What to do with that free hand?

[TreeLove]

"Some disc golfers prefer to play with a beer in one hand and the disc in another." (http://www.indyweek.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A262849)

[snap7times]

:slapface:
what a uber dumbaxx letting that ever get into the press... for every step forward, some dumbaxx drags us back 2 steps...

[Sam]

The rest of the article was good, actually. Sad that the author opened with an idiot with a Bud Light in his hand.

[ZacAttack]

The rest of the article was good, actually. Sad that the author opened with an idiot with a Bud Light in his hand.

How could you tell its a Bud Light?;)

[Sam]

Really... I couldn't. But would someone classy enough to have their picture taken like that for a news article drink much better beer than that?

[zippyboy]

I just want to head out there to learn how to throw 200 yards! :shocked:

[Ol' Bob]

Careful, Zipp, don't let the Bud Light getcha.

[Susie Sunshine]

Please tell me I'm not the only one here who chuckles every time I read the subject line for this thread.... it's terrible that I'm a grown woman with the sense of humor of a 14 year old boy.

And, I believe I actually putt better with a beer in my left hand and my bag slung over my back. Ha!

[Brian]

I don't drink beer .. I don't stand a chance!

[Celeste]

I played once with a chick from Corvallis area who never once threw without a cig in her mouth and a beer in her hand. She also played with both hands. For all of that, she was pretty damn good.
Sam you forgot to note the backwards glasses and puka shell necklace as evidence to his classiness.

[olydiscgolf]

I don't understand why you guys are so hard on this article. A guy casually playing golf, drinking a beer, having FUN. It seems like a good thing to me. The article even goes on to talk about the positive effects of golf in parks.

It got me thinking about having a beer and playing some golf!

[Scott]

I don't understand why you guys are so hard on this article. A guy casually playing golf, drinking a beer, having FUN. It seems like a good thing to me. The article even goes on to talk about the positive effects of golf in parks.

It got me thinking about having a beer and playing some golf!

Because a lot of people do a lot of hard work to remove stereotypes relating to our sport. A picture like this is worth more than a thousand words and single-handedly removes a lot of that hard work.

Why that picture?

Why not show a picture of a family playing? Or a guy (sans beer) and his two kids? Or Over the Hill Bob?

[olydiscgolf]

You'd be hard pressed to find many pictures of casual golf that don't look alot like this one! What is so horrible about that picture, why do you think drinking beer ruins disc golf?(assuming no laws are being broken) In ball golf it is an accepted and catered to aspect of the sport, hence pretty girls in short skirts driving a beverage cart. Beer could very well be the "big" sponsor that everyone seems to be looking for!

[olydiscgolf]

If you are looking for a family picture playing golf?!?! Come to Yauger EVERY Wednesday night and you will see my 4 year old Tate and my wife Adrienne walking along with my doubles group.

BUT, like it or not, this picture represents pretty accurately the average disc golfer!

[Scott]

I have no problem with drinking beer. :chug:
I have no problem with drinking beer while playing disc golf.

I disagree with the statement that the picture depicts an average disc golfer.

Most golfers are not shirtless and conspicuously drinking beer. It's a vocal minority that is very conspicuous.

As a parent, I would not look at that picture and think of disc golf as a family appropriate activity.

[Adam Schneider]

Also, isn't it highly unlikely that a University's course even allows alcohol?

[olydiscgolf]

So its the fact he doesn't have a shirt on? The fact that he's throwing with a beer in his hand and not hiding it? I don't understand the issue? Do you take your kids disc golfing? For me and my family, on the golf course, Im more worried about the F-BOMBS going off when somebody has an errant shot, not the beer in somebody's hand, or the shirt or no shirt on their back.

[Ol' Bob]

Someone has to teach the kids to talk.

I remember the first time I heard my dad drop that bomb. I wondered who finally taught him to talk. Best to raise the kids in a 50 gal. drum so as to keep 'em pure.

