Our first try on a Disc Golf Course

Bob Gardner Community Park is just 10mins down the road from our home in Florida. It has been developed to provide the newly built community in that area with soccer fields, baseball practice area, kids playgrounds and walking/cycle trails as well as a new nine hole Disc Golf Course. 

The park has ample parking and the Disc Golf Course is free to play. There are toilets (restrooms) and water fountains there as well as tables and benches. This seemed a sensible place to start. We checked out the sign for the course layout.

Each hole had a good tee sign, which at least gave us an idea of where we were heading but no permanent tee box. The course layout comprised of mown fairways winding amongst some mature trees and landscaped shrubs/grasses. Some islands of original Florida bush had been left as potential hazard areas but there was no indicated Out of Bounds (OB).  A 9 Hole course, Par 27 : 2517ft with one tee off point per hole. A good beginner course.

 

We had found some disc golf videos on You Tube, so naturally you try to emulate what you think you have seen. How do these people throw these discs so far? In writing this piece of my Blog looking back, I can't quite remember how many throws it took to get to the basket on that first hole. At a guess I'm saying probably between 7 and 8. But it looked so easy on the TV!! 

We worked our way around the holes determined to reduce the number of throws on the next and the next and the next. After completing all nine my partner and I looked at each other and said "do you want to go round again?". We did. We enjoyed it so much. Despite our lack of distance and the number throws it took to get round the course there was something so different about throwing these discs. How they fly through the air compared to a ball or any other item you might care to throw.

Gosh, we ached all over the next day, despite the fact that we used go to the gym 3-4 times a week then. What a work out and in such lovely surroundings. Straight back on line to order another starter set. Put on the TV and more You Tube videos to try and understand more about technique.