Cgkdisc
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Looks like Wisconsin is the only state when you cross the border to leave, you are in another state/province that has at least 100 courses.
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How many states have over 100 courses?
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Before DGCR, I used to regularly keep track of this with all things a windows paint file of a US/Canada map on my computer. Here's what the last update (summer of 2010) looked like...
Here's the pecking order now...
1 Texas 348
2 California 263
3 Wisconsin 250
4 Minnesota 239
5 Michigan 228
6 Illinois 215
7 Iowa 210
8 North Carolina 200
9 Ohio 183
10 Colorado 147
11 Kansas 140
12 Pennsylvania 136
13 Missouri 134
14 Indiana 126
15 Florida 116
16 Oklahoma 112
17 Oregon 109
17 Tennessee 109
19 Washington 99
20 South Carolina 96
20 Virginia 96
22 New York 90
23 Kentucky 88
24 Georgia 85
25 Mississippi 79
26 Idaho 73
27 Nebraska 70
28 Arkansas 64
29 Alabama 62
30 Maine 59
31 Arizona 56
32 South Dakota 54
33 North Dakota 43
33 Utah 43
35 Louisiana 42
36 Montana 41
37 Massachusetts 40
38 West Virginia 38
39 Wyoming 36
40 New Mexico 35
41 Maryland 32
42 Vermont 30
43 Alaska 29
44 New Jersey 26
45 New Hampshire 24
46 Nevada 22
47 Connecticut 20
48 Delaware 12
49 Hawaii 10
50 Rhode Island 2
Here's the pecking order now...
1 Texas 348
2 California 263
3 Wisconsin 250
4 Minnesota 239
5 Michigan 228
6 Illinois 215
7 Iowa 210
8 North Carolina 200
9 Ohio 183
10 Colorado 147
11 Kansas 140
12 Pennsylvania 136
13 Missouri 134
14 Indiana 126
15 Florida 116
16 Oklahoma 112
17 Oregon 109
17 Tennessee 109
19 Washington 99
20 South Carolina 96
20 Virginia 96
22 New York 90
23 Kentucky 88
24 Georgia 85
25 Mississippi 79
26 Idaho 73
27 Nebraska 70
28 Arkansas 64
29 Alabama 62
30 Maine 59
31 Arizona 56
32 South Dakota 54
33 North Dakota 43
33 Utah 43
35 Louisiana 42
36 Montana 41
37 Massachusetts 40
38 West Virginia 38
39 Wyoming 36
40 New Mexico 35
41 Maryland 32
42 Vermont 30
43 Alaska 29
44 New Jersey 26
45 New Hampshire 24
46 Nevada 22
47 Connecticut 20
48 Delaware 12
49 Hawaii 10
50 Rhode Island 2
Might be cold but we got courses up in this bitch! WI, IA, MN is where the course baggers need to be at!
Michigan is close (WI, IN, OH), just ignore Canada.
Illinois is also close (WI, IA, MO, IN), just needs KY (88) to step it up a bit. (I was surprised to see that KY does not have 100 courses yet).
Cgkdisc
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Interesting that only three states currently ranked in the top 24 (Virginia, Washington, and glaringly, Illinois) have not had courses included in an Am or Pro Worlds. Kentucky has BG Ams and part of Cincy Worlds. Of the bottom 26 states in course count, only Alabama and Arizona have hosted a few Worlds.
greg_b_4
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Myrtle beach needs more courses for sure. I vacation there every year and it's sad there is only one half decent course.
Them's fightin' words!
Thanks for posting Thai map from 2010. I'm surprised that BC lead the way back then. I wonder if that is still the case.
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Don't let the numbers fool you, Alaska only has 1 or 2 courses worth playing. It's not for lack of good terain though.
joecoin
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Ohio is right there also, when you consider that West Virginia is really part of Virginia. Then yeah, Kentucky needs to step it up a notch.
Anyone have data on courses to population ratio and courses per square mile?
Yep. Definitely the weak corner of the state.....well, basically the eastern third. The further west you go in S.C., the denser the course presence.
I have 64 courses within 50 miles of my house. I still need to play 12 of them, but two are listed as unplayable.
grodney
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Using July 1 2012 population estimates, since I'm too lazy to grab more recent ones --- Iowa still leads, barely, over South Dakota. Iowa has owned the "per capita" title since at least the early 90s.
