Mailbag: Disc Golf on TV, Coaches for Pros?

Will coaching become a major part of disc golf?

May 15, 2020 by Charlie Eisenhood in Opinion with 0 comments

Welcome to Ultiworld Disc Golf’s brand new mailbag! You don’t necessarily see my byline around here too much — I am more often behind the scenes as the publisher, but I’m still here as a co-host of the Upshot podcast with Jamie Thomas and I generally report from Worlds and USDGC every year.

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Question of the Week: I enjoyed your interview with Jeremy Rusco on The Upshot two weeks ago. I had a follow up question about something he mentioned: he said something about the possibility of getting disc golf onto a major sports outlet sometime in the near future.

Do you have any more info on that? Or thoughts? It seems like during this time when major sports outlets don’t have live content to broadcast maybe they would be interested in something like disc golf.

I wasn’t sure if he was referring to live disc golf coverage? I know PDGA canceled sanctioning thru May and postponed/canceled Majors and NTs through July, but possibly a DGPT event in the summer? Or there’s a possibility of some kind of post produced segment that highlights a specific event like 2019 Worlds with video that already exists? Or even something else more like a documentary?

I know all those things would take time and resources to create, but wondering if you have any thoughts?