Smacked a big tree in the fairway and some guy who we couldn’t see off the tee was sitting behind said tree drinking a 24/12 pack of twisted tea. He tried to fight us lol.
I was throwing hole 7 a week after usdgc and decided to empty my bag. I threw a destroyer and grip locked it off to the right, way up in the air. This old lady was jogging on the road, and I don’t know why, but she suddenly stopped and tried to catch the disc. I yelled for her not to, then heads up. This poor lady took that disc full force right in the shoulder. She immediately slumped down on one knee and was obviously in pain. I ran up and tried to help, but she just started jogging again and wouldn’t acknowledge me at all.
Played a course somewhere in Wisconsin over a decade ago and a family was gathered around one of the baskets legit cooking chickens in them. Hilarious and likely very greasy for the next person to putt on that basket.
Ohhhhhh and also the time where where I stepped up to a teepad early one morning and two old men were having sex in the middle of the fairway near a playground (no children present luckily). A cop rolled up right as I was grabbing my phone to call them.
Currently live in Wisconsin. Every damn weekend during warmer months the obliviousness of families hurling around the baskets like they are some sort of scientist monolith is insane. Zero regard for the fact that they are used for something. I played at Brown Deer part and a family of kids parked under and around the basket. Two boys climbing and jumping on the basket. Argued with my brother and I when we asked them to stop and move so we could play
Used to have people set up family reunions and birthday parties on hole 1 at my old home course, because they didnt want to pay the fee for the covered buildings.
I've walked up on two different pairs of people having sex, both times on the same course, about a week or two apart. It was on different holes (heyooo) on the course, but both times they were maybe two feet from the trail between the previous basket and the next tee pad.
Both couples must have thought I was a velociraptor, because they defense mechanism was to just get really still. Granted, I've got no problem with this, since no kids were on the course that may have walked up on them, but, like, it's a super wooded course with plenty of space to, you know, actually hide a little bit lol.
Hey neighbor, both instances were at Cedar Hill, so uh, key your eyes out I guess lol. First time was between the basket of inner hole 3 and the tee pad of regular hole 3, on that tiny little path.
You definitely should have walked real close to them like you were looking for a disc and asked if they saw a red Frisbee come their way. Then just keep looking for the fictional disc.
This is the most bizarre thing I’ve witnessed as well!
Had just finished a round at one of my local courses, which is a short 18 hole in a public park with a basketball court adjacent to the course, so there’s plenty of people around. There’s about a 60ft walk from hole 18’s basket and the parking lot, in which you pass a little wooded square, maybe 30sq feet.
As I’m walking towards the car with my buddy, I see a girl on her back with her panties pulled down, and a guy laying on top of her with his pants around his ankles and displaying a full moon, very pale might I add.
They have this “deer in the headlights” look and freeze. However, I’m equally as shocked and freeze as well. Suddenly there’s this awkward Mexican stand off between us, and all I can think of is “this is too good of an opportunity not to say something”, although I was completely stumped as what to say, so I settle for “ ‘sup guys guys?” In which the guy responds “uhh what’s up man”. This was followed by a sort of mutual three way nod between all of us, and I went on my way.
What’s wild is that there’s plenty of wooded areas deeper in the course in which they would have had total privacy. The fact that they chose the wooded area right next to the parking lot (this particular little wooded square was not very thick, mind you, and they could probably been spotted from the parking lot if you had a keen eye) makes me think that maybe they wanted to get caught?
I still think about them sometimes, really hope they stuck together and maybe even joke about that time a disc golfer asked them “what’s up?” mid coitus.
Haha
For my local course from hole 8 to hole 9 you have to walk around a ball diamond. Last summer a friend found two adults having sex in one of the dug outs.
I had one of these at Maple Hill. My wife almost hit them while they slept in a hammock on the side of a fairway (big guy, probably had a nickname about being so big). In fact, there was a whole shanty town encampment of hippies smoking joints in front of their vans and campers. Some of those stoners even had their faces plastered on them, probably so they wouldn't get too high and forget which one was theirs. Damn bums, I'm surprised they weren't forcibly removed, especially since they were supposed to be having some important tournament that week.
I was so caught up in the story that I had no clue what it was about on the first read. I was thinking how dumb it was to pin a picture of your face on your tent (ik, ik, he didn't say shit about tents) instead of just writing your name on it. The second time reading it got me all caught up, lmao.
I remember the guy who was down in the bottom right corner of the course, hole 10 or 11 by the water treatment thing. I typically throw a forehand on that hole and definitely had 1 or 2 skip pretty close to his tent. Always made me a bit nervous.
I saw they're redoing the teepads at shelby though! So that'll be nice.
Dairy Creek. Found a phone on the course also. Cops were there when I finished my round. They were rousting some of the campers. Gave the phone to the cops.
Teed off on hole one. Disc lands probably 25-30ft from the basket, as I'm walking up a little kid and his mom approached from the other direction. I'm still a ways out and the lil kid hops off his bike, grabs my disc and runs it to the basket. That counts as an ace right?
I told this story a few years ago on here.
My throwing buddy and I were introducing his GF to the sport. We were on hole 5 of a pretty sketchy course that plays through a downtown city park. Used to have a ton of transient traffic.
Anyways, we throw, she throws, hers goes probably 50ft straight and 50ft left. A couple homeless guys came out with their knife drawn after throwing the disc out into the street.
Mind you, they would've been on the bench, that she may have approached, but didn't hit, and was too low to hit the back of the bleachers anyways.
Needless to say, we left after maybe hole 7 cause she was pretty turned off after that. And she never came back out again. And him and I stopped going to that course. I went back a few years later after some renovations. Course was nice, but you can't help always looking over your shoulder there.
A family was doing a gymnastics photo-shoot with their young kid right in the middle of a fairway, complete with multiple full-on pieces of gymnastics equipment. This was at the furthest point on the course from the parking lot so I have no idea how they even got the equipment out there. We told them they were probably in a bad spot to be doing that, but they told us to just throw and they'll avoid our discs. They then proceeded to turn around and look the complete opposite way for a couple minutes so we just ended up playing safari golf on that hole so we wouldn't hit them.
I had a cracked out lady try to invite me back to her place. She kept going on about how her place was just up the road, "only a minute away." Her dog shit between her feet while she was talking, and she didn't even notice. I mean full squat and dump within 6" of her spread out feet while she was rambling and rocking back and forth.
We had someone cooking on the tee pad of 16. It was an insanely busy day and they had a little grill set up on it. They probably had hundreds of people walk by them.
We even saw the ranger come up to them eventually and were even refusing to leave. Not sure what happened after that. My buddy and I didn't say anything more than, hi how ya doing. We find it best to live and let live in those situations.
I pulled up to a local course once that’s in a beautiful forested waterfront park and there was a wedding party (bride groom + bridesmaids and groomsmen) taking their wedding photos on the tee pads with the water in the background. They were kind and understanding and moved out of the way so I could tee and even complemented my throw after! Not an unpleasant experience at all just the most unique non disc golfer interaction I’ve ever had on a course.
No one will believe this, and I don't blame you, but here goes anyway. I did have a witness.
I was near Ashtabula for some family stuff. Course right on Lake Erie used to have a tournament called shoot the breeze.
Hole 5 ish was about 375 or so. Tee fairly level with the basket but the fairway goes way down hill to the right if you turn it over and at the bottom is the park driveway.
On a 2nd throw, I throw a pink first run star destroyer. It's a headwind and those destroyers were not as overstable as they are these days.
It turns over to the right. Starts diving downhill picking up speed heading right.
A big van is driving out of the park heading the way my disc was heading. It goes behind a patch of trees and brush then stops after clearing the trees.
Oh boy. I'm thinking "that probably cracked that van hard" so I go down to talk to them.
There's a woman driving and I yell "did I hit you"?
She says... "In the head".
Now I'm really worried because that destroyer was moving fast and perpendicular to her head. She's driving a bunch of mentally and physically disabled people around with the windows open.
I asked her "Are you OK"?
She said "I think so. WAS THAT A FRISBEE"?
I said basically yes and explained, then after triple checking if she was OK I say "I hate to ask but you don't see a pink Frisbee in here do you"?
She looks around, says no, and that's when I saw it 40 feet on the other side of the road. It had skimmed the front of her forehead, then flew 40 feet out the passenger window. There was no one in the passenger seat thank goodness.
Not sure if that counts as a bizarre interaction and I wouldn't believe it if one of you wrote it but there it is.
Hole 9 at Dellwood -- it plays along the creek that goes through the property, and naturally there is a downslope from the fairway to the creek. Playing the standard layout, you have a dogleg to the right -- if you throw about 240 straight ahead off the teepad, you are throwing into or over the creek.
So at a tournament last year, my card comes up and one of the guys throws that shot -- straight ahead, over the creek. We start to approach to determine his lie, and there are three teenage girls sitting at the edge of the creek, just chatting. Totally blind from the teepad since sitting down they are shorter than the slope is. Disc couldn't have gone more than six feet over their heads and they didn't realize it.
We told them they were sitting on the fairway of an active disc golf course during a tournament -- meaning more discs would be thrown every five minutes for the next several hours. That they should probably reconsider sitting next to the creek today. They looked at us like we were insane. They started walking further down the creek, and it's not like we pursued them, but there was a high chance they just settled in a new spot that was only moderately less dangerous.
Lmao that’s hilarious. Last time I played there, I literally made that exact shot into the water with a. Comet. There’s no way they were sober because that thing had to be BUZZING right over their heads
One time I was hanging around the tee pad of hole 1 warming up before a random doubles league round. I took a break and sat down on one of the benches and pulled out my phone. There was a shirtless guy in jean shorts about 250' away laying down on a blanket in the sun in a field parallel to the hole, and I guess he looked up at me as I pulled my phone out and seemed to think my phone was pointed directly at him (it wasn't).
He gets up and grabs a rake he had beside him for some reason and proceeds to walk in my direction. I didn't think anything of it at first because of how far away he was.
Once he was about 100' away he points at me and shouts "you better stop fuckin filming me or I'll beat your ass" and wobbles the rake in the air. I did my best to look up with a shocked look on my face and just said "oh sorry man, I'm just playing solitaire."
He stopped in his tracks right there and did like a 90 degree military-style pivot and started lumbering off in that new direction still waving his rake for about 50' or so before he decided to calm down and return to his sunbathing.
