Dan-hyzer
Bogey Member
Hey DG'ers,
My lovely wife surprised me on the morning of my birthday with an innova skillshot portable basket. After playing with it for about an hour, she surprised me with a second skillshot basket! W00t! What a wife, huh!?
Anyways, it's been the best tool I've ever had for improving my putting. In about a week, I've gone from being about 60% from 20' to being above 90%. My wife had another idea and that was to use the two baskets similar to horseshoe pits. Well that might be a tad easier said than done, but I just love the concept. I'm planning to order 8 of the same putters, four in one color and four in a second color.
My problem is to create rules for this "horsehoe-like" game. Sinking a shot in the basket is easy to correlate to a "ringer" in horsehoes. The sticking point is what DG analog(s) to correlate to a horseshoe "leaner" and a horseshoe "close-enough for one point".
I've also played a game with beanbags called "cornhole." In that game, getting the bag in the hole is 3 points and getting it on the board is one point.
So I was thinking of cutting up some old garden hose and using a garden-hose repair coupler to make circles of a particular diameter to place the portable baskets within. If the disc misses the basket but lands within the circle, it would be worth one point.
Anyways, before I re-invent the wheel, I thought I would ask you hard-core DG'ers out there if this issue already has a solution.
We've played a modified version of H-O-R-S-E with the baskets. It just takes so long to finish a game. So we changed it to P-I-G but it still takes a long time.
Regardless, I've noticed just how fast putting skills improve just by all the repetition. As long as the repetition is in the context of a little game like Horseshoes, Cornhole, or P-I-G, it hardly seems like it's boring time spent putting ad-nauseum.
I just need rules to make this a faster and more enjoyable game.
Any and All ideas are greatly appreciated! Thanks!
Dan-Hyzer
My lovely wife surprised me on the morning of my birthday with an innova skillshot portable basket. After playing with it for about an hour, she surprised me with a second skillshot basket! W00t! What a wife, huh!?
Anyways, it's been the best tool I've ever had for improving my putting. In about a week, I've gone from being about 60% from 20' to being above 90%. My wife had another idea and that was to use the two baskets similar to horseshoe pits. Well that might be a tad easier said than done, but I just love the concept. I'm planning to order 8 of the same putters, four in one color and four in a second color.
My problem is to create rules for this "horsehoe-like" game. Sinking a shot in the basket is easy to correlate to a "ringer" in horsehoes. The sticking point is what DG analog(s) to correlate to a horseshoe "leaner" and a horseshoe "close-enough for one point".
I've also played a game with beanbags called "cornhole." In that game, getting the bag in the hole is 3 points and getting it on the board is one point.
So I was thinking of cutting up some old garden hose and using a garden-hose repair coupler to make circles of a particular diameter to place the portable baskets within. If the disc misses the basket but lands within the circle, it would be worth one point.
Anyways, before I re-invent the wheel, I thought I would ask you hard-core DG'ers out there if this issue already has a solution.
We've played a modified version of H-O-R-S-E with the baskets. It just takes so long to finish a game. So we changed it to P-I-G but it still takes a long time.
Regardless, I've noticed just how fast putting skills improve just by all the repetition. As long as the repetition is in the context of a little game like Horseshoes, Cornhole, or P-I-G, it hardly seems like it's boring time spent putting ad-nauseum.
I just need rules to make this a faster and more enjoyable game.
Any and All ideas are greatly appreciated! Thanks!
Dan-Hyzer