Funniest/weirdest thing you've seen on the course

[timg]

Mine would have to be the guy that was using a golf cart at the local park (Ellison (http://www.dgcoursereview.com/course.php?id=2)). He was driving the thing around, music blaring.. it was just kind of odd.

Another one that comes to mind, a guy at Codorus (http://www.dgcoursereview.com/course.php?id=37) who claimed to have been looking for the first tee for over an hour. There were a lot of disc golfers out that day and my friend and I managed to find it without a problem. I guess he could have tried asking someone.. :)

[bfaslewis]

I was out one day and there was a couple, on a blanket, behind some trees at Beaver Island...I think I interrupted something. I couldn't help it they were right next to the 5th tee box. If you've played that course you know the spot I'm talking about isn't that secluded.

Also at Beaver Island, different day, on the 18th hole; there was a guy that got his disc stuck about 30 up in a tree in a bird's nest. We were playing and couldn't figure out why this other party was still on the hole, so when we walked over, and asked, everyone just kinda pointed up; it was pretty funny.

[timg]

I know the fifth hole and that isn't really secluded at all.. adventurous couple! :)

Speaking of Beaver Island, I almost aced #4 last time I played there. That's probably as close as I'll ever get to pulling that off on that hole but it was pretty exciting for a few seconds.

[discgnome]

At a local private course, Swinging D.B.'s, I was driving across the the creek low. See attachment

[fedsigMaster]

Last year I saw some drug deals. Six months ago I saw a guy get his disc stuck on top of a school bus. A week later I saw another guy skip his disc off the hood of a moving police car. The last time I played I saw some people grilling on a tee box! Fortunately I only played 4 holes and didn't worry about it.

[timg]

At a local private course, Swinging D.B.'s, I was driving across the the creek low. See attachment

Now that's a tough lie :D

[Three Putt]

We set up a temp course for the Gateway Open at Sioux Passage Park years ago. We had one hole that we debated how close to the road the basket should be, but finally we decided to put it really close to the road figuring everybody in a PDGA tournament would figure out that going long would be very bad. When you approached the pin, you were up on a hillside shooting down toward the basket with the road about 15 ft past the hole continuing on a downhill slope. In a warm-up round a guy went for it from 50 or 60 ft on that hole. He missed the basket high and the disc floated out over the road where it landed in the back of a moving pick-up. The pick-up slowed down, then drove off with the guys putter.
The guy was really mad, so I tried not to fall down laughing. The look on his face when the pick-up drove off was priceless.

[magictenor1]

We played at Paul B. Johnson today and there were FEMA trailers on part of the course. We played one hole and my brother-in-law landed on the roof. He climbed up and played his shot from there

[Dan Doc]

One Day at Sedgley Woods in Pa., I came to the Fourth hole to find a group barbaqueing in the basket. They had tin foil, charcoal, burgers, Dogs, the whole nine yards. The Guys says to me, " This isn't for Grilling???"

[John Merhi]

Everyone's got a Sedgely Woods story. I've heard stories about kids hiding in the bushes near the baskets and then stealing people's discs when they land 250-300 feet away from the tee pad. Sounds like a game me and my friends would have invented when we were 13. :) With a 250 foot head start, you pretty much can't lose.

I played Sedgely on a bitter cold day in January once. There was a homeless guy across the street from the course. He stood there with his pants at his ankles and his johnson just hanging out, waiting for some frostbite I guess. We think he was looking for 3 hots and a cot with indecent exposure the easiest way to achieve it. That's one way to flag down a cop.

Weirdest thing I think I've ever seen was at Seneca. This huge majestic tree (across the creek from Hole 5) came crashing down while we were playing. It was a gorgeous day with little wind. We have no idea what could have caused this tree to fall. The noise it made as it came crashing down was incredible. We all just looked at each other in bewilderment. Did that really just happen?

[cayuga]

Last summer I hoisted a nine meter tree branch over my head, barely able to hold it straight up and steady. It is often difficult to find anything to dislodge a stranded disc. When a huge, fallen tree branch lay next to the unconscionably tall tree that ensnared my midrange, I used the branch. Remember — "no visible disc left behind".

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I recall that vividly.. it was an impressive sight :D

[DG_Wizard]

Weirdest that I've ever seen had to be a course in Oklahoma City called Woodson Park. This place is in the barrio. First let me say that it is a confusing course. They move around the holes. There are concrete tee pads with numbers painted on them. There are also signs and numbers on the baskets, but none of these MATCH. That wasn't that weird, but I threw a disc into this big open cedar tree that had a homeless guy temporarily LIVING in it. He gave me back my disc. He had clothes and everything INSIDE this tree. He was also drinking on a case of beer.

[timg]

Wow.. did he kick the Keebler elves out? :) That's definitely qualifies as weird.

[Texconsinite]

This happened a few weeks ago at Vista Del Camino in Scottsdale, AZ. I was playing the back nine, it was hole 15 or 16, but anyways, theres a concrete jogging path on the left side of the fairway, with joggers and bikers always walking down it. Just left fo the path is a big blue trashcan, thats always in the same spot about 200 ft past tee.

So I tee off LHFH but the champ beast snaps out of my hand a little early and flys off a bit to the left. Meanwhile, a man on a bike is riding away from me in the same direction as the disc. I watch in horror as the beast flies right at the back of his head. I'm too paralyzed to even call out, because if he stops and turns around to look at me he'll get blasted right in the face. The disc fades at the last second behind the bike's back tire, and hits the side of the trash can, then bounces back past the bike, passing in front of the front tire. WTF!!! The guy didnt even run over the disc or slow down. It was like watching my life flash before my eyes.

Then, as if the day wasn't weird enough, I throw the Dragon on hole 18 (of course). It shanks hard left over the middle of the lake and dives in at probably a 45 degree angle. No big deal, right- it floats. So I wait. And wait. and wait. And throw the claw out after it. No dragon. It never floats back up anywhere on the lake.

[ZMan44]

At my home course here in Tennessee (Sharp Springs) there are a number of small pavilions that people grill out on. Only one is close to the DG course and it sits on a hill about 30 yard away from the tee on hole 15. Hole 15 is a 280' downhill throw from a tee that is elevated about 30-40 feet above the pin. It is a pretty nice vista shot. Well, there was a group at the pavilion. A local group of special olympics children. They were armed with kites. Three children, each with a kite, decided to run in front of us and down the hill while we were on the tee. I almost seperated my shoulder as I was in mid-drive but I held onto that disc. They got all the way past the hole when the teacher called them to come back, so they ran back across the hole and when they got about 30 feet away from the teacher they did an about face and ran away from her again. They must have thought this was a fun game because my buddy and I sat on the tee and watched this for about 30 minutes. They would run away, the teacher would call, they would come back to about 30 feet of the teacher and then run away again. The teacher actually got fed up with the kids and told us to throw anyway. We just skipped the hole. In retrospect we should have done that earler instead of waiting for 30 minutes, but it was a nice day.

[andyman]

I was playing Rosland Park last a few weeks ago. The wind caught my tee shot on hole #4 and carried my disc into the highway. Luckily it didn't hit any cars. While I was walking to the tee pad on hole #5, I heard a loud noise, and turned to see a my disc rolling down the highway after a moving van ran it over. The disc about 100' feet along the highway to the fence bordering the course. So, after all of that, I got my disc back.

[timg]

I was playing Rosland Park last a few weeks ago. The wind caught my tee shot on hole #4 and carried my disc into the highway. Luckily it didn't hit any cars. While I was walking to the tee pad on hole #5, I heard a loud noise, and turned to see a my disc rolling down the highway after a moving van ran it over. The disc about 100' feet along the highway to the fence bordering the course. So, after all of that, I got my disc back.
I did something similar at Moraga Commons Park (http://www.dgcoursereview.com/course.php?id=24) in CA. The course plays on some large hills and one of the later holes runs parallel to a fairly busy street well below the hill on the right side of the fairway. I threw my drive and the wind just took hold of it and decided to take it straight down towards the road. My heart sank and I didn't even want to watch as it went down as I was anticipating screeching brakes at any moment.

When the screeching didn't come I made my way down there and ended up finding my disc on the other side of the road. I have no clue if it made it over there without actually going into the road or not but I was just happy I didn't cause an accident and that I actually found the disc.

[rkorab]

So down in Brooksville,FL before the Gran Canyon course was closed I was playing a warm up round before a tourney. Somebody in a group ahead had a disc stolen by a Fox, who picked it up and ran off just to drop it about 500' away.

One sly fox....

[rkorab]

Also in Sarasota at Water Tower park during an A-Tier I went to clear my thoughts just off to the right side of the Pad in the Palmetto's and almost stepped on two people, 1 was completely naked and the other was sparsly clothed, they were just sleeping in the nice FL sun...

[ixcptmorganxi]

Playing yesterday at Riverside which is a course that runs a long a walking trail and river. For some reason theres a bench near the 18th basket and this family decided to have a picnic there. It was right in the middle of the fairway but they wouldn't move so we just threw our discs all around them. There were tons of golfers out so I'm suprised they didn't move sooner, they left after we completed the hole. Guess they finally realized they were stupid.

[Amorybulldog]

same hole, same course, over a year apart. Lefleur's Bluff in Jackson, MS front 9. I believe it is hole number 5. Plays long downhill towards a pseudo wrought iron fence behind it is a service road for the interstate. Weird moment number 1, it had been raining a ton so the ground was soft and water everywhere. I parked my upshot and had a 10 foot putt for par, just as I am about to release my putt the ground under me collapses and I fall in a hole up to my knees. Released the putt during the fall, still went in. Strange feeling to be falling and putting at the same time. The second moment was almost a year later. Hot day with lots of wind gusts. I had thrown a 400+ roller the day before at a different course and thought I would demonstrate that on this hole for some buddies. I crushed a JLS and it anny'ed just like it was supposed to. Then a wind gust changes the angle on the disc and levels off turnover and clears the fence and lands on the other side of the road. No idea how long that shot was but it flew forever. I think the basket plays 380 or so and this disc had to be at least 80 feet behind it or more. Had to leave the park by car to get the disc back. Pretty crazy.

[Texconsinite]

This one happened to a friend of mine, Stephen (aka Texas Orlando Bloom, ya, hes a hippy from the south). Him and some buddies were playing at Moffitt. They get to the tee, but there's some guy standing by the fairway flying a kite or something. They get his attention, and he tells them to just go ahead and throw. When they throw, one of them shanks one and it makes a beeline right for this dude. They shout, but its too late, and the disc hits him directly in the cell phone holster mounted to his belt. It chopped his MotoRazr in half, screen separated from keypad and everything. Yikes!!! They felt terrible, but the guy was cool about it, sicne he had told them to go ahead.

[Portablewalrus]

I always see a bunch of U.F.O.s, but it's only at the course for some reason. I think I'll take a camera next time and send the pictures in to unsolved mysteries.

[Texconsinite]

CptMorgan, are you talking about the Riverside course just north of Houston, Tx? Was wondering how that one was, never got a chance to play it

[Rogue Skunk]

I came across a hobo sleeping in the middle of the fairway on hole 3 at Brahan Springs Park in Huntsville, AL. We debated just playing around him but decided to skip it and come back later. It started pouring before we finished the other 17 and the skins game was already decided so we called it quits and never went back to #3.

[DGtourist]

In Seatac I saw behind a bush in the middle of the course, a cross made out of small twigs and a doll in a shallow grave. Mind you seatac is big and secluded, gloomy and grey. Some strange kids in Seattle.

[sk8architecture]

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This is probaly the wierdest basket I have seen. Don't throw past the red monster or it will cost you a stroke.

[nexanimal]

but they are waaaay too high (see photo)

plus, at Liberty, when they say "out of bounds" the obviously mean it... (photo)

enjoy - n

[Texconsinite]

That red monster is really scary. I'd be afraid to reach my hand in there to get my disc out. Who made that basket?

[SuperNovice58]

Ive always had issues with the 10th hole of Riverside North in Grand Rapids Michigan, (my home Course). On one side of the hole you have the Grand River on one side and a high traffic path on the other side. Ive had two major incidents with this hole. My first time playing this hole I make a horrible Drive which heads right towards the path on a night that the park is incredibly crowded. My FireBird nearly scalps two old guys, and will land in one of those baby carrier things that are pulled by bikes. I end up having to chase this guy down for nearly a quarter of a mile to get my disc back. He decides to argue that its his childs until I point out that my name is on the back. A few times later I end up making another bad throw, (which seems to be a theme with this hole.) I made a half decent drive and Im throwing my midrange which ends up 20 feet past the hole, and five feet from creek that leads into the river. I make a nice putt that goes in but Im left pretty unbalanced and tumble in the mud, straight back into the creek. I reall hate this hole

[Brody Cannon]

One of my favorite lines during a round can be used when someone is going into the bushes to go pee. I always say this to the other people in my group: "Oh, (insert name here) must be looking for his mini again."

