official museum of golf discs.