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(I'm going to assume)Nobody prefers tone-poles. They're lame.
I think you just proved the old saying of assuming makes an A** out of you and me. Tone poles are a fun and cheap alternitive to baskets. And if I can play another new course, I'm OK with baskets, tonepoles, sticks, trees with tape on them, or any other objects that I can throw a disc at. The only times I really prefer baskets are on blind holes.
I'm afraid I would probably quit playing if faced with the prospect of having to only play tone poles. I really don't appreciate them at all.
Ill be dammed
:clap:Tone poles would have a big downside, though, in a lot of situations around Charlotte, which is the precarious basket location capital. I'd hate to "make" a putt and still have to go chase it down into a ravine, or fish it out of the pond, etc.
Disc golf is a self officiated sport so judging tone pole hits is more in line with our basic approach to rules than baskets. We don't have any data but it wouldn't surprise me that players have more complaints about putts "being robbed" due to bouncebacks and cut-thrus than they would about "being robbed" on the group missing a tone pole hit. After all, many of us play 51 for money regularly where you pay out when judging basket hits from the tee versus near the target with tone poles.