Feel free to tell me if I'm full of crap. Or that I suck. Either is fine if you've got a good reason.
I see a lot of DGers with a lot of aces, even people who have played fewer rounds than me (though probably not that many, as I'm barely a year in).
I'm sure some of it has to do with the courses they're playing - maybe they're more the older style with holes from 200 to 300 feet predominantly.
But I'm wondering, too, if there's something to the idea of an "ace mentality."
For example, the first hole at Moraine is a hole that, particularly with the basket in the A position, you could ace. But my play there is always to throw something online and about 0 to 20 feet short of the basket. I don't throw long because there's more trouble there, and the overhanging trees make throwing a high shot that spikes down near the basket if it doesn't go in impractical.
You could ace it, but I think the average score laying up beats the average score of "going for the ace."
The same is true of a few other holes at Moraine, and a lot of the courses I play. They often don't have a bunch of sky for which you can play more of a spiking shot. If your disc is still three feet off the ground at 300 feet out, it'll likely go into a bush or leave you a 40' putt coming back.
Now, there are a few ace run holes where there are trees or bushes or a hill behind the basket that aren't bad, or there's more air to play a safer "ace run" shot, but they're not plentiful.
So, do you think that some players have more of an "ace mentality" on these kinds of holes (or "eagle mentality" for the second shot on par fours), or is it something else?
I see a lot of DGers with a lot of aces, even people who have played fewer rounds than me (though probably not that many, as I'm barely a year in).
I'm sure some of it has to do with the courses they're playing - maybe they're more the older style with holes from 200 to 300 feet predominantly.
But I'm wondering, too, if there's something to the idea of an "ace mentality."
For example, the first hole at Moraine is a hole that, particularly with the basket in the A position, you could ace. But my play there is always to throw something online and about 0 to 20 feet short of the basket. I don't throw long because there's more trouble there, and the overhanging trees make throwing a high shot that spikes down near the basket if it doesn't go in impractical.
You could ace it, but I think the average score laying up beats the average score of "going for the ace."
The same is true of a few other holes at Moraine, and a lot of the courses I play. They often don't have a bunch of sky for which you can play more of a spiking shot. If your disc is still three feet off the ground at 300 feet out, it'll likely go into a bush or leave you a 40' putt coming back.
Now, there are a few ace run holes where there are trees or bushes or a hill behind the basket that aren't bad, or there's more air to play a safer "ace run" shot, but they're not plentiful.
So, do you think that some players have more of an "ace mentality" on these kinds of holes (or "eagle mentality" for the second shot on par fours), or is it something else?