Scottsdale, Fountain Hills host top disc golfers

Scottsdale, Fountain Hills host top disc golfers

The world's top professional disc golfers are in Scottsdale and Fountain Hills this week for the 2011 Memorial Championship.The tournament, presented by flying disc maker Discraft, is the annual kickoff to the Professional Disc Golf Association online golf lessons tour. The tournament is disc golf technique sanctioned by the PDGA and hosted by the Arizona Disc Golf Club. An estimated 200 disc golfers are expected to compete for a portion of the $45,000 cash purse in the tournament at at Vista del Camino Park in Scottsdale and Fountain Hills Park.Disc golf is disc golf technique played much like regular golf except players throw flying discs into above-ground Is Life of Tiger Woods More Balanced targets for 18 "holes."' The PDGA, headquartered in Appling, Ga., estimates that up to 4 million people play disc golf annually. The PDGA sanctioned more than 1,100 events in 2010.