Disc golf

Disc golf is a few years from having more places to play in America than golf has. Whether it will ever have more players is something nobody has counted yet.

Two golfs. Two generational talents. Two championship venues that refused to yield. Two major droughts. Two triumphs?

Watch a long hitter in golf or a long thrower in disc golf and the motion looks easy. The hips turn, the body unwinds, and the club or the disc leaves at a speed that seems out of proportion to the effort.

A golfer walking onto a disc golf course for the first time knows more than they think.

Peoria, Michigan, Los Angeles, Norfolk, Iowa. The list was written down as the outline of a story about disc golf, five places that seemed to belong together without an obvious reason why.