Short but amazing disc stories

[Aware]

Who has one? I know they abound out there.

mine: A friend gave me a disc at the beginning of a round at Pier Park last Monday. I left it on hole 17 accidently and when I returned a few hours later to find it, it was nowhere to be found. It was sort-of out in the open so I figured someone picked it up. I was a little bummed they didn't call the clearly marked number on it honestly. Today, five days and who knows how many golfers later, another friend finds it sitting right where I threw it! How I couldn't find it and how no one else saw it for five days is crazy.
I think that disc just earned a place in my bag.

[olydiscgolf]

I've told this one before, but it's still one of the best lost/returned disc stories I've ever heard.

A friend looses a disc. He searches and searches can't find it anywhere. A week or so later he gets a call from a carwash attendant. The attendent found his disc stuck in the grill of a customers car.

[Scott]

Last winter I had a great round of golf with Matthew on the Canyon course at HH. The sun was starting to go down and it was starting to get pretty cold when we got to the car. No keys. Retraced as much of the course as possible, but no luck. A week later, I'm out there again. I lay up my second shot just short of the swamp.....

and about six inches away from my keys.

[Mikk]

I have an original Orion in Sirius plastic. I use it on the river hole at white river(13), its flippy for that RHBH. I lose it in the river, half hour later i get a call and get it back. Round 2 I loose it again in the river.. Round 3 I let some faster players play thru due to my slow ass. 3 holes later i get a call. found my disc!! Next day round 1 I loose disc in river again. Next hole I ace, 3 min later I get a call. Found disc again in river!! Round 2 I loose disc in river again. Next day I get a call from the first people to find disc in river, found again!! I pay reward this time. Round 3 random flip dubs. Partner is the guy who found my disc in river 2X now. I loose disc in river again, partner finds it again!! I ace hole 18 with said lost n found disc and get paid for dubs win!! I gave all money to my partner, well hey he found it 3X and earned that money!!

[Trozzle!!!]

Good call on the honor system to give your partner the money. He truly deserved something after finding your disc 3 times. But, honestly, is that the disc you should be using for that river shot? Doesnt sound like it, lol

[Adam Schneider]

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[runnaman]

Yeah, I'd say use a different disc.

[General Scales]

Lost my first z nuke bout two months ago. Threw it on a giant hyzer route at downriver. Looked for 5-10 minutes and gave up because I had a backup in the bag. Ten minutes later I get a phone call saying i had to come see where my disc had ended up. Apparently my disc had caught a skip and landed on the bottom storage area of my friends kids stroller. Didn't even know he was there. Finished my round, played a second and threw my best round to date (3 under!).

Just never know where things will end up.

[Rideout]

My first ace was at Riverside on June 15, 2005. I threw my Beast as hard as I could on Blue 5 (heh, the hole is probably 200 feet) and slammed it into the chains.

My second ace was at Riverside on June 15, 2007. I threw a Wraith on Blue 13 (a much cooler hole to ace, especially with a driver).

I only have 5 or 6 aces in my disc golf career. It still trips me out that my first two aces are spaced apart by exactly two years and both occurred at the same course (not a course I play much). In retrospect, I can hardly believe I wasn’t golfing at Riverside on June 15, 2009.




I lost a disc in Fountain Hills, AZ and it was returned to me in Walla Walla, WA. I have golfed at each of those courses, maybe, 5-10 times each.

[Mikk]

Yeah, I'd say use a different disc.
But its the perfect flip/anit hyzer RHBH. I just throw it too hard. Funny thing is I never go looking for this disc if its in the river. It just keeps getting returned.

[Parks]

Sounds like a lot of people in this thread are loosing their discs.

Make sure you throw RHBH or LHFH so that your disc spins clockwise. It works like a jar lid; this will make it tighten so you don't loose it.

[General Scales]

Sounds like a lot of people in this thread are loosing their discs.

Make sure you throw RHBH or LHFH so that your disc spins clockwise. It works like a jar lid; this will make it tighten so you don't loose it.

Hah! Does this mean once the disc stops when it gets tight?

[Burge]

Hah! Does this mean once the disc stops when it gets tight?

