The United States Disc Golf Championship is a disc golf

Disc golf

Disc golf is a disc game in which individual players throw a flying disc into a basket or at a target. According to the Professional Disc Golf Association, "The object of the game is to traverse a course from beginning to end in the fewest number of throws of the disc." Of the more than 3000...

 tournament held at the Winthrop Gold Course, on the campus of Winthrop University

Winthrop University

Winthrop University is a public, four-year liberal arts university in Rock Hill, South Carolina, USA. In 2006-07, Winthrop University had an enrollment of 6,292 students. The University has been recognized as South Carolina's top-rated university according to evaluations conducted by the South...

 in Rock Hill, South Carolina

Rock Hill, South Carolina

Rock Hill is the largest city in York County, South Carolina and the fourth-largest city in the state. It is also the third-largest city of the Charlotte metropolitan area, behind Charlotte and Concord, North Carolina. The population was 71,459 as of . Rock Hill has undergone rapid growth between...

. The professional event was held annually from 1999 to 2010, before moving to a biennial schedule. Along with the PDGA World Championships

PDGA World Championships

The PDGA World Championships is one of the major championships in the sport of disc golf, along with the Japan Open and the United States Disc Golf Championship. Held annually since 1982, the event crowns world champions in several divisions in the professional and amateur disc golf fields...

, it is one of the most prestigious major tournaments in disc golf. The primary sponsor for the event over the past decade has been Innova

Innova discs

Innova is a company founded in 1983 to produce equipment for the growing number of disc golf players. In that year, Dave Dunipace created the world's first disc designed specifically for the sport of disc golf. That first disc, the Eagle -- U.S. Patent # 4,568,297, established Innova as the...

, a disc manufacturer. Ken Climo

Ken Climo

Ken "The Champ" Climo, from Clearwater, Florida, is a professional disc golfer and is unanimously considered the best player to have ever played the game. Climo has claimed Twelve PDGA World Championship titles, including nine in as many years from 1990 to 1998...

 currently holds a record five US Disc Golf Championships. He is followed by Barry Schultz

Barry Schultz

Barry Schultz is a professional disc golfer currently based out of Rock Hill, South Carolina.Barry has been playing disc golf since the early 1980s, and has been a professional since 1992. He is currently on the Innova Star team. For a number of years, he was one of the most dominant players on...

 who has recorded three titles. The most recent champion is Will Schusterick.

USDGC Champions

Year	Date	Champion	Hometown	Margin of Victory	Primary Sponsor	First Runner Up	Second Runner Up	Results
1999	October X-X	Ken Climo Ken Climo Ken "The Champ" Climo, from Clearwater, Florida, is a professional disc golfer and is unanimously considered the best player to have ever played the game. Climo has claimed Twelve PDGA World Championship titles, including nine in as many years from 1990 to 1998...	Clearwater, Florida Clearwater, Florida Clearwater is a city located in Pinellas County, Florida, US, nearly due west of Tampa and northwest of St. Petersburg. In the west of Clearwater lies the Gulf of Mexico and in the east lies Tampa Bay. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 108,787. It is the county seat of...	X	Innova Innova discs Innova is a company founded in 1983 to produce equipment for the growing number of disc golf players. In that year, Dave Dunipace created the world's first disc designed specifically for the sport of disc golf. That first disc, the Eagle -- U.S. Patent # 4,568,297, established Innova as the...	X	X	X
2000	October X-X	Ken Climo	Clearwater, Florida	X	Innova	X	X	X
2001	October 11–14	Barry Schultz Barry Schultz Barry Schultz is a professional disc golfer currently based out of Rock Hill, South Carolina.Barry has been playing disc golf since the early 1980s, and has been a professional since 1992. He is currently on the Innova Star team. For a number of years, he was one of the most dominant players on...	Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin Menomonee Falls is a village in Waukesha County, Wisconsin, United States, and is part of the Greater Milwaukee area. The population was 35,626 at the 2010 census, making it the most populous village in Wisconsin. It is the fourth largest community in Waukesha County...	1	Innova	Ken Climo	Larry Leonard	PDGA
2002	October 17–20	Ken Climo	Clearwater, Florida	6	Innova	Barry Schultz	Mike Young	PDGA
2003	October 16–19	Barry Schultz	Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin	0 (10 hole sudden death playoff)	Innova	Ken Climo	Scott Martin	PDGA
2004	October 14–17	Ken Climo	Clearwater, Florida	5	Innova	Darrell Nodland	Cameron Todd	PDGA
2005	October 12–15	David Feldberg	Springfield, Oregon Springfield, Oregon Springfield is a city in Lane County, Oregon, United States. Located in the Southern Willamette Valley, it is within the Eugene-Springfield Metropolitan Statistical Area. Separated from Eugene to the west, mainly by Interstate 5, Springfield is the second-most populous city in the metropolitan area...	2	Innova	Scott Martin	Barry Schultz	PDGA
2006	October 11–14	Barry Schultz	Menomonee Falls, Wisconsin	11	Innova	Brian Schweberger	Steve Brinster	PDGA
2007	October 3–6	Ken Climo	Clearwater, Florida	11	Innova	Avery Jenkins	David Feldberg	PDGA
2008	October 12–15	Nathan Doss Nate Doss Nate Doss is currently the number one ranked disc golfer in the world. Doss has won three world championships . With his win in 2011, Nate became only the second person with three world championships, after Ken Climo's 12...	Santa Cruz, California Santa Cruz, California Santa Cruz is the county seat and largest city of Santa Cruz County, California in the US. As of the 2010 U.S. Census, Santa Cruz had a total population of 59,946...	4	Discraft Discraft Discraft is a company founded by Jim Kenner and located in Wixom, Michigan. They are a manufacturer of flying discs for the sports of Ultimate, Disc Golf and Freestyle frisbee...	Avery Jenkins	Ken Climo	PDGA
2009	October 7–10	Nikko Locastro Nikko Locastro Nikko Locastro is a professional disc golfer from St. Louis, Missouri. He has been playing the sport professionally since 2006. As of October, 2011, Nikko is ranked fourth in the world, and has the highest rating, currently at 1043. Although he has only been playing professionally, for six...	St. Louis, Missouri St. Louis, Missouri St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St...	2	Gateway	David Feldberg	Josh Anthon	PDGA
2010	October 6–9	Will Schusterick	Knoxville, Tennessee Knoxville, Tennessee Founded in 1786, Knoxville is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, U.S.A., behind Memphis and Nashville, and is the county seat of Knox County. It is the largest city in East Tennessee, and the second-largest city in the Appalachia region...	2	Innova	Nikko Locastro	Steve Brinster	PDGA