Biggest Disc Golf Pet Peeve

[Hampstead]

I ran into the casserole of pet peeves yesterday. A family, with an old lady, a little kid and a dog, walked into the middle of the course and then threw at the wrong basket. The little kid was throwing about 10' at a time. This had most of the course at a standstill as the family tried to figure out what they were doing.

 

[Hampstead]

This is incorrect, unless it's on private land. In a public, multi-use park, disc golf will always lose to someone being hit by a disc. It doesn't matter if they have 100 acres to go and have a picnic. You don't throw on people who have just as much right to be there as you do.

A road is always a road. Some people like to jaywalk. If they do and they get hit by a car, they are at fault for being where they shouldn't be.

 

[ohtobediscing]

Not trying to single you out-just using yours as an example. I don't agree with this line of thought. These parks have plenty of places to do other activities. The disc golf course is a disc golf course. We should not have to skip a hole any more than golfers should on a muni golf course.

People even set up photo shoots on our course. Again, lots of space there not in a fairway. We warn. If they fail to head, too bad for them. I have plenty of insurance and jurisprudence on my side.

I see your humanity has been sublimated by the twisted, despicable Les Miles.

 

[Major Tomahawk]

When new courses designed by amateurs are put into the ground without properly thinking them through thoroughly.:doh:

 

[ru4por]

I ran into the casserole of pet peeves yesterday. A family, with an old lady, a little kid and a dog, walked into the middle of the course and then threw at the wrong basket. The little kid was throwing about 10' at a time. This had most of the course at a standstill as the family tried to figure out what they were doing.

Sound like an outstanding opportunity to be an ambassador of disc golf.

A road is always a road. Some people like to jaywalk. If they do and they get hit by a car, they are at fault for being where they shouldn't be.

So....the real discussion here has been, do you stop the car for the jay walker or gun it disregarding the possibility of hitting the jaywalker. I mean, it is a road. :wall:

Or did I just miss some interwebz sarcasm?

 

[Steve West]

..We should not have to skip a hole any more than golfers should on a muni golf course.

The muni golf courses have a law against being on the course except to play golf. Why not get your city to pass a similar law for disc golf courses?

The other half of the law usually says you can't play golf in parks anywhere but on a golf course, just to make sure the activity is separate.

Until you get that law and get people off the course, the status is that we SHOULDN"T have to skip holes, but sometimes we DO have to. Even according to our own rules.

801.04 Courtesy
A. Players should not throw until they are certain that the thrown disc will not distract another player or potentially injure anyone present.

 

[Hampstead]

Sound like an outstanding opportunity to be an ambassador of disc golf.


It was far enough away from me that all I could do was shake my head and grumble about it.



So....the real discussion here has been, do you stop the car for the jay walker or gun it disregarding the possibility of hitting the jaywalker. I mean, it is a road. :wall:

Or did I just miss some interwebz sarcasm?

In that scenario, I would stop for the jaywalker, assuming I saw them first, and then go to the nearest car and driver forum and start a thread about it.

no, no sarcasm at all

 

[wayne obidowicz]

multi use parks

you know the point here is a lot of park uses don't care for the disc golf courses or the golfers. so why would you do anything that puts the the game or the golfer in a bad light. grow up put on a happy face and play on.

 

[Stardoggy]

Yeah, what wayne said, but with better punctuation and capitalization.

 

[Hyzer Ale]

I feel someone sitting in the middle of the fairway to have a picnic is akin to a group of people setting up a temporary soccer field at a multi-use park, and a families decides to sit down and have a picnic at midfield. In the later example; If you still have your soccer game and someone plows into the family and injures someone, the soccer player is most likely considered at fault. It sucks that there really is nothing that can be done about it other than educating the public. That and Pay to Play courses.

That being said. We have nice big signs at our courses that say "This park is for disc golf only". So we have that going for us... Which is nice.

 

[scarpfish]

Not trying to single you out-just using yours as an example. I don't agree with this line of thought. These parks have plenty of places to do other activities. The disc golf course is a disc golf course. We should not have to skip a hole any more than golfers should on a muni golf course.

One difference between the disc golf course and the ball golf course is generally the latter has fully dedicated space which its users help pay for.

I generally hate having walkers, bikers, and fishermen in/near the line of fire on occasion, but without those other activities intertwined, the parks department has a lot less incentive to keep the course mowed for one niche activity to have free access to it.

 

[Toro71]

you know the point here is a lot of park uses don't care for the disc golf courses or the golfers. so why would you do anything that puts the the game or the golfer in a bad light. grow up put on a happy face and play on.

I don't care for picincs or picnicers. I've really never understood the mentality of voluntarily eating outdoors when it's over 67 degrees.

But that doesn't mean I'm going to go set up a practice basket on top of their picnic basket.

But to be clear, being annoyed by someone doesn't mean throwing into them. I don't do that even when someone takes several minutes to walk against the direction of play down the fairway toward me waiting on the teepad, and as they pass by me, THEY look at ME like I'VE got a d**k growing out of MY forehead. That sticks in a man's craw, but I'm all smiles about it.

And keep in mind, I'm not talking about some janky course that's baskets tossed around a playground and ball field complex. I mean dedicated area carved out of the woods, with a kiosk, signage, etc. None of which indicate "dual purpose dg course and mountain bike trial."

 

[BENFTS]

I was a spotter.

When Brian Graham shakes your hand and promises that it will be taken care of.

And then when you submit the bills to their insurance company and they give you the run around over and over again.

So yeah.

Are you the guy that was hit by GG at the memorial?

 

[Tfire25]

Yeah, what wayne said, but with better punctuation and capitalization.

Lmao!

That sux danjon. If it was gg I'm surprised you are alive. That guy can launch some plastic.

 

[Major Tomahawk]

Another pet peeve

It's "scrip", not "script"!

 

[PMantle]

One difference between the disc golf course and the ball golf course is generally the latter has fully dedicated space which its users help pay for.

I generally hate having walkers, bikers, and fishermen in/near the line of fire on occasion, but without those other activities intertwined, the parks department has a lot less incentive to keep the course mowed for one niche activity to have free access to it.

I guess ours is different. It's mowed and maintained because of disc golf and disc golf alone. None of those other activities should be going on there, as there are other places in this gigantic park to do it. It's massive and really set up well for those other people. Despite this, we sometimes find someone actually using a pad for their picnic, or setting up a photo shoot in a fairway. Anyway, that is my peeve. How it should be handle is not something I am going to comment on any more.

 

[ru4por]

It's "scrip", not "script"!

Well, in defense of the "script" users, this is probably a more common word that "scrip". Scrip is generally reserved for use in money replacement terms...gift certificates, military payment.

Hollywood scripts, short for medical perscriptions, and computer programming all would be the correct usage of the word script.

While I wholeheartedly respect your pet peeve, I find very few occasions where the word scrip is even used, let alone incorrectly.

 

[ZAMson]

While I wholeheartedly respect your pet peeve, I find very few occasions where the word scrip is even used, let alone incorrectly.

Yeah they'll normally just grow the sport by calling scrip schwag. As in, "look at all this schwag I won at the disc golf tournament." :doh:

 

[ejvogie]

We usually call it "Payout" or "Plastic". I've never heard scrip used, and almost never hear s(ch)wag.

 

[ZAMson]

We usually call it "Payout" or "Plastic". I've never heard scrip used, and almost never hear s(ch)wag.

Those are certainly more prevalent terms for payout. In general usage people confuse swag/schwag too much. That only surprises me inside the DG world, for reasons which we can never ever ever ever discuss.