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Thursday, July 15,2010 -Thomasville Times - 9
release dates: July 10-16
The Mini Tsuoe
, Betty Debnam, Founding Editor and Editor at Large (^(0
Teeing Off land Throwing
Playing Golf With Discs
! Do you enjoy tossing around a
Fripbee*? Do you play golf, or have
you watched people playing it? Frisbee
golf, or disc golf, as it is usually called,
combines tiiese two popular activities.
The Mini Page talked with an
expert to find out more about this fast-
growing, fun outdoor sport.
Birth of a new toy
In the late 1800s, the Frisbie Baking
Co. sold pies in special tins. College
students had fun eating the pies and
then tossing around the empty tin pie
plates.
After World War II, inventors
created a toy plastic version of this pie
plate. Tliey sold the design to the toy
company Wham-0®.
The new toy was called a Pluto
Platter because it looked like a flying
saucer. Wham-0 changed the name to
“Frisbee” in honor of the pie company.
A
Wham-0
employee,
Ed Headrick,
re-designed
the Frisbee
so it was
easier to
throw and
catch.
This disc goffer putts out on a
hole during a tournament. A putt
is the last of the throws. Putts
are the throws made closest to
the hole.
A putter disc would be most like
a regular Frisbee, designed to fly
shorter distances and witii less
force than other discs.
Frisbee® is a registered
trademark. You can teil by the
smaii R in a circle next to it. it
means that the name Frisbee
belongs to a company.
Birth of a new sport
People invented games with the new
toy. Some tried to hit targets such as
trees or trash cans with their Frisbees.
Others sneaked onto golf courses to •
play with a Frisbee rather than a ball.
Ed Headrick wrote the first official
rules for disc golf
Ed Headrick (1924-2002) invented the disc
golf “hole,” set up the first disc golf course
and named the sport.
Golf with a twist
Disc golf was patterned after regular
ball golf. Disc golf courses are usually
nine or 18 holes.
Players get one throw per turn. The
playbr whose disc lands the farthest
away from the hole gets the first throw
of the next turn. Players with the
lowest scores, or fewest throws, win.
Mini Spy ...
Mini Spy is playing with her friends in a round of
disc golf See if you can find: • two sheep • ring
• sea horse • strawberry • ladybug • heart
• turtle • number 3 • owl • word MINI
• lizard • elephant • squirrel
Players of all ages golf with discs. Often
players create their own courses.
Rookie Cookie’s Recipe
Blackberry Parfait
You’ll need:
• 1 (1-ounce) package sugar-free instant vanOla pudding
• 2 cups low-fat milk
• 2 cups blackberries, washed and rinsed
• 3 tablespoons seedless blackberry preserves
• whipped dairy topping
What to do:
1. Make pudding according to package directions. Chill for 5 minutes until
barely set.
2. Place blackberries and preserves in a small saucepan; cook on medium heat
for 5 minutes to combine preserves and fruit. Let cool.
3. Spoon half of pudding evenly into 4 parfait dishes. Spoon V4 cup blackbeny
sauce on top.
4. Layer with remaining pudding, then with blackberry sauce.
5. Spoon whipped dairy topping as the final layer. Serves 4.
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Meet Lee Pace
Lee Pace stars as Phil in the
movie “Marmaduke.” Lee has
starred in several movies and in the
TV series “Pushing Daisies.”
Lee, 31, tvas bom in Chickasha,
Okla., but spent much of his early
childhood in Saudi Arabia, where
his father was based. His dad
worked in the oil business.
Later, the family lived in New Orleans and then Houston, where
Lee went to high school. He began acting at a local theater there.
Lee went to college at Juilliard, a famous school for the
performing arts in New York. He acted in several plays there.
After college he appeared in plays off-Broadway.
He has a pointer dog named (3arl.
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Goldie Goodsport’s Report
Supersport: Danielle Lawrie
Height: 5-7 Hometown: Langley, British Columbia, Canada
On the mound, Danielle Lawrie baffles batters. At the
plate, she pounds pitchers. With her powerful arm and
booming bat, the multi-talented senior has led the University
of Washington women’s softball team to a No. 1 ranking.
Last season, the tireless All-American hurled the Huskies to the NCAA
championship and won National Player of the Year honors.
In Washington’s 59 games this season, her pitching record was 40-5,
with 495 strikeouts and a microscopic 1.11 earned run average. One fan
told a reporter that Danielle “coxild kill a bear” with her hard fastball.
Batters hate to face her, and pitchers hate to throw to her. In the
Huskies’ regular season, Lawrie posted a .322 batting average.
Lawrie also pitched in the 2008 Olympics for the Canadian national team.
Looking into the future, she has expressed interest in sports broadcasting.
Golfing With Flying Discs
The discs
You can play disc golf with a
regular Frisbee. But most disc golfers
play with special discs. Different
companies make them, so they aren’t
called Frisbees, which is a brand
name.
Frisbees are larger than golf
discs. They don’t fly as far or as fast.
