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Headquarter Press Release April 15, 2010

20 years of Disc Golf Celebrations..for immediate release

May 1st and 2nd mark the celebrations of the 20th “World’s Biggest Disc Golf Weekend”, an international worldwide celebration of the sport headquartered in Wimberley, Texas by John Houck, the sports premier course designer. Houck created and hosted the very first event that 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 disc golf at Zilker has grown steadily over the years.

Today, WBDGW is held in countries as far away as Australia, throughout Europe, Japan and across the USA in 35 states. 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.

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 based on the package they buy. There will have volunteers on hand to show everyone how to throw and which disc to use for different types of shots.

The event will benefit two non-profit organizations. 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 and the 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.

The Waterloo Disc Golf Club (www.austindiscgolf.org) will be hosting the event in the Polo Picnic Area at Zilker Park on Sunday May 2nd from 10am to 6pm and proceeds from that event will also benefit the local disc golf club which is dedicated to development, management and promotion of disc golf in the Austin Area through it’s volunteer efforts.

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 worldwide.

This year’s local events are held at Circle R Ranch, Houck's ranch and 2 world-class courses in Wimberley on Saturday, May 1st 9am to 6pm and at Zilker Park on Sunday, May 2nd from 10am to 6pm. For more information, and 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 they will be at the Zilker Park event and John will be disc signingfrom 3pm to 4pm. 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 or they can also just show up.

The event is sponsored locally by Academy Sports and Outdoors, Outhouse Designs, Millennium Golf Discs, HouckDesign, Office Depot and Disc Nation.