![]() disc golf champion, Paul McBeth, signed a $10 million endorsement deal last year. Voss said, its days of being grouped with “hippie hobbies” like hacky sack feel numbered, as professional players accrue both athletic acclaim and sky-high salaries. While disc golf has always been “a little alternative,” Mr. Just master that.” It’s open to everyone. “Until you can consistently throw a putter, don’t worry about all the other discs. If it’s not going straight, you’re doing something wrong,” Ms. That’s because it’s the easiest way to assess your technique. If you buy only one disc, make it the putter, said Melba Seto, 37, who mentors new disc golfers in Calgary, Alberta, and teaches clinics for the Women’s Disc Golf League. Drivers are the most aerodynamic, with a flat, sharp edge that helps them hold a high speed for longer. The putter, the slowest-flying disc, has a deep and rounded rim, while a midrange is wider with a narrow rim, which makes it glide longer than a putter. A starter set of discs - which includes a putter for short distances, a driver for long distances, and a midrange for everything in between - runs about $20. Like regular golf - which disc golfers call “ball golf” - the sport is about getting one object inside another object in the fewest number of tries.Īll you need to get started is “a disc, your water bottle and your shoes,” Mr. ![]() And - as distractions during a global apocalypse go - it’s very, very fun. You can do it alone or distanced from other players. Membership grew almost 75 percent between 20, as opposed to its typical yearly growth rate of around 10 to 15 percent, Mr. Disc golf’s popularity, which had been growing steadily since its grass-roots beginnings in the 1960s, has shot up during the pandemic, said Danny Voss, director of marketing for the Professional Disc Golf Association, or P.D.G.A. ![]() My second surprise was that I loved it.Īpparently, I’m not the only one. But in a recent bid to spice up our humdrum family walks, I took my kids to a nearby park, which, it turns out, has a disc golf course. I’m great at throwing parties but awful at throwing anything else. Until a few weeks ago, the only thing I knew about disc golf was that I probably wouldn’t like it. ![]()
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