Recent content by lammersk

1.50 star(s) Spray & Pray Really good tees. I really started to dislike this course at pin 5. Shooting over a ravine with no real fairway and praying that your disc bounces off a tree in the right direction does not make a good pin. Then we came to 7 and realized that we were supposed to throw over the tees...

3.00 star(s) Great Little Course Timmons is a small municipal park where someone put some thought and effort into making an above average course. While there are no spectacular, "signature" pins, there are also no bad ones. I like the neon green pins with blue baskets and bands; they may look a little tacky...

I was out at Warriors Path today and only two pins went badly: 5 and 6. Of course, saying they went badly is a bit like saying Pearl Harbor went badly for the US Navy. These are mirror fairways - 5 shooting up a hill with various tree obstacles and 6 shooting down the same hill. Each has trees...

Keeping that Ion Yeah, I noticed that when I threw them both into the chains the Polecat had a tendency to bounce off of them if it hit them flat or even flatish while the Ion would slip sideways inside and catch more chains. It never bounced far enough to leave the basket, but it made me wary.

Okay, so yesterday I'm in the midst of the trauma of replacing my beloved Rivers with Witnesses or possibly Diamonds (if the Frost plastic keeps throwing as well as it did today) because I have improved just barely enough that these discs are starting to consistently outperforming the Rivers. I...

When I started out the salesman at Dick's (who I am pretty sure had never seen a disc golf course) sold me the Innova DX beginner pack and a 155g DX Beast ("for the really long shots"). I spent a lot of time trying to make those discs work. The Beast was the worst. Every so often I would get an...

I love golf in the Winter. There is at least one course around here (Warriors Path) which is so crowded it is basically unplayable anytime after noon on a Summer weekend. In the Winter I can play anytime I want. In fact, last Saturday I played it in 4" of snow/slush and had a blast. The only...

3.00 star(s) Wish There Were 18 This is the most wide open of the courses in the Kingsport-Johnson City-Bristol area. However, the baskets are placed so that you are not often just shooting across a straight grassy field. There are almost always trees or hills or rough close enough to make some control...

4.00 star(s) Tough and Fun This is the toughest course I've played (#2 is Warriors Path and #3 is Richmond Hill) and it is still my favorite. Almost every pin rewards accuracy instead of simple brute strength throwing. There are a number of pins here which could be "the" tough pin elsewhere and while there...

3.00 star(s) Very Fun This course takes some technical skill to play, but it isn't ridiculously hard. It's just a lot of fun. You're going to hit some trees, but generally there isn't a lot of underbrush, so you won't be searching forever or climbing through brambles to get your disc. You'll vary which disc...

2.50 star(s) Where You Go To Practice Your Long Game This course was recommended to me as "the" course to practice your long throws. It is. Lots of throws over big, open areas and even where there are tree hazards you can generally use a disc you can control a little better to get past them and go back to...

1.50 star(s) Well Thought Out Course : Poorly Thought Out Location A fairly easy course which has a variety of different layouts.. A number of pins appear to have wood hazards, but the reality is that most are easily handled because the trees have enough space between them and few low lying branches so...

1.50 star(s) Replayed: Still Dangerous Starts with three short control pins and then goes into several nice longer pins (new 4 through 8) which make the course much funner than it was. 7 is particularly good as it plays over a rolling field at 468 feet. Here's what I wrote when this was a nine pin course...

3.50 star(s) Good and Varied This course has a little bit of something for everyone. Long straight shots over grass for pins 1, 18, and 27 with a lot woods and hills in between. Pins 23 through 26 are some of the funnest on the course and it is a shame that they are in the less played back nine. The course...

3.00 star(s) A Course for Fun Although most pins are short (except 7 & 9), some thought has gone into laying them out so that it is fun to play them. Seven and Nine should satisfy those of you who need a couple of pins to throw bombs on. Four, five, and eight were shots that took a little skill, but weren't...