Disc Golf Dating Service

[General Scales]

So I recently came up with this idea, albeit not a good one...probably...

There should be a doubles round every once in awhile (any course in the area will do) where single men AND ladies come together, play a doubles round and see if a spark can be achieved.

I only bring this up because it is hard to be meet bad ass ladies that love disc golf as much as me. My last girl stopped going to the courses with me because she "didn't see the point in playing fetch with myself when I could spending that time on a beach or shopping." Which in turn brought on many complaints between the two of us about why I felt it necessary to do play so much (yet she could spend hours upon hours playing The Sims, watching b.s. reality shows and spending money on multiple pairs of the same shoe in different colors.

Now, the only problem is how would one go about setting this up? Also, is they're enough ladies in the area that play disc golf that are also single? Most of the bad ass chicks I meet that huck are already snagged by somebody else.

Let the commentaries begin.

[Adam Schneider]

Also, is they're enough ladies in the area that play disc golf that are also single?
I'm guessing not. Disc golf, even more so than its spherical ancestor, is overwhelmingly a sport/game of white males. Hopefully it'll change, especially when/if more schools take it up as a P.E. unit or as a club sport, but that's the current situation.

[REDFIVE]

So adam is trying to help the situation by getting school girls involved. Good for you man!

[Adam Schneider]

Interesting how your mind connected the dots in that particular way. ;)

[JMan]

I'm guessing not. Disc golf, even more so than its spherical ancestor, is overwhelmingly a sport/game of white males. Hopefully it'll change, especially when/if more schools take it up as a P.E. unit or as a club sport, but that's the current situation.
And even fewer in THpokane, hell myself and about 8 others began Spokane's first Disc Club in 1975, an IFA Affiliate, and had the area to ourselves until well into the late 90s. Spokane even made playing DG in certain parks illegal. Try as we did we could never get Taylor Bressler to take us serious. Gordy moving to Thpokane, same time I moved to OR, was one of the best things for Spokane DG. However, every time I've played Thpokane since I've only encountered 1 woman, Dario's sister (her name escapes me), so good luck with the dating idea. Here's a twist to it, set up a mini course in a local watering hole, and take it from there. Good luck, getting anything done in Thpokane can take decades, lets face it all the streets in Thpokane aren't even paved yet.

[General Scales]

Yeah, Spokane is a pain in the arse to get anything done in. For example, Sullivan Park. Mainly used only for drug deals, bums and the occasional walker. They've got a great area (bout 15 acres) that could make a great course. Try as I might, Matt Stone (head of Spokane Valley Parks and Rec) will not give the go ahead. He's willing to let me use the area behind the overflow parking @ Mission Park but who wants to play on a flat, no tree or elevation style area.

It seems that they are more concerned with keeping areas that disc golfers would love and maintain better then they're own maintenance people for stuff like drug deals, bums and the occasional walker.

As for chicks playing in Spokane, they just need to be turned on to disc golf. Lots of lady ball golfers in the area. Like 6 female disc golfers.

And is Darios sisters name Celeste by the way? Played a one disc tourney with her and Cole and Tom @ Corbin this year. She was definitely bad ass.

[Trozzle!!!]

Dario's Sis's name is Tara I believe?

[Trozzle!!!]

As a single male, I would definitely love to see more single females involved in the sport. I myself would love to have a dg girlfriend or at the very least a girl who at least supports it. my last g/f didnt at all. A majority of the dg girls out there now are married, or attached, mostly playing cause their man does. I dont think an event like this would be such a bad thing, but who knows what may happen?

[Ol' Bob]

Another guy who just doesn't dig the white males.

I should work me up a stable of discin' dolls, and put up a website for an "escort service." Maybe call it, "Different Strokes."

[Trozzle!!!]

There you go Bob!!!! I will make many more trips out to the MUdd then, hehe

[Ol' Bob]

C-mon man, you don't know where she's putted!

