Is Texas Winning?

[bikinjack]

I think Iowa, Texas, North Carolina, Michigan, Kentucky, Minnesota, Wisconsin, and a lot of other places are winning. Disc golf is winning. It could always be better, but we're all winning, at least a little.

 

[Apothecary]

hey where did the liz carr discussion go?

 

[ZBoazMobster]

 

[ThePatrick]

"You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas"
Davy Crockett

 

[sidewinding]

"You may all go to Hell, and I will go to Texas"
Davy Crockett

Other famous words from people, just before being shot by Mexicans: You may all go to hell. I'm going to ride my jet ski over there to the other side of the lake and take a picture of that old submerged church.

 

[scarpfish]

Good disc golf courses don't start and stop at state lines that were drawn by dead white men in wigs 150 years ago.

So yeah, Texas is winning, but so is anyone within a reasonable drive of it, or any disc golf mecca.

 

[Dfwdscglfr]

to soon

 

[jasonc]

Numbers

Here is a list of states with 100+ DG courses

Texas--225
California--182
Wisconsin--169
Minnesota--164
Iowa--162
Michigan--161
Illinois--148
Ohio--126
North Carolina--120
Kansas--103

 

[Usher]

Iowa is the best place if you look at courses per sq/ft and per person. Meaning, they haves lot of courses for their size and the least amount of people per course. I have a spreadsheet that shows all the states that I'll post.

 

[jcf5083]

ohio is on the way up. when i started there were only 80-90 courses and three years later there are about 130 with many more in the works

:thmbup: this.

 

[KMaC]

iowa is the best always beats the rest, don't meth with us

Was that on purpose?

 

[Steve West]

Iowa is the best place if you look at courses per sq/ft and per person. Meaning, they haves lot of courses for their size and the least amount of people per course. I have a spreadsheet that shows all the states that I'll post.

If you take it one step farther and measure how far each resident is from each course, Iowa still wins.

http://stevewestdiscgolf.com/ByState.aspx

The typical Texas resident doesn't have more more courses nearby than most of the rest of the country.

 

[ZBoazMobster]

The typical Texas resident doesn't have more more courses nearby than most of the rest of the country.

Most 'typical' Texas reidents live in metroplexes.

Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area that according to the March 2010 U.S. Census Bureau release, had a population of roughly 6.5 million as of July 2009. These people in the D/FW metro area are about 25% of Texas's total population. 5.7 million in the Houston metroplex another ~20%. Austin has almost 2 million. 24.7 million in Texas as a whole. I've covered half of Texas's population in three locales, and only scratched the surface. The 'typical' Texan is not Ranchers, and Rangers.

 

[billnchristy]

But how many millions of non-residents don't get counted?

 

[Viper124]

Most 'typical' Texas reidents live in metroplexes.

Dallas–Fort Worth–Arlington metropolitan area that according to the March 2010 U.S. Census Bureau release, had a population of roughly 6.5 million as of July 2009. These people in the D/FW metro area are about 25% of Texas's total population. 5.7 million in the Houston metroplex another ~20%. Austin has almost 2 million. 24.7 million in Texas as a whole. I've covered half of Texas's population in three locales, and only scratched the surface. The 'typical' Texan is not Ranchers, and Rangers.

But this ranger ain't your typical Texan.

 

[ZBoazMobster]

But how many millions of non-residents don't get counted?

hehe. yeh, well...

 

[sidewinding]

Poor San Antonio is the 7th Largest City in the U.S. but only has 8 courses and most of them are crap.

 

[NDABRUSH]

At the start of the yr Texas had either 204 or 206. So by yrs end Texas will have opened around 20 new courses this year.

 

[koogs]

All I know is, when I got into dg, I sure got lucky as far as living in a great area for it. Besides a kickass little 9-holer 5 minutes from my house, the Madison course are 25-35 minutes, and lots more within an hour. Next weekend, my son and I are driving 2 hours north to the Stevens Point-Marshfield area for the weekend to play as many of the 3-4 disc courses as we can in 2 days (Standing Rocks, Yulga, Big Eau Pleine, etc). Being that we had such a hot, humid, mosquito infested year here, this is the best discin' time right now. Gotta love WI!:thmbup:

 

[JRW III]

When you factor in population size, California & Texas are on the bottom of the Top 10 list of states with 100+ courses.

State--#of Courses--Population--# of People per Course

Iowa--162--3,007,856--18,567
Kansas--103--2,818,747--27,366
Minnesota--164--5,266,214--32,111
Wisconsin--169--5,654,774--33,460
Michigan--161--9,969,727--61,924
North Carolina--120--9380,884--78,174
Illinois--148--12,910,409--87,232
Ohio--126--11,542,645--91,608
Texas--225--24,782,302--110,144
California--182--36,961,664--203,086