Baskets vs Tee Pads

[nothinbuttree]

Good pads are typically more expensive and immobile. Baskets can be more easily replaced and even repurposed to perhaps startup courses.

More strokes are likely lost in a year from pad slips or loss of confidence on drives than chain outs because a basket is slightly inferior.

Played a course just today with no teepads and a slight slip on a plant on one drive caused a bad shank. Same course had a basket that a tree has fallen on and it was horribly bent, but my putt was still good.

 

[txmxer]

Because life is uninspiring without a journey.

16-18 years ago, when there were a lot less courses, I loved going to parks and wooded areas and making up courses.
Tees? Baskets? Meh.

30-40 years ago AC and manual transmission were normal options on vehicles.

times change

 

[Smigles]

Well if you dont have baskets, tee pads are pretty pointless arent they?

 

[chevis]

Well if you dont have baskets, tee pads are pretty pointless arent they?

i do wonder if there are any tone pole courses with good/solid/dedicated tee pads

 

[Silboh]

In France, I believe there is only one course with concrete teepads.

So I voted baskets. I'm building a course and the most important is to have a place to play disc golf. Then you need baskets. Then you need people. When there will be enough people playing disc golf, maybe we could think about concrete teepads. I believe it won't happen before many years.
But we will be playing disc golf many years because we have baskets.

 

[oldmandiscer]

I vote pads because it doesn't matter which huge basket we putt into they are fairly similar. While teepads that are natural can have deep ruts, mud, be slick, rocks, be too short and even dangerous, thus throwing a high power throw is being compromised.

Rarely are you throwing high power off the fairway anyways, so teepads are the priority for me. Give me great teepads and I'll take some old crappy mach3's and be happy.

 

[McCready]

I played a little 9 hole park course on Saturday with no tee pads and new baskets. Granted it was lightly used so there were no ruts yet, but it was fine. A heavily used course with no pads would give me pause, because most likely there's a huge rut at every tee.

 

[glassila]

I vote pads because it doesn't matter which huge basket we putt into they are fairly similar.

You have an entire thread devoted to your "baskets are too big" opinion. I'm pretty sure that +95% of the DGCR community thinks of you as a total ass. Sticking this crap into other threads just makes you a bigger ass.

Can you PLEASE just drop it already? Or at the very least keep it in that one thread.

 

[oldmandiscer]

You have an entire thread devoted to your "baskets are too big" opinion. I'm pretty sure that +95% of the DGCR community thinks of you as a total ass. Sticking this crap into other threads just makes you a bigger ass.

Can you PLEASE just drop it already? Or at the very least keep it in that one thread.

This topic is about baskets versus teepads. We get it, you're scared to death of a smaller target. Why did you respond even? It makes no sense at all. If YOU wanted to debate it why don't YOU go to that topic.

 

[Zanguini]

i doubt missing your put will tear an acl ... a bad teepad will do that to you.

 

[Horsman]

Just do what I did and put the old man on your ignore list on here, then you dont have to see anything he says.

 

[DavidSauls]

Just do what I did and put the old man on your ignore list on here, then you dont have to see anything he says.

Doesn't that leave odd holes in dozens of threads, with just responses, like one end of a phone conversation?

 

[Horsman]

Doesn't that leave odd holes in dozens of threads, with just responses, like one end of a phone conversation?

Unfortunately it does but its worth it, just not seeing the stupidity that comes out of that persons keyboard takes my blood pressure down a ton.

 

[oldmandiscer]

Unfortunately it does but its worth it, just not seeing the stupidity that comes out of that persons keyboard takes my blood pressure down a ton.

Lots of people don't like to hear the truth, it bothers them.

 

[reezyF]

In France, I believe there is only one course with concrete teepads.

So I voted baskets. I'm building a course and the most important is to have a place to play disc golf. Then you need baskets. Then you need people. When there will be enough people playing disc golf, maybe we could think about concrete teepads. I believe it won't happen before many years.
But we will be playing disc golf many years because we have baskets.

I have never played a course without baskets and will not likely to go out of my to play any object courses. For me a course is only a course if it has baskets. In this view, the basket is undoubtedly the most valuable feature for any course.

However - I took the question:
Good teepads or good baskets; Which do you value more?
as in which do I value more on on a course that by my definition has these two items by default.

