The Vandal will release in Moonshine plastic tomorrow.
The Vandal flies like a longer Maverick, so it’s extremely versatile. Newer players will love the straighter lines they can throw, and players with more arm speed will enjoy it for easy turnovers or rollers. The Vandal is built to carve up any course with dependable turn and sneaky speed. Making this a great disc to have for your night rounds. Get yours by clicking on this link, available now for $16.99.
Another weekend is upon us all, happy Friday! For this weekend we will shine the Focus Friday spotlight on the Legacy Nemesis. From now till Monday you’ll be able to buy as many Nemesis’ as you want at a discount of 10%, you’ll simply need to use the promo code: FOCUSNEMESIS.
The Nemesis from Legacy is a understable fairway/control driver. This is an excellent beginner friendly disc that also has longevity to it, as an advanced player can find uses for it as well. You can use this disc to learn how to throw far, or for those big turnover shots, or as a hyzer-flip straight shot, or a roller. As a 10 speed driver, this has a rim pretty typical to that speed. Making this a comfortable grip around the rim that isn’t too small nor too large. We have given these discs out as a mystery disc, and many customers have returned and bought an additional one as this disc found a spot in their bag. If you’ve gotten one as a mystery disc, or you want to try it out. Now is a great time to do so, as you can buy this disc 10% off the normal price by using the promo code FOCUSNEMESIS.
You can select your disc by clicking here. Simply add as may Legacy Nemesis’ to your shopping cart as you want, then BEFORE you click to checkout, look below the shopping cart. Right below the shopping cart is a box for Discount Codes. Click there and paste the code, FOCUSNEMESIS, into the box. Then proceed to checkout and you’ll get the discount.
Here is a screenshot to help you out, though it doesn’t necessarily show Legacy Nemesis in the cart – it’s just a generic visual to help you find the discount code box:
We hope that you love throwing the Nemesis. If you’ve thrown the disc, feel free to share what you think of it. Thanks!
For what type of shots do you use the Nemesis?
STAY TUNED for our next Focus Friday for another chance to try a featured disc at a nice discounted price!
Fairway drivers are arguably the workhorse of the disc golf world. With their slower speeds, the can be handled, shaped, and used by beginners and professionals alike. Their stability range gives us the opportunity to shape shots and avoid obstacles. They are slightly more forgiving than distance driver and require less power to throw, fairway, or ‘control’ can more easily be used for technical shots. So, which is the most popular control driver? Let’s find out.
As usual, we will look at our sales records to see which control driver molds have sold the most this year. Then, we will look at the ratings that readers have contributed, including the star rating and the number of reviews. Then we will turn thing over to you to vote! We will give you a chance to vote on your favorite control driver, whether it’s on our list or not.
| Sales Rank | Star Rating | Fan Vote | Average | |
| Innova Teebird | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1.3 |
| Innova Firebird | 1 | 4 | 2 | 2.3 |
| Discraft Undertaker | 5 | 6 | 3 | 4.7 |
| Innova Thunderbird | 6 | 2 | 6 | 4.7 |
| Innova Valkyrie | 3 | 9 | 4 | 5.3 |
Taking first in both the ratings and fan vote, the Teebird wins the title of the Best Fairway Driver. This mold has been around for a long time and has proven it’s worth. With a flight rating of 7, 5, 0, 2 the Teebird has won the admiration of many voters. Noe C. said that the Teebird is “Great out of the gate and gets better with age”. Click the link above to get yours!
For those of us relatively new to the sport, from our perspective the distance drivers that we know and love today have always been a part of the game. Ask a seasoned veteran what ‘high speed’ discs they threw in the nineties and they might reel off a list of molds you’ve never heard of, including molds from Wham-O. The discs we call ‘fairway drivers’ were the ‘high-speed drivers of yesteryear. Fairway drivers were the discs used to cover a lot of ground.
For this blog, we will define control drivers as discs with a speed of 6 through 9. As was mentioned in the blog about the best drivers, speed 9 discs are the ‘tweeners, with some people and manufacturers calling them high speed, and some control drivers.
