Ale Open powered by Prodigy
www.pdga.com/apps/tournament/live/event?eventId=78654&view=Scores&division=MPO&round=3
Sofia Campbell inspired 6th grader
https://www.klcc.org/npr-sports/2024-06-24/eugene-6th-grader-hopes-to-inspire-love-of-disc-golf-with-summer-putting-series
PDGA Scholastic Grants
pdga.com/news/seeds-planted
Bill Nye joins Team Innova
innovadiscs.com/team-news/bill-nye-the-science-guy-joins-team-innova/
DGPT Basket Testing
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lw4pB-IA18g&t=5344s
Sample DGPT Hole Maps
customcoursemaps.com/dgpt-venue-sample-maps/
Music:
Strange Bop by
contreloup
Summary
In this episode of Disc Golf Daily, the host covers various news stories related to disc golf growth. The main topics discussed include tournament results, youth involvement in the sport, PDGA scholastic grants, Bill Nye joining Team Innova, basket approvals, and custom course maps. The episode concludes with a brief discussion on the rivalry between Ricky Wysocki and Paul McBeth.
Keywords
disc golf, growth, tournament results, youth involvement, PDGA scholastic grants, Bill Nye, Team Innova, basket approvals, custom course maps, Ricky Wysocki, Paul McBeth
Takeaways
- Disc golf tournaments and players from Europe are gaining recognition and may join the Pro Tour in the future.
- Youth involvement in disc golf is being encouraged, with initiatives like disc golf putting series and PDGA scholastic grants.
- Bill Nye has partnered with Innova to promote the science behind disc golf.
- Basket approvals and custom course maps are topics of interest in the disc golf community.
- The rivalry between Ricky Wysocki and Paul McBeth has seen a shift in recent years.
Chapters
00:00 Tournament Results and European Players
03:28 Youth Involvement and PDGA Scholastic Grants
05:49 Bill Nye Joins Team Innova
07:30 Basket Approvals and Custom Course Maps
12:07 The Ricky Wysocki and Paul McBeth Rivalry
music by contreloup
(upbeat music) - Hello, race fans, and welcome to Disc Golf Daily. We are the podcast that gets you caught up with Disc Golf News and Growth in about 10 minutes, saving you time and effort. If you wanna dive deeper into any story, links are in the show notes. Today is PDGA Growth Day. Stay tuned after the news for full details. Our number one news story today, the Ola Open presented by Prodigy. Congrats to Donnie L. Davidson, my favorite player in Europe, because you have to have a favorite, don't you? Anyway, he took it down and made it look easy. James Proctor got third, and Eric Oakley got sixth. But the reason we are talking about the Ola Open, besides the fact that we wanted to give Prodigy some love and thanks for being a good tournament sponsor, is that Silva Sarenan continues her insane, winning streak. She went into the final round with a five-stroke lead. After giving away two strokes on hole 13 in the final round, the lead was down to one. Silva would go two down, down the stretch, and win by three. For those of you counting at home, that is a Simpsons handful, four in a row, for the MVP Prodigy. It is great to see these European events and players, some of whom will likely be gracing the Pro Tour in 2025 and beyond. But for the next few weeks, you have to wonder if Paul Revere is riding through Europe proclaiming, the Americans are coming, the Americans are coming. Three if by plane. And our number two news story, Sophia Campbell, a rising sixth grader at Arts and Technology Academy in Eugene, loves to play disc golf. She enjoys it so much that she's a registered professional, and now she's encouraging others, adults and kids alike, to learn to play. She and her father, Gary, also a registered pro, are holding a disc golf putting series all summer long at Out in Baker Park in Eugene. Their goal is to invite new players to the game, foster community, and raise money for local youth serving organizations. She got an interview on KLCC's "Love Cross" with her and her dad, "Love Cross" started out. Let's get it started with an easy question for you. Sophia, how did you first get into disc golf? Sophia replied, "I got into disc golf because my dad was playing and he invited me out." So we played a couple of rounds together and it was super fun. So we continued playing and doing tournaments and stuff. My first tournament was the women's global event. Check out the complete interview on the show notes. Thank you to Sophia and her dad, Gary, for sharing the game they love with the world. It's why we're here. (upbeat music) - Our number three news story, the first round of PDGA Scholastic Grants has gone through. These will help members and their school-affiliated disc golf clubs fund equipment, uniforms, baskets, and other administrative support. One of the grant recipients was Sarah Cunningham, the 2010 PDGA World Champion, a two-time Vibromopen Champion, and a physics teacher at Powdersville High School in Greenville, South Carolina. Sarah said, "Thank you for awarding my school this grant exclamation point. It will allow us to get more students outside to play disc golf. We are very excited to help grow the sport." A couple of schools in Texas, a couple in Virginia, one in North Carolina, Florida, Georgia, as well as Sarah Cunningham, South Carolina School, all received grants from the PDGA to help grow the sport at their schools. Link in the show notes to read more and to apply for the next round. (upbeat music) Our number four news story of the day, Bill Nye joins Team Inova. You heard me right. The pairing of Inova and Bill Nye may seem strange at first, but trust us, there's chemistry here. This is from the Inova blog. Every round of disc golf is a field experiment. There's more science to unpack than you realize. Actually, maybe not. Aerodynamics, gyroscopic