Todd Lion has been promoted to Deputy Director of the PDGA Event Support and Training team.
While the majority of the disc golf world was watching James Conrad’s shot flying toward the basket at the 2021 PDGA Professional Disc Golf World Championships in Utah, Todd Lion was looking back down the fairway.
That was the moment when Lion, then a member of the PDGA Events team, realized how he looked at disc golf.
“I realized how seriously I took my job when I was standing on the 18th green of the Fort when James threw in the Holy Shot,” Lion recalled. “My first and only thought after he made that throw was ‘oh no, these people are going to mob the fairway.’
Todd Lion has been a tournament director and club president in South Carolina for the last five years. He is now the PDGA's new events assistant. Courtesy photo
The biggest events can come down to the smallest details; an unclear out-of-bounds line here or an ill-defined rules application can take the shine off a tournament.
Luckily, new PDGA events assistant Todd Lion sweats the small stuff.
“When I look for a good event, I’m looking for the on-the-ground execution of the nuts and bolts, the daily grind, the base level requirements for a successful event,” Lion said. “…From my experience as a TD in my area, I think that those are the areas I excel in.”