About 2 weeks ago I was playing disc golf at my home course and I looked ahead and I saw this guy riding his bike down a little path. The path is slightly down hill and turns hard at the bottom so when I saw him riding with no hands, I was suprised. I then noticed he had a leash in his hand and a big dog on the other end of it running alongside. As soon as I saw this, I thought to myself "this guy's crazy! he's gonna eat crap!". Sure enough, he reaches the bottom of the hill and flips over the handlebars! He got up and rode off within a minute or two and as soon as he rode away I started laughing uncontrollably. That is by far the funniest and dumbest thing I've seen while disc golfing.

[blang]

I know that the easiest way to explain Disc Golf to a new player is to compare it to Ball Golf but sometimes it may be taken too far. Hole 9 at Georgia Southwestern DGC has a Ball Golf ball washer beside the tee pad. The bad thing is I actually spent the mental energy to figure out its purpose. I know my disc would not fit into that tiny ball groove. I now have a personal example of the abbreviation "WTF".

[gwillim]

That red monster is really scary. I'd be afraid to reach my hand in there to get my disc out. Who made that basket?

Here's the course link...

http://www.dgcoursereview.com/course.php?id=2427

[Donovan]

We were on the “The Monster”, #17 at Arcadia Park No. 2 in Fort Worth TX. This guy has his disc go in deep and it may have even made it to the 8 foot deep creek. We start looking through the bushes and I see this snakeskin that I had seen with a different group the day before. ;) So as this guy is looking for his disc, I pulled out the skin and hold it up. It’s as tall as I am (6'). :eek:

I said, "If you find the owner of this rattler skin let me know?"

That guy's eyes got great big and flew out of the foliage as if he grew wings. And he said, “Screw that disc!”

I said. “Yeah, that snake might be coming back for his jacket.”

I of course told him after all that how long the skin had been there, but he still would not go back in there. I never did find his disc for him…I mean I had to go look for him after pulling that gag. :p

[magictenor1]

Hey Donovan, I have played a lot of courses in the Fort Worth area but have not played Acadia. Is it a fairly new course? Sounds like I would like to play it the next time I am out there.

[Donovan]

Hey Donovan, I have played a lot of courses in the Fort Worth area but have not played Acadia. Is it a fairly new course? Sounds like I would like to play it the next time I am out there.

I am told it is a 2008 course, so I guess that is new. If you PM me, I will give you my phone number and go play with you if you want. I live like 3 blocks away from the first hole. I love that you can really open up your drive on this course. The other courses in the area don't seem to let you do that on too many holes.

Thanks for the note brother! :cool:

[humchris85]

I had a few incedents involving bums on the course all on hole 7 @ the Redwood Curtain in Arcata. The first was a bum siting and meditating in the middle of the fairway, people were just barely missing him and he didn't seem to notice a thing. A month or two later a friend of mine takes his drive and it sails past some branches and stumps and hits another bum in the dome. He picked up the disc and started to yell at my friend but after seeing how many of us there were and getting yelled at about being on the fairway of a DGC, he shut up and left. Then yet another time out there I threw up my midrange just past the basket and it almost landed on sombodys old dirty panties that were laying next to the basket:confused:.

[tomschillin]

at Indian Hills, my buddy and I were playing along and on hole 13 i think it was I look off to the side of the fairway, in a little gulley kind of thing, and 2 black rat snakes, they had to be 4 feet each, were completely entangled in each other doing the nasty...it was one of the coolest things i've ever witnessed in nature. We just sat there and smoked and watched for about 20 minutes...the course was dead because it was brand new, this was back in 2002.

[bash]

A few weeks ago I was warming up at Cedar Hills in Raleigh, NC. The second tee is about 30' away from the basket for hole 1. My partner was teeing off on two when a disc flew right by my head, missing me by only a foot. Well, it may had missed me but the my partner turned around just in time for the disc to hit him directly in the family jewels. He dropped like a rock. I didnt know whether to laugh or take him to the emergency room. He was ok after a couple of minutes and we had a great laugh the rest of the afternoon.

[Ty9339]

about a week ago at roland park, we had a hurd of cows come running up over the 3rd fairway. probably about 30 or 40 of them. the crazy thing is they came from the opposite direction of the where the farm is located near roland park. left some cow plops to navigate through though

[gcoghill]

I was taking photos of the tees over at Freedlander Park and someone had set up their "campsite" right on the woodchip tees:

http://www.dgcoursereview.com/gallery.php?id=1291&mode=gal&view=hole&hole=12&page=1#

(second photo, couldn't find a link to specific photos)

[ERicJ]

I was taking photos of the tees over at Freedlander Park and someone had set up their "campsite" right on the woodchip tees

That is a good one!

[Doktor John]

A friend of mine teed off on hole 9 at Morley field and his disc hit a sign off to the right about 60 feet away and it stuck in the small space between the sign and the metal post it was attached to

[Midnightbiker]

about a week ago at roland park, we had a hurd of cows come running up over the 3rd fairway. probably about 30 or 40 of them. the crazy thing is they came from the opposite direction of the where the farm is located near roland park. left some cow plops to navigate through though


I just have to say you just made my day. I laughed out loud at this one . I don't know why, but it really struck me funny.:)

[brokenfixed]

Couple weeks ago, the wife and I are playing a round at tyler state park in PA. We get to the #5 tee and theres a couple of geese just hanging out. So I start whistling and snapping my fingers to get ones attention. So one goose just came over and stood next to me and waited while we teed off. So as we're walking away we noticed that the goose is following us, so i kept tapping my disc against my leg to keep his attention and he just kept on walking. He'd walk up to either me or my wife and wait while we picked up our discs and made another shot and again, and again. (me and the wife are new to disc golf and only had 1 discraft buzz a piece so we were throwing quite a bit..haha)

So he follows us to the next tee and so on for about 4 more holes. Until we get to a little bridge that crosses a little stream, and he wont cross the bridge for some reason. I tried quite a few times to lead him on it and he wouldnt follow, wont fly. So as I was about to give up I figured I would walk him down a bit to where you could jump across and sure enough he followed down the way a bit and crossed with me and then back up the hill to the other side.

So after that we had to name him. I came up with "Gary the goose" on the spot, and he just kept on following. There was a couple times where you had to step over a log or 2 and he wouldnt jump over them so we led him around the log and so on. The course is actually pretty hilly and steep at times and completely in the woods, so its not like he was just walkign around in a field all day. Heres the link to the course

http://http://www.dgcoursereview.com/course.php?id=29


So we get to maybe the 12th hole or so, and I happen to lose my disc somewhere in this thick woodsy area. I couldnt find this thing for the life of me, we searched all over and couldnt find it. We retraced back and forth thru thick areas of stickerbushes, dense underbrush, everything....yup, Gary followed me thru everything. I even lost track of him a couple times when poking thru the woods to a clearing and back and he was right there waiting for me when I came back. It got the point where I was so focused on finding my disc that I wasnt exactly paying attention to where he was, and I'd turn around..... "theres Gary"....haha

We didnt keep track of time, but I mustve been looking for my disc for about 30-45mins. The disc was brand new, the first time I used it, and it was my only one. I, scratch that...WE....were determined to finish this course. All the sudden, BOOM, theres my disc, alot farther than I thought, and completely covered in leaves and sticker bushes.

So we continued on, passed a couple groups of people with Gary bringing up the rear 15' back and heard whispers like "dude look at the goose, hes following them"...So I yelled over, "oh yeah, thats Gary hes been following us since tee #5" (its probably around hole 20 by then I forget....oh yeah its a 27 hole course...ahah) So anyway, as we passed another guy working on the park who had a white t-shirt on like mine....Gary stops, and I happen to turn around to check on him and he seems confused on which person to follow. I walk back to him and start tapping my disc and hes not moving, the guy happens to look up probably thinking im bothering the goose, and I tell him that hes been following me for the last 2 hours at least and the goose thinks I'm him cause we have the same color shirt. After a bit more tapping, Gary makes the right choice and continues onward....haha

We finish the 26th basket which was in the middle of a field and under a tree, and Gary sits down all the sudden to take break in the shade. Im suprised cause he hasnt sat the whole time, so we waited a little and he wasnt budging. There was a guy waiting to play the 26th so we headed for the 27th and waited at the tee for Gary. Nope, he wont move...so we figure hes done following us finally and we play the 27th hole. As we get to the final basket we turn around and theres Gary rushing over to us like "Wait!....I didnt say good bye"

So we HAD to wait..ahah...Finally he gets up to us and starts following us towards our truck, when ALL THE SUDDEN.....Something swoops down from above......I caught it out of the corner of my eye, and I look up....ITS A FALCON!....A FALCON JUST TOOK A DIVE AT GARY!!!....I look up at the tree line and this huge falcon is perched on a branch watching Gary like a hawk (haha) So I start smacking my hand against my disc and BARKING at the falcon, and he flys off the branch and gets to another branch a bit closer to us, and at this point....I KID YOU NOT!!....IM READY, WILLING, & ABLE....TO RUMBLE WITH THIS FALCON!!...We've come too far in our journey to lose out to some PUNKASS FALCON!

Meanwhile Garys like "lets get the Fork outta here" and starts running...haha....Which was the first time we've ever seen him run, so in the midst of panic, I coulnt help but laugh....haha. Then we notice that WE'RE following GARY for the first time in 22 holes...ahha

Anyway, the falcon gave up, flew away and we got some cell phone shots when we got back to the truck. Then we said our goodbyes and watched him stand there in the same spot while we drove off.

THE END

Tom

[Nickwells]

Awe. You should've taken him home and kept him as a pet. Seriously, how cool would that be? Someone comes over to your house "omg, there's a goose in your living room!" "Nah, that's just Gary the goose... he's legit."

[Olorin]

Broken,

That's one of the best stories I've ever read! Too funny. I can't believe the hawk attack, and I can even picture you ready to fight him :D Gary's one incredible goose, and I hope you see him again. Please let us know.

[Midnightbiker]

Great story. Please post the pics.

[Pastime]

Amazing! Loved it!

[brokenfixed]

actually, my wifes cellphone just broke last night, so im thinking the pics are lost..haha

[jedwards]

A few years ago some friends and I were playing at a park in Cincinnati early in the morning. It was really foggy but we had played the course many times so we didn't think it would be a problem. On the first hole I launched my drive toward where I knew the basket was -- all we heard was a huge THUD! Since we were familiar with the course we couldn't imagine what I could have hit. All of a sudden about a 6 point buck came thundering at us. I'm sure he was just as surprised to see us as we were to see him. I've hit many trees since but never another deer.

[t i m]

Too many little random stories worth recounting, some good, some bad. Bicentennial Park in Crowley, TX -- I don't remember which hole, but my brother and I are playing and watching the group in front of us. Four guys in the underbrush, and we think they're looking for their disc in the scrubbrush. There's a large boulder mixed in among the bushes. Two of the guys flip the boulder over and a third guy -- a BIG guy -- dives down and grabs this 5' snake out from under the rock. He's holding the thing by its head and its hissing and snarling and thrashing all over the place. A few seconds later it's completely coiled around his arm like it's trying to strangle him. He carries it with him for the rest of the hole, putts out, and then throws the thing back into the bushes before the next teebox. Needless to say, my brother and I walk reeeeeal wide of those bushes. No need to run into a pissed off snake that's already been taunted.

Same park, different day, It's been raining all morning and the stream is rushing pretty fast. My brother has a teebird skip into the creek, and we figure it's safe to jump in and look for it. The water's just at teabagging level. We're both in their in our boxers feeling around for the disc. I'm feeling along the edge, and all of a sudden a huge snake comes up out of the water between me and the bank, arcs back down a few feet away and is heading towards my brother. I yell, he sees the snake, screams and leaps straight up to a branch hanging over the creek. He's hanging there, wet and half-naked from a tree branch in the middle of the creek trying not to touch the water. Probably stays there 10 minutes before he decides its safe to drop back into the water and dash for the shore. We left the teebird.

Lots of good snake stories, but those are two of my favorites.

[t i m]

Up at Borderlands in MA, a friend and I finish up our round and are tossing discs up over a rise and across a big field on the way back to the car. He puts one out that looks like it will be going 350' or so, but instead of hearing the sound of disc hitting grass, we hear this big "clang." As far as we remember, there aren't any trash cans or picnic tables out there, so we can't figure out what it is. We get up over the rise and see his disc -- this beautiful tie-dyed Z-XL -- wedged into the side of green fire hydrant that's right by a path in the middle of the field. We walk up, and his disc is physically stuck right under the edge of the big bolt on top. There are no people around, so no one who could have moved it there. I've got a picture on the computer at home somewhere, and it makes me laugh every time I see it -- craziest place I've ever seen a disc get stuck.

[t i m]

Hawk Hollow in VA, mid-July. Hole three the wind is coming from behind us. We tee off, and get about halfway down the fairway, the wind shifts, and the stench is all of a sudden overwhelming. Hawk Hollow is a private course with a primary use as a cow farm. The smell turns out to be a dead cow just off the fairway. One guy in our group has landed just a few feet behind the cow, and has to play his second shot throwing over the top of a rotting cow-carcass, trying to hold his breath and just trying to throw before he passes out. Worst obstacle on a course ever.