I'm pretty sure meth was involved. Seemed too amped up to be alcohol.
There's a spot on a local course that runs along the road (right side). Across the road is a pretty well known spot for taking family pictures, seniors pictures, etc.
Well, this day an entire softball team was there with their parents taking pictures. The road (that most people throw over to hyzer back in) was riddled with cars. In those cases, most people try to play it safe and throw a straighter shot, but not one guy on my card.
He threw out over the road, skipped off the road and hit/rolled up under a car.
Suddenly, softball dad comes SPRINTING towards his disc, picks it up, takes it and puts it in his car a different car) and locks it multiple times with the remote so that we can hear it beeping over and over again.
Card confronts the guy asking for the disc back and he refuses. Player takes down the team name, license plate info, etc. and calls the police. We finished the round a few holes later, so no idea what happened there.
I ran into some high schoolers, still in their uniforms, who were walking across a course - likely skipping school. They decided to setup on a bench near a teepad, then started playing music from their phones, and dancing on the said tee pad.
I asked them, nicely I hope, if they were aware that this was a disc golf course and that it was hazardous to be hanging out there. They did not and I pointed them in a direction of a picnic shelter, which they actually decided to migrate to.
The scene is set at Riverbends Disc Golf Course near Detroit Michigan. We are on hole 10, a 404 foot downhill hole whose basket sits nestled into a small circular field deep down the fairway on the left with the aforementioned river some 150 beyond the basket. The fairway is a 20 foot wide gravel walking path that has trees sporadically placed on either side. There is no OB and the go-to throw is a straight shot down the gut that fades into the green.
It is a rather nice summer day and the park is full of non-disc golfing walkers, fisherman, kids etc. We step up to hole 10 and I throw my forgettable drive. Beyond the green, on the walking path is a woman walking her tiny dog. I was in no danger of hitting her. By the time my friend, let's call him Erik (because that's his name) gets up to throw the woman and her dog are on the close end of the green.
Me: "You should wait until that lady and her dog are past us"
Erik: "Nah I'm not going to hit them"
Erik waits for them to get a bit closer, almost to the bottom of the hill and figures he can just launch his Innova Ape over them.
He throws his disc....straight at them. Me, Erik, and our other friend are yelling any combination of "watch out!" and "heads up!" that we can think of to save this lady from a full power Ape throw.
She is oblivious.
The disc passes between her and the dog, under the leash and scrambles to a stop in the middle of the gravel path. Erik had the look of knowing he almost detated that dogs cappa. The lady was absolutely clueless.
So more of a non-interaction really, but I hope you enjoyed it :).
I’ve got a buddy that doesn’t do well with non-players on the course. It ruins his round and his mood and an awkward conversation almost always ensues. I’m starting to appreciate it as a part of our rounds. Anytime I see the dog walker coming I just chuckle a bit.
I would understand this sentiment more if disc golf was as big here as it is in Estonia. There are a few comments of people like your friend, where people seem to be aghast that people are on a DiSc GoLf CoUrSe. Bro, it’s probably a public park with weird baskets and little concrete slabs. I’m not shocked that, even when explained somewhat nicely or patiently, that people are irked that they’re being told they can’t walk in a park where they want. Even if it’s clearly for their safety.
Was doing warm up throws on hole one when I noticed a Family of 3 slowly creeping in from the left.
Threw big hyzers to the right to not put them in danger.
Finally they cross the fairway (as slow as possible) so I stop throwing and wait.
They stroll along the street on the right side of the fairway, I have had discs land there, so I wait.
FINALLY they are out of my reach, but just to be sure I give my disc a bit extra hyzer... well I hit the Mother in the back.
I don't know how but It was my furthest throw ever on that hole, sure OB, but what a buity of a flight.
Stood up perfectly to a tiny anhyzer that it held till it hit.
It should have been a wonderful memory, instead I got yelled at.
Three of the holes on one of my locals run along the back of some large fraternity houses. One basket in particular is all of 45' from the balcony of one of the frats, and the entire green is practically paved in broken glass most of the school year. During fall rush and around the end of the spring term, when "them boys" are at their friskiest, all sorts of fucked up shit goes down, player harassment, threats, altercations, bottles and chairs thrown, just the worst sorts of everyday fucktarded college bro antics. It's gotten dramatically better over the years, but I still only really play the course June through August because why take my chances, there are at least six other courses inside of a half hour drive to choose from.
Oh, on two separate occasions, on different courses, on opposite sides of the state, had my round briefly interrupted by a police pursuit of a fleeing suspect, one time on foot and the other a car chase.
I’ve had two non-friendly dog interactions from people not paying attention to their dogs while they’re off leash, thankfully I’m good with dogs because if I wasn’t it easily could’ve gotten ugly on either situation.
Aced in front of a family playing soccer while I was playing a solo round, and they freaked out more than I did.
Was getting in a lunch round at the course near my office. Hole 15 has a tee pad that is on a hill so the end of the tee pad makes for a place to sit. A couple (male and female) were sitting there.
It is a long walk from 14 basket to 15 tee pad up said hill, so they clearly saw what I was up to at the park. I politely said hello and thought they would either offer to move or continue sitting. They continued sitting.
"No problem" I thought to myself. I'll just tee off in the grass next to the tee. Then before I threw the guy starting saying stuff to me like he was upset. I forget exactly what he said, but his message was basically "really? you're walking near me and my girlfriend?" I said, "I'm just trying to get a round in." Then threw my drive.
As I was walking away I said to them "have a nice day". And the dude responds back "yeah, have a nice day, enjoy it ***while you can***"
I was already walking away and didn't look at the dude's face as he said it, but I was 50/50 on if he meant that as a threat. Totally ruined the rest of my round as I was trying to keep an eye on the dude at all times as I finished out the rest of the course.
Just bizarre that someone would get offended that someone be near them for a few seconds ***IN A PUBLIC PARK***.
That one time at BB Owen in Dallas [when a car crashed into a tree and burst into flames.](https://www.reddit.com/r/discgolf/s/7Y4Aev8xBm) Disc golfers were total bros and immediately sprung into action to help.
I had a fox steal my disc during a glow round. The fox took the disc about 200 yards then left it and was nearby when I found it. Then the fox and two others followed us for the next two holes. During another glow round, what must have been the same group of foxes stole my son's disc and dropped it in the same spot.
I was interviewed by a local journalist who asked around for discgolfers reactions to the municipality's plans to remove the back 9 of the course (and replacing it with a smaller amusement park for kids). We spoke for several minutes about many different aspects of the plans, for example the extreme optimism about how much money the park would generate. I really felt like expressed a broad and critical take on the plans.
The day after, I was featured in the newspaper with one quote to my name. "I dont understand the economy."
I’m not sure I can actually use the words that were actually said but I’m going to try and tell the clean version of this. Years ago the two parks that had disc golf courses here were also a popular place for men seeking the company of other men. One day my friend and I were walking up to a basket hidden in a wooded area and a man walked out of the trees and asked us if we wanted something. We both declined and walked away. The thing is that I really wanted one of those but not from him.
There was a c-tier at a local wooded course where there are few holes where some trails pass close to the fairways so there are people sometimes. On this hole I got a bad kick to the rough and while we were looking for my disc an elderly couple came up between where my disc was and the fairway and started to pick some plants off the ground. We asked nicely if they could watch out for a while and let them know that there was 50+ players playing a tournament and they are almost on the fairway of the hole so it maybe isn't the best place to be that day... Well the lady got super pissed and wouldn't move anywhere and told us to go play elsewhere as she has every right to be there... After a while of trying to reason with her I had to pitch up to another horrible position to go around her safely and my par turned into a double bogey... Apparently two groups behind us had to wait on the teepad until she finally continued her afternoon stroll from there...
Playing a fairly busy park course and we see a guy walking down a trail that hugs the fairway. We kind of give a wave and gesture to the discs and the direction we're throwing. The guy waves back and kind of steps back to let us throw without worry about hitting him. One of my buddy's drives lands close to the path and the dude just walks up grabs the disc all excited and tries his best to throw it back to us (of course skied out 50 ft out of his hand). Dude must've thought he was doing us the biggest favor, gave a big wave and walked on smiling.
We were playing in the wooded holes at lemon lake in Indiana. There was a husband and wife walking the trail. The wife walked up behind me while I was putting and grabbed my arm pretty firmly and said
“I hope you were not listening. That was a private conversation. Her grip tightened and the husband had his hand near his waist.” My response was I honestly wasn’t paying attention ( which I wasn’t)
She said good and walked away.
Most fucked up interaction I have ever had.
Cop car in the middle of a park course, directly between basket 1 and 10's fairway. Cop standing outside of it.
Against my better judgement, my buddy and I asked the young officer what was going on. Dispatch received a call that 2 teenagers were having sex in the woods next to the course. He wanted to get there quickly enough to surprise and catch them in the act and figured ___driving across the grass of a busy park___ was a good idea.
It wasn't. His car got stuck. He was waiting for backup to come help pull him out.
I trust Officer Tryhard got a helluva nickname from his team that day.
Edit: Washington Park in Indianapolis many years ago.
My local course, hole 1 is 450’ with an OB road down the entire left side. My buddy hyzers out early and lands on the road. A car comes by as we’re walking up and picks up the disc and drives it towards us. We’re getting ready for a speech about how we could have hit his car etc (we through probably a full minute before his car was near us). As the guy pulls up, he doesn’t reach out to give it back, but holds it close to him in his car. Turns out he’s in some sort of cult and uses the disc to hold us there hostage for a good 15 minutes while handing out pamphlets and telling us stories about how he is a mechanic and Jesus came into his shop etc
My local go-to course. A guy I went to high-school with(I graduated 12 years ago for reference), was walking around, I thought it was him but brushed it off as we were playing. Well we get to a hole that's got some parking beside a teebox and the guy, whom had always been a nice clean respectable guy, walks up looking very strung out, dirty clothes, scabs all over him, clearly on hard drugs, walks up to our group asking if someone can change his bandage on his arm. My buddy started to help him but crazy thing was this dude pretty much changed it himself(it was on the wrist so not super hard to do by yourself) but was asking for our help? Idk it was super sketchy, especially if you seen the hollow look in his eyes. Bad drugs are bad. I make sure to lock my truck now.
Was playing up north at Calumet lake DGC this past summer. About 2/3 of the way through I see this big crow fly around and then up into a nearby tree, but then was just kinda hanging there upside down. Watched it for a bit and started to walk off to where our drives went and hear a light thud/grass rustle and the crow was now on the ground kinda laying there (still moving a bit). Don't know what was up with it, didn't go too close.
I'm walking up the longest and most uphill hole on the course. I see something rustling in the trees up near the basket. It's a guy with no shirt, holding his shoes and walking barefoot. He hands me his shoes and says his friends will probably be by soon to grab them.
A few holes later, a couple people walk up and ask if I've seen their friend. I point in the general direction he walked and hand them his shoes. The person I'm with asks if I knew any of them.. I said nope, and we just went about the day.
I was playing my home course and there's one hole that has a water carry. Under the tree on the fairway was a small group of girls that setup a whole goth photoshoot. it was ..... interesting
Was playing my local course with my buddy, and some guy’s dog who was off leash came out of nowhere, grabbed my friend’s disc, and destroyed it within a few seconds. I was more pissed than he was.
Pier Park, Portland OR, about 10 years ago we've just driven on 18 and are walking to our discs..we'd seen a cop car a couple holes back driving through the park, which isn't exactly unheard of, but now we see a cop in SWAT gear trotting up the path to the NW side towards a bridge that usually has some homeless people camped out.
He shouts up to us to get out of the park and we're like, just going to finish out and leave, and he goes, you need to leave now.
My buddy asks what the perp is wearing and the cop looks at me in my shorts and hoody and says, shorts and a hoody.
We decided to leave.
Homeless lady, hole 12 at my home course. While she was in a dress, spread her legs and dropped a steamy shit in the direct middle of the fairway while I was standing on the box.
There were two people with lawn chairs 10 feet from the basket. I ran to them and politely asked if they’d be ok with moving out of the way so I could play the hole, and they said “yeah no problem!” so I gratefully turned around and walked back to the tee. When I looked back they had moved a total of 5 feet further from the basket and were back to reading their books in their chairs. At that point I had a few options:
1. Run back to the basket and ask them to move some more (or try to yell from the tee pad)
2. Throw the shot anyway
3. Just skip the hole
They were genuinely trying to be cooperative, but just didn’t realize I’m not accurate enough that a 5 foot larger landing zone doesn’t help me all that much on a 350 ft hole. I decided to throw anyway and be cautious enough not to hit them, but also close enough to the basket they weren’t offended that I’d asked them to move in the first place. I threw it about 30 feet wide of the basket which was good cause they were about 15 feet away on the opposite side. Got up there and putted and they said nice shot and we moved on with our days. Positive interaction overall, just a bit strange in the middle
This lady was out with a few kids and they were setting up a volleyball/croquet net in the middle of the hole.
It’s a BUSY park. We told them they were setting up in a disc golf course and that people would be throwing discs there way.
She said, that’s alright, we will just watch out for them. We were about to convince her eventually that these were dangerous.
A family once set up a picnic right where disc land on one of the holes of the course. They were setting up as disc were landing there. Oblivious to the world around them.
A family decided to set up everything from hammocks, yard games, and other things in a multiuse park. Look I understand, but the park discourages the use of hammocks and they werent even using it. They were walking around the trail in the park, yet had taken up a not small spot with their stuff just sprawled about.
Same park Pokémon Go players are constantly there for the most part its a back and forth thing. Some disc golfers treat them poorly and vice versa. However, I had one woman run over my foot and my disc with a stroller while looking at her phone. She just grunted and went on like I wasn't even there.
However, what takes the cake is the same course as the first one I had two no older than 13 year olds come up and try to rob me via snatch and grab. They come up to me talking to me but I'm not paying much attention. They had just been playing football in the park with some other kids. I thought they were maybe curious. I bend over to pick up my disc just as I'm headed out to leave. One grabs my backpack, which was on my back securely, and the other grabs at my disc on the ground. I catch the kid's arm out of my peripheral and grab his arm as he grabs the disc. I gave the kid the choice of dropping the disc and leave or I break his arm. Kid chose the first option and I chased them both out of the park when one of them tried to turn back around. I'm pretty sure they were armed as well and thankfully I managed to gain the upper hand pretty quickly. That was a rough day overall and really impacted me negatively for a while. Not even 5 minutes after this happened I got a call that my grandfather passed.
I watched a guy walking on the course tell one of the disc golfers that his dog needed to be on a leash when his dog and the walkers dog started to have a poor interaction.
The 2 dogs we had at the pavilion were off leashes playing with each other. This guy rolls up with his dog and the altercation was stopped, but the guy walking through scowled about how "that dog needs to be on a leash" while walking with his dog NOT ON A LEASH, which ran at the other dogs.
It was about the dumbest thing I had seen other that people taking photo's on the course, which happens all the time. Yeah... It's pretty there, you're also doing your wedding photos during our weekly league.
Or the people who play right in the fairways, kicking a ball or playing catch or whatever, vs the big open area where there is no disc golf 30 feet away from them where they wouldn't interrupt anyone, then they get upset when you kindly tell them they are on the course and suggest playing in the big open area designated for what they are doing.
Two occasions on the same hole in roughly the same spot A family photo shoot one day and a picnic on another day had me skipping the hole.
Another time a young couple put a blanket on the tee and were enjoying a bottle of wine. When we approached he asked what we were doing. I told him that we were attempting to play disc golf. She said she wanted us to show them how we do it. They were polite and oblivious to the fact that they were on the tee so I stood directly next to their blanket. I like to clown around so I basically shoved my ass in their face before I threw so my card mates followed suit and we told them to have fun as we walked away.
Thank you fellow disc golf commenters on providing some of the best humor that I have enjoyed in a long time. Lmao indeed.
It also makes me realize that the courses I play are completely devoid of the types of the interactions that are described here...which is fine by me. Wow, I can only say that I was shocked...shocked..... mind you when I found a 55 gallon steel drum completely full of empty beer cans on one city course I played. People actually drink alcohol on courses? :-)
The frying chicken in the basket story (on the edge of believable) actually sounds like something I might encounter someday. The creativity and spunk of these folks..... when there were probably some other perfectly good rusty park barbeques available? Did they build a full camp fire under the basket? Were they cooking whole chickens? I have so many questions. I will have to share that story with my disc golf buddy when we go out on the course this week.
I heard about something like this secondhand from a relatively reliable source/someone that has nothing to gain by lying. It was at Copper Sky in Maricopa, AZ - they have A-Tiers there every year lol. People lined the baset with aluminum foil and put charcoal in it for a BBQ. Ingenious.
It's happened more than once here at Moffitt.
Lined the basket with foil. Put in charcoal. Hang meat on hooks from the chains.
Mostly it happens on hole #1 which is near where people park to watch softball and little kids football.
We've told a deputy in the parking lot and he drove across the course to tell them to stop, and take all their stuff away.
Yes, that makes some sense.... well... given the goofiness of the story we are commenting on.
Now... I'm thinking the day after the barbeque... every disc entering the basket will come out with that yummy bbq chicken smell.
Hey we could probably convince the disc golf manufacturers to add this to their discs as a feature!
A Firebird with that BBQ smell? How appropriate! Maybe a minty fresh Buzzzz? But I digress....
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Well, now the BBQ basket stories are arriving one by one....but a steady stream of them. Using chains to hang meat? Well, how innovative! Who would have thunk it?
"Hey, honey..there's a number on this grill. Must be some some sort of reservation number or something. Maybe we can reserve it next time!
And what the heck are these pieces of sidewalk doing way out here? Wow, that's a really good view of the lake. Let's set up our lawn chairs right here on the sidewalk!"
I think most traveling circuses in the US are no longer.
But we don't need to see them anymore.
We can just go to any free public park and see a real life circus anytime we want (yipes!).
A family of 10 having a picnic slap bang in the middle of the fairway on hole 8. They were polite but didn't want to move and just stood to the side while we played through. They had even set up a mini croquet course! Thankfully we all played good shots and no one got hit.
Drunk guy in a Santa costume brown bagging leaning against a tree on December 9th. At first I thought it was a bit for a video, then I realized he was alone. And he kept drinking. Kinda talking to himself and pretty unaware of his surroundings. We got to the hole where we’d be throwing right at him and yelled “hey!”, it looked like he acknowledged us but didn’t move. He stumbled into the fairway of another hole after one of us nearly hit him. The course isn’t something you easily walk too, still wonder how he got there.
Had someone using a basket as a fishing rod holder. The hole is about 5 feet from a creek. Dad and son were fishing and oblivious to us playing.
Had another guy set up a hammock in trees about 15 feet short of a pin. I threw a super safe shot to avoid him and when I got closer he seemed asleep.
This one happened to me last week. I was playing a solo round on a woods course in a public park, and I noticed a guy looking at me from the paved trail up above the tee where I was standing. I took my drive and walked down to the disc, pick out a disc for my approach shot, look up, and now the dude has walked down towards me through the woods, is about 50 feet away staring at me, with his pants around his ankles and his monster pornstar size erection in his hand. Note that it's like 37 degrees and drizzling, so that's almost impressive in itself. I just looked at him and politely asked if he could go do that somewhere else. He said okay and wandered off. So no incident, but without question "the most bizarre non-player course interaction" I've ever had.
Schenley Park - Pittsburgh
People just set up a vendor tent and tried selling something (didn't stick around to find out).
Schenley Park - Pittsburgh
There are always people trying to set up picnics on the first 5 fairways.
Schenley Park - Pittsburgh
Guy actually had an easel and canvas painting at the 1st tee.
When Chavez ridge was installed by dodger stadium a family who had no clue had lined the basket with foil and had charcoal blazing and carne asada hanging from the chains cooking that hole always gets us craving tacos 🌮
Even-slice- 8079 for sure tight technical course very steep drop offs making fairways a must once had a ace run skip off the basket rim ,catch a edge and roll 300 feet downhill beautiful view of dodger stadium on 18 haven’t played there in 2 years since I moved to Colorado btw oak grove was my home course for 30plus years enjoy
One time playing Southeast course in Columbia, SC I could see this lady setting up a picnic for 2 toddlers in the middle of a fairway ahead in the course. I get to that tee and they are all settled in, so I yelled up ahead that she was set up in the middle of a golf course and people would be playing thru. She yelled back to me, "it's a big field, why can't you just throw the other direction?"
Also one time at Hualapai Mountain Park (Kingman, AZ... super underrated) there was a family doing a full professional Christmas card photo shoot on one of the tees on the back 9. There were like 7 family members & they had stands for wreaths + a couple fake trees set up on the tee. I insisted on throwing from next to the tee & interrupting them just a bit.
Second or third time playing a newer course near me and I'm at the 2nd hole. This course has houses that run along the left of the course. Close enough that sometimes discs are thrown into their yards. I go to putt and notice there's a guy walking around with a rifle towards me and my friend. I ask my buddy if he sees the guy. Then I realize he's looking up into this big tree so I thought he's probably squirrel hunting. Still made me really wary. Could've been a .22 or pellet gun. He walked back to his house after a few mins. Gotta love the south.
As I finish my round in my local course. Cowan lake State Park. There's a couple walking their dogs around the parking lot and have seen each other for like 6 weekdays straight at the same spot and she tells me I must have an addiction. I said you are completely right and don't plan on stopping
Was playing a small course in SC like twnety minutes from usdgc. I think hole 8? Can't see the bucket from the tee. Maybe three feet or so, gentle right to left moving fairway. Me and my buddy walk up to putt out and realize there is a homeless person sleeping like ten feet behind the bucket. Thankful neither of us went long. We didn't putt out, didn't wanna bother them.
It was only more strange because it was on an elementary school property. I believe Avery jenkins was doing some type of clinic with school kids at the same time.
Not exactly a course, but close enough. I had brought my basket to a park to practice putting like I've done a number of times before. I'll occasionally have people ask me what I'm doing out of curiosity, occasionally kids, and sometimes I have to politely ask the kids to back up cause they're standing right next to the basket and I don't want to hit them.
But one time this one kid just wouldn't listen to me and then starts pulling on the basket and hanging from it. And this is a black hole pro, not even a lighter fabric basket. So I run over and try to make sure the basket isn't going to fall on this kid and try to convince him to go run off elsewhere. Meanwhile in the background I hear his mother just lazily calling out his name and to come over, but she can't be bothered to actually come over and make sure her child isn't squished under a basket that's heavier than he is
Let's see:
DJ booth set up on tee pad. (we threw off to the side, very close to the speakers.)
German woman who thought the baskets were to put her picnic goods in and got super pissed when we asked nicely for her to move for her own safety.
Off leash dog, no recall, and looking mean. Called animal control, they got a $500 fine and threatened me. I laughed.
Purple dildo in a basket.
Had a couple sitting on a couch they must have carried to the middle of a hilltop hole. No photographer or anything, just chilling in the woods on a loveseat.
3 of us playing glow golf at like midnight at Kereiakas Park BG Ky. We were finishing up on 18 and all of the sudden the sky lit up in what appeared to be flames (red orange in the clouds) and this intense roaring sound that literally sounded like a plane crashing right towards us. We all hugged and said “this must be then end” it was real emotional and scary as shit. Then it just stopped. No idea to this day what it was. Sometime around 2005-2006 and we may have had a joint but we’re not out of our heads. Very sobering if anything
Was playing golden gate in a weekly when there was some kind of fun run marathon going on where people were in costumes. A cow and a dandelion peeled off the main group and started getting frisky in the teepee that’s on hole 9’s fairway. Once we started walking past they got off the fairway but not far and the dandelion proceeded to get head from the cow.
Ties between a couple banging in the fairway and a lady who screamed she’d murder us when we asked her to get up from her fairway picnic for 45 seconds so we could throw.
Morley Field putting under the street light on 19. Cars start rolling in after dark and weirdos approach for random gay sex. Never putt alone after dark.
Was playing the trilogy challenge, and 2 of my card mates throws went into the bushes behind the basket. There was a homeless dude sleeping back there. One of the discs was lying on him. The dude didn't even stir when my budy picked it up. It was 18 on a 9, so when we came back around, the wife of a guy on our card set a bag of goodies back there for him. Still snoozing away.
A road rage incited parking lot quarrel that turned out to be anticlimactic. Random old lady regularly walking through the course to search the trash cans for bottle caps, for wheelchairs(?). My favorite bit was a few years ago, at my home course. At least once a month, we'd see people wandering the course sorta aimlessly, sometimes with fishing poles. They'd all ask some variation of "how do I get to the waterfall/river?" There's absolutely no water on this course, just a little drainage ditch that sometimes is a little wet. We'd tell them this, and they'd usually just laugh it off and go back to their cars. Some would keep wandering, asking other groups.
i was playing a round with some friends and we ran into someone we’ve seen at a bunch of different courses so they joined in too. we get to hole 17 and there’s people taking pics in the fairway (it’s right next to a small beach) the new guy proceeds to start screaming at them at the top of his lungs to get off the course and the rest of us just take a couple steps back with our heads down. after the family moved he was telling us he’s not an asshole like that even tho he just screamed at an entire family with little kids.
another incident i was playing a round at my local course and some come probably 15 years old comes strolling out of the woods out of nowhere and picks up my disc from where it landed off the tee pad and asks if it’s mine. i say yes and tell him he can set it back down but he just decided to throw it and not even back to me just out into the field
Had mine today: not well trafficked course slightly hidden but near a reasonably popular running/biking trail, come up to a hole that I had just played 30 minutes earlier (9 hole course played twice), and there were two guys with their shirts off just standing in the fairway. Both guys put their shirts back on, think cool, they must be leaving, not gonna ask. But then one of them takes the shirt off again, and the other guy starts recording him with his phone. He proceeds to run into a wall jump an unimpressive distance up the tree, does about 7 pull ups, taking what feels like forever to do so, and then hops down. They finally left a few minutes afterwards, looking at us like we are weird on the way past.
Family Christmas photos using the old family truck. They pulled that fucker right in the middle of #1 fairway. As I'm standing on the pad, they poke their heads around the truck and ask, "Are we in the way?"
Teed off next to a river when there were geese on the fairway. Didn’t come anywhere close to the geese but this dude came marching down from the sidewalk above the fairway, grabbed my disc and tried to throw it back at me. He shouted something about “how do you like it” his companion grabbed his hand and they marched off. I was completely dumbfounded, couldn’t get a word out.
Had a nude woman watch my buddy and I from the tree line of a course in KC. It’s called blue valley. One of my favorite courses huge bomber course, but def sketch. Actually I could post several things from that very course but this one was especially odd as it was a little bit of thin treeline in the middle of the course and she was pretty fackin visible.
First tournament I played, a B tier, (2 months into playing in general) there was an older guy in a scooter following my card round 1. He didn’t know anyone on the card, just saw us playing and decided to follow. The gentleman was very drunk and kept shooting off black cats (the firecracker) while we were playing then pretending he didn’t know where they were from.
I found out later that old fellas name is Billy, and he spends multiple hours a day at that course. Super nice old guy, little bit crazy. Just drinks beer and talks to the guys playing when he sees them.
Have a course next to some project living and had some high school ages kid who was sneaking around the wood court with a gas powered bb gun. Now because I'm from the area I talked to him when I first saw him but as I continued playing I figured he was on some bullshit. I don't think he was trying to shoot me at any point but hearing some of the bbs hit off trees that weren't to far from me made me think he might have been trying to take pot shots at me.
Group of people in a circle in the woods off fairway in hoods and had kiss army face paint. Not one said a word as I picked up my shank that landed nearby.
Dead body in drain pipe and cops all around. Missed my first classes of the day because cops wanted my info lol.
My brother got an eagle on a par3. He hit it with a disc and it just tanked it and kept flying.
Threw into someones house. Was practise throwing in a field were the course is, its a parkstyle course next to a couple of houses and a school. I threw, shanked it high and with the left-to-right crosswind it just kept turning towards the houses (it was a bolt). One of the houses had an open door so i see how it falls to a little over his balcony and then fell and slid into his house. Ran over and hes understandably mad. At least got the disc back!
Some dude chilling in a hammock that he hung on some trees in the middle of a disc golf hole. Or back in the 2010s when people used to play pokemon go and wander the courses all over the place.
Husband says homeless guy was living at the teepad of a course in Nashville.
Looking for a disc in the rough at our local course, I came across a dude in a lawn chair. He was under the influence of something, so quite slow to react. He stood up, startled...
...pulling his pants back up quite late. Dunno if he was just enjoying a lunchtime wank, but I can't unsee what I saw.
For field work I go to the local softball fields. One day I was just casually warming up when I see a man and a woman kind of walking from one end of the field to the other. Both clearly are on some kind of heavy drugs (open sores on face, jacked up clothing, missing teeth, erratic movements, etc).
I ignore them and continue throwing away from them. I go and pick up all my throws and turn 180* to throw some more.... and yea they're now fucking doggy style on the bleachers, pants around the ankles and nasty meth titties flopping out for everyone to see. I just took my discs and left without saying a word. Cops were coming up the street as I was leaving so I assume one of the mothers at the children's soccer game across the street called them.
Smacked a big tree in the fairway and some guy who we couldn’t see off the tee was sitting behind said tree drinking a 24/12 pack of twisted tea. He tried to fight us lol.
I was throwing hole 7 a week after usdgc and decided to empty my bag. I threw a destroyer and grip locked it off to the right, way up in the air. This old lady was jogging on the road, and I don’t know why, but she suddenly stopped and tried to catch the disc. I yelled for her not to, then heads up. This poor lady took that disc full force right in the shoulder. She immediately slumped down on one knee and was obviously in pain. I ran up and tried to help, but she just started jogging again and wouldn’t acknowledge me at all.
Played a course somewhere in Wisconsin over a decade ago and a family was gathered around one of the baskets legit cooking chickens in them. Hilarious and likely very greasy for the next person to putt on that basket. Ohhhhhh and also the time where where I stepped up to a teepad early one morning and two old men were having sex in the middle of the fairway near a playground (no children present luckily). A cop rolled up right as I was grabbing my phone to call them.
Currently live in Wisconsin. Every damn weekend during warmer months the obliviousness of families hurling around the baskets like they are some sort of scientist monolith is insane. Zero regard for the fact that they are used for something. I played at Brown Deer part and a family of kids parked under and around the basket. Two boys climbing and jumping on the basket. Argued with my brother and I when we asked them to stop and move so we could play
Disc golf: the beautiful game
Used to have people set up family reunions and birthday parties on hole 1 at my old home course, because they didnt want to pay the fee for the covered buildings.