No... it means when you hit the ground, yer screwed!:laughing:

[chris7graham]

I have an original Orion in Sirius plastic. I use it on the river hole at white river(13), its flippy for that RHBH. I lose it in the river, half hour later i get a call and get it back. Round 2 I loose it again in the river.. Round 3 I let some faster players play thru due to my slow ass. 3 holes later i get a call. found my disc!! Next day round 1 I loose disc in river again. Next hole I ace, 3 min later I get a call. Found disc again in river!! Round 2 I loose disc in river again. Next day I get a call from the first people to find disc in river, found again!! I pay reward this time. Round 3 random flip dubs. Partner is the guy who found my disc in river 2X now. I loose disc in river again, partner finds it again!! I ace hole 18 with said lost n found disc and get paid for dubs win!! I gave all money to my partner, well hey he found it 3X and earned that money!!

that is a cool story and you are a cool guy to give himace money sweet:yay:

[greenwood8]

Wild RHBH ani on hole #11 at Dexters..goes across road towards hole #10 and down it's fairway. When I go to retrieve it, a guy is coming up from #10 with an astonished look on his face with my disc in his hand. Turns out my drive nailed his drive mid flight. What are the chances?

[Flatroc]

It was in the 90's at a Eugene Celebration when they were still held at Westmoreland.
I was warming up with Ernie Z when we met this fella walking out of the community center. This fella told us that he had never thrown a Shark before and had just bought one in the center. He then proceeded to use his new Shark for every shot during his warm up and THEN, used it for the whole tourney, and won!
For you Washatonian's...you guessed it, he was left handed and had a little cooler for his one disc. :biggrin2:
I'll never forget him saying/asking "Hmmmm I wonder if a shark can putt", as he sunk a 30-40 footer. I guess so eh?

[DexterHawk]

I like the story about Kurt and a rattler crushing crystal mountain.

[Bullseye]

I was standing with my group on the tee pad for Hole 3 at Adair waiting to tee off and we heard a disc come crashing into the trees on the long position for hole 4. We could hear it filtering down through the branches and finally finished with sound of clanking metal. We ran over there to find BVDs disc resting in the bottom of the basket. Unreal.

[sillybizz]

I was standing with my group on the tee pad for Hole 3 at Adair waiting to tee off and we heard a disc come crashing into the trees on the long position for hole 4. We could hear it filtering down through the branches and finally finished with sound of clanking metal. We ran over there to find BVDs disc resting in the bottom of the basket. Unreal.

That is an awesome story.

[Scott]

I was standing with my group on the tee pad for Hole 3 at Adair waiting to tee off and we heard a disc come crashing into the trees on the long position for hole 4. We could hear it filtering down through the branches and finally finished with sound of clanking metal. We ran over there to find BVDs disc resting in the bottom of the basket. Unreal.

Sick.

[Trozzle!!!]

that is a great hole to get a 1 or 2 on. team disc a few years back I had Jason Mcgrew as a partner. His drive landed near tee 3. I had no putt besides going up over the trees. I threw a 30 ft high sky anny putt and it crashed in the chains :)

[Toby Puttzinski]

You guys have ceased to amaze me...

[Dr. Zaius]

amazing? probably not, but still cool, and different from the rest of the stories told.
hole 5 at dexter, right position. throw a forehand that hits the gap, skips off the ground and heads towards the basket. samwise states that he saw some weird movement after the skip. i think nothing of it.
we walk up towards the disc and see a white headed hawk easily twice the size of my disc sitting on it. we stop. observe. the hawk then proceeds to pick up the disc and start to fly away with it. it drops it on the way up and then fly's to a branch above the basket and sits. we stare at it. i throw a putter to distract it. it attacks my putter. sits on it. stares at us with evil hawk eyes. whats funny is that we were actually scared and mesmerized at the same time. threw another. same result. 20 discs and 10 minutes later of the same it grows tired of our lame discs and decides to leave.
pretty cool to experience on a lonely day out at the course anyways... :)

[Toby Puttzinski]

That's a cool story... you could feasibly train a hawk to pick up your disc and drop it near/in a basket...:chinscratch: Beast-master?

There was a resident owl at North Park in Seattle(hole #19) a few years back, and a bunch of guys were feeding it mice periodically. On several occasions, it swooped down and grabbed someone's hair or beanie as they were walking away from its perch.

[DexterHawk]

I was standing with my group on the tee pad for Hole 3 at Adair waiting to tee off and we heard a disc come crashing into the trees on the long position for hole 4. We could hear it filtering down through the branches and finally finished with sound of clanking metal. We ran over there to find BVDs disc resting in the bottom of the basket. Unreal.

