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PDGA VideosFebruary 18, 2022

PDGA Open Answers: What got you playing the second time?

Meet the Disc Golfers Who Found Their Calling. PDGA Open Answers is a heartwarming story of how one person went from being terrible to playing disc golf every weekend after discovering their passion for the game. The video follows the journey of an individual who was brought back to disc golf by their competitive nature, with the help of their family and newfound love for the outdoors. With the help of their dad, they started practicing and soon found themselves hooked on the game. From throwing a DX Leopard with hyzer to achieving impressive distances, this video is a must-watch for anyone looking to improve their disc golf skills or learn more about the game's community. Featuring interviews from PDGA Open Answers participants, this video showcases the importance of perseverance, family support, and finding your niche in the sport.

Top PDGA players share their stories of rediscovering disc golf's appeal in this insightful video featuring [Player 1], [Player 2] & more.

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seeing what was possible as seeing other people on the course throwing better shots than me and knowing that that was something that if i worked at it i could do and what really really made it stick around was i took an old dx leopard threw it with hyzer and it flipped up and went straight and we probably went like 260 and i and i but at that point was like yes i'm in disc golf is amazing and i mean at that point this game is so cool also my dad i just had a lot of fun being out in the park i was terrible when i first started but it's just nice to be outside the second time i was brought to the disc golf course was probably well somebody asked me again to go and i hadn't played for a couple years after the first time i went so i yeah so i figured i'd give it another try honestly i almost never tried it again i hated it so much because i was really bad at it and i'm a very competitive person but then we actually ended up moving to colorado and that competitive person in me said i cannot i cannot fail at this so let me give it another try and we ended up playing every weekend after that and it was just i realized that you know it'll take some time and i just got to get better as i practice so when i made the first basket i was hooked um i'm super competitive and i didn't it didn't fly how i wanted it to the first time it actually was like probably i don't know five years after i played for the first time but i've always been competitive and my sisters and i all like playing ultimate frisbee so i got a disc a few discs and a basket for christmas and then we went to a local course and played everything i mean my dad and i just found competition in it and we just played match play against each other with one disc each and it was just like nothing could go wrong and even if we were first timers and we got lost our first time ever playing we just wanted to be back and especially the fact that we did get lost...