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Rank Courses Pop/Course Pop State
1 210 14,639 3,074,186 Iowa
2 54 15,432 833,354 SouthDakota
3 36 16,011 576,412 Wyoming
4 43 16,270 699,628 NorthDakota
5 140 20,614 2,885,905 Kansas
6 30 20,867 626,011 Vermont
7 73 21,859 1,595,728 Idaho
8 239 22,507 5,379,139 Minnesota
9 59 22,529 1,329,192 Maine
10 250 22,906 5,726,398 Wisconsin
11 41 24,516 1,005,141 Montana
12 29 25,222 731,449 Alaska
13 70 26,508 1,855,525 Nebraska
14 112 34,061 3,814,820 Oklahoma
15 147 35,290 5,187,582 Colorado
16 109 35,774 3,899,353 Oregon
17 79 37,784 2,984,926 Mississippi
18 228 43,348 9,883,360 Michigan
19 134 44,940 6,021,988 Missouri
20 64 46,080 2,949,131 Arkansas
21 200 48,760 9,752,073 NorthCarolina
22 38 48,827 1,855,413 WestVirginia
23 96 49,205 4,723,723 SouthCarolina
24 88 49,777 4,380,415 Kentucky
25 126 51,884 6,537,334 Indiana
26 24 55,030 1,320,718 NewHampshire
27 109 59,232 6,456,243 Tennessee
28 35 59,587 2,085,538 NewMexico
29 215 59,885 12,875,255 Illinois
30 183 63,083 11,544,225 Ohio
31 43 66,402 2,855,287 Utah
32 99 69,667 6,897,012 Washington
33 348 74,883 26,059,203 Texas
34 12 76,424 917,092 Delaware
35 62 77,775 4,822,023 Alabama
36 96 85,269 8,185,867 Virginia
37 136 93,850 12,763,536 Pennsylvania
38 42 109,569 4,601,893 Louisiana
39 85 116,705 9,919,945 Georgia
40 56 117,022 6,553,255 Arizona
41 22 125,406 2,758,931 Nevada
42 10 139,231 1,392,313 Hawaii
43 263 144,644 38,041,430 California
44 40 166,154 6,646,144 Massachusetts
45 116 166,531 19,317,568 Florida
46 20 179,517 3,590,347 Connecticut
47 32 183,893 5,884,563 Maryland
48 90 217,447 19,570,261 NewYork
49 26 340,946 8,864,590 NewJersey
50 2 525,146 1,050,292 RhodeIslandgrodney
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Anybody want to guess how many were over 100 just 10 short years ago, 2005?
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1 or 2. I have data from June 2005, and it shows Texas 122 and Iowa 101. Cali and Minn were tied at 91.
Those numbers, taken with the current numbers, are shocking.
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1 or 2. I have data from June 2005, and it shows Texas 122 and Iowa 101. Cali and Minn were tied at 91.
Those numbers, taken with the current numbers, are shocking.
So in the last ten years, WI has put it in over 160 courses? That's pretty crazy...
Some smart person do course density by state size again!
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8 States over 200 & 17 over 100, just ten years later. Wowzers!
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grodney
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I guess the only disclaimer on the 2005 figures is that I wasn't on DGCR yet, so I got the counts from somewhere else ---- most likely the PDGA directory.
grodney
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Iowa was the 3rd state to hit 50 -- they did so in July 1999.
Old Dog
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I thought you guys said that the sport wasn't growing?
And who'ld a thunk Iowa would by a bastion of disc golf?
And who'ld a thunk Iowa would by a bastion of disc golf?
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grodney
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Digital Hoarding Society presents: Course growth by state - stats and graph.
Sources:
1999 - PDGA online directory
2005 - Unknown -- probably PDGA directory
2009 - scarpfish MSPaint map
2010 - scarpfish MSPaint map
2013 - DGCR
2015 - DGCR
Sources:
1999 - PDGA online directory
2005 - Unknown -- probably PDGA directory
2009 - scarpfish MSPaint map
2010 - scarpfish MSPaint map
2013 - DGCR
2015 - DGCR
Code:
Sep99 Jun05 Dec09 Jun10 Apr13 Feb15 State
13 18 36 38 50 62 Alabama
0 6 18 18 28 29 Alaska
11 16 29 32 52 56 Arizona
3 8 23 23 49 64 Arkansas
58 91 164 172 241 263 California
39 58 93 95 128 147 Colorado
3 5 13 14 17 20 Connecticut
6 8 13 12 12 12 Delaware
23 38 67 70 96 116 Florida
11 19 58 60 78 85 Georgia
0 2 6 6 8 10 Hawaii
7 20 40 44 59 73 Idaho
33 73 138 144 188 215 Illinois
23 38 66 72 103 126 Indiana
49 101 154 160 188 210 Iowa
24 52 87 97 121 140 Kansas
17 33 67 70 80 88 Kentucky
8 13 23 22 31 42 Louisiana
5 14 32 33 46 59 Maine
6 14 21 21 27 32 Maryland
7 13 22 23 33 40 Massachusetts
31 70 142 149 202 228 Michigan
45 91 151 155 213 239 Minnesota
9 24 43 49 72 79 Mississippi
18 32 65 64 107 134 Missouri
7 22 34 33 41 41 Montana
4 23 44 48 64 70 Nebraska
4 6 11 15 18 22 Nevada
2 3 9 9 17 24 NewHampshire
5 7 17 18 22 26 NewJersey
9 15 24 32 38 35 NewMexico
11 21 51 55 70 90 NewYork
27 57 111 117 164 200 NorthCarolina
7 13 27 31 39 43 NorthDakota
21 51 111 115 160 183 Ohio
25 38 59 64 88 112 Oklahoma
21 39 67 69 91 109 Oregon
19 30 84 92 120 136 Pennsylvania
3 2 1 1 1 2 RhodeIsland
10 28 51 56 86 96 SouthCarolina
3 22 40 41 43 54 SouthDakota
13 28 52 55 83 109 Tennessee
75 122 212 218 287 348 Texas
2 11 24 26 30 43 Utah
1 6 15 16 26 30 Vermont
16 25 59 61 82 96 Virginia
11 24 57 64 86 99 Washington
3 8 19 23 33 38 WestVirginia
28 77 153 163 213 250 Wisconsin
5 11 19 20 31 36 WyomingSimilar threads
