Disc Golf Acronyms

[Ol' Bob]

How about putting a sticky here with an alphabetical list of the many acronyms used in its many tournaments, organizations, and the sport's jargon itself?

[Mystjava]

That would help a lot of the "newbies" like myself! I know that TD or td is tournament director. What are some of the others?

[TreeLove]

UD = Upside Downer
DQ = Dis - Qualified
OB = Outa Bounds
CTP = Closest To Pin
FTP = First Tree Possible
DFL = Dead F... Last
NFL = Not F... Last

PS: These are not acronyms. Acronyms spell out a word. These are initialisms.

[Ol' Bob]

PS: These are not acronyms. Acronyms spell out a word. These are initialisms.

That turns my whole world ud.

[Mystjava]

Treelove - could you elaborate on ftp (would that be first tee possible?) As for CTP is sometimes known as CTB (closest to the basket) for some of us..
Dont forget DNF (Did not finish).

[Mystjava]

Ah.. here's one Mando (Mandatory).

[Adam Schneider]

I don't think there are a lot of disc golf abbreviations, although there's some funky vocabulary. I think other sites have already compiled these lists though...

[Tim]

WWGD = What Would Grandma Do?

[ZacAttack]

WWGD = What Would Grandma Do?

Hit it with a wooden spoon.

[TreeLove]

Treelove - could you elaborate on ftp (would that be first tee possible?) As for CTP is sometimes known as CTB (closest to the basket) for some of us..
Dont forget DNF (Did not finish).

No, you read it correctly, First TREE Possible - it's not a good thing!

[Scott]

The funny thing about CTP - it seems to be a shout out to ball golf. But ball golfers typically refer to CTP as KP, and nobody really knows why.

[Mystjava]

No, you read it correctly, First TREE Possible - it's not a good thing!

OUCH! Does that mean when we "hit" the tree on our first throw? How is that "terrible?" :waaah: (I'm still a "newbie" but how is it related to PDGA rules?) :pullhair:

[Roller Bob]

BOB - Best of box. I personally believe that is the correct definition. Not that other archaic definition of BOB that gets used so often incorrectly.

[Adam Schneider]

OUCH! Does that mean when we "hit" the tree on our first throw? How is that "terrible?" :waaah: (I'm still a "newbie" but how is it related to PDGA rules?) :pullhair:
Read closely... the first TREE. Do you not think it's terrible to hit the first tree in front of the teepad? :)

[TreeLove]

OUCH! Does that mean when we "hit" the tree on our first throw? How is that "terrible?" :waaah: (I'm still a "newbie" but how is it related to PDGA rules?) :pullhair:


a) Yes, that's what it means.

b) I did not say it was "terrible".

c) Who said we were talking about PDGA rules?

:headbang:

[KenGilmore]

BOB - Best of box. I personally believe that is the correct definition. Not that other archaic definition of BOB that gets used so often incorrectly.
Not that you are biased or anything! :whistler:

[Roller Bob]

Biased? Me? I don't even know what emoticon to use to express my dismay!

[Sean Phillips]

Roller Bob, your avatar does it just fine. :mad:

SSA = Scratch Score Average, I think.
PDGA = Professional Disc Golf Associations, I think.

[Flatroc]

YSO > You're Still Out

["Over the Hill" Bob]

BOB - Best of box. I personally believe that is the correct definition. Not that other archaic definition of BOB that gets used so often incorrectly.

Yeah......what HE said! :rockon:

Bob

[Mystjava]

OUCH! Does that mean when we "hit" the tree on our first throw? How is that "terrible?" :waaah: (I'm still a "newbie" but how is it related to PDGA rules?) :pullhair:

1. The reason I asked if it was a terrible thing because sometimes those first trees "do help out". :-D

2. The reason I asked if it was related to the PDGA rules since sometimes my friends say that it's ob, other times something else, which is why I was asking...

So.. let's stick with the dg stuff!

