The thermometer showed 13 degrees, but the 10 a.m. winds blasted the temperature index to zero for Saturday's 2008 Ice Bowl, a disc golf tournament with the official motto: "No Wimps, No Whiners."

For more than two hours, 28 disc golfers — some from as far as Owensboro, Ky., and Harrison County, Ind., — crunched through the inch of frozen snow crusting hills and hollows of Mesker Park's wooded course to complete 18 holes of disc golf and help raise more than $1,000 for the Tri-State Food Bank.

They stamped feet, rubbed gloves together, and blew billows of frosty vapor from mouths and noses as they waited their turns to "drive" or "putt" discs slightly smaller and shallower than recreational Frisbees.

Then, one by one, they took off a glove, focused their gaze, held their breath and flung their colorful plastic saucers toward, and eventually into the course's 18 "holes" — elevated steel baskets draped in chains.

Selecting from bulky fanny packs stuffed with brightly colored discs, the two-member teams chose hard, shallow "drivers" for long throws, midrange discs for intermediate distances, and softer "putters" when they got close enough to sink their saucers into the chained baskets.

Most players belonged to the Ace Eagle Disc Golf Club, the 50-member organization whose members play the Mesker Park course at 2 p.m. each Sunday. Saturday's tournament was part of an annual, international campaign to promote the sport, get people out moving and playing in the cold, and raise money for local charities.

Begun in 1987 at a disc golf park in Columbia, Mo., the event has evolved into an annual charity event organizers say raised more than $200,000 in 202 locations last year.

This year's Ice Bowl participation is even bigger, with 222 events in 44 states, six Canadian provinces and in Finland, Germany and Norway.

Ben Verkamp and Mike Weidner, Ace Eagle members from Evansville, won this year's Evansville Ice Bowl, with a 14-under-par score of 40. Their prizes included trophy discs and folding tripod seats.

Nearly everyone who finished won a prize, however, and all the participants shared a post-tournament lunch that included chili, cheese dips and hot dogs, served beside crackling fires in one of the park's stone shelter buildings.

Mary Blair, director for the Tri-State Food Bank, stayed in the shelter house to prepare and serve food, but she represented the event's ultimate winners —the families receiving food purchased with the funds raised by the Ice Bowl.

Organizers hoped to raise $1,200 this year in registrations, donations and "mulligan" fees, said John Barabe, the event's coordinator. He hadn't tallied all the income by noon, Saturday, he said, "but we're probably beyond that already."