I brought new life to an industry that was still locked up with the dark ages. I also had several patents and a great desire to develop new products and new marketing techniques.
Pioneer, a nice home, a very understanding and loving wife, three handsome strong boys and a beautiful daughter. With your indulgence, I’ll take you back 33 years and allow you to look to the future from my prospective, through my eyes which by the way border on 20/15.ġ964, President Kennedy had been assassinated, I had a good job as VP/GM of a water heater manufacturing company. Over the years literally thousands of people have asked me for an interview and they were freely given.
Tom Schlueter from DISC GOLF JOURNAL has asked me to write an editorial reflecting upon my 33rd anniversary with the Frisbee, with the sport I love, with my worldwide family and some thoughts about the future. Ed had said one of his many inspirations for the “Disc Pole Hole™” invention was so he and his buddies could get on with playing instead of arguing over whether someone actually had hit one of the objects in their make shift object courses. The Disc Pole Hole™ became the equivalent to ball golf’s “hole” and was installed in the first standardized target course (what was then known as Oak Grove Park Pasadena, California). The game was formalized when Headrick invented the first Disc Pole Hole™ catching device, consisting of 10 chains hanging in a parabolic shape over an upward opening basket, (US Patent 4,039,189, issued 1975). Headrick founded the International Frisbee Association, established the Junior Frisbee Championships, established and organized the World Frisbee Championship and went on to create and standardize the sport of Disc Golf. Captivated by the flight and feeling of control he could master with the Frisbee, Ed saw potential for the disc well beyond what anyone had envisioned or imagined.Įd Headrick was one of the main driving forces of early Frisbee sports. The roots of the sport begin when “Steady” Ed Headrick designed the modern day Frisbee (US Patent 3,359,678, issued 1966) while working for Wham-O Toys back in the 60’s. The early frisbee golf courses were “object courses”, using anything from trees, trash cans, light poles, chicken wire baskets, pipes to fire hydrants as targets. Modern day disc golf started in the late 60’s. About Ed Headrick – Father of Disc Golf.
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