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Old Farts Only 40+ (no kids allowed)

What do you find most annoying about the new disc golf scene?

  • Kids, damn kids on my lawn. It never used to be popular and crowded.

    Votes: 68 19.2%

  • The sun is hotter than it used to be!

    Votes: 25 7.1%

  • The attitude that Ed's dead long live McBeth.. Don't these kids know where we came from!

    Votes: 3 0.8%

  • Trading "hippies" for "hipsters"

    Votes: 33 9.3%

  • Too many discs! Back in my day it was a putter, mid and driver.

    Votes: 21 5.9%

  • The reclassification of my current distance driver as a "fairway driver"

    Votes: 18 5.1%

  • Mowed and manicured courses, back in my day the rough was rough!

    Votes: 4 1.1%

  • Thumber, tomahawks, OH.. That's not how a disc is supposed to fly dumbass

    Votes: 20 5.6%

  • Some 14 year old throwing 200' further than me.

    Votes: 123 34.7%

  • I've got my own complaint.. See below.

    Votes: 39 11.0%
  • Total voters
    354
I started playing in my mid/late 30s. In my mid-40s, my brother and I bought some land and started building a course. We built the sort of course we liked to play, unapologetic that it was geared towards advanced players and didn't have shorter tees.

Nobody mentioned to me that I'd get old.

How I'm in my 60s and my game is in serious decline, and I'm dismayed to find myself living on a course that's over my head.

And trying to convince myself that on the one hole with 2 tees, the longest water-carry hole, I should shelve my ego and memories of youth, and start using the short tee.
 
Hey sometimes the short tee is more fun, or a better hole, or something. ;)
 
DavidSauls said:
And trying to convince myself that on the one hole with 2 tees, the longest water-carry hole, I should shelve my ego and memories of youth, and start using the short tee.
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It'll work for you David. Worked for me. [emoji41]


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i just thought of something!

40 is NOT old!

maybe 50+, or 60+, but not 40.

but like the kids say, whatever... ;)
 
Monocacy said:
Hey sometimes the short tee is more fun, or a better hole, or something. ;)
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I frequently say that My toughest competitor is the ghost of my former self.

I'm not willing to surrender to him, that easily.

Plus, in this case, the short tee is also the drop zone if you don't clear the water from the long tee, so I get plenty of chances to play it, anyway.
 
DavidSauls said:
I frequently say that My toughest competitor is the ghost of my former self..
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I get that. If I was still playing a sport where I had ever been halfway decent (swimming, water polo, etc.) I would also be competing against the ghost of my former self.

But fortunately I have never been particularly good at disc golf. Consequently I have been able to sustain a consistently mediocre level of play for 20+ years. :rolleyes:
 
I'm not saying I was great. The way I describe it, I'm not surprised to be over the hill, I'm just surprised at how low the hill turned out to be.

But things expand as they heat up, and all this global warming has stretched some holes that I used to be able to reach, out of my range.
 
I started playing when I was 19. I played in one sanctioned tournament where I slipped on a root and twisted my knee so I could hardly throw the rest of the tournament. But I have been playing with friends and solo rounds and few non-sanctioned events here and there over the years. I used to be a lot better than I am now, mostly because I could throw about 100 feet longer. Now I'm old AF and have a bad plant knee, partial tear in my rotator cuff....etc.

I played a tournament this past weekend and played 40 holes in one day. By the time I was done my shoulder was so weak, I could throw like 200 feet max.

But I go out and throw and have fun. A little pain and stiffness is worth it.
 
I feel like my 12 year old who can throw about 400 feet with either arm is kinda keeping me young for now. I tell him im old but im really trying to out drive him and keep a higher rating. I feel he will catch me in distance next year but hopefully he will progress and I can hold him off for 2 years on the rating field. To be older is fun when you beat the young crowd.
 
I've been playing with a 75yo dude at least one a week. He parked a 333' hole yesterday with a RHBH. He then almost did it again with a LHBH. The dude has all kinds of stories about touring with the Harlem Globetrotters in the '70's with his buddy, Victor. I can't even begin to tell y'all what a pleasure its been to have John Kirkland as one of your close golfing pals! His son, Cody, is pretty good too.
 
Getty said:
I've been playing with a 75yo dude at least one a week. He parked a 333' hole yesterday with a RHBH. He then almost did it again with a LHBH. The dude has all kinds of stories about touring with the Harlem Globetrotters in the '70's with his buddy, Victor. I can't even begin to tell y'all what a pleasure its been to have John Kirkland as one of your close golfing pals!
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I had the pleasure to play with PDGA #100 in 2021 (at Torma Town in Charlotte). Kirkland threw the best drive I've ever seen at Torma Town on hole 13. Long tee to Long basket is dead straight very tight narrow tree lined fairway. He laced it dead straight about 330 ft. What a legend! Has he told you the story about how the Super Puppy came into being when the Puppy mold got broken? It's a classic.
 
Getty said:
I forgot to mention that he calls me "young man". Right...I'm a strapping young 63yo buck lol.
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I'm reminded that when he came by to visit our course, I couldn't meet him, so I enlisted #1213 down the road, to show him around. I wonder if John called Alan "newbie"?
 
DavidSauls said:
I'm reminded that when he came by to visit our course, I couldn't meet him, so I enlisted #1213 down the road, to show him around. I wonder if John called Alan "newbie"?
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When we were down at your place a couple or three years ago we did a late afternoon round at Crooked Creek and had a chance run in with "The Beav". Great seeing him. He's another one whose game has held up well. [emoji106][emoji41]


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