Group photo from 2015 Club Championship
In the early 90s, Mark Moore (BDGC #1) noticed an object course that Steve Madsen (BDGC #5) had listed in the PDGA Course Directory. That object course, across from 17th Street from the IU stadium, would prove pivotal to their friendship and to the formation of the Bloomington Disc Golf Club several years later.
In 1998, Mark Moore officially brought disc golf to Bloomington when he successfully petitioned the County Parks to install a course at Karst Farm Park, one of the first, if not the first, disc golf course south of I-70 in Indiana. For the first tournament in Bloomington, Karst was an object course (18 4×4 poles marking the targets); Mark had minis printed with a “no basket” logo for the tournament.
Mark was soliciting sponsors and raising money to pay for disc golf baskets at Karst when he and Chris Golden (BDGC #2) were picked to be on the same team in a Bloomington recreational Ultimate league in 1998. Mark joined the league primarily to recruit disc golfers. He was selling Innova golf discs out of his trunk. Chris was immediately hooked, played disc golf every day for an entire year, and started organizing leagues in April 1999. As this group grew, they started the Bloomington Disc Golf Club to promote the sport and to support the local disc golf community by organizing weekly leagues and monthly tournaments.
The club founders were Mark Moore, Chris Golden, James Stogdill (BDGC #3), Tony Hoel (BDGC #4), and Steve Madsen.
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