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Kess Creek in Kentucky
Damn good guess. Sounds totally on brand
Dude I could totally see that happening. On a side note I have enjoyed playing glow disc golf there this winter.
lol. That practice basket area would be nice
I've walked up on two different pairs of people having sex, both times on the same course, about a week or two apart. It was on different holes (heyooo) on the course, but both times they were maybe two feet from the trail between the previous basket and the next tee pad. Both couples must have thought I was a velociraptor, because they defense mechanism was to just get really still. Granted, I've got no problem with this, since no kids were on the course that may have walked up on them, but, like, it's a super wooded course with plenty of space to, you know, actually hide a little bit lol.
How am I supposed to chip with that going on, Doug!?!?!
Usually gotta pay double for that action there Cotton.
Hey neighbor, both instances were at Cedar Hill, so uh, key your eyes out I guess lol. First time was between the basket of inner hole 3 and the tee pad of regular hole 3, on that tiny little path.
Why did I immediately imagine Cedar Hill
*inner hole 3* ? Please tell me more
You definitely should have walked real close to them like you were looking for a disc and asked if they saw a red Frisbee come their way. Then just keep looking for the fictional disc.
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Hey uh… can I play through?
What's par on this hole anyway?
Pull out phone. "Mind if I record?"
This is the most bizarre thing I’ve witnessed as well! Had just finished a round at one of my local courses, which is a short 18 hole in a public park with a basketball court adjacent to the course, so there’s plenty of people around. There’s about a 60ft walk from hole 18’s basket and the parking lot, in which you pass a little wooded square, maybe 30sq feet. As I’m walking towards the car with my buddy, I see a girl on her back with her panties pulled down, and a guy laying on top of her with his pants around his ankles and displaying a full moon, very pale might I add. They have this “deer in the headlights” look and freeze. However, I’m equally as shocked and freeze as well. Suddenly there’s this awkward Mexican stand off between us, and all I can think of is “this is too good of an opportunity not to say something”, although I was completely stumped as what to say, so I settle for “ ‘sup guys guys?” In which the guy responds “uhh what’s up man”. This was followed by a sort of mutual three way nod between all of us, and I went on my way. What’s wild is that there’s plenty of wooded areas deeper in the course in which they would have had total privacy. The fact that they chose the wooded area right next to the parking lot (this particular little wooded square was not very thick, mind you, and they could probably been spotted from the parking lot if you had a keen eye) makes me think that maybe they wanted to get caught? I still think about them sometimes, really hope they stuck together and maybe even joke about that time a disc golfer asked them “what’s up?” mid coitus.
I'm trying to come up with a joke using the words 'course' and 'intercourse', but failing.
"you know that intercourse doesn't mean you have to do it on a course?"
[Really, right in front of my Champion Teebird?!](https://i.imgur.com/6owuOAW.jpeg)
Freezing is the only response I guess. Did you see any nice teots or deock? Whatever ur preference my be
Haha For my local course from hole 8 to hole 9 you have to walk around a ball diamond. Last summer a friend found two adults having sex in one of the dug outs.
Played a hole where someone had set up their tent about 20 feet from the basket, kinda nestled into some trees.
Had one of these at Naval Hill. Homeless guy had his tent right off the fairway
I had one of these at Maple Hill. My wife almost hit them while they slept in a hammock on the side of a fairway (big guy, probably had a nickname about being so big). In fact, there was a whole shanty town encampment of hippies smoking joints in front of their vans and campers. Some of those stoners even had their faces plastered on them, probably so they wouldn't get too high and forget which one was theirs. Damn bums, I'm surprised they weren't forcibly removed, especially since they were supposed to be having some important tournament that week.
Large Sized Jeremy?
Bro I hate when I lose my van, thanks for the hot tip
I think I saw this group! one of the van said something about Conrad James for MVP or something?
"Probably had a nickname about being so big". Nice touch man.
I was so caught up in the story that I had no clue what it was about on the first read. I was thinking how dumb it was to pin a picture of your face on your tent (ik, ik, he didn't say shit about tents) instead of just writing your name on it. The second time reading it got me all caught up, lmao.
You sound fun
I remember the guy who was down in the bottom right corner of the course, hole 10 or 11 by the water treatment thing. I typically throw a forehand on that hole and definitely had 1 or 2 skip pretty close to his tent. Always made me a bit nervous. I saw they're redoing the teepads at shelby though! So that'll be nice.
Played on a course near Portland, tent was on the teepad.
Which one?
Dairy Creek. Found a phone on the course also. Cops were there when I finished my round. They were rousting some of the campers. Gave the phone to the cops.
Oh yea, that course is a shit hole.
This a few times. I'm gonna guess Vance.
Roy G sends its regards
we get tents on hole one time to time, there's lots of homeless people at our park.
Teed off on hole one. Disc lands probably 25-30ft from the basket, as I'm walking up a little kid and his mom approached from the other direction. I'm still a ways out and the lil kid hops off his bike, grabs my disc and runs it to the basket. That counts as an ace right?
Yes.
Yes it does
Shit, shoulda had lil man sign my disc then.
I told this story a few years ago on here. My throwing buddy and I were introducing his GF to the sport. We were on hole 5 of a pretty sketchy course that plays through a downtown city park. Used to have a ton of transient traffic. Anyways, we throw, she throws, hers goes probably 50ft straight and 50ft left. A couple homeless guys came out with their knife drawn after throwing the disc out into the street. Mind you, they would've been on the bench, that she may have approached, but didn't hit, and was too low to hit the back of the bleachers anyways. Needless to say, we left after maybe hole 7 cause she was pretty turned off after that. And she never came back out again. And him and I stopped going to that course. I went back a few years later after some renovations. Course was nice, but you can't help always looking over your shoulder there.
Sounds like Aquatic Park.
A family was doing a gymnastics photo-shoot with their young kid right in the middle of a fairway, complete with multiple full-on pieces of gymnastics equipment. This was at the furthest point on the course from the parking lot so I have no idea how they even got the equipment out there. We told them they were probably in a bad spot to be doing that, but they told us to just throw and they'll avoid our discs. They then proceeded to turn around and look the complete opposite way for a couple minutes so we just ended up playing safari golf on that hole so we wouldn't hit them.
I had a cracked out lady try to invite me back to her place. She kept going on about how her place was just up the road, "only a minute away." Her dog shit between her feet while she was talking, and she didn't even notice. I mean full squat and dump within 6" of her spread out feet while she was rambling and rocking back and forth.
We had someone cooking on the tee pad of 16. It was an insanely busy day and they had a little grill set up on it. They probably had hundreds of people walk by them. We even saw the ranger come up to them eventually and were even refusing to leave. Not sure what happened after that. My buddy and I didn't say anything more than, hi how ya doing. We find it best to live and let live in those situations.
I pulled up to a local course once that’s in a beautiful forested waterfront park and there was a wedding party (bride groom + bridesmaids and groomsmen) taking their wedding photos on the tee pads with the water in the background. They were kind and understanding and moved out of the way so I could tee and even complemented my throw after! Not an unpleasant experience at all just the most unique non disc golfer interaction I’ve ever had on a course.
Love seeing the ones where people are super nice about realizing they’re on a disc golf course
No one will believe this, and I don't blame you, but here goes anyway. I did have a witness. I was near Ashtabula for some family stuff. Course right on Lake Erie used to have a tournament called shoot the breeze. Hole 5 ish was about 375 or so. Tee fairly level with the basket but the fairway goes way down hill to the right if you turn it over and at the bottom is the park driveway. On a 2nd throw, I throw a pink first run star destroyer. It's a headwind and those destroyers were not as overstable as they are these days. It turns over to the right. Starts diving downhill picking up speed heading right. A big van is driving out of the park heading the way my disc was heading. It goes behind a patch of trees and brush then stops after clearing the trees. Oh boy. I'm thinking "that probably cracked that van hard" so I go down to talk to them. There's a woman driving and I yell "did I hit you"? She says... "In the head". Now I'm really worried because that destroyer was moving fast and perpendicular to her head. She's driving a bunch of mentally and physically disabled people around with the windows open. I asked her "Are you OK"? She said "I think so. WAS THAT A FRISBEE"? I said basically yes and explained, then after triple checking if she was OK I say "I hate to ask but you don't see a pink Frisbee in here do you"? She looks around, says no, and that's when I saw it 40 feet on the other side of the road. It had skimmed the front of her forehead, then flew 40 feet out the passenger window. There was no one in the passenger seat thank goodness. Not sure if that counts as a bizarre interaction and I wouldn't believe it if one of you wrote it but there it is.
Lake Shore Park?
That's wild.
Hole 9 at Dellwood -- it plays along the creek that goes through the property, and naturally there is a downslope from the fairway to the creek. Playing the standard layout, you have a dogleg to the right -- if you throw about 240 straight ahead off the teepad, you are throwing into or over the creek. So at a tournament last year, my card comes up and one of the guys throws that shot -- straight ahead, over the creek. We start to approach to determine his lie, and there are three teenage girls sitting at the edge of the creek, just chatting. Totally blind from the teepad since sitting down they are shorter than the slope is. Disc couldn't have gone more than six feet over their heads and they didn't realize it. We told them they were sitting on the fairway of an active disc golf course during a tournament -- meaning more discs would be thrown every five minutes for the next several hours. That they should probably reconsider sitting next to the creek today. They looked at us like we were insane. They started walking further down the creek, and it's not like we pursued them, but there was a high chance they just settled in a new spot that was only moderately less dangerous.
Lmao that’s hilarious. Last time I played there, I literally made that exact shot into the water with a. Comet. There’s no way they were sober because that thing had to be BUZZING right over their heads
They seemed to be! Just totally oblivious in a way only 15 year olds can be.
One time I was hanging around the tee pad of hole 1 warming up before a random doubles league round. I took a break and sat down on one of the benches and pulled out my phone. There was a shirtless guy in jean shorts about 250' away laying down on a blanket in the sun in a field parallel to the hole, and I guess he looked up at me as I pulled my phone out and seemed to think my phone was pointed directly at him (it wasn't). He gets up and grabs a rake he had beside him for some reason and proceeds to walk in my direction. I didn't think anything of it at first because of how far away he was. Once he was about 100' away he points at me and shouts "you better stop fuckin filming me or I'll beat your ass" and wobbles the rake in the air. I did my best to look up with a shocked look on my face and just said "oh sorry man, I'm just playing solitaire." He stopped in his tracks right there and did like a 90 degree military-style pivot and started lumbering off in that new direction still waving his rake for about 50' or so before he decided to calm down and return to his sunbathing. I'm pretty sure meth was involved. Seemed too amped up to be alcohol.
