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World Wide Press Release April 15, 2010

Worldwide Disc Golf Celebrations on May 1st and 2nd, 2010.

On the weekend of May 1st and 2nd, thousands of flying disc enthusiasts will be getting together around the world just to play a round of disc golf. The occasion is the 20th annual World’s Biggest Disc Golf Weekend. Headquartered in Wimberley, Texas and created in Austin, Texas, Zilker Park by John Houck, the sports premier course designer.

Today, WBDGW is held in countries as far away as Australia, throughout Europe, Japan and across the USA in 34 states.The event will be taking place on about 150 disc golf courses globally. It’s a great opportunity to try the sport if you’ve been curious. The rules are very similar to regular golf except you play with discs designed specially for the sport. In disc golf, players see how many strokes (throws) it takes to get from the tee to the hole. The hole in this case is a metal contraption commonly referred to as the basket, which consist of a set of chains hanging over a basket. As the disc flies in, it hits the chains, stops, and drops into the basket. Austin’s John Houck, the creator of the World’s Biggest Disc Golf Weekend and the world’s #1 disc golf course designer hosted the very first event was at Zilker Park -- the first course Houck designed -- in Austin, Texas. The permanent disc golf course has been in Zilker Park for 23 years, and the number of new people playing keeps increasing.

One of the goals of the World’s Biggest Disc Golf Weekend has been to introduce the game to thousands of new players who are attracted by the novelty, health benefits, and low cost of the game. The event is essentially non-competitive. Registrants will receive an event t-shirt and/or special golf disc for $10 to $25 entry fee, There will be volunteers on hand to show everyone how to throw and which disc to use for different types of shots.

The event will benefit the Disc Golf Foundation ( www.discgolffoundation.net ), a national non-profit that supports educational programs that promote awareness of the sport of disc golf, facilitates the advancement of disc golf by endowing worthy cultural and historical institutions that reflect the evolution and spirit of disc golf & Council on At-Risk Youth. (www.councilonatriskyouth.org ) , a central Texas non-profit organization which provides services through the Alternative Learning Centers in Austin Independent School District and other neighboring school systems. CARY helps local at-risk youth by offering them alternatives to peer pressure and the many other challenges they face to help youth stay out of delinquency by early intervention.

Disc Golf is now played in over 50 countries. There are over 3,000 disc golf courses worldwide. In Texas, there are close to 200 courses, and central Texas has always been a hub for the sport and disc golf is now termed as “the world’s the fastest-growing sport”. Organizers are predicting that over one million throws will be recorded on thousands of scorecards.

The headquarter event is held at Circle R Ranch, Houck's ranch and his 2 world class courses in Wimberley on Saturday, May 1st 9am to 6pm and at Zilker Park, hosted by Waterloo Disc Golf Club on Sunday, May 2nd from 10am to 6pm For more information, visit WBDGW.com. or call event chair Dee Leekha-Houck at 512-426-7722.

On May 1st, Founder John Houck and his wife Dee Leekha-Houck will be in Wimberley and on May 2nd John Houck will be at the Zilker Park event from 3pm to 4pm for disc signing. For those who want to play in the event, John and Dee recommend that players register as soon as possible to get first choice of tee times by emailing cp@moment.net.

The event is sponsored by Academy Sports and Outdoors, Outhouse Designs, Millennium Golf Discs, HouckDesign, Innova Disc Golf, and Wham-O.