[Trozzle!!!]

well I was thinking you would at least screen the girls first, geeze

[Jet]

I don't understand why more women don't play disc golf. I can't understand why everyone doesn't play. It's just so much fun!

[snap7times]

Well, the largest Women's division in DDGA history was because the TD promised a softball team sponsorship if they showed up with a certain amount of women... Deaf women is hard enough, so maybe TD of a certain tournament can work on relations with a womens sports team to come out for lessons and a tournament with guys as their caddies... omg i've seen this idea kinda before... hmmm... anyways, get a whole team or two out there to learn the sport and single guys as their caddies, heck even let the ladies pick their caddies from a line up.... just giving u guys ideas, i really want you guys to feel the way I do, I love my woman and my son, they love disc golf, whew...

[Ol' Bob]

I think Snap's onto something there. Women athletes will have the confidence to try DG and know they'll do it, and do it well. They won't even blink. I see a lot of women try DG and not put much into it. These don't get much out of it and you probably don't see them again. A lot of them really aren't too keen on having a man show them anything. It's hard to know how much you can say to them, or how even to word any encouragement. But, it could spread like wildfire among women already involved in team sports. Once these are into it, they'll do any possible spreading among their friends. Not every man or woman gets into DG, but it has to be a higher percentage of men, the males here being culturally led into competitive mindsets. If one person on a team gets into DG, he/she's going to drag a friend or three along. That foursome will goad a few more onto the course.

I think the same would hold true for moving DG into wider representation in other-than-white American communities.

[captain jack]

Another guy who just doesn't dig the white males.

I should work me up a stable of discin' dolls, and put up a website for an "escort service." Maybe call it, "Different Strokes."
Dude !
:lightbulb: !

Since the sport is all just horny white dudes, why not turn the Lucky Mud into a brothel ?
Forget about the female course company, then I would just have to hold back my farts and effin c word curses when I miss 10 foot putts, but hey, after a few rounds, a nice hummer , then some dinner and some TV.
Friggin' Nirvana.

Think about it.

[Trozzle!!!]

LUCKY Mudd Brothel, I like it!!!!! Dont think it would fly though, hahaha

[Jet]

LUCKY Mudd Brothel, I like it!!!!! Dont think it would fly though, hahaha
The neighbor would love that :rolleyes:

[Trozzle!!!]

What happens at the Mudd, stays at the MUdd, Just not on that side of the property

[Iowa]

At my school we go to my local disc golf course in P.E. But most kids just use it as a chance to have a smoke during school...

[Adam Schneider]

Dario's Sis's name is Tara I believe?
Is that the one who was on Wheel of Fortune?

[Parks]

Girls play disc golf?

[catalystdg]

dario's sister is tara ( yes she is the one who was on wheel of fortune)
she is really hot and a really good disc golfer
and she is taken:yay::yay::yay::yay:

[Tim]

I dont think an event like this would be such a bad thing, but who knows what may happen?

I foresee what they refer to in Scandanavia as a "helmet party."

[LJ Jubner]

There is a reason why most DG's are single!

Dario sister is in fact Tara. Don't you remember her from Wheel of Fortune?

I am pretty sure I had the most ladies at CSI last spring. We as TD's need to find ways of encouraging more ladies to play. The Spokane ladies league, The chick flicks all help.

[Matt B.]

A lot of them really aren't too keen on having a man show them anything.

Once these are into it, they'll do any possible spreading among their friends.



All right guys.....let's stay classy now!

[snap7times]

yeah... stay on track guys, women read this too you know, they dont need to see pervertism... stick to working on ideas to get women into the game, then it becomes easier for the occasional disc golf romance to happen, don't force it and by golly stay away from the brothel idea, ewww that is just worse than the pot smoking stereotype. Women's sports teams = good potential disc golfers...

[Ol' Bob]

I sure wonder why that extra "d" gets attached to Lucky Mud.

