Celebrating Asian Americans in the sports world.
Dec. 19, 2022

Playing on the Disc Golf Pro Tour, Finishing 2nd at the Canadian National Championships, and Disc Golf Basics with Kathryn Tang

Playing on the Disc Golf Pro Tour, Finishing 2nd at the Canadian National Championships, and Disc Golf Basics with Kathryn Tang

On this episode, host Justin Hong interviews competitive disc golfer Kathryn Tang. Kathryn has played in 8 disc golf events so far at the pro level, highlighted by a 2nd place finish this year at the Canadian National Championships event.

In this interview, Kathryn talks about her background playing sports and how she got started playing disc golf (2:00), disc golf basics - rules and objective of the sport, where tournaments take place, the biggest disc golf events, etc. (4:25), and how to get started playing disc golf (8:45).

She also shares her path going from playing disc golf as a hobby to playing competitive disc golf on the Pro Disc Golf Tour (9:45), how her disc golf game and skill level has improved (15:55), her experience being a female Asian Canadian disc golfer (20:05), her aspirations for her disc golf career (23:30), and much more.

Kathryn Tang’s Pro Disc Golf Association Player Page

Please help support this podcast by:

  • Rating & reviewing the show on Apple, Spotify, and wherever you listen to this podcast
  • Subscribing to this podcast so that you know when the next episode is ready
  • Following the show's Instagram page @theasianamericanathlete

Thank you for listening to the show!