[t i m]

Cedar Hill in Raleigh, NC, earlier this year. Since I've never played the course before, I join up with a couple of NC folks -- Stack, Kolling and Buddy -- for a practice round the night before a tournament round. It's just starting to get dark, and we're rounding into the back half of the course (hole 10?) -- a framed downhill tunnel shot of low trees, with a great big open route for the thumber.

We walk out of the woods and onto the teebox, look down the fairway, and it seems like there's some kind of animal moving behind the basket, but we can't tell what it is. I start walking down the fairway towards the basket, making some noise. All of a sudden the "animal" moves, and we see a girl stand up butt naked and realize the moving "animal" was a guy standing behind her. The girl had been bent forward, bracing herself on the basket with both hands while getting plowed from behind. The two of them are wearing nothing but their shoes, see us, and take off into the underbrush. Twenty seconds later, the guy runs back up, grabs an armload of clothes out of the basket and runs back off into the woods.

We all sit there for a minute or two, trying to figure out if we really just saw what we think we saw... Cedar Hill is not a particularly private course, and this was daylight on a Saturday evening. When it finally registers what happened, we all just bust out laughing and spend the rest of the round making jokes along the lines of "a whole new meaning to 'banging chains'."

[ERicJ]

...the wind shifts, and the stench is all of a sudden overwhelming. ... The smell turns out to be a dead cow just off the fairway. ...

Ditto on the stench from a dead cow (http://picasaweb.google.com/ericjubin/DeadCow?authkey=zRD2eyJBgOI)!

[Nickwells]

"a whole new meaning to 'banging chains'."

Best story ever!

[Donovan]

My buddy and I are playing Zboaz in Fort Worth and we are one of the holes where there is lots of forest along the right side. We smell something horrible but he heads in to get his disc anyway. I am finally done looking around the edges to help him and stepped back just in time to a huge shock. To giant vultures come flying out of the area my buddy went into. He yells what was that. After I tell him, they perch way up high on this big tree and right when he finally come out of there, they flew off. He found his disc, but we did not go back to see what died. We are talking condor size turkey vultures. The stench was horrible, but the birds were so big, they even scared me. They could have carried off his 40 pound dog no problem. I have seen vultures like that in the zoo, but never in the wild like that.

[Donovan]

Maybe not the funniest thing, but this should get a "worth mentioning."

So there is this group of 5 guys playing together and the BS and ribbing is in full force. We get to the last hole and this one guy keeps trying to get me off my game by yelling, "Foot Fault" after some of my drives. Man, did we have fun talking trash!

Anyway, it is really dry out with dust and sand everywhere; even the cement tees are slick. So, after yelling, "foot fault" on my last drive of the round. It is this guy's turn to throw. He slips off the end of the tee pad and goes head first into the ground. (Now he did not hit his head, but it was real close.) he rolls over his shoulder and jumps back up on his feet. So I scream, "HEAD FAULT! HEAD FAULT!" :D I can't believe the opportunity showed itself.

I have this saying, "Don't talk trash until after you throw." The reason for this is that: "Karma is a bitch!"

Ok, well after re-reading this, maybe it is one of those "you had to be there" knid of things, but I'll leave it in here anyway, since I typed it all out. :o

[jedwards]

So, today I had one of the best drives I have thrown in a while only to have it attempted to be thrown back at me. I threw a beauty off the 9th tee at my home course and just watched it land -- only to then see this woman come jogging off the walking trail who then proceeds to pick up my disc and attempt to throw it back to me, as if we are playing catch. Much to my dismay she didn't have the best form and she skyrocketed my driver into the woods where it stuck about 30 feet up in a tree. I spent the next 20 minutes throwing tree branches at it to get it down. So much for my 9th hole birdie.

[ERicJ]

So, today I had one of the best drives I have thrown in a while only to have it attempted to be thrown back at me.

I hate when that happens....

I had my Sidewinder picked up and carried off by a dog at a tourney at Jack Brooks Park (http://www.dgcoursereview.com/course.php?id=1391) back in February. After I threw my drive and everyone else has tee'd off we're walking up the fairway when a women comes by with a couple dogs and asks "If anyone lost a Frisbee?". Not only does she not remember where her dog picked it up but then she has to fight with her dog to get back my now chewed up Sidewinder. :(

ERic

[Midnightbiker]

I hate when that happens....

I had my Sidewinder picked up and carried off by a dog at a tourney at Jack Brooks Park (http://www.dgcoursereview.com/course.php?id=1391) back in February. After I threw my drive and everyone else has tee'd off we're walking up the fairway when a women comes by with a couple dogs and asks "If anyone lost a Frisbee?". Not only does she not remember where her dog picked it up but then she has to fight with her dog to get back my now chewed up Sidewinder. :(

ERic


We really need to educate the public.

[sidewinding]

While playing a course with my wife I explained to her that people write their name on the basket with a sharpie after an ace. When we got to a basket on a hole with a very long, narrow, pinball fairway my wife noticed that someone had aced it and she was proud to annouce that it was a female name. I looked back down the fairway to the tee and confirmed that this hole was impossible to ace and told my wife that there is no way someone could ace that hole. When I looked at the name I got the joke. The name was Nita Bonghit.

I'm one of the few drug free disc golfers out there but I still thought this was funny.

[Midnightbiker]

We really need to educate the public.

I found a Gazzelle on near a basket today and looked at the name on the back. I tried to call the number, but it was out of service. My brother took a long look at the name, and relized the name was not real. Here is what was written on the back of the disc:

"Uri Cancome"-Say it slowly and you get the joke. I thought it was strange. The disc was pretty beat, so I guess they left it on purpose.

[IrishCreamer]

"Uri Cancome"-Say it slowly and you get the joke.

I must be slow. I said it slow I said it fast I ran it by some co workers. I don't get it.

[jedwards]

"You or I can come"

[sidewinding]

I think that's a real name.

Dirty minded, pot smoking loosers.

[`cjc]

Losers or Loosers?

[sidewinding]

I prefferr loosers.

[`cjc]

I'm one of the few drug free disc golfers out there but I still thought this was funny.


....me too!

[Donovan]

Wait. You mean some Disc Golfers use drugs? :confused: :p

Man, I better quit the sport quick...Disc Golf could be a "Gateway" drug! ;)

[trifocal]

I found a beat up Valkyrie in the brush a few weeks ago. When I got home I called the number on the disc. The guy asked me where I found it and I told him #15 at Token Creek. Where's Token Creek, he asks? Its in Madison, Wisconsin. The guy says thanks for calling, but you can keep the disc because I am in Phoenix.
Thats a long throw.

[cloudstrife]

the other week, I found a cat! really small kitten that looked starved. Real deep in the woods. Was going to name it DG, but the girlfriend didnt want it hanging around the house....it was a black cat.

[shirfan]

Weirdest:

A few weeks ago, my wife and I were sitting on a picnic table between holes when a baby chipmunk ran out of the bushes and climbed right up to us.

Considering the fact that rabies is rare in small rodents and the unlikeliness of this tiny guy being able to break skin anyway, I let him jump into my palm, and he climbed around on our arms for a few minutues. Every time we put him down he'd come back.

I finally had to put him in the hedge and run to the next tee so that he wouldn't try to follow.

[Jungle Tim]

I was having a terrible round putting in the wind at my local (parque rufino tamayo mexico) as was my mate, i jokingly said that id teach him how to put if he liked, as i lined up my 15m putt.
My disc hit the top of the basket and skipped off, only to be blown back into the basket by the wind!!

I went back to the Uk for a quick holiday recently, i bought a green esp 175 pred. Not a disc that floats. Hole 11 runs along side a slow but flowing river. My fore hand turned over and banked towards the river, a gonner i though, but it skipped of a concrete mooring in the river, and then skipped across the water eventually settling ON TOP of the water supported but the pocket of air below it. It took about 30 mins to foat back to a part of hte bank where i could reach it, but it right out in the middle.

So I went for a swim. Cant look a gift horse in the mouth now can you!

[mcdavis17]

Playing my home course, Central Park in Southaven, MS. 11 and 12 play with a ditch to the right, and I'm familiar with it. I shank 11 off into the ditch, and it takes me a while to find it. I make my throw back up, and as I walk up, I hear something crash through the branches. Well, I have been in there a while, so I think maybe some people futher back caught up to me. I look for a disc, but am suprised to see a dimpled white ball roll about 5 feet in front of me. I look back at the teepad, and some schmo is hitting golf balls from beside the teepad to the basket. He sees me and waves apolagetically. I finish the hole and head to 12 (you have to backtrack somewhat from 11's basket to 12's tee) -- I guess he thought I was out of the way, so he starts hitting again. I make my drive, and as I am not even 10 feet off the teepad, I hear a ball bounce off of it. I turn around and shoot him a not-so-friendly look. I didn't say anything, though -- just hurried up out of his range. As I come back down 16, I see him walk back into the neighborhood that borders the course.

The thing is, if he had walked less than 200 yards, he would have had a wide open field across the road where EVERY OTHER PERSON I'VE EVER SEEN HITTING GOLF BALLS IN THAT PARK HITS THEM!!!! I guess he was wanting to use the baskets with a defined yardage. Too bad his aim was so bad.

I still wonder what he would have thought if I decided to try an uphill throw with my Sidewinder or Orc, just for practice......

[ERicJ]

I guess he was wanting to use the baskets with a defined yardage. Too bad his aim was so bad.
It'd be even funnier if he thought he was crushing 300 yard drives off the tee... not realizing that DG holes are measured in feet... :p

[PhattD]

This was many years ago playing at a local park that had some exercise equipment, chin up bars and stuff. We used to play it all the time as an object course, real courses were rare at the time. We had been playing for a while and someone called the next hole as the bench behind the ROTC Tower. It was a blind spike hyzer shot on the other side of a 40' high tower. Well I chucked my eclipse way up high and watched it curve around the tower, I knew it would be close. So I walk around the tower and there's this girl doing sit ups listening to her walkman completely oblivious to the fact that my eclipse is tombstoned in the ground like 4' from her head. I casually walked up grabbed the disc waved and finished the hole and after that we always checked the blind holes first.

P.S. I dueced th hole :D

[atl scott]

I was playing the ice bowl at Burke Lake in VA in Feb. There were high winds and it was an interesting first round. Well I was practicing my putting in said wind before the second round on a temp basket. I hear a crack and kind of look around and all of a sudden a pine tree falls between me and the basket and crushes a nearby picnic bench. No one was hurt but it definitely freaked me out a bit. The tree falling caused the basket to fall over and the second round was suspended.

[Midnightbiker]

I was playing the ice bowl at Burke Lake in VA in Feb. There were high winds and it was an interesting first round. Well I was practicing my putting in said wind before the second round on a temp basket. I hear a crack and kind of look around and all of a sudden a pine tree falls between me and the basket and crushes a nearby picnic bench. No one was hurt but it definitely freaked me out a bit. The tree falling caused the basket to fall over and the second round was suspended.


Damn!:eek:

[atl scott]

Damn!:eek:

Pretty much. I can't play in windy situations without keeping my head on a swivel anymore, lol.

[dinoroger]

Playing in Old Setlers in Round Rock, TX at hole #3. A storm cam out of nowwhere really quickly. Winds picked up to at least 50-60 MPH. Friend of mine went towards the creek under a large tree to get out of the rain. Lound crack noise and a tree branch the size of a truck came crashing down. My friend ran and dodged the limb and ran about 40 yards away when another crack could be heard and a limb even larger nearly got him again. It was a scary moment but sorta funny. We kept asking him why karma was after him the rest of the round.


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One other story. My brother lost a disc during a round with his number on it. The next day he comes by and says you have got to listen to this voice message. The voice message went as follows:

Hey Nig** I got your disc! If you want it back your going to have to pay. - Click -

Guy never called back and number was blocked so no return call. The way the guy said it on the message was like he was holding a child for ransom.

[nexanimal]

Yesterday I played two rounds at Twyla Reid Park in Anaheim, CA, which is an entertaining local-park-9-holer. The basket used for holes 1 & 6 was wrapped with caution tape, but it looked OK.

On closer examination, we found a small colony of bees that has built their hive on the pole underneath the basket! :eek:

I didn't know that bees would build their hives on metal. Undisturbed, the bees were not aggressive. So instead of shooting for the basket on these holes, we played "closest to the pin without hitting it."

[zenbot]

http://www.pdga.com/course-details?id=2350 Chavez Ridge by Dodger Stadium.

I had my wife and my daughter with me. We kept seeing rubber gloves on the ground but didn't think much about them. We got to a Eucalyptus grove and saw this guy just staring off into the trees. He kept eyeing us. About 50 feet away there was another dude staring into the same direction. He was looking at us suspiciously too. I took my shot and kept walking. Then we see a 3rd guy staring off into the trees and keeping an eye on us. I started getting worried that we had stumbled on some major drug deal so I told my wife that we should probably go. She was feeling the same thing.

