A Cherry Coke bottle is the only thing behind the passenger seat of David Feldberg's Jeep that isn't related to disc golf. Disc-filled boxes and baskets made for the sport make vision out of the windows nearly impossible.
Crammed into the backseat, it's difficult to image there being room for the Coke bottle but there it sets, untouched by discs, boxes, or baskets. It's a strange look into the man who currently ranks No. 1 in the world in the alternative sport.
Dave Feldberg, a Michigan transplant, drives his Jeep off of the University of Oregon campus headed towards River Front Park. The jovial 31-year-old talks about reducing carbon footprints, recycling, and helping the environment making his choice to live in Eugene, Ore. seem like a perfect fit.
“I went to Western Michigan University,” he says, “We're considered pretty green, but we always heard about this place. Oregon. Eugene, and how environmental they were.”
Feldberg lights a cigarette, resting his elbow on an open window, letting cold, gray air into the Jeep.
“I don't know I imagined, a different type of living, completely,” he says of Eugene.
In 1997, at age 18, Feldberg's girlfriend at the time invited Dave to visit family in Washington and Oregon where they drove up and down the coast exploring Oregon. It was his first trip to the state.
He laments that after he turned pro in 2000 he never really had a chance to see Oregon again. He didn't get close until he went to Grass Valley, California for the Sky Pilot Open.
There he met the commissioner of the Professional Disc Golfers Association, or PDGA, Theo Pozzy, who is a native Oregonian. Pozzy invited Feldberg and his touring partner, Avery Jenkins, to visit Oregon to teach a clinic at Danby State Park.
At 24, Feldberg reached a critical career decision.
“Avery and I were good but we didn't know if we would be great.”
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