Disc Golf

Overview

Origin

Modern USA

Category

Emerging

Olympic discipline

No

Paralympic discipline

No

Central pathway

None recorded

Athlete profiles on SportSupport

0

Governance and status

Each field below is shown only where we hold a source for it; anything else reads “Not currently verified” rather than a guess. Ministry of Youth Affairs & Sports recognition is granted year by year, so it is only ever shown with the year it applies to. Last reviewed: September 2026.

Indian governing/organising body

Disc Golf Association of India

Ministry recognition

Not currently verified

International federation

Not currently verified

Khelo India inclusion

Not currently verified

TOPS eligibility

Not currently verified

Olympic status

Not on the Olympic programme

Paralympic status

Not a Paralympic discipline

Scholarships & Funding

Central, state and private scholarships available for disc golf athletes in India.

• No central scholarship pathway

  We hold no verified central pathway for disc golf and no current-year Ministry recognition record for a national body, so we make no Khelo India, TOPS or National Sports Development Fund claim for it.

No athlete profiles are recorded for disc golf yet. We only list athletes we can source, so this section stays empty until verifiable profiles exist.

Rules

Disc golf follows the logic of golf with flying discs: each hole is played from a tee pad toward an elevated metal basket, and the aim is to complete the hole in the fewest throws. Play proceeds from the lie where the previous throw came to rest, the player furthest from the target throws first, and a hole is complete when the disc comes to rest supported by the basket's chains or tray. Rules are set by the Professional Disc Golf Association and cover stance and marking the lie, out-of-bounds and mandatory routes, penalty throws, and a limit on time taken per throw. Courses are usually 9 or 18 holes with par set per hole, and scoring uses the same under/over-par convention as golf. Unlike ultimate frisbee there is no team play, no opposing defence and no contest for possession — it is an individual target sport.

Authoritative rulebook: Disc Golf Association of India.

Positions

Typical roles across emerging sports. These are category-level descriptions, not a sourced disc golf squad list.

• Attacker / offensive role
  The point-scoring position in the sport's playing format.
• Defender
  Prevents the opposition from scoring and controls the defensive zone.
• All-rounder / substitute
  Rotates through roles or comes in as a tactical substitute.

Equipment

Standard kit and infrastructure required to train and compete in disc golf at a federation-recognised event.

• Set of discs: distance drivers, fairway drivers, mid-ranges and putters, each with different flight characteristics
• Permanent chain baskets (targets) installed on the course — the main infrastructure requirement
• Marked tee pads, plus a mini marker disc for marking the lie
• Bag or backpack to carry discs, and a scorecard or UDisc-style scoring app
• No clubs, balls, or fairway maintenance of the kind golf requires — open parkland or wooded ground suffices

Governing/organising body

Major Indian Events

Domestic competitions we hold a source for in disc golf.

• Disc Golf India Association

  Founded on 20 February 2020 in New Delhi by Anand K. Verma, a PDGA member, with the stated aim of growing disc golf across India. It operates at very small scale and there is no established national championship circuit, no state association structure and no government recognition.

• Course infrastructure — the core constraint

  UDisc ranks India 74th among disc golf countries, with a single course in the entire country. For comparison, the United States has over 9,000 courses and accounts for roughly three-quarters of all disc golf courses worldwide. With one course nationally, there is effectively no domestic competitive calendar.

International Events

Continental and world-level competitions we hold a source for in disc golf.

• PDGA structure

  Disc golf's global governing body is the Professional Disc Golf Association, founded in 1976 and headquartered in Appling, Georgia. It is a non-profit membership organisation that sets the rules, sanctions tournaments, maintains player ratings and runs the course directory. Indian players can join as individual PDGA members and receive a PDGA number regardless of whether a national federation exists.

• Indian participation

  No documented Indian results at PDGA Major or World Championship level were found in available sources. Participation to date has been through individual PDGA membership rather than a national team.

Leagues

No dedicated professional league is currently catalogued for disc golf. The national championship under Disc Golf Association of India remains the top domestic competition.

International Players

Globally recognised disc golf athletes to know outside India.

The international federation for disc golf maintains the current world ranking — check the federation site for the up-to-date top names.

Career Options

Ways to build a career in disc golf — on the field, on the sidelines and behind the scenes.

• Disc golf is at an earlier stage in India than almost any other sport covered here — a single course, an association founded in 2020, and no national championship means there is currently no competitive pathway to speak of
• The barrier is land and baskets rather than skill: a course needs 9 or 18 permanent targets across open ground, and the standard chain basket design descends from the Mach 1 Disc Pole Hole developed by Ed Headrick, who coined and trademarked the term 'disc golf' and whose company became the PDGA's technical standard
• The sport is unusually cheap to play once a course exists — a few discs are all a player needs — which is why growth elsewhere has followed course construction rather than equipment access
• The realistic contribution right now is course development: approaching parks departments, schools and resorts about installing baskets, which is how the sport spread in every country where it has taken hold
• Individual PDGA membership is open to Indian players and provides a rating, rules access and eligibility for sanctioned events abroad — the most direct route to competitive play while domestic infrastructure is absent
• Anyone considering the sport should be aware it currently offers no scholarships, no sports-quota pathway, no federation recognition and no national selection

No disc golf academies are catalogued in the directory yet. Browse the full academy list or list your academy to appear here.

FAQs

Common questions about disc golf in India.

Disc Golf in every state & UT

Dedicated pages for Disc Golf in each Indian state and Union Territory — academies, schemes, athletes and how to start.

• Disc Golf in Andhra Pradesh
• Disc Golf in Arunachal Pradesh
• Disc Golf in Assam
• Disc Golf in Bihar
• Disc Golf in Chhattisgarh
• Disc Golf in Goa
• Disc Golf in Gujarat
• Disc Golf in Haryana
• Disc Golf in Himachal Pradesh
• Disc Golf in Jharkhand
• Disc Golf in Karnataka
• Disc Golf in Kerala
• Disc Golf in Madhya Pradesh
• Disc Golf in Maharashtra
• Disc Golf in Manipur
• Disc Golf in Meghalaya
• Disc Golf in Mizoram
• Disc Golf in Nagaland
• Disc Golf in Odisha
• Disc Golf in Punjab
• Disc Golf in Rajasthan
• Disc Golf in Sikkim
• Disc Golf in Tamil Nadu
• Disc Golf in Telangana
• Disc Golf in Tripura
• Disc Golf in Uttar Pradesh
• Disc Golf in Uttarakhand
• Disc Golf in West Bengal
• Disc Golf in Andaman & Nicobar Islands
• Disc Golf in Chandigarh
• Disc Golf in Dadra & Nagar Haveli and Daman & Diu
• Disc Golf in Delhi
• Disc Golf in Jammu & Kashmir
• Disc Golf in Ladakh
• Disc Golf in Lakshadweep
• Disc Golf in Puducherry