Suffer the Loss

[Burge]

Ever lose a disc? Sure, everyone that has thrown plastic at metal has--and if you haven't, then it's only a matter of time, friend, it's only a matter of time.

Regardless of the inevitabilities, let's hear the stories of those poor souls who have. What was your worst disc losing experience? What made it the worst? Was it the love of the particular disc as you watched it disappear into a watery grave? Or was it the hour you spent looking for it in heavy schule, knowing it must be somewhere close, only to give up the search in frustration? Were you on a solo round, searching on your own while at least a dozen people pass you only to feign assistance? Or did that group of six you just played through stop and scurry through the bushes like bloodhounds until it was found? Did you ever get it back? Hours, days, or months later? Were you forced to throw something different that wound up being a new favorite? Or do you feel lament every time you throw it's replacement, even if it is the same color and weight?

Whether a story of woe, or kindness, or transformation, the common theme is that all are random and unexpected...c'est la vie. Sometimes it is interesting to notice how we dealt with the situation...and how the universe offered assistance in, just as seemingly, random and unexpected ways. Often times, stories of loss are, actually, stories of gain.

So, share...

[TYVEK]

i grieve for lost discs, just not my own. i dont hold any attachment to my own discs so when i lose one( which is very very rare) i dont care, i just go get another one.

the strange thing is that when i do a really cool dye on a disc for somebody and they lose the disc it makes me feel a sense of loss.and i feel badly for the person that lost it. and if they dont ever get it back it makes me mad because that means that most likely somebody found it and hasnt returned it. it makes me mad because whoever found it is throwing a piece of me that wasnt meant for them to have.

this is how i feel about lost discs.

[LakeStevensBA]

My worst loss may have been this past weekend. At the Flippin Ze Disc in Wenatchee, I had a pretty decent first day and made the top card for Sunday. However the group I camp with are usually pretty dangerous to camp with for those over 21....or maybe it's me.

Just before sunset we decided to play a quick round of PIG on our temporary basket. After losing $1, I thought I put my "go-to" putter on the picnic table.

The following morning I woke up and found a blue blowfly glob of plastic. Instead of putting it on the picnic table, I guess I put my favorite putter on the top of a heat lamp. Doh!
...and I missed lots of putts on Sunday...

[chris7graham]

My worst loss may have been this past weekend. At the Flippin Ze Disc in Wenatchee, I had a pretty decent first day and made the top card for Sunday. However the group I camp with are usually pretty dangerous to camp with for those over 21....or maybe it's me.

Just before sunset we decided to play a quick round of PIG on our temporary basket. After losing $1, I thought I put my "go-to" putter on the picnic table.

The following morning I woke up and found a blue blowfly glob of plastic. Instead of putting it on the picnic table, I guess I put my favorite putter on the top of a heat lamp. Doh!
...and I missed lots of putts on Sunday...

wow:shocked::bricks:

[Ol' Bob]

Loosing putters usually isn't an issue for me. Since I throw really light DX and R-Pro, no driver is going to last all that long. I usually don't lose them while they're in their prime, as that's when I have the best idea about where they're going.

That wasn't the case with the R-Pro Japan Open Katana I lost on hole 12 at Trojan. It was only about 6 feet off the bank and loocid went into the early spring ice water a few days later and couldn't find it. It was my longest driver at the time and right in the middle of my wheelhouse. A few months later I got an email message from the park lady at Orchard saying a neighbor had turned in a disc with my e-address on it. I said a prayer for it to be my Katana, un-beaten. The prayer was half answered. It looked pretty good, but it wasn't the same as the disc I'd lost. I got that disc last year for Christmas, and it was nice to get it back. I just wish I had been the one to use it up.

[The Ombudsman]

we were at Lake Stevens a couple of days before the Freeze in the trees. Since we were preparing for the tourney, we were taking a few extra throws. On one hole we were practicing putts as a group of two and then a larger group played through. At the next basket, I realized my #1 putter - an ace disc no less- was missing. We actually helped the larger goup find a lost disc and they said they did not have it. The twosome denied having it as well. I was baffled and went back to look again. No disc. The twosome was leaving and were in their car when the passenger held up my disc and laughed at us as they drove off.
I had to play the tournament with a replacement putter and that really sucked.

