ShoopDaGoose
Newbie
- Joined
- Aug 8, 2014
- Messages
- 31
Hey everyone, I'm originally from Rockford, IL. I grew to love disc golf in Wisconsin where I went to college for 2 years. I loved the courses in Wisconsin (I actually met and bought a disc from THEDISCGOLFGUY at one of them! Anyways, I also continued to play at the nice local courses in Rockford over the summers...there are now three 18-hole courses in one area!
Now, I am going to school in southern Illinois, and I really miss the courses up north. There is one course just off campus, and it is brutal. It was the worst disc golfing experience of my life. Due to: the heat and humidity (real feel is upwards of 109 degrees), the huge bugs flying around and hitting me as I was playing, all but maybe 3 baskets were hidden off the tee (very difficult layout), and the grass tee pads didn't help (spun myself into the ground once and learned my lesson :doh
, but primarily because it had the most punishing semi-rough and rough I've ever encountered (knee high grass just off the narrow mowed fairways and the thickest brush/thorns/trees with the occasional barely visible barbed wire!)...and I lost a disc...I spent a little less than an hour looking for it, but I left feeling fortunate I only left with scratches from thorn bushes and not bites from the scary looking spiders I saw or getting snagged by some barbed wire...
Will I go back? That is a good question. With a new set of shoes (or cleats), I think I may have to. I said right after I got back that I wouldn't ever go back, but the next closest course is 50 minutes away...and I need me some disc golf! But maybe with a determined and positive outlook, this course could make me the player I strive to be...smart (shot placements), resilient (accepting mistakes), and able to develop technical shots.
But anyways, I look forward to being apart of this online community, and hopefully I'll be more involved in real life events as well in the future.
Now, I am going to school in southern Illinois, and I really miss the courses up north. There is one course just off campus, and it is brutal. It was the worst disc golfing experience of my life. Due to: the heat and humidity (real feel is upwards of 109 degrees), the huge bugs flying around and hitting me as I was playing, all but maybe 3 baskets were hidden off the tee (very difficult layout), and the grass tee pads didn't help (spun myself into the ground once and learned my lesson :doh
, but primarily because it had the most punishing semi-rough and rough I've ever encountered (knee high grass just off the narrow mowed fairways and the thickest brush/thorns/trees with the occasional barely visible barbed wire!)...and I lost a disc...I spent a little less than an hour looking for it, but I left feeling fortunate I only left with scratches from thorn bushes and not bites from the scary looking spiders I saw or getting snagged by some barbed wire...Will I go back? That is a good question. With a new set of shoes (or cleats), I think I may have to. I said right after I got back that I wouldn't ever go back, but the next closest course is 50 minutes away...and I need me some disc golf! But maybe with a determined and positive outlook, this course could make me the player I strive to be...smart (shot placements), resilient (accepting mistakes), and able to develop technical shots.
But anyways, I look forward to being apart of this online community, and hopefully I'll be more involved in real life events as well in the future.
