If you were a touring pro, would you stop or keep going? COVID-19

[holly7845]

As most of you know, our major events have been postponed or cancelled. Some of the smaller events the A's, B's and C's, Leagues are currently still scheduled.

If you were a touring pro, what would you do after the announcement of Waco?


Play all small events?
Go home and get a side hustle?
Attend all leagues?
What are your ideas?

Just curious what your mindset is during this interesting time.

I am currently at home. All tournaments are halted for a minimum of 3-4 weeks.

 

[brutalbrutus]

I think it would depend on what an individual's financial situation is like... though it may also depend on where you are living. There will likely be more and more cities/counties closing down parks like what happened with the Jax Open...

My advice to a lot of them, would be to stay home, practice when possible and try to save up some money. Maybe take a trip for Euro events later in the summer with that money if the virus stuff calms down by then.

 

[teemkey]

Might be a good time to convince your sponsor that it's a perfect time to grow the sport in South America.

 

[markmcc]

Might be a good time to convince your sponsor that it's a perfect time to grow the sport in South America.

Good luck with that! We were supposed to be in Colombia for the next two weeks, but guess what?? Mandatory 14-day quarantine for incoming international travelers. :wall:

 

[mizunodave]

The next two weeks are going to be out of a movie. Hunker down and just survive. People aren't going to be interested in Frisbees as the death toll and infections rise. It's going to feel like being under seige.

I hope I come back here in a month and say I was wrong and look really silly.

 

[ru4por]

We have an A Tier scheduled for April 18th and 19th. The thing is, we just have NO way to predict if we will have to cancel it or not. We have no plans to pull the plug, but everything is beyond prediction at this point. Please go home, be safe, get out and play where you safely can. The best plan of action is to live life as if you actually have the Corona.

 

[rocthecourse]

I would go home and practice so when the tour starts up again I am playing my best. I would also start a youtube channel and make videos.

 

[McCready]

No brainer, the ethical thing to do is stay home if you can. Even if you're in the low-risk category, you can contract it unknowingly, pass it on to scores of people, some of whom could become seriously ill and die. Theoretically if everyone would self-quarantine for two weeks, we could be done with this and get on with our lives. There is also the slim chance that you could be unlucky and have to go to the ICU even if you're young and rarely get sick.

It's a rare time when our freedoms are working against us. You can't tell Americans to do the right thing and inconvenience ourselves, even for a relatively short time. We're too important and special. We're spoiled, entitled, ignorant, short-sighted fat sacks of **** for the most part. The rest of the world is going to watch this all go down and laugh at our hubris.

 

[rusch_bag]

Go home if you can afford it. More and more tournaments are just going to keep getting cancelled. Milwaukee County Parks are pulling all of their courses tomorrow because of the virus. The situation is just going to keep getting worse unfortunately.

 

[dorseymatt]

I really feel for you touring pros right now. You're in a terrible spot. Even the idea of getting a side-hustle right now seems like it might be difficult. The thing I'd be concerned about, if I was going to set aside ethical issues and try to proceed as a professional disc golfer, is that any tournament that says it's still going to happen may reconsider by the time you travel there--and then what do you do? I wish I had better advice to give, but if it were me, I'd be going home and trying to stay safe and healthy and then figure it out from there.

 

[Halcón]

The United States is headed for a national quarantine. Forget disc golf.

 

[Nova P]

My next four tournaments (through the end of April) were all cancelled, and there's nothing scheduled within a reasonable distance in that time. All of the local TDs have cancelled, or the regional clubs have pulled the courses out from under the TDs, or the local governments have capped the size of events. In short, for a variety of reasons there's nothing to play if I wanted to-- and I surely do.

Local leagues are cancelled, too, as are the non-sanctioned events. Organized disc golf is completely shut down around me.

So it's a pretty easy decision. =\

 

[Armus Patheticus]

You people really think there are meaningful ethical considerations tied to the spread of this virus? You buy whatever ethics are sold you I reckon.

I would that Holly and all of the traveling disc golfers do something useful with the time they can't spend playing. One of the least ethical things we do is the slow-motion suicide of a wasteful life. Enormous masses of material are consumed in our process of doing absolutely nothing of value.

Plant some vegetables. Look at birds more closely. Help someone in your family. Help a stranger. Learn to cook something new. Go into the woods and think. Build something. Climb a tree. Listen to real people speaking. Learn about the life you are living, and how you might or ought to change it. Learn to recognize and change poor behavior. Learn more about your mate. Etc. Etc. Etc. Sometimes you should play frisbee too if it makes you happy.

 

[BigFlickLuke]

If you were a touring pro, what would you do after the announcement of Waco?

Just curious what your mindset is during this interesting time.

If I was good enough to win tournaments as a touring player, I wouldn't miss a weekend.

A body only lasts so long. Get as many tee shots as you can. Same reason I'm still playing casually every day.

 

[McCready]

You people really think there are meaningful ethical considerations tied to the spread of this virus?

Seriously? When a choice you make to go out and be in crowds of people could mean life or death? How could that not be an ethical consideration?

 

[GMcAtee]

I have no idea what I'd do if I was a touring pro. Pray?

In my career, we are rooting for a shutdown. Planning on sitting at home collecting a salary.

 

[BigFlickLuke]

The rest of the world is going to watch this all go down and laugh at our hubris.

The rest of the world either has it or is going to get it, too. We won't be hit the hardest. There are plenty of countries with far greater population densities and lower quality healthcare facilities.

 

[R-Ogre]

I would sit on my bum for the next two weeks and see what happens, by then we'll have a sense from Seattle just how bad it's going to get in the US. Reevaluate then.

 

[Armus Patheticus]

Seriously? When a choice you make to go out and be in crowds of people could mean life or death? How could that not be an ethical consideration?

My point is that you do many things involving life and death and hurt and haste and ruin and waste without the slightest pause to consider your ethics. Now you're pretending to give a rip about others because it has been socially mandated that you do so. I do care about the people around me, and about my own health. Given the specifics of this situation I am more than comfortable placing myself and the world in the hands of mathematics and carrying on as normal.

More to the original point of the thread though, it would be nice if some people used this time of disrupted routine to discover some worthwile things they've been missing. What would make me absolutely giddy would be a collapse of the internet at this time. Then we could really make a memory.

 

[McCready]

My point is that you do many things involving life and death and hurt and haste and ruin and waste without the slightest pause to consider your ethics. Now you're pretending to give a rip about others because it has been socially mandated that you do so. I do care about the people around me, and about my own health. Given the specifics of this situation I am more than comfortable placing myself and the world in the hands of mathematics and carrying on as normal.

More to the original point of the thread though, it would be nice if some people used this time of disrupted routine to discover some worthwile things they've been missing. What would make me absolutely giddy would be a collapse of the internet at this time. Then we could really make a memory.

Excellent points for sure. Most of us rarely consider the everyday risks of leaving the house, nor how our decisions risk others' safety. Texting & driving is a good example.

If this has any lasting impact at all, maybe some small percentage will wash their hands after going to the bathroom. Maybe some marriages will be strengthened by the increased time to reconnect. Probably others will end for the same reason though.