Ethiopia? Been hearing that since I was knee high to a grasshopper. At least go with a top 15 hungry nation.
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BuiltTooLong
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I can't really support her PDGA bashing, just relaying her message. Seems like if all the players had to deal with limited warmup space, its equal, and if any of them were smart enough to find one of those fields, more power to them.
Hungry kids are hungry kids regardless of location.
Irrelevant to the point that MTL finds a straw man negative to Brodie's action.
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Nice action on his end to rent the facility. I do find it slightly humorous he also felt the need to tweet that he rented it out with the price. Versus just letting the news of this action organically spread around and let others/his sponsors praise the good deed.
PDGA claims that the driving range actually was available for players to practice on all along.
https://twitter.com/pdga_dvo/status/1407409709737385984
Seems like there was miscommunication somewhere along the line.
https://twitter.com/pdga_dvo/status/1407409709737385984
Seems like there was miscommunication somewhere along the line.
They rented HALF of the range? I can't think what could possibly go wrong with that. Either I'm completely misunderstanding what's in that picture, or that's a lawsuit waiting to happen.
One message says Half of the driving range was already reserved for disc golf. So if the other half was open to golfers, how were the disc golfers supposed to retrieve their discs safely?
This may have already been sorted out ahead of time. But I wouldn't want to walk onto Half of a driving range to retrieve my discs.
Your face is a straw man negative to Brodie's action.
Seriously tho... In Iverson tone... We talkin about disc golf?
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There was no driving range warm up area @ Smuggs in 18. Just nets. It was fine. The entitlement grows by the day with that crowd.
Hampstead
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As the sport gets bigger, Worlds seems to shrink. Interesting.
And there was nets at Mulligans, and there are nets at The Fort, for warmups. I vastly prefer warming up into a net because you can get way more throws off and get up to speed quicker. I'm very very far from being a pro and I can still easily tell when throwing into a net from 20 feet away if my throw is off/needs adjusting or not, I can't imagine any pro who can't do the same. I fail to see the controversy here, seems completely unnecessary and/or manufactured for attention.
I don't think you can.
BruisedOoze
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Given all the talk about having to adjust to altitude and changes in disc flight, they probably want the driving range to become comfortable with changes in their discs' flight. Just guessing.
You can guess all you want at how your feel translates into a net 25-50' away. But until you see it - you're just guessing. You need to know what, in the current conditions, your disc is doing all the way to the ground.
I can bring myself to the exact hand feel I want on a net, but if I'm playing in varying conditions I VERY MUCH prefer being able to get a handle on how it translates to a full flight path on any given day. Even if you've been in town for the Utah Open you still have some variety every single day. And let's keep in mind: at their level it is a FULL SPRINT. You can't leave a single easy birdie out there if you want a world title.
Going into a round as off as most of us feel when we are on is not good enough.
dehaas
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Dude I think he's agreeing with you?
The "guess" at why they wanted a driving range as opposed to nets was because he's probably never played at elevation and isn't sure how much of a difference it makes.
And so everybody is clear, I'm agreeing with you, who I think is actually agreeing with him.
But yeah…worlds where pros need flippier stuff…interesting…
The "guess" at why they wanted a driving range as opposed to nets was because he's probably never played at elevation and isn't sure how much of a difference it makes.
And so everybody is clear, I'm agreeing with you, who I think is actually agreeing with him.
But yeah…worlds where pros need flippier stuff…interesting…
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Golf comes from the Old Dutch word for Club, Kolf/Kolve.
Would have been a weird word to steal for Discus.
Flick Maniac
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I 100% can feel when I'm off, and it's usually the same couple things I get lazy about. But it's fundamental things, not super minute details of the throw that the pros are most likely focusing on. So, I can definitely understand how being better could make diagnosing issues more difficult now that I think about it a little more.
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Your other replies you do bring up good points that I didn't think of, though. I definitely didn't think about how much more precise pros are with their shots when making my post before and how you can't do that as well into a net. When I warm up I trying to hit a line, I'm not focusing super much on angles and definitely not focusing on controlling angles during the mid or late flight into the landing since I can hardly even do that on a good day anyway. Pros obviously need to focus on those minute details to warmup properly and you can't do that into a net, as you pointed out, especially at elevation where discs fly much differently than most people are used to.
So, when thinking about it I can see the frustration with the driving range at Mulligans. But what exactly are they supposed to do for a range big enough to throw full shots at The Fort? There just doesn't seem like there's space in any at all convenient place. If a warmup area with a 600+ foot driving range is to made a requirement for majors/worlds in the future I'm not going to say there shouldn't be, but there are definitely world class courses where that is just simply not a possibility including many that the tour already plays every year.
I can't imagine that places like WACO, Dela, Iron Hill, or even Jonesboro, when looking at the property they sit on, among others have enough space for a range big enough for pros to warm up full shots. If I am incorrect, please tell me, but if I'm not why has this only become a problem now if it's such a major issue to not have a driving range available. Or is it specifically just the fact that they are at elevation that makes this course different?
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