[Joshua Olmsted]

I have a large bevy of bad beat lost discs, tough days at Trojan and stupid cases of leaving discs behind, but one experience really sticks out for me. I was going out to play my first round ever at Horning's hideout back when only the Canyon course was up;at that point in my disc golfing career, as per the usual, I didn't have a steady back up of discs. The previous day I had lost my only really effective turnover driver so, out of stupidity, I grabbed my incredibly beat in DX Orc of the my collection of wall discs, figuring I would just get a new flippy driver later in the week. It happened to be the players pack disc from the first tournament I'd ever played, the '05 Hab/Rec, a disc that I had a strong sentimental attachment to. So of course, playing solo, I flipped over my drive on hole 2 on what looked like a good shot, thought it was within 50 feet of the pin in the shule long and to the left, looked for about a half hour, never found it, still regret ever taking that disc off the wall, and to add insult to injury, played a very poor round. Since that day, I haven't thrown a single tournament disc to avoid the feeling again.

[KenGilmore]

I've had a handful of losses that really hurt, mostly either well-seasoned friends or custom dyes. One that hurt the most was a 1st Run Champion Boss with a custom Lord of the Rings dye that somebody took on hole 14 at Dexter while I was helping someone else find their disc between rounds at the Eugene Celebration!

I hate losing custom dyes, especially when they took as long as this one did (with all of the very precise elvish script).
http://gilbuddy.com/photo/albums/userpics/10002/DSC_0100.jpg

I lost this destroyer at Trojan (somewhat fitting, I suppose):
http://gilbuddy.com/photo/albums/userpics/10002/DSC_0091_2.jpg

I lost this one at Greenway (just spaced it, ugh). I like that frog so much I'm probably gonna have to do it again on a new disc.
http://gilbuddy.com/photo/albums/userpics/10002/0049.jpg

I also had a CE Valkyrie with a custom Einstein dye stolen from me at Ewing Young while I was still playing the hole (hole 9, I think)! They grabbed it and ran! This isn't the disc, but it has the same dye:
http://gilbuddy.com/photo/albums/userpics/10001/0001.jpg

[Sam]

Pro Line Monster - spaced it after the last hole of the Calapooia Classic this year. Still miss that disc.

First run Sidewinder - spaced it at Milo one day during a casual round.

And then there are the first 6 or 7 ace discs I lost just recently due to a... well... situation, let's say. That sucked a lot, too.

[chris7graham]

well I left the best disc ever at dabney and no one called me back on it.It was the 2010 ace race disc and what makes it so special is it was max weight and had made me 180.00 dollars already since ace race and now its over and gone.Since then have not been able to get one max weigh and discraft probably wont make as they did with the nebula which is another disc that is a work horse in my bag.Seems to me I always get discs that are discontinued or will not be made like the storm,nebula,x predator, z xtreme etc. you get the point anyways.

["Over the Hill" Bob]

My sad story:

Shortly after I started playing, Scott and I were at Joes (when they were still in business) and he picked up this really sic tyedye Valkerie, fondled it for awhile and decided not to buy it. Hehehe! I grabbed it up and bought it! :biggrin2: It wasn't long until my untrained arm shanked it in a major grip lock drive and it disappeared at Orchard Park. Easy come easy go!

Scott is playing a round at Orchard one day and sees this cool tyedye disc that someone is throwing and picks it up and asks the guy, "is this yours? Is your name Bob? I know Bob and I will give this back to him." Wow, after almost a year my beautiful disc comes home to me. Thanks Scott!

Wait..............

A few days later Scott and I are at Champoeg and I pull out my favorite Valk and.........yep, grip lock, shank, down over the bank and gone for ever in the water.

I still laugh about it and Scott will never let me live it down.

Bob

[Ol' Bob]

I have this feeling that I may have seen the Einstein disc not so long ago being played here at Mud. Can't remember people to save my life. If I see it again here, I'll surely turn it over.

[snap7times]

well I left the best disc ever at dabney and no one called me back on it.It was the 2010 ace race disc and what makes it so special is it was max weight and had made me 180.00 dollars already since ace race and now its over and gone.Since then have not been able to get one max weigh and discraft probably wont make as they did with the nebula which is another disc that is a work horse in my bag.Seems to me I always get discs that are discontinued or will not be made like the storm,nebula,x predator, z xtreme etc. you get the point anyways.

I have both, plenty of 177+ ace race 2010 discs... and a z extreme...