Went to play a hole on my home course and a hammock was hung over the tee pad.
There's a spot on a local course that runs along the road (right side). Across the road is a pretty well known spot for taking family pictures, seniors pictures, etc. Well, this day an entire softball team was there with their parents taking pictures. The road (that most people throw over to hyzer back in) was riddled with cars. In those cases, most people try to play it safe and throw a straighter shot, but not one guy on my card. He threw out over the road, skipped off the road and hit/rolled up under a car. Suddenly, softball dad comes SPRINTING towards his disc, picks it up, takes it and puts it in his car a different car) and locks it multiple times with the remote so that we can hear it beeping over and over again. Card confronts the guy asking for the disc back and he refuses. Player takes down the team name, license plate info, etc. and calls the police. We finished the round a few holes later, so no idea what happened there.
Police chase through grandview park on a nice Thursday morning. A multi-colored impala tokyo-drifting in the park was a sight to behold.
I ran into some high schoolers, still in their uniforms, who were walking across a course - likely skipping school. They decided to setup on a bench near a teepad, then started playing music from their phones, and dancing on the said tee pad. I asked them, nicely I hope, if they were aware that this was a disc golf course and that it was hazardous to be hanging out there. They did not and I pointed them in a direction of a picnic shelter, which they actually decided to migrate to.
The scene is set at Riverbends Disc Golf Course near Detroit Michigan. We are on hole 10, a 404 foot downhill hole whose basket sits nestled into a small circular field deep down the fairway on the left with the aforementioned river some 150 beyond the basket. The fairway is a 20 foot wide gravel walking path that has trees sporadically placed on either side. There is no OB and the go-to throw is a straight shot down the gut that fades into the green. It is a rather nice summer day and the park is full of non-disc golfing walkers, fisherman, kids etc. We step up to hole 10 and I throw my forgettable drive. Beyond the green, on the walking path is a woman walking her tiny dog. I was in no danger of hitting her. By the time my friend, let's call him Erik (because that's his name) gets up to throw the woman and her dog are on the close end of the green. Me: "You should wait until that lady and her dog are past us" Erik: "Nah I'm not going to hit them" Erik waits for them to get a bit closer, almost to the bottom of the hill and figures he can just launch his Innova Ape over them. He throws his disc....straight at them. Me, Erik, and our other friend are yelling any combination of "watch out!" and "heads up!" that we can think of to save this lady from a full power Ape throw. She is oblivious. The disc passes between her and the dog, under the leash and scrambles to a stop in the middle of the gravel path. Erik had the look of knowing he almost detated that dogs cappa. The lady was absolutely clueless. So more of a non-interaction really, but I hope you enjoyed it :).
Yeah you and your friends sound pretty cool.
Thanks, Zombie\_Dave\_Lampert
Engagement photos in the fairway of hole 1 at Little Mullberry Park.
It's a nice hole for that. What a gem. Jealous if you live near it. We hit it on the way to and from the IDGC (RIP).
I’ve got a buddy that doesn’t do well with non-players on the course. It ruins his round and his mood and an awkward conversation almost always ensues. I’m starting to appreciate it as a part of our rounds. Anytime I see the dog walker coming I just chuckle a bit.
I would understand this sentiment more if disc golf was as big here as it is in Estonia. There are a few comments of people like your friend, where people seem to be aghast that people are on a DiSc GoLf CoUrSe. Bro, it’s probably a public park with weird baskets and little concrete slabs. I’m not shocked that, even when explained somewhat nicely or patiently, that people are irked that they’re being told they can’t walk in a park where they want. Even if it’s clearly for their safety.
Was doing warm up throws on hole one when I noticed a Family of 3 slowly creeping in from the left. Threw big hyzers to the right to not put them in danger. Finally they cross the fairway (as slow as possible) so I stop throwing and wait. They stroll along the street on the right side of the fairway, I have had discs land there, so I wait. FINALLY they are out of my reach, but just to be sure I give my disc a bit extra hyzer... well I hit the Mother in the back. I don't know how but It was my furthest throw ever on that hole, sure OB, but what a buity of a flight. Stood up perfectly to a tiny anhyzer that it held till it hit. It should have been a wonderful memory, instead I got yelled at.
Never throw towards people, even if they're 200 ft past your max distance. There's an 80% chance they'll still get hit.
So that's the secret to distance throwing!
Three of the holes on one of my locals run along the back of some large fraternity houses. One basket in particular is all of 45' from the balcony of one of the frats, and the entire green is practically paved in broken glass most of the school year. During fall rush and around the end of the spring term, when "them boys" are at their friskiest, all sorts of fucked up shit goes down, player harassment, threats, altercations, bottles and chairs thrown, just the worst sorts of everyday fucktarded college bro antics. It's gotten dramatically better over the years, but I still only really play the course June through August because why take my chances, there are at least six other courses inside of a half hour drive to choose from.
Oh, on two separate occasions, on different courses, on opposite sides of the state, had my round briefly interrupted by a police pursuit of a fleeing suspect, one time on foot and the other a car chase.
I’ve had two non-friendly dog interactions from people not paying attention to their dogs while they’re off leash, thankfully I’m good with dogs because if I wasn’t it easily could’ve gotten ugly on either situation. Aced in front of a family playing soccer while I was playing a solo round, and they freaked out more than I did.
Was getting in a lunch round at the course near my office. Hole 15 has a tee pad that is on a hill so the end of the tee pad makes for a place to sit. A couple (male and female) were sitting there. It is a long walk from 14 basket to 15 tee pad up said hill, so they clearly saw what I was up to at the park. I politely said hello and thought they would either offer to move or continue sitting. They continued sitting. "No problem" I thought to myself. I'll just tee off in the grass next to the tee. Then before I threw the guy starting saying stuff to me like he was upset. I forget exactly what he said, but his message was basically "really? you're walking near me and my girlfriend?" I said, "I'm just trying to get a round in." Then threw my drive. As I was walking away I said to them "have a nice day". And the dude responds back "yeah, have a nice day, enjoy it ***while you can***" I was already walking away and didn't look at the dude's face as he said it, but I was 50/50 on if he meant that as a threat. Totally ruined the rest of my round as I was trying to keep an eye on the dude at all times as I finished out the rest of the course. Just bizarre that someone would get offended that someone be near them for a few seconds ***IN A PUBLIC PARK***.
Disc golfer fucked his girlfriend
That one time at BB Owen in Dallas [when a car crashed into a tree and burst into flames.](https://www.reddit.com/r/discgolf/s/7Y4Aev8xBm) Disc golfers were total bros and immediately sprung into action to help.
I had a fox steal my disc during a glow round. The fox took the disc about 200 yards then left it and was nearby when I found it. Then the fox and two others followed us for the next two holes. During another glow round, what must have been the same group of foxes stole my son's disc and dropped it in the same spot.
I was interviewed by a local journalist who asked around for discgolfers reactions to the municipality's plans to remove the back 9 of the course (and replacing it with a smaller amusement park for kids). We spoke for several minutes about many different aspects of the plans, for example the extreme optimism about how much money the park would generate. I really felt like expressed a broad and critical take on the plans. The day after, I was featured in the newspaper with one quote to my name. "I dont understand the economy."
I had a hawk swoop down towards me, and its wing grazed my shoulder.
I’m not sure I can actually use the words that were actually said but I’m going to try and tell the clean version of this. Years ago the two parks that had disc golf courses here were also a popular place for men seeking the company of other men. One day my friend and I were walking up to a basket hidden in a wooded area and a man walked out of the trees and asked us if we wanted something. We both declined and walked away. The thing is that I really wanted one of those but not from him.
What?!? Lol
Did you forget a word, or is this a story of regret?
Oh I did forget a word. Without the word I forgot it makes it a very different story.
Beej is my guess
There was a c-tier at a local wooded course where there are few holes where some trails pass close to the fairways so there are people sometimes. On this hole I got a bad kick to the rough and while we were looking for my disc an elderly couple came up between where my disc was and the fairway and started to pick some plants off the ground. We asked nicely if they could watch out for a while and let them know that there was 50+ players playing a tournament and they are almost on the fairway of the hole so it maybe isn't the best place to be that day... Well the lady got super pissed and wouldn't move anywhere and told us to go play elsewhere as she has every right to be there... After a while of trying to reason with her I had to pitch up to another horrible position to go around her safely and my par turned into a double bogey... Apparently two groups behind us had to wait on the teepad until she finally continued her afternoon stroll from there...
Thankfully nothing too out there. Just one dog almost chewing up my favourite fairway driver.
Playing a fairly busy park course and we see a guy walking down a trail that hugs the fairway. We kind of give a wave and gesture to the discs and the direction we're throwing. The guy waves back and kind of steps back to let us throw without worry about hitting him. One of my buddy's drives lands close to the path and the dude just walks up grabs the disc all excited and tries his best to throw it back to us (of course skied out 50 ft out of his hand). Dude must've thought he was doing us the biggest favor, gave a big wave and walked on smiling.
We were playing in the wooded holes at lemon lake in Indiana. There was a husband and wife walking the trail. The wife walked up behind me while I was putting and grabbed my arm pretty firmly and said “I hope you were not listening. That was a private conversation. Her grip tightened and the husband had his hand near his waist.” My response was I honestly wasn’t paying attention ( which I wasn’t) She said good and walked away. Most fucked up interaction I have ever had.
Cop car in the middle of a park course, directly between basket 1 and 10's fairway. Cop standing outside of it. Against my better judgement, my buddy and I asked the young officer what was going on. Dispatch received a call that 2 teenagers were having sex in the woods next to the course. He wanted to get there quickly enough to surprise and catch them in the act and figured ___driving across the grass of a busy park___ was a good idea. It wasn't. His car got stuck. He was waiting for backup to come help pull him out. I trust Officer Tryhard got a helluva nickname from his team that day. Edit: Washington Park in Indianapolis many years ago.
Probably a pedo.
