DISC GOLF ASSOCIATION
Disc Golf Association is dedicated to welcoming new generations of young and old into our sport, our parks, and our lives, with confidence and open arms. Disc Golf is our life. Disc Golf is an amazingly simple game that makes no demands, has no limitations, and provides a mechanism that has changed many lives positively.
You will never be sorry if you install a Disc Golf course in your facility. You will be honored by the players and take great comfort 
in the fact that Disc Golf will change your park and perhaps you will be as fortunate as us and Disc Golf will change your life.
Disc golf - Economical, eco-friendly and fosters a dedicated community of players and park stewards.
Disc golf is one of the best lifetime fitness sports. The game is easy to learn, it's a healthy activity and accessible to people of all ages and fitness levels. If you can throw a Frisbee® and you like to have fun, you can play disc golf.
Disc golf courses are found in state, county and neighborhood parks in various climates and terrain all around the country. A disc golf course brings the local community to our parks and attracts disc golfers from the surrounding areas. Disc golf builds dedicated players and disc golf clubs which serve as beneficial additions to a park system. Players take up active roles in course upkeep and maintenance.
Schools have increasingly been adding disc golf to their curriculum finding that kids not only love the sport but that disc golf helps develop critical thinking through scrutinizing and negotiating obstacles. The sport provides a safe means of exercise and can be used for other life lessons like ecology, planning and socialization.
Since playing disc golf is generally free, people from every economic status can enjoy this outdoor sport. Disc golf is a great lifetime activity that people of all ages and abilities can play.
One of today's fastest growing sports!
The sport of disc golf was designed, developed and formalized by the Disc Golf Association and evolved out of one of the offshoots of the many games spawned by the Frisbee craze. The game started with people using Frisbees and aiming at trees, trash cans, light poles, pipes, and whatever else was handy. Today the the game uses Disc Pole Holes invented by the DGA as the targets. A Disc Pole Hole is comprised of a vertical pole surrounded by chains hanging down from a chain hanger at the top and a metal basket below about waist high. The disc hits the chains and falls into the basket.
Disc golf is played much like traditional ball golf. Some of the rules of disc golf are even the same. Disc golf courses are typically 9, 18, 27, or 36 holes long and almost all courses are free. There are no green fees, no caddies, no clubs, no tipping. Golf has manicured greens, but disc golf makes use of the natural terrain as the part of the disc golf course design.
Disc golf is similar to regular golf; however, instead of using golf clubs and balls aiming for a hole, disc golf players use discs and aim for a Disc Pole Hole. The object of the game is to complete each hole in the fewest number of throws, starting from a tee area and finishing at the Disc Pole Hole. Players start at hole one and complete the course in order, playing through to the last hole. The player with lowest total cumulative score wins.
Disc golf differs from regular golf in important ways. Disc golf courses can use a wide variety of terrain. Often times, land not suitable for other park activities or development is perfect terrain for a disc golf course. There is no need for irrigation and time and recourse consuming maintenance.
Disc golf is cheap, convenient and fun. You can buy one disc and start to play. There are over 3,000 disc golf courses in the United States, most of them in public parks.
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The leading disc golf baskets and equipment and the founding company of disc golf.
Since 1975 our Disc Pole Holes™ have met the needs of the top professionals and top recreational disc golf players. We offer our customers over 30 years of expertise and design refinements that began with the sport's first disc golf basket and continue today with the sport's most popular baskets, DGA Mach Series Disc Pole Holes. Our Mach Series of Baskets are found all over the world. Over 3/4 of U.S. disc golf courses have chosen DGA® Disc Pole Holes™. Our patented designs include the sliding link, inner chains, portable base, chain linkage and ring attachments as well as our trademarked Trapper™ basket.
The roots of the sport begin with "Steady" Ed Headrick, the founder of DGA and the driving force responsible for the modern day era of disc sports. Ed Headrick coined and trademarked the term "Disc Golf" when formalizing the sport and invented the Disc Pole Hole™, the first disc golf target to incorporate chains and a basket on a pole.
