Hi friends, first thread on here.
So the other day my friend and I were playing at Firefighters Park in Troy, MI. Pretty decent place, it's free, and only a mile away from my house. The only problem I have with this course is that it attracts a lot of casuals and jackasses.
While throwing on the second hole, these 4 high school kids jumped the course and started throwing at the basket. I told them that my friend and I were throwing and they blatantly ignored us. So we finish putting and decided that we weren't going to let them cut us off at the next hole, so while they were messing around we walked on the tee pad and started throwing.
10 seconds later they decide to jump over to some other holes. Mind you there were other players as well. I called out to them and asked them if they know the rules and etiquette in disc golf. 1 of them said he did but his friends did it. Told them that they were going to cut off the others who there playing out there already and 1 of them tells me to go efff myself. Obviously these kids didn't know how to play, they each only had 2 discs at most, and they were terrible at throwing.
Throughout the day they were jumping all over the place, until eventually one of the kids parents came and made them all leave, weird. I didn't enjoy dealing with it. I'm 27 years old and the last thing I want to do is deal with somebody's brat kids.
Forgive me for the rant. I love disc golf, I have dealt with some rude jerks on the course before, but never did I have to deal with some snotty rude kids until the other day. How do you guys deal with these situations?
So the other day my friend and I were playing at Firefighters Park in Troy, MI. Pretty decent place, it's free, and only a mile away from my house. The only problem I have with this course is that it attracts a lot of casuals and jackasses.
While throwing on the second hole, these 4 high school kids jumped the course and started throwing at the basket. I told them that my friend and I were throwing and they blatantly ignored us. So we finish putting and decided that we weren't going to let them cut us off at the next hole, so while they were messing around we walked on the tee pad and started throwing.
10 seconds later they decide to jump over to some other holes. Mind you there were other players as well. I called out to them and asked them if they know the rules and etiquette in disc golf. 1 of them said he did but his friends did it. Told them that they were going to cut off the others who there playing out there already and 1 of them tells me to go efff myself. Obviously these kids didn't know how to play, they each only had 2 discs at most, and they were terrible at throwing.
Throughout the day they were jumping all over the place, until eventually one of the kids parents came and made them all leave, weird. I didn't enjoy dealing with it. I'm 27 years old and the last thing I want to do is deal with somebody's brat kids.
Forgive me for the rant. I love disc golf, I have dealt with some rude jerks on the course before, but never did I have to deal with some snotty rude kids until the other day. How do you guys deal with these situations?