Yeah, I don't really think I'm the guy to run that escort service. All you Johns our there can bring your own. The Inn will still rent you a room.

[Ol' Bob]

All right guys.....let's stay classy now!
http://nwdiscgolfnews.com/forum/image.php?u=48&dateline=1255754077

As I have said before: nothing is kid proof or sailor proof.

[DiscnRN]

I think a good way to encourage women to play is to set up a tourney or workshop at a smaller course like Benson, Rockwood or Lunchtime and teach them the basics. The first time my wife played was out at Benson and she damn near aced the 2nd hole and that is when she got hooked. I think if I had taken her to Hagg, Milo or Dabney, it would have been more of a frustration than fun.

Also, take them to scenic courses out of the way. My wife loves to hike ( and I'm sure a lot more women go hiking then DGing) so if we go to a course like Hagg or Hornings there's that added benefit. "Hiking with a purpose" is how I describe it to those that have never played.

Patience and encouragement go a long way also. (Even when your wife hooks a shot @ Champoeg, hole 4 so bad that she hits a car, point-blank, in the parking lot. Thank God she throws 150g or else that would have been a $300 round)

[Bullseye]

I sure wonder why that extra "d" gets attached to Lucky Mud.

Yeah, I don't really think I'm the guy to run that escort service. All you Johns our there can bring your own. The Inn will still rent you a room.


Mudd:

http://www.start-news.com/images/Fantasy%20Casting%20Star%20Trek%20The%20Next%20Nee ds%20Jack%20Black%20As%20Harry%20Mudd.jpg

[Matt B.]

As I have said before: nothing is kid proof or sailor proof.

That clown is no sailor, although he did send me on quite a few memorable voyages.

[Matt B.]

Mudd:

http://www.start-news.com/images/Fantasy%20Casting%20Star%20Trek%20The%20Next%20Nee ds%20Jack%20Black%20As%20Harry%20Mudd.jpg

Nice pull!

[LJ Jubner]

Hardcore Fenton Mudd

[sillybizz]

A lot of women don't like to play because every time they go to the course to play they are either ostracized for being a woman playing disc golf or they are stared at by male disc golfers as if these men haven't seen a woman in twenty years and most women don't like that as hard as that is to believe. When people who don't play the sport think of "frisbee golf" they think of college kids or dirty hippies smoking weed in the park and most women want to be a part of something more prestigious and when combined with my earlier statements they aren't sure they would or would want to fit in to the disc golf community. Men will always dominate the percentage of women to men in this sport, it's for guys to get together with their friends and throw plastic dinner plates at pieces of metal that resemble a horse trough.

[LJ Jubner]

Maybe DG need title 9

[LegoRules]

A lot of women don't like to play because every time they go to the course to play they are either ostracized for being a woman playing disc golf or they are stared at by male disc golfers as if these men haven't seen a woman in twenty years and most women don't like that as hard as that is to believe. When people who don't play the sport think of "frisbee golf" they think of college kids or dirty hippies smoking weed in the park and most women want to be a part of something more prestigious and when combined with my earlier statements they aren't sure they would or would want to fit in to the disc golf community. Men will always dominate the percentage of women to men in this sport, it's for guys to get together with their friends and throw plastic dinner plates at pieces of metal that resemble a horse trough.

Wow where the heck are you playing? I nor any of my Chick friends who play have be ostracized for being a women, and playing disc golf. I think our disc golf community in the Portland metro area, and all of Oregon for that matter, are very supportive of women playing. At our Chick Flick event last year we had lots of guys helping out, and supporting the 75 women who attended the event. :rockon:

I feel safe playing on any course as long as there are other disc golfers around male, or female. I have played on several occasions by myself, and the only time I felt a little iffy was when there was not many other disc golfers on the course.

