Is Silence Really Golden?

[Jay Dub]

People talking during my preparation and during my throw or putt doesn't bother me. A change from silence to noise can be distracting for sure.

I will be quiet, myself, during people's throws, though. I have some interesting friends who get all out of whack with any noise at all. And the only time a car drives by, or a dog barks, or shots are fired is always when they're throwing.

We have a course here that's directly across the river from an outdoor shooting range. If anyone wants to work on their mental game this course is good for that. :gross:

 

[brutalbrutus]

We have a course here that's directly across the river from an outdoor shooting range. If anyone wants to work on their mental game this course is good for that. :gross:

Ahh, good old Heritage, great teepads, lol. I've also heard shots fired while at Airy and Dunham but I doubt the latter two were at a firing range...

 

[ru4por]

I can suck all on my own. Outside noise, movement or distractions don't bother me in the least.

 

[swhite]

Learning to focus when there are distractions is part of success.

 

[ejvogie]

 

[brutalbrutus]

There are college games that make me dizzy watching when the students section gets going during free throws. They'll have one row moving back and forth, the next doing the same but they moved the opposite direction, and so on... when they get it timed up right, it plays tricks with your eyes..:gross:

 

[zontar]

best golf video I've seen in awhile....^^^^^

 

[DG_player]

Personally I think disc golf needs to get over itself a bit.

I've only spectated a few top tier tournaments. In fairness they were wooded courses, so the marshals' jobs are a little more difficult, but I didn't find the experience to be particularly enjoyable. The marshals seemed to go way overboard and take their jobs way too seriously. You could barely get in position to see anything before you were getting told to stop moving. And half the time if you were in position to see they would tell you to move back (apparently every pro needs a 50 foot protective bubble to perform). "Give them space! Give them space!". If Tiger woods hits into the crowd he's got a line of people 4 feet from him on either side, surely McBeth can handle someone 20 feet away. If you want to grow spectators, there needs to be more balance between their needs and the players' needs. I've been to PGA tour events and they weren't nearly as bad.

 

[TheOtherBill]

I learned the game playing with a constant talker. It took several tournaments before I got used to the silence on the tee. Honestly, I could play either way now since it's always a casual round.

 

[jenb]

My tinnitus said to tell you that silence is loud.

 

[Nova P]

My tinnitus said to tell you that silence is loud.

The nice thing about my tinnitus is that it filters out all the low-level distractions, so if I do hear something, I know for sure that it was definitely loud enough to overcome that bar.

 

[Hampstead]

As long as it isn't bad music coming out of crappy speakers, a barking dog or an owner yelling at their barking dog, I don't mind ambient noise. Of course, I'm also not a top tier pro playing for hundreds of dollars.

 

[SD86]

PGA #16 at Scottsdale encourages crowd noise, players seem to do fine there.

This was the first thing I though of when I began reading this thread. Of course the golfers expect the noise there.

The problem is sudden noises just as a golfer is about to swing and hit the ball. Ditto that for a DGer about to throw and someone makes a sudden noise.

 

[jenb]

The vuvulela merchant. Coming soon to a disc golf tournament near you.

 

[cheesethin]

The problem is sudden noises just as a golfer is about to swing and hit the ball. Ditto that for a DGer about to throw and someone makes a sudden noise.

This.

And in addition, there is a big difference between a generalised crowd murmur, and your card mate talking 10' away from you. The brain responds very differently to the two sounds.



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[ToddL]

Personally I think disc golf needs to get over itself a bit.

I've only spectated a few top tier tournaments. In fairness they were wooded courses, so the marshals' jobs are a little more difficult, but I didn't find the experience to be particularly enjoyable. The marshals seemed to go way overboard and take their jobs way too seriously. You could barely get in position to see anything before you were getting told to stop moving. And half the time if you were in position to see they would tell you to move back (apparently every pro needs a 50 foot protective bubble to perform). "Give them space! Give them space!". If Tiger woods hits into the crowd he's got a line of people 4 feet from him on either side, surely McBeth can handle someone 20 feet away. If you want to grow spectators, there needs to be more balance between their needs and the players' needs. I've been to PGA tour events and they weren't nearly as bad.

Well, at least you spelled marshal correctly. Beyond that it's a difference of opinion.

 

[wolfmandragon]

I may be wrong, but the etiquette for most individual sports calls for silence. Team sports, loud as sh*t.

Personally, I like the noise and don't enjoy the feeling of everyone shutting up and holding their breath while I putt. Lot of pressure!

It's less about team sports vs individual competition as to what they are modeling: combat, hunting or survival.

Combat simulators are very loud and rambunctious(soccer, American football, MMA, boxing...).

Survival simulators tends to have cheering but much less rambunctious ( cross country, Olympic weightlifting...)

Hunting simulators tend to be very quite. One, after all, does not want to spook the game. (Golf, archery, darts... and yes, disc golf.)

Just as there are combat simulators that are individual(MMA), there are hunting simulators (long range shooting) that are team based. MMA is loud whilst long range shooting is very quite.

 

[wolfmandragon]

Most of the time... I'm too busy dealing with the voices in my own head to worry about what other people are doing/saying...:|

Also, between the 7 or 8 years I spent in jr bowling leagues and the group I used to disc with on the weekends, you get used to it pretty quickly.

Dude, you play at a course that every 20 minutes one has to drop to the ground and cover ones ears just to keep them from rupturing from the noise. Can you even hear someone razzing you now.

 

[brutalbrutus]

I don't even notice the planes anymore at Idlewild.

 

[ToddL]

I don't even notice the planes anymore at Idlewild.

A nice things about planes is that they're constant noise.

I can play just fine with a car alarm blaring in the background. But when the alarm stops making noise right in the middle of a putt, I'm guaranteed to miss.