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Basket or Tone pole
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Ill be dammed
I think you just proved the old saying of assuming makes an A** out of you and me. Tone poles are a fun and cheap alternitive to baskets. And if I can play another new course, I'm OK with baskets, tonepoles, sticks, trees with tape on them, or any other objects that I can throw a disc at. The only times I really prefer baskets are on blind holes.
Kenny53691
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I'd say a basket to accommodate the local deaf disc golfers.
For me personally there's a huge jump in how "real" or established a feel I get from an object course (taped trees etc.) to non-basket targets like tone poles, and a much smaller jump from those to baskets.
Toro71
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I think I'm in the prefer baskets to tone poles camp, but not necessarily by much. I'd rather play an awesome course with poles vs. a crap to mediocre course with baskets.
Tone poles would have a big downside, though, in a lot of situations around Charlotte, which is the precarious basket location capital. I'd hate to "make" a putt and still have to go chase it down into a ravine, or fish it out of the pond, etc.
I've only played 9 tone-pole holes ever, so I'm biased toward baskets because that's what I'm used to, but I wouldn't turn my nose up at them.
Tone poles would have a big downside, though, in a lot of situations around Charlotte, which is the precarious basket location capital. I'd hate to "make" a putt and still have to go chase it down into a ravine, or fish it out of the pond, etc.
I've only played 9 tone-pole holes ever, so I'm biased toward baskets because that's what I'm used to, but I wouldn't turn my nose up at them.
I'll play an object or tone pole course but have never gone back to any of the few I've played.
This.
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Took me a while to find it, but I remembered a thread about blind people who play. There's even a Blind Disc Golf Association... MacDaddy is the Director.
I think it's pretty incredible what some people can do.
I think it's pretty incredible what some people can do.
Baskets. I think tone poles would turn off more 1st time players than impress. Might as well designate certain trees. Just my stupid opinion.
FriedInTheDesert
Birdie Member
Baskets or quit the game.
Wind chimes would make some noise. So would chains around the tone pole, with a basket to catch your disk, to officially determine whether the disc is in or out.
Wind chimes would make some noise. So would chains around the tone pole, with a basket to catch your disk, to officially determine whether the disc is in or out.
I guess I just like to play on and practice on what ill actually be seeing in competition
Khao Pra
Par Member
Why is this even a question?
There can always be debate about whether you've holed out on a tone pole with money on the line and no question if you're using a manufactured approved basket.
There can always be debate about whether you've holed out on a tone pole with money on the line and no question if you're using a manufactured approved basket.
Cgkdisc
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Disc golf is a self officiated sport so judging tone pole hits is more in line with our basic approach to rules than baskets. We don't have any data but it wouldn't surprise me that players have more complaints about putts "being robbed" due to bouncebacks and cut-thrus than they would about "being robbed" on the group missing a tone pole hit. After all, many of us play 51 for money regularly where you pay out when judging basket hits from the tee versus near the target with tone poles.
Grungedude42
Double Eagle Member
Hell, when I first got discs, my brother and I played a ton of object golf in my parents' backyard. We had fun. I'd rather play on tone poles than not play, but I think I prefer baskets to tone poles.
Yea but that could simply be because there is only a small percentage of half that gets played on tone poles as compared to baskets.
JAKE master
Double Eagle Member
allow me to be next tard to say, well you know with a basket there is no question. NS
i dont mind tones. they are usually a smaller target and i like having to zone in on a smaller target, its only going to help me in the long run.
one of the first aces i got to witness was on a homemade course, in which menacewarf bombed a drive up 20ft of elevation 350ft and smashed our 5gal bucket tone. you could see it, hear it and it also left a nice scuff on the bucket.
while baskets are the future, ill never overlook playing a tone course over baskets, if all other course conditions are equal.
i dont mind tones. they are usually a smaller target and i like having to zone in on a smaller target, its only going to help me in the long run.
one of the first aces i got to witness was on a homemade course, in which menacewarf bombed a drive up 20ft of elevation 350ft and smashed our 5gal bucket tone. you could see it, hear it and it also left a nice scuff on the bucket.
while baskets are the future, ill never overlook playing a tone course over baskets, if all other course conditions are equal.
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