I think what might creep some out are the poor taste posts that have proceeded mine on this tread. Pretty degrading stuff if you ask me. :angry:

Cindy :)

[LegoRules]

I think a good way to encourage women to play is to set up a tourney or workshop at a smaller course like Benson, Rockwood or Lunchtime and teach them the basics. )

Actually there has been a tournament like this for the last two years the Chick Flick. :yay: At last years event we had 75 women of all levels from Open to never played before. The first day is all clinics and a casual round with mixed divisions, and the 2nd is a full on tournament. This years event will be even better. :rockon:

Cindy :)

[catalystdg]

why don't you just get a girlfriend and then teach her to play?
i think the problem is not the lack of girls playing disc golf( there are alot of them out there) but your innability to get a girlfriend:slapface:

[Ol' Bob]

When people who don't play the sport think of "frisbee golf" they think of college kids or dirty hippies...

Not long after I got out of the service in 1968, I discovered that the best people I could find to be with were what most would call, "hippies." Many were actually college kids too! Somehow, anyone without a brush-cut was stereotyped as "dirty." I didn't find that stereotype to hold to any appreciable degree. It seems that even the hippie types had noses. What got them in trouble was that they didn't conform to the "good" stereotypes. Anyone not conforming was going to be called a hippie, in spite of how they thought of themselves. They just didn't go along to get along. I think I would call that, "courage."

Today is the sixties in spades. The propaganda machine is smarter and stronger than ever, and the avenues of acceptable thought and expression narrower, if in subtle ways. To dis the wars is to dis warriors, so best to shut up. I still think of myself as a hippie, though I may have cut off my braids. I got them caught in power tools too many times. I hated to see them go, but it was for my own safety.

With the propaganda machine as it is today, most of you (and all the more, the younger you might be) will likely see the ravings of some old wacko in my writings. But I know this country is not the whole world. This country is the master of mind control technology, and few of any age get through unscathed. I'd say the world's hope lies mostly outside our borders, where few of us have much idea what's up.

Well, the hippies have gotten old, and generations of new Americans, suckled on the teevee and talk radio, can dismiss those dirty old hippies and see how good a job they can do with the country and the world for their descendants. It's their turn now. Bless 'em all.

[Parks]

why don't you just get a girlfriend and then teach her to play?


But that sounds difficult, and lacking in instant gratification.

[The Ombudsman]

If a woman is truly interested in you, she will want to share your interests. If disc golf is all that defines you as a person, then you have issues. There has got to be more to each and every one of you than dg. This is a better way to get a woman Find a new woman and introduce her to the sport.
I love disc golf and play as much as I can, but I also play piano and practice that as much as I can. Learn to cook. Everyone eats, and women love a man who is a master in the kitchen. I just became engaged last night. My fiancee is not a disc golfer and had never even heard of the sport before she met me. She asked me to take her out one day and she could not even throw 50 feet. Nonetheless, she supports my addiction and I am sure she will improve. We have many more important things in common than disc golf.

[Adam Schneider]

I just became engaged last night.
:yay::yay::yay:

[sillybizz]

Wow where the heck are you playing? I nor any of my Chick friends who play have be ostracized for being a women, and playing disc golf. I think our disc golf community in the Portland metro area, and all of Oregon for that matter, are very supportive of women playing. At our Chick Flick event last year we had lots of guys helping out, and supporting the 75 women who attended the event. :rockon:

I feel safe playing on any course as long as there are other disc golfers around male, or female. I have played on several occasions by myself, and the only time I felt a little iffy was when there was not many other disc golfers on the course.

I think what might creep some out are the poor taste posts that have proceeded mine on this tread. Pretty degrading stuff if you ask me. :angry:

Cindy :)

I'm glad to hear that the Portland area is much better than the Seattle area where I live when it comes to disc golf but we already knew that. A chick flick wouldn't work in Seattle, be glad you live in Oregon. I do know several women that play the sport and are a big part of the community and are some of my best friends in the sport, mainly because I have a hard time getting along with other men, some anyway. Maybe ostracized isn't the right word, but I have introduced women to the sport and after a couple times on the course they feel out of place because they are the only women playing with a bunch of guys staring at them, It's different when they are with their boyfriends but this thread is about single women. I agree as long as single men keep posting threads like this it's not going to help their case in getting more women out to play.

