Please put a phone number on all of your discs...if you want them back. I think I have told this story before but I will tell it again. I had a buddy that I had taken disc golfing a few times. He was about 18 or 19. He bought a bag and a few discs and one day went out by himself. Now, there is an a-hole that plays around here, who thinks he is really good but is barely average in reality. Anyway, he only puts his nickname and PDGA number on his discs. Anyway, my buddy was playign a round with another guy that he was trying to get to play. They find a disc in the middle of a fairway. The disc has the nickname and PDGA number on it. They saw one group in that area of the course and asked if it belonged to any of them. They said "no", so my buddy put it in his bag. When they get to the parking lot, the guy sees his disc in the bag and comes running across the parking lot screaming at them. He was actually having to be told to calm down by the normal disc golfers that happened to be there. He was upset a) because my buddy didn't "know who he was" and b) because he didn't know what the PDGA was. He said my budy should have looked him up online before he tried to take it home with him. If I was there I probably would have hit him in the mouth. Who carries a laptop in their bag? Some may have Smart Phones, but 3 years ago that was pretty rare. My friend gave him the disc back and 2 days later sold the 5 discs he had bought and his bag and hasn't played again.
I know this is an isolated instance. But if you only put name and PDGA number on a disc, you really shouldn't expect to get it back. If a "noob" finds it, then you definitely won't, even if they have the best of intentions. It seems extremely rude for you to expect someone to go to the trouble of finding YOUR information in order to return a disc that YOU lost. Honestly, put your number on the disc, and I call as soon as I pick it up...hoping that I can leave it at the park somewhere for you to find it. I'll call again when I get home, and again in a few days. If I don't hear anything, it's going to a noob...