[Sam]

RHBH = Right-hand, back-hand
LHBH = Left-hand, back-hand
RHFH = Right-hand, forehand
LHFH = Left-hand, forehand

[JMan]

STNN = Stop that Nik Nik

[Adam Schneider]

2. The reason I asked if it was related to the PDGA rules since sometimes my friends say that it's ob, other times something else, which is why I was asking...
It's only OB if the tree deflects it out of bounds. Otherwise it's just an embarrasing spot to be "lying 1."

["Over the Hill" Bob]

What's the one for when you hit the Innova ring at the top of the basket and miss your putt?

Bob

[Tim]

What's the one for when you hit the Innova ring at the top of the basket and miss your putt?

Bob

%#$@*!!!

[NWDiscer]

What's the one for when you hit the Innova ring at the top of the basket and miss your putt?

Bob


BKB=Burger King Banded.....:waaah:

[Dr. Zaius]

What's the one for when you hit the Innova ring at the top of the basket and miss your putt?

Bob

doink?

[proto something or other]

What's the one for when you hit the Innova ring at the top of the basket and miss your putt?

Bob

BELTED! It's the chastity belt.

[Scott]

What's the one for when you hit the Innova ring at the top of the basket and miss your putt?

Bob

FYB = F$%^ing Yellow Band

My 9 year old knows it as the SYB = Stupid Yellow Band. :laughing:

[Kevin Madrid]

FYB = F$%^ing Yellow Band

That's my favorite saying. :slapface:

[Roller Bob]

Shanker Sore - that awful gouge in the tree you hit right off the tee. "Gad look at all the shanker sores on that tree!"

PL - Pin Loop. When your roller loops around the pin and comes to rest under the basket. Ok this one I made up...but I use it all the time.

[Jet]

Notable dg vocab:

Quaffer
mini
tourney central
card
walk out
snowman
towely
The circle

[TreeLove]

Chunder
Griplock (see also Klingon)
The Dreaded Triple Huckawhack (thanks to Dodger)
Metal of Honor (anonymous)
Corn Doggin' (borrowed from mountain biking)
Linkin' Logs (thanks to Eric Lava)
Still Rolling, In the River, Lost Disc, Gone Forever (thanks to Rude Boys, Obliv, OIT)
Nice Up (offered after a putt so crappy it lands at the base of the pole)
Youngstown State University (YSU = You're Still Up, not widely popular)
Second-Shot Roller (= you're screwed, Dodger again)
Early Release Program (also Pre-Jack, thanks to Rim Jiminy)
Positive Yardage (offered after an exceptionally short shot from a long lie)

There are more, some funnier, some stupider, and I am sure I will post them later.

For the true tome of chatter, one must consult the Super Secret Society Founder, Mr. Citizens Arrest Sandy McBagger #163 himself. Just play a round with him and a crusty group, and you'll have material for life. Some of his stuff is so funny, it makes absolutely no sense at all!

[Jet]

The Dreaded Triple Huckawhack (thanks to Dodger)

Don't know this one but it can't be good. :shocked:

["Over the Hill" Bob]

Lest we should forget.....................

Worm Burner

Bob

[Adam Schneider]

Don't forget "Black Ace."

(For newbies who don't know, it's when you throw it in the WRONG basket on your first shot.)

[Mystjava]

Lest we should forget.....................

Worm Burner

Bob

Worm Burner?? Is that like when the disc lands into the dirt at an angle?

[Sausage Fingers]

Chunder (best when sung to the tune of ACDC Thunderstruck)
Griplock (see also Klingon) or pa-TAK! [pe-TAKKH]
The Dreaded Triple Huckawhack (thanks to Dodger) (born on hole 15 at Pier)

Uh-huh :pirate:

[Adam Schneider]

Worm Burner?? Is that like when the disc lands into the dirt at an angle?
No, I think people might call that a lawn dart.

A wormburner is a phrase borrowed from ball golf: a shot that flies much lower than you intended it. It's not necessarily a bad shot... but gravity being what it is, it's usually a bad shot. (Ball golf wormburners will often keep traveling forward, at least somewhat, after they hit the ground; in disc golf, once it hits the ground, it stops -- or scoots sideways.)

[Flatroc]

another one for a worm burner is a Daisy Raker

[TreeLove]

Worm Burner?? Is that like when the disc lands into the dirt at an angle?

No, but that is often referred to as a Tombstone.

