How it works

PDGA Bacon reads the public results of PDGA-sanctioned events and connects players who were at the same ones. It's a way to remember who you've shared the course with, and to find the people who link your disc golf world to someone else's.

Levels of playing together

• Same event: you both appear in the event's results, in any division.
• Same division: you competed in the same division at that event.
• Same layout & round: you played the same layout in the same round, in any division, so you were on the course together.
• Same card: you were in the same group. See below.

How we estimate cards

Confirmed cards come straight from PDGA Live group assignments (starting hole and tee time), which most events have recorded since 2024 and some since late 2020. Teammates are doubles and team partners.

Everything else is a guess, shown as High, Medium or Low. After the first round, cards are usually made from the standings, so two players who were close in their division's standings are likely to have been grouped. In the first round we only know how many players were in the division on that layout. Players in different divisions sometimes share a card when tiny divisions are combined. We only guess that (at Low) when both divisions together had five or fewer players on that layout. Otherwise a cross-division card only shows up when PDGA Live recorded it. We tune these guesses against rounds where the real cards are known.

Head-to-head

In the same division we compare finishing place. If you played different divisions on the same layout, we compare total strokes over those rounds. Otherwise we compare average round rating. Each result says which one we used. A DNF loses to anyone who finished, and if both DNF there's no result.

Bacon Number

The fewest links between two players, where each link is two people who played together at the level you choose. A 1 means you've played together. A 2 means someone has played with both of you, and we list everyone who has. Upcoming registrations never count.

Where the data comes from

Results come from public pages on pdga.com and PDGA Live. We request at most one page every 10 seconds, as pdga.com's robots.txt asks, so a player's history can take a minute or two to load the first time. The weekly refresh runs on Mondays. Player names, cities and ratings come from the official PDGA API. Player, event, and course data provided by PDGA.