We’ve seen a parkour on our way to town, so bought a discs set, stopped and played on the way home. Honestly, it’s 50/50 if it’s real dull or not. But, I’m keeping the disks!
(Though I’m not gonna become like the guy behind us. He carried a suitcase full of them, vertically stacked in foam slots. While each time the process of picking a disc looked like open heart surgery, and picking the right one was a matter of life or death with zero margin)
I play with a friend who has played for decades while I have barely played for a year. The fun is that like regular golf where most of the distance is a drive amd walking, and the putting is the only real pressure part. I trimmed down to three discs because I’m still not very consconsistent.
But we play for the exercise so it definitely falls in the dull umbrella. There is also a league where they do practice a lot and make some amazing shots where the exact disc does matter.
Its a good sport to have access to on road trips or when traveling. Three disks pack down pretty small and courses are usually much more interesting than a ball golf course would be and a hell of a lot cheaper. Usually in parks or other natural places.
A frisbee is always usefull. It doubles a a plate, to scoop water … Plenty alternaive usages on the road
I hate to be “that guy” but a Frisbee and a
goldgolf disc are similar, but very different things.I wouldn’t play Frisbee with a golf disc except maybe a floppy putter. Even then, discs require being snapped and thrown harder than a Frisbee, so speeds are higher and they have a different flight pattern.
Its definitely a game for dullards but I don’t know that I’d call the game dull. You’re really only playing against yourself so its as challenging as you take it to be. The discs are just as varied as clubs in ball golf, maybe even more importantly so. But you can also just as easily play a full round with 3 disks. And its mostly walking around enjoying some time outside. Often waiting in queue for your turn to throw. Very nice, very dull.
waiting in queue
That’s almost a national sport in Sweden, so two sports in one for me then!
Hahaha
While you can play with 1 disc, 3 is the practical minimum for a regular player - driver, mid-range, putter.
I typically play with a dozen, each one has different flight characteristics that’s useful for different baskets/conditions.
Also, welcome to the game! I’ve played for so long, in so many places.
We’d often get a 12 pack of ice cold beer and just carry it with us - no cooler - just drink them before they got warm.
A few years back the city I live in built a disc golf course through the little forest park next to our house.
I find disc golf really very dull, nothing for me, and thought its a waste of money they built this. Turns out there’s someone playing pretty much every day, and its different people too, not just the same dude. I still think its boring but there seem to be enough people to enjoy it, so whatever.
Man I haven’t played in years. I should get back out there.
I’ve seen people with the huge pack full of discs, meanwhile I’m carrying 3 in my little sling.
I usually play with a dozen discs, but when travelling I’ll take 3, I even have a travel bag for it.
Nice. I picked it up last year as a way to get outside, get some exercise and some low-cost entertainment since there are a bunch of courses around where I live and I don’t have to pay every time I want to play. Over that time I’ve gone from awful to mediocre, which I’m pleased with lol. But it gets me moving and away from a screen for a few hours, so I’ll call it a win.
I’ve gone from awful to mediocre, which I’m fine with
Sounds like my experience playing ball golf.
It’s fucking hard, I totally suck, still love playing. But I play disc 10x as much because it’s easier to arrange (just go), faster, and waaay cheaper.
There are so many intricacies to the form, and it’s complicated further by the fact that you need to adjust your motion to fit your own body’s range of mobility. But it’s great and absolutely one of the best hobbies I’ve decided to pick up in the last few years. I tell everyone disc golf is super cheap as long as you don’t like it lol. I’ve gone from three discs in an old backpack to a dedicated bag so full I’ve had to start culling discs I don’t actually intend to use in a round.
I had a buddy do a lunch talk at work on disc golf.
It seemed ridiculous.
The numbers and how it meant the disc would fly, etc.
I played once, the group I was with helped me with a loaner set of discs, and told me the numbers and what they meant.
I sucked, bad, but by the end of it I was deliberately selecting my disc based on the hole we were at and the terrain and how I threw.
Fascinatingly dull.
Plus the chance to collect all the discs, omg. I had to not get into it.