[Scott]

Is that like when the disc lands into the dirt at an angle?


That's a tombstone.

[Tim]

That's a tombstone.

Or, in the vernacular of inebriation "stoomtone". :chug:

["Over the Hill" Bob]

This thread is cracking me up. Funniest thread I've ever read. :laughing::laughing::laughing::laughing:

Bob

[Ol' Bob]

My stock expression after someone else rips a worm burner is, "thanks, I can always use help with the mowing."

[Roller Bob]

I always call the "tombstone" a "Roswell", since it looks just like a crashed UFO. Especially when you see the grays running away from your lie.

[keys]

Janky: An adjective used to describe how absolutly terrible a shot was.

Example:

You might as well go home Gilmore if you're going to throw janky crap like that all day.

["Over the Hill" Bob]

Janky: An adjective used to describe how absolutly terrible a shot was.

Example:

You might as well go home Gilmore if you're going to throw janky crap like that all day.

And the one YOU taught me.......STANK! A throw with a lot of power on it.

"You really put some STANK on that throw."

Bob

[Jet]

Forgot my favorite:
verb: Rosa Parks

Example: I guess you're Rosa Parksing it on the next hole Keys. :(

[shonfry]

How about Bird Droppings.

For those sweet drop in birdies.

[KenGilmore]

Janky: An adjective used to describe how absolutly terrible a shot was.

Example:

You might as well go home Gilmore if you're going to throw janky crap like that all day.
It's like I keep telling you... if I just went home whenever I was janky I'd never get to play!

[Magilla]

"Circulees" - For those roller park jobs where your disc circles the basket

["Over the Hill" Bob]

"Circulees" - For those roller park jobs where your disc circles the basket

Don't you mean:

"CIRCULEES" - For those ROLLER PARK jobs where your DISC circles the BASKET


Bob :biggrin2:

[Maidenrules]

After playing SeaTac for the first time it came to me.'Granny Panny' it's when you need to throw a BIG 'S' shot. Go BIG or go home.:laughing:

[Ol' Bob]

Oh yeah, and since we're not going to get an alphabetical listing of DG and tournament abbreviations and acronyms here, there's one term that originated here at Club Mud:

The verb: to moron.

I moroned my driver on two. Or, I moroned my beer back on the last tee. Or, I moroned my bag some damned place.

[kokaneeninja]

Birgey: When your drive is sitting pretty for a sinkable birdie shot and like a moron you miss your easy putt twice and turn that birdie into a bogey.... Concentrate...no low putts...

[zippyboy]

Damnit! Jet got mine! I chose to use Rosa Parks-ing it since I didn't figure it was nice to use BOB (back of box) when throwing with OTH Bob, or Ol' Bob as often as I get to.

And when your putts are on, you could be a chain smoker.

Great thread.

[Adam Schneider]

Yeah, but Rosa Parks was awesome because she WASN'T in back.

[Jet]

Damnit! Jet got mine! I chose to use Rosa Parks-ing it since I didn't figure it was nice to use BOB (back of box) when throwing with OTH Bob, or Ol' Bob as often as I get to.

Yeah, I learned this one from you. :seeya:

[zippyboy]

Yeah, but Rosa Parks was awesome because she WASN'T in back.

Which is why this works so well - I don't figure to many people stuck at the back of the box are wanting to stay there (except for Keys, possibly).

[Ol' Bob]

Would a Rosa Parks be having the high score on the preceding hole and leaping to the front and hukking your driver? That would be uppity indeed.

[Roller Bob]

LOL - Last On List - what its called when you register late for the GNO

A/S/L - Anhyzers Surprise Lift - when a breeze catches that s-turn just right and lifts your disc an extra 30ft further

BTW - Big Throw Wasted - when you get impressive distance on your drive only you sail way past the short pin setting

BRB - Bouncing Roller Basketed - when you ace a hole with a roller, happens all the time to me

IMHO - Insane Monster Hyzer Overhand - the kind of throws all the kids are talking about and most of us geezers can't do

ASAP - A Short Ass Putt - when you brain screams "Weeeeak!" just after you release your putt

We were talking about disc golf acronyms?