PDGA Radio

PDGA members can begin voting for candidates in the 2024 PDGA Board of Directors elections on July 1. Ballots will be emailed to members.   Seven candidates are running for three open seats. Read candidate bios at pdga.com. Hear all the interviews on your favorite podcast platform or watch them on youtube.com/pdga.

PDGA members can begin voting for candidates in the 2024 PDGA Board of Directors elections on July 1. Ballots will be emailed to members.   Seven candidates are running for three open seats. Read candidate bios at pdga.com. Hear all the interviews on your favorite podcast platform or watch them on youtube.com/pdga.

PDGA members can begin voting for candidates in the 2024 PDGA Board of Directors elections on July 1. Ballots will be emailed to members.   Seven candidates are running for three open seats. Read candidate bios at pdga.com. Hear all the interviews on your favorite podcast platform or watch them on youtube.com/pdga.

PDGA members can begin voting for candidates in the 2024 PDGA Board of Directors elections on July 1. Ballots will be emailed to members.   Seven candidates are running for three open seats. Read candidate bios at pdga.com. Hear all the interviews on your favorite podcast platform or watch them on youtube.com/pdga.

PDGA members can begin voting for candidates in the 2024 PDGA Board of Directors elections on July 1. Ballots will be emailed to members.   Seven candidates are running for three open seats. Read candidate bios at pdga.com. Hear all the interviews on your favorite podcast platform or watch them on youtube.com/pdga.

PDGA members can begin voting for candidates in the 2024 PDGA Board of Directors elections on July 1. Ballots will be emailed to members.   Seven candidates are running for three open seats. Read candidate bios at pdga.com. Hear all the interviews on your favorite podcast platform or watch them on youtube.com/pdga.

PDGA members can begin voting for candidates in the 2024 PDGA Board of Directors elections on July 1. Ballots will be emailed to members.   Seven candidates are running for three open seats. Read candidate bios at pdga.com. Hear all the interviews on your favorite podcast platform or watch them on youtube.com/pdga.

This one was fun. Our conversation with Joe Rovere started in the Champions Landing parking lot and ended up on the back deck. Joe is already in Emporia, KS preparing to defend his title for the second straight year.

Disc golf is life... mostly. Grant Zellner and Nate Perkins are just a couple of guys hanging out and talking about a sport that has created a career for both of us. (Don't worry... the focus is mostly on Nate, as it should be.)

PDGA Director of Competition Rebecca Duffy joins Grant and Jen to talk a little bit about what goes into a bid to host a PDGA Major... and just in time, because requests for bids for 2026 and 2027 Majors goes out on June 1.

Just before Mother's Day, Jennifer sat down with one pro-tour mom (Paige Shue) and one pro-tour mom-to-be (Macie Valediaz) to talk about balancing disc golf – as a career or a hobby – with kiddos. They also talk about the upcoming Women's Global Event.

Grant and Jen talk about their PDGA Champions Cup experiences at Northwood Park in Peoria, IL, as well as some interesting stats and other historical nuggets from the event.

Grant and Jennifer sit down with PDGA Champions Cup Director Nate Heinold to preview the 2024 edition of this PDGA Professional Major.

You may have seen Johannes Kropf on social media, lacing drives down the fairway from his 3-wheeled chair. The Berlin-native is a pioneer in adaptive disc golf, and he brings both his personal story and his unique insights on the adaptive possibilities for disc golf to the podcast. -- This episode is brought to you by Gravity Disc Golf.

Well, he won his 400th PDGA event... but by the time we got to him he was at 402. Brian Schweberger tells Grant and Jen how he does it in this episode of PDGA Radio.

Is already Major week at the PDGA again. The College Disc Golf National Championships will crown champions by sunset on Saturday. To set the stage, Grant and Jen welcome Eric McCabe, coach of the Emporia State Hornets – a disc golf team that is a full member of the university athletics department. With Eric is scholarship athlete Cade Kohlmeier, to provide a little insight into the experience of b...

The first PDGA Major of 2024 tees off next week. Krissie Fountain wears many hats at Mint Discs, the "hosts" for the event, which makes her the perfect guest to help us ignite the hype! Need tickets?

PDGA Executive Director Doug Bjerkaas addresses the nations in this "State of the Union" episode of PDGA Radio with Grant Zellner and Jennifer Allen.

The Official Disc Golf World Rankings launched just in time for the 2024 pro touring season. It's been an ongoing project for a number of dedicated people inside- and outside-of the PDGA. Here, Grant and Jen welcome Mark Broadie of SportEdge – the team behind the current iteration of the Official World Golf Ranking (and the "stokes gained" statistic). Mark tells us how those experiences with "ball...

From the backwoods of Kentucky to the USDGC stage, DJ HEK YEH's life has been an adventure. You've probably seen him – white gotee, flat bill, big smile. Now, get to know him. Lot's of laughs in this convo! (Sponsored in part by the Pure'd Disc Golf app. Connect. Play. Improve.)

Missy Gannon and Tom Szevin live a unique life. Is "home" the house they just bought? Or is it the RV they'll spend most of the next eight months living in? What is "work" like, when the office changes every week? This Valentine's Week, one of disc golf's favorite couples joins Grant and Jen on PDGA Radio.

Rebecca Duffy is no stranger on the PDGA Major tour or the elite series circuit. She's been a marshal, a PDGA board president, a disc golf broadcast personality and much more. This week, Rebecca was announced as the new director of competition for the PDGA... and with the Major season fast approaching, Grant and Jen check in.

Avery Jenkins is a world-traveling disc golf ambassador. He's played more than 1,500 courses in nearly 30 countries and 49 states (gotta get North Dakota!). Today, Grant and Jen join you in hearing about Avery's career building up to the 2009 PDGA Pro World title, and his career since then – which now includes a lot of course design among other ventures.

After the 2023 Dynamic Disc Open on the Disc Golf Pro Tour, some called victor Parker Welck a "flash in the pan." Now, after multiple off-season wins including the Shelly Sharpe Memorial, he's the flavor of the month. But Parker knows the recipe for success on tour, and he's hungry.

A new year means an update to the PDGA's Official Rules of Disc Golf. PDGA Policy & Compliance Specialist Robert Leonard joins Grant and Jen for a sprint through the rulebook.