The World's Biggest Disc Golf Weekend is an opportunity to enjoy, discover, and participate in the growing sport of disc golf while helping to raise money for local, national, and international charities. This year our goal is to reach new heights and set new standards. We want to reach out to people who have only heard about disc golf and are curious.

This event was created in Austin, Texas in 1991 by John Houck, a two-time World Champion in Freestyle Frisbee and the sport's premier course designer (click here to view John's course design site). The WBDGW has grown to be an international event, with 18,000 players in 200 cities in eight countries at its peak. The very first event was held at Zilker Park – the first course Houck designed.

Houck is the president of the Disc Golf Foundation, lead course designer for the International Disc Golf Center, a member of the Disc Golf Hall of Fame, former commissioner of the Professional Disc Golf Association, and owner of Millennium Golf Discs. He is considered to be the sport's leading course designer, with more than 80 courses on his resume, including an unprecedented twelve courses for world and national competition.

Disc golf has been around almost as long as flying discs themselves. Back in the 1950's players would use trees, lampposts, and even garbage cans as "holes" for a game of golf. Things have changed a lot over the years, with the introduction of the chain basket in 1974 and the invention of patented discs made just for disc golf in 1983. Today there are more than 2,500 courses around the world, including 150 in Texas. The Professional Disc Golf Association has 16,000 active members with an increase of approximately 5,000 registered players in two years, and more than a million people play the game.

Part of the amazing growth of disc golf stems from the annual World's Biggest Disc Golf Weekend. The event grew from 368 people in Zilker Park to 18,000 players around the globe in the mid- '90's. Over the last 14 years, the WBDGW has introduced tens of thousand of players to the sport and helped install two dozen new courses. The event is disc golf's version of a "fun run," with an emphasis on participation rather than competition.