David Greenwell

Hamilton reported that David Greenwell, who designed the disc golf course at Graham Memorial Park, is also the state coordinator for the Professional Disc Golf Association.
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In 2008, Greenwell would like to hold the nationally qualifying tournament in Lebanon, according to Hamilton.

Men's Grandmaster Division: Dave Greenwell, PDGA #: 962

Dave Greenwell, 51, gets pumped up like a little kid going to his first baseball game when he envisions the future of the quirky but exacting sport of disc golf in Louisville.

"It's busting at the seams," said Greenwell, last year's Master's National Champion for disc golfers over age 50."We're teaching it to Cub Scout groups, I've done displays at (Louisville Bats baseball) games and we've even set up temporary courses for handicapped kids in wheelchairs to play."

Flinging a hard plastic disc into an elevated metal basket might seem like fun merely for scouts and kids, but to know disc golf is to rub up against the kind of precision, technical wherewithal and mind games attributed to the sport's progenitor, golf.

A multiple world singles champion and member of the Disc Golf Hall of Fame, Greenwell has spent 25 years playing and cheering for the sport around the world.

"Flight is a fascinating thing," he said, "and doing it with a little piece of plastic makes it even more so."

The lingo alone can become dizzying, with terms like hyzers, anhyzers, rollers, spikes and scoobies describing the types of tosses used to get around trees (hyzers and anhyzers), gobble up distance (rollers) or weasel into a tight spot (spikes).

"You really want to learn accuracy before learning to throw long," Greenwell said.
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In fact, Greenwell, an avowed lover of sushi, counts the 1989 Japan Open as one of his biggest victories.He has traveled to that country six times to play in tournaments.
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"The closest thing we have right now to a championship course in Kentucky would be in Elizabethtown," Greenwell said."But the biggest tournament in the state is in Bowling Green, where they had 330 amateurs come out to play last month."

Greenwell doesn't hesitate to give regular golf its due, because without respect for the lineage of disc golf, you can't really appreciate the subtleties of the sport.

"Golf is the best mental sport on the planet because it leaves you with so many decisions to make," he said."This is another thinking-persons game, whether you're a kid or you're 80 years old.This sport is much more visual, though."

The two games can come together on occasion.In the Ned Beatty Pro-Celebrity Golf Tournament a few years ago, Greenwell teed off next to Australian pro golfer Jan Stephenson.

Ken Climo, John David, David Greenwell, Johnny Roberts, Rick Voakes

David Greenwell of Louisville, a member of the Professional Disc Golf Association's Hall of Fame, designed the course at Charlie Vettiner Park. (By Sam Upshaw Jr., The Courier-Journal)
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David Greenwell, a Louisville disc golfer and member of the Professional Disc Golf Association's Hall of Fame, designed the course.

At this point, the fairways have been cut and reseeded -- a process that included clearing some forested area -- and some erosion work has been done, Greenwell said.

"We desperately needed a new course," he said.

Four Time World Champion (Masters/Grandmasters), Disc Golf Hall of Fame Member and Team Champion Member- Dave Greenwell

Team Champion Masters Member - Dave Greenwell

Dave GreenwellINNOVA Team Champion Masters: David Greenwell