Frisbees are light, designed to float
thi’ough the air and be easy to catch.
They have rounded rims so they don’t
hurt when you catch them.
Golf discs are made of harder
plastic and have sharper edges. They
are designed to fly more accurately
and for longer distances. A golf disc
can fly 17 to 20 miles per hour.
A Frisbee rests on smaller golf discs. Note
how rounded the Frisbee rim is.
Designed for a purpose
There are many different types of
golf discs, just as there are different
kinds of golf clubs. Each type is used
for a different purpose.
For example, a driver, a disc for
long distances, can sail more than
800 feet in a steady direction. A
putter is made for short distances.
A player might choose a different
disc when it’s windy. Different discs
might be better for flying up a lull or
sailing through trees.
Obstacles such as
trees and hills add to
the challenge of disc
golf courses. Course
managers might keep the
underbrush mowed so
players can get through.
But disc golf courses do
not need big areas of
mowed, smooth green
grass to play on.
Professional players may have 20
different discs. But you need only
one to’play.
A disc golf tee is usually a flat area
or pad made of concrete, packed dirt
or gravel. The
golfer chooses a
disc, then stands
on the tee or runs
up to it, throwing
the disc as far as
possible toward
the basket.
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Disc Golf Takes Off
Disc golf hole
When people first started
playing disc golf, they used a pole
as the target. But players got into
arguments about whether the disc
had hit the pole or not.
Players began using tone poles,
which made a noise when a disc hit
, them.
Ed Headricks designed a “disc pole
hole,” which was a special basket on
a pole. This is the standard disc golf
hole, or basket, used today.
Ringing the chains
In the regulation pole hole, the
pole is about 5 feet tall. A basket is
set a couple of feet down the pole.
Rows of chains hang down around
the pole. They stop just above the
basket.
When the
speeding
disc flies
toward the
pole, the
chains wrap
around
the disc,
slowing
it down.
Otherwise,
the disc
might
bounce off A disc pole hole
the pole or fly past the target.
- The disc drops through the chains
and into the basket. When the
disc hits the chains, they make an
exciting ringing sound.
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Disc golf can be played on rough ground
that is Inexpensive to keep up.
A growing sport
Experts say disc golf has grown
steadily for the past 30 years. Each
year there have been about 10
percent more players than there
were the year before.
There are about 3,000 to 4,000
courses in the United States. The
sport is also growing in Europe,
Australia and Japan. There are
about 1,000 international courses.
Disc golf courses don’t need as
much space as ball golf courses. A
good disc golf course might cost about
$5,000 to build. Other recreational
areas, such as tennis courts, might
cost at least 10 times more.
A sport for all ages
You can play disc golf with a
regular Frisbee and your own target
or basket. Or, if you want an official
golf disc, you can get one for about
$8. This sport does not have to cost a
lot to play.
Disc golf players often volunteer
to help build and care for a disc golf
course themselves. This saves the
community money too.
You can also invent your own
games. Many kids play disc games
on playgrounds, in their bacl^ards
or on school grounds. You can have
relays, play a type of basketball, a
type of golf, or anything else that
interests you. ,
Disc golfers can have fun practicing on
their own too.
The Mini Page thanks Josh Orzech, Disc
Golf Association (DGA), for help with this
issue.
Look through the sports section of your
newspaper for stories dbout summer
sports in your area.
Next week. The Mini Page is about
amazing, bolorful beetles.
The Mini Page Staff
Betty Debnam - Founding Editor and Editor at Large Lisa Tarry - Managing Editor Lucy Lien - Associate Editor Wendy Daley - Artist
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All the following jokes have something in common.
Can you guess the common theme or category?
Fay: Why did the disc golfer
need a new Frisbee?
Farrah: He had a hole-in-one!
Fester: How do you learn to play disc golf?
Ferris: Take a course!
Frank: What happens to your hair when you ^ ^ ’
play Frisbee golf? ^ ^
Farley: It gets frizzy!
SSsT Disc Golf
Words that remind us of disc golf are hidden in the block below. Some
words are hidden backward or diagonally. See If you can find: BASKET,
CHAINS, COURSE, DISC. DISTANCE, DRIVER. FRISBEE, FLY, GAME,
GOLF, HIT, HOLE, OBSTACLES, OUTDOORS, PIE, PLASTIC, PLATE,
PLAY, POLE, PUTT, RIM, SCORE. TEE, THROW, TIN, TREES.
Ready Resources
The Mini Page provides ideas for websites,
books or other resources that will help you learn
more about this week’s topics.
On the Web:
• www.di8cgolfassoc.com
• www.pdga.com
• www.irisbeedisc.com/sports/goWmdex.htmI
At the library:
• “The Wham-0 Ultimate Frisbee Handbook: Tips and
Techniques for Playing Your Best in Ultimate Frisbee” by
Jacqueline Sach and Cynthia L. Copeland
• “Material Detectives: Plastic: Let’s Look at a Frisbee” by
Angela Royston
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