About Funkytown Flyers

The Funkytown Flyers Club was born from a motivated group of people in 2006 that desired to see disc golf grow and be more organized in and around Fort Worth. In 2008 the club incorporated as a non-profit with the stated purpose of promoting and expanding disc golf in the North Texas region with a base of operations in Fort Worth.

In 2008 the club affirmed it's organizational structure of being an umbrella organization that is representative of local course clubs and not tied to a particular disc golf course. The primary focus of the club was to assist in development of a new course in Gateway Park, Fort Worth. With the help of its club members and some key leaders in the community the course was developed and hosted the 2009 Hangover Classic membership bag tag challenge. Along the way research was done to better understand the relationships the City of Fort Worth had with disc golfers and to look for new locations of course development.

In 2009 the club chose to host minis at Gateway park, work on course signage, sponsor disc golf events, and begin work on new courses. The year had many challenges and it was found that hosting a mini at Gateway park would be difficult accomplish with so many other resident minis at competitive times and courses. It was decided that it wasn't in the club's best interest to run the mini, but to instead let course locals run the show. The club would then revert to its original role as an umbrella for the locals and the course. Similar challenges were met with course signage and new course development. Despite the challenging atmosphere, the club held or helped run four tournments, ran a clinic introducing kids to disc golf, did course maintenance work, and sponsored five tournaments in North Texas.