Disc Golf is Hard
Posted by Patrick on Sunday, August 21, 2005Yesterday I attended Jay's batchelor party, which entailed spending a fair part of the day playing Disc Golf. I'd never played before, but Jay, his brother Matt, and Dennis have all played before extensively and made it sound easy enough.
Much like real golf, there is a tee and set course with 18 "holes". Instead of cup at the end, there's a basket in which you throw your disc into (I kept calling the disc a Frisbee, but it's one of those Kleenex-Xerox-Bandaid kind things. "Disc" is apparently the term). Not just any old disc will do, either. There are putting discs and driving discs, with various weights and sizes.
Matt was kind enough to have custom party discs made up for our group of 11 people. Here's a picture that Dennis took:
(and the rest of the photos he took)
I assumed the course would be an actual golf course, but instead it was a set of trails through the woods. In the woods, there are trees. Trees apparently have some sort of magnetic-like attraction to the discs, because almost every disc I threw went straight for a short distance, and then veered to either the right or the left and smacked dead on into a tree. Trees hate me.
Despite not coming in first (technically last) it was a really fun sport, and I'd like to try it again. I made par a few times, and didn't lose any of my discs.
The rest of the party was a good time, we went to a barbeque and tossed the discs around for a while.
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