Been playing for 22 years. Was introduced to it in my junior year of high school. Played very casually for about seven years until I found out there were leagues and tournaments, got into those pretty heavily for a while. Peaked at a pdga rating of 1010. Then tournaments started filling up way too fast and soured me on them, haven’t thrown a rated round in over 8 years now. These days I prefer a more casual beer league type setting, unfortunately where I live now that’s not an option, and even though I was a founder of two leagues where I grew up I have a hard time drumming up support for a more casual but still competitive league. Everyone here has gotten too focused on score and not the “fun” aspect. Or they feel I’m stepping on the local sanctioned league’s toes and don’t want to rock the boat.

the comraderie is fantastic- used to travel a lot for work and would bring a few discs. Could always count on meeting new people at the course that were willing to show me around, always friendly as can be. