Do you often find yourself blaming your disc for your errant shot?
Luckily for you, there are plenty to chose from and that selection continues to grow.
On Thursday, April 18, 2024, the PDGA Technical Standards Working Group and its chair, Jeff Homburg, hit a milestone by approving the 2,000th disc — the Johnson by Bernoulli — into the PDGA database.
The group hit this number quickly as No. 2,000 comes just under two years since the 1,500th approval in May 2022 meaning that one-quarter of every approved disc has come in the past 23 months.
The recent PDGA Technical Standards revision that allows manufacturers to add electronics to discs opens up several new possibilities. As if we need it with over 700 PDGA approved disc models already on the books! But this electronics initiative could expand our play horizons perhaps in unexpected ways. For example, how about working towards competing at night in the snow at the 2034 Winter Olympics (future story)? However, it is economics, flight characteristics of discs carrying this new "payload", and demand of said discs that will ultimately determine whether or not embedded technology is embraced by disc golfers and disc manufacturers.