[captain jack]

I just became engaged last night.

Congratulations !!

:cheers:

[DiscnRN]

Actually there has been a tournament like this for the last two years the Chick Flick. :yay: At last years event we had 75 women of all levels from Open to never played before. The first day is all clinics and a casual round with mixed divisions, and the 2nd is a full on tournament. This years event will be even better. :rockon:

Cindy :)

That's right. My wife and I know a couple that are involved with that and TDG. Wasn't it during one of our +100 degree weekends? I wanted to have my wife come out and I was going to volunteer but I had the NCLEX coming up. Are the Chick Flicks open to newcomers? I'd love for my wife to meet some other lady throwers.

On another note, I don't think I've ever seen the guys on a course be disrespectful to my wife. I'm sure it happens but I have found most of the disc golf community to be fairly easy going and respectful...if not at times sort of surprised to see a lady throwing.

[Celeste]

Are the Chick Flicks open to newcomers? I'd love for my wife to meet some other lady throwers.


Chick Flicks are certainly for newcomers. We actually have a monthly Chick Flick next weekend Jan. 10th at Cascade Gateway park in Salem. We'll be meeting at hole 1 to play at 10AM. Any ladies who haven't played one (or even played at all) should come out!

[General Scales]

If a woman is truly interested in you, she will want to share your interests. If disc golf is all that defines you as a person, then you have issues. There has got to be more to each and every one of you than dg. This is a better way to get a woman Find a new woman and introduce her to the sport.
I love disc golf and play as much as I can, but I also play piano and practice that as much as I can. Learn to cook. Everyone eats, and women love a man who is a master in the kitchen. I just became engaged last night. My fiancee is not a disc golfer and had never even heard of the sport before she met me. She asked me to take her out one day and she could not even throw 50 feet. Nonetheless, she supports my addiction and I am sure she will improve. We have many more important things in common than disc golf.

Thats not the issue. I have many things that define me as a person. The one thing she couldn't stand was disc golf. And since that is a big part of my life and one she couldn't tolerate then there was a problem. She didn't get all over my case when I spent days writing poems.

And btw congrats on the engagement.

[T-Bird]

If a woman is truly interested in you, she will want to share your interests. If disc golf is all that defines you as a person, then you have issues. There has got to be more to each and every one of you than dg. This is a better way to get a woman Find a new woman and introduce her to the sport.
I love disc golf and play as much as I can, but I also play piano and practice that as much as I can. Learn to cook. Everyone eats, and women love a man who is a master in the kitchen. I just became engaged last night. My fiancee is not a disc golfer and had never even heard of the sport before she met me. She asked me to take her out one day and she could not even throw 50 feet. Nonetheless, she supports my addiction and I am sure she will improve. We have many more important things in common than disc golf.

Yeah, it's not until AFTER the wedding that these things become a problem.
Enjoy the "tolerance" while it lasts ;)
Seriously though: congrats.

[olydiscgolf]

I think I have one of the most supportive (non-golfing) wive's in the history of disc golf.

Two seperate times this year, while walking off the course after a long day playing golf, I've been mid conversation with buddies about how much trouble they were in (from wife or GF) for playing all day, when I got texted pictures of my dinner being prepared and Adrienne wondering a time frame so it can be ready for me when I get there! I just show my buddies the pics and rub it right in their face! I feel bad for the ones that don't have this kind of support!

My wife knew she married a disc golfer, we had baskets at our wedding!

[Jim J]

Best place to find frisbee-throwing gals is on an ultimate field. Go find a pick-up game or join a city league team.

