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Jeremy Koling was named the 2009 PDGA Pro Rookie of the Year! He earned that title by winning seven tournaments in his rookie season, along with piling up nine top five finishes and fourteen top ten finishes. Jeremy was also the 2008 Amateur World Champion. Among his big finishes in 2009, Jeremy took first place in the Sneaky Pete Open, the Charleston Classic, and the High Country Throwdown in both 2008 and 2009. Jeremy also finished runner up in the 2009 Vibram Open distance and putting competition.... |
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Adam Olsen is a professional disc golfer from Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The first time he picked up a disc was in 2001, and played periocally through 2004. In 2005 he wom the United States Ametuer Disc Golf Championships. Adam turned Pro in 2006 and put up a great season in 2007. 2008 proved to be even better. That year he played in 34 events and won nine of them, bringing his yearly winnings to $10,000, his highest total yet. 2010 should prove to be a great year for Adam. He plans on playing in at least twenty-five tournaments.... |
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Liz Lopez is one of the hottest new players on the Women's Pro tour. Liz started playing disc golf in 2005, and in a very short time she has made her mark on the game. Named the 2009 PDGA Women's Pro Rookie of the Year, Liz also added the 2009 Pro Mixed Doubles World Championship title (w/ Eric McCabe) and seven other first place finished to her list of titles for the year. Liz also came home with a fourth place finish at the 2009 US Women's Disc Golf Championships held here in the Quad Cities, finished third in the National Tour Series.... |
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Liz Carr, one of the top players on the Women's Pro Tour, started playing disc golf in 2005. "I was working at a little pizza place and all the guys I worked with at the time asked me to work while they went out that afternoon. What I didn't know was that they were going to learn a new sport: had I known that, things would have definitely been different. Wanting to be part of this new fun, I ventured to my local sports superstore the next morning and purchased a fresh new driver, mid-range and putter... |
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Avery Jenkins is a Professional disc golfer, one of the sports biggest names, and a product of the "first family" of disc golf! Avery and disc golf have grown up together over the years. His parents, Leroy and Sharon, picked up the sport in the ’80s, and planned family vacations to places where they could catch a tournament on the weekends. Sharon holds several National titles, and his sister, Val, is a three-time Women's Pro Champion. Originally from Ohio and now calling Oregon home, Avery, now 31, is closing in on his 10th year of traveling on ... |
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Juliana Korver: "I started playing disc golf my senior year in college. A friend of mine was into it and kept trying to get me to the course. I resisted for months thinking it didn't sound like much fun. I disliked (ball) golf and I wasn't particularly good at throwing a Frisbee, so I never expected to be any good at disc golf. He finally convinced me to try it. I can remember how much improvement I saw in my game from the beginning of that first round to the end of it. It was very encouraging. I also remember how nice everyone was at the course. This was.... |
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Val Jenkins has been around the game of disc golf almost her entire life, having been introduced to it when she was just five years old, and that exposure combined with a ton of hard work has really paid off for her this year. She has eleven first place finishes this year, including the 2008 Worlds Championships, the Japan Open, the Bowling Green Open, and the Minnesota Magestic. Val began touring full time in 2004, and was named the 2005 Female Rookie of the Year. |
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Angela Tschiggfrie is a Pro on the Women's disc golf tour as well as a local product. She's from Marion Iowa, where she took up the game in 1997. When first introduced to the sport she played with one disc, but soon became involved in local leagues and tournaments. For her first tourney she borrowed discs in order to play, hit an ace during warm ups and won the tourney. After playing Am tourneys in the midwest for a couple years Angela turned pro in 2000 and has had a great career ever since. |
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Mark Steddom is a local disc golfer who took up the sport in 2003 as a hobby to share with his girlfriend. Soon Mark joined in some of the many leagues held in the Quad Cities in order to meet friends and get a chance to play with and learn from better players than himself and immediately showed success. Mark has a wonderful work ethic and the ability to maximize his practice time to benefit his disc golf game. One of his strenghts is his strong mental game which allows him to "play his way out of trouble". |
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Actually, I was two shots back after the second round and was knocked off the lead card. That got me really motivated to shoot well and come back and go into the lead. I met Greg Brooks at Am World Doubles earlier this year. He’s got all the shots. I felt he was a better player than me but he had a couple bad holes that did him in. Greg just wasn’t on his game in the semi’s. If I remember correctly, we were pretty close the whole round. Then, after I took a 4 on #15, I thought, “I’ve got to bare down and finish these last six holes strong.” |
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"I first got involved with disc golf after playing Ultimate Frisbee for University of Iowa. There was a player who threw a lid pretty far, and he said playing disc golf helped out in throwing far. So in the spring of 2002 I picked up a DX Puma and was on my way." Mike is well known not only in the Quad Cities area but in the disc golf community as one of the big guns of the game. Mikes longest measured throw was 620 feet, and he won won the distance competitions at the 2004 Am Worlds and 2005 Am Nationals, finished 11th in the 2007 Pro Worlds .... |
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Dan was first introduced to disc golf in the summer of 2005 by a friend he worked with. His "friend" turned out to be a local professional disc golfer. He gave Dan his first disc which was a 167g DX Rhyno that he threw for the first six months. Dan played Intermediate in his first tournament, the Acorn Open, (which is also his home course) and he's been hooked ever since. " I won my first tournament in 2007 at the Acorn Open. I had a lot of advice from many people including my mentor that first got me started into the game. He gave me the most... |
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