Guys draggin carts along...

[Spatula Cornroll]

I just carry less discs, and learn to do more with them. I don't need to carry around a disc golf store. I use a deluxe bag to carry 9 discs, and 4 beers. And use the pockets for other fun stuff. A cart would just get in the way, and I don't like being laughed at.

 

[WillACarpenter]

The reason I'd like a cart is that most of my local courses have very short walks from basket to tee...so there's not a lot of time you need to be carrying the bag, and it's a little bit of a PITA to put both straps on most of the time...but I got quads so I *wouldn't* carry with one shoulder...on those courses a cart would be killer.

I got a SWEET old golf pull cart at a church yard sale for $2.00. I figure if I spend less than $20 modifying it then it's well worth the price.

I haven't yet mind you...but I want to.

\/\/

 

[discspeed]

I too laughed the first time I saw someone pulling a cart on the course. At the time I was carrying 3 discs in an improvised cardboard 6-pack beer bottle holder.


Anyway, these days this is how I roll...

 

[mashnut]

I've seen a guy down at Buffalo Grove, IL. with a cart with 3 bins of tupperware full of discs.

had to be carrying at least 60 discs. it's a wide open 9 hole course with the longest hole around 420 feet. He was throwing 5-10 discs a drive, most of which were r-pro bosses. Tons of bad throws, at least 9/10 and he was cursing, blaming the wind, or the degree of hyzer every throw.

Our group of 3 just sat and watched, as he didn't allow us or the group who was behind us (that went ahead of us and him) go ahead of him. Like he loved the attention to his bad throws.

That was my only experience with a disc cart, and apparantly he's a regular at that course.

Yeah, that's Spaz. You really don't want to be behind him, he doesn't like to let people play through, and as you're sitting there waiting he'll tell you about all his "aces" on that course (he empties his bins on the shorter holes every time I've seen him play, the one day he was letting people play through because he sat on the easiest hole on the course for over an hour shooting for an ace).

 

[cyberspace wrangler]

you have a problem when someone has a cart. why focus on your own game when someone is pulling/pushing a cart??? Really WillACarpenter ??? I love the lack of intelligence on this board at times. someone's cart makes my p*ssy hurt. i dont like carts cause they make me laugh. funny stuff. i could careless if you carried you disc in your butt. i just wont pick them up for you. do what you like, like what you do cause someone will always hate.

 

[agent_peebody]

easy guy...take a chill pill

 

[chain-addicted]

you have a problem when someone has a cart. why focus on your own game when someone is pulling/pushing a cart??? Really WillACarpenter ??? I love the lack of intelligence on this board at times. someone's cart makes my p*ssy hurt. i dont like carts cause they make me laugh. funny stuff. i could careless if you carried you disc in your butt. i just wont pick them up for you. do what you like, like what you do cause someone will always hate.

opcorn:

 

[giles]

I've got a modified baby jogger. I can hang 2 revo, or similar, bags on it (mine and my wife's) and have a nice mini cube cooler. The real benefit it is, I mounted a bucket on the front for trash and go to great lengths to keep the courses I play clean. I've also mounted a propane heater once in the winter and a fan a few times in the summer to keep the wife happy. It is admittedly a bit goofy but if I was worried about looking cool, I probably wouldn't be playing disc golf...

 

[Dthunderchicken]

I herniated a disc in my neck in April and it pinched the radial nerve down my right arm. I made myself a cart out of an old ball golf cart and it saves me a ton of "on and off my shoulder" and a ton of "up and down".

I did the same thing when I hurt my lower back and had just bought a 20 disc bag. I never did really like it though (The cart I used was a cheap piece of junk.) When my pain subsided I went back to a 10 disc bag.

 

[Deaf Leopard]

Shopping list:
Beer
Cream Cheese
Bagels
Golf Cart

 

[sloppydisc]

I think you should use whatever makes you play fast enough to get out of people's way. If the cart helps you out that's cool. If you need it due to an injury that is cool too. If you are just really out of shape then you should spend less time with the cart, and more time working on your health. And if it is full of beer, you should share with me as I play through.

 

[1978]

What are these "joint soothers" you speak of?

I use oxy

 

[1978]

I don't use a cart, but I am at Winthrop in US Doubles. I'll probably carry an extra 10 discs because of the water lost disc factor and I dont want them all on my back.

I think Barry uses the cart because he is paid to. That think looks like a porta john on wheels.

 

[DiscChucker]

I've got a modified baby jogger. I can hang 2 revo, or similar, bags on it (mine and my wife's) and have a nice mini cube cooler. The real benefit it is, I mounted a bucket on the front for trash and go to great lengths to keep the courses I play clean. I've also mounted a propane heater once in the winter and a fan a few times in the summer to keep the wife happy.

Bravo for keeping the course clean! :clap:

I'll tell you what, it sounds like you know how to prepare to make a round comfortable. And yeah, you have to keep the wife happy. Just like the old saying goes, "If momma ain't happy, nobody's happy."

It is admittedly a bit goofy but if I was worried about looking cool, I probably wouldn't be playing disc golf...

Best answer yet.

