Exhibition 2025

Welcome to the exhibition pages! Here is more information about the discs in the exhibition cases.

Showcase 5

The fifth showcase presents the world's first discs designed for disc golf.

Night Flyer

Maker: Wham-O
Style: Mold 40 
Date Introduced: 1978
Special Notes: Ed Headrick designed the first disc made for disc golf. Night Flyer discs are available in numbers 1-8.  It is estimated that 125 discs per size were made, or about 1000 discs. Glow plastic was used to make the discs heavier. The name had to be changed because Lighting Systems, Inc. was already using the same name for their discs. The new name was Midnight Flyer. Wham-O manufactured the discs for the DGA.

Owner: Sami Loukko

Midnight Flyer

Maker: Wham-O
Style: Mold 40
Date Introduced: 1979
Special Notes: Ed Headrick founded the Disc Golf Association (DGA) in 1976. The DGA particularly promoted the establishment of frisbeegolf courses.  The earliest Midnight Flyers looked just like the Night Flyers, except for the added "MID."  The Midnight Flyer became very popular and several different models have been made. The first Midnight Flyers were made in molds 40, 41, 50, and 100.  Wham-O manufactured the discs for the DGA.

Owner: Sami Loukko

Frisbee Disc Golf

Maker: Wham-O
Style: Mold 100 E
Date Introduced: 1981
Special Notes: Wham-O manufactured and sold Frisbee Disc Golf from 1981 to 1983. The discs were numbered 1–4. Each disc was sold individually. Each numbered disc had a different color.

Owner: Sami Loukko

Disc Golf Driver Putter

Maker: Brand X
Style: Mold 40 X
Date Introduced: 1981
Special Notes: In the mid-1970s, Les Dewitt founded the Brand X company.  Brand X hired Victor Malafronte to be responsible for marketing and product development in 1979.  In 1981, Victor was involved in designing and producing their own golf disc, which was called the Brand X Golf Disc. Brand X produced three golf discs: the 40 X, a limited 200 run, and the 44 X (a fastback-style disc). In 1981, Victor Malafronte threw the 40 X golf disc, a distance of 118 meters. It was the first non-Wham-O disc to be thrown for a distance.

Owner: Sami Loukko

Sport Disc

Maker: AMF Voit
Style: 23 cm
Date Introduced: 1981
Special Notes: The Sport Disc was only produced from 1981 to 1983. The disc was only produced at approximately 200 grams. This made it illegal under the PDGA weight rules, which were introduced in 1984. The Sport Disc was produced in two different versions with a diameter of 21 cm and 23 cm.

Owner: Sami Loukko

Midnight Sun 70 Golf Disc

Maker: Wham-O, Farusa, Tanska
Style: Mold 70 C, Pink Glow
Date Introduced: Early 1980s
Special Notes  In the early 1980s, Farusa Værk began manufacturing its own frisbeegolf disc, the Midnight Sun, which was based on Wham-O's 70c model. There are three different versions of the Midnight Sun: Midnight Sun 41, 42 and 70. Danish Morten Sandorff threw the world record for the distance, 166.42 meters, with Midnight Sun in 1983.

Owner: Sami Loukko

Super Puppy

Maker: Destiny Discs
Style:
Date Introduced: 1982
Special Notes: Destiny Disc manufactured golf discs in the early 1980s. The Puppy and Sky Hawk were released in 1980. The Super Puppy was released in 1982.

Owner: Sami Loukko

Sky-Streak

Maker: Discraft
Style: 
Date Introduced: 1983
Special Notes: Discraft's first golf discs were the Sky-Star and Sky-Streak. The Sky-Streak is a very durable golf disc.

Owner: Sami Loukko

Phantom

Maker: Discraft
Style: 
Date Introduced: 1983
Special Notes: Discraft also produced the Phantom in 1983. This disc was found by Olli Visamo in Meilahti in 1984. It is a prototype of the Phantom.

Owner: Sami Loukko

Eagle

Maker: Innova-Champion (formerly Champion Disc)
Style: 
Date Introduced: 1983
Special Notes: Innova produced the first beveled golf disc in 1983. The Eagle flew about 20% further than The Puppy, which was the most popular disc at the time. Innova's Eagle and the Aero discs that followed it will go down in history as a real breakthrough in golf disc design and the true beginning of golf disc development. This disc is a very early model because there is no engraving on the bottom. The founders of Champion Disc were: Harold Duvall, Charlie Duvall, Dave Dunipace and Tim Selinske.

Owner: Sami Loukko