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DG Vocab List - Fun or Catchy Terms

surprised i haven't seen "sit down." command to the disc to stop flying.
 
I use "sit down" a lot. It is a ball golf expression when you want the ball to hit and stop on a green. Works for us too!
 
Yarnies:n.People who play disc golf in the snow. Wish they lived in southern california. Name derived from the silly bits of yarn that help them find their discs as they freeze and wish they were in southern california.

Despite wearing 50 layers, the yarnies remained frigid as they searched for their bits of yarn in the snow.
 
Yarnies:n.People who play disc golf in the snow. Wish they lived in southern california. Name derived from the silly bits of yarn that help them find their discs as they freeze and wish they were in southern california.

Despite wearing 50 layers, the yarnies remained frigid as they searched for their bits of yarn in the snow.

Nice dictionary format!:D
 
rambo route...opting to thumb through the woods and directly at the basket, rather than throwing back out to the fairway. mostly on dogleg holes
 
got a classic and a new one that is catching on....

In honor of a former touring local pro who occasionally gripped locked his drives badly... "dude just Kovach'ed that drive".

and the new one we came up with last week that is catching on fast locally is when your throw (either intentionally or un-intentionally lands in the MIDDLE of the fairway... "Nice throw there Malcolm"..as in Malcolm in the middle.
 
totally forgot the FUNNIEST one I heard while playing a tourney in Michigan.

dude launches a drive that shanks into the woods. A member in my foursome (known for his off color humor and a lot of non-sense talk) says, "whoah, that totally flew like a Mexican!"

...complete pause. laughter, then I go "what the **** exactly does that mean anyway?" :)

that quote coming from the same guy who calls a low flying drive a "wormFEEDER".
 
If I here someone hit a tree, we say they are choppin' wood over there.
 
Some of the more colorfull one's we use are:
1. Yosemite Sam = A player who scores a 6 more than once. AKA "the six shooter".
2. Perched = A disc stuck in a tall tree.
3. Gooseneck(s) = A 2 on a scorecard
4. Hazzard County = A hole(s) known to contain a lot of trees, water, etc.
5. Ripples = A long row of 3's on a scorecard.
6. Day Tripper = Can either be new player(s) on the course or a player who's forced to walk a bit because of an errant throw.
* I've heard a few more, but can't seem to recall any at the moment. Great post though!
 
"Jail" when stuck behind several trees that are obstructing your view of the basket.

Usage:
"After that bad throw, I am stuck in jail now."
 
Workin overtime
when you're workin harder then usual to get par on a hole that's usually a bird or easy par for you.
"damn, I'm workin overtime here"
 
How about "Barney"? I'd define it as "Fair weather golfers," though more often I think it's a negative connotation to the guys who come out in groups of six--with only six discs among them. Here's the way I would use it:

"Barnies couldn't handle this kinda weather, opting for the more boring weather in SoCal."

ps This "Yarnie" never used yarn to find anything. I did lose one disc in a blizzard, but I shot 1 under 54. That's a good trade-off for a memorable round.
 
Updated List

Updated list

• BOB - Back of the Box. Last to throw
• CFR - Candy Fund Raiser. Special Innova candy plastic discs to raise funds.
• CTP - Closest to the Pole
• DL- Dead Last (sanitized version of DFL)
• FAT - First Available Tree
• HBB - Home Boy Bias. People who inflate their rating of a course only because it's their home course.
• HBBD - Home Boy Bag Drop - A place to leave your disc bag when you have to a long walk to the tee and will be coming back to the same area after your throw. The home players of a course know this spot and put their bags down, but new players carry their bag to the tee and back.
• LAMs- Long Armed Mutants
• LB - Lucky Bounce. When your disc bounces off a tree in such a way that it helps you.
• MAC - Mid Air Correction. Caused by hitting a tree. It's usually bad, but sometimes good.
• NPR - No Putt Required
• PDS - Poor Disc Selection
• PGA - Pretty Good Approach
• SED - Seeing Eye Disc. A shot that sneaks its way through the trees in a remarkable way.
• YSA - You're Still Away

(An aside, I never knew there's a 10,000 character post limit. I can't post the whole list together.)
 