 

[hig2a4life]

The only time I've seen someone with a roller type bag was at Grand Woods Park in Lansing. This guy was playing with a bunch of decent players, but he was the oldest in the group (he looked pretty out of place). We walked up to the tee for #10 and there was a bit of a back-up because when you're done playing the hole, you have to double back and cross the creek to get to the #11 tee. As we were walking up, this guy was busy complaining about his playing partners ruining the game or some other such BS because they wanted to play the alternate holes that were still up from a tournament. I looked at his pull cart he had set up and I thought "wow, this guy looks like a moron and is acting like one too." So he took a sip of his MGD64 and then walked over to this contraption. It was a golf pull cart with an old green leather ball golf bag on it, but he had cut out a 3 foot section in the middle of the bag and put in shelving and dividers. This looked like it had to have taken him hours to construct in the garage while he was busy avoiding his wife of 30 years. He took his sweet time figuring out what disc to throw, carefully looking over each one, taking one out, then putting it back deciding it was not the perfect disc. (Let's keep in mind, this is a 480 foot hole, slightly uphill with a valley/creek in front of the basket which makes it smart to just throw a long mid or a fairway driver and leave yourself an easy upshot). He finally settles on a beat to death DX Cheetah that looks like it was the first disc ever made. He contemplates his shot very carefully, runs up and does the most ridiculous jerking motion I have ever seen and I realize he's trying to super anhyzer his backhand so it rolls. sure enough, the disc pops out of his hand and hits the ground 10 feet in front of the tee pad, then BAM hits a tree and stops dead for an impressive 30 feet of total distance. He mumbled something about the wind and wheeled his pull cart to the tree to repeat this process. I couldn't even watch him play the rest of the hole and from that point forward, I could never take someone with a rolling bag seriously.

 

[discspeed]

I couldn't even watch him play the rest of the hole and from that point forward, I could never take someone with a rolling bag seriously.

Because surely everybody with a cart is exactly like that guy...:doh:

 

[hangwind]

you have a problem when someone has a cart. why focus on your own game when someone is pulling/pushing a cart??? Really WillACarpenter ??? I love the lack of intelligence on this board at times. someone's cart makes my p*ssy hurt. i dont like carts cause they make me laugh. funny stuff. i could careless if you carried you disc in your butt. i just wont pick them up for you. do what you like, like what you do cause someone will always hate.

My apologies in advance...

you have a problem when someone has a cart.

I don't have a problem with someone being gay, I have many gay friends, that is their choice, I'm comfortable with mine.

why focus on your own game when someone is pulling/pushing a cart???

I do focus on my own game, I am also aware of my surroundings.

Really WillACarpenter ??? I love the lack of intelligence on this board at times.

Are you giving the board an example and not even knowing it?

someone's cart makes my p*ssy hurt.

They make creams for this and I suggest not letting others effect you.

i dont like carts cause they make me laugh.

I enjoy laughing, I don't enjoy laughing at others. I posted the thread because I want to know why guys pull carts around. Writing that here will let me know why from a bunch of people. I don't laugh at people who are handicapped, I'm not laughing at you.

funny stuff.

Comedians make people laugh at the expense of others, just sayin...

i could careless if you carried you disc in your butt.

If you stick a disc in your crack and walk the course, you will be arrested.

i just wont pick them up for you.

I am a nice person but if you are out there throwing, you probably are able to shag your own discs, I won't be picking them up for you unless you have a heart attack and then I will keep you alive until the ambulance arrives.

do what you like, like what you do cause someone will always hate.

There is that hate word again.

I think it's ok not to like something and write about it without being a hater.

 

[hangwind]

I think you should use whatever makes you play fast enough to get out of people's way. If the cart helps you out that's cool. If you need it due to an injury that is cool too. If you are just really out of shape then you should spend less time with the cart, and more time working on your health. And if it is full of beer, you should share with me as I play through.

LIKE

 

[hig2a4life]

Because surely everybody with a cart is exactly like that guy...:doh:

I would hope not, but it's like golf. When I see someone with all the stupid gadgets and practice aids and anti-slice tees, I think they're terrible or gullible or both. You don't need all the extras to go out and play. If this guy had a problem carrying a lot of discs, he should just bring a putter and his cheetah. It was clear to me (as witnessed on subsequent holes) that he basically only throws a stupid cheetah roller shot that goes nowhere and then throws his putter. If he had a legit reason to be carrying 35 discs and had some limitation that prevented him from carrying them on his back that's cool, but he did not. Really, I do just find the rolling bags to be unnecessary for a single am player who is shooting 30 over on a relatively easy course. A rolling bag has its place and some people have pointed out those situations (carrying discs and other things for multiple players or for carrying a cooler or whatever).

 

[chain-addicted]

I don't use a cart, but I am at Winthrop in US Doubles. I'll probably carry an extra 10 discs because of the water lost disc factor and I dont want them all on my back.

I think Barry uses the cart because he is paid to. That think looks like a porta john on wheels.

Barry's cart is the shat.

I seen him rolling that thing around at the Carolina Clash this year. I was thinkin to myself, "Dang.... If only I had a cart, I would be as good as Barry..."