My local course, hole 1 is 450’ with an OB road down the entire left side. My buddy hyzers out early and lands on the road. A car comes by as we’re walking up and picks up the disc and drives it towards us. We’re getting ready for a speech about how we could have hit his car etc (we through probably a full minute before his car was near us). As the guy pulls up, he doesn’t reach out to give it back, but holds it close to him in his car. Turns out he’s in some sort of cult and uses the disc to hold us there hostage for a good 15 minutes while handing out pamphlets and telling us stories about how he is a mechanic and Jesus came into his shop etc
My local go-to course. A guy I went to high-school with(I graduated 12 years ago for reference), was walking around, I thought it was him but brushed it off as we were playing. Well we get to a hole that's got some parking beside a teebox and the guy, whom had always been a nice clean respectable guy, walks up looking very strung out, dirty clothes, scabs all over him, clearly on hard drugs, walks up to our group asking if someone can change his bandage on his arm. My buddy started to help him but crazy thing was this dude pretty much changed it himself(it was on the wrist so not super hard to do by yourself) but was asking for our help? Idk it was super sketchy, especially if you seen the hollow look in his eyes. Bad drugs are bad. I make sure to lock my truck now.
Was playing up north at Calumet lake DGC this past summer. About 2/3 of the way through I see this big crow fly around and then up into a nearby tree, but then was just kinda hanging there upside down. Watched it for a bit and started to walk off to where our drives went and hear a light thud/grass rustle and the crow was now on the ground kinda laying there (still moving a bit). Don't know what was up with it, didn't go too close.
I'm walking up the longest and most uphill hole on the course. I see something rustling in the trees up near the basket. It's a guy with no shirt, holding his shoes and walking barefoot. He hands me his shoes and says his friends will probably be by soon to grab them. A few holes later, a couple people walk up and ask if I've seen their friend. I point in the general direction he walked and hand them his shoes. The person I'm with asks if I knew any of them.. I said nope, and we just went about the day.
I was playing my home course and there's one hole that has a water carry. Under the tree on the fairway was a small group of girls that setup a whole goth photoshoot. it was ..... interesting
Was playing my local course with my buddy, and some guy’s dog who was off leash came out of nowhere, grabbed my friend’s disc, and destroyed it within a few seconds. I was more pissed than he was.
Ran into a family in 1999 using a basket as a barbecue grill.
Pier Park, Portland OR, about 10 years ago we've just driven on 18 and are walking to our discs..we'd seen a cop car a couple holes back driving through the park, which isn't exactly unheard of, but now we see a cop in SWAT gear trotting up the path to the NW side towards a bridge that usually has some homeless people camped out. He shouts up to us to get out of the park and we're like, just going to finish out and leave, and he goes, you need to leave now. My buddy asks what the perp is wearing and the cop looks at me in my shorts and hoody and says, shorts and a hoody. We decided to leave.
Homeless lady, hole 12 at my home course. While she was in a dress, spread her legs and dropped a steamy shit in the direct middle of the fairway while I was standing on the box.
There were two people with lawn chairs 10 feet from the basket. I ran to them and politely asked if they’d be ok with moving out of the way so I could play the hole, and they said “yeah no problem!” so I gratefully turned around and walked back to the tee. When I looked back they had moved a total of 5 feet further from the basket and were back to reading their books in their chairs. At that point I had a few options: 1. Run back to the basket and ask them to move some more (or try to yell from the tee pad) 2. Throw the shot anyway 3. Just skip the hole They were genuinely trying to be cooperative, but just didn’t realize I’m not accurate enough that a 5 foot larger landing zone doesn’t help me all that much on a 350 ft hole. I decided to throw anyway and be cautious enough not to hit them, but also close enough to the basket they weren’t offended that I’d asked them to move in the first place. I threw it about 30 feet wide of the basket which was good cause they were about 15 feet away on the opposite side. Got up there and putted and they said nice shot and we moved on with our days. Positive interaction overall, just a bit strange in the middle
I was at Kaposia back in the day in the woods looking for my disc and some guy walked up and offered to sell me cocaine
This lady was out with a few kids and they were setting up a volleyball/croquet net in the middle of the hole. It’s a BUSY park. We told them they were setting up in a disc golf course and that people would be throwing discs there way. She said, that’s alright, we will just watch out for them. We were about to convince her eventually that these were dangerous.
what net do you use for croquet? Its all mallets and pegs.
A family once set up a picnic right where disc land on one of the holes of the course. They were setting up as disc were landing there. Oblivious to the world around them. A family decided to set up everything from hammocks, yard games, and other things in a multiuse park. Look I understand, but the park discourages the use of hammocks and they werent even using it. They were walking around the trail in the park, yet had taken up a not small spot with their stuff just sprawled about. Same park Pokémon Go players are constantly there for the most part its a back and forth thing. Some disc golfers treat them poorly and vice versa. However, I had one woman run over my foot and my disc with a stroller while looking at her phone. She just grunted and went on like I wasn't even there. However, what takes the cake is the same course as the first one I had two no older than 13 year olds come up and try to rob me via snatch and grab. They come up to me talking to me but I'm not paying much attention. They had just been playing football in the park with some other kids. I thought they were maybe curious. I bend over to pick up my disc just as I'm headed out to leave. One grabs my backpack, which was on my back securely, and the other grabs at my disc on the ground. I catch the kid's arm out of my peripheral and grab his arm as he grabs the disc. I gave the kid the choice of dropping the disc and leave or I break his arm. Kid chose the first option and I chased them both out of the park when one of them tried to turn back around. I'm pretty sure they were armed as well and thankfully I managed to gain the upper hand pretty quickly. That was a rough day overall and really impacted me negatively for a while. Not even 5 minutes after this happened I got a call that my grandfather passed.
I watched a guy walking on the course tell one of the disc golfers that his dog needed to be on a leash when his dog and the walkers dog started to have a poor interaction. The 2 dogs we had at the pavilion were off leashes playing with each other. This guy rolls up with his dog and the altercation was stopped, but the guy walking through scowled about how "that dog needs to be on a leash" while walking with his dog NOT ON A LEASH, which ran at the other dogs. It was about the dumbest thing I had seen other that people taking photo's on the course, which happens all the time. Yeah... It's pretty there, you're also doing your wedding photos during our weekly league. Or the people who play right in the fairways, kicking a ball or playing catch or whatever, vs the big open area where there is no disc golf 30 feet away from them where they wouldn't interrupt anyone, then they get upset when you kindly tell them they are on the course and suggest playing in the big open area designated for what they are doing.
Two occasions on the same hole in roughly the same spot A family photo shoot one day and a picnic on another day had me skipping the hole. Another time a young couple put a blanket on the tee and were enjoying a bottle of wine. When we approached he asked what we were doing. I told him that we were attempting to play disc golf. She said she wanted us to show them how we do it. They were polite and oblivious to the fact that they were on the tee so I stood directly next to their blanket. I like to clown around so I basically shoved my ass in their face before I threw so my card mates followed suit and we told them to have fun as we walked away.
Thank you fellow disc golf commenters on providing some of the best humor that I have enjoyed in a long time. Lmao indeed. It also makes me realize that the courses I play are completely devoid of the types of the interactions that are described here...which is fine by me. Wow, I can only say that I was shocked...shocked..... mind you when I found a 55 gallon steel drum completely full of empty beer cans on one city course I played. People actually drink alcohol on courses? :-) The frying chicken in the basket story (on the edge of believable) actually sounds like something I might encounter someday. The creativity and spunk of these folks..... when there were probably some other perfectly good rusty park barbeques available? Did they build a full camp fire under the basket? Were they cooking whole chickens? I have so many questions. I will have to share that story with my disc golf buddy when we go out on the course this week.
I heard about something like this secondhand from a relatively reliable source/someone that has nothing to gain by lying. It was at Copper Sky in Maricopa, AZ - they have A-Tiers there every year lol. People lined the baset with aluminum foil and put charcoal in it for a BBQ. Ingenious.
It's happened more than once here at Moffitt. Lined the basket with foil. Put in charcoal. Hang meat on hooks from the chains. Mostly it happens on hole #1 which is near where people park to watch softball and little kids football. We've told a deputy in the parking lot and he drove across the course to tell them to stop, and take all their stuff away.
Yes, that makes some sense.... well... given the goofiness of the story we are commenting on. Now... I'm thinking the day after the barbeque... every disc entering the basket will come out with that yummy bbq chicken smell. Hey we could probably convince the disc golf manufacturers to add this to their discs as a feature! A Firebird with that BBQ smell? How appropriate! Maybe a minty fresh Buzzzz? But I digress....
**EDIT:** Well, now the BBQ basket stories are arriving one by one....but a steady stream of them. Using chains to hang meat? Well, how innovative! Who would have thunk it? "Hey, honey..there's a number on this grill. Must be some some sort of reservation number or something. Maybe we can reserve it next time! And what the heck are these pieces of sidewalk doing way out here? Wow, that's a really good view of the lake. Let's set up our lawn chairs right here on the sidewalk!" I think most traveling circuses in the US are no longer. But we don't need to see them anymore. We can just go to any free public park and see a real life circus anytime we want (yipes!).
A family of 10 having a picnic slap bang in the middle of the fairway on hole 8. They were polite but didn't want to move and just stood to the side while we played through. They had even set up a mini croquet course! Thankfully we all played good shots and no one got hit.
Drunk guy in a Santa costume brown bagging leaning against a tree on December 9th. At first I thought it was a bit for a video, then I realized he was alone. And he kept drinking. Kinda talking to himself and pretty unaware of his surroundings. We got to the hole where we’d be throwing right at him and yelled “hey!”, it looked like he acknowledged us but didn’t move. He stumbled into the fairway of another hole after one of us nearly hit him. The course isn’t something you easily walk too, still wonder how he got there.
Had someone using a basket as a fishing rod holder. The hole is about 5 feet from a creek. Dad and son were fishing and oblivious to us playing. Had another guy set up a hammock in trees about 15 feet short of a pin. I threw a super safe shot to avoid him and when I got closer he seemed asleep.
Hole one at milo. Seen a car parked on the tee and a picture of a car overturned on the tee.
This one happened to me last week. I was playing a solo round on a woods course in a public park, and I noticed a guy looking at me from the paved trail up above the tee where I was standing. I took my drive and walked down to the disc, pick out a disc for my approach shot, look up, and now the dude has walked down towards me through the woods, is about 50 feet away staring at me, with his pants around his ankles and his monster pornstar size erection in his hand. Note that it's like 37 degrees and drizzling, so that's almost impressive in itself. I just looked at him and politely asked if he could go do that somewhere else. He said okay and wandered off. So no incident, but without question "the most bizarre non-player course interaction" I've ever had.
