Community

Since 2018

1. 2018

   Four people and a morning round

   July 4, 2018, four of us threw a round at Majette and called ourselves a club. League nights started at FSU Panama City in August. Prodigy sent 90 player packs and the first Par 2, a putter-only tournament on 150-foot holes, sold out in eight weeks. Then Hurricane Michael took most of the county's courses.

   

2. 2019

   FSU, a nonprofit, and a pub crawl

   FSU Panama City was home. Monday Madness, Wednesday league, and 100 rounds a week on campus. The Putting Pub Crawl put baskets in a dozen St. Andrews bars and 70 people walked it. We became a 501(c)(3) in June. The second Par 2 drew 109 players, the biggest disc golf event Bay County had seen.

   

3. 2020

   The first sanctioned events, and the Monster

   Our first C-Tier was the Kickoff at The Bear at Compass Lake. Nothing at home was ready. Eight players fought for the first Best of Bay title, our match play championship. Covid cancelled the Florida State Gulf Coast Open. Then in October the county opened the redesigned Majette, and 71 players braved the rain at the first Monster Mash.

   

4. 2021

   Home at Majette

   Sanctioned league moved to Sunday afternoons at Majette. The Kickoff sold 72 spots in 72 hours and grew to 90. The first Northwest Florida Disc Golf Championship ran in August, with a Grip6 belt in every amateur's pack and a championship belt for every winner. The Monster Mash became a pro B-Tier and Matt Orum played it, his first time at one of our events. The Tinsel Toss raised $3,021 for the Children's Advocacy Center.

   

5. 2022

   Squids and a new look

   The Squid Squad had 200 discs in the bin and started the $7 ship-it-home program. Matt Orum came back for the Kickoff, with the Disc Golf Guy filming. The Iron Man, three rounds in a day for veterans, raised $2,200 for the HOPE Project. In December we unveiled the logo and the five values we still use.

   

6. 2023

   Three days, three events

   The championship grew to three days and three events, run by Webb Warren and Michael Bennett with $750 added for the pros, and volunteers built a deck on hole 5. Weeknight league moved to Under the Oaks, our nine-hole course in Parker. The Iron Man ran as three flex starts in one day.

   

7. 2024

   Community, not club

   Richard Carpenter took over league in May. A storm postponed the championship to June. It moved to February after that. October brought the new Monster Mash, 22 holes on the Monster's Mansion layout. In November the board ended membership to focus on the community at large, with a supporter tier to follow that gives people more flexibility. Four years of Tinsel Toss and Monster Mash had put $9,600 into the Children's Advocacy Center.

   

8. 2025

   Trees in the ground

   We packed the county's master plan workshop for Majette in January. Win Pipes joined the board and secured a grant for trees. Jordan Rumfelt took the Best of Bay belt in October. In December more than 20 volunteers planted more than 500 trees in a week, the first big Root for Bay planting day. We'd put a handful of maples in the ground a few years before.

   

9. 2026

   Two plantings and a new tournament

   A second planting in January. The sixth championship in February. Maximum Freedom went from an idea to a 72-player tournament in five weeks. The Monster at Majette app shipped in September, and this site with it.