Waddly Hobbins
Eagle Member
A course I frequent is often jam packed during the afternoon, so I usually hit it up during the morning when there is normally less than 6 people total on the entire course.
Today, when I got to the course the parking lot was empty, I start my round in a patron free park. When I got to the tee of hole #3 I saw something that gave me one of my biggest WTF moments in disc golf. Walking down the entrance path to tee #1 were no less than 25-30 teenagers all with discs in hand. It is still 10 minutes before 10am, so this really left me scratching my head.
I then got to witness first hand the very definition of mob golf. Not waiting for any sort of turn they just threw as they reached the tee and walked after their disc not even stopping to watch the flight. Noticing their elevated pace of play, I decided it was in my best interest to tee off and get ahead of them. From the time I tee'd off on 3 and putt out on the same hole, they had already made it from 1 to 3 and were already throwing on me.
Being in a bitter mood help lead me to a bad drive on 4. After finding my disc and looking for good lines for a rescue shot, I am thrown upon again. This was enough for me, I decided I would go back to the beginning and wait for them all to play through (at their rate of play it wouldn't take too long.) On my way back to the start I notice what to me seemed like a gym teacher sitting on a bench. I asked him if this was a gym class and he said "yes".
This is when I realize that I forgot to pick up my TP Cyclone off of hole 4. I quickly told the gym teacher that I forgot my orange cyclone on a hole and to please look to see if any of his students had it before leaving. I then back tracked through the course to see if it had been picked up. Yup. I walked though the course looking at what each kid was throwing. When I got to hole 9 I saw my disc land on the fairway to which I just walked up to and replaced it in my bag. It may have been kinda d-baggy to not let the kid play from his lie, but hey, its my disc.
I liked the idea of having disc golf for gym class, especially being brought to an actual course. The execution was a little lack luster though. They took over the course completely and lacked any consideration what so ever for the normal course patrons. Luckily, it didn't last too long, they were there for about 30 minutes or so before they packed up and left. It reminded me of those freak thunder storms that really dump on you but only last a few minutes.
Anybody else see DG gym classes at their local courses?
Today, when I got to the course the parking lot was empty, I start my round in a patron free park. When I got to the tee of hole #3 I saw something that gave me one of my biggest WTF moments in disc golf. Walking down the entrance path to tee #1 were no less than 25-30 teenagers all with discs in hand. It is still 10 minutes before 10am, so this really left me scratching my head.
I then got to witness first hand the very definition of mob golf. Not waiting for any sort of turn they just threw as they reached the tee and walked after their disc not even stopping to watch the flight. Noticing their elevated pace of play, I decided it was in my best interest to tee off and get ahead of them. From the time I tee'd off on 3 and putt out on the same hole, they had already made it from 1 to 3 and were already throwing on me.
Being in a bitter mood help lead me to a bad drive on 4. After finding my disc and looking for good lines for a rescue shot, I am thrown upon again. This was enough for me, I decided I would go back to the beginning and wait for them all to play through (at their rate of play it wouldn't take too long.) On my way back to the start I notice what to me seemed like a gym teacher sitting on a bench. I asked him if this was a gym class and he said "yes".
This is when I realize that I forgot to pick up my TP Cyclone off of hole 4. I quickly told the gym teacher that I forgot my orange cyclone on a hole and to please look to see if any of his students had it before leaving. I then back tracked through the course to see if it had been picked up. Yup. I walked though the course looking at what each kid was throwing. When I got to hole 9 I saw my disc land on the fairway to which I just walked up to and replaced it in my bag. It may have been kinda d-baggy to not let the kid play from his lie, but hey, its my disc.
I liked the idea of having disc golf for gym class, especially being brought to an actual course. The execution was a little lack luster though. They took over the course completely and lacked any consideration what so ever for the normal course patrons. Luckily, it didn't last too long, they were there for about 30 minutes or so before they packed up and left. It reminded me of those freak thunder storms that really dump on you but only last a few minutes.
Anybody else see DG gym classes at their local courses?