Typically the creative players are less skilled

[optidiscic]

Course Designer Rant

There is a battle on many courses between designers attempts to test a specific skill/line/shot and lesser players choosing to hack a so called creative line due to their inability to navigate the straightforward designed shot off the tee

Be honest creative players you really just have not developed your game

 

[Monkeypaws]

Maybe the course designers shoulds be as creative.

 

[Spike Hyzer]

Or maybe they just find a way to use their strengths and thus score lower.

 

[skizzle34]

960 rated and I love to throw "creative" lines. I think it is a skill necessary to elevate your game. Have you EVER watched Simon lizotte throw? You think Mcbeth always throws the intended route?

Be honest course designer you just haven't developed your craft

 

[optidiscic]

Nah youre all a bunch of 1 trick ponies

 

[MichaelWebster]

Course designers who don't leave options for risk-reward and instead force one flight-line are really lesser skilled designers due to their inability to understand the strategy aspect of golf.

 

[TalbotTrojan]

I will always throw what I think is the safest route. Sometimes that is not the intended route.

 

[bogeyfreetilinfinity]

I feel like giant hyzer over everything is the least creative disc golf shot.

 

[DiscLoser1]

Nah youre all a bunch of 1 trick ponies

^Troll much? Yay.

There's so many poke and hopes in Discopolis PA that I wonder what 'lines' he's talking about. It's tree city and no one brought the chainsaw.

 

[joecoin]

Give me a wide open flat field of freshly mown Kentucky Bluegrass and a 250 feet tee shot and my creative juices will flow.

 

[Nasty Nate]

I feel like giant hyzer over everything is the least creative disc golf shot.

Thank you! :hfive:

 

[Vorpaljesus]

Creativity is a disc golf skill

 

[optidiscic]

overhand players look up

Flickers look left

Backhanders look left

Despite the fairway shape and how obvious it is

I should also add that distance players throw as far as posdible despite landing areas and then hack to basket from rough

Its a battle trying to force players to develop other skills

Just trying to make players look in the mirror

 

[optidiscic]

Creativity is a disc golf skill

euphemism for I can only throw 1 way and must force it on every tee shot

 

[optidiscic]

overhand players look up

Flickers look left

Backhanders look right

Despite the fairway shape and how obvious it is

I should also add that distance players throw as far as posdible despite landing areas and then hack to basket from rough

Its a battle trying to force players to develop other skills

Just trying to make players look in the mirror

fixed lol

 

[Timeetyo]

euphemism for I can only throw 1 way and must force it on every tee shot

The problem is your choice of the word "creative". To me, a creative line is not "try to throw the one shot I know on a hole that it is horrible with". That is actually the exact opposite of being creative.

To me - a creative line is taking a hole where the obvious line is X - but throwing Y because it challenges you, or gives you some benefit (even if that is at a risk). Here is an example. At one local wooded hole (shorter, tight hyzer) when playing doubles its not uncommon to have one player throw the normal hyzer route and if it leaves a look for bird, then have the partner throw the VERY tight anny ace run route.

 

[hook_nuts]

I'm bored. I feel like feeding the troll. So your opinion is that people should deliberately throw a shot they aren't good at/as good at based upon the course designers intended route? So scoring as low as possible should be set aside to appease you? This is one of the most ignorant posts I've seen on dgcr. Sounds like you have a noodle arm and can't hit the high routes so you want everyone to "play the intended route"? Should the NBA outlaw dunking because it wasn't intended? Those one trick ponies that all they can do is just jump real high and dunk should work on their jump shot and never dunk in a game? Relief pitchers should learn more pitches and be forced to throw them because their game isn't well rounded if they only throw 2 pitches? I agree people should expand their game in practice rounds, but when it matters you throw the best shot possible to score the lowest. The end. Welcome to golf. Stick around and you might learn something.

 

[Jukeshoe]

Course designers who don't leave options for risk-reward and instead force one flight-line are really lesser skilled designers due to their inability to understand the strategy aspect of golf.

Boom.

 

[teemkey]

Its a battle trying to force players to develop other skills

I think I see the problem.

 

[loki the trickster]

So a rhbh looks right or LHFH, A rhfh looks left or LHBH

That is what they are most comfortable throwing then that is where the golfers will look!

My guess is you have a flaw in your design(s). Also to call some one that beats your design(s) unskilled is laughable! Usually a skilled golfer is able to identify the best line for them to get to the basket.