Lost a disc by leaving it at your feet?

[Waddball]

Just wondering how many people are as careless as I am. Twice (twice!) in the last two weeks I have dug into my bag looking for a particular (and favorite) disc only to realize I apparently left it on the fairway.

Not: terrible throw into a thicket/lake/beehive/tree/etc. and abandoned the search.

No, literally: had a nice drive, focused on the putt, and then walked away, somehow picking up my bag but leaving the disc on the fairway.

What is wrong with me? It's terrible feeling alone in my self-outrage.

:doh: :wall:

 

[Brychanus]

Just wondering how many people are as careless as I am. Twice (twice!) in the last two weeks I have dug into my bag looking for a particular (and favorite) disc only to realize I apparently left it on the fairway.

Not: terrible throw into a thicket/lake/beehive/tree/etc. and abandoned the search.

No, literally: had a nice drive, focused on the putt, and then walked away, somehow picking up my bag but leaving the disc on the fairway.

What is wrong with me? It's terrible feeling alone in my self-outrage.

:doh: :wall:

I will freely admit to this. It's more likely when I'm knuckling around casually with my buddies, but every once in a while I just leave one there to mark my lie, throw a different disc, and forget to pick up the first disc. I've had people find and return them while I'm still on the course, and other times people just walk off with them and I curse my short attention span. Fortunately I've learned to be more attentive over time, but every once in a while I lose a cherished disc!

 

[autocrosscrx]

I tend to do this when I make C2 putts.

I've never lost one, but I've had people on the card behind me in tourneys hand me my disc later in the round. And I've backtracked to retrieve a few in casual play.

 

[Monocacy]

Just wondering how many people are as careless as I am.

Guilty as charged.

I tend to do this when I make C2 putts.

Same

I've never lost one, but I've had people on the card behind me in tourneys hand me my disc later in the round. And I've backtracked to retrieve a few in casual play.

Yup, although I have probably lost discs this way. Helps if I need the disc I left behind within the next few holes. :doh:

 

[autocrosscrx]

Yup, although I have probably lost discs this way. Helps if I need the disc I left behind within the next few holes. :doh:

I religiously count discs every 2 or 3 holes.

 

[ru4por]

Lose more by walking away than throwing them away. Usually when I have to stick a foot deep into a bush, then make a terrific or awful shot. Sometimes alcohol or recreational leaves are part of the problem .....sometimes not.

 

[EarthRocker]

Oof. Y'all, I've lost two 1991 2-Chain Aviars by this kind of carelessness.

First one was sherbet orange, and I'd had since it was manufactured. Kept it from then until roughly 2018 - I can't remember exactly, as I've tried to block it out. But it was fall or winter, and I had stuck it under my armpit as we were all shaking hands at the end of the round - it just sliiiiipped on out, and I didn't even notice it was gone until a week later. Its loss caused many months of experimenting with different putters. I landed on Envys, and still carry several.

I told the story in here somewhere months ago: while warming up at the practice basket at Nevin (with a stack of Envys) back in 2020, me and a stranger got to talking about putters, as people tend to do when they're, you know, standing around a practice basket, and when he noticed my putters, I mentioned my journey after losing the OG 2-Chains. Long story short, his buddy showed up with a red one a little later, and I was able to purchase it from him. He had found the thing, and hated it, and had no trouble making $20 in this way. I've been using it as my main putter ever since.

Well, just last week, we were throwing on our usual Wednesday night party-round, and...I just left it somewhere. The bitch of it is that I can't even remember throwing the thing. We were playing dubs, and my partner and I kept parking our upshots. But somehow, I left it or dropped it...

So that's two very valuable (to me, as useful tools of the trade; and to many others as premium artifacts) frisbees I lost in the span of a few years. I'd be totally fine if they went into a lake or something, but to be so unaware and clueless makes me feel like a world-class idjit. Don't feel bad, OP. It happens to best and worst of us.

 

[EarthRocker]

PS- I just bought another one online. Right at $36 shipped, 1991 PFN, etc. etc. This will be the last, dammit.

 

[smoothplayer]

I've done this probably 2-3 times a year. I typically am pretty good about not leaving a soldier behind. But I do tend to throw an extra practice shot here and there and will occasionally forget to pick the extra up.

I've been heart broken too many times when one of my favorites is gone.

I've probably lost at least 250 discs over my life. I sometimes wish I could have some of those back, where are they now? I hope the new owner is at least throwing them and they are not locked in a dark basement or closet and being useless.

 

[autocrosscrx]

My most frustrating one.

I throw a shot in the fairway. I throw a 2nd shot. Then this kid runs into the fairway and grabs my first shot. I start running him down and yelling for him to drop my disc. His dad starts arguing, telling me that he thought he found it. We go back and forth for a few minutes and the kid finally gives me my disc. At this point, the group behind me has already teed off on the hole.

So I just move on to the next tee. Leaving my first shot in the fairway. Which I didn't realize until my next round. Stupid kid.

 

[Three Putt]

Just wondering how many people are as careless as I am. Twice (twice!) in the last two weeks I have dug into my bag looking for a particular (and favorite) disc only to realize I apparently left it on the fairway.

Not: terrible throw into a thicket/lake/beehive/tree/etc. and abandoned the search.

No, literally: had a nice drive, focused on the putt, and then walked away, somehow picking up my bag but leaving the disc on the fairway.

What is wrong with me? It's terrible feeling alone in my self-outrage.

:doh: :wall:

I've never done this, but thanks. Now I'm jinxed and bound to do it before the year is out.

 

[ray1970]

Amazingly, I've only ever done this once. I have seen it done plenty of times by other people so I would say it isn't an uncommon occurrence.

 

[gooberau]

I don't think I've ever left one on the fairway. It's usually when making a weird patent-pending type behind-a-bush shot that takes a bit more concentration. I then forget to pickup the offending disc in the bush.

But … Upper Park Shift bag. You can instantly see if you're missing a disc. I usually have 14 or 16 in the bag and it jumps out when there's a gap.

 

[ejvogie]

I left an 11x Champ Teebird on the fairway. I vowed then and there never to throw multiples off the tee ever again.


That vow has been broken MANY times over.

 

[Brockness Monster]

This is the exact reason for my color OCD. I can now look at my bag every hole before selecting a driver and count.......1 orange, 1 pink, 2 yellow, 3 blue, etc. Kind of a mantra now

 

[zontar]

I generally carry 10 discs. I look down and notice within a hole usually. USUALLY!!!!

 

[HyooMac]

I did it on Saturday at Smuggs. My best guess is that I threw my upshot on 5 at Fox Run, and just walked away from my tee disc. D'oh!

 

[BogeyNoMore]

Left my "go to driver" behind at Seviren Lang during my last road trip a couple of months ago.

Specifically remembered throwing it two holes earlier, so I went back and retraced my steps. Someone had already picked it up.
Has my # on it, but to no avail.

By the time I left the course, I knew I was never gonna see it again.
:doh: :wall:

 

[jeffmonty]

I do this once in a great while. It annoys me so much when it does happen that now I always try to do a bag count before I leave the course so I can at least backtrack to grab it before I'm too far away.

 

[glassila]

I've left my my lie disc behind probably 10 times, but I've always noticed it within a few holes and was able to go back and get it.

My number one way to "lose" discs is by throwing multiple shots during a solo round and forgetting to pick 1 up. I've lost at least 5 discs this way.
On the other hand I've found 10-15 discs in the middle of the fairway. When I return the discs with numbers the people always say they left it behind. (I work on my local course so I am almost always the first person on it for the day)