Q&A with The CEO of The Disc Golf Pro Tour (2025 DISC East)
Join us for an exclusive Q&A session with Jeff at the 2025 DISC East event, as he shares insights from the CEO of The Disc Golf Pro Tour. Ben is also present to highlight the tour's growth and impact on New England's disc golf scene. This conversation takes place amidst a bustling product drop, marking the start of the tour's 10th season. Jeff opens up about his vision for strategic growth initiatives, aiming to push the sport beyond its endemic roots. He shares his goals for expanding the audience over the next five years, doubling or tripling their current numbers. With a focus on capital and big-picture thinking, Jeff outlines his strategy for overcoming industry challenges and embracing new opportunities. As the tour enters a pivotal year, Jeff's comments provide valuable context to the growth of disc golf in North America. The conversation offers a unique glimpse into the mind of a leader who's driving innovation and expansion within the sport.
Exclusive Q&A with The Disc Golf Pro Tour CEO: insights on the tour's growth & challenges at 2025 DISC East.
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pretty well awesome so thank you Jeff for joining us I know you got a busy schedule but no this this is a great event I want to thank Ben for pulling it together um it's a great event for New England but also a lot of people travel here so uh it's great to be here and hopefully everybody's having fun finding some good products out there uh with the product drops um yeah the tour is entering its 10th season I'll just say a few thoughts about um where we've come where we're going um we F we we really see this year as a as a big pivot year um we're looking to uh move forward with some strategic growth initiative starting in 2026 um and really kind of push outside of the endemic sport I think that a lot of uh what we saw in terms of pandemic growth for the tour and in 22 uh 20 through 2022 um you know really tapered off industrywide um in the last few years so um there's a lot of good signs for the industry and you know we feel that the tour can bridge the gap and bring in new eyes so over the next you know five years we're looking to you know double triple maybe even quadruple the audience but it's going to take some uh strategic growth initiatives it's going to take um some capital and um we're really thinking kind of bigger picture in this year you know after uh you know the first five years where we've operated after taking over from uh Mr Dodge right down the the road um you know we've just kind of seen that uh I where we're at um needs you know new strategy you know as an industry and as a tour um so we're looking forward to uh to this year um we're ALS Al really proud of last year uh last year we had a highest added cash that we've ever had uh per event added in North America and um looking back at it I think it was you know $67,000 per event so even though the industry is is kind of you know going through a little bit of churn right now um on the on the pro side of things and with a lot of our events they're finding a...
