How Long for first ace...??

[Mortis Canyon]

Been playing regularly since 2010, however no aces to date. I do know they will come to me eventually. Just gotta go out and keep chucking plastic. :clap:

 

[Slingtastic]

Hit my first one 3 weeks after I first started playing. Shot up to 5 real quick now it seems impossible haha can't be to mad about 5 in a year of playing I guess.

 

[jeffmonty]

13 years. On this hole. Fredrickson DGC. Super narrow fairway. 172 Stratus. I've had 2 more since, The 2nd with the same Stratus, and one other with a different Stratus. Longest one was #18 NAD Park, 226'. Chained out and hit metal many other times, but since I finally got that first one, I haven't really worried about the next one, lol. It's actually better to play for birdie. :thmbup:

 

[Nasty Nate]

I just have one lonely ace that I hit about a year and a half in. Blendon Woods hole 14. Just 146', but it was a beautifully thrown anhyzer around a tree with a SSS Magic. I celebrated in front of my son and nephew as if it was a 500' ace.

Yea! Nice. I just played Blendon last week for the first time in a while. Definitely a good course to ace run. Had some near shots but didn't even hit metal.

I just scored my first ace a few days ago. It took me 10 years to get it. Evans Park hole 4 which is 210 feet.

Also, it was actually my second shot from the tee so it wasn't *really* an ace. Secondsies, I am calling it.

 

[nat16dick]

I've been playing 3 years now, and no aces to speak of. I've hit chains off the tee more times than I care to think about. However, I'm not really angry about it. I know it'll happen eventually. I still get a good kick out of a par on a 500+ ft. hole, and my birdies on 400+ ft. holes are like aces to me. You just gotta set your standards a little lower

 

[rshrevo]

my first ace came after 15 or more years of playing. i have played longer but only 15 years were playing regularly. most other years i just played a round or two so didn't really count them in the calculation. have 2 basket aces and 6 post aces. all came within a year of getting the first ace.

 

[crazykrug]

26 years before I hit my one and only ace. What really torks me is my cousin got one the very first day he played, wth :wall::wall:

 

[Fishman]

Hit the chains a couple of times but nothing has stuck.

 

[Team_Stihl]

Got one the first time I ever played 5yrs ago, been hooked ever since.

 

[Hfactor]

My first was after 4 or 5 years. I actually got it one round after throwing a practice round. What I do during a practice round is throw until I am satisfied with knowing the hole off the tee. It was wide open 265''. It actually went off a tree just to the left of the pin. My first and longest lol. Have got 3 since. One during practice (throwing 8 buzzes at 1 hole over and over). One on my second drive off the tee which I do all the time if its casual. I only have one during a round where I was keeping score, which is my latest from last November.

I think practice rounds are key, and McBeth said he throws practice rounds until he is satisfied with a shot. Only with McBeth chances are he is usually satisfied after a few throws, where with me I often come back and retee all my discs again, so I go slow as hell but its worth it for all the knowledge.

The 8 buzzes on one whole was on hole one of the private property I lived on in Vermont +3 other disc golfers at the house. I didnt have any midranges in my bag for about 5 years. Just putters and drivers. So I decided it was time to learn the midrange and why not with 8 buzzes on a 200ft hole .

 

[DiscinFiend]

It really depends on what courses you play. It's different for everyone & the more pitch & putt course you play the more aces your likely to get. It took me awhile to get my first ace, I started playing when I was a toddler & got my first ace when I was 10 on a very short hole (around 200ft). I have gotten more since then but I stopped counting after 5 aces. I actually no longer count it as an ace (only for me personally) unless the hole is 300ft+. My favorite hole in one I've ever had was a hole 15 at Tendick which was a 364ft backhand shot from the pro tee. It was a perfect hyzer shot with a Champ Orc. http://www.dgcoursereview.com/course.php?id=1900&mode=hi

 

[WillGrrr]

I have 37 aces and went 15 years without one.

I think this frames the response perfectly.

 

[knettles]

I have been playing regularly for around 3 years. I got my first ace about a year in, and got a new ace about every year since, being up to 3 now. So my new one should be due next summer if things follow accordingly. Of course, I should note they've all been under 200'.

 

[hk chef]

I hit my first on Monday! A little over a year in the sport but I didn't really start playing until about march of this year. La Mirada back 18 hole 13, about 320ft

 

[Bobby Lewinski]

I got my first ace about a year and a half into playing on a course I have only played once and got my second one on my home course almost a year and a half after that.

 

[Dan Ensor]

3 years til my first, then 2 in consecutive tournaments.

 

[scarpfish]

Five years. Have had one every calendar year since. Still working on 2013. Came within inches today.

 

[ohtobediscing]

Today I hit the top of the basket[I've HIT baskets a LOT] on #6 at Ann Mo during doubles. It would've been my first basket ace[see Years Playing], and the pot was $870+. Sobsobsobsob.

 

[jeffmonty]

Today I hit the top of the basket[I've HIT baskets a LOT] on #6 at Ann Mo during doubles. It would've been my first basket ace[see Years Playing], and the pot was $870+. Sobsobsobsob.

Wow.... I don't know quite what to say. That's a long time.

"Never give up", I guess.

 

[Hyzer Ale]

I got my first one a year after starting. It was short 230'. Hit the same hole a year later but in it's longer position 315' and hidden behind some big trees. Then I went 2 years without but have hit 2 in the last month, the latter being a 320' hole that is uphill into a headwind. That was the best one so far :clap: