30 Second Rule & 1,586 Rounds In A Year? | Disc Golf Daily Podcast | 03/14
Disc Golf Daily Podcast brings you the latest news and growth insights in just 10 minutes. On today's episode, host Ganon Burr discusses United Rankings Day, explaining why Disc Golf Daily won't be using PDGA rankings for updates, instead opting to utilize alternative rankings. The conversation also touches on upcoming events like the MVP Open Ticket sale and the Austin Open. A fascinating topic of discussion centers around Michael Wright, a Wisconsin-based player who averaged an impressive 1,586 rounds of disc golf in 2023, with some days featuring over four rounds played consecutively. His remarkable dedication to the sport is highlighted as part of a larger look at Disc Golf Daily's data, which shows that 22 million rounds were recorded among 800,000 disc golfers last year, averaging around 54 hours of play per golfer.
Exploring the 30-second rule & playing over 1,500 rounds in a year with our guests' tournament experiences.
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hello race fans and welcome to disc golf daily today is Thursday March 14th it is United rankings day and according to the PDGA rankings page they still have not updated their official world rankings PDGA please get someone on this if you're going to represent as being the official rankings please at least publish them our United rankings once again will not be utilizing the PDGA rankings we've got a bunch of other rankings so don't worry about it though now let's get to it make sure to let all your cousins know how happy you are because discol daily got you all caught up with dis golf growth and news in just 10 minutes thanks for sharing the podcast it helps us grow our number one news story of the day how could it be anything else MVP open ticket gets go on sale tomorrow let a loved one know the open at Austin also starts tomorrow here's to the most exciting Pro Tour season ever stay healthy everyone Ganon Burr and Paige Pierce are your reigning Champions our number two news story from the udisk data banks in 2023 rounding up about 800,000 disc golfers recorded about 22 million rounds over 42 and half half million hours of playing disc golf with udis some back of the napkin math shows each disc golfer averaged about 54 hours of disc golf last year that's a little over an hour per week call it a leisurely nine holes or a quick 18 but what are what about the people that play the most I love how udis gives us these kind of stats what about the 1% of the 1% the number 10 guy in rounds recorded on udis last year played 2.2 rounds per day 818 rounds in the year and that got him number 10 the most rounds recorded on uis last year he almost doubled that playing over four rounds per day on average and playing 1,586 rounds of Disc Golf in 2023 who is this amazing man Michael Wright from Wisconsin reading from the udis article Link in the show notes he quote started playing at least 18 holes every day on September 30th 2013 because the sport helped keep him active in the after aftermath of a breakup instead of just sitting on the couch quote this is a quote from Michael I have...
