Around about 2 years ago my partner and I were down in the Cotswolds area of England. We were there in our motorhome (RV) at Cotswold View Caravan and Camping Site near Charlbury. As part of the site there is a woodland walk which we decided to explore one afternoon. We came across these strange looking yellow objects with chains hanging from them with a name written on the top... Latitude 64. As the campsite is adjacent to a farm I thought they were some odd winter feeding holder for hay for the animals. My partner speculated on some kind of waste bin. We had to Google it. What is Latitude 64? I then hit search and looked at images. Spotted what we were looking for and found it was a Disc Golf Basket. What's Disc Golf? That was the next search. Never heard of it!
At this time the course baskets had only just been put in the ground and there were a few tee pad markers. We returned to the campsite reception and got chatting with a woman who explained how the course had come about and offered us a disc to go and throw. So off we went around the woods again throwing this plastic disc at the baskets with no clue what we were doing. It was great fun and we spent an age out there but we just put it down to an experience on our motorhome trip.
Fast forward to mid November 2019. We are retired and live in Florida for some of the winter months. My partner decides to carry out a Google search for Disc Golf courses near us. It had been on her mind for a while and as the USA was where the sport had begun there was bound to be a course somewhere. The search returned with a hit of 3 courses within 30mins of where we live with one of them 10mins down the road!
Another Google search for a starter set of discs. We thought we would only buy one set just to try it out. There seemed little point in getting 2 sets if we didn't like it! A pack of 3 Innova Discs arrived a few days later. A Leopard, Shark and Aviar. Off we went to throw plastic discs.
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