SUMMER DISC GOLF

[G]

I could play disc golf all day if I figured how to carry around a 4ft bong and a keg with me in my pack...

I've seen lots of guys at the Sacramento course pushing around baby strollers overflowing with disks, beer, and supplies.


Hey, How common is a hole in one in this sport?

[sconniestyle]

played the solitude course a few weeks ago with some friends, here's a mini tr

yeah, we took the lift up...



here's matt, looking for a disc



pyle chucking it



and the end result of that chuck



this was easily the most senic course i've ever played. kyle looking for par




his put looks good



mine doesn't. damn trees jumping in my way




check out pyle's jazz hands in this pic




this ended up as one of my better throws of the day



again, nice tee box views, eh?



i wish i could say that i made this, but i dont think i did. kind of the story of my round.



there are a few places where it really sucks to overshoot the pin.



my first good shot of the day! on 18.



the pin is on the right, past the end of the treeline. i overshot it by about 150 feet on my third throw. big hills make me feel like a disc golf all star.



anyway, its a super rad course, play it if you can.

[idiot]

I've seen lots of guys at the Sacramento course pushing around baby strollers overflowing with disks, beer, and supplies.


Hey, How common is a hole in one in this sport?

as for the strollers, that stuff is hillarious......

the hole in ones, it really depends on the courses that you play......i know people that have never gotten an ace and have played for years, but i also know people that have 20+ aces....(they usually play courses that are shorter)

[idiot]

well i guess it is time to think about snow because kirkwood just pulled their baskets today.........(they must have a different forecast than i see on the internet)

good thing bijou stays up all year

[baseWeldr]

3days of rain from Ike 'bout a month ago flooded the local course
so we bought the floating discs & played anyway...

then I made it back to montucky for a bit & played the mtn forest service land course, its a tone course-no baskets, temp course only...
hole out by hitting the hanging poop pipe...


just the other night we played the first "glow" round of the yr
get the lil LEDs from the fishing bobber section at wally world/gander mtn/fishin supply store
good for ~20hrs w/push pull on/off switch, I get 4 or 5 rounds per...

tape 'em centered on top, play after dark watchin the trails
had a bigger glowstick to hang in the chains to putt at too
(yeah they make discs that glow but they need a blacklight on 'em or a camera flash to "charge" them as they only get dimmer over time
buy the lites and throw what you know...)
happy birdie hunting

[idiot]

just thought i would post a couple more pics in honor of a good summer

kirkwood decided to loan their baskets to a course in jackson ca for the summer. so mountain opps went out and pulled 15 of the 18 baskets with a loader and a chain. this damaged the sleeves by pulling them up and tweeking them to the side. and as far as the baskets that they left, i guess that they just didn't care.

so my buddy had to go out with a sled and pull the last 3 baskets. he sledded them down and said that he wished that there were pics because it was hilarious. So we drove the baskets to jackson ourselves because the only way to get something done right is to do it yourself. when we got to the course in jackson we found a pile of baskets. some very damaged


needless to say this was very disappointing, but not far from what we expected.

we then decided to go down to new hogan reservoir to play that course. it was my first time there and i was impressed. i took a couple of pics. mostly scenics







so that looks like the end of disc golf season for me because the snow is flying around here and winter sports are fun

[idiot]

not sure why the first pic is huge. i resized it in photobucket before i posted it just like the other ones?????????

[baseWeldr]

2vids... same song
what parts of my summers have looked like for the last 4 in the mitten
ski area in 1st vid=timber ridge by K'zoo when the pros were here
skihill in 2nd vid=hickory hills in TC
back to the mtns later this yr- got half a summer left to
soak up s'more northwoods disc-hippy vibe and get some last rounds in with friends
thanks for the throws, meeshigan...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNuC9tn0csc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbha9c2jA1Y

[72Twenty]

I have disc golf on the Wii

I am looking forward to playing in the wind around here too.

[booner]

I had some good times playing the course in Montlake Terrace. We played almost every warm /nice day. I'd load my old heli-pro up with tall boys of "The Champagne" and we'd smoke herb non-stop...that course rocked. My buddy has a lot of hilly land and he built his own course here in Bristol,NY. He's a golf couse super, so he mows nice fairways and leaves the rest natural.

[warthog]

2vids... same song
what parts of my summers have looked like for the last 4 in the mitten
ski area in 1st vid=timber ridge by K'zoo when the pros were here
skihill in 2nd vid=hickory hills in TC
back to the mtns later this yr- got half a summer left to
soak up s'more northwoods disc-hippy vibe and get some last rounds in with friends
thanks for the throws, meeshigan...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNuC9tn0csc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sbha9c2jA1Y

Headed back to Bozeman, or are you on to your next adventure?

[baseWeldr]

diggin 'er up from the depths again
warty- we'll be back in bozo by late summer- hope to see you out there again sometime...

meanwhile Im soakin in all the midwest has to offer DGwise
goin over to flip city tomorrow for a tourney...

text from hosfeld's blah'g...