In which case I strongly believe good teepads are far more helpful than good baskets.
More importantly, bad teepads are far more detrimental than bad baskets.
Sucks to play a course with epic fairways and throw practically standstill from the tees.
Sucks to play slippy/rocky/rooty/muddy tees and get hurt.
Bad baskets? meh

 

[davetherocketguy]

Lots of people don't like to hear the truth, it bothers them.

Please stop. Thats not what this thread is about. Its not about you and your opinions.

 

[oldmandiscer]

Please stop. Thats not what this thread is about. Its not about you and your opinions.

That's called hypocrisy, you are talking about it in this thread. Not to mention the slander from trolls, thus I should set the record straight, which I did.

 

[Casey 1988]

I have never played a course without baskets and will not likely to go out of my to play any object courses. For me a course is only a course if it has baskets. In this view, the basket is undoubtedly the most valuable feature for any course.

However - I took the question:
Good teepads or good baskets; Which do you value more?
as in which do I value more on on a course that by my definition has these two items by default.

In which case I strongly believe good teepads are far more helpful than good baskets.
More importantly, bad teepads are far more detrimental than bad baskets.
Sucks to play a course with epic fairways and throw practically standstill from the tees.
Sucks to play slippy/rocky/rooty/muddy tees and get hurt.
Bad baskets? meh

I believe in good baskets/targets by this definition just working baskets/targets for courses that are not becoming piles of rust or missing chains/parts. The worst targets/baskets are something that is broke and/or dangerous to use more so then bad tee area that is worn, unless and yet to see this all 3 spots around the basket are grooved/rutted out to left, right, and behind the post/tee marker all three and for at least a big 8 foot grooved in/rutted out spot that one can't throw in.

 

[Horsman]

I have never played a course without baskets and will not likely to go out of my to play any object courses. For me a course is only a course if it has baskets. In this view, the basket is undoubtedly the most valuable feature for any course.

However - I took the question:
Good teepads or good baskets; Which do you value more?
as in which do I value more on on a course that by my definition has these two items by default.

In which case I strongly believe good teepads are far more helpful than good baskets.
More importantly, bad teepads are far more detrimental than bad baskets.
Sucks to play a course with epic fairways and throw practically standstill from the tees.
Sucks to play slippy/rocky/rooty/muddy tees and get hurt.
Bad baskets? meh

This is always how I have looked at it as well. I am also in the crowd of people that has injured themselves by throwing off of bad tee pads so I feel like my mind is made up for me there. For me, I learned how to play on homemade baskets that were well made by one of the shop classes offered by the college I went to. The baskets were 25% smaller then normal and didnt catch very well at all, I just thought that that was how all baskets were and didnt mind them.

 

[Casey 1988]

This is always how I have looked at it as well. I am also in the crowd of people that has injured themselves by throwing off of bad tee pads so I feel like my mind is made up for me there. For me, I learned how to play on homemade baskets that were well made by one of the shop classes offered by the college I went to. The baskets were 25% smaller then normal and didn't catch very well at all, I just thought that that was how all baskets were and didn't mind them.

Even this I would not mind but there is one , I have played that was downright bad in Fingerlakes of New York and some we could not even put the disc to sit carefully in them, wood that is not protected unless green treated (these baskets were not) will not last outside in the elements. Chains was actual small chain from cheap necklace and only that long as well as only one set of 24 chains on most. The course was missing enough holes to make the course 15 or 16 holes. That was the worst baskets ever I have played on and the course was a no tee pad course, wait if people teeing off on hole ahead of you. Most of the course was well laid out besides the one hole too close to the street on an edge of the park where it goes paved street to grass no sidewalk or curb even on hole two. I would know from a bit later looking up the sport if first time out that the baskets are not even close to right even if wood. The first basket hole did not have a tee but used I think? some post for a basketball hoop with Sharpie on the post for hole one tee that one would threw over the basketball course. so what happens when the court is used and they are not letting you play though quick? You had to tee off and honking hyzer around the court to the right, left hand dominate had to use forehand due to other things to the right (I think?).

No course was worse then this one, I have ever played. Teepads would not have been a problem if the baskets were not crap as well as falling apart and using plastic lawn edging for the height of the lower disc cage.

I may have mentioned this in the post already.