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I carried a lacrosse ball and a beefy tape measure for treed disc for a couple of seasons, never used either. There have always been sticks and rocks available for throwing.
Sanding blocks like these for fixing up discs after nicks. I saw it in one of Sexton's in the bags. https://www.homedepot.com/p/3M-4-87...um-Grit-Drywall-Sanding-Sponge-9095/100321145
DIY score keeper for over/under par similar to this idea below. So I can keep score without being on my phone, or thinking about it...which makes me play worse.
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Alcohol wipes. Come in handy for wiping off fingers and disc when they hit poison ivy.
I carried a lacrosse ball and a beefy tape measure for treed disc for a couple of seasons, never used either. There have always been sticks and rocks available for throwing.
Explain this score keeper thing... I'm not getting it from the photo.
Better or worse than birdie beads?
Same thing essentially, there's a lot of ways to make them. I tied a knot in the middle whereas the one I showed before has a green/different color in the middle. You could also have two different colors for strokes above par and strokes below par.
I start with all of the beads above the knot moved to the top, and all the beads below moved to the bottom. This is zero/even. If I get a birdie I move the beads below "par" to the knot. So in this picture I would be two down. If I get a bogey then I move a bead down so that there is only one bead below the par knot, etc.
You can DIY it to have as many beads below or above the knot as you like, for how good or bad you expect to play typically...if I run out of birdie beads I start sliding ones ones from the top to add to total birdies rather than counting as bogeys. Only happened once so far...
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I used to carry a hockey puck because it was flatter and just slid right in the bottom of my bag. I rarely used it so it's out. Sticks and rocks work fine. Although I have been to a few open courses where there were not many sticks or rocks also not many trees to get stuck in.
Mini Marker discs must have a circular shape, with a diameter ranging from 7 cm to 15 cm and a height not exceeding 3 cm. Mini marker discs can be made from a variety of materials (e.g. plastic, metal, wood).
Alcohol wipes. Come in handy for wiping off fingers and disc when they hit poison ivy.
Sometimes it confounds me how hard it can be to find a stick in a park.
You can also use a hockey puck to mark your lie. From the PDGA Tech Standards:
A standard NHL puck is 2.5 cm thick x 7.6 cm in diameter.... completely within PDGA specs.
If you like the idea of equipment that multi-tasks, you gotta like a mini that's heavy enough to knock a disc out of a tree, and unlikely to get stuck in the process.
I've rescued dozens of discs from trees with a baseball and never needed a rope. I can't get my head around why this would be necessary
For those who can't throw well or aim, I'm guessing you could just lob the ball over the branch, it hooks around, and then you should be able to shake the branch and dislodge the disc? The "roundness" of the ball should keep it from actually getting stuck on a branch, where a hook or similar device would. That's my guess at least..and I'm sold on the idea. lol..
How about this in the 'hack' spirit?
"Hack unused space in your main bag compartment by compressing a towel into a ziplock and putting under your discs. Boom! Dry emergency towel when you need it. "
Gotcha. Makes sense.
I use birdie beads with two strands. Light colors are birdies, dark colors are bogeys.
Way better than writing scores or entering in a phone.
How does that thing upload your scores to the DGCR app? How do you look at it two days later to figure out what you scored on hole 11? How do you keep track of the number of putts?
Seems way better than nothing.