I love disc golf, I really do. I love hiking through the woods and navigating open fields. I love the challenges and relaxing atmosphere. When I went out yesterday, I didn't think about getting a tick, but when I woke up this morning, I had a pain on the top of my head. After going to the doctor, I was quite pleased with the fact that I caught it within 24 hours, meaning there is a less than 1 percent chance of Lyme Disease. I was wondering if anybody else has any disc golfing related injuries or infestations worth noting.
All of mine are relatively minor. I always keep a first aid kit and snake venom kit in my bag for emergencies and have been very lucky to not get any type of poison...which I don't know how I have been this lucky and stayed away from the snake I ran into that cost me losing a disc because I didn't want to get any where near it.
After a tourney I played, when I changed shirts I noticed something black sticking out of my stomach. As I looked closer it was a very small stick.
I rolled my ankle 2x, the last time it was bad enough I had to take my shirt off and sit down on the grass so I didn't pass out. Both times I have rolled my ankle, it was the same hole on the same disc golf hole on the same disc golf course.
On a course I've played at there is a steep walk up man made staircase to get to an elevated tee. I had my hand close to weeds while walking up the staircase that the designers made and some type of animal gave me a warning shot to my knuckles on my right hand. Still don't know what it was. It never broke the skin.
Done a forward roll after drive because the end of the tee pad was muddy.
Trying to recover a terrible shot, as I was walking to get to it, the log I tried to walk on to get it all of a sudden gave way and I ended up on my back.
Thorns and I have a very close relationship. During the same tourney I got the tick at, I threw a shot that went deep into a thorn bush. After my throw I was trying to get out of the bush and one of the thorns nailed my ear. I didn't realize how bad it was until the guys I was playing with looked at me and said you need to take care of that. Blood was going down the side of my face.
This isn't so much of an injury but it is my favorite story so far and this happened because I was trying to not get injured. Threw a bad shot and for my next shot I had to stretch out to have any type of chance at throwing the shot. In the process of sliding more from stretching too far I bent down to stop from falling and my pants ripped from my knee to my crotch. It was the same tourney mentioned above and I had to play the rest of the 2 round tourney with a long sleeve wrapped around my lower half. Made it look like I was wearing a kilt.
