The Melbourne Disc Golf Club and the Geelong Disc Golf Club invite you to join us on the 23rd and 24th May 2009 for the 2nd inaugural Victorian Disc Golf Open in Melbourne.

We invite people of all ages, regardless of your skill level or experience to come along and try your luck at these 2 challenging courses. The Victorian Disc Golf Open is run by Disc Golfers, for Disc Golfers.

The Victorian Disc Golf Open 2009 website is now up and running. Click the banner above for full event details. Be sure to register early to get a tournament T-Shirt.

In the lead up to the event, we will be posting more and more detailed information on the tournament website. We will be updating the website as the event draws closer with more information on the course preparations, event times, prizes and event sponsors.

www.vicopen.com

If you have any questions about the tournament please don’t hesitate to contact us. Hope to see you all in Melbourne this May!

What a weekend of disc golf!!! Good friends, good weather and great golf what more was needed. I would like to start off by thanking our sponsors Perth Surveying Services, Rockingham golf course, WAFDA, Lion Nathan   (Barefoot Raddler), IGA and Emil Isakson for donating some discs with out these people this tournament wouldn’t have gone as well as it did, so we thank you and hope to get your future support. I would also like to put a huge thank you out there to the Members of the Perth Disc Golf Club everybody in the club put  a lot of effort in on the weekend and i think it really showed with a great tournament well done guys.

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On February 5th three members of the ADG Paul Arden, David Bandy and Chris Finn landed in taiwan to compete in the 2009 Asia Disc Golf Championships.
There was a large field of 75 competitors including international players from America, Japan, Korea and Sweden. Included in this group was the world number 1 David Feldberg and the two top players from Japan Manabo and G. This tournament was also new to the players not only course wise but also in the restriction in the discs they could use. In Asia players are only allowed to use 150g discs were anywhere else in the world you are allowed to use discs up to 180g so this added a challenge to the ADG guys.
 
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What a great tourney with fanastic player spirit & fun; i had a PB & was leading after round 1, but it didn’t last & the 09 Sparks Summers Sizzler champ is Luke Williams.
 
Players were welcomed to the course by a new sign & the park was mowed & cleared of branches, looking good even in the rain. The morning weather was cool, windy & raining so players voted for a later start & went to nearby markets for coffee. Those who believed the weather forecast & stayed indoors were led astray, by mid morn the rain had stopped. The course had baked for the last fortnight so the rain soaked in quickly & didn’t cause slippy tees or slow up rollers. The day remained cool, sunny & windy, ideal for disc golf in summer !!

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Team Australia Chilling with World Champion Dave Feldberg
Left to Right, Chris Finn (WA), Dave Bandy (WA), Paul Arden (VIC), Dave Feldberg (USA)

Three Australian players represented Australian Disc Golf at the 2009 Asia Disc Golf Open in Taipei, Taiwan this weekend. There was a field of 72 players from Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Sweden, USA and Australia. Dave Bandy flew the flag well tied for 8th place with Erich Altoray from Sweden.Chris Finn and Paul Arden placed 22nd and 23rd place respectively. Windy conditions and 150-class play made for an especially challenging event. More detailed write up and photos will be posted in the near future (after competitors have reovered from their long plane rides home).

For preliminary results, please visit the EZ Flying website here.

So we now have six of our seven ADGTour 2009 events locked in and TDs have confirmed dates. So, here is the current schedule of events for 2009:

We will release more details for each event as they become available. TDs, please take advantage of our pre-registration system for your event if you don’t have your own, contact me for more details.

Well, since I have moved to Germany lots of ADG related things have been piling up on my desk. Time to clear house and update the Australian Disc Golf community on various goings on. This will all be in one big post so I have summarised the content here:

• ADGC
• ADGTour 2008 Final Standings
• ADGTour 2009
• AGM and Elections
• Club Update
• Tournaments

There is a lot of activity right now, particulary with dedicated local players starting clubs and running events. If you would like to share any developments with ADG to publication on our website please let me know. Please click ‘Read more…’ below to go to the full story.

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