Good story but I threw that shot (glow eagle and you were playing with Dion):rockon:

[The Ombudsman]

One evening near hole 11 at Terrace Creek we watched as a pair of screech owls dogged a squirrel for several minutes until they pinned the rodent down and made it their dinner.

[Flatroc]

I like the story about Kurt and a rattler crushing crystal mountain.

I was there!
I think it was a Super Puppy. :chinscratch:

[DMajor]

Here's a not so amazing story, but pretty good for a work/disc story.

So about six months ago I was throwing an old dx piece I found in what was then an abandoned parking lot at my work. One particular throw flipped on me (as old dx's do) and went into a tree about 100 feet high. I couldn't tell if it went out the other side of the tree or if it stuck. Couldn't see anything up in the tree and didn't find anything where it could've possibly landed so I figured it stuck or was lost or whatever. No biggie piece of crap anyway.

Two Fridays ago I was walking in the same parking lot (no longer abandoned and quite crowded with regular traffic now) and sitting directly in the middle of the road about fifteen feet from the original tree was my disc I lost! The wind must have blown it out of the tree and luckily no one saw it or cared to pick it up before me.

I told a couple people at work about it and when we were walking out of the office for the day a friend of mine asked me if I could throw it past this car that was about 150 feet away and 30-40 feet below us. Since I would never turn down a disc challenge, and the disc in my hand was the aforementioned dx crap disc, I gave it a good %70 pull and threw the disc about two hundred feet past where the car was parked. But of course the dx flipped more than anticipated, out of sight of the lights of the parking lot, and I heard it skid to a stop on what sounded like the roof of a three story office building next door.

My friend didn't believe that it could've landed up there, but sure enough, last Monday that old beat up dx disc was sitting on top of the roof of the building next door clearly visible from my desk. The building next door is a giant box wherehouse type of building with no roof access from the outside, so being that it was an old dx crap disc up there, I didn't think it was worth talking to anybody from the building to let me go up and get it. I looked and laughed at that disc all last week and figured it would be up there forever as I have never seen anyone on that roof.

To my surprise, when I got to work today there was a guy up on the roof working on something. I watched him walk within twenty feet of the disc several times and I thought for sure he would pick it up as there was absolutely nothing on the roof and it was obviously out of place, but he never did. So after about an hour of watching him I went outside and started trying to get his attention from acouple hundred feet away. As soon as he noticed me he pointed to the disc and I was like yeah throw it. He was hesitant to throw it to me because he was worried he was going to hit a car, but I closed the gap to about a hundred feet and he threw it well enough to allow me to run under it for the completion! He said it was a nice frisbee, and I went off to go throw the disc a few times before going back into work. I was half expecting to lose it again for pushing my luck, but I returned to work with my disc safely in hand.

[Ol' Bob]

Read this ^

Done. Kewl.

[Getty]

Before an Ultimate game the captains of the two teams flip a disc to determine who chooses to pull or receive. At a demo in Austin,TX back in '81, on an exceedingly windy day in front of 20,000ish folks, we flipped and watched the disc weeble and wobble for about 150 yards while both teams were circling around it exhorting the thing to lay down heads or tails. The crowd was roaring. We won the game because we won that flip. No upwind goals were scored.

[tomw]

This happened back in March of this year. It was a week day and im out at Corbin playing a round of golf. I just finished hole #3 and i see a guy looking for a disc off to the right of the fairway of short #4. I could have thrown past him and played thru, but i know what a drag it is looking for a disc by yourself. So i walk over to the guy to give assistance, and i turns out he is an old work friend that i hadnt seen for over 10 yrs. We play together for the rest of the round. I found that he is now a superintendent for a large General contractor out of Spokane WA. He helps me get a JOB that i had been looking for , for over a year. :headbang:It has been nearly 9 months since then (and we still havent been able to play again together due to different job locations) and im extremely content with this new job that disc golf helped me find!!:angel:

[Toby Puttzinski]

You are the exception to the rule, muchacho. For the average disc golfer, there is a strong correlation between rounds played and days worked. Unemployment and divorce rates amongst disc golf junkies are running rampant.
Is disc golf negatively effecting your life? If so, call 1-800-FIT-DISC, that's 1-800-F IT-D-I-S-C.