{{short description|Disc golf and ultimate company}} {{Advert|date=February 2020}} {{Notability|date=May 2025}} {{Infobox company | name = Discraft Inc. | type = Private | industry = Sport | founded = 1979 | founder = {{Unbulleted list|Jim Kenner|Gail McColl}} | hq_location = Wixom, Michigan }} '''Discraft''' is a manufacturing company producing flying discs for the sports of ultimate, disc golf, and freestyle founded in 1978 in London, Ontario, Canada. In 1979, Jim Kenner and Gail McColl moved to Michigan and started what is now Discraft Inc. The company sells discs to resellers and wholesalers worldwide.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.dbusiness.com/December-2008/Jim-Kenner/#.VHqOldjwvIU|title=Jim Kenner|date=13 November 2008}}</ref>
Discraft's 175-gram Ultra-Star disc is used in various levels of the USA Ultimate Championship Series alongside discs manufactured by Wham-O, Innova, and Daredevil Discs. Discraft also owns and produces discs and other disc golf accessories for the Disc Golf Association.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.usaultimate.org/resources/disc_standards.aspx|title=Disc Standards - USA Ultimate|accessdate=December 20, 2014}}</ref>
==Products==
===Types of discs===
Currently, Discraft produces 48 different models of discs used for disc golf. Their production discs are divided into four categories: 10 putters, nine midranges, 10 fairway drivers, and 19 distance drivers.
===Types of plastic=== Discraft discs are produced in nine different lines of plastic:<ref>{{cite web|url=http://discraft.com/dglines.html|title=Disc Golf: Product Lines|accessdate=April 18, 2011}}</ref>
* Ti * Cryztal FLX Z * ESP FLX * Cryztal Elite Z * ESP * Elite-Z * Z-Lite<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.discraft.com/dgzlite.html |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141205193038/http://www.discraft.com/dgzlite.html |archive-date=2014-12-05 |title=Z Lite Collection from Discraft}}</ref> * Elite-X * Pro-D * Soft Pro-D
===Other products===
Discraft also sells a variety of disc golf accessories. The major accessories that they sell are disc golf bags, baskets, towels, and apparel. And it also sells products pertinent to Disc Ultimate and Freestyle.{{Cn|date=December 2023}}
==Team Discraft==
Discraft sponsors a disc golf team called Team Discraft.
Paul McBeth, a six-time PDGA Mixed Open World Champion,<ref name=":1">{{Cite web |title=PDGA Professional Disc Golf World Champions |url=https://www.pdga.com/awards/pdga-pro-worlds-champions}}</ref> joined Team Discraft beginning in 2019. On February 24, 2021, Discraft extended their contract with McBeth, worth $10 million over 10 years.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-02-25 |title=Paul McBeth Signs 10-Year, $10 Million Contract Extension with Discraft |url=https://discgolf.ultiworld.com/2021/02/24/paul-mcbeth-signs-10-year-10-million-contract-extension-with-discraft/ |access-date=2021-02-25 |website=Ultiworld Disc Golf}}</ref>
Paige Pierce joined Team Discraft beginning in the 2020 season.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Eisenhood |first=Charlie |date=November 22, 2019 |title=Paige Pierce Signs Multiyear Deal With Discraft |url=https://discgolf.ultiworld.com/2019/11/22/paige-pierce-signs-multiyear-deal-discraft/ |work=Ultiworld Disc Golf}}</ref> Pierce is a five-time PDGA Women's Open World Champion, with titles in 2011, 2013, 2015, 2017, and 2019.<ref name=":1" />
Paul Ulibarri is the team captain.{{Needs update|date=December 2023}}
On January 17, 2020, Discraft signed YouTube personality and former American Ultimate Disc League player Brodie Smith as he joined the Disc Golf Pro Tour.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2020-01-17 |title=Brodie Smith Signs Sponsorship Deal With Discraft |url=https://discgolf.ultiworld.com/2020/01/17/brodie-smith-signs-sponsorship-deal-discraft/ |access-date=2021-02-25 |website=Ultiworld Disc Golf}}</ref>
Additional team members include Andrew Fish, Chris Dickerson, and Michael Johansen.<ref name=":0">{{cite web |title=Team Discraft |url=https://www.team.discraft.com/team-discraft |accessdate=April 18, 2011}}</ref>
== See also == * List of disc golf manufacturers
==External links== * {{commonscat-inline}} *[https://www.discraft.com/ Discraft]
==References== {{Reflist}}
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Category:Ultimate (sport) organizations Category:Disc golf equipment manufacturers Category:Sporting goods manufacturers of the United States