The PDGA is pleased to announce that the historical events project has, at long last, been achieved, with player results and scores from close to 4,000 tournaments from 1979 through 2001 now posted on our website. The earliest event is one of disc golf's most fabled: the Wham-O $50,000 Frisbee Disc Golf Invitational, which was run by none other than PDGA #001, "Steady" Ed Headrick.
The archive includes 884 events from the 1980s; 2,289 events from the 1990s; and 795 from 2000 to 2001, when the transition from the PDGA's old DOS database to more modern technology began. Geographically, 94 percent of the records come from events in the United States. There are also 130 tournaments from Canada, 100 from Europe, the first eight editions of the Japan Open, and the 1995 Australia Open. We can also state with confidence that, in terms of PDGA-sanctioned events, the data includes 99.9 percent of tournaments since Becky Powell's tenure (#6349) as Administrator from 1995 to 1996.
