Article fro Chicago Newspaper on Disc Golf....GREAT DISC GOLF PIC

Frisbee at 50 Flying high and hitting the links

The Frisbee is still flying high at 50. And like many a baby boomer the same age, it's big into golf .

That's not bad for something that came about after inventor Walter Morrison and his friends and family were tossing around a metal popcorn lid at a picnic prior to Thanksgiving dinner in 1937. From that game sprang the idea for the flying disc, which underwent various incarnations before Morrison sold the rights to WHAM-O to manufacture his Pluto Platter, which first came out on Jan. 23, 1957.

According to company lore, the name comes from seeing Yale students throwing pie tins from the Frisbie Baking Company while on a promotional tour for the platter that year. By 1959, Emeryville, Calif.-based WHAM-O had a trademark for the name Frisbee.

In 1968, a group of high-school students in New Jersey put together the rules for what would become Ultimate Frisbee. By 1974, there was an Invitational World Frisbee Championship in California, Frisbee playing with dogs was catching on, Headrick built the first Frisbee-golf course in Pasadena and started the Professional Disc Golf Association.

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http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/couriernews/lifestyles/388152,3_5_EL17_FRISBEE_S1.article