Funniest/weirdest thing you've seen on the course

[Apothecary]

i was playing huntington beach 2 weeks ago and had a consistant stream of wily-eyed confederate civil war reenactors lost, wandering around the course. beards, wool (on a 93 degree day) and smiles abounded. while we were taking a smoke break we were bsing with a few of them. really nice guys. they had never heard of disc golf so we discussed our respective hobbies. we got a kick out of them. cool cats and are welcome on our course any time.

 

[Midnightbiker]

A friend and I were at River Grove Park yesterday, a heavily wooded course in Kingwood, TX. We were standing on the #8 tee, when three dogs come running out of the woods. A doberman, a big looking mutt, and a small dog of some kind. It had been raining, so there was a huge pool of standing water just to the upper right of the tee box. The big mutt, goes over to the water, and falls over sideways like he just passed out or something and just lays in the water for a few seconds. Then he rolls around in the water and gets soaking wet, and gets back up. Now, its about 65 degrees out there, so its not hot. We both figured this dog is about to get really cold really quick. The other dogs run back in to the woods, and this now big wet dog takes off after them.

We stand there laughing, and looking at each other and saying "What was that all about?" It was something to see. These dogs were having a good time.

 

[optidiscic]

A friend and I were at River Grove Park yesterday, a heavily wooded course in Kingwood, TX. We were standing on the #8 tee, when three dogs come running out of the woods. A doberman, a big looking mutt, and a small dog of some kind. It had been raining, so there was a huge pool of standing water just to the upper right of the tee box. The big mutt, goes over to the water, and falls over sideways like he just passed out or something and just lays in the water for a few seconds. Then he rolls around in the water and gets soaking wet, and gets back up. Now, its about 65 degrees out there, so its not hot. We both figured this dog is about to get really cold really quick. The other dogs run back in to the woods, and this now big wet dog takes off after them.

We stand there laughing, and looking at each other and saying "What was that all about?" It was something to see. These dogs were having a good time.

Dogs kick ass! HaHaHa...wonder if those were all runaway disc dogs!

 

[Midnightbiker]

Dogs kick ass! HaHaHa...wonder if those were all runaway disc dogs!

They way they were playing, they sure did look like they were celebrating freedom.

 

[Cooler Will]

I've seen this dude twice now.

There is some guy at Richmond Hill - the first time I saw him he just kind of emerged from the woods around hole 9, walking up the hill, strumming an electric guitar.

 

[jedwards]

That /\ is some weird sh!t

 

[m_jank]

Ive got two. Last month I sent a big hyzer right at the basket, but it was gonna skip 30 feet to the right of the basket probably (boss). Out of no where a dog runs directly under the basket. My disc skips right under its belly, hits it, and dead stops under the basket. The dog just ran off.

Earlier in the summer at firefighters park I am walking to tee 5. I here a rustling in the woods that line the hole. Out comes a bald, shirtless teenager, wearing a speedo, with huge headphones, and metallic sunglasses. He was an odd character. Ok whatever. About a week later I am getting in my car outside my house and who comes flying down my street on some sort of upright scooter device? Baldie. He just waves as he rides past, jammin in his speedo, with his bald head.

My friend and I couldnt decide whether to call him "powder" or "the silver surfer.

 

[MrFixIt]

Seen a guy kill a squirrel w/ a driver in the woods... the crazy thing ran right into the flight path as it skipped up. I think he broke his frigging neck!

 

[Midnightbiker]

Seen a guy kill a squirrel w/ a driver in the woods... the crazy thing ran right into the flight path as it skipped up. I think he broke his frigging neck!

About a week ago, we had just finished a round and were standing near the 18th basket. We heard a big "Thud" and thought it was someone throwing a disc that hit a tree. We looked a round a noticed it was a squirrel that had fallen out of a tree. The squirrel laid there for a minute . Looks like he really got his bell rung. He then got up and ran off. It was funny to see.

 

[rhino21]

1) I was at Zebulon, NC and around hole 7 or 8 I think a caught a couple off guard. So, they moved further into the woods (which they obviously didn't know I had yet to play). So when I got as far out as the course goes (holes 9 & 10), I found them again on the 10 teebox laying on the bench. Regrettably, I just moved on to 11 via an alternative route.

2) In Kinston at Barnet Park we were on hole 2, probably about 40 ft from the basket. My friend's wife (fairly calmly) says "snakesss" - and he freaks out. We look over and see two copperheads doing the dead. We kind of watch for a while as we finish out the hole. Then they unwrap and start sliding towards us (apparently unhappy about the invasion of privacy). So we move to the next teebox and the ladies are a little shaken up - but they throw both of their teeshots to the left along the edge of the woods. So I volunteer to go look for any snakes - I scan the area to make sure there aren't any snakes. When I am about to announce there are no snakes, I look down again and find about a 4 ft long water mocassin sliding by me about 3 ft away. I break off in mid sentence and then my girlfriend shouts an expletive. After that we all got sticks and anytime we went in the woods we beat the ground ferociously. I was a little shocked to find three snakes in an area of about 30 yds. But then again, I am always the one to find the snakes at a disc golf course.

 

[Midnightbiker]

1) I was at Zebulon, NC and around hole 7 or 8 I think a caught a couple off guard. So, they moved further into the woods (which they obviously didn't know I had yet to play). So when I got as far out as the course goes (holes 9 & 10), I found them again on the 10 teebox laying on the bench. Regrettably, I just moved on to 11 via an alternative route.

2) In Kinston at Barnet Park we were on hole 2, probably about 40 ft from the basket. My friend's wife (fairly calmly) says "snakesss" - and he freaks out. We look over and see two copperheads doing the dead. We kind of watch for a while as we finish out the hole. Then they unwrap and start sliding towards us (apparently unhappy about the invasion of privacy). So we move to the next teebox and the ladies are a little shaken up - but they throw both of their teeshots to the left along the edge of the woods. So I volunteer to go look for any snakes - I scan the area to make sure there aren't any snakes. When I am about to announce there are no snakes, I look down again and find about a 4 ft long water mocassin sliding by me about 3 ft away. I break off in mid sentence and then my girlfriend shouts an expletive. After that we all got sticks and anytime we went in the woods we beat the ground ferociously. I was a little shocked to find three snakes in an area of about 30 yds. But then again, I am always the one to find the snakes at a disc golf course.

Doing the dead? I think you meant "deed".

 

[Waddly Hobbins]

Seen a guy kill a squirrel w/ a driver in the woods... the crazy thing ran right into the flight path as it skipped up. I think he broke his frigging neck!

During a tourney I was at, the group I was with saw a squirrel towards the basket. We made comments about squirrel hunting with discs...next guy up came only few inches away from nailing the thing...was pretty nice approach shot too.

 

[Waddly Hobbins]

Doing the dead? I think you meant "deed".

No, and that's the most amazing part.

 

[Midnightbiker]

I was at a tournament about a year ago, and this guy was about to make his second shot, about a 90ft approach shot to the basket. There were a bird, sitting on top of the basket. The guy about to throw made the comment ."If I make this I might get two birds with this shot". We all got a good laugh , when he said that.

 

[Mushin No Shin]

Last weekend I found some pictures from a Highbridge trip after Worlds in 07.

We saw these guys by a basket on either the Blueberry or Gold course.

 

[trashmonster1985]

my girlfriend and i saw this at the hornets nest in NC. looked it up on line later and it is called a hickory-horned devil. click and zoom in to really check it out

 

[IndyGreen]

Three of us 40-somethings spent 20 minutes trying to get a disc down from a short, but very dense, tree. We threw a water bottle at it, hitting the disc several times but never freeing it. Eventually, the water bottle was stuck too. We had a branch long enough to reach the disc, but it just became entangled with the tree and the best we could do was take swipes at it. I had given up (it wasn't my disc!) but my friends were determined. One climbed the tree as high as high as he could and began jumping on the branches, trying to shake the disc loose. The other continued to wildly thrash the branch at the tree! The sight was hillarious! They looked like a couple of crazed chimpanzes! I almost passed out from laughing so hard!
(water bottle came down and it was finally successful in bringing down the disc - I didn't want to leave you hanging)

 

[MrFixIt]

Now that's funny...
I almost fell outta the chair laughing at the mental picture!!

 

[rhino21]

Doing the dead? I think you meant "deed".

Good call.

 

[dobbins66]

I've got a few:

We also had the Asian family barbecue in the basket on #6 at Shillito Park a few years ago. They had foil in the basket and chicken hanging from the chains. This was my first year playing and had to make me think for a minute.

Iroquois Park – 2006 B-Tier - Hole #14 (I was in a group with Michael Bose, Drew Smith & Boone Harrison). It was rainy and miserable all day and we got up to the tee pad which was a muddy mess. We all drive and Boone grip locks one into a tree just in front of the tee to the right. We are waiting back behind Boone while we looks for a line to throw and we notice a guy in a bright neon green sweat suit jogging (more like prancing) on the path way to the right – Nowhere near us. Boone picks a line and just as he starts to throw the guy veers off the path and heads down the slight slope headed right for our fairway. It's too late to warn Boone and as the disc heads past trees we start to wave and shout "FORE!", At the guy who seems oblivious to us. Boone had slipped and didn't know exactly what was happening. The jogger arrives at the tree line just in time to notice the black disc heading right at him, His problem is that it's very muddy and he applied the brakes a little too quickly. His feet fly up in the air(Feet up head down) and the disc appears to carom off his hip area as he land on his back and shoulders in the mud and goes sliding into the tree line. He then jumps up and goes jogging past us smiling and waving with a clump of mud on the side of his head not to mention the condition of the neon green sweat suit. We had a brief delay while we recovered after watching the guy run off. Boone got his first tourney ace later that round!

Veterans Park - Lexington Open – 2006 – Hole #13. My first tourney round with Andy Harshbarger (great guy from the Huntington WV area). We get to number 13 which goes out then down to the right with trees to beat and a honeysuckle mess on the left. Andy's drive goes in pretty deep under some thick honeysuckle and he ends up crawling on hands and knees to get in too to disc. He gets there and lays down the mini but when he picked up his disc a snake was underneath – Just about eye level. It took him a few minutes to get in there but only a second to leave. I think the group behind us thought we were in a fight because of the commotion.

Bowling Green Ams (2007 I believe) at Preston Miller Park – Sunday morning round. It might seem normal to many people but any event that makes a group of disc golfers stop and stare must be unique. It wasn't just that it was the first time I'd (or apparently many of us) ever seen a doggy Easter Egg hunt. But the two women (had to be twin sisters) in their 50's in the matching sweat outfits & pants(think Dr Seus stripes top to bottom) prancing along behind the two very small(unlike the women) Pomeranians – Who also had on the same matching stripped outfits mad us all stop for a moment. Once again I happened to be standing beside Michael Bose.