Please put phone # on disc!

[slowski74]

First time poster here. Played a round today on my home course in St. Charles Michigan. We have had a pretty rough winter here with a lot of snow on the course. We hit 50 degrees here yesterday wich melted a lot of snow but not all of it.
When I was walking up number 12 I just happened to spot a disc under the snow. Pure luck that I found it. The disc was lost today. It is a star destroyer. It has a first name on it wich could be a nickname but no phone number. Now there is no way that I can get this disc back to this person. Please put phone numbers on your discs!

 

[valkyriefb11]

Some people dont really care, if they lose the disc they dont expect to get it back. Its a preference thing. I found a disc today with no # and so did my brother ... guess they didnt care about them much

 

[crouchingwombat]

man I did notice all the snow melted today.!!! I knew I should have gotten that round or two in. Who knows what kinds of awesome discs I could of found. Bummer

 

[zud00]

I wonder if someone found my disc today that I lost 2 weeks ago in the fairway since the snow has melted. Hmmm........I wonder if I will get a phone call.

 

[crouchingwombat]

Hope so zud, good luck. Maybe you'll have some karma on your side. I've been finding and calling a bunch of people lately. Next time I lose one of mine maybe i'll be so lucky.

 

[Lewis]

If there's no number on it, that really does make it hard to find them. If you want to go the extra mile, though, you might post on a local club's forum, and see if you get a bite. In this case, though, it's probably not important to the guy if he didn't bother to put contact info. on his disc. I put my phone # and email address on all of my discs immediately after I buy them. Not that anyone ever contacts me anyway...

 

[Fore]

I used to write my name on every disc I owned. Now I just write on the disc if it goes in the bag. I have a buddy who doesn't write his name on any of his disc. He keps saying i have been meaning to but never does.

 

[solomon.trenton]

Some people dont really care, if they lose the disc they dont expect to get it back. Its a preference thing. I found a disc today with no # and so did my brother ... guess they didnt care about them much

want to share the disc?

 

[valkyriefb11]

want to share the disc?

I found a pro starfire ... but the center is starting to crack, the cold really did a number on it ... It ought to hold up enough to see if I like the disc though

 

[Midnightbiker]

Put your name and number on your disc and you have a chance of getting it back if lost. If you don't care do then don't. I you find a disc with no name or number, than you just got yourself a new disc.

 

[JR Stengele]

What about putting a pdga # on it. That way you can look the person up.

 

[ShaZaun]

If your going to put your name but no # that means finders keepers on the disc..... or you could put a lost and found ad in your local paper.....

 

[DSCJNKY]

I never put my phone number on my discs... if i did I might lose them.
DSCJNKY

 

[tajsss]

I keep putting my name and number on my discs but no one ever calls. I have on several occasions found my disc for sale in the used bin at Play It Again Sports, with my name and number on it even. Pisses me off. Wouldn't that sort of be like a pawn shop accepting stolen merchandise?

 

[SigmaChris]

Wouldn't that sort of be like a pawn shop accepting stolen merchandise?

No, they did not steal it, they found it. There is no law requiring them call, etiquette and karma yes, but it is not stealing.

 

[thatguy]

The melting snow this weekend did create a lot of mud!

Anyway, it looks like you just got yourself a new disc!

 

[ZMan44]

Please put a phone number on all of your discs...if you want them back. I think I have told this story before but I will tell it again. I had a buddy that I had taken disc golfing a few times. He was about 18 or 19. He bought a bag and a few discs and one day went out by himself. Now, there is an a-hole that plays around here, who thinks he is really good but is barely average in reality. Anyway, he only puts his nickname and PDGA number on his discs. Anyway, my buddy was playign a round with another guy that he was trying to get to play. They find a disc in the middle of a fairway. The disc has the nickname and PDGA number on it. They saw one group in that area of the course and asked if it belonged to any of them. They said "no", so my buddy put it in his bag. When they get to the parking lot, the guy sees his disc in the bag and comes running across the parking lot screaming at them. He was actually having to be told to calm down by the normal disc golfers that happened to be there. He was upset a) because my buddy didn't "know who he was" and b) because he didn't know what the PDGA was. He said my budy should have looked him up online before he tried to take it home with him. If I was there I probably would have hit him in the mouth. Who carries a laptop in their bag? Some may have Smart Phones, but 3 years ago that was pretty rare. My friend gave him the disc back and 2 days later sold the 5 discs he had bought and his bag and hasn't played again.

I know this is an isolated instance. But if you only put name and PDGA number on a disc, you really shouldn't expect to get it back. If a "noob" finds it, then you definitely won't, even if they have the best of intentions. It seems extremely rude for you to expect someone to go to the trouble of finding YOUR information in order to return a disc that YOU lost. Honestly, put your number on the disc, and I call as soon as I pick it up...hoping that I can leave it at the park somewhere for you to find it. I'll call again when I get home, and again in a few days. If I don't hear anything, it's going to a noob...

 

[DiscChainBasket18]

Your buddy sold his stuff & got out of disc golf because somebody got upset at him? That's pretty extreme

 

[slowski74]

Please put your phone # on disc, UPDATE

First time poster here. Played a round today on my home course in St. Charles Michigan. We have had a pretty rough winter here with a lot of snow on the course. We hit 50 degrees here yesterday wich melted a lot of snow but not all of it.
When I was walking up number 12 I just happened to spot a disc under the snow. Pure luck that I found it. The disc was lost today. It is a star destroyer. It has a first name on it wich could be a nickname but no phone number. Now there is no way that I can get this disc back to this person. Please put phone numbers on your discs!

I just got back from playing a round and a guy came up to me after I was done and asked if I found any discs. I told him yes and he described it perfectly. I could'nt throw the d%&m thing anyway!

 

[Three Putt]

The PDGA # thing is a crock. All you get is the name and city where they live. You would then have to do a white pages search and hope they are the only guy in that town with that name. If anybody says you can look them up by their PDGA #, call BS on them.