[snap7times]

Disc Golf has a wide variety of perspective on what is acceptable and what is not. However, in the fight to bring the sport to mainstream acceptance and encouraging parents to get their kids involved in the sport; comes sacrifice in clothing attire and behavior in public. Tournaments are much more strict than casual play; however to the public eye that is not educated on the differences might sterotype the sport and might actually be a parent of 10 kids or something... Unless you got ripped muscles and immaculate abs, keep the shirt on, a nice clean one at that. As for the beer, throwing with a beer in hand just gives out the message that it's too easy and actual focus and dedication to the throw are not needed... You can't play shirtless in ball golf nor can you hit a ball with a beer in your hand... until we have huge sponsors in our pockets, I would refrain from what could be misunderstood by the public eye.

[Ol' Bob]

You can't play shirtless in ball golf nor can you hit a ball with a beer in your hand...

Hence, the beer helmet was invented. :chug:

[Susie Sunshine]

You can't play shirtless in ball golf nor can you hit a ball with a beer in your hand...

Reasons #1 and #2 that I play disc golf instead. :laughing:

[jevon]

If alcohol is allowed on the course there is absolutely nothing wrong with openly drinking... or taking your shirt off.

[Brian]

The article was about the sport of disc golf. If I was going to write an article about skateboarding, would I pick a guy who couldn't even ollie up a curb and show him falling on a pine cone in the picture? No, I would pick someone who actually represented the sport and show them. i would interview an expert. I can say without a doubt this guy is not an expert. You can't successfully play disc golf with a spillable drink in your off hand. Can you have a lucky throw or two .. sure, but why not just pick out a good player who can represent the actual disc golfers and not the frisbee throwers who are just out to cruise the park. Nothing wrong with either, but the latter does not represent the sport and it is what was shown.

[jevon]

One of the opening quotes says the winner is the one who has the most fun. That there sums it up that they don't care about "actual disc golfers" as you put it. The latter (frisbee throwers who cruise the park) do represent the sport or everyone here wouldn't be getting their panties in a bunch over a pic of a dude throwing with a beer in his hand. The majority of people who play do not care to be the best in the world or care to have big sponsors in tournaments, they play to have fun.

[Brian]

To each his own I guess.

[NWDiscer]

Please tell me I'm not the only one here who chuckles every time I read the subject line for this thread.... it's terrible that I'm a grown woman with the sense of humor of a 14 year old boy.

And, I believe I actually putt better with a beer in my left hand and my bag slung over my back. Ha!


no you are not..the very first time i saw this i thought it would be moved right away into the "controversial" section....:shocked::D :whistler::rockon:

but alas it did not go that way....:dancing:

i would like 1 of those 2 hours then throw 200 yards lessons though..:jumpspin:


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[olydiscgolf]

There is no such thing as bad press! If it exsposure your looking for, you got it! This is a whole page write up about disc golf and its POSITIVE effects. They must be doing something right, the city and parks must take them pretty seriously to have seven courses in the area and two more on the way. And they really must be doing something right to get an article that size. I've tried getting a story on disc golf in the Olympian. I talked for 30 minutes with a reporter telling him how our course is player funded and maintained, zero out of pocket cost to the parks or city. I told him about the local businesses that are now selling plastic.The write up we got was two sentences saying the course was open. Take the press we get...we don't get much!

[LakeStevensBA]

Can't we get back to the what the title of this thread is asking us? What to do with that free hand?

I know a lot of people that hold their towels. Others that just let their free hand float around throwing off their balance.

Personally, I carry a Nintendo PSP with me that has Pocket Pool loaded on it. Nothing kills more time during those long ass rounds of 5 person groups in a tournament than a couple rounds of pocket pool.

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[Tim]

Personally, I carry a Nintendo PSP with me that has Pocket Pool loaded on it. Nothing kills more time during those long ass rounds of 5 person groups in a tournament than a couple rounds of pocket pool.

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:laughing:

I did this for a while too, but found I was having troubles with my eyesight, so had to give it up.