Whirlwind Disc Golf

Whirlwind Disc Golf: 42 years of leadership & excellence

Events: 30+ baskets, 36+ turf pads, cones, rope, flags, tables, tents, power -- everything a TD needs! Around age 9, I started playing catch with my Dad, whose technique was a weak, yet clean, inside flip (aka "chicken wing"). By 12, I was counting the number of street-side light poles I could reach with a white Wham-O 119g -- leaving more

than a few on neighbors' roofs. By 16, I was the self-proclaimed champion thrower on Carson High School's Senior Lawn, which female students with cafeteria trays dared not cross. At 18, I became notorious for throwing discs at the beach for hours and hours, until my friends would threaten to leave without me. In the fall of 1982 (age 21), I started the Frisbee Club at LA Harbor Community College. A new member organized a road trip to my first disc golf course -- Central Park in Huntington Beach -- and another member introduced me to John Giza, who traveled in competitive Overall circles. In the Spring(?) of 1983, at Alta Loma Park in Torrance, somebody interrupted our Discathon and MTA practice, to have us try out these new orange discs with beveled edges. I'd probably like it after I got used to it... Can I get back to practice now?" (Years later, I realized that the handful of test drives were either Eagle prototypes or first runs. Still don't know if the person with the orange discs was Tim or Dave or Harold...) Fast forward (somewhat chronological):
>> Competition: multiple world titles and world records, Discathon GOAT, ~8 PDGA MPO victories
>> Tournament Direction / Event Production: WFDF World Overall in San Francisco, NorCal Disc Golf Series; St. Judy Charity Tourney; so many demos & clinics!
>> Organizations: leader and/or member at WFDF, PDGA, DGCDG, many California clubs
>> Course Design: ~25 temp/tourney courses; co-designer at Golden Gate Park, China Peak, and 3 golf courses; lead designer at OTB Open & SFO Open (DGPT Elite Series), Oyster Bay, Monarch Bay, Gualala, Cali Hmong (Fresno); Antioch, Moraga (redesign); more designs in progress.
>> Retail: biggest mobile store in the world (over 10,000 discs!)
>> Innova Ambassador
>> Disc Golfer author: Course design and development
>> Industry Conference presenter: Elite Course Design

03/31/2025

Loading up the Whirlwind trailer for Champions Cup at Swenson in Stockton.

"Contents may have settled during shipping". No problem.

The trailer will stay at Swenson for over a month, servicing both the course prep (5 new tees!) and my mobile retail store.

08/25/2023

RESULTS!!! WINNERS!!!

Total number of Envy+Glitch+Hex+Wave in my mobile store at Three Links this weekend (before any sales): 687

Total number of glow discs within that group: 262
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1st place (won the tiebreaker!): Johnathan Bionaz - 682 total / 274 glow

2nd place - Gary Jacque - 682 total / 355 glow

3rd place - Travis Wilson Simpson - 676 total / 185 glow

CONTEST! PRIZES! All entries due before 10 pm pt tonight, Sunday Aug 27.

Back in 2020, while operating my mobile store at the Three Links course for the High Sierra Cup (pictured below), I ran an online contest to guess the total number of Destroyers in the store. The total was 513, far more than I would have guessed. But winner Danny Kerfeld's guess of 515 was nearly exact.

This weekend, me and my little store are back at Three Links for the High Sierra Cup, and we're running it back -- with a twist in appreciation for MVP's strong support for this year's event.

WHAT'S YOUR GUESS OF HOW MANY ENVY, GLITCH, HEX, AND WAVE DISCS -- TOTAL OF ALL FOUR MODELS, NOT EACH MODEL SEPARATELY-- ARE IN THE WHIRLWIND STORE THIS WEEKEND? TIE-BREAKER QUESTION: WHAT'S YOUR GUESS HOW MANY OF THOSE DISCS ARE GLOW? (Big hint: In late 2021, when glow Envy became available after scarcity for over a year, I stocked up, big time.)

POST YOUR GUESSES IN THE COMMENTS BELOW. Example: "Total 500, Glow 100". One set of guesses per contestant, of course.

THE CLOSEST GUESS WILL WIN THEIR CHOICE OF ONE OF EACH DISC -- ENVY, GLITCH, HEX, WAVE -- UP TO $100 VALUE. Second place will chose two of these discs (max $50). Third place one disc (max $25).

I'LL ACCEPT GUESSES UNTIL 10 PM PT THIS SUNDAY, AUGUST 27. If a winner doesn't expect to attend any Whirlwind events to select their prizes in person, I'll select and ship the discs to them.

04/27/2023

Small quantity of latest releases mixed into the selection at Empire today. Discraft tour series and Discmania FD1.

By next Friday, we'll have the second wave of the amazing OTB limited editions (Total Eclipse Envy, Proton Hex, etc), and the Discmania CD1 (supposed to be the same as the original CD2).

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