Bradley Dixon Cancer Fundraiser

Here is a bit more information about Bradley that he wrote when Jacob Wade asked him to elaborate a bit on his love of disc golf. "I first threw a disc in 1997 at the age of 11 and my first impress ... show more ›

Here is a bit more information about Bradley that he wrote when Jacob Wade asked him to elaborate a bit on his love of disc golf.

"I first threw a disc in 1997 at the age of 11 and my first impression of the sport was not a good one due to my inability to throw the discs very far. The following year, I went out with my uncle Brent Mabry to Cedarock Park and played my first true round on Wellspring with a DX Classic Cobra and a Chains Aviar. I was hooked. In 1999, I played my first tournaments with the Ace Club. Over the years, I became fond of random doubles events, and I played Ace Club random doubles and Deep Creek doubles from the early 2000s. I joined the PDGA in 2009 to try out singles competition which I had never been very interested in, by 2012, I had lost interest in singles play yet again, so it was back to casual play and doubles events for a few years. In 2015 I designed my own course in Mebane, Persimmon Hollar, and in 2017 I set out to take my disc golf experience to the next level and I opened Ace Run Disc Golf Shop with my now wife, Emily Mason. I began playing more competitively in 2018 and by 2020, I had won the NC State Championship in Intermediate, and I followed that win up in 2021 and 2022 in the Advanced division. I also won the Amateur World Putting Championships in 2022" - Bradley

And here is what Jacob McCoy and Jacob Wade told me shortly after the Throw Pink tournament in October:

Recently, Bradley was diagnosed with Primary Mediastinal B-cell Lymphoma. It’s an aggressive but treatable form of Non-Hodgin Lymphoma and it’s affecting the lymph nodes around his left lung as well as his spleen.

See my next post to see how you can help Bradley even if you can't play this Sunday.