Given his Dad’s love of the sport it’s not a huge surprise he had his son throwing early. “He’s so in love with the game he probably still plays more disc golf than I do,” said Lizotte. “They were throwing in parks, on the streets, making up their own courses,” said Lizotte. The brothers had ran into someone with a golf disc, hardly the engineer-designed discs of today, and while they had local courses, started tossing discs. “My Dad and his brother both got into it in their early 20s, back in the 80s, before disc golf had really become a thing,” he said. In terms of disc golf, Lizotte credits his Dad with introducing him to the game early, having been an avid player in the earliest days of the sport.

Lizotte spent his first 22 years in Germany before his first trip to the U.S.

“But, Dad started liking it a bit more and Mom wanted to stay there,” so they did. So the couple headed to Germany, the plan being to stay a year, or so. It was during the pregnancy “mom got a bit homesick and wanted to go home.” They ended up falling in love.”Īn older brother would be born in Canada as the couple spend two, or three years here, and Simon said he was conceived in Canada. In a recent interview with Yorkton This Week Lizotte explained his mother headed to Canada as an exchange student where “she met my dad. Lizotte lives in the United States now, but was born in Germany, and has a definite connection to Canada. One option for Canadians should be Simon Lizotte, who is really a disc golfer for the world. If you tune into a professional tourney, and there is increasing coverage online with fine quality camera work and commentary, you might want to pick a favourite to follow. The growth locally is far from unique with courses springing up in communities across Saskatchewan, in countries around the world, and a growing professional series of events. YORKTON - Yorkton has become a sort of hub in terms of disc golf, with some 20-plus courses now within a leisurely hour’s drive of the city.

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