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The Inevitable 2025 Pros Switching Sponsors Thread
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redflyer717
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Connor O'Reilly leaves Lone Star Discs. Now a free agent.
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Fun to watch his course previews. He will probably be one of those guys who has to find 10 small sponsors.
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Who's left there? Burridge? I thought they had a pretty good line-up of pros, but there have been a constant stream of them heading out the door in the past year.
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Connor may be out of contention early in an event, but the ones I've been to he's always got his table set up first at the fly mart in a great spot and pushing plastic. He will talk to anyone about discs. I even saw him sell a couple Pixels to a vendor's wife at Waco. "He was just so nice," she said.
Nikkko is still on the team apparently.
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Nikko isn't their either. He was throwing open bag on coverage.
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From what I've heard from someone close to the Dillard family, Lone Star changed their pro sponsorship model going forward to performance and incentive based (much like Innova of old). Modest but still low end stipend up front to help you start your tour, but matching your winnings, giving percentages on tour series discs and merch sales, and giving performance based bonuses making the player earn their salary. They scaled back from trying to make a splash with signing a large, well paid pro team, to focusing on juniors and ams after seeing the real financial value/lack thereof pros actually bring in net return. The family wants to focus less on the pro side of the game and more on the casual players because they are wearing too many hats and overwhelmed trying to keep up with the Jones'. (All of this comes from someone who is good friends with Terry, the owner, and could be complete crap, but that's my source.)
They let a lot of their pros know months ago about the coming change, some declined to resign for next year in silence, some made a bit more noise. lol
They let a lot of their pros know months ago about the coming change, some declined to resign for next year in silence, some made a bit more noise. lol
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I played 10 tournaments these past 2 years, saw probably 500+ different disc golfers, only 3 of them were obvious lone star throwers and they all were the pay to be "sponsored" ma3 type guys. I still haven't met anyone who throws their discs who didn't pay to be sponsored by them.
The 40+ ma234 guy who joined during covid is their demographic. That's who they need to target.
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That's funny. I thought the brand skewed younger.
But as an old guy, everything skews younger than me.
Their canine team is pretty young, if you don't count in dog years.
Lone Star was molding his Sacred Disc line.
Can't imagine he owns those molds and can move to a new manufacturer (Gateway) with them.
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The Oakley Bergs have a big following a lot of people like them since they are generally a bit stiffer. I liked his lucid x Felons. They didn't glow good but were nicely OS.
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Not a sponsor switch, but certainly a way to supplement his income - Ricky opened a disc store in Mesa, AZ:
DiscGolf HQ
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Red Mountain is a solid pair of courses. A little out in BFE from my recollection living in Phoenix several years ago. Never got the appeal of Vista del Camino where the other (only other?) DG shop is. Kinda bland and a ton of non-DG traffic. Buffalo Ridge and Red Mountain were much better, IMO, and it's good to see something open up near a better course (again, IMO)
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According to the 2024 Fandom Survey, based on nearly 10,000 responses from disc golf fans, here are the TOP 10 MOST LIKED and TOP 10 LEAST LIKED professional disc golfers!
The more popular or well-liked a player is, the more discs they tend to sell. Pretty straightforward - a great metric for manufacturers during the upcoming contract season.
Source - 2024 Fandom Survey: Which Pros Do We Root For (and Against)? - Ultiworld Disc Golf
The more popular or well-liked a player is, the more discs they tend to sell. Pretty straightforward - a great metric for manufacturers during the upcoming contract season.
Source - 2024 Fandom Survey: Which Pros Do We Root For (and Against)? - Ultiworld Disc Golf
The most-liked pros make sense. They tend to be charismatic, have good social media presence, etc.
The least-liked pros are a little more interesting. There are definitely some assholes in that list. Jake seems pretty cool, and Hammes is meh at worst
The least-liked pros are a little more interesting. There are definitely some assholes in that list. Jake seems pretty cool, and Hammes is meh at worst
Hmm…
Hmmmm.....the article states the data is from 10,000 surveys, not 10,000 disc golf fans. I don't believe there are 10,000 disc golf fans. Introducing Natalie Ryan into this survey, leads me to believe there are a bunch of duplicate survey authors. Cynical...yep.
Hard to believe Nikko isn't first place in the second list. I guess some people just like a heel.
