Lost a disc by leaving it at your feet?

[BruisedOoze]

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.

Yeah, the number of times I left discs behind in the low boughs of spruce trees... I'll throw and get myself out of the prickly mess and forget to look behind me. It's usually off a drive I end up there, so by next hole or two I'll notice I'm short my driver.

Still haven't left one behind for someone else to find, but I feel it's just a matter of time.

 

[BogeyNoMore]

Sometimes alcohol or recreational leaves are part of the problem .....sometimes not.

Viceless bastard that I am, I have no choice but to hold the idjit in the mirror responsible.


Never gonna let him use my bag again. :|

 

[TurnedOver]

Yes, Ive done this many times and I see it happen all the time.

It happens right after I make a very good throw or a very bad throw.

I now count discs after every hole.

 

[Hampstead]

Curse of the second throw has struck me many times. As a result, I am a vigilant disc counter after every hole.

 

[dreadlock86]

i've done this plenty of times but i feel stupider when i leave my putter in the basket and walk away. and even stupider when it's on hole 18.

 

[ohtobediscing]

Having a small bag helps alleviate this problem immensely, though I've also had to backtrack a hole or two when throwing from the shale and using the drive disc as a marker.

 

[txmxer]

On the course, I'm usually with a group so not much chance for throwing multiples.

When practicing it happens occasionally. I grab a handful of discs, head out back and throw. I keep telling myself to count the discs BEFORE I start. I've found more than a few discs in my field and think—I didn't know I had lost that one.

 

[DeanMoriarty]

I've done that many times but it's mostly when I'm playing a casual around by myself and I throw two off the tee just for fun or because my first drive wasn't so great.

I'll walk to my closer/better drive and occasionally forget to go grab the first disc.. or like, ya know, grab the crappier drive on the way to my better drive.

 

[Central Scrutinizer]

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.

I have also lost exactly two Chains Aviars by leaving them in baskets, but it was back in the nineties when I left them. One was a black one with a very vivid rainbow stamp. I think about that one all the time still!

 

[EarthRocker]

I have also lost exactly two Chains Aviars by leaving them in baskets, but it was back in the nineties when I left them. One was a black one with a very vivid rainbow stamp. I think about that one all the time still!

Brothers in self-inflicted pain, eh? I had a black one with a rainbow stamp, too. It was my very first putter. Lost it at Hornet's Nest by floating over the basket and into the pond behind #5. It's probably still there, buried under nearly 30 years of mud and silt and frog dung...
Had to go to Infinity's End to get a new one, which ended up being the orange one I mentioned earlier. (So technically, I've lost three. But at least the black one was an actual throw, and I hadn't owned it for almost three decades.)

 

[enragedmullet]

I too am guilty of this, sometimes more than once in a round.

 

[Dcinmd]

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.

So much of this, ugh multiples.

 

[reezyF]

I too am guilty of many of the stories told here, I most commonly lose discs by leaving them rather than throwing them.
Luckily I have learned my lesson and now have the following rules:

1) Error: throw 2 drives, forget to pick up the 2nd. Solution: ALWAYS pick up the 2nd disc first no matter how out of the way. Dont throw more than 2 discs. If I do get lazy and dont pick up the extra - Never throw multiple shots when there are still discs from a previous throw I havent picked up yet.

2) Error: grab 2 discs while choosing which to throw, drop one on the ground, throw the other, totally forget about the dropped disc. Solution: always stick the non-used disc back in the to of bag

3) Error: use a putter for dog water bowl before teeing off, leave the putter behind after teeing off. Solution: Always set my bag right next to the water putter so I see it when I grab my bag

4) Error: drive lands in bush/brush - I throw from there and forget to pickup the hidden disc. Solution: Always set the disc on top of the brushy stuff so I see it in the corner of my eye before walking away.

Luckily the disc gold gods have shown me favor and when I lose a disc I usually find a disc. Then again, whenever I find a disc I know I probably have lost one that I didnt realize, or will lose one soon.

 

[ejvogie]

So much of this, ugh multiples.

Yeah, I lost the bird on the "Unload your entire bag" hole. :wall:







No, there were no groups behind me

 

[Countchunkula]

I'm totally guilty of this.

I religiously count discs every 2 or 3 holes.

I used to do this, but then I had kids. Where as I used to count discs on my way to the next tee, that no longer makes sense. My boys generally only carry 2-3 discs each, but they alternately store them in my bag or hand carry. They'll also use my discs from time to time. Much harder to do the quick count against a moving target. I also need to be paying attention as the first to the tee will likely throw right away if clear. I need to be watching where that disc is heading.

I just got back a much loved Roc that was lost this way back in 2014ish. I was distracted by the kids and didn't realize I left without it. The Roc was my first two color dye and was very recognizable. A buddy spotted it in a facebook lost and found post and since he knew the poster, got it back for me.

 

[DatRedDude]

lost my favorite Ace disc just walking away from it during a tournament. Obviously no one in the event turned it in cause why would they do that.

 

[lee76007]

i've done this plenty of times but i feel stupider when i leave my putter in the basket and walk away. and even stupider when it's on hole 18.

I've left a disc in the basket twice, a year apart in the same basket. The first time after dropping a birdie in the basket passing thru branches untouched from 180 feet out. As I was passing the tree I was walking backwards to admire the line and kept walking right past the basket turning around to the next tee. Didn't miss the disc until 7 holes later.

The 2nd time a year later and same basket I decided to practice wind putting from C2 with a handful of disc. I only made one, picked up the rest on the grass, and left behind the made putt. I noticed it missing 2 holes later when I scored my first ace when I put the aced disc back in the bag. Mixed emotions jubilee and the agony of forgetting the disc. Both discs were still in the basket.

As far as a disc left behind at my feet, the closes was this past Monday, on the home course 18th fairway I like to throw a handful of disc to close out the visit. The fairway is always cut and open, you shouldn't lose a disc. Picked up my discs and had one missing, stood up looked around and didn't see it, wtf how hard is it to see an orange catalyst. Walked around a bit, a jogger pointed toward my bag and there it was just a few feet away from the bag. It would of been behind and almost under me, but the angle I was looking around on would of kept it from my view. The jogger must of thought I was blind, I felt stupid.

 

[Monocacy]

I did this again today. Drove long, C2 putt, walked away from my disc. :doh:

 

[GripEnemy]

I didn't read the thread besides OP, yes 100%.

Forced myself to use a mini in casual rounds for exactly this reason.


NEW THREAD:

Lost a mini by leaving it at your feet? (No but seriously now I just lose minis)

 

[ThrowaEnvy]

I religiously count discs every 2 or 3 holes.

so do I, I look in my nutsac too many times and go crap I'm missing a disc.......







Wait that was the one I threw, it's up by the basket

I was also guilty of putting out an ace on a tonal one time... thankfully I haven't lost a disc by leaving it for years... multiple shots used to be my downfall.

I lost a stash mini one time, fully loaded with greenery and some birthday hash someone gave me, that was sad.