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Another Problem For The PDGA
The PDGA is facing another challenge, and it's looking like things are not going in their favor. Hosts Jefferson and his co-host discuss the recent announcement from President Doug Beerus about drug screening at events, which has raised concerns among professionals considering participation. The hosts also reveal that an official document related to the issue will be released on Wednesday, and they speculate about what this might mean for the organization. Additionally, there's news about the upcoming European festival, where attendees are finding no grass due to a lack of maintenance. With developments unfolding, it seems like the PDGA is in a state of crisis management. The hosts offer their thoughts on the situation, hoping that things can be sorted out quickly.
Watch players react to the latest controversy in disc golf. Top pros speak out on a major issue affecting the sport.
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It is not looking good for PDGA if that dude is not going on a interview. Welcome to the spit out. I'm Jefferson alongside me as always, the one with all the holes game Swiss cheese and we're jumping straight into things because we just talking about it and you said you wanted to do this and this is what we're doing. The announcement that Doug Beerus, president of the PDGA was supposed to go on staggered stands to talk about the drug screening. Not only that, they have the document coming out Wednesday or something. Yeah, they were supposed to have an announcement on Wednesday of looting from the I'll call it reporting. I I don't know what. Yeah. What staggered announced? Yeah. So staggered. I don't that's what they did. So on the st on staggered stance they announced that there should be a announcement by the PDGA on Wednesday. Big old announcement is referred to came and passed. Even said like hey pros any pros considering not playing the event wait for this announcement. was like at one point I was like, "All right, that's a pretty big deal." I then also alluded to having Burkus on today and the fact that there's not is really kind of telling to obviously the situation that's still developing around the drug screening. More developments will sure come this week on all of that and leading up to Worlds conversations, but I at least no one's like panicing out loud about it and no one's come out of At least that's probably not going to be something in public. But um yeah, I think like PDJ is in a mad scramble right now. All honesty, I hope so for sure. But like I'm sure everything's developing communications discussions. Well, not only that, how much involvement do they have with the European festival that's going to go down and all of the grass no longer? I'm sure that has to be something that is a problem that they're needing to fix ASAP. Yeah, that there's literally no grass anywhere. No, that's pretty wild. I know actually shared the picture. They already got down, right? From the advert from the journals, the article, whatever that I saw, they did say that only four holes were in critical condition. Oh, okay. I mean, I think that it'll and I thought I saw photos...
