Funniest/weirdest thing you've seen on the course

[asc349]

This week a guy slipped on the box and threw a big hyzer straight up in the air. None of us saw it come down. We looked for about 20 min and he finally spotted it in an eagles nest about 40' high. He tried to knock it out but ended up pushing it deeper into the nest. I told him at least it would be safe up there, it's not like someone else is gone pick it up.

I didn't see this one myself but a guy I know saw a lady taking a dump next to a garbage can off of hole 3 @ Yetter park while her young son stood there watching. He said he was just shocked, looked at her and said, REALLY?!

Oh my home course, never know what's gonna happen there.

 

[ninjalectual1]

Looks like the target for geocache-ing (sp?)

I found something similar at Cottonwood in Colorado Springs. I opened it up hoping it was a forgotten weed stash. Alas, it only contained a piece of paper with names on it...

Ok, time for my first post. I'll bite, what is that orange thing??

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[puck'n'disc5]

Does anyone here know how mallards mate? I got to witness that happen about 10 years ago. Happened right next to the tee box on hole 6 at Woodland Park in Collinsville. Anyone else ever see that happen first hand?

 

[Improbably]

An upset middle aged woman approached me while I was unpacking tools from my car to do some coursework. She asked me if I could help her find her dead cat.

She had by her own recounting brought it to the course two weeks previously and built a cairn over it in the dark. Now she wanted to retrieve it but had forgotten which spot she had put the corpse!

Quick mental calculation: I wanted nothing to do with the situation, but I wanted a dead cat cairn on the course even less. So I asked her to describe the spot, I recognized it by description and remembered noticing a stink there. I took her to the spot and quickly gave her privacy. She wandered out of the woods a few minutes later clutching a black tote bag. She thanked me for helping and I thanked her for leaving with the dead cat.

 

[ninjalectual1]

This is a great thread, and eventually I mean to read all of it! My story that comes to mind:

It was a beautiful sunny day in Widefield, Colorado Springs. I was lining up a ~125 ft approach on hole 3, except there were two girls lounging on a blanket they hae laid out on the hillside, no more than 15-20 ft past the basket, in a prime landing zone. I tried pointing out that they were directly in the line of fire; one of them responded with some hostility (I can't recall exactly what was said), the other one explained "we haven't gotten hit so far, so we're fine here!"

I just love that logic. I haven't hit anyone so far, what a relief to know I apparently never will!

Anyway I must have been in a mood that day, because I replaced my midrange with a Star TL and threw unnecessarily hard, ignoring the basket in favor of targeting the girls. I suppose I wanted to make a point or something.

Unfortunately, the basket's chains got in the way, and I succeeded only in sinking a long, improbable birdie. To this day I don't know whether I'm more proud or more disappointed with that result... By the time I finished the round the girls had left, I guess I'll never know how their story ended.

 

[Mr. Butlertron]

So far the funniest thing I've seen this year is a guy at El Dorado dgc attempting a round riding a hoverboard. You'd think he'd be all smiles, but no, not even a hint of one

 

[Consult20]

I didn't see this one myself but a guy I know saw a lady taking a dump next to a garbage can off of hole 3 @ Yetter park while her young son stood there watching. He said he was just shocked, looked at her and said, REALLY?!

Oh my home course, never know what's gonna happen there.

Sounds like she thought it was a crap course

 

[Olorin]

Happy 10th Birthday month DGCR!

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[enragedmullet]

Does anyone here know how mallards mate? I got to witness that happen about 10 years ago. Happened right next to the tee box on hole 6 at Woodland Park in Collinsville. Anyone else ever see that happen first hand?

If you're talking about how a bunch of male ducks will gang up on one female, I know what you mean. Didn't see it on a course but it was something I couldn't unsee. That led to some in-depth research regarding it and some illumination regarding female duck organs and such.

 

[CreemCheese]

Watched someone walk to the blue tees, look at the basket, walk to the red tee to get the distance off the sign (blues are unmarked concrete slabs) then walk back to the blues, ask the others on the card if the distance sounded right, then throw.

