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Area offers three disc golf courses Game is a modern twist on traditional golf By Sandra Landen Machaj
1980s two men became known for the changes that defined the present day form of disc On the campus of the University of Wis- golf. The first was known as “Steady Ed” consin-Parkside on a recent Sunday afternoon, Headrick, who designed the first permanent groups of students could be seen in a wooded disc golf target, one made with chains and a area of the grounds throwing what looked to basket in which to catch the disc. be a Frisbee at a basket mounted on a pole. The second was Dave Dunipace who inAmid the tall grasses, were areas that had vented the modern golf disc in 1983. He been mowed and appeared much like a fair- changed the disc by adding a beveled edge rim way on a golf course. And that is exactly to give the disc greater accuracy. what it was. Not a Mike Luccas conventional golf a student at UWcourse, but a disc Parkside has been golf course complaying disc golf plete with fairways, for about seven greens, and baskets. years and spent Compared to some time explaintraditional golf, ing some of the disc golf is a relarules. tively new game. “There are three While there is some kinds of discs. The thought that it may putter is similar to have been invented a Frisbee,” he said. in some form in the “They fly straight early 1900s, it was and are predictin the 1960s that able.” the modern form of On this day he disc golf began to was using the putevolve. ter. He also exAccording to plained that there some, the game are two other types seemed to grow of discs – the midSANDRA LANDEN MACHAJ Hi-Liter along with the poprange disc and the The object of the game is to throw the driver. Just as in ularity of the Frisbee as people began disc into a basket. The chains help to direct traditional golf to make up games the disc into the basket. where there is a to play with their club for each type newfound toy. Early tournaments in 1963 of shot, so too in disc golf. involved discs being aimed at trees, while in The mid-range discs have slightly sharper Pendleton King Park in Augusta, Ga., players edges making them faster and more stable as would toss the Frisbees targeting 50 gallon they cut through the air. Some tournaments trash cans as their goal. allow only the use of mid-range discs. The Various other forms of Frisbee golf develSee DISC GOLF, Page 6 oped in the ensuing years. In the 1970s and CORRESPONDENT
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Above: Mike Luccas, a student at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside launches a disc shot from a tee at the course on the university’s campus. At left: While the disc may appear slightly convex, it is not the top that determines the type of disc. On the underside are ridges of varied thickness that determine if a disc is a putter, driver, or a midrange disc. SANDRA LANDEN MACHAJ Hi-Liter
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