Disc Golf Trivia
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49 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 01Under what space-age name did Wham-O first sell the Frisbee in 1957?
Pluto Platter
Pluto Platter was the name on the disc Wham-O bought in January 1957; by June the firm had added the word Frisbee, which college students in the Northeast were already using.
Q 02How did Ed Headrick earn the nickname 'Steady Ed'?
His accuracy hitting targets with a Frisbee
His accuracy hitting targets with a Frisbee earned the nickname: Headrick, his son Ken and friends dared each other to hit signs and trees, the target games that grew into disc golf.
Q 03Where did Ed Headrick install the first official disc golf course in 1975?
Oak Grove Park, Pasadena
Oak Grove Park, Pasadena got the first official course in 1975; its targets were bare poles set in the ground, because the chain basket had not yet been invented.
Q 04Which nickname for Frisbee golf did George Costanza use on Seinfeld?
Frolf
Frolf, a blend of Frisbee and golf, was on George's to-do list in the 1997 episode 'The Summer of George', right after reading a book from beginning to end.
Q 05What is the forehand throw in disc golf commonly called?
Flick
Flick is the usual name for the forehand or sidearm throw; it spins the opposite way to a backhand, so the disc fades in the other direction.
Q 06Which chain-and-basket target did Headrick patent in 1977?
The Disc Pole Hole
The Disc Pole Hole hung chains above a basket so a disc striking them dropped in; the patent was granted in 1977, and the chain-and-basket layout became standard for course targets.
Q 07What happened to Ed Headrick's ashes after his death in 2002?
They were moulded into discs and sold
They were moulded into discs and sold, as Headrick had requested, with the proceeds going toward a memorial museum at the International Disc Golf Center.
Q 08What did Ed Headrick add to the top of the Frisbee in the redesign he patented in the 1960s?
Raised concentric rings
Raised concentric rings, soon nicknamed after Headrick, disturb the air flowing over the disc; his patent said this cut drag and steadied the flight, making throws easier to learn.
Q 09Who invented the flying disc that became the Frisbee, selling the rights to Wham-O in 1957?
Walter F. Morrison
Walter F. Morrison and his future wife Lucile tossed a popcorn-can lid after Thanksgiving dinner in 1937, then found beachgoers would pay 25 cents for the cake pans they threw instead.
Q 10The name 'Frisbee' was borrowed from a Connecticut company that made what?
Pies
Pies from the Frisbie Pie Company of Bridgeport, Connecticut came in tins that New England college students took to tossing; Wham-O borrowed their name for the game, respelled, for its disc.
Q 11Why do governing bodies avoid the word 'Frisbee' in names such as 'disc golf' and 'ultimate'?
It is a registered trademark
It is a registered trademark: Wham-O registered 'Frisbee' in 1959, so governing bodies avoid the brand and use the generic 'flying disc' or simply 'disc' in their sport names.
Q 12Which manufacturer makes the Destroyer distance driver?
Innova
Innova makes the Destroyer; the company arrived in 1983 with Dave Dunipace's Eagle, a disc designed for golf rather than for games of catch.
Q 13Which country has the second-most disc golf courses after the United States?
Finland
Finland trailed only the United States in counts from around 2020; its towns have built so many free public courses that disc golf courses there outnumber traditional golf courses.
Q 21What are the three general categories of disc golf disc?
Drivers, mid-range discs and putters
Drivers, mid-range discs and putters make up the three families: drivers carry a sharp bevelled rim with mass pushed outward for distance, mid-range discs fly straighter for approaches, and putters fly slow and stable.
Q 22What do players call the marker disc they set down where a throw landed?
A mini
A mini, short for mini marker disc, is placed touching the front of the thrown disc, which can then be picked up and thrown again from behind the marker.
Q 23For a right-handed backhand throw, an overstable disc tends to curve which way?
To the left
Q 14Which company, based in Skellefteå, makes the River and Saint fairway drivers?
Latitude 64
Latitude 64 designs and makes its discs in Skellefteå, Sweden; in 2021 it signed Estonian star Kristin Tattar to a four-year deal worth around $500,000.
Q 15What does the PDGA call its top tier of events, including the World Championships?
Majors
Majors sit at the top of the PDGA's tiers, above the Elite Series; the old National Tour, once the rung below, was merged away in 2022.
Q 16How many holes do most disc golf courses have?
9 or 18
9 or 18 holes is the norm because the sport copies the shape of a round of ball golf, with a tee and a target on every hole.
Q 17What does WFDF, the international governing body for disc sports, stand for?
World Flying Disc Federation
World Flying Disc Federation is the full name; national associations set it up in the mid-1980s after Wham-O was sold and its International Frisbee Association was closed down.
Q 18On a course sign, what does a 'mando' tell you?
A required flight path past a line
A required flight path past a line is what a mandatory sets: the disc must pass the marked side of a tree or pole, and missing it costs a penalty throw.
Q 19Under PDGA rules, where must a disc come to rest to finish a basket hole?
In the tray or the chains
In the tray or the chains, below the chain support, is where the disc must rest; one perched on top of the basket does not count, however good the throw.
Q 20In disc golf, who by tradition throws first from the tee?
The lowest scorer on the previous hole
The lowest scorer on the previous hole tees first, and ties keep the earlier order; once everyone has thrown, the player farthest from the target goes next.
To the left is where an overstable disc turns throughout its flight for a right-handed backhand, which makes such discs hard for beginners; an understable one drifts right when thrown fast.
Q 24In the four flight numbers printed on most golf discs, what does the first one rate?
Speed
Speed comes first, on a scale of 1 to 14; faster discs need more power to fly properly, so high-speed drivers are a poor choice for beginners.
Q 25What is the term for releasing a disc with its outer edge tilted downward?
Hyzer
Hyzer tilts the outer edge down at release, so the disc curves the way it naturally falls; an anhyzer tilts the edge up and fights that pull.
Q 26Why does a flying disc predictably fade at the end of its flight?
Spin persists while velocity drops
Spin persists while velocity drops: the slowing disc loses lift and its nose pitches, and gyroscopic precession turns that pitch into a roll toward the fade side.
Q 27Who threw a disc golf disc a world-record 1,108.92 feet in the Nevada desert in 2016?
David Wiggins Jr.
David Wiggins Jr. threw 1,108.92 feet, about 338 metres, in winds of around 40 mph, beating a 903.9-foot record that had stood for only two days.
Q 28In the PDGA rating system, what rating does a player who averages the courses' Scratch Scoring Average get?
1000
1000 is the rating of a 'scratch' player, one who averages a course's Scratch Scoring Average; each throw better or worse than that moves a round's rating by roughly ten points.
Q 29Which series, launched in 2016, became the PDGA's official top circuit in 2022?
Disc Golf Pro Tour
Disc Golf Pro Tour became the single top circuit when the PDGA folded its own National Tour, which it had run since 2003, into the newer series.
Q 30Which player, nicknamed 'The Champ', won twelve PDGA world titles between 1990 and 2006?
Ken Climo
Ken Climo won nine in a row from 1990, then kept coming back: after Barry Schultz and Nate Doss had taken the title, he reclaimed it in 2006 for his twelfth.