Hampstead
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I've been throwing frisbees most of my life. We used to play object golf when we were kids no clue that disc golf courses existed. In high school a friend of mine took me to a local course and the rest is history.
Love these stories...
I've had a few starts and stops in my lifetime. It started in 1978 in middle TN where my parents owned some acreage. Mom had about a half dozen of those old plastic laundry baskets, the ones that are about the same diameter and slightly deeper than the tray of a modern basket. The folks would put those baskets around our land and the three of us would make up "holes" to throw Frisbees at. We did this during the summers of '78-'82. We moved to OKC in Dec '82. We didn't play our game any more after we moved.
In either 1993 or '94, my friends and I were bored one day and thought it would be fun to play "Frisbee Golf". We went to the store to get some Frisbees and noticed that there were "Frisbees" made for Disc Golf. We picked up some of these unconventional "Frisbees" and went to the course. We all had a great time, but it was only something to do to pass the time. We would get together and play a few times a year until 2001. I then met my future wife and life went on. I put my discs in the closet and never really played again until...
After I got divorced in 2010, a buddy of mine (Shane) asked me if I had ever played disc golf before. He had played with his cousin (chrismalatesta on DGCR) previously but it always bothered him that Chris would utterly destroy him on the course. The two of them are very competitive. Shane and I decided that we would get some discs and play the next weekend. (I had completely forgotten that I still had my small bag full of discs so I bought completely new discs.) We had an absolute blast and Shane had someone he could compete with. This is when I absolutely got hooked on the game and have since devoted a lot of time in developing my game. Shane and I are still fairly equal in skill so it usually comes down to the last hole to determine who will win that day's round.
The folks started to realize my addiction to this game in the fall of 2010. They began to ask a lot of questions about it. Prior to that fall, they had no idea that Disc Golf was an actual sport. They thought it was something they made up in the late 70's to play with their son.
I went geocaching at a local park and in the woods I found this weird basket thing that I could not figure out what it was. After I found the cache I saw people throwing discs into it and it looked sort of fun. I mentioned this to my family later on. At the end of the quarter my aunt got me some gifts for doing well in class and one of the gifts she got me was an bright yellow aerobie arrow.
Within the next week I bought myself a DX roc and a DX beast and I started playing at the course where I found the geocache.
I had been playing catch Frisbee for years when I came upon this book. We started playing object golf right away, then I played my first basket course at West Park in 1979.
I LOVE geocaching!