We get to the parking lot and sat in our car. I noticed that there was a lot of traffic in the parking area. Cars of guys would come and go and they all kept staring at us. I was still thinking that these guys were gangsters or mafia or something. Then my wife noticed a rainbow sticker on one of the cars. I starting looking at the other cars and there were other rainbow stickers. They practically all had them. Then this guy walks into the grove with cutoff jean short shorts and a bandanna tied around his neck.

That's right. We had stumbled across a secret daytime forest orgy.



I told some friends about it. One of them is a professional dogwalker. She told me it happens all the time up there.

[jroll]

we were playing at Exposition Park in Colorado the other weekend. After throwing my drive into the lake of despair, we decided to pull out the golden retriever. it is smart to anchor the end of the rope to a bag so you don't lose it (hindsight). I held it while my buddy threw the retriever into the water. instead of retrieving my disc we ended up looking like the three stooges and threw the whole thing into the water rope and all. Maybe not the funniest thing I have ever seen but the dumbest I have ever done on the course. later we did get the disc but lost the golden retriever.

[nexanimal]

http://www.pdga.com/course-details?id=2350 Chavez Ridge by Dodger Stadium.

That's right. We had stumbled across a secret daytime forest orgy.



Wow! I'm going up there tomorrow. I'm betting they don't have their "parties" on the weekends...

My question is this: why do these people have to litter the park? "Pack it in, pack it out" ... <so to speak> :eek:

[Texconsinite]

My question is this: why do these people have to litter the park? "Pack it in, pack it out" ... <so to speak> :eek:

Hahaha, fudge "pack-in". Wow.

[teejw13]

girlfriend and i were playing a local course and it was her turn to step up to the pad. well she held onto her dragon a little long and it drifted into a tree 100' up the fairway. i saw 'it' fall from the tree so i didnt worry about it being lost. as we approach her 'disc' i realize what had fallen from the tree was not one but two decent sized robins. Her dragon was still loged just next to their nest. Sadly both birds gave there lives to denie her a par.

[ejvogie]

I was playing at Parmalee Park (http://www.dgcoursereview.com/course.php?id=1664) the other week. On the woods holes, the fairways are lined with logs. I threw my Roc a little too low, and about 100' out, it hit one of the logs and started to ride it, directly toward a squirrel. I think I missed it by a few inches.

Pic (http://www.dgcoursereview.com/view_image.php?p=course_pics/1664/bcad62af.jpg)

[Ty9339]

this would have to be the day i was playing at roland park in akron and about 60 head of cattle came roaring through from the 3rd hole by the road towards the corn field next to hole 15. COW CRAP EVERYWHERE!

[Jaysus]

That orange thing http://obc.oldbay.us/images/unsure.gif

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a17/jaysus145/Disc%20Golf/IMG_9833.jpg

[McRick]

Two weeks ago the group I was playing with came across two police officers on the tee pad for #6. They were searching the bags of the foursome in front of us. As we are putting on #5 one of the officers pulls a foot tall bubbler out and remarks "this must of benn the bong the caller was talking about"

[Jaysus]

about a week ago at roland park, we had a hurd of cows come running up over the 3rd fairway. probably about 30 or 40 of them. the crazy thing is they came from the opposite direction of the where the farm is located near roland park. left some cow plops to navigate through though

lol

this would have to be the day i was playing at roland park in akron and about 60 head of cattle came roaring through from the 3rd hole by the road towards the corn field next to hole 15. COW CRAP EVERYWHERE!

double lol

[mlkelley]

That orange thing http://obc.oldbay.us/images/unsure.gif

http://i8.photobucket.com/albums/a17/jaysus145/Disc%20Golf/IMG_9833.jpg

Ok, time for my first post. I'll bite, what is that orange thing??

[Jaysus]

Ok, time for my first post. I'll bite, what is that orange thing??

I dunno man... none of us were brave enough to touch it for confirmation.

[Hamilton]

looks like a battery powered wiggle pen...

[rikardob]

Not much. First time a friend and I played this course we happened to park in proximity to one of the end chains. We get up to it and he says "bro please don't hit my car". I drove just fine staying on the green. He steps up and launches a disc like he was mad at it... directly into his car.

[Texconsinite]

looks like a battery powered wiggle pen...

Or some sort of orange, rubber zuchini. Hmm...

Remnant from another secret daytime orgy perhaps?

[Midnightbiker]

They must have left in a hurry. Those things are not cheap.

[REDARMY]

They must have left in a hurry. Those things are not cheap.

i dont want to know how you know that....




:D

[thinknic]

@ Globelville Landing park, north of downtown Denver...

We walked up to #4 with a good view of the rest of the park and there were three people and two dogs. Upon closer inspection, one of the people had a padded suit on and the other had the dogs on ropes with a whistle. Wouldn't you know it, these people were training their pitbull and german shepard as attack dogs in the middle of a public park...classy.

[DSCJNKY]

We caught some people using the baskets as a BBQ pit once. They lined the inside of the cage with foil and filled it up with coals. Then they put skewers (shishkabobs) hanging between the chains. Crazy!
DSCJNKY

[zenbot]

Or some sort of orange, rubber zuchini. Hmm...

Remnant from another secret daytime orgy perhaps?
That's one of them fancy party favors.

[_.-Dut-._]

We caught some people using the baskets as a BBQ pit once. They lined the inside of the cage with foil and filled it up with coals. Then they put skewers (shishkabobs) hanging between the chains. Crazy!
DSCJNKY

Ive heard of this happening quite a bit.

[DirtyMittenDG]

We caught some people using the baskets as a BBQ pit once. They lined the inside of the cage with foil and filled it up with coals. Then they put skewers (shishkabobs) hanging between the chains. Crazy!
DSCJNKY

haha!!! where was this at?

[Throws Eagles]

We have weekly pro-am draw doubles 10:00 saturdays & 2:00 sundays @ Cold Brook park located between Battle Creek & Kalamazoo in MI. 5$ per person, with optional 1$ CTP & optional 1$ ace pool which grows rather large on occasion. We play nearly 52 weeks out of the year breaking only for tourneys & very rarely some serious weather. Come join us!

In the fall thru early spring the gate to the regular disc golf parking lot by hole 1 is locked. Golfers are forced to use the parking lot adjacent to hole 21's fairway & groups usually start on hole 22 finishing on 21. Hole 21 was 300' across a wide open field & the parking lot waaayy off to the right. Finished groups congregate in the parking lot & watch the remaining groups finish out on 21.

One week a few finished groups were lucky enough to witness this beauty of a drive by one of the "pros"...

499

500

501

It stuck right there, just like that.

The tee pad has since changed location (twice) but the parking lot remains in play so I guess it's possible this can happen again...right??

[ejvogie]

I'm guessing they took his partner's lie?

[LeftyToss]

I was on hole number 2 at Sedgley and my drive went right, right up against the wooden fence lining the sidewalk. As I arrived at my disc this large lady was walking by mumbling to herself in a very pissed off voice. I let her walk by to make sure I wasn't going to be attacked haha. As she passed a van drove by and this dude yells "Slut!" out the window. She grabbed a rock right next to my disc and heaved it at the van that was probably 100 feet away by this point and then started "Running" down the sidewalk screaming all sorts of profane words. She ran all the way to the driving range! I was just speechless.

[Jaysus]

I was on hole number 2 at Sedgley and my drive went right, right up against the wooden fence lining the sidewalk. As I arrived at my disc this large lady was walking by mumbling to herself in a very pissed off voice. I let her walk by to make sure I wasn't going to be attacked haha. As she passed a van drove by and this dude yells "Slut!" out the window. She grabbed a rock right next to my disc and heaved it at the van that was probably 100 feet away by this point and then started "Running" down the sidewalk screaming all sorts of profane words. She ran all the way to the driving range! I was just speechless.

I once had a hobo offer to "protect my frisbees" on one of the new holes at sedgley... we gave him a beer, and that was the last we saw of him.

[LeftyToss]

I once had a hobo offer to "protect my frisbees" on one of the new holes at sedgley... we gave him a beer, and that was the last we saw of him.

Hahaha that's too funny! That's one very creative Hobo. We had one guy who we ran into who was burning sticks and covering the muddy paths with the ash. The part that was weird was he went off on this lecture about the wood burning and how he had injured a tree and started crying cause he injured the tree. Then he talked about rolling around in the ashes of the tree in memorium.

[Midnightbiker]

i don't want to know how you know that....




:D

I used to know a Lesbian couple, and they used to brag about how many they had and how much they cost. I think they range from $20-$80 .

[Texconsinite]

Played with the three stooges on thursday.

Lol, so thursday I try out Crystal Lake park in Beaver Dam, WI for the first time. Right when I finish hole 2 these three dudes roll up and start playing, so I backtrack to join up with them. Two skinny kids, and a chubby one with a camo hat. They each had 2 discs & all looked like they were late-HS but they all were smoking like chimneys, (tobacco, mind you) which seemed weird since they looked barely old enough to buy cigs, yet acted like they had been smoking for awhile (guess its been i few yrs since i was in HS). All seemed nice enough, but it became obvious very quickly that the chubby kid was a total goof, talking gibberish nonstop.

Right off the bat he says to me "You have a nice disc bag. Y'know what I do- I just stick my discs in my pants. I can hold about 5 that way, in the back." I asked if he kept a pencil there too, plumber-style, he says no, just discs. And the nonsense continued. I couldnt really get offended, bc it was all so ridiculous, so I just laughed and played along with these three rec players.

Hole 3, talking smack to his friends while teeing off (semed to be a favorite thing of his to do), "Check this S**t out, Kev, this is how you do it!", his disc turns over flies directly into a tree, the only tree on the fairway, and gets stuck 35 ft up. He asks who's good at climbing trees. Not surprisingly, no volunteers. I volunteered my water bottle, but he decides to take off his shoe instead and starts throwing it into the tree to get his disc down. We move on to the next hole when we stop laughing. By the time we've teed off, his shoe is stuck in the tree as well.

So what does he do? He takes off the other shoe, of course, to get the disc & shoe out of the tree.
We had finished the next hole by the time he got them all down. (We clapped for him when he came back with his discs in hand and both shoes on)

First tee after he rejoins us. "Man, this is my last cigarette for a year. Im going to quit for a year, then start again. hopefully in a year they will cost less." His friends suggested he roll his own cigs, but he wasn't having any of that.

Then, after he throws a drive he doesnt like
"Darn that Barak Obama. He's messing up our economy, makin cigs go up to $7 a pack. In the good old days when George W was president, I could buy cigs for $5 a pack. The whoel economy's goin down."

Played a few more holes with these interesting fellows, until on hole 10 they became fascinated with chasing a (poisonous?) water snake, and I took the opportunity to play ahead

Ive played with rec players before, but never one like that guy.

[ejvogie]

Time to revive the thread ;)

Was at a local dubs event Thursday night. There's a guy that comes with his dog. It's usually cool, because the dog is well behaved and is sometimes funny. It's a larger dog, and it will carry around "sticks" that look like small tree trunks (the one he was carrying this time was like 10' long and about 1.5' around). Anyhow, the dog lined up to pee on a chain link fence, and hit a guy's disc bag on the other side (IIRC the bag was still on his shoulder). Luckily he was carrying Lysol and extra towels...

[produce guy]

just got back from playing in manor,tx. and my son was about 10 feet from the hole and he throws it and it bounces off a little tree limb and makes it right in the basket,and on that some fareway i threw a disc that skipped off the ground a ended up stuck on a mesquite tree thorn about 3feet off the ground,and it stayed there.:D

[atl scott]

At BG Ams this past weekend I was on the lead card after round 1. After the two minute warning blew we noticed a group of three dogs trotting up the walking path parallel to our fairway. We teed off and started walking down the fairway when sure enough, one guy in our group starts yelling "HEY, DROP IT!!!" We watched as the dog took off away from the course with his first run boss. He must've chased that thing for a quarter mile or more but he returned with disc in hand. Was hilarious. :D

[33tango]

. He decides to argue that its his childs until I point out that my name is on the back.

Aren't people absolutely AMAZING!?!! People do things sober I'd never remotely consider while blind drunk.

[Rouge135]

One time my cousins and I were playing and there were a bunch of hardcore man magazines laying around.

[NovaDiscHead]

Finding a very angry Garter Snake next to my disc on Hole 15 at Burke Lake, I actually didn't even see it when I was reaching for my disc!

The look on the faces of pot smokers when I tell them that Fairfax County Police love to train their dogs at the park.

Finding Condom wrappers in the middle of a VERY public course.

Finding a small deer skull on the top of Hole 13 at Giles Creek.

Watching my friend freaking out when a toddler picks up his disc and starts running toward his mommy with it!

I once had a lady give me attitude when I told her that she and her kids were walking up a golf course. She looked at me and said "You don't have to be so rude about it." So, I showed her my Orc, and said "would you prefer for your kid to get hit in the head by this when I don't see him?" That got her to shut up and she actually apologized. Gotta love Burke Lake.

