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5/16/2020 9:58am
5/16/2020 9:58am
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12/16/2020 1:41am
Anyone here ever play disc golf? I played 2 times in college in Gainesville around about 1994 but hardly remember because it was more of a safe place to be hammered and not get in trouble. I have a friend from Oregon that comes to visit friend's and family every year for a month and he always asks me to go because he is big into it. I passed every year until this year I went along and I have to say I had a great time and its great exercise and best of all free to play. There is about 6 good courses with in 30 minutes of my house which I never new. I am an avid golfer and disc golf is very similar. You can buy a 3 disc combo for $12 on Amazon. It seems to be huge out west with national tours and pro athletes from other sports entering tournaments. I have played about 12 times this year and was the last thing I did before I got sick. I even went a few times with my wife and daughter and had a great time. Its perfect for when regular golf season is max price. Every disc flies different and has a purpose and you can't throw them like a regular Frisby but more like an Olympic discus with max spin to fly. There are drivers, mid range, putters etc. I obviously love options. This is about half the collection already. You don't want to see my room of golf clubs. Lol
Is it scored like regular golf? Par 3, par 4, and par 5?
One course in particular, at Kincaid Park, has Pro/AM tees, Pro/AM par, etc. Added bonus of a very high likelihood of seeing wildlife. We run into moose probably ~50% of the time out there, and I've seen porcupine, lynx, bears, etc. as well. There are also incredible views on the course of the surrounding mountains, etc. We can see Denali from Hole 3 sometimes depending on weather.
https://www.dgcoursereview.com/course.php?id=695
I'm a pretty good AM player, my PR is -9 on the AM tees over 18 holes
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Then I saw others doing it the same way and it totally went against my belief in what the game was supposed to be about.
We then went on to start beer bottle cap golf. Now that's a game!
And I wouldn't go golfing with a baseball bat. 145s are great for a lot of things but disc golf is not one of them
145's were what we all had ... it's more challenging I can tell you that. I remember there were 119's, 145's and 165's. Haaaah how old am I ... cripes!
This is where we played but not in a tournament. We rented the discs.
https://www.postandcourier.com/moultrie-news/news/entertainment/sewee-o…
You think they'd have "pot carts" out on the course ah-la drink carts for golf.
I see where in some places you can be on a golf course that has a regular green and then a basket for disc golf off to the side so a regular golfer and a disc golfer can play together and share a cart or what ever. Pretty cool. I have climbed trees, fences and waded in ponds chasing discs. An extending pole like a modified golf ball retriever is very handy. I have one where I just bent up a piece of aluminum for the hook. It has saved me many times already and fits conveniently in my bag strap pad actually. There is an alligator like spring loaded tip you can buy that clamps down when the disc bumps a trigger and activates a spring. A pic of my 2 blue putters. The top one is heavy and sticks for wind and the bottom one glides, floats and skips real easy and seems to be most popular disc for putting which like ball golf is where the money is.
Very common to catch a hint (or more) of smoke on the courses here.
We actually have a course near downtown that they closed down during the summer because kids would smoke so much weed while playing. Normally while hauling around a rack of beers to go with it.
I may or may not have been one of those kids back in the day
Now that course is only open during the winter, when we get 4-5 hours of sunlight a day and the average temp hovers around 15 degrees for months
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