When Zachary Lindsey, a physicist at Berry College in Georgia, decided to run an experiment on how to get the best speed and torque while playing disc golf (aka Frisbee golf), he had no trouble ...

“Even with the growing popularity, there is a general lack of research devoted to the mechanics of disc golf throws.” To help fill in some of the blanks, researchers decided to look into some ...

Common disc types include drivers for long-distance throws, mid-range discs for intermediate ... with a blog and a comprehensive Disc Golf Beginners Guide covering the types of discs, how to ...

Disc golf is the latest sport emerging in popularity ... Each throw counts as a stroke and the total throws for all holes represent the player's score for the round. The player with the fewest ...

The sport was formalized in the 1970s and shares with golf the object of completing each hole in the fewest strokes or, in the case of disc golf, the fewest throws. A disc is thrown from a tee ...