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Entries from April 2007

Disc Golf World Rankings - Week 17

April 24th, 2007 · No Comments

The rankings have been updated with the only meaningful change being Feldberg’s upward movement in the men’s top 10. Dave narrowly edged out Schultz for the #2 spot based on his win at Augusta over the weekend.
In the women’s rankings Des continues to pad her points lead with a significant 7 point lead [...]

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New Bite Shoe Preview

April 19th, 2007 · 4 Comments

The Bite reps stopped by yesterday and let us have a peek at the next generation of their high-top disc golf shoe. It will be available in a darker color scheme and is fully waterproof. The low-top version will also feature a waterproof outer, a real plus for those dewy morning rounds. Unfortunately, the [...]

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Women’s Rankings

April 10th, 2007 · No Comments

We have added the top 25 women to the Disc Golf World Rankings.
Here is the top 10 for week 15:

Des Reading
Angela Tschiggfrie
Carrie Berlogar
Valarie Jenkins
Juliana Korver
Courtney Peavy
Lesli Demark
Elaine King
Kelly Boyce
Nadine Cosgrove

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Ice Bowl 2007 Raises $180K . . . With More To Come!

April 9th, 2007 · 3 Comments

With over 30 Ice Bowls yet to report, the collective charitable goal of $180,000 has been exceeded by $10. This represents about 170 events held in the US, Canada, Finland, and Germany. In addition, over 16 tons of food was accumulated.This compared quite favorably to last year’s total of $155,000 and over 11 tons of [...]

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Disc Golf World Rankings

April 5th, 2007 · 4 Comments

In the most recent issue of Disc Golf World, we unveiled the Disc Golf World Rankings, showing the top 25 men’s open players. In the article we also promised to provide weekly updates here at DGWN.com.
True to our word, we are ready to go live with the week 14 rankings. The results will [...]

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Latest Discs From Gateway and Quest

April 4th, 2007 · 1 Comment

Both Gateway and Quest have some new plastic on the market.
The Blurr, a high-speed, wide rim driver, has been out for a couple of months now and we just received some discs from the second run. According to Dave at Gateway, “…the latest run is less overstable and more flexible…”. Visually, the new disc [...]

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Golfrisbee - One Sport To Rule Them All

April 3rd, 2007 · 5 Comments

From the “It’s not golf unless you use a club” file:
I came across this wacky take on disc golf the other day. It is little more than an Aerobie hooked to the back of a regular club, but according to the inventor it can do it all. Among some of the uses; snow [...]

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Sexy Flexy - New FLX Plastic

April 2nd, 2007 · 2 Comments

Discraft continues to add to the FLX line.
Rick just returned from Bowling Green with some stacks of sexy, flexy goodness. With the release of the super-fast Avenger and the overstable Predator in FLX, you can still get your flex on when the wind picks up.
Discraft has also added the Surge to the [...]

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Bowling Green In The Books

April 2nd, 2007 · No Comments

Congratulations to all the winners at the record-breaking disc golf event that just finished up in Bowling Green, KY.
Stephen Whitson (pictured) prevailed in the huge 330+ player advanced men division and Jenny Garland bested the adv. women.

Get the full scores here
Check out our Flickr gallery from the event
Here is some print coverage by the [...]

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Bowling Green Final 9

April 1st, 2007 · No Comments

Stephen Whitson Is the winner!
Final 9 held at White Park and starting on hole #4.
Final 9 hole scores. [...]

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Bowling Green Results Are In… for Adv. Men

April 1st, 2007 · No Comments

In the Adv. Mens division an unknown player Stephen Whitson from the B pool has apparently shot a 210 to have the lead by 2 strokes over Ronnie Huffman and Dan Defries, who are tied at the top of the A Pool.
Top Eight final after 4 rounds,:

Stephen Whitson 210
Ronnie Huffman 212
Dan [...]

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Scoring Update

April 1st, 2007 · No Comments

At the end of the 3rd round it is a tight race in the Advanced Men A pool. 30 players are within 6 stokes of each other.

The day 1 leader Nate Clapp has a one stroke lead on the field at 155
There is a three-way tie for 2nd between David Rosenbalm, Keith Gallusser, and [...]

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