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Adjusted for inflation, the cost of discs is more-or-less a wash compared to the early 2000s. To put things into some perspective, the 2001 CE Roc, which was the OG of special runs, sold for $25 ($44 in today's dollars), and such was the demand that Innova (ZoneDriven) was still selling them at...
My nephew got married at Wickham Park in Manchester, CT back in '21. The venue overlooked hole 7 (tee was maybe 70 yards downhill and to the right), so of course, I did what any self-respecting disc golfer would do: I ducked out briefly during the reception and bombed a couple of drives ...
I used walk courses backwards when I was younger, but these days if I tried it, I'm gonna trip on a root or fallen branch or something and fall on my ass. 😭😛
If you're not using your rangefinder to measure elevation changes, distances to landing zones/greens, obstacles, how far you are from the corner of a dogleg, how long the carry is to clear ob, etc.[/], you're using it wrong.
Depends on how you define "useful."
A caddy book printed on TP could be EXTREMELY useful AND awesome, depending on what you had for lunch, even if it's not in the least bit informative.
Nit pick: First ESP run, maybe; actual first run, not so much.
Comets came out in '95. That's at least a decade before ESP plastic debuted. Z Comets preceded ESP as well, and, if memory serves, there were tournament stamped ESPs in the wild before the LE run. Oh ... and Ron Russell Comets were...
Download and read the Competition Manual, particularly Section 3: Player Code of Conduct.
Remember that caddies are subject to all the rules and regulations set out in the rulebook and the Competition Manual, and that infractions by caddies are charged to the player they're caddieing for.
Did they follow the prescribed procedure? Yes. That makes the call correct, irrespective of whether or not the determination of whether or not the disc ever crossed back inbounds.
Uh ... Harold Duvall and his brother Charlie were co-founders of Innova with Dave Dunipace and Tim Selinski. Dave is on record as saying, in multiple intervies over 20+ years, that Harold and Charlie provided the initial funding for the original Aero mold.
Unless there's a discrepancy, in which case the TD has to check the hole by hole scores and the total on the other cards to find out where error is, which raises the questions of what happens if the hole scores and the total on the player's card are correct but one or more hole scores and/or the...