STARKVILLE, Miss.—A world-renowned disc golf champion and influential teacher recently visited Mississippi State’s Athlete Engineering Institute to better understand how the mechanics of throwing ...

When Zachary Lindsey, a physicist at Berry College in Georgia, decided to run an experiment on how to get the best speed and torque while playing disc golf (aka Frisbee golf), he had no trouble ...

Scientists have identified the optimal thumb placement for throwing disc golf discs, offering players concrete data to enhance their performance. The research, published in AIP Advances, examined how ...

Disc golf is a sport growing in popularity, but there hasn't been much research into the best techniques -- until now. Researchers and disc golf enthusiasts have determined the best thumb position on ...