Editing Disc golf (section)

== Origin and early history ==
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Modern disc golf started in the early 1960s, but there is debate over who came up with the idea first. The consensus is that multiple groups of people played independently throughout the 1960s. Students at [[Rice University]] in Houston, Texas, for example, held tournaments with trees as targets as early as 1964, and in the early 1960s, players in Pendleton King Park in [[Augusta, Georgia]], would toss Frisbees into 50-gallon barrel trash cans designated as targets. In 1968 Frisbee Golf was also played in [[Alameda Park]] in [[Santa Barbara, California]], by teenagers in the Anacapa and Sola street areas. Gazebos, water fountains, lamp posts, and trees were all part of the course. This took place for several years and an Alameda Park collectors edition disc still exists, though rare, as few were made. Clifford Towne from this group went on to hold a National Time Aloft record.

=== 1970s ===
[[Ed Headrick]], also known as "Steady" Ed Headrick, (June 28, 1924 – August 12, 2002) was an American toy inventor. He is most well known as the father of both the modern-day [[Frisbee]] and of the sport and game of disc golf.

In 1975, Headrick's tenure at [[Wham-O]] where he helped redesign the flying disc known as the frisbee ended, and ties between Headrick and Wham-O eventually split. Headrick left the company to start out on his own to focus all his efforts on his new interest, which he coined and trademarked "Disc Golf".

In 1976, "Steady" Ed Headrick and his son Ken Headrick started the first disc golf company, the Disc Golf Association (DGA).<ref>{{Cite web |last= |date=2018-12-17 |title=About Ed Headrick – Father Of Disc Golf • DGA Disc Golf |url=https://discgolf.com/disc-golf-education-development/ed-headrick-father-disc-golf/ |access-date=2023-06-02 |website=discgolf.com |language=en-US}}</ref> The purpose of DGA was to manufacture discs and baskets and to formalize the sport. The first disc golf target was Ed's pole hole design which consisted of a pole sticking out of the ground.