• Annie – anhyzer
• Apartied - when everyone in the group gets a par on the hole.
• Beached Whale- A shot that skips/skims across a water hazard but makes it to land on the other side
• Bogey Sandwich - A scorecard that reads: 2 4 4 2 for any four consecutive holes for par the hard way.
• Bowling – Rolling
• Big Fat McNasty - There are numerous uses for this…a stagnant pond, a knotty tree, a gusty wind...
• Black Ace- when your first throw goes in the basket of the wrong hole.
• Cabbage –The undergrowth off the fairway. (same as "shule", "spinach")
• carpet bagger - a minor pro player from the north who comes down south to bag in ADV
• Chastity belt -n. the yellow band on top of the Innova basket
• Clank - v. The sickening sound that a putt makes when it hits the yellow chastity belt at the top of an Innova Discatcher doesn't go in. As in "I clanked it"
• Conservation of Greatness - making a horrible throw after a jaw-droppingly absurd throw.
• Coondogging - when your roller hits the trunk of a tree
• Course Maintenance- When you disc breaks off a branch on it's way to the target.
• Death Grip-holding on to the disc too long. (same as "grip lock")
• Deuce bag- a player who keeps hitting birdies on your card.
• Dinner's ready- when your putt hits the number plate square and it makes that ding sound. (Same as "doink" and "Hit the nickel")
• Divine Wind- A gust from nowhere that saves your drive from futility.
• Doink – A putt that hits the number plate (same as "Dinner's ready" and "Hit the nickel")
• Donkey- when you miss a ridiculously close or easy putt
• Early release program- the opposite of "grip lock"
• Edgie- When the disc dives sharply and sticks into the ground on it's edge (same as "tombstone")
• Flapadillo (aka flobble)- When the putter flutters an wobbles really awkward after leaving your hand on the way to the basket.
• Fly-By: putt correct height, poor aim.
• Flyin' Kites- A nose-up drive that goes up up up, stalls and drops to the ground
• Fluke deuce- a lucky two that you got from a fortunate bounce toward the basket.
• Four with a Twist- Taking a circle four, three shots plus an O.B. stroke.
• Frisbee eater - A tree that's always hungry for fresh plastic.
• Gack -vb. miss typically a short putt. As in "I gacked that putt"
• Gettin' Greasy- sneakin through the trees
• Georged - when you fail to "watch out for that tree"
• Gooseneck - a 2 on a scorecard
• Grab Your Snorkel- when someone sends their disc swimming
• Grenade- any shot that is high and fall fast straight down to the ground
• Handful- 5 strokes on a hole.
• Head Banger - when your drive lands under the basket and you might bang you head on the basket as you pick it up.
• "Heeere doggy" followed by everyone whistling like their calling a dog, as your disc rolls right past you away from the basket and back down the hill leaving you a longer shot than you started with.
• Hex'd- When three people in your group score a six on the same hole.
• Hit the nickel - when your putt hits the number plate square and it makes that ding sound. (Same as "Dinner's ready" and "Doink")
• Hockey stick- seven throws on one hole.
• Holy Roller - A shot that was not intended to be a roller but turns over and becomes one and heads miraculously straight for the pin!
• Homeboy route- a shot with good results through a narrow opening in trees.
• Horking -adj. a monstrous throw. As in "horking hyzer".
• "I believe you're away" - said to a friend who hits the tree five feet in front of the tee
• Jekyll and Hyde round – one nine is great and the other nine is a monster.
• Kissing chains (aka "tickling chains")- Whenever your disc barely hits chains and spits out
• Knife shot - vertical hyzer
• Lawn Dart - a disc that has landed partially buried in the ground, sticking up nearly vertically (same as "edgie", "tombstone")
• Lettuce- same as cabbage but thick leafy grass where you have trouble finding you disc
• Lieberman - When a person who normally throws RHBH swithches to LHBH and vice versa
• Locals route: taking a not recommended line that somehow gets you to the basket.
• Lumberjack (n.)- someone who hits a tree with their disc
• Lumberjacking (vb.)- when you're hitting nothing but trees.
• Major Tom- When someone unintentionally throws really high in the air, as in "Ground Control to Major Tom"
• Makin' Minis: when one disc lands on another (it looks like the discs are humping.)
• Millennium Falcon- on heavily wooded courses with many small-ish trees, when someone throws an overhand/tomahawk and the disc magically weaves between many small trees as it turns over, without hitting any-- just like when said spaceship is flying through the asteroid field in "The Empire Strikes Back".
• Mirkwood forest- that place in the woods where, if you throw there, you can never get your disc back.
• Mullet-n.- A pro that doesn't cash, so he pays his entry fees to others. It refers to being in the "feeder pool" or being "bait fish". Synonyms: donor, sucker, shark bait. As in "Don't be a mullet!"
• To "nice" someone – v. As in "You niced me". An apparently nice shot that everyone comments on...NICE SHOT...while it's still in flight. But then suddenly hits something no one expected.
• Nickel – getting 5 on a hole