A disc golfer told me that I should wait to play Flip City for my 1,000th course because after that, I won’t want to play anywhere else. A slight exaggeration perhaps, but there was merit to his assertion. Flip City (#902) is a gem! Owner Bill McKenzie bought the 80 acres in 1980 and started on the 37- acre course that summer. You want to build a really sweet course? It only takes 28 years!

Before walking out on the course I thanked Bill for the amount of work I KNOW it takes to build/maintain a personal course. When I came back in after my first round I approached him and said, “You know that comment I made earlier about appreciating your hard work? Quintuple that!”

I’m so glad that my first impression of FC-dgc was with the brand new tee pads with a round extra follow-thru area. Nice! This course is manicured immaculately with rock gardens all over the course. The “Jimmys” are plentiful on the course but nearly all of them are capped by large rocks, which tends to make them look like large mushrooms. More ornamental than obstacles, these mushrooms decorate most of the fairways. The rock moving alone was more work than building an entire course in most places. He used to mow it with a PUSH mower, which took 63 HOURS. This is on top of having a 40-hour a week job. (Stop and ponder that for a moment)

If there is a rating above “A+”, Flip City deserves it. There is a “vibe” here that you won’t find in a park. I think it could safely be called a reverence.
Flip City dgc is not just a disc golf course, it is a destination!

[passholer]

jhmr upper managment had been tossing around the idea of adding 9 more to the vils course,however it sounds like they need to get with the usfs on this! so its stalled for now.btw i will be sending a few discs from the top of the tram on sunday,so heads up!

[idiot]

kirkwood has all 18 baskets up now, and even though the weather hasn't been great you can go play. also zephyr cove's course should be open again tomorow after about a month long logging project. the course should be completly diferent now with the reduction of trees, but i'm sure it will still be fun.

bijou has started writing tickets for dogs on the course so if you are playing there be carefull. the ticket is $100.

[powdork]

talked to the zephyr cove folks this morn and they said tuesday is the new expected day for them to finish.
on my way to kirkwood now.

[nateski]

Big Sky has a really fun new course, which I helped build this spring.
http://www.pdga.com/course-details?id=3385
It starts in the field by the softball park. i think there are 8 or 9 (?) baskets, and posts for the rest of the holes- 18 total. There are more sponsors lined up and should be more baskets on the way. Tourney on July 4th.
I've been playing that course a ton, and just played Rose Park and Mossy Pines recently.

[passholer]

J.H.M.R. just got approval from the U.S.F.S. to add the back nine.a couple persistent locals pushed this thing thru. i think there are 3 tournys this yr.with the last one on t.g.r. premiere night as it should.

[powdork]

thanks to these guys for getting the course ready so early


tahoetrash on the first


and the 6th


me on the 6th


me on that 1400' 16th


the hope valley is going off right now.

[idiot]

no need to thank kirkwood. you can thank joe forrest for hiking the baskets up on his shoulders and digging out the tees. also joe did that for free because he loves the course an kirkwood won't pay. if left up to them those baskets might make an apperance by july and probably would be damaged in some way

[powdork]

unfortunately, i don't have a Joe Forrest disc, so a big Thanks Joe! here is the best I can do.

[powdork]

played zephyr cove today. it's very very easy now. there will be new placements, but i was told not before the King of the Lake Tourney.

[SchralphMacchio]

Joe Forrest is the man!!! I need to see if I have video of his first cirque line at the Master's.

Nice to see another flick throw driver PD, I resort to that on reallllllly long drives where I can pitch up a high shot with a lot of anhyzer. Haven't thrown in ages, I'll PM one of you doods when my PT says I can start throwin again for some KW or cove action.

[idiot]

powdork, you are right zephyr cove is a lot easier now that the manzinita and lots of trees were removed. luckily some local came through with some brown paint and unmarked some of the trees. i have played it twice now since the tree work was done. the last time there were fire hand crews out there cleaning up. hopefully they will be done soon

[powdork]

powdork, you are right zephyr cove is a lot easier now that the manzinita and lots of trees were removed. luckily some local came through with some brown paint and unmarked some of the trees. i have played it twice now since the tree work was done. the last time there were fire hand crews out there cleaning up. hopefully they will be done soon

according to them, they were done yesterday with the course sections, but still working on some school district sections that wouldn't impact play. They should be finished with that too now.

[baseWeldr]

great to see this thread get goin again with the western high altitude golf peeps...
nothing much to add, been playin a few times a week here in lansing area- give a shout if'n anyone finds themself in da mitten eh?

well the poached wifi still workin good- heres s'more DG pics


grand woods park winter golf, lansing michigan

mossy pines fairway, bozoland montuck

me and the hounders waterworks park, KCMO

tim tees on hole5 NftMyers fla

tiltshift, avalanche park, boyne city meeshigan

kasha waits, cadillac, mi wintergolf

hounders, seven springs park, nashville, TN

rose park bozeman, CSpic