[LeftyToss]

So about a week ago i'm at this "course" its 4 holes of open field (10 min from my house and good for practicing weird shots). Anyway, this kid is playing on the swings near the course and comes running over to me and asks if he can play. I give him one of my discs to just chuck around. He starts winging it around and ends up tossing it too far and it lands in this marsh area. His mom says "go get the nice man's disc." The kid who's about 4 ft. tall walks into the area and ends up sinking in the mudd up to his thighs and starts crying cause he couldn't get out. His mom goes in to rescue him and as she's pulling him out she falls over into the mudd. I had to do everything in my power to not crack up. I ended up going in and helping them both get out. It was too funny.

[Midnightbiker]

That is funny as hell.

[Ezekiel]

My funniest experience in DG...

I was playing my local course which is a very wooded very tight technical course. I was just about to drive a bulls eye style hole so i decided to thumber as it usually works. The disc was released bad and hit a tree. Unfortunately for me the tree had a hole in it at the top, and my disc went right in then fell down a hollow part of the tree. Damn tree....

[solomon.trenton]

They must have left in a hurry. Those things are not cheap.

Been to Erotica Boutique lately?

[Guurn]

A few years back I had just finished playing Acorn Park in Roseville Mn and was standing near the water on hole 1 chatting with the guy that fishes discs out to see if he had anything good. It was a nice mid summer day. Both of us heard what sounded like a girl yelling/crying so we took a few steps toward the sound when a kid, maybe 12 or 13 with buck teeth, came riding on a bike towards us screaming, kinda quiet screaming but the kind when you are actually scared, with a deer chasing him. Not a big one, it didn't have spots but it wasn't much older than that.

He pulled up next to us and asked us to save him from the deer. Meanwhile the deer stopped running and just stood there about 5 feet from him, panting. So being sllightly evil I told the kid to relax, deer can sense fear, it makes them attack. He is on the verge of tears at this point. He said the deer had been chasing him for about 10 minutes. I calmed him down and after about 10 minutes the deer went to the waterhole and started drinking and I told the kid to leave.

The deer stayed there longer than I did, at times he was so close to me I could have petted him. Later on I heard the rest of the story. The kid had been apparently chasing the thing on his bike until the deer got fed up and returned the favor. Made me feel better about the sensing fear thing.

[A.Mutt]

My strangest/funniest DG moment came when I was playing one of the heavily wooded holes at Brent Hambrick Memorial Course (aka Hoover) a couple of years ago. It was a slow day and at this point my buddy and me hadn't seen anyone else for at least half an hour. As we stood at the teepad selecting our discs we heard something crashing through the brush. A moment later we saw a large deer haul butt across the fairway maybe about 75 feet in front of us. Hot on its heels was a very large dog (best guess is Malamute) that we had seen with another group of disc golfers much earlier in the day. The whole event probably lasted about 10 seconds but it was so unexpected time felt frozen, and then we had a big laugh about it saying "godspeed doggie".

[Midnightbiker]

Been to Erotica Boutique lately?

No, but I used to know some Lesbians that had a huge collection and they loved to brag about it. They were a strange bunch. One of the reasons I don't talk to them anymore.

[texasemt13]

Some very typical, kinda funny things have happened to me and my freinds as well.

One that I've tried not to repeat is hitting cars. I was teeing off Hole#2 On Texas State West Campus (San Marcos, TX), and next to the tee box is a county highway. I happened to fling my backhand in to the grill of an oncoming police tahoe. I mean, beamed the **** out of his grill. If it was a headlight I would have been toast, but he just kept driving. That StarSL still has the scar to prove it.

Was playing a private course once and watched a dog chase some elk through the course- it was high fenced. That dog had a damn blast, but the elk were never seen again that day. Come to think of it- they did look awfully skinny- might be a weekly field trip for the dog.

I've had my share of mud stickers, caught-in-cages, etc. Those are good. I've happened to fall in through the top of the cage once or twice, and bounced off trees in to the basket as well.

I once hit my friend. I told him to be careful and that he should probably stand behind me (rather than behind the Charlie Borwn XMas tree, 15ft. in front of me). He stuck his nose out just enough to get whacked when I threw. He stands behind me now.

Lastly, another cohort of mine was tossing a nice dyed EliteZ Flick (I believe). Off to the side of the hole was some power lines. As he releases the disc heads straight to the power lines. This is a pretty thick strand of braided line and he happens to lodge his disc perfectly between two of these braided wires (which were shielded). His disc was STUCK. We threw rocks, sticks, discs, hell and everything in between. That disc stayed there for a week (and even worse he lived by the course so he got to drive by it everyday cry) and then one day it was gone. Never to be seen again.

I've hit my own truck (after the second crease in my tailgate I learned where not to park).
Once, we spotted this classic looking Chevy Beretta. Everybody knows this things isn't anyone's dream car, but this owner had a spotless, bright red Chevy Beretta Euro addition. Yes Euro addition. So we play past the car and make some remarks about how someone invested a lot of time in keeping that thing spotless. As we come around for round two I hit the car, creasing a quarter panel. That car was so ugly after that blemish... sorry dude.

[Midnightbiker]

I forgot about this story till I read about the elk:

About 9 months ago, I was at my home course playing with my brother and another guy we met on the course. The course is heavily wooded, and is next to a popular park. As we were coming up the #5 fairway, I started hearing something that sounded just like a semi-truck popping his air brakes. Being a trucker myself, I am very familiar with the sound. This park is not very big, and the road to the park is quite narrow, and I starting thinking "who the hell is taking a big rig to the park?" I was thinking maybe it was a dump truck that belonged to the parks dept or something.

As we headed for the basket, I saw what the sound was, and it wasn't a truck. Standing on the #6 concrete tee was a huge male deer, and he was not happy. Apparently we had gotten between him and his doe and her fawn, and he was pissed! The sound I was hearing was him snorting at us. I was shocked at the fact that it sounded just like a truck popping the air brakes.

We each took out a driver as a weapon, and were ready to throw if he came at us. The fawn and doe ran past, and I guess he was happy about that, and he gave us one last snort, and took off into the woods. It was a little nerve racking, because I had never seen a deer that big, and one that got pissed at me. Lets just say we were all a little on edge after that.

[Midnightbiker]

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[NovaDiscHead]

I was driving home from Giles Run, on Furnace Road, when I spot a red disc on the side of the road! I stopped and picked it up (not the safest thing to do) and called the disc owner. He laughed, saying that he hated that disc and probably gave it away a while ago. To this day, I have no idea how someone would have gotten the disc onto the road, as it was a good 100 yards away from the cosest hole. Best I could figure out, the person launched it from the "scenic overlook" near Hole 15.

The disc is a Oddessy, with a weird translucent inner disc surrounded by a DX type rim... very heavy disc that I've used maybe once since finding it.

[Midnightbiker]

I remember about a year ago or so I saw 3 people playing , but they were riding bikes on the course, not walking. They all couldn't throw very far, so I still don't know why they just didn't lock up their bikes and walk. It was strange to see.

[sidewinding]

I was playing by myself on a course and came up to the final hole and there were two guys waiting at the tee pad. There was a 400 pound woman, about 50 years old, wearing a moo moo, smoking a marlboro 100, and flying a kite right beside the basket. She looked exactly like the old lady in Throw Mama From the Train. They had been yelling various things at her for a few minutes but she would not move. They said I could go ahead and throw if I wanted. It's about a 300' wide open hole and having confidence in my teebird I decided to go ahead and throw. I parked it for the birdie and started heading to the car.

As I was walking to the car I turned around just in time to see one of the guys discs flying right towards the lady. I did not have time to yell before the disc hit the ground about 5 feet from her. I walked up to her and said "Do you realize you are in the fairway of a disc golf course?" She imediately yelled "Larry!!!" "This Mother ****er says I can't fly my kite here!" and I look around and see a huge biker type getting out of his truck.

I walked over to Larry and am explaining to him how dangerous it is to stand where his mother is standing when all of a sudden a disc comes flying and hits the old lady perfectly in the back of the knee which caused her to collapse like she had been hit by Mike Tyson. Larry ran to help his mother and I got in my car and drove away.

[Midnightbiker]

Holy Crap that is funny. I would have sat in my car and watched the fireworks.

[Neophyte]

Holy Crap that is funny. I would have sat in my car and watched the fireworks.

I second that. This was one of the best disc golf related stories that I have ever heard. I am also impressed that you tried to explain the situation to Larry the biker.

[Midnightbiker]

I second that. This was one of the best disc golf related stories that I have ever heard. I am also impressed that you tried to explain the situation to Larry the biker.

I guess I would have broken the ice by asking what kind of motorcycle he rides.

[NovaDiscHead]

If your were brave, you would have pointed and laughed at his mother :)

[Geoffro]

That's a great story, sidewinding. The Marlboro 100 is the pièce de résistance.

[Miller]

A few weeks ago I was warming up at Cedar Hills in Raleigh, NC. The second tee is about 30' away from the basket for hole 1. My partner was teeing off on two when a disc flew right by my head, missing me by only a foot. Well, it may had missed me but the my partner turned around just in time for the disc to hit him directly in the family jewels. He dropped like a rock. I didnt know whether to laugh or take him to the emergency room. He was ok after a couple of minutes and we had a great laugh the rest of the afternoon.

I was playing by myself on a course and came up to the final hole and there were two guys waiting at the tee pad. There was a 400 pound woman, about 50 years old, wearing a moo moo, smoking a marlboro 100, and flying a kite right beside the basket. She looked exactly like the old lady in Throw Mama From the Train. They had been yelling various things at her for a few minutes but she would not move. They said I could go ahead and throw if I wanted. It's about a 300' wide open hole and having confidence in my teebird I decided to go ahead and throw. I parked it for the birdie and started heading to the car.

As I was walking to the car I turned around just in time to see one of the guys discs flying right towards the lady. I did not have time to yell before the disc hit the ground about 5 feet from her. I walked up to her and said "Do you realize you are in the fairway of a disc golf course?" She imediately yelled "Larry!!!" "This Mother ****er says I can't fly my kite here!" and I look around and see a huge biker type getting out of his truck.

I walked over to Larry and am explaining to him how dangerous it is to stand where his mother is standing when all of a sudden a disc comes flying and hits the old lady perfectly in the back of the knee which caused her to collapse like she had been hit by Mike Tyson. Larry ran to help his mother and I got in my car and drove away.

I once hit my friend. I told him to be careful and that he should probably stand behind me (rather than behind the Charlie Borwn XMas tree, 15ft. in front of me). He stuck his nose out just enough to get whacked when I threw. He stands behind me now.


These stories make me laugh a lot. Then again I can watch crothch shots on America's Funniest Home Videos all day long.

[Midnightbiker]

If your were brave, you would have pointed and laughed at his mother :)

:eek:

[A.Mutt]

I guess I would have broken the ice by asking what kind of motorcycle he rides.

me too ... we riders are always happy to talk bikes. Hilarious story to read and visualize. You did a good thing trying to reason with larry.

[Midnightbiker]

me too ... we riders are always happy to talk bikes. Hilarious story to read and visualize. You did a good thing trying to reason with larry.


Yea , just like you can walk up to any disc golfer and start talking, Bikers do the same thing. The only exception are the jerks who think they are better than anyone else because they are riding a Harley.

[A.Mutt]

Yeah I encounter that too frequently. I've honestly had Harley riders literally turn their nose up at me when I give the wave and others change from excited to disappointed when I say I ride a naked sport bike. I suppose that would be the same as if somebody thought they were above talking to another golfer because they don't use strictly Innova.

But in my book riding and throwing are both beautiful things and it matters not who manufactured you're equipment.

[Midnightbiker]

Yeah I encounter that too frequently. I've honestly had Harley riders literally turn their nose up at me when I give the wave and others change from excited to disappointed when I say I ride a naked sport bike. I suppose that would be the same as if somebody thought they were above talking to another golfer because they don't use strictly Innova.

But in my book riding and throwing are both beautiful things and it matters not who manufactured you're equipment.

I agree 100%. It doesn't matter what you ride, or what you throw, as long as you enjoy the game.

[solomon.trenton]

Yeah I encounter that too frequently. I've honestly had Harley riders literally turn their nose up at me when I give the wave and others change from excited to disappointed when I say I ride a naked sport bike. I suppose that would be the same as if somebody thought they were above talking to another golfer because they don't use strictly Innova.

But in my book riding and throwing are both beautiful things and it matters not who manufactured you're equipment.

now as long as the bike is kept up. who wants to see a rusty bike with black smoke coming out the tailpipe?

[Midnightbiker]

now as long as the bike is kept up. who wants to see a rusty bike with black smoke coming out the tailpipe?

Actually some of those can be cool. Not mine though. My bike is 25 years old, but I try to keep it up. Here is mine. Its the black and silver one with large sissy bar. The red Honda Nighthawk is my brothers and the last on used to belong to his friend, but he sold it:



http://i226.photobucket.com/albums/dd166/Midnightbiker/santa_fe___texas__motorcycles_125.jpg

[BrotherDave]

Those are weird things to see on a course, silly motorcycles.

[Hamilton]

Large sissy bar?? LOL that's an understatement...nice bike though

[A.Mutt]

Very nice MidnightBiker, looks like your all set up for some more lengthy trips.
Well I can't not share what my bike looks like ;)
http://i581.photobucket.com/albums/ss251/AMutt/eve_sundown-1.jpg

BTW I think its kind of strange when I see sportbikes at the course. I wonder what they do with their gear while they play. Although that assumes they wear it.