Let’s start by checking out the best fairway driver in terms of sales. Here is a chart of our sales for fairway drivers for 2020. Innova holds a big chunk of the category, and takes the first four places.
Here is a list of the top 20 molds according to our sales data:
| 2020 Sales Rank | Disc Mold |
| 1 | Innova Firebird |
| 2 | Innova Teebird |
| 3 | Innova Valkyrie |
| 4 | Innova Leopard |
| 5 | Discraft Undertaker |
| 6 | Innova Thunderbird |
| 7 | Discraft Heat |
| 8 | Discraft Anax |
| 9 | Innova Leopard3 |
| 10 | Innova Roadrunner |
| 11 | Innova TeeBird3 |
| 12 | Innova Sidewinder |
| 13 | Infinite Discs Sphinx |
| 14 | Discmania FD |
| 15 | Discraft Raptor |
| 16 | Latitude 64 Diamond |
| 17 | Latitude 64 River |
| 18 | Discraft Stalker |
| 19 | Latitude 64 Explorer |
| 20 | MVP Volt |
The popular overstable mold, the Firebird, leads the way. In second is the straight-flying Teebird. In third and fourth spot are the Valkyrie and Leopard. These last two are very popular discs in starter packs, although starter pack sales were not included in this blog.
Although, once again, Innova and Discraft have the most molds represented, in this category there are three other companies with a mold on the list: Discmania, Latitude 64, and Infinite Discs. One of those three, Discmania, has the FD mold on the list. That molds was PDGA approved in 2011 and has had time to gain a fan base. The other two companies, represented by the Explorer and the Sphinx, are much newer molds, getting approved in 2017 and 2018 respectively.
And here is the top 10 by ratings and reviews:
| Rank | Disc Mold | Star Rating | # of 2020 Reviews | Weighted score |
| 1 | Innova Teebird | 4.78 | 42 | 5.02 |
| 2 | Innova Thunderbird | 4.66 | 43 | 4.92 |
| 3 | Infinite Discs Sphinx | 4.9 | 22 | 4.86 |
| 4 | Innova Firebird | 4.64 | 38 | 4.83 |
| 5 | Latitude 64 Explorer | 4.83 | 22 | 4.79 |
| 6 | Discraft Undertaker | 4.77 | 25 | 4.77 |
| 7 | Discmania FD | 4.73 | 20 | 4.66 |
| 8 | Discraft Raptor | 4.76 | 16 | 4.63 |
| 9 | Innova Valkyrie | 4.52 | 31 | 4.61 |
| 10 | Innova TeeBird3 | 4.74 | 14 | 4.58 |
Although discs in the 6-9 speed range have been around since the early years of disc golf, there have been many discs that have been discontinued or fallen out of favor in the disc golf world. The list above contains discs whose approval date spans over two decades. From the ‘old school’ Innova Teebird, Leopard, Firebird, and Valkyrie, to the freshly minted Anax. The oldest discs on the list were approved in 1999 and 2000, with the newest member of the group getting approved in 2019. The average approval date is about 2011, the same year the Discmania FD was approved by the PDGA for sanctioned play.
Here is a list of the PDGA approval years:
| Innova Teebird | 1999 |
| Innova Leopard | 1999 |
| Innova Firebird | 2000 |
| Innova Valkyrie | 2000 |
| Innova Roadrunner | 2005 |
| Discmania FD | 2011 |
| Innova Thunderbird | 2014 |
| Discraft Heat | 2014 |
| Discraft Undertaker | 2016 |
| Latitude 64 Explorer | 2017 |
| Innova Leopard3 | 2017 |
| Innova Teebird3 | 2017 |
| Discraft Raptor | 2018 |
| Infinite Discs Sphinx | 2018 |
| Discraft Anax | 2019 |
Out of curiosity, I pulled up the all-time sales for the discs on the list to see how the current year sales for the best fairway drivers compared with the sales for each mold since Infinite began in 2012. Here is the all-time top ten fairway drivers, compared with the top ten for 2020:
| All-Time Sales Rank | Mold | 2020 Sales Rank | Disc Mold | |
| 1 | Innova Firebird | 1 | Innova Firebird | |
| 2 | Innova Teebird | 2 | Innova Teebird | |
| 3 | Innova Thunderbird | 3 | Innova Valkyrie | |
| 4 | Innova Valkyrie | 4 | Innova Leopard | |
| 5 | Innova Leopard | 5 | Discraft Undertaker | |
| 6 | Discmania FD | 6 | Innova Thunderbird | |
| 7 | Innova Leopard3 | 7 | Discraft Heat | |
| 8 | Innova Roadrunner | 8 | Discraft Anax | |
| 9 | Innova Teebird3 | 9 | Innova Leopard3 | |
| 10 | Discraft Undertaker | 10 | Innova Roadrunner |
Many of the molds on the top control driver list didn’t even exist when Infinite opened its doors. The older molds have had a lot more time to get accepted by disc golfers. That makes the newer mold’s place on the list a little more impressive. In an attempt to account for the age of the best control drivers, I took their total sales and divided it by the number of years that the mold has been around to get a sort-of average number of discs sold per year of existence.
For this list, the advantage goes to the much-hyped newer molds that might have short term boosts in sales, but that might fade after time. However, the fact that one of the oldest discs on the top sales list made this list shows the popularity of the Firebird.
| Rank of Sales Divided by Age | Mold | Year Made |
| 1 | Discraft Anax | 2019 |
| 2 | Innova Leopard3 | 2017 |
| 3 | Innova Thunderbird | 2014 |
| 4 | Innova Teebird3 | 2017 |
| 5 | Infinite Discs Sphinx | 2018 |
| 6 | Discraft Undertaker | 2016 |
| 7 | Discraft Raptor | 2018 |
| 8 | Latitude 64 Explorer | 2017 |
| 9 | Discmania FD | 2011 |
| 10 | Innova Firebird | 2000 |
What amazing results for the best fairway driver of 2020! There were far and away more different molds chosen as people’s favorite than any other class of disc so far. A whopping 80 different molds received votes! The molds represented all of the larger manufacturers, and many smaller ones. One prototype mold even made the top five. We also received more total votes for this category than any other so far. Let’s jump into the results!
| Rank | Mold | Percentage of Votes |
| 1 | Innova Teebird | 8.6% |
| 2 | Innova Firebird | 8.1% |
| 3 | Discraft Undertaker | 6.5% |
| 4 | Innova Valkyrie | 5.4% |
| 5 | AGL Locust | 4.3% |
| 6 | Innova Thunderbird | 3.8% |
| Latitude 64 River | 3.8% | |
| 7 | Dynamic Discs Explorer | 3.6% |
| 8 | Infinite Discs Sphinx | 3.4% |
| 9 | Discmania FD | 3.2% |
| Innova Leopard3 | 3.2% | |
| 10 | Innova Eagle | 2.5% |
| Innova Sidewinder | 2.5% | |
| 11 | AGL Sycamore | 2.3% |
| 12 | Innova Leopard | 2.0% |
| 13 | Axiom Crave | 1.8% |
| Discraft Heat | 1.8% | |
| MVP Volt | 1.8% | |
| 14 | Dynamic Discs Escape | 1.6% |
| Innova Teebird3 | 1.6% | |
| Dynamic Discs Getaway | 1.6% |
In some close voting the Teebird just edged out the Firebird as the favorite disc among voters. Many voters explained their choice for the Teebird:
Most of the top molds on the list also made the list for the top sales of 2020. A couple of notable exceptions are Above Ground Level’s Locust and Sycamore. The Sycamore has a flight rating that is slightly less overstable than a Teebird. While the prototype Locust sports a flight rating of 9, 4, -1, 3. The Locust even broke the top 5 for votes tallied. The disc was released as a prototype, but Infinite has ordered the disc and they will be available soon. Many voters heaped praise on the disc.
Although Innova made up nearly have of the top voted molds, there was a total of nine different manufacturers that made the top 20 list. Quite a diverse bit of voting. In addition to the high number of different molds that were selected as people’s top choice, 56 molds received multiple votes.
As promised, we randomly selected a winner for the $50 gift card, and the winner is Drew P!
Now it’s your turn to let us know about your favorite fairway driver. Even if your disc didn’t make the list, let us know what it is, and why it is the best disc for you. Only comments with explanations of “why” will be eligible for the gift card. We will add the votes to our criteria for selecting the best fairway driver for 2020. This blog post will be updated next week with the final list of the top molds.
Yesterday we released the Inca, a new mid-range disc among the Infinite Discs line 
line. This mid-range is released with an epic Incan warrior. I imagine him charging the chains on the disc catcher. We’ve decided to start it off with a P-Blend Glow plastic. Allowing you to play a round of disc golf at night and during the day!
This is a great disc for the individual who is looking for a moderately overstable mid-range. It has a consistent flight with slight end-fade. You can also manipulate this disc fairly easily and it will hold most lines you put it on. The P-Blend Glow plastic feels good in the hand and has enough grip that it won’t slip out prematurely. Check out this great video that talks about the Inca and shows you the flight path. Thanks Taylor!
Disc golf fans have never seen a Scepter as majestic as the Drew Gibson signature edition. This control driver looks even better than it did before in this Swirly S Line plastic with this sweet signature stamp. Thanks Drew Gibson, yet again. You can get yourself this disc to add to your disc golf collection, whether it is for the wall or for you bag.
All of us here at Infinite Discs, we thank you all, for making it possible for us to provide awesome discs to our fellow disc golfers. Throw on!
For our Focus Friday this week, we are going to spotlight the SCEPTER by Infinite Discs. Originally PDGA approved on April 3rd of 2019, the Scepter is an overstable control driver with a flat top and a 1.9cm rim thickness. It was designed together with manufacturer Innova Champion Discs to provide a Firebird-like disc that always has a flat top. Flat-topped discs are very popular with power throwers or those who primarily drive forehand. The flat top gives forehand throwers a better grip with the thumb on top of the disc and more controlled release. The design has also proven very useful when throwing into headwinds or when throwing high, spike-hyzers that need to drop from above onto the target.
The Scepter can be wielded with strength and confidence on the course. The limited edition first release had a cool, 2-color stamp and the stock stamp came out shortly afterward on C-Blend plastic with a total run of 800 discs. The 2nd run was a special edition in Metal Flake Glow C-Blend, which turned out even flatter on the top and looked great. So far, those were used for tournament support and in a limited edition with a Scorpio Zodiac stamp (originally released in the VIP Club Store).
The C-Blend SCEPTER was picked by professional FPO disc golfer, Nicole “Pickle” Dionisio to be her signature disc, since she is a strong forehand player and loved the feel of the disc. She is a great member of Team Infinite. Her signature edition features a beautifully intricate stamp design by Thought Space Athletics (another of her sponsors).
Here is a 60-second video review of the SCEPTER by Taylor AuBuchon which shows the disc’s overstable flight characteristics. You can also see the limited edition 2-foil stamp in his review.
For the next week, through Friday, February 14th, you can pick up a SCEPTER from Infinite Discs with a huge 20% discount when you use the following promo code:
CLICK HERE TO SHOP FOR THE SCEPTER. Simply add as may Scepter discs to your shopping cart as you want, then BEFORE you click to checkout, look below the shopping cart. Right below the shopping cart is a box for Discount Codes. Click there and paste the code into the box. Then proceed to checkout and you’ll get the discount.
Here is a screenshot to help you out, though it doesn’t necessarily show a Scepter in the cart, or the 20% discount– it’s just a generic visual to help you find the discount code box:
We hope that you love throwing the SCEPTER by Infinite Discs. If you’ve thrown the disc, feel free to post your comments in the comments. Thanks!
STAY TUNED for our next Focus Friday for another change to try a featured disc at a nice discounted price!
