An ultimate high Disc golf in the High Country
BY DAVID ROGERS
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here was a time in the late 1960s and 1970s, when throwing a Frisbee among friends at a city park was almost synonymous with those days of peace, love, and rock and roll. Of course, the origins of the flying disc dated way back in history, to the late 1800s when the Frisbie Pie Company of Bridgeport, Conn,. used round metal tins for serving up their food products. Once empty, the pie tins were
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hurled by creative university students, spinning through the air to each other as casual entertainment. In 1948, a couple of post-war designers engineered a plastic version, then in 1955 introduced an upgraded model that made it more aerodynamic. They promptly sold the product to a new toy company, Wham-O, as the “Pluto Platter,” reports History. com, trying to capitalize on the spreading craze about unidentified flying objects, or UFOs. Later, in 1967, a Wham-
O designer filed a patent for what we have come to know as the modern Frisbee, with raised ridges or rings on the surface of the disc for greater stability in the air. And the rest is history. Wham-O, which brought such toys as the HulaHoop, Super Ball, and Water Wiggle to market, sold more than 100 million of the flying discs by 1977. It may have started out as a an entertaining pastime of the “hippie” SEE DISC GOLF ON PAGE 73
PHOTO BY COLIN TATE Zach Morgan aims his disc earlier in 2021. Morgan finished first in Division A in the Ice Bowl Disc Golf Tournament.
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