Discover new ways to elevate your game with the updated DGCourseReview app!
It's entirely free and enhanced with features shaped by user feedback to ensure your best experience on the course. (App Store or Google Play)
Any advice for those that have to keep score? When it is 0 degrees and windy, my hands are exposed too long while writing down scores, especially if I throw first. I think I will go with the batting glove next time.
Dressing in layers is definitely the best way to go. I use under armor base layers underneath everything else and it does a lot to help me stay warm. With it you often need less bulk and it doesn't get too hot even when it's 40 or 50 outside as it breathes well. Its not cheap ($80-$120 for the top and bottom) but worth every penny for me.
If there's snow on the ground, keep your discs in the car overnight. Warm discs melt the snow which will make it wet on the surface, leaving you with a wet sloppy mess on your disc.
Ribbon your discs. Assuming there's snow, and it's not sanctioned, and the TD is okay with it. Nobody likes losing their discs, and nobody likes wasting time looking for discs, especially in tourneys. Don't throw white discs if there's snow.
I'm pretty sure you're allowed up to 3ft. of ribbon even in a sanctioned event, but if someone wants to confirm or correct that I'd appreciate it. Also, if you're looking for something even better than ribbon, get your hands on some old music tapes that you don't mind destroying and remove the ribbon from inside. It's lighter and thinner than most ribbon so will have less of an effect, but still sits on top of the snow and marks your lie just as well.
I swear I just read on here recently that ribbon isn't usable in sanctioned events.
Forget cotton. There are a lot of cotton and cotton blend undergarments, including undergarments marketed as cold weather clothing. This includes socks. Cotton holds moisture against the skin. If that moisture gets chilled there is nothing you can do to keep warm.
Even in the most severe conditions I've played in (single digit temps with double digit wind chills) I never wear more than 4 layers on my torso. Polypro underlayer, medium weight polyester sweatshirt, fleece zipper hoodie. And in the severest of weather a fleece vest.
Another important part of my winter weather garments is a neck muffler. Works better than a scarf.