My worse loss, too many, but my 2nd run teerex was my baby. Lost it somewhere before the 2008 beaver state fling and distrupted my game for a while. Then about a year later I get an email from a lady saying her son found it in a tree in corvallis, which was no where near where I lost it. Then while practicing for the Oregon Championships at Trojan, it flew into the watery grave on tournament hole 6... Any disc at trojan hurts...

[KenGilmore]

That would be so sweet if you found it! We would have to start a new thread on amazing returns, of which I have a couple of those as well.
I have this feeling that I may have seen the Einstein disc not so long ago being played here at Mud. Can't remember people to save my life. If I see it again here, I'll surely turn it over.

[dan mc]

whiners in the woods first round at fairgrounds hole 5? a short 180' uphill shot. i came in a little lower than i wanted and short or so i thought. after beating the piss outta the scub brush and ferns in front of the pin and coming up empty my group called time and i re-tee land about 5' behind the pin as i walk up to putt out for my 4 i see my 2006 pink usdgc roc leaning up agaist the back of a tree about 8' behind the pin, easy putt for bird. finished in 2nd place in adv masters, 2 strokes behind winner and all around good guy mike heberling

[Burge]

Well, after reading some of the stories so far and after someone (offline) pointed out to me that I'm the one who spurned this thread, yet I haven't shared a story of my own...

The best return I had was a Star Sidewinder that I had turned over too far off the tee on 9(old11) at Downriver and painfully watched it sail into the river. Three months later, I get a call on my cell from a guy that found it caught in the rocks on the bank near 7(old 9) -- 600ft downstream:shocked:! A few weeks later, I got my first ace with that disc on 12 at Highbridge:yay:, only to space it at HB, next to the tee of 11, six months later:slapface:(should've just hung it on the wall).

The worst loss (even though that SW was pretty frickin' bad, in a brutally ironic way) was when I left my Star Destroyer, w/ imperial insignia dye (pictured below) on 8 at HB. BTW: that blue Beast was hard to watch bump off a tree and sail far into the mighty Spokane, but the worst still was losing the orange one below.

http://www.nwdiscgolfnews.com/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=91&d=1243408915

Now, randomly spacing a disc on the course, has got to be, IMO, the worst way to lose one. I would much rather shank a disc into the river than stupidly leave it behind, but what adds insult to injury is when the group of five trustafarians that just let me play through, on that very hole I know I left the disc on, obviously pick it up and split. For real. I went to grab it out of my bag on 10 and realized I'd left it. I thought it was taking them a long time to play 8 because I had deuced 9 and walked up to 10 and hadn't yet heard chains (figured they must be smokin' their clothes;)), but when I doubled back to the basket of 9, I could see that they were no longer on the course.:angry:

At least I had the good sense to finally hang the warbird on the wall when it started getting flippy and that's where it will stay.

[dan mc]

whiners in the woods first round at fairgrounds hole 5? a short 180' uphill shot. i came in a little lower than i wanted and short or so i thought. after beating the piss outta the scub brush and ferns in front of the pin and coming up empty my group called time and i re-tee land about 5' behind the pin as i walk up to putt out for my 4 i see my 2006 pink usdgc roc leaning up agaist the back of a tree about 8' behind the pin, easy putt for bird. finished in 2nd place in adv masters, 2 strokes behind winner and all around good guy mike heberling

2nd throw brand new red tulsa orc pro 2 at steilly that"s the day i realized i'm color blind and can't see red on green

[tomw]

:(

[jshrack]

2nd throw brand new red tulsa orc pro 2 at steilly that"s the day i realized i'm color blind and can't see red on green

That... Sucks... :(

[Burge]

2nd throw brand new red tulsa orc pro 2 at steilly that"s the day i realized i'm color blind and can't see red on green

My father-in-law is color blind and he's an amazing architect. My son is also color blind and he's an incredible student.

[ryanajanes]

I lost my well warn golden/yellow candy champion Orc on Hole 13(old10) at Corbin last yr. I had hit the basket twice and slammed chains once with this disc on that hole(deep placement) in the past.
For those who have not played NIdahos Corbin course, this is the signature hole, tee pad on a vista 100' above the picture-esq bending Spokane river in beautiful:biggrin2: Post Falls Idaho(my home town:rockon:).
My release was a bit high above the basket plain, disc hyzered, SOMEHOW missed all them damn trees past the basket and SAILED into the middle of the Spokane river. I was sad:(

the hole hes talking about is the one in my picture on the left, or my avatar i guess its called or something...