motion, kinesiology, and beyond. Inova's Dave Dana-Pace is the original mad scientist of disc golf. Bill Nye, he's the science guy of disc golf. He's been throwing Frisbee's since he was a child playing ultimate in disc golf since college. The man loves to disc. Inova wants to foster that love and hopes Bill Nye's excitement about the sport gets others excited too. I have a funny feeling that it will. (upbeat music) In the pre-event press conference to the preserve, Phil Delaunay was asked about basket approvals going forward. He mentioned that this was something the pro tour is looking at very seriously and is in conversations with the players about. Then, during the event, we see some egregious spit outs over the next three days, some seriously affecting the potential outcome of the tournament. Sometimes one in one does equal two, and it might not equal T two. And I think it's our fifth news story of the day. I'm not quite sure, but we've got some sample DGPT hole maps that were sent to us by an astute listener. What happens when you combine the detail of pro tour hole maps with modern GIS data and cartographic best practices? So if you're watching online, you can see the current DGPT map for hole 17 at Brazos Park East. And this is what custom course maps can do for you. This is a collection of maps of courses and fairways in use during the disc golf pro tour. Check out their website. These maps have been created in an effort to show what we could be seeing. At first, they are startling, but that's just because of the significant difference. The thing I love about these maps is how they provide so much more data without making the maps look too busy. Somehow, they're actually a little easier on the eyes while providing more intuitive data, especially if we get used to the distance numbers. I love the elevation at the bottom as well. One thing I'd adjust is to pick feet or meters. Having them both is a bit much for me. But the elevation is simple to understand. The EBOB is easier to see. The tree lines and hole shape are easier or a push. I love it when people take the work they know and combine it with the hobby they love. This is good stuff. Check out more of it at customcoursemaps.com. These maps actually remind me of when Dustin Juliano first showed me an improved version of the Maple Hill T signs probably back in 2010 or 2012. He showed me what could be done, made the current Maple Hill T signs and stayed with me as the DGPT graphic designer, which is actually now his full time gig. And then boom, a cartographer, a disc golfer goes and takes us to the next level. Color me impressed. And to wrap it up, goat talk, Ricky versus Paul, saw this somewhere on the interwebs, but Paul has many more majors and was dominant for so very long. When Paul and Ricky were both close to their primes, Paul was winning over Ricky more often than the other way around. But father time has a way of evening things out. With the win at the preserve, Ricky's lifetime PDGA earnings are just $5,000 shy of the top earner ever, which is Paul McBeth. Paul has 748,000 to Ricky Wysocki's 743,000. Through 2019, they had competed head-to-head 102 times. Paul won 60 of those, Ricky won 40. The funny thing is how few times they tied because they were usually winning, literally. In that same timeframe, Paul had 43 wins, Ricky had 23. Prior to 2020, if Paul and Ricky were in the field, one of them would win 65% of the time. Wow. Since then though, they've met 55 times. Ricky has won 33 and Paul has won 20. The tides seemed to have shifted. Thank you, Stap Mando, for making it easy to find all that data, by the way. If Ricky passes Paul for the biggest money earnings, does that affect the goat conversation? Yes, it does, but only for one sentence. Until Ricky starts winning majors, it's not a goat conversation at all. Now let's talk some PDGA growth. All right, it's time to talk PDGA growth. At the preserve, the FPO cashline was 939, a little above average, but nothing crazy. The FPO cashline was 1,017. Again, actually that's probably a little bit below average of the men, but holy cow, if you want to cash on the pro tour, just last cash, you have to shoot 1017. This is crazy. These guys are so good and gals. Top 20 earners, when we combine 2023s, top 20 earners through June 25th to 2024s, we're about 20% ahead. 2023s got just shy of 500,000. 2024, we've got 623,000. We are crushing. But who knows how it's gonna shake out. PDGA approvals, no new PDGA approvals for us this week. I wonder if Jeff Homburg's on vacation. 165 in 2023, 120 in 2024. We fell behind this last week. PDGA events is basically a tie. 2024 is running about 1% ahead. PDGA rounds, this is how many people played rounds during PDGA events this year. We're running about 7% behind. It's 316,000 to 293,000. And PDGA members, this is the one we actually, we were keeping about 3 1/2% behind last year's pace. I kept saying three to three and a half, but it was closer to three and a half. This week, we fell off the pace a little bit. (coughs) Excuse me. We are closer to 4% behind the 2023 pace. I'm hoping we can close that gap, but not quite there yet. And just so you know, our highest PDGA number right now, 2 9 0 3 3 8, we are less than 10,000 away from 300,000. I'm just gonna make it a call right now. The call is, can we reach 300,000 by the end of 2024? It's gonna be close. That does it for us today. If you have any thoughts, news or opinions, shoot us an email, discoffdaily@aol.com. Otherwise, have fun, throw 'em straight, tell a friend about discoff daily, and hit the thin gap. (upbeat music) Thank you so much for watching. Please like, subscribe, comment, and share. It really does help us grow. (upbeat music) [MUSIC PLAYING]
