One Grand Disc Golf Tour!!

[The Miniac]

Hi everyone!!
Gregg Hosfeld here. I would like to invite you all to visit my blah blah blah-g at "onegranddiscgolftour.com"

On July 4th I left Orlando with 825 courses under my belt. I am trying to play 175 more courses this summer to be the first guy to reach 1,000. I've been wanting to reach that number for a while and, to be quite honest, Ben Calhoun lit a fire under me.

I've listed a new post each day since my departure which includes tales from the tour, course reviews and some interesting photos. I encourage you to start at the beginning and catch up. Due to the enormity of the task at hand, my entries may not be up to the same level as my DGW articles (this could be a blessing for some of you) but I've tried to keep them amusing and/or informative. So far it has been a great trip and you owe it to yourself to read all about it!

Of course, the fuel prices are making this an incredibly difficult tour to finance, so I hope that you will consider purchasing one or more Innova CFR discs to help keep me on the road.

Please visit DISC GOLF CENTER to view the selection of 1kdgt discs. I would very much like to thank Disc Golf Center and Innova Champion Discs for their generous sponsorship.

I regret that I probably won't have much time to get overly involved in responding to emails and this thread since I'm driving and playing most days and then spending the night writing, processing photos, planning out the next day and posting to the blog. (Note I didn't mention sleep or eat)

Hope to see you at the MI worlds!!!
thanks
Gregg Hosfeld-1987 PDGA Champ
Professional Frivolist-The Miniac

PS: PLEASE TELL EVERYONE THAT YOU'VE EVER HEARD OF ABOUT MY EFFORTS AND HAVE THEM CHECK IN ON ME BEFORE THEY HEAD OUT IN THE AM.

[JConnell]

Hi Gregg,

Best of luck on your tour! I've added your blog to my bookmarks and will check it out often.

Below are direct links to the discs for those that don't want to search for them:

Aviar - Champion Glo CFR
Cobra - Star TFR
Destroyer - Champion CFR
Teebird - Champion Glo CFR
TL - Champion Glo CFR
Whippit - Star TFR

[Olorin]

From reading the One Grand Tour blog it looks like Gregg Hosfeld is counting mini courses in his course count. I've never seen one, but I don't see how those count as courses. They must be very short and of course not use standard discs or baskets. What do you think?

I hope this doesn't turn out to haunt him later if too many of "the powers that be" question the legitimacy of his count of 1000 if it contains questionable courses. If I was on this quest I wouldn't use them in my count.

This isn't offered as a criticism, but is intended to be helpful-- in the long run.

[Innovadude]

If I do 12 courses a day..

1000-646 (655 if mini counts)= 354/12= 1 Month..

I just need to buy a helicopter now!

[petecarp]

I have an Am Worlds Star Whippet X and it is a sweet disc. i have problems turning over a lot of my discs but in my quest to test overstable plastic i stumbled upon this gem and good luck turning it over and holding.

[DGtourist]

Howdy fellas,
What's a mini course?

hey Innovadude, I'll help you sell disc golf swag if you pick me up in the heli!
-JD the DGtourist

[Innovadude]

Mini golf disc..tiny baskets and all. Usually only set up for Worlds, there are 3-4 permanent courses in Penn, and one in Virginia. I've played about 9- 1999 pro worlds, 2000 pro-am, 2001 am, 2003 junior, 2004 pro-am, 2006 pro, 2007 pro, one in penn

[Olorin]

Originally Posted by DGtourist

What's a mini course?

A course played with the mini disc markers that are usually used to mark your lie. There are specially made minis that are weighted like regular discs, and they have special small baskets. I've never seen a course, though. Does anyone know the typical range of hole lengths?

[Greg Layton]

Gregg,

Would it be possible for you to write up short reviews of the courses you're playing and post them here? I'm sure your reviews and pictures would be appreciated, especially for courses that don't currently have any information listed.

[Asvetic]

Just saw that Gregg was in my neck of the woods and I think he missed out on 2 of the best courses in Central PA (Codorus and D.F. Buchmiller). Course, he might have played them during his 825 previous courses played. I missed the Crawdad Cooker and opted to play Quaker's Challenge that day (A. it was incredibly hot and B. that course is insanely hard.)

Keep going Gregg! Best of luck.