But don't assume that you can simply take the Ultra-star out of her hand and give her a Sidewinder.

For some reason very few people move between DG and ultimate or keep a foot in both worlds, especially if they still have decent wheels. Once the legs start to slow a bit, DG becomes much more inviting.

Good luck.

[emmarose]

This is a very interesting thread... and I'm glad Cindy piped up and now I will as well. First, I think it's a cool idea to hook people up with a single folk, doubles tournie... not my style, but could be super fun and really work for some people.

I wanted to address, also, why more ladies don't play disc golf. I think there is a whole host of reasons... a very simple one being (and this is just my own belief) that women tend to be much less competetive than men naturally and so as with any sport there is less interest on the part of the ladies. I started golfing with a bunch of my girlfriends in college and we all sucked... I started getting better, devoting more time to it, and they lost interest... they also shared with me that now that I was pretty good, my competetiveness sort of turned them off, made it less fun for them as it became more fun for me... Also, women tend to be the primary caregivers in the family and disc golf is difficult for small children... lots of waiting and being quiet and not your turn yet and more waiting, I do know a lot of families who make disc golf work on a very recreational basis... and then it is tough, as a beginner of either sex, to get into the sport if you're not playing on an appropriate course for skill level and with people who make you feel comfortable (not out of your league skill-wise, with enough patience to encourage and help you, etc). I have also noticed a very distinct "boy's club" vibe from some of my golf buddies... I played with a hole host of dudes for like three years before I knew that any of them were married and had kids (and most of them did!). This is not to say that it is not important to have time to yourself away from kids, etc... don't get me wrong...

I am lucky in that I have a lot of ladies I know who are very serious, very good golfers... sometimes when we go out there's actually more ladies than dudes in our group ( I know... shocking!). It's funny to hear all the dudes talking about needing disc golfing girlfriends, my family and friends joke that if you want to spend any time with me, you better love disc golfing, 'cause it's all I do...

So, Parks, yes, girls do disc golf... some of us obsessively even... now, amigo, please do not ever ask such a ridiculous question ever ever ever again! Do girls disc golf? Sheesh.

peace (and love!) threw disc golf,
emmarose

[Ol' Bob]

I'm waiting for you, Rosa, to come up here and show me how. I'm used to getting kicked around the course by the ladies, so I will be able to handle it. I'll be careful to not be put off by your competitiveness.

Hey, I tossed a +1 yesterday! Big deal for me. I had a lot of stoopid missed putts too. Durn. Oh well, still my best in a while.

[emmarose]

I'm waiting for you, Rosa, to come up here and show me how. I'm used to getting kicked around the course by the ladies, so I will be able to handle it. I'll be careful to not be put off by your competitiveness.

Hey, I tossed a +1 yesterday! Big deal for me. I had a lot of stoopid missed putts too. Durn. Oh well, still my best in a while.

Me and the old man will be out there soon, bob, soon! We are all about the disc golf adventures... probably we'll wait until the weather gets a little bit more consistently nicer... I do not care for driving (my suby) in inclement weather much... but Lucky Mud is in the forefront of my brain for courses I have yet, but need, to play!

peace,
em (or Rosie, Queen of Corona if you prefer... like I used to pretend when I was just a tiny little thing frolicking around on my hobby horse and rockin' out to Paul Simon)

[Ol' Bob]

...see me and Julio, down by the first tee...

Paul Simon is the only Yankee fan in the whole wide world that I can stand. My favorite songwriter but I hate to see that ball cap on him.

...talkin' about Ace In The Hole - mmm, mmm, mmmm, mm, mmm...

[emmarose]

...see me and Julio, down by the first tee...

Paul Simon is the only Yankee fan in the whole wide world that I can stand. My favorite songwriter but I hate to see that ball cap on him.

...talkin' about Ace In The Hole - mmm, mmm, mmmm, mm, mmm...

hehe