PDGA Women’s Global Event

2018 PDGA Women’s Global Event

March 19, 2018May 4, 2018 by Parked, posted in Gender

By Valarie Jenkins ~

Cover Photo — Players in the West Virginia Cup at the Seth Burton Memorial (SBM) course in Fairmont, WV. The NCWV Women’s Disc Golf Club will help organize West Virginia’s first PDGA Women’s Global Event at SBM on May 12. Photo by Jesse Wright.

Every other year sparks fly as women from all over the world meet up and play two rounds of disc golf.

The PDGA Women’s Global Event is a series of satellite tournaments hosted in several different countries. The fourth edition of the event will be played on May 12, 2018. Continue reading “2018 PDGA Women’s Global Event” →

An interesting and important disc golfer you should know, but probably don’t

January 25, 2017July 19, 2017 by Parked, posted in Gender, Grow the Sport

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In the early 1990s, Jane Gottesman worked as a staff writer covering sports for the San Francisco Chronicle. At the time, she was the only woman in the country working in the sports department of a big-city newspaper (1). News coverage of female athletes was scarce. Gottesman kept a running tally of the number of photographs of women who graced the sports page. The results were dismal. Continue reading “An interesting and important disc golfer you should know, but probably don’t” →