Angelo Mascia, left, with his fellow WeDGE members Dan Trauger, David Kimmelman, Derek Stoltenberg, and Rob Worrell in the days before social distancing. Courtesy photo
The term “hero” has taken on new meaning these days. Some say it’s the woman delivering your order from Amazon or the guy knocking on your door with a hot pizza.
Well, how about an emergency room doctor in New York City who saves lives for a living? One who also happens to be a co-founder and leader of a successful, active disc golf club, the Westchester Disc Golf Enthusiasts (WeDGE)?
Scott Stokely has been touring and teaching disc golf professionally since the early 1990s, seen here with student John Rubio at TC Jester Disc Golf Park, Houston, TX. Photo: Michelle Deering, Michellustrations Photo & Design.
Scott Stokely may be the greatest player to have never won a PDGA Professional Disc Golf World Championship.
During the mid-to-late 1990s, he produced a succession of top-five finishes, including consecutive second-place showings in 1997 and 1998 that established him as the clear world number two. Still, he never quite managed to wrest the sport’s ultimate prize from the iron grip of the man known simply as “The Champ.”
Whether with the historic lines of the Bard or a sly quip about DirecTV’s extended programming options, chances are you’ve heard John Buccigross call highlights for “America’s game” – disc golf, of course – on ESPN.
