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Hello race fans welcome to dis golf daily it’s Thursday February 29th we are the podcast that gets you caught up with this golf growth and news in just 10 minutes happy leap year if you find something interesting share the podcast with a friend today is the unified

Rankings of dis golf day we call it urge day stay tuned to see who’s number one in the world our number one news story of the day comes to us from disc golf fanatic on Facebook this is something that I missed during the tournament during the chess.com Invitational Kevin Jones

Teaches us a new rule apparently if you’re not at the tea 5 minutes prior to tea off perhaps this is for elite events and above I’m not sure it is a two-stroke penalty Kevin got to the tea with less than 5 minutes before his tea time and received the

Penalty I enjoyed the comments about this one of which pointed out that if you arrive just after the tea time it’s par plus 4 if you show up before the tea time but within that 5 minutes it’s a two-stroke penalty you obviously show up early enough before that 5 minutes it’s

No penalty so that 5 minutes uh before the te has a a progressive penalty structure um if you’re on time you’re late that’s what everybody’s dad used to say I expect this won’t happen again to any pros without due cause and I expect it will help the professionalism of the

Sport just a little bit more thank you to the event the pro tour and the PDGA for enforcing the rule and thank you to Kevin for helping us learn it number two news story of the day the memorial MP40 YouTube coverage put out by the disc golf guy thank you Terry for

Providing this coverage this is a story I would not normally care about except the players on the card were telling kale Leisa Steve brinster KJ nibo the original KJ and Pete ulubari Paul’s older brother wow uh that is a card that I would definitely watch Perhaps it is

Time to start thinking about a master’s tour oh speaking of which the Master’s tour exists let’s hope it grows into something super special they’re in Alabama this week links in the show notes to all of those and our next Story the infinite diss blog looks a lot like the players meeting

Email Charlie at the Players meeting does a really great job this is a an a dis golf email newsletter he sends it out twice twice a week during the season he breaks down the happenings in dis golf honestly I feel like I could just

Read his work to you all and do a better job than I do but hey I’m trying so here I go anyway the interesting piece about this is that the infinite discs blog which I think is one of the best store blogs out there has posted the players

Meeting email as their own blog or is a part of their blog I reached out to Charlie and this is what he said quote it’s a new partnership we’re trying out I want to get my hard work newsletter in front of more people and infinite wants to diversify its blog content with tour

Coverage with these quote Snippets hosted on their site the hope is to have them promote it to their large audience and bring more subscribers to my list win-win uh infinite has been very easy to work with so hopefully this will continue and I can grow my audience

Without too much extra effort and they can grow Their audience as well well as content I noticed that something similar is happening with your podcast meaning disc golf daily and gatekeeper congrats it seems to be working out well I would have to say he agrees we keep seeing

Listenership go up and up so thank you infinite thank you Charlie thank you gatekeeper and thank you for listening and it is time for the United rankings of dis golf we end the show with an interview with Scott stokeley about stokeley discs stay tuned for that but so we take five world ranking

Systems and one power ranking system put them all together and create our unified rankings of disc golf urge on the men’s side in third place right now Ricky Yaki out of the six systems he has two seconds and two thirds which is good enough for a third overall

Eagle McMahon has one first two seconds and one third putting him in second place in our United rankings and Calvin heimberg has four firsts and one second making him the United rankings Champion Calvin heimberg is the best disc golfer on the planet right now on

The women’s side Missy has 3/3 she is in third place own has five seconds into the third she is in second place and Kristen Tatar has five firsts the one first she doesn’t have just so you know is the power rankings which evina leads because she just won that’s how Power

Rankings work uh Holland and Hanley also are in the conversation as well on the men’s side Paul McBeth Anthony Bella and Aaron gosage are also in the conversation and there you have it for our United rankings of disc golf stay stay tuned for my Q&A with Scott

Stokeley Scott stokeley has had a very interesting career in disc golf I’m not going to go through it all but suffice it to say he’s when I started playing the sport he was one of the people that I looked up to and said he’s one of the

Best and 30 years later he is still going at it and we had the opportunity to interview him about his new line of golf discs question number one you say quote I am manufacturing discs you also say quote we own do you want to share if you have Financial backers and what

Percentage of the company you own Scott’s reply yes I have Financial backing but it is my company every decision made is made by me I have helped with the molding and dis design but it is my company it will sink or swim based on the decisions I

Make I love the ownership while that he has and that he is taking um it’s not always easy to recognize that when things don’t work the guy sitting in the top seat is the reason question two I love the logo do you want to give a shout out to the

Designer Scott’s reply Justin loggo made the graphic design and I promised to make a separate video about the how the logo was developed well done Scott and Justin I look forward to that video question three how are these discs related to the marijuana themed discs that you made maybe a decade

Ago Scott’s reply regarding the older discs that were released and I was involved with I’ve spent eight or nine years trying to distance myself from that not so good idea that I had he did take ownership of him having that idea I’m not changing my stance on what I

Believe about Liberty and freedom and how good that industry has been but I want to distance myself from that and it’s not anything I want to be a part of that’s not who I am so those old Gateway discs I’m guessing are not really a part of the equation anymore and I’m also

Guessing that these discs are not made by Gateway question four I had to ask it how far do you throw the discs Scott’s reply I don’t throw them very far they are a Putter and a mid-range and I am a senior citizen it is a perfect storm of

Not throwing far but I am still me I guess so I throw the putter over 300 ft easily and could get it to 350 I throw the mid over 400 so I guess I do still throw far not as far as Anthony Barella though it was fun

Talking with Scot got about this and seeing how genuinely pleased he was um and at at thinking about himself in the current stage of disc golf um yeah it’s hard to to throw 700 feet when you’re 50 and I finished by asking him about the community flight numbers uh and he

Says regarding the and this is basically he’s he’s taking a well I’ll actually I’ll let him answer regarding the community flight numbers as soon as all the prototypes have gone out the door everyone that purchased one will get an email with a form to fill out hopefully

As many people as possible will fill them out while not everyone really knows how flight numbers work to properly assess them I’m not sure what the response will be it will be in the 500 to 1,000 response range that’s the number of people that will respond so it

Will be a large enough number and we will have a really good idea how they fly I also think this community-based approach is a good idea the community can do a better job rating how their discs fly the community will be right more often than an an individual person

I’ve also wanted it to do this way I I swear by doing it this way and now I get to because it’s my company I think that was a great way to finish and I thank you very much Scott for taking the time to answer my questions stokeley disks.com check them

Out I’m excited uh to see how this goes that’s that’s it for dis golf daily if you have any news thoughts or opinions you’d like to share email us at disolf Daily aol.com have fun throw them straight and hit the thin Gap