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I hate these threads.
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I hate these threads.
Then don't read them. :wall:
Here are my not-so-serious suggestions for a lexicon retcon
We're all meeting up at Snap-pad (Tee) #1 for a round of Disc (disc golf)!
Man, my Snap (drive) was almost 400 feet, but then I clipped a tree and wound up in the brambles (rough)! OR Man, my Snap (drive) shanked into the brambles, but my touch-shot (approach) parked right under the post (pin, hole, basket, etc.)!
I'm on the line (on the fairway)! Damn, I'm off-line (in the brambles)!
I'm in the circle (green) and I'm sinking (putting) a three.
I clinked a three (drop-in putt).
Snap-shot: Drive
Touch-shot: Approach
Sink-Shot: Putt. Also known as sinking the pole
Clink: Drop-in
The Line: The fairway
Bramble: Rough
The Circle: well, the circle
Other terminology:
"Down-the-hole": any errant shot, ie Man, I've gone down the freakin' hole on this one
"Ghost-post": When your sink shot shoots through the chains and comes out the other side
"Guster": any errant wind that lifts or adversely affects your disc in any way. Most notably when sinking the pole (putting)
An ace is an ace
Deuce or bird for 2
Any other suggestions?
When I first started playing, I found that using terms like "basket," "throw," and "frisbee" made the sport feel like (to me, mind you) something a couple of rednecks cooked up in their backyard..
Isn't that pretty much how it started?:|
Stroke sounds better than throw or shot. Imma continue to use stroke.
Green has no real bearing on disc golf. The circle is the official putting area defined by the rules. Green is a term that is only used casually (I hear "fast green" often), so I don't feel like arguing that one any more.
I think "put" is the best way to describe the disc golf putting motion. Particularly for push putters, it's not a full throw, and it definitely is not a lob.
Disc golf is still GOLF, just using frisbees. You're thinking about it too hard, these terms are fine for disc golf.
The term "Green" in golf is a shortened version of "putting green". So, it is appropriate in disc golf to use the term "green" as is means "Putting Green". Any area of the course that is within putting distance of the whole is the green.
Fariway is simply the easiest, most advantageous, path to the hole.
A tap-in, in disc golf is any put that's close enough to be reach out and tap the chains with the disc. that's fairly similar to golf tap-ins.
Its a whole lot easier than being a lexicon nazi.
Another term that doesn't translate: tee.
Actually, tackle can meen simply taking on a problem or opponent or to seize or take down.
Shule = Rough
Of the five OP terms: Tap-in, Fairway, Hole, Stroke, and Green, I only use "hole" just because it's so common, and...what are you going to say? Basket # 1? It sounds funny at this point, but may change in the future.
Here are my not-so-serious suggestions for a lexicon retcon
We're all meeting up at Snap-pad (Tee) #1 for a round of Disc (disc golf)!
shanked
into the brambles, but my touch-shot (approach)
We might as well change some other terms while we are at it...
Par should be "adequation"
May strike a few people here as odd but I'm okay with "tee." Yes it's the plastic or wooden thing in golf, but it's also more generally the area from which you begin play. Not every course has a "pad" so I don't personally like "pad" as a replacement. "Tee" strikes me as okay.
The only other way you could really go with this if you didn't want to use the word "tee" would be to call it a "line" or a box. Tennis has a defined area from which you're allowed to serve and it's all behind the service line and within the ends of it (from the middle to the outer edge). So you could call something the "Snap Line" or something like that in disc golf (snap coming from one of the other poster's suggestions). "Starting Line" sounds too much like a race.
So the way I see it you call it a "line" or a "box" or a "tee."