 

[Zanguini]

Group of college age kids were Sledding down the hill near the basket on hole 4. It being August in all i was a little confused until i saw the cardboard they were using.

 

[Lazerface]

Watched someone walk to the blue tees, look at the basket, walk to the red tee to get the distance off the sign (blues are unmarked concrete slabs) then walk back to the blues, ask the others on the card if the distance sounded right, then throw.

Wait, this qualifies for the thread description?

 

[BrotherDave]

While playing the new holes at OT Sloan I found a stolen wall safe that had been broken into, with a torch or something apparently.

 

[2naphish]

in 1986 at Brahan Springs park in Huntsville I was going to play an early morning round. another player was about to start so we decided to shoot a round together. we reached about hole 5 and there was a rather ragged group of guys standing in the middle of the fairway. we pointed towards the basket and they all looked that direction and then continued to stare at us. the fellow I was with said " lets go up and talk to them". I wasn't sure this was a good idea but WTH I thought. we walked up and explained this was DGC and we were going to throw to the basket about 75 ft behind them. they all looked at each other in disbelief and the toughest looking guy said " I never heered of sech" . we showed them our discs and they watched us play about 5 or 6 holes cheering each shot and having a high old time. seems they were there for breakfast ( a 12 pk of Milwaukee's Best and a pass around bottle "Wild Irish Rose" ). the biggest and definitely the most enthusiastic gallery I ever played in front of. I still borrow the dudes quote to this day when coming up on an unexpected disc golfers. "i never heered of sech".

 

[New013]

I went to play Edmunds in South Boston VA for a day trip with a friend. It was our first time and the course is kind of out in the country near some farms.

We start playing and this very large golden retriever like dog comes up and starts hanging out with us. There's another duo on the course ahead of us and we assume it's their dog so we just keep going.

After a bit we realized the dog knew the course like the back of his paw, so when we didn't know where to go we just followed the dog.

We get to the end and the dog is still chillin and at the parking lot we realize the other duo is gone. So now we're like who's dog is this?

We look around and nobody else is in the park so we decide well it probably came from one of these farms. We then decided to just go and that he'd just go home.

At the time I had a 2 door civic and when I opened the door the dog just ran and jumped in, got in my back seat and sat down. We laughed for a second but then when we tried to get him out he wouldn't budge and he was a big ****ing dog. We basically had to drag him out through the little gap behind the driver seat.

I kinda wish I would of just kept him but it was clearly somebodies dog so hopefully he made it home good.

 

[Mr. Butlertron]

I traveled out to Jackson, MS for a Southern Nationals team competition at Rez DGC this weekend. On day one of the event I noticed an old fashion, everyone up to their chest in water, baptism being held in the murky waters between hole 17 and the parking lot. After a quick google search, I am now aware that there are an estimated 32,000-38,000 of them, alligators not baptists, in or around the Ross Barnett Reservoir. Now that's what I call faith.

 

[Mr. Butlertron]

I was wrong, a quick double check shows many less alligators, but still. "Rankin, has about 2400 alligators (7.4% of state total). Night-light surveys over the last three years indicate that Rankin County has the highest alligator densities in the state, averaging 7.35 alligators per mile along survey routes, versus an average of 1.76 alligators per mile for the rest of the state. Most of the Rankin County alligator population is located in and around Ross Barnett Reservoir and in the Pearl River to Ratliff Ferry."

 

[knettles]

Was playing Hornings Hideout not too long ago with TheLastDJ and there happened to be a wedding going on at the time. I guess one of the guys from the wedding party thought enough in advance to bring some discs, but not enough to bring any clothes for it. So, he just played a round in a tuxedo, suit pants, and dress shoes. If you haven't played Hornings, it's very wooded and rather steep in some places. But hey, props for him being that dedicated.

 

[pmay5]

While playing the new holes at OT Sloan I found a stolen wall safe that had been broken into, with a torch or something apparently.

So they've added two holes to replace 10 & 11 lost to the dog park?

 

[Dire Wolfy]

My reflection in a puddle.