[Midnightbiker]

BTW I think its kind of strange when I see sportbikes at the course. I wonder what they do with their gear while they play. Although that assumes they wear it.


I strap my bag to that large luggage rack on the back of my bike.

[Midnightbiker]

Large sissy bar?? LOL that's an understatement...nice bike though

My wife and my daughter both love it. It makes them feel secure. My wife even falls asleep on long trips.

[ejvogie]

Although that assumes they wear it.

I don't know if it's the same other places, but the traditional "bikers" around here wear the leather but no helmet, and the crotch rocket riders wear a helmet with t-shirts and shorts. Seems like one would hurt just as bad as the other. Sorry to continue the hijack ;)

[Midnightbiker]

I always wear a helmet and gloves. I wear gloves because if you call off the bike, the first thing you put out is your hands. I like to keep the skin on my hands.

[djext1]

I don't know if it's the same other places, but the traditional "bikers" around here wear the leather but no helmet, and the crotch rocket riders wear a helmet with t-shirts and shorts. Seems like one would hurt just as bad as the other. Sorry to continue the hijack ;)



lol, that's an observation I never thought about. Good one :)

[Midnightbiker]

Back to seeing strange things on the course. About a year ago, my brother and I went to play at a course that is next to a park, and a large hill. The course plays up and down the hill, but the hill is also very popular with people in the park. I guess it must have been "Cub Scout Day" because they were all over the place. The strangest thing was that several of them were building what looked like an "Indian Tee-Pee" on the #7 fairway. After seeing all the kids around and the tee-pee on #7 we gave up and went to another course a few miles away.

[djext1]

Actually I can contribute to this today. So I get up this morning, and walk up the block to my nearby course. I play through most of the 18, and as I'm rounding a hold that shoots downhill, I see off the teepad I'm approaching next by about 25 feet, some really small tent, which wasn't there earlier when I played that hole coming through the front. As I reach the teepad I then see it's some homeless looking guy, with a tent set up, a blanket laid out, and there he is in nothing but speedo's and his scruffy beard laying there soaking up the Easter rays. lol...at least he wasn't in the fairway.

[Disc Golf Live]

Had a wacky thing happen yesterday (Easter) as our mob of 11 stood around the tee getting ready to start on #16 of the Original at Hudson Mills in MI.

One of the guys spots a dust devil stirring up some leaves a short distance away. We all watched as it slowly came towards us, knocked over a metal trash can and spewed the contents all over the place, then headed off towards to basket on the previous hole, probably heading for another can somewhere, I guess. Otherwise not even a very windy day. Totally wacky, never saw anything like that before. I always thought it was the can/bottle people who knocked the trash barrels over...

Joe

[Camgolfer]

A friend of mine was out playing with his stepsons (grown). They were playing Lakewood Dry Gulch DGC aka Paco, which is now extinct. This course is minutes from downtown Denver and the Infamous Colfax Ave. As they were finishing up a hole over near the creek they witnessed a homeless woman or prostitute, maybe both giving a pole polishing to a homeless. man. They went on with the round, but did not play that whole a second time through. :eek:

[DiscJunkie]

I'm playing in Suffolk, VA; at bennett's Creek. I'm teeing up on Hole8 and up rides an older guy on a motorized scooter. Sorta like a huge skateboard with 12" tires and a small gas motor. He was going to finsih playing his tee shot on Hole7. I've never seen one of those things on a DG Course, but apparently he has a back injury and this is the only way he can make it around the course.
He apologized for disturbing me, but I applauded his determination.

[skurf]

I was playing Pease Park one time when this old lady and her grandson decide to play catch with a disc I had just thrown from the teebox (although obviously not very effectively since it was with my driver). I didn't feel like yelling across the park so when I got to them I asked where they initially picked it up from and they pointed to an area with about a 50' radius..."Oh, somewhere over there."

[gfellerjm]

I haven't been playing long but the weirdest thing that's happened to me occured yesterday. My fiance and I were finnishing up at Cottonmill DGC and as we were walking back to the truck there was a turkey standing in the middle of grass in the center off the parking lot. It was less then 30 feet from my truck. Unfortunatly I didn't have a camera with me, which will be the last time that happens. Turkeys are not uncommon around here but the weirdest thing to me was that it was a lone, solitary turkey wondering through the parking lot.

[zud00]

A few weeks ago I was playing on a course that plays along a busy walkway with many walkers. I threw my drive parallel to a walking path and landed maybe 10 feet off to the left of it. I picked up my bag and started walking towards it when I see a man and his wife walking my direction on the path. The man changes direction and heads towards my disc, picks it up, and continues walking towards me. He says, "What do you do? Throw it and chase it?"

[Texconsinite]

The man changes direction and heads towards my disc, picks it up, and continues walking towards me. He says, "What do you do? Throw it and chase it?"

LOL
Yup. Fetch, boy!! Go Get it!!

[33tango]

A few weeks ago I was playing on a course that plays along a busy walkway with many walkers. I threw my drive parallel to a walking path and landed maybe 10 feet off to the left of it. I picked up my bag and started walking towards it when I see a man and his wife walking my direction on the path. The man changes direction and heads towards my disc, picks it up, and continues walking towards me. He says, "What do you do? Throw it and chase it?"

Similar thing happened to me, I tee off and a teen watching me asks, "Did you expect someone to catch that and throw it back?" I point to the baskets and introduce him to disc golf.

[NovaDiscHead]

Saw a beautiful Red Headed Woodpecker at Burke Lake Park, then went to Giles Creek where we saw a large Hawk or Eagle swoop down and take a perch on a tree located in the middle of the fairway for Hole 9.

Pretty cool :)

[jroll]

i saw three hawks playing or fighting in the air at Badlands last weekend. it was breathtaking

[Camgolfer]

i saw three hawks playing or fighting in the air at Badlands last weekend. it was breathtaking

Were you there when it was windy? We played Brighton and then went to Expo but gave up after a few holes cause of the wind... Hope your round was better than ours.

[A.Mutt]

You guys are right, I love watching the hawks fly around my home course. There usually seems to be at least 3 just cruising around over top #8 and #9.

[Midnightbiker]

I was walking from #15 basket to the #16 tee at my home course which is quite wooded. I stopped in my tracks when I spotted a Copperhead coming right down the path . It scared my so bad the hair on my arms stood straight. My brother was with me and didn't believe how scared I was till he saw my arms and said" damn, that did scare you". This is one of the reasons I really don't like playing this course alone. Lots of hazards out there.

[Neophyte]

One time when I was looking for my disc in an open field I heard a rattle. I immediately thought it was a snake and quickly grabbed my disc and moved back to the fairway. In all fairness it was probably a bug of some kind.

[trifocal]

There are a pair of hawks that hang at Vallarta-Ast in Madison. On # 1 there is a skinny tree on the right hand side. Only tree on that side. One of the hawks was perched in that tree one day last summer. I tee off and my disc lands in the center of the fairway. The hawk swoops down and lands next to my disc. He'/she doesn't move until I was less than 40' away. The hawks are fun to watch. This course is only a few miles from the airport and nearly everyday the Air Guard does training that involves circling over the course in preparation for landing. If you are on the fairway on #18 when they start this manouvere overhead, you can see into the cockpit. Seriously, the planes are banked so severely that you can see the pilots helmets. Pretty low on some days. Less than a 1000' for sure, maybe closer. Those jets are fun to watch.

[jroll]

Were you there when it was windy? We played Brighton and then went to Expo but gave up after a few holes cause of the wind... Hope your round was better than ours.

it was a little windy, but we were in the blairwitch part at that point. expo is always windy. Camgolfer PM me sometime when you are about to throw maybe we could throw. we play in the afternoon sunday, monday, wed, and friday typically

[nunez23]

We were out throwing one day in february at Badlands in CO so the pond was frozen. The guys in front of us threw a disc probably forty feet from the shore and were trying to get it back for a while, we played through than one of my buddies let them use his golden retriever for a bit finally they got frustrated and the skinnier one walked out on the ice a couple steps, got on his stomach and and made his way out to the disc. We watched him as he slowly made his way to his disc, grabbed it threw it back to shore than made his way back. It was very seal like really. We played maybe a week later at that course and all the ice had melted already, the things we do for discs...

[Camgolfer]

We were out throwing one day in february at Badlands in CO so the pond was frozen. The guys in front of us threw a disc probably forty feet from the shore and were trying to get it back for a while, we played through than one of my buddies let them use his golden retriever for a bit finally they got frustrated and the skinnier one walked out on the ice a couple steps, got on his stomach and and made his way out to the disc. We watched him as he slowly made his way to his disc, grabbed it threw it back to shore than made his way back. It was very seal like really. We played maybe a week later at that course and all the ice had melted already, the things we do for discs...

Ha ha the seal guy. That was classic.

[ERicJ]

Not the funniest thing, but it was pretty funny tonight. At Paschall Park (http://www.dgcoursereview.com/forums/../course.php?id=2649) I started on #3 to jump ahead of a couple foursomes playing #1 & #2 so I finally get around to wrapping back to #2 to finish up and there's a family down at the basket tossing a disc. Not at the basket, but just playing catch with it.

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_PkLiobixfto/SfAQP4fJqNI/AAAAAAAAnlw/D0nHZHyAf28/s800/IMG_1831.JPG


I look wait a second to see if they see me and are going to move out of the way but they're pretty oblivious to what's going on around them. Then I see the dog...

http://lh3.ggpht.com/_PkLiobixfto/SfAQQFRe1SI/AAAAAAAAnl4/GhlKlt27jr0/s800/IMG_1832.JPG

He's attached to the basket... and he's not going anywhere....

http://lh6.ggpht.com/_PkLiobixfto/SfARH7Jui4I/AAAAAAAAnmc/VTHFMD09C8I/s800/IMG_1833.JPG

Eventually I have to yell down to them and ask if they'll please move their dog so I can throw....

[A.Mutt]

A dog tied to a disc golf basket so the owners are free to toss a catch disc. Now that's ironic.

[Camgolfer]

Poor little guy probably just wanted to play.

[Jaysus]

Poor little guy probably just wanted to play.

lol - poor guy.

[BrotherDave]

I was literally attacked today in Asheboro, NC on hole 4. Twice. By a hawk. I was walking to my nice drive that left me about a 20' putt for birdie when I hear a whoosh past my head, making me duck, and I see a red tail hawk fly past my head. It flies up into a tree and turns around and then locks eyes with me. At this point I'm thinking, "You motherf..." and before I can finish the thought the hawk takes wing straight at my face. I turtled my head into my shoulders and ran off to the side. You have no idea how hard it is to sink a putt while looking over your shoulder for hawk attacks.

[Midnightbiker]

Eric, I must know if you explained the game of Disc Golf to them. Did they understand what the basket was for?

[The Dude]

How often do you play at paschall?

[produce guy]

This past saturday,5-02,we saw a racer snake with a frog in it's mouth,back legs and the butt in his mouth and the head and the front legs trying to crawl away.:eek:

[Midnightbiker]

This past saturday,5-02,we saw a racer snake with a frog in it's mouth,back legs and the butt in his mouth and the head and the front legs trying to crawl away.:eek:

Damn, I bet that was wild to see

[Midnightbiker]

I don't know if this counts, but it was interesting:

The course that I was at is in a very "Well to do" part of town. The disc golf course goes around some very nice soccer fields, and the course shares the same parking lot and restrooms.

The restrooms were being torn down to build newer ones. While they were being torn down, instead of bringing in Port-a-potties, they brought in 4 restrooms on trailers. These were the nicest port-a-cans I have ever seen, they had lights, AC, tile floors, sinks, and ever pictures on the walls. These things were nicer than my first apartment. It was something to see. Who knows what they paid in rent per day for those things to be out there.

[Camgolfer]

I don't know if this counts, but it was interesting:

The course that I was at is in a very "Well to do" part of town. The disc golf course goes around some very nice soccer fields, and the course shares the same parking lot and restrooms.

The restrooms were being torn down to build newer ones. While they were being torn down, instead of bringing in Port-a-potties, they brought in 4 restrooms on trailers. These were the nicest port-a-cans I have ever seen, they had lights, AC, tile floors, sinks, and ever pictures on the walls. These things were nicer than my first apartment. It was something to see. Who knows what they paid in rent per day for those things to be out there.

Did you deuce that hole?

[Midnightbiker]

Did you deuce that hole?

Yes I did.:D

[solomon.trenton]

I don't know if this counts, but it was interesting:

The course that I was at is in a very "Well to do" part of town. The disc golf course goes around some very nice soccer fields, and the course shares the same parking lot and restrooms.

The restrooms were being torn down to build newer ones. While they were being torn down, instead of bringing in Port-a-potties, they brought in 4 restrooms on trailers. These were the nicest port-a-cans I have ever seen, they had lights, AC, tile floors, sinks, and ever pictures on the walls. These things were nicer than my first apartment. It was something to see. Who knows what they paid in rent per day for those things to be out there.

well thats what happens when rich soccer moms are worried about swine flu.

