Disc golf bigger than ball golf in five or ten years? (1 Viewer)

[Binky The Doormat]

Getty got upset with Google. 

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.theverge.com/platform/amp/2018/2/15/17017864/google-removes-view-image-button-from-search-results

thanks - I tried the right click work around and didn't have very consistent results.  

have they anything about these ####ty results that are entirely sales oriented instead of the more random image results we used to get??  #### these #### suckers.  This is total ####### bull####.  

 

[the rover]

The smell of marijuana at a disc golf course on a college campus? What is this world coming to?

Not criticizing it, but those people that are trying to claim that this isn't one of the big attractions of this activity are deluding themselves.   Weed and disc golf is like golf and beverage carts.   If you couldn't drink while golfing, a lot less people would play.   

 

[the rover]

And i'm making an overgeneralization?

People used to say this about ultimate frisbee and now it's everywhere

Ultimate frisbee is everywhere?  You seem to have some confirmation bias going on.   

 

[Binky The Doormat]

And i'm making an overgeneralization?

People used to say this about ultimate frisbee and now it's everywhere

Ultimate frisbee is everywhere?  You seem to have some confirmation bias going on. 

Give KF a break, he works at a pot dispensary and just moved out of the commune.  

His circle of clarity hasn't been broken yet.  Let him imagine.  

 

[kface]

Give KF a break, he works at a pot dispensary and just moved out of the commune.  

His circle of clarity hasn't been broken yet.  Let him imagine.  

Close.   I have a phd in engineering and work for a large consulting firm.  You better hope i'm not that high or that skyscraper you are sitting in while shoveling down your french fries might fall down

 

[James Daulton]

Close.   I have a phd in engineering and work for a large consulting firm.  You better hope i'm not that high or that skyscraper you are sitting in while shoveling down your french fries might fall down

Ok for real, haven't enough of these things been built that there's basically a template by now?  Insert tab A into column B, that kind of thing?

 

[Binky The Doormat]

Close.   I have a phd in engineering and work for a large consulting firm.  You better hope i'm not that high or that skyscraper you are sitting in while shoveling down your french fries might fall down

We all thank you for our well being doc.  

 

[Ignoramus]

I've always thought frolf would be a pretty cool game to take up. Does anyone have some sites they'd recommend for beginners? I am pretty fortunate to live close to a couple of frolf courses and think it would be a good way to get outdoors more.

 

[Binky The Doormat]

I've always thought frolf would be a pretty cool game to take up. Does anyone have some sites they'd recommend for beginners? I am pretty fortunate to live close to a couple of frolf courses and think it would be a good way to get outdoors more.

frolf ...we made up better games when we were kids and weren't even high.

 

[Koya]

I don't understand why anyone plays disc golf.  It's like at some point a bunch of stoners got together and said 'let's create a game that we can get high and wander around throwing frisbees so only guys like ourselves will play it'

Um, I don't think there's an "It's like" about it - pretty sure that's exactly how this #### went down.

 

[kface]

Ok for real, haven't enough of these things been built that there's basically a template by now?  Insert tab A into column B, that kind of thing?

wind loading, soil conditions, soil loading, etc...all change given the site.  But yes, there are pretty large factors of safety built into everything nowadays

 

[Godsbrother]

It will never be bigger than cow chip throwing.

 

[Reg Lllama of Brixton]

I don’t know why but it blows my mind to learn that you play golf. 

Which one? Ball golf or disc golf?

 

[Otis]

Which one? Ball golf or disc golf?

Yes

 

[Reg Lllama of Brixton]

Yes

My dad was an insurance guy.  Golf came with the territory.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

Where’s the disc golf is better than sex guy? Ask him.

maybe the evil demons that he was always seeing got to him - haven't seen him in a while.

 

[Ignoramus]

Which one? Ball golf or disc golf?

"Ball golf"

 

[Binky The Doormat]

Which one? Ball golf or disc golf?

"Ball golf"

Clearly a sportsman.  

And I believe its called a "golf field".

 

[The Future Champs]

Not taking a position, as I don't play either one, but my favorite line from the original link:

Ball golf is too expensive to play (because it is very expensive to maintain the courses), it takes too much time to play (millennials and beyond don’t have five hours to spend playing one round of golf),

Millennials don't have the attention span to spend five hours doing anything.  They've got plenty of time.

 

[Reg Lllama of Brixton]

"Ball golf"

Kinda like "American Football".

 

[Moe.]

Not criticizing it, but those people that are trying to claim that this isn't one of the big attractions of this activity are deluding themselves.   Weed and disc golf is like golf and beverage carts.   If you couldn't drink while golfing, a lot less people would play.   

Pretty much any activity on a college campus comes with a marijuana smell attached nowadays. You'd probably get a whiff if you went to a Young Republican's meeting or something like that.  

It's really not one of the big attractions, but whatever. I live in a relatively conservative area, so I'm sure it's different elsewhere, but I very rarely see people smoking at the course. 

 

[Otis]

I can’t believe you dorks seriously play disc golf. 

 

[Otis]

I’ve never seen a grown up play disc golf.*

*ive actually also never seen a kid play disc golf, but I would let that slide if I did. 

 

[Binky The Doormat]

Part 1 - unavailable.

 

[Ignoramus]

Kinda like "American Football".

No, it's not. 3/4 of the world doesn't refer to frolf as "golf," thereby necessitating a distinction for "ball golf" in the one country that plays it.

 

[Reg Lllama of Brixton]

No, it's not. 3/4 of the world doesn't refer to frolf as "golf," thereby necessitating a distinction for "ball golf" in the one country that plays it.

Nobody calls it “frolf”. 

 

[Ignoramus]

Nobody calls it “frolf”. 

 

"Frolf" has way more google results than "Ball golf" does.

 

[Binky The Doormat]

No, it's not. 3/4 of the world doesn't refer to frolf as "golf," thereby necessitating a distinction for "ball golf" in the one country that plays it.

I can't wait for the day that the other forms of golf are so popular that sportscasters are forced to use the term "ball golf" when referring to the pga.  

 

[Reg Lllama of Brixton]

 

"Frolf" has way more google results than "Ball golf" does.

You do realize that I don’t say “ball golf” 99% of the time I’m talking about golf, right?

 

[Binky The Doormat]

You do realize that I don’t say “ball golf” 99% of the time I’m talking about golf, right?

still seems low. 

I have typed it for the first time in my life in this thread and have never thought it ...much less actually said it, in my entire life.  

ETA:  It sounds like something that a person who is completely unfamiliar with sports would say.  I referenced this phrase earlier - my wife got plenty of looks and laughs when I took her to Firestone CC to see the wgc tour event there.  We are about 5 deep along the first fairway and my wife says as she is trying to peer over the heads of the crowd, "Is that the golf field over there??"  About 20 guys turned around and looked with big grins on their faces.  I still give her #### about it. 

 

[comfortably numb]

Do they drive around in little disc carts?

 

[grateful zed]

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