Guest farnsbarns Posted March 2, 2012 Posted March 2, 2012 This weekend is my home disc golf tournament. I say home, the course has changed a lot and I haven't had a chance to play all 18 in row, or even all the new holes so it won't feel like it. I've had to move up a division due to recent tourney wins and placed finishes so now I'm a small fish in a big pond again. That doesn't matter, the scene is very relaxed and people are cool so just playing is fun. Pippy, you should consider bringing the family to Lloyd park on Sunday afternoon and watch the final, I say the final because you'll get to see the top 5 in the country playing 9 holes together but there's a spectacle all weekend. The only time there's spectators is during the final when the rest of the entrants watch. We only have 50 odd entries this year because it's so early in the year. Croydon Council not allowing any events during the Olympics, bizarre! Simon, you might be interested too.
Muse Posted March 2, 2012 Posted March 2, 2012 I wish you luck and good weather. I've had a few lessons but need to take more. Anyway, good luck!
pippy Posted March 2, 2012 Posted March 2, 2012 'Rub of the Green' Farns! I don't know what Disc-Golf is but I'm sure you'll have a blast! Weekends 'Chez Connor' are pretty much booked up weeks in advance, though... Hope the weather improves! P.
Guest farnsbarns Posted March 2, 2012 Posted March 2, 2012 Putt-Putt or Regulation size course........ lol No, not putt putt. The course is a good mix of 3s and 4s, some easy 3s (2-able) and some tricky 4s (6/7/8-able). No water but plenty of impenetrable brambles and some unrecoverable out of bounds areas.
Guest farnsbarns Posted March 2, 2012 Posted March 2, 2012 'Rub of the Green' Farns! I don't know what Disc-Golf is but I'm sure you'll have a blast! Weekends 'Chez Connor' are pretty much booked up weeks in advance, though... Hope the weather improves! P. Thanks mate, I hope it's windy as hell, the wind does strange things at Lloyd Park and a bit of local knowledge can be a real advantage.
ShredAstaire Posted March 2, 2012 Posted March 2, 2012 Good luck! I've never played but it looks like fun!
pippy Posted March 2, 2012 Posted March 2, 2012 No water but plenty of impenetrable brambles and some unrecoverable out of bounds areas. Although I'm not a golfer I have hacked my way round a course quite a few times. The challenge (being a 'Tight-fisted Scotsman') was always to try to find more balls in the search for my own than I, myself, lost over the course (pun) of the eighteen holes. If the weather's clement then it's a great way to while away three or four hours! P.
DanvillRob Posted March 2, 2012 Posted March 2, 2012 Before you start have your wife kiss your balls for good luck!
pippy Posted March 2, 2012 Posted March 2, 2012 There's no balls involved... That looks pretty cool, actually! And there is a 'course' nearby, Farns? Wait...Google is my friend! P.
Guest farnsbarns Posted March 2, 2012 Posted March 2, 2012 That looks pretty cool, actually! And there is a 'course' nearby, Farns? Wait...Google is my friend! P. croydon disc golf
pippy Posted March 2, 2012 Posted March 2, 2012 croydon disc golf Ahhh..... And, of course, YOU are my friend, too! P.
Muse Posted March 2, 2012 Posted March 2, 2012 Okay, now I feel utterly foolish. Do tell, what is disc golf?
pippy Posted March 2, 2012 Posted March 2, 2012 Okay, now I feel utterly foolish. Do tell, what is disc golf? See post #11 just above. It looks good fun. Who knows, Muse? Come the evening there's even a chance that you might bump into the Nemesis of 'The Flash'........... P.
Muse Posted March 2, 2012 Posted March 2, 2012 Now that is a challenge! It looks like fun and competative as well. Is this primarily a European sport? I ask because I have never seen or heard of it in the US.
zigzag Posted March 2, 2012 Posted March 2, 2012 Disc golf has been popular in my area of the US for quite some time. I played in the first organized tournament around here back in 1978, sponsored by Sunkist, before discs (made for disc golf) and baskets even existed. Ribbons tied around trees functioned as "holes," and you had to hit anywhere between the ribbons. (These days, Winthrop University in Rock Hill, SC near where I live, holds the US National Disc Championship tournament, and has a wonderful course.) I played for a few more years after that, but gave it up until recently. I decided to take it up again, so I went out and bought a couple of golf discs. I got to about the 4th hole and threw two discs over a high fence with barbed wire, and quit right then. Haven't touched a golf disc since. Oh well.
Guest farnsbarns Posted March 2, 2012 Posted March 2, 2012 Disc golf has been popular in my area of the US for quite some time. I played in the first organized tournament around here back in 1978, sponsored by Sunkist, before discs made for disc golf and baskets even existed. Ribbons tied around trees functioned as "holes," and you had to hit anywhere between the ribbons. (These days, Winthrop University near where I live, holds national tournaments, and has a wonderful course.) I played for a few more years after that, but gave it up until recently. I decided to take it up again, so I went out and bought a couple of golf discs. I got to about the 4th hole and threw two discs over a high fence with barbed wire, and quit right then. Haven't touched a golf disc since. Oh well. Disc loss is a pain, not only do they cost a tenner but, as I explain to non players often, if I lose my over stable (left turning) driver in a tournament, it's not like loosing a ball, it's like loosing a club. Disc losses are rare on our course as there's no water and the one area where your disc can land on adjoining private property is occupied by a nice chap who saves them up and we go and get them once in a while.
Guest rogerb Posted March 2, 2012 Posted March 2, 2012 Good luck! Looks like fun and a lot of skill involved.
Aster1 Posted March 2, 2012 Posted March 2, 2012 Good luck with the tourney. Man, it looks like an incredible "rough" everyone is stuck in on that video. What happened to the nice grass & simple rolling hills? I glad I don't have to swing a golf club in thru all that brush & rock. Or up/down mountain sides & thru forests neither!! I'd think I was at St. Andrews or something! Aster
Guest farnsbarns Posted March 2, 2012 Posted March 2, 2012 Now that is a challenge! It looks like fun and competative as well. Is this primarily a European sport? I ask because I have never seen or heard of it in the US. No, it's American, started in the 60s. There's over 3000 courses over there. It's big in scandinavia and Japan too, growing fast in the UK, Oz and NZ and beggining to gain momentum in the rest of Europe and Asia.
D-poland Posted March 2, 2012 Posted March 2, 2012 No, it's American, started in the 60s. There's over 3000 courses over there. It's big in scandinavia and Japan too, growing fast in the UK, Oz and NZ and beggining to gain momentum in the rest of Europe and Asia. yes we in Iowa,US even have'em! my youngest has been doing it for a few years and getting pretty good!hes actually making a few shekels now and again at it! they will even do it in the snow!
Guest farnsbarns Posted March 2, 2012 Posted March 2, 2012 yes we in Iowa,US even have'em! my youngest has been doing it for a few years and getting pretty good!hes actually making a few shekels now and again at it! they will even do it in the snow! I have played in snow but it's no fun, the discs tend to travel several feet under the snow meaning every hole takes ages, then your throwing freezing cold wet discs.
zigzag Posted March 2, 2012 Posted March 2, 2012 ... if I lose my over stable (left turning) driver in a tournament, it's not like loosing a ball, it's like loosing a club... That's one of the things I couldn't get used to when I picked the game back up. It took me a while to realize that no matter what plane you start a disc on, each disc will have a characteristic flight path, especially at the finish. To me, the ideal disc would have a straight path; then I could have more control over the trajectory.
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