I know we have lost discs in strange places, but what about finding a disc in a strange place. Could be on the course, or could be on the side of the road. I am sure we all have stories.
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Strangest Place You Ever Found A Disc
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One that comes to mind happened about a month ago. We were playing #9 at River Grove DGC in Kingwood. Very heavily wooded course, as I have posted pics before.
Hole #11 runs along side of #9 and they guys on that hole had wandered onto our fairway looking for a lost disc. We helped them look for a few minutes, and someone spotted a disc in a tree. We found his disc, and in the same tree right next to his was a DX Eagle. Had no name or number, so the guy got his disc back and got a bonus disc also.
On that same course on hole #3, my brother had made a shot with an orange disc, and it hit a tree and went off into some think woods. I went to help him find his disc, and I spotted an orange disc on the ground. I told him" I found your disc". He was about 30 feet ahead of me and said "No you didn't , I just found it over here". I kept telling him that his disc was over by me, but he insisted he had found his disc. I went and got the disc I spotted,and it turned out to be someone else's disc.
I called they number and they guy said he had lost that disc about 5 months ago.He told me we could keep it, because he had replaced it a while ago. I thought it was intersting how my brother and I thought we had both found his disc.
Hole #11 runs along side of #9 and they guys on that hole had wandered onto our fairway looking for a lost disc. We helped them look for a few minutes, and someone spotted a disc in a tree. We found his disc, and in the same tree right next to his was a DX Eagle. Had no name or number, so the guy got his disc back and got a bonus disc also.
On that same course on hole #3, my brother had made a shot with an orange disc, and it hit a tree and went off into some think woods. I went to help him find his disc, and I spotted an orange disc on the ground. I told him" I found your disc". He was about 30 feet ahead of me and said "No you didn't , I just found it over here". I kept telling him that his disc was over by me, but he insisted he had found his disc. I went and got the disc I spotted,and it turned out to be someone else's disc.
I called they number and they guy said he had lost that disc about 5 months ago.He told me we could keep it, because he had replaced it a while ago. I thought it was intersting how my brother and I thought we had both found his disc.
phishbrained
Par Member
A few years back found a green and yellow tie die stratus in the bushes sticking out into the fairway on hole four in civics. It looked like it was floating in the bushes, as it was parallel to the ground. No name no number and no one else on course but my group, so I kept it.
I don't know how common this is, but last weekend I found a Mini marker about 20 from the basket. No name and number of course. It was from last years "Worlds Biggest Disc Golf Weekend".
I am surprised at how many discs I find just laying out in the open?! Sometimes, I can see where they may have been stuck in a tree and fell out or something, but I'm talking just out in the wide open.
NovaDiscHead
Birdie Member
I think I win this one...
I'm driving home from Giles Creek, after another gruelling round, and as I come to the intersection of Furnace and Lorton Road, something red catches my eye on the side of the road. I stopped, the car, and ran across the road, which honestly wasn't the safest thing to do, and it indeed was an Odyssey Desk.
The disc had a name and number on it, so I did the right thing and called the owner. He laughed his ass off when I called, said he hated the disc, and gave it away. I think someone grew tired of it (it's got a nasty hook) and tossed it from the scenic overlook by the pro basket for 15.
I'm driving home from Giles Creek, after another gruelling round, and as I come to the intersection of Furnace and Lorton Road, something red catches my eye on the side of the road. I stopped, the car, and ran across the road, which honestly wasn't the safest thing to do, and it indeed was an Odyssey Desk.
The disc had a name and number on it, so I did the right thing and called the owner. He laughed his ass off when I called, said he hated the disc, and gave it away. I think someone grew tired of it (it's got a nasty hook) and tossed it from the scenic overlook by the pro basket for 15.
I think sometimes people are playing at dusk and have a much harder time seeing/finding their discs. At least that's happened to me a few times.
80playedin10states
Banned
most of the ones i find on my local course are in the open also...very strange...what happens most of the time, i believe, is thte person throws 6-7 shots on a hole and forgets one
phishbrained
Par Member
DWILL, this is what happens to me if I'm playing with lighter colored discs. The glare or the sun setting mixed with the dark shadows makes it really hard to find discs and ive lost 2 this way. Alot of the time Im the first one on the course in the morning though and I've found many discs in the open from this.
I guess another possibility is that they throw a drive. Pull out a mid-range, or another disc, leaving their driver disc to use as a marker, throw the next shot, and then walk off and leave it. I've done that once or twice. Now I pick my disc up first thing and return it to my bag. If I'm going to mark it, I use a mini.
3monsterboys
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yeah i found one last week in the middle of the fairway about 50' from the pin. after i teed off i went and found my disc and it was about 3' behind the star stingray i found, no name or #. it was in very good condition too. i would say it was a good day because i played about 4 more holes and found a star leopard right next to the tee box AGAIN no name or #.
Sounds like a very forgetful person was playing ahead of you. The would be something to get to hole 18 and your bag is empty and you don't know what happened.
My wife and I were looking for a place to live a while back and we were checking out this apartment ... I opened the linen closet door and there on the shelf was a 180g blue Comet, no ink on the back. Nothing else there in the whole apartment but that disc, obviously waiting for me to come around and claim it. I showed it to the manager and sure enough, he said go ahead and keep it!
I didn't find it, but this is a great "found disc" story.
A guy I know in Oregon, had been down in NorCal and at some point, he and some buds were chucking discs off some big elevation spot into/across a river. Well, six months go by, and this guy gets a call at some early a.m. hour from a fisherman, who had scooped up one of the guys discs in his fishing net waaaaaaay off shore - had his phone # on it, so he was seeing if he wanted it back!
A guy I know in Oregon, had been down in NorCal and at some point, he and some buds were chucking discs off some big elevation spot into/across a river. Well, six months go by, and this guy gets a call at some early a.m. hour from a fisherman, who had scooped up one of the guys discs in his fishing net waaaaaaay off shore - had his phone # on it, so he was seeing if he wanted it back!
ShortBusDiscGolf
Par Member
I WAS STANDING ON IT AND DIDN'T KNOW IT. SPACE CADET!
Here's another one ... I went into the woods to (ahem) relieve myself and was just about to let fly when I noticed, right in front of me, a disc standing straight up, wedged into the underbrush. Needless to say, I changed my aim point quick like a bunny and saved that disc from a drenching!
I found a disc when I was 14. I lived right off a course and some friends and I were cutting through on the way to someone else's house. I was tossing it ahead of us as I walked and as we were making our way across a soccer field in the same park, 3 Mexican gangster looking guys with a baseball bat, that were probably around 17 years old, walked up to it and picked it up. "You want this back come and get it." I told them to keep it, I had just found it and we walked off.
Thinking back it is crazy that we got "disc jacked". The really crazy part is I found the same disc a week later when a friend and I were riding bikes in a completely part of town. Just sitting in the street next the car the thugs had been driving. So I got it back...
Thinking back it is crazy that we got "disc jacked". The really crazy part is I found the same disc a week later when a friend and I were riding bikes in a completely part of town. Just sitting in the street next the car the thugs had been driving. So I got it back...
I found a champ tie dye Stingray less than ten feet front of the tee at hole 3 in UNC. I was waiting for the people behind me to come up to let them play through and I just wandered around to the front of the tee to look at the pond in front and slightly below the tee. There it was, sitting in plain sight. The only thing I can think of is that the water receded and exposed it.
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