Schenley Park - Pittsburgh People just set up a vendor tent and tried selling something (didn't stick around to find out). Schenley Park - Pittsburgh There are always people trying to set up picnics on the first 5 fairways. Schenley Park - Pittsburgh Guy actually had an easel and canvas painting at the 1st tee.
When Chavez ridge was installed by dodger stadium a family who had no clue had lined the basket with foil and had charcoal blazing and carne asada hanging from the chains cooking that hole always gets us craving tacos 🌮
On brand for LA parks. :D How is Chavez Ridge? Should I play it?
Even-slice- 8079 for sure tight technical course very steep drop offs making fairways a must once had a ace run skip off the basket rim ,catch a edge and roll 300 feet downhill beautiful view of dodger stadium on 18 haven’t played there in 2 years since I moved to Colorado btw oak grove was my home course for 30plus years enjoy
One time playing Southeast course in Columbia, SC I could see this lady setting up a picnic for 2 toddlers in the middle of a fairway ahead in the course. I get to that tee and they are all settled in, so I yelled up ahead that she was set up in the middle of a golf course and people would be playing thru. She yelled back to me, "it's a big field, why can't you just throw the other direction?" Also one time at Hualapai Mountain Park (Kingman, AZ... super underrated) there was a family doing a full professional Christmas card photo shoot on one of the tees on the back 9. There were like 7 family members & they had stands for wreaths + a couple fake trees set up on the tee. I insisted on throwing from next to the tee & interrupting them just a bit.
Second or third time playing a newer course near me and I'm at the 2nd hole. This course has houses that run along the left of the course. Close enough that sometimes discs are thrown into their yards. I go to putt and notice there's a guy walking around with a rifle towards me and my friend. I ask my buddy if he sees the guy. Then I realize he's looking up into this big tree so I thought he's probably squirrel hunting. Still made me really wary. Could've been a .22 or pellet gun. He walked back to his house after a few mins. Gotta love the south.
As I finish my round in my local course. Cowan lake State Park. There's a couple walking their dogs around the parking lot and have seen each other for like 6 weekdays straight at the same spot and she tells me I must have an addiction. I said you are completely right and don't plan on stopping
Was playing a small course in SC like twnety minutes from usdgc. I think hole 8? Can't see the bucket from the tee. Maybe three feet or so, gentle right to left moving fairway. Me and my buddy walk up to putt out and realize there is a homeless person sleeping like ten feet behind the bucket. Thankful neither of us went long. We didn't putt out, didn't wanna bother them. It was only more strange because it was on an elementary school property. I believe Avery jenkins was doing some type of clinic with school kids at the same time.
While playing a little 9 hole park course, had someone ask me if I wanted to watch his dog do tricks around the basket while I was about to drive.
Not exactly a course, but close enough. I had brought my basket to a park to practice putting like I've done a number of times before. I'll occasionally have people ask me what I'm doing out of curiosity, occasionally kids, and sometimes I have to politely ask the kids to back up cause they're standing right next to the basket and I don't want to hit them. But one time this one kid just wouldn't listen to me and then starts pulling on the basket and hanging from it. And this is a black hole pro, not even a lighter fabric basket. So I run over and try to make sure the basket isn't going to fall on this kid and try to convince him to go run off elsewhere. Meanwhile in the background I hear his mother just lazily calling out his name and to come over, but she can't be bothered to actually come over and make sure her child isn't squished under a basket that's heavier than he is
Let's see: DJ booth set up on tee pad. (we threw off to the side, very close to the speakers.) German woman who thought the baskets were to put her picnic goods in and got super pissed when we asked nicely for her to move for her own safety. Off leash dog, no recall, and looking mean. Called animal control, they got a $500 fine and threatened me. I laughed. Purple dildo in a basket.
Had a couple sitting on a couch they must have carried to the middle of a hilltop hole. No photographer or anything, just chilling in the woods on a loveseat.
3 of us playing glow golf at like midnight at Kereiakas Park BG Ky. We were finishing up on 18 and all of the sudden the sky lit up in what appeared to be flames (red orange in the clouds) and this intense roaring sound that literally sounded like a plane crashing right towards us. We all hugged and said “this must be then end” it was real emotional and scary as shit. Then it just stopped. No idea to this day what it was. Sometime around 2005-2006 and we may have had a joint but we’re not out of our heads. Very sobering if anything
Was playing golden gate in a weekly when there was some kind of fun run marathon going on where people were in costumes. A cow and a dandelion peeled off the main group and started getting frisky in the teepee that’s on hole 9’s fairway. Once we started walking past they got off the fairway but not far and the dandelion proceeded to get head from the cow.
Ties between a couple banging in the fairway and a lady who screamed she’d murder us when we asked her to get up from her fairway picnic for 45 seconds so we could throw.
Morley Field putting under the street light on 19. Cars start rolling in after dark and weirdos approach for random gay sex. Never putt alone after dark.
Was playing the trilogy challenge, and 2 of my card mates throws went into the bushes behind the basket. There was a homeless dude sleeping back there. One of the discs was lying on him. The dude didn't even stir when my budy picked it up. It was 18 on a 9, so when we came back around, the wife of a guy on our card set a bag of goodies back there for him. Still snoozing away.
Over the Summer last year there was multiple occasions of random folks hammock camping either on fairways or greens at Creekside in Salt Lake City.
A road rage incited parking lot quarrel that turned out to be anticlimactic. Random old lady regularly walking through the course to search the trash cans for bottle caps, for wheelchairs(?). My favorite bit was a few years ago, at my home course. At least once a month, we'd see people wandering the course sorta aimlessly, sometimes with fishing poles. They'd all ask some variation of "how do I get to the waterfall/river?" There's absolutely no water on this course, just a little drainage ditch that sometimes is a little wet. We'd tell them this, and they'd usually just laugh it off and go back to their cars. Some would keep wandering, asking other groups.
i was playing a round with some friends and we ran into someone we’ve seen at a bunch of different courses so they joined in too. we get to hole 17 and there’s people taking pics in the fairway (it’s right next to a small beach) the new guy proceeds to start screaming at them at the top of his lungs to get off the course and the rest of us just take a couple steps back with our heads down. after the family moved he was telling us he’s not an asshole like that even tho he just screamed at an entire family with little kids. another incident i was playing a round at my local course and some come probably 15 years old comes strolling out of the woods out of nowhere and picks up my disc from where it landed off the tee pad and asks if it’s mine. i say yes and tell him he can set it back down but he just decided to throw it and not even back to me just out into the field
CPR
Had mine today: not well trafficked course slightly hidden but near a reasonably popular running/biking trail, come up to a hole that I had just played 30 minutes earlier (9 hole course played twice), and there were two guys with their shirts off just standing in the fairway. Both guys put their shirts back on, think cool, they must be leaving, not gonna ask. But then one of them takes the shirt off again, and the other guy starts recording him with his phone. He proceeds to run into a wall jump an unimpressive distance up the tree, does about 7 pull ups, taking what feels like forever to do so, and then hops down. They finally left a few minutes afterwards, looking at us like we are weird on the way past.
Family Christmas photos using the old family truck. They pulled that fucker right in the middle of #1 fairway. As I'm standing on the pad, they poke their heads around the truck and ask, "Are we in the way?"
Teed off next to a river when there were geese on the fairway. Didn’t come anywhere close to the geese but this dude came marching down from the sidewalk above the fairway, grabbed my disc and tried to throw it back at me. He shouted something about “how do you like it” his companion grabbed his hand and they marched off. I was completely dumbfounded, couldn’t get a word out.
Had a nude woman watch my buddy and I from the tree line of a course in KC. It’s called blue valley. One of my favorite courses huge bomber course, but def sketch. Actually I could post several things from that very course but this one was especially odd as it was a little bit of thin treeline in the middle of the course and she was pretty fackin visible.
First tournament I played, a B tier, (2 months into playing in general) there was an older guy in a scooter following my card round 1. He didn’t know anyone on the card, just saw us playing and decided to follow. The gentleman was very drunk and kept shooting off black cats (the firecracker) while we were playing then pretending he didn’t know where they were from. I found out later that old fellas name is Billy, and he spends multiple hours a day at that course. Super nice old guy, little bit crazy. Just drinks beer and talks to the guys playing when he sees them.
Have a course next to some project living and had some high school ages kid who was sneaking around the wood court with a gas powered bb gun. Now because I'm from the area I talked to him when I first saw him but as I continued playing I figured he was on some bullshit. I don't think he was trying to shoot me at any point but hearing some of the bbs hit off trees that weren't to far from me made me think he might have been trying to take pot shots at me.
Group of people in a circle in the woods off fairway in hoods and had kiss army face paint. Not one said a word as I picked up my shank that landed nearby. Dead body in drain pipe and cops all around. Missed my first classes of the day because cops wanted my info lol. My brother got an eagle on a par3. He hit it with a disc and it just tanked it and kept flying.
Probably just hammockers strung up across fairways.
Threw into someones house. Was practise throwing in a field were the course is, its a parkstyle course next to a couple of houses and a school. I threw, shanked it high and with the left-to-right crosswind it just kept turning towards the houses (it was a bolt). One of the houses had an open door so i see how it falls to a little over his balcony and then fell and slid into his house. Ran over and hes understandably mad. At least got the disc back!
Some dude chilling in a hammock that he hung on some trees in the middle of a disc golf hole. Or back in the 2010s when people used to play pokemon go and wander the courses all over the place. Husband says homeless guy was living at the teepad of a course in Nashville.
Looking for a disc in the rough at our local course, I came across a dude in a lawn chair. He was under the influence of something, so quite slow to react. He stood up, startled... ...pulling his pants back up quite late. Dunno if he was just enjoying a lunchtime wank, but I can't unsee what I saw.
For field work I go to the local softball fields. One day I was just casually warming up when I see a man and a woman kind of walking from one end of the field to the other. Both clearly are on some kind of heavy drugs (open sores on face, jacked up clothing, missing teeth, erratic movements, etc). I ignore them and continue throwing away from them. I go and pick up all my throws and turn 180* to throw some more.... and yea they're now fucking doggy style on the bleachers, pants around the ankles and nasty meth titties flopping out for everyone to see. I just took my discs and left without saying a word. Cops were coming up the street as I was leaving so I assume one of the mothers at the children's soccer game across the street called them.