[Midnightbiker]

well thats what happens when rich soccer moms are worried about swine flu.

Actually this was last year. The restrooms have long been rebuilt.

[solomon.trenton]

Actually this was last year. The restrooms have long been rebuilt.

well im sure it was some wierd disease last year. the common cold on steroids maybe:confused:

[Midnightbiker]

well im sure it was some wierd disease last year. the common cold on steroids maybe:confused:

I think those yuppies just told the parks dept that they refused to pee and poop in a port-a-can. Those things were nice. I have never seen anything like them before or since.

[beandip]

Was playing a few weeks ago at Bicentennial Park in Crowley, TX. We kept hearing a popping sound but couldn't figure out what it was. On one of the middle holes you drive from a high point over some trees down a sharp slope. Typically you cannot see where your disc lands unless you happen to hit the path.

So I threw my Wraith and it went a little farther right than I wanted. After everyone drove I went to find my disc. As I was going down the steep hill a man comes up holding my disc. At his side was a boy with a BB gun. I thanked him for retrieving my disc, explained that its played where it lies, and asked where he picked it up from. He points in a direction. So I end up just taking a guess and playing from that point.

The rest of the round we kept seeing them tacking targets to trees and the boy firing his gun and it was a pretty crowded day at the course. I understand we have to share our parks with others but it was somewhat unnerving when you hear the BB gun close-by but don't see where they are at or which direction they are shooting.

[Midnightbiker]

I would have told them about disc golf, and how fun it is. Of course sometimes this doesn't work.

I was at a small course one, and some young guys had placed a Archer target onto the #3 basket. I asked them to remove it, and tried to explane disc golf to them, but they just looked at me with a blank stare, and walked off. I don't think they got it.

[zenbot]

This past saturday,5-02,we saw a racer snake with a frog in it's mouth,back legs and the butt in his mouth and the head and the front legs trying to crawl away.:eek:
That reminds me of something. I saw what I thought was a tarantula attacking a yellow jacket. It was actually a yellow jacket pulling a tarantula somewhere.

[ERicJ]

Eric, I must know if you explained the game of Disc Golf to them. Did they understand what the basket was for?
No time. I was playing pretty quickly to try and make a dinner appointment afterwards. Not all that happy with my round that day because of the rush either.

How often do you play at paschall?
That was the first and only time so far.

[innova]

Squirrel sex. Talk about rapid fire!
A snake way up in a tree wrapped around a squirrel... came crashing down. We all freaked.
A hawk perched on a basket. Man I wish I would have had a camera.
A hawk take a squirrel out of a tree top RIGHT above our heads!

I did not see it but some locals witnessed two hawks come crashing down to the ground in a spiral.
(mating ritual)



Freakin Marlin Perkins round here I tell ya! but then we live near the swamp and marsh, so yea.
As you can see critters have a hard life in the Banana Republic.

[Dthunderchicken]

How about this one. I get to the course right around first light and am sitting in my truck with a cup of coffee. I notice some clothing folded neatly and setting on a bench. We start playing and get to a secluded, wooded part of the course and here's this guy (mid 20s I guess) in a sheet. He's running around flapping this sheet and going OOOOOHHH like he trying to act like a ghost. He didn't pay us any mind or get in the way, just kept acting ghostly. I kept thinking that someone was making a low budget film or something but we never saw any sign of it. When we got back to the bench the clothes were gone. To each his own I guess.

[billnchristy]

Yup...that is the weirdest thing I have heard of.

[innova]

The second round of golf I ever played was at Pease Park in Austin. It beat me up. I still have scars. lol.

Anyway, the Society for Creative Anachranism ? was holding an.... event? where they were all dressed up like King Arthur, or thereabouts, and they were beating each other fairly seriously with wooden swords.

One guy, dresses up like a... frankly, not sure what he was dressed up as... but he evidently was a magician in the role playing excersize because he would bean people with powder filled soft bags that would freeze the participant for about 30 seconds (or whatever)

0.o

Austin. When the going gets weird folks just go onward thru the fog.

I also worked for the Clarksville Jazz Festival that is held in Pease Park.
Eeyores Birthday party is held there as well. Now if you want to talk about
weird sightings, attend THAT event.

[bobojones666]

last year me and some friends were at bayvill park in VA. We were playing the back 13 when my buddy saw a squirrel sitting on the fence post. He took his wraith launched it and knocked the squirrel out. it was hilarious especially when the squirrel got up and staggered away.

[joegraham]

Funniest freaking thing I ever saw at a course (so far) was at a tournament at Joe Davis State Park in Lewiston, NY probably 1987. In between rounds on Saturday sitting around, a guy tossed a cigerette butt down on the grass that was still lit. A seagull walked by, picked it up by the butt and walked away with it still lit! He must have been really jonesing!! We all laughed our asses off!!!!!!!!

[sidewinding]

How about this one. I get to the course right around first light and am sitting in my truck with a cup of coffee. I notice some clothing folded neatly and setting on a bench. We start playing and get to a secluded, wooded part of the course and here's this guy (mid 20s I guess) in a sheet. He's running around flapping this sheet and going OOOOOHHH like he trying to act like a ghost. He didn't pay us any mind or get in the way, just kept acting ghostly. I kept thinking that someone was making a low budget film or something but we never saw any sign of it. When we got back to the bench the clothes were gone. To each his own I guess.

I've seen that and it's actually quite common on disc golf courses. It's called the OTMDBS (One Too Many Double Bogeys Syndrom).

[Midnightbiker]

The second round of golf I ever played was at Pease Park in Austin. It beat me up. I still have scars. lol.

Anyway, the Society for Creative Anachranism ? was holding an.... event? where they were all dressed up like King Arthur, or thereabouts, and they were beating each other fairly seriously with wooden swords.

One guy, dresses up like a... frankly, not sure what he was dressed up as... but he evidently was a magician in the role playing exercise because he would bean people with powder filled soft bags that would freeze the participant for about 30 seconds (or whatever)

.

I saw the same thing on Sunday and I wouldn't have believed it if I hadn't seen it. These guys , some wearing all black in 90 degree heat were out there fighting with these sticks with pads on the end. Looked like something right out of the Texas Renaissance Festival. The Festival does not start till October, and I guess they need to stay in practice.

I have heard that groups like this exist but I have never seen it before.

[innova]

Whew. Cool. I wasn't seeing things!

:^/

I think you are correct about the Renaissance Festival. I guess you have to practice acting like you shred people with swords to be good at it.

They kinda wail on each other from what I recall.

[CaptainAnhyzer]

not funny or weird.................but freakin CRAZY!!!

Back in Michigan i frequented Raintree Park in Troy with the same friend(i long-standing rivalry thing)and as we are playing we see about 6-8 younger guys playing the course also. We get around to hole 8 and this group of kids are done playing but hanging out by the restroom building. Upon a closer look, all but one guy is all lined up facing the wall with the last guy standing about 20 feet behind them. He hauls off and throws a golf disc at their backs!!!!!! We stand there in total shock as he fires 3 more discs at them!!!!! Then HE takes his place on "the wall" with another guy "up to bat"............ Imagine getting hit blind side by a driver thrown full speed!!!!

To this day i still can't imagine WTF they were trying to accomplish. :confused:

[innova]

Wow. I'd have to find a less insane card of people to throw discs with.

Nutcakes.

Frankly, I could really hurt someone by throwing a disc at them. I would never even consider it.

I've seen what they can do, as many of us likely have.

[Midnightbiker]

not funny or weird.................but freakin CRAZY!!!

Back in Michigan i frequented Raintree Park in Troy with the same friend(i long-standing rivalry thing)and as we are playing we see about 6-8 younger guys playing the course also. We get around to hole 8 and this group of kids are done playing but hanging out by the restroom building. Upon a closer look, all but one guy is all lined up facing the wall with the last guy standing about 20 feet behind them. He hauls off and throws a golf disc at their backs!!!!!! We stand there in total shock as he fires 3 more discs at them!!!!! Then HE takes his place on "the wall" with another guy "up to bat"............ Imagine getting hit blind side by a driver thrown full speed!!!!

To this day i still can't imagine WTF they were trying to accomplish. :confused:

With kids now days, I guess just playing the game is not enough.

If they had any balls, they would have been facing him as he threw the discs.;)

[Lewis]

With kids now days, I guess just playing the game is not enough.

If they had any balls, they would have been facing him as he threw the discs.;)

No, then they wouldn't have any balls. :eek:

[zud00]

not funny or weird.................but freakin CRAZY!!!

Back in Michigan i frequented Raintree Park in Troy with the same friend(i long-standing rivalry thing)and as we are playing we see about 6-8 younger guys playing the course also. We get around to hole 8 and this group of kids are done playing but hanging out by the restroom building. Upon a closer look, all but one guy is all lined up facing the wall with the last guy standing about 20 feet behind them. He hauls off and throws a golf disc at their backs!!!!!! We stand there in total shock as he fires 3 more discs at them!!!!! Then HE takes his place on "the wall" with another guy "up to bat"............ Imagine getting hit blind side by a driver thrown full speed!!!!

To this day i still can't imagine WTF they were trying to accomplish. :confused:

Sounds like a game we used to play after soccer practice when I was in highschool. We called it "Butts Up." Everyone shot the ball from midfield (empty net) and whoever missed had to stand in the goal grabbing thier ankles while those that made it from midfield took a shot simutaneously from the 18 yard line trying to nail the guys on the goal line.

But what these guys were doing sounds stupid...I would never want to get nailed in the back with a disc from close range.

[ERicJ]

not funny or weird.................but freakin CRAZY!!!

Back in Michigan i frequented Raintree Park in Troy with the same friend(i long-standing rivalry thing)and as we are playing we see about 6-8 younger guys playing the course also. We get around to hole 8 and this group of kids are done playing but hanging out by the restroom building. Upon a closer look, all but one guy is all lined up facing the wall with the last guy standing about 20 feet behind them. He hauls off and throws a golf disc at their backs!!!!!! We stand there in total shock as he fires 3 more discs at them!!!!! Then HE takes his place on "the wall" with another guy "up to bat"............ Imagine getting hit blind side by a driver thrown full speed!!!!

To this day i still can't imagine WTF they were trying to accomplish. :confused:

See: Jackass (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0264263/)

[zbyrd]

I was literally attacked today in Asheboro, NC on hole 4. Twice. By a hawk. I was walking to my nice drive that left me about a 20' putt for birdie when I hear a whoosh past my head, making me duck, and I see a red tail hawk fly past my head. It flies up into a tree and turns around and then locks eyes with me. At this point I'm thinking, "You motherf..." and before I can finish the thought the hawk takes wing straight at my face. I turtled my head into my shoulders and ran off to the side. You have no idea how hard it is to sink a putt while looking over your shoulder for hawk attacks.

Is hole 4 the one downhill and 50ft or so to the right, playing towards the parking lot? If so, not even a hawk attack could take away my love for that hole. 5, on the other hand, is my arch nemesis.

[innova]

I have mentioned a couple of times that SOME new disc golfers are somewhat disrespectful of what is being handed to them on a platter. I have no idea of the average age of the new player.

In many instances perhaps they just don't know better... but I don't entirely get that because there are so many other NEW players who are awesome folks and they DO know better... so I am left with the same response as ericj.

I have seen one disc wonders (a whole card) throwing their discs at full steam against our hole one course sign.

Stuff like that... just blatant disregard.

Makes me sigh, frankly.

[ejvogie]

not funny or weird.................but freakin CRAZY!!!

Back in Michigan i frequented Raintree Park in Troy with the same friend(i long-standing rivalry thing)and as we are playing we see about 6-8 younger guys playing the course also. We get around to hole 8 and this group of kids are done playing but hanging out by the restroom building. Upon a closer look, all but one guy is all lined up facing the wall with the last guy standing about 20 feet behind them. He hauls off and throws a golf disc at their backs!!!!!! We stand there in total shock as he fires 3 more discs at them!!!!! Then HE takes his place on "the wall" with another guy "up to bat"............ Imagine getting hit blind side by a driver thrown full speed!!!!

To this day i still can't imagine WTF they were trying to accomplish. :confused:

I hope at least they were using putters instead of beveled-edge drivers :eek:

[innova]

Reread the second to last sentence.

Imagine getting hit blind side by a driver thrown full speed!!!!

Wow. Still amazes me someone would do that. brainiacs

[A.Mutt]

amazingly stupid. I've been hit with a driver that was being putted and it stung pretty good I can only imagine the internal bleeding that would follow getting pegged full force.

[Fore]

Back last summer I was getting ready to tee off and I heard what I thought was a go cart riding on the road a few feet away. Minutes later two guys in a dune buggy comes flying down the fairway did a doughnut and took off. I sat there for a few minutes thinking did that really just happen?

[Midnightbiker]

About 5 months ago, there was a huge group of teenagers playing my home course. I had to do a double take when I realized that one of them was riding a Cushman Scooter. He would make his throw and then ride the motorbike down the fairway and throw again. I thought it was crazy, and he is lucky the parks dept didn't see him doing that.

[swellerdiscgolf]

Saw 2 birds chasing a squirrel all over hole #5 at Baville the other day. He must have gotten too close to their nest. I guess you had to be there.

[innova]

amazingly stupid. I've been hit with a driver that was being putted and it stung pretty good I can only imagine the internal bleeding that would follow getting pegged full force.

I've seen a few bad hits.

One guy got knocked out, literally. Hit him in the side of the head.

Once, while at AM Worlds in Miami, one guy on our card hit someone directly in the keester but they were far enough away it really did not hurt anyone thankfully.

A local woman player ended up with stitches in her face once from being struck.

I was playing a round with Klart once, years ago and he got hit twice in one round. Livid, in a word.

I've ducked out of the way of VERY close calls four different times, that I can recall.
Once, dive would be a better choice of words than duck.

[trifocal]

I was hit on ball golf course.

Playing on Fathers Day in 84. I was driving a cart with my girl friends dad in the passenger seat. Both our tee shots on #2 went down the right side and we were cruising slow with our heads down looking for our balls in the short rough.
This particular hole runs parelllel, but in the oppposite direction of #1.
A player had sliced his tee shot off #1 and it crossed our fairway. It was a really bad slice and was on the far left side of our fairway and 140 yards from our cart.

I hear "Fore!" and I raise my eyes in that direction. How long does it take to raise your eyes? Not very long. My eyes come up and the ball is Right There...about 4 inches from my nose. Then it hit the bridge of my nose and broke it. Blood pouring out.
We had a cooler and ice in the cart and got the bleeding stopped in a few minutes.

This guy had played a low 3 or 4 iron that was effectively a torpedo across the bow of our cart.

The guy who hit me nearly had a heart attack, he thought he killed me.

I was lucky I didn't get hit in the mouth or eye and my nose had been broken before in a basketball game, so I think this guys shot straightened it.

Ouch. I finished the round but I was hearing funny sounds all afternoon. Concussion probably.

[CaptainAnhyzer]

I hear "Fore!" and I raise my eyes in that direction. How long does it take to raise your eyes? Not very long. My eyes come up and the ball is Right There...about 4 inches from my nose. Then it hit the bridge of my nose and broke it. Blood pouring out.

FREAKIN OUCH!!!!!!!

[Cantputt]

The craziest sight I've seen at a disc course had to be the saturday before easter. The powers that be decided to hold an easter egg hunt at the park. (Anna Page Park) An estimated 4000 kids running amok on the courses. We didn't even get out of the car and motored to next nearest course.

[Midnightbiker]

When ever I hear someone holler "Fore" I duck and cover my head and face, and listen for the disc to hit the ground. I think the worse thing you can do is look around. That's like running to the window when you hear gun shots to see where they are coming from. I hear gun shots, I get down. Then I make reservations at UHaul for a truck so I can move.

[bazillion]

I saw a bunch of guys out in the woods practicing bagpipe music. They probably got run out of wherever else they were playing. Sounded pretty weird.

[Camgolfer]

A bunch of kids always use the tee pad for hole 4 at the Benedict park course as a bike parking zone. I guess cause its near the soccer field.

Thanks City of Brighton for building a random concrete slab near the soccer fields for us...

[Midnightbiker]

I saw a bunch of guys out in the woods practicing bagpipe music. They probably got run out of wherever else they were playing. Sounded pretty weird.


I don't now why, but that made me fall out of my chair laughing.:D

[A.Mutt]

This last Saturday while it was raining pretty hard I was waiting with my card to tee off on the next hole when the group behind yells "fore!" I look up to see an orange drive with a lot of speed bookin straight for me. Like a deer in headlights I stood there frozen trying to figure out if its going to fade or keep on the same line. About 20 feet away from me, no joke, I realize its on target to hit me in the junk. :eek: I felt like I was in the Matrix as I turned left and bent backwards, allowing it to pass right next to my ass. We all had a good laugh about that. :D

[Midnightbiker]

This last Saturday while it was raining pretty hard I was waiting with my card to tee off on the next hole when the group behind yells "fore!" I look up to see an orange drive with a lot of speed bookin straight for me. Like a deer in headlights I stood there frozen trying to figure out if its going to fade or keep on the same line. About 20 feet away from me, no joke, I realize its on target to hit me in the junk. :eek: I felt like I was in the Matrix as I turned left and bent backwards, allowing it to pass right next to my ass. We all had a good laugh about that. :D

ROFL!

Thanks for making me spit Dr.Pepper all over my keyboard.


That is why when I hear "Fore" I do the "duck and cover".

[A.Mutt]

LMAO ... you're welcome. ;P Coincidentally I was taking a drink of the good Dr. when I read that and almost spit some up.

[BrotherDave]

Is hole 4 the one downhill and 50ft or so to the right, playing towards the parking lot? If so, not even a hawk attack could take away my love for that hole. 5, on the other hand, is my arch nemesis.

No, you're thinking of 3. And yeah, 4 is kind of a dick sometimes. The tee just feels goofy.

[disc-o maniac]

i've seen so much funny stuff in my life but this tops all......

at rutgers university disc golf course in New Jersey, i guess there was a renassance fair thing because at about 5 o'clock hundreds of people with fake swords an armor started swinging at the baskets i was on hole 8 in disbelief. they were yelling things in italian and it went on for about 10 minutes but it was hilarious

[mashnut]

i've seen so much funny stuff in my life but this tops all......

at rutgers university disc golf course in New Jersey, i guess there was a renassance fair thing because at about 5 o'clock hundreds of people with fake swords an armor started swinging at the baskets i was on hole 8 in disbelief. they were yelling things in italian and it went on for about 10 minutes but it was hilarious

Why is it that these events always seem to happen where there's a dg course? I've seen similar things at 3 different courses.

[33tango]

Why is it that these events always seem to happen where there's a dg course? I've seen similar things at 3 different courses.
My best guess:
Because they want a semi-wooded place no one will bitch about them being there.

[Midnightbiker]

I saw this about 2 weeks ago, in Conroe, TX and SpingdgLover was with me , so I am sure he remembers this.

There was three of us, so we let a guy playing solo play through. He had his bag on his shoulder, and he was carrying a trash bag. At first I thought he was cleaning the course as he played, and I thought that was really nice of him. Then after watching him dig through a trash can, I realized, he was collecting the beer, and soda cans. I thought to myself " Now thats a way to help pay for some more discs". Heck, imagine how much extra money you could make with all the cans you see laying around the course. Last time I checked, its 24 -12 oz cans = 1lb. I haven't checked the price of cans in a while but it used to be about 65 cents a pound.

[billnchristy]

That is a true "you know you are addicted..."

Dude is homeless and still plays. :p

[Camgolfer]

I have seen trash cans on courses that rival bar dumpsters with the amount of beer cans and bottles overflowing. I bet you could get some sweet cash from all the recycling.

[Midnightbiker]

That is a true "you know you are addicted..."

Dude is homeless and still plays. :p

Come to think of it, he really wasn't dressed well....:rolleyes:

of course neither was I.:o

[amcarlson83]

I was on hole 14 at West Park in Joliet, IL and I had a terrible first shot into a tree only 50 feet in front of me. I couldn't see the basket because it was behind a bunch of trees, my buddy was standing to the left of the basket and said "it's right here, aim for me and you'll be good". So I did. I tomahawk'd it right for him, it spun a ton in the air and was heading right for him. At the last second, he jumped out of the way, but the disc took a hard turn and hit him right in the junk!! It was a 175g Pro Valkyrie. He was on the floor for 5 minutes. At the time, we played where if you hit someone in the group, you got a stroke taken off for the hole. I "birdied" the hole.

[Midnightbiker]

I was on hole 14 at West Park in Joliet, IL and I had a terrible first shot into a tree only 50 feet in front of me. I couldn't see the basket because it was behind a bunch of trees, my buddy was standing to the left of the basket and said "it's right here, aim for me and you'll be good". So I did. I tomahawk'd it right for him, it spun a ton in the air and was heading right for him. At the last second, he jumped out of the way, but the disc took a hard turn and hit him right in the junk!! It was a 175g Pro Valkyrie. He was on the floor for 5 minutes. At the time, we played where if you hit someone in the group, you got a stroke taken off for the hole. I "birdied" the hole.


Oh man, that is damn funny

[amcarlson83]

Oh man, that is damn funny

I just read your close encounter. You even used the term junk. I love this site.

[Midnightbiker]

Memorial Day I was at the course, and there was a large group at the Pavilion that is across the park from the course. Some clown had the bright idea to bring some 4-wheelers to the park, and were riding them through the park and cutting in front of us and riding all over the course tearing up the grass. I was really pissed about that. I think the only way they got away with it was the Park Ranger that usually patrols was off for the holiday.

[grube.fresh]

played with a large group 2day, memorial day. i knew the course would filled with non disc golfers. what i didnt expect was that the baskets were reserved like camp sites and hotdogs were easier to get than birdies. happy holidays.

[mashnut]

That is a true "you know you are addicted..."

Dude is homeless and still plays. :p

At the course I learned on in San Diego, there is a couple dollar fee to play. There were a number of guys who would go out and search for lost discs or get them out of trees, just to turn them in for the $1 reward, and use that to pay for their round. Homeless disc golfing on a pay to play course = addicted.

[CaptainAnhyzer]

At the course I learned on in San Diego, there is a couple dollar fee to play. There were a number of guys who would go out and search for lost discs or get them out of trees, just to turn them in for the $1 reward, and use that to pay for their round. Homeless disc golfing on a pay to play course = addicted.

Resourcful too.......... :cool:

[kerplunk]

Have you seen that movie The Terminal with Tom Hanks, where he collects all the luggage carts and turns them in to get money to eat. Kind of reminds me of that.

[kerplunk]

not funny or weird.................but freakin CRAZY!!!

Back in Michigan i frequented Raintree Park in Troy with the same friend(i long-standing rivalry thing)and as we are playing we see about 6-8 younger guys playing the course also. We get around to hole 8 and this group of kids are done playing but hanging out by the restroom building. Upon a closer look, all but one guy is all lined up facing the wall with the last guy standing about 20 feet behind them. He hauls off and throws a golf disc at their backs!!!!!! We stand there in total shock as he fires 3 more discs at them!!!!! Then HE takes his place on "the wall" with another guy "up to bat"............ Imagine getting hit blind side by a driver thrown full speed!!!!

To this day i still can't imagine WTF they were trying to accomplish. :confused:

I'm pretty sure the kids call this game "guts," presumably because when you manage to see some intestine you win...

We used to play a similar game with a tennis ball, I guess kids really do have it tougher nowadays.

[Midnightbiker]

I saw this yesterday and I thought it was interesting. At a new course they just built, the first hole is only 150ft, but its through some thick trees, and over a 7 foot mound, so you can't see the basket at all, just a bicycle flag that someone put on top of the basket.

We noticed near the basket yesterday a upside down cooking pot with a metal spoon hanging inside the pot like a bell clanger, and a rope hanging from the spoon. On the pot were the letters "Clear". We figured out that once you are leaving the hole, you ring the "bell" to let the people on the tee know that the hole is clear. I thought that was a really cool idea who ever did that. Seems like a really neat idea for blind holes.

[mashnut]

I saw this yesterday and I thought it was interesting. At a new course they just built, the first hole is only 150ft, but its through some thick trees, and over a 7 foot mound, so you can't see the basket at all, just a bicycle flag that someone put on top of the basket.

We noticed near the basket yesterday a upside down cooking pot with a metal spoon hanging inside the pot like a bell clanger, and a rope hanging from the spoon. On the pot were the letters "Clear". We figured out that once you are leaving the hole, you ring the "bell" to let the people on the tee know that the hole is clear. I thought that was a really cool idea who ever did that. Seems like a really neat idea for blind holes.

I really like that idea! Especially since so few players actually yell clear on blind holes, it seems like a great idea to keep the course moving without having players throw on top of one another.

[Midnightbiker]

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[NDABRUSH]

A friend and I were playing golf at about 1 am at a lit course (Clyde fant in Shreveport) and my buddy spotted an opossum and started trying to hit it with his discs and was successful. The Opossum turned around and chased my buddy for about 300 ft. It didn't bite him. You shouldn't fool with mother nature, she usually bites.

[SpringDgLover]

Was at Nottingham Park in Houston at hole 12. I look to my right and there is a gang of dudes with black bandanas around their faces dressed in all black about 100 yards to my right. Staring at who I think is me. I then look to my right, heart pounding, and see a group of other guys dressed in white who then proceed turn and start running. Said gang then proceeds to begin chasing other guys across park while packing some considerable heat. Needless to say, I don't play Nottingham anymore.

[Midnightbiker]

My brother and I were playing Miramar Park in Sea Brook, Tx today and we were coming up #3 and we had two female deer go walking right by us. There weren't even afraid of us. They walked about 20 feet away from us, looked at us, and just kept walking. It was cool to see. I tried to get my phone out to take a picture , but they didn't hang around long enough.