• Ninja Style- Having to throw while hidden behind foliage, usually a warning to other players. ex- "Watch out guys, I'm going ninja style"
• Noodle arm - Player with no "D".
• Nuclear shule – extremely bad rough.
• Pachinko, Pin Ball - when your disc pinballs off multiple trees
• Paper plate (n) 1. an extremely understable disc; 2. commonly a lighter weight, beat-up disc
• Parking permit- You tell someone they just got their parking permit validated when they park the disc under the basket after a long shot.
• Pig-Putt –n. a putt that's weak! weak! weak! (best results when spoken with an inhale).
• Pinball – a shot that hits several trees.
• Pinball Wizard – when a shot goes bouncing from tree to tree and still ends up with a decent lie
• Pinvisible- when you can't see the basket from the tee
• Plunker- when you throw your non floating disc in the water and you hear it go "plunk"
• Pringled - when you smack the disc hard into a tree (synonym- taco)
• Rambo route- opting to thumb through the woods and directly at the basket, rather than throwing back out to the fairway.
• Ripples - a long row of 3's on a scorecard.
• Rooted - when the tree root stops your skip shot
• Sally/(sallied) v. - when your drive/putt comes up way short
• Satellite parking- when you park your drive under the wrong basket
• Saturn - a score of 6 (6th planet) with "rings" (OB circle(s))
• Secret Squirrel- a shot that SOMEHOW goes through the biggest bunch of shule and emerges on the same line it entered and ends up parked!
• Seeing eye disc- a shot that miraculously makes it through a thick set of trees.
• Shank- any shot that does not do what you wanted.
• Skeeter- forehand shot with the "thumber grip" thrown flat on the ground for a nice bounce around trees
• Shule - heavy undergrowth off the fairway (same as "cabbage", "spinach").
• Sit or "sit down"- a command to the disc to stop flying. Taken from a traditional golf expression when you want the ball to hit and stop on a green.
• Skittle (also skibble). The action of a disc grinding a long way on the dirt/ground on the way to the pin. Usually shouted as a command for the disc to travel farther on the ground (for example, "Skittle!")
• Sky Rockets in Flight- your drive goes up up up and dies out because you got your nose too high on release
• Skywalkered- You used the force to sink that putt
• Sneak- in flight instruction to the disc to avoid anything with leaves and/or bark
• Snob – a throw with the nose of the disc up
• Snowman - a natural score of 8
• Snowangel - a score of 8 with a "halo" (OB circle(s))
• Spinach – bushes, trees, and undergrowth. As in "That's in the spinach." (same as "cabbage", "shule").
• Sploot- the sound of a disc going into the water, usually way way out in the water.
• Squirrel killer - a roller shot that runs up the trunk of a tree (same as "coondogging").
• Taco - vb. To smash a disc into a tree so that it folds like a taco. A saying that goes with this is "Need some sauce for that taco?"
• Tarzan Golf- throwing from tree to tree to tree
• "That wasn't there last time I played this hole" and "Was that there when I teed off?"- said when hitting some long time obvious obstacle like a tree off the tee.
• Tombstone- a disc that impales the ground, and remains standing on edge, usually stuck in the wet ground/mud a few inches. (same as "Edgie", "Lawn dart")
• Tournament Roll - When your disc hits the basket and rolls farther away than your original shot
• Treeflection - the tree gives good kick
• Treejection - the tree gives bad kick
• Treejectory - when your redirected by the branch
• Tree-mendous - when your errant shot finds wood and bounces in an auspicious way
• Tree-nied- when your disc hits a tree and drops
• Valet service - When you park your drive under the basket
• Way of the Indian--- a tomahawk that is so beautiful that it makes you pee a little
• Wedgie - a disc that sticks in the side of the basket.
• Worm burner- a drive thrown way too low that skips down the fairway

Phrases
• "That would've been in if it wasn't for that tree." Especially appropriate when the tree is 10 feet from the tee box.
 
A "BroD" move: when you continually play horribly and you decide that it would be in the best interest of the sport to just leave your discs at the course and never show your face again

A "Peabody": a drive that doesn't go further than 50 ft

A "Pink Elephant" : the sassy gay nerd on the course who contiually lets groups play through so he can solicit them
 
Shanky - shanking a drive due to early release
Yanky - yanking a drive due to late release
Limpy - falling short on a putt
"You niced me" - hitting a tree the moment someone says "nice drive"
Cooler BOB - he at the bottom of box carries the cooler, but if he ties someone on the hole he can switch carrying repsonsibilty to the person before him.
 
Played with a local legend last night and I love the new term that I learned from him and will be sure to use it in each round I play from now on. He would say "I'm about to make this thing (the basket) bleed". At one point someone was talking about how technical a hole was and he said "If I can see it I can make it bleed". My wife did not appreciate it as much as I did. Must be a man hunter thing.
 
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