Luke Humphries & Co. Launch GoThrow Tour!

In this post, following an interview with Luke Humphries, we take a deep dive into all the many aspects of disc golf he’s involved him, including his newly launched GoThrow Tour, as well as what makes him one of the most influential figures in disc golf. Let’s begin!

If you are reading this and currently working a job that you are not enamored with, Luke Humphries can relate.

When he first got seriously into disc golf in 2017, he had to pay his bills in other ways. He never loved it, but he knew it was what he had to do.

Eventually, when he went pro and decided to chase a dream going full time as a pro in 2019, Luke vowed he would never chase the dollar.

Fast forward to 2025 and Luke Humphries is all over the disc golf scene. He’s playing, doing commercials, and has partnered up with GoThrow to help start a new tour. If that, to you, looks like a man chasing a buck, it would be hard to argue it.

But Luke Humphries has held to true to his vow. His authenticity, after all, is part of why he is one of the most popular players on tour. And with that authenticity comes a true and impassioned love of disc golf.

He loves the fans, the people on tour, the lifestyle, his sponsors and even the work. And part of that work is continuing to give back to the game and helping it to grow. This is what drives him and why he’s got his hands in so many pots.

Is he busy? Yes. Very. But it doesn’t feel like work in that traditional sense.

He loves what he does…

Luke Humphries: Busiest Man in Disc Golf?

For many, just being a pro on the disc golf pro tour, is enough to keep them busy.

The competition is elite, and there is a lot to navigate. There’s the practice and the events. There’s the travel between events and the day to day living. For many, there’s also a need to find success in the events and get above the cash line in order to keep their tour hopes alive. With just those responsibilities, it probably behooves the player to keep their mind sharp and avoid other distractions and/or mentally fatiguing activities.

For Luke Humphries, it’s just the beginning.

For year’s on end, he’s been balancing life on tour with his work for GoThrow (formerly GKPro). Whether it’s hosting skins matches (of which there are 138 at the time of this post) or providing post-produced commentary he’s in the labs cooking up what’s needed to keep pushing GoThrow forward.

And in the offseason, when other players are recovering, Luke’s part of the team doing coverage (and/or playing) in New Zealand, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Canada and other places all over the globe.

Along the way he takes part in Big Money Skins, Disc Golf Jeopardy, Pro-Ams, Charity Skins matches, Beat-the-pros and more.

To be clear, nobody’s playing any sad violin music for him, nor does he want that. He loves what he does.

But, if he’s not the busiest person in disc golf he’s, as Luke said, “in the conversation.”

To cap it all off, he is now a partner in a fledgling GoThrow Disc Golf Pro Tour that runs parallel to the DGPT.

The GoThrow Disc Golf Pro Tour Launches!

You can go ahead and add “Tournament Director” to Luke’s list of responsibilities now. As a partner with the budding GoThrow Disc Golf Tour, he is helping to organize and plan major pro tour events.

As you might imagine, this comes with a lot of responsibilities. But now, Luke isn’t just doing it as an employee. He’s a partner.

With his busy dance card, this might be his biggest undertaking yet. But, getting back to his passion for the game, Luke saw this as a way to continue pushing disc golf forward.

“We want to present another side of the tour. We want to highlight the joy it brings the fans and create an atmosphere that shows our appreciation for the players and makes them look forward to the next event.”

Humphries wants to help show another side of disc golf as he helps to raise the level of the overall tour. In the interview he repeatedly used words like “fun,” “laid back,” and “competition” to illustrate what they are aiming at.

But he also mentioned a sense of fellowship for the players as well as an infrastructure that they could thrive in.

If the players are taken care of, they’ll respond accordingly and the product will take care of itself. That’s the reasoning and so far the players have reacted very favorably.

“Something as simple as a parking lot to park their campers/vehicles and set up can go a long way,” Humphries tells us. He and the GoThrow Tour are making sure players get this and more. One other critical element Humphries and his partners look for when scouting a tour site, is ample space.

“Space to warm up, to practice putting, and to throw is critical for players, and we want to make sure players can have that space to get their game right and perform.”

All these little things, Humphries surmises, will add up to big things later down the line as GoThrow continues to build it’s reputation for excellence for both the fans and the players.

One has to wonder, with a new tour being launched, how this sits with the DGPT…

Do GoThrow and Pro Tour Clash?

You would think, with the way the world works, that the competition that the GoThrow Tour provides for the DGPT would ruffle a few feathers.

In reality, these two tours do not clash in the least. Humphries took it a step further and heaped praise on Jeff Spring and all the work he does for the pro tour.

“Jeff is doing a great job. I just sat down with him and he listens. He loves disc golf and wants to do what’s best for the sport.”

In a sense, given that there is even a thought of a parallel tour, it shows a reassuring lens on the health of the sport.

But also, there’s a “rising tides lifts all boats” vibe to it all as well.

As a result, the GoThrow tour has planned around the already existing DGPT schedule. This means that they don’t step on any toes, and that they can plan their events while players have two weeks between DGPT events and GoThrow can choose locations that are on the way to the next event.

Then, players don’t get conflicted and have to choose. In addition, GoThrow with its emphasis on making events accessible and easy on their pros, can offer great events for the players to enjoy and give them a chance to earn extra money.

What to Expect From GoThrow Moving Forward

Eventually, GoThrow would like to have live events. That’s coming down the line and is no small undertaking.

“We’ve purchased equipment and we’ve got the best cameraman on Earth, Bobby Betts, training our team,” Humphries reports.

They want to make sure they do it right, and are taking a season to ensure they have everything in place and can launch with confidence.

In the meantime, they have plenty on their plates as they navigate their tour. This year they have seven events, that are all post-produced and quickly put on their growing GoThrow YouTube channel. This channel also includes members-only content that comes with discounts on merch, early content, exclusive content and more.

And it just so happens that some of the guys putting in all the work to get you this great content are also some of Luke’s fellow founders.

The aforementioned Bobby Betts also camera work and also editing. Fellow co-founder Gabriel Dao is also working on the editing and augmenting the coverage with intros, slo-mo, B-roll, and more. In addition, behind the scenes, Kris VanBecelaere, among other things, is a founder, operational head and is in charge of running the finance. Together, these guys are firing on all cylinders and working feverishly to bring disc golfers a great product with their budding start-up tour.

Between their emerging tour, their popular Skins Series, their exclusive content (which includes in-depth, behind the scenes insight into the lives of disc golf’s biggest stars in their Into The Wind Series), they have more than enough to keep them busy.

That being said, they are not closing the door on other ideas either…

Always on The Hunt For The Next Idea!

Did you know GoThrow hosts a “Beat the Pros” series?

In it, they pit amateurs against established pros for a chance to with $10k. This, as you might expect, is a good take and provides a little hope to those of us who don’t play on the pro circuit.

It’s one example of ideas that GoThrow is putting out into the world. It hasn’t caught on as much as they would have liked yet, but that’s not exactly the point either. It’s just one example of them drawing up a plan, executing it, and letting the chips fall where they may.

And they are always looking for more ideas too. If the idea has merit, they are never afraid to try it and see what sticks. In this way, they plan to continue building on their product and their channel.

Luke Humphries: Playing Full time!

With all that we’ve discussed, sometimes people forget that Luke Humphries has a full-time tour career as well. We get reminded when he makes his runs at wins and is on lead card, but with a field that has never been better, lead cards are hard to come by.

Still, having gotten into the game later than most (starting competitively in 2017), Luke Humphries still makes his presence known on the circuit as well.

To do this, you have to be disciplined in your practice routines and maintaining your body. This, combined with all of his other aforementioned responsibilities, takes an extra helping of discipline and is a tall order for anyone.

Humphries also recognizes that he’s no spring chicken on the tour and aspects of the game like recovery can take even longer. Still, he kind of figures that, given his late start, he has a little less wear and tear on the disc golf specific parts of his body. He’s also hoping to serve as a role model for players getting longer in the tooth on tour.

“I want to set an example for older players on tour and set new age limits for what players believe they can do.

–Luke Humphries

Extending his pro career also helps him fulfill his responsibilities to his sponsors.

Luke Humphries: Living his Best Life

Luke Humphries is living his best life.

Like so many of us, he’s had a taste of the 9 to 5 and did not love what he saw. As a result, he has no intention to go back to it.

To start his career in disc golf, he had his skills honed and sharpened by the sharks in the DFW, and was eventually good enough to go pro.

Since then, he’s made his fair share of cashes, but he’s also leveraged his genuine love of the sport and his true popularity (which is partly as a result of the former) to carve out other careers in disc golf as well.

What started with a popular YouTube series on GoThrow (formerly GK Pro), in the Tour Skins Series (among others) has now burgeoned into a new Disc Golf Tour Series, of which Humphries is part owner.

He might be the busiest man in disc golf, but he might also be the happiest.

He’s a full-time pro sponsored by a company he loves. He’s a host, a tournament director, and an entrepeneur. But it sure beats working.

Luke Humphries is living the dream indeed…

Thank you sincerely for reading! It was great to interview Luke and get his perspective on the many happenings going on in his tour life. If you have thoughts on Luke himself or his many workings in the disc golf world I invite you to leave a comment below (Comments turn off after 30 days. The Spam we get is real!). You can also contact us/subscribe (infrequent newsletter) any time.