50 free Disc Golf trivia questions with answers — sports quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
40 free Disc golf trivia questions with answers. Disc golf grew from lunch-break Frisbee tosses at a trash can into a sport with 16,000 courses, and this quiz covers the journey. Forty questions take in 'Steady' Ed Headrick, the Frisbee patent, the first course at Oak Grove Park, the Disc Pole Hole basket, the founding of the PDGA and the ashes that ended up in discs. There are questions on drivers, mid-ranges and putters, turn and fade, hyzer and anhyzer, OB and mandos, tee pads and player ratings. The pros get their due: Ken Climo's twelve world titles, Paul McBeth's 18-under round and $10 million Discraft deal, Ricky Wysocki, Paige Pierce, Kristin Tattar and the record 1,108-foot throw. Easy questions ask what the chains are for; hard ones want the country with the densest courses on Earth and the pie company that named the Frisbee. Every answer was checked against Wikipedia's articles on the sport, its founders, players and gear, and each question carries the sentence that supports it.
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Q 01Who is regarded as the father of both the modern Frisbee and the sport of disc golf?
'Steady' Ed Headrick
He got the idea throwing Frisbees at a trash can during lunch breaks at Wham-O.
Q 02How did Ed Headrick earn the nickname 'Steady Ed'?
His accuracy hitting targets with a Frisbee
He and friends snuck onto golf courses at night to play rounds with discs.
Q 03Where did Headrick design and install the first disc golf course in 1975?
Oak Grove Park, Pasadena
Employees from the nearby NASA Jet Propulsion Lab played at lunch and the game spread across the country.
Q 04In which year did Headrick found the Professional Disc Golf Association?
1976
The same year he and his son Ken started the Disc Golf Association to make discs and targets.
Q 05What did the first disc golf target designed by Headrick consist of?
A bare pole in the ground
The chain-and-basket 'Disc Pole Hole' followed in 1977 and could catch a disc from every direction.
Q 06What did Headrick and his son trademark in 1977?
The Disc Pole Hole
It was the first formal target with chains and a basket, and became the PDGA technical standard.
Q 07What happened to Ed Headrick's ashes after his death in 2002?
They were moulded into discs and sold
The proceeds funded a museum and disc golf centre in Columbia County, Georgia.
Q 08Headrick's redesign of the Frisbee received a US patent in which year?
1967
He was reworking the Pluto Platter mould to remove planet names and happened to thicken the rim, making it more accurate.
Q 09Who invented the flying disc that became the Frisbee, selling the rights to Wham-O in 1957?
Walter F. Morrison
It began with a popcorn-can lid tossed after Thanksgiving dinner in 1937 and became the 1955 Pluto Platter.
Q 10The name 'Frisbee' was borrowed from a Connecticut company that made what?
Pies
Yale students were tossing Frisbie Pie Company tins and calling the Pluto Platter by the same name.
Q 11Why do organised sports say 'disc golf' and 'ultimate' rather than using Wham-O's brand?
It is a registered trademark
Wham-O refused to license the name for 'Frisbee golf', which is partly why Headrick left the company.
Q 12Roughly how many disc golf courses did the UDisc directory list worldwide by end of 2024?
Over 16,000
About 90 percent of them are free to play.
Q 13Which country has the second-most disc golf courses after the United States?
Finland
The US has 75 percent of the world's courses, Finland 7 percent and Canada 3 percent.
Q 21What are the three general categories of disc golf disc?
Drivers, mid-range discs and putters
Drivers have a sharp bevelled edge with mass on the rim; putters fly slow and straight.
Q 22What is the maximum weight of a PDGA-approved disc?
200 grams
Typical golf discs weigh 130 to 180 grams and measure 21 to 22 centimetres across, smaller than an ultimate disc.
Q 23For a right-handed backhand throw, an overstable disc tends to track in which direction?
Left
An understable disc drifts right; manufacturers rate this as 'turn' and 'fade'.
Q 14Which country has the highest density of disc golf courses per square kilometre of dry land?
Estonia
Kristin Tattar, the 2022 women's world champion, is one of its stars.
Q 15How many disc golf courses are there in Antarctica?
One
There are courses on every continent, including 24 in Latin America and 8 in Africa.
Q 16How many holes do most disc golf courses have?
9 or 18
Exceptions usually come in multiples of three, and the longest holes stretch past 1,500 feet.
Q 17What does the PDGA recommend as the average length of a hole?
200 to 400 feet
No hole should be shorter than 100 feet.
Q 18On a course sign, what does a 'mando' tell you?
A required flight path past a line
Signs indicate whether the disc must pass above, below, or to one side of a line.
Q 19Under PDGA rules, how must the disc finish for a basket hole to count?
Resting in the tray or the chains below the support
Hitting the chains often deflects the disc into the basket, but not always.
Q 20By tradition, who throws first from the tee?
The lowest scorer on the previous hole
Players are also expected to stay out of the thrower's sight line and keep quiet.
Q 24In Innova's flight ratings, 'turn' is scored on what scale?
+1 to -5
+1 is the most overstable and -5 the most understable at high speed.
Q 25What is the term for a throw released with the disc angled to follow its natural fall?
Hyzer
An anhyzer angles the disc against its natural flight.
Q 26Why does a flying disc predictably fade at the end of its flight?
Spin persists while velocity drops
Spin adds gyroscopic stability like a top; when the spin and velocity lines cross, the disc begins to fade.
Q 27Who holds the world record for the longest disc golf throw, set in 2016?
David Wiggins Jr.
His 1,108.92-foot throw beat Simon Lizotte's 863.5-foot mark from 2014.
Q 28In the PDGA rating system, what rating does a player who averages the courses' Scratch Scoring Average get?
1000
Those players are considered 'scratch players'; averaging under the SSA pushes a rating above 1000.
Q 29In which year were the PDGA World Championships first held?
1982
They have crowned champions in several divisions annually ever since.
Q 30Ken 'The Champ' Climo won how many PDGA World Championship titles?
Twelve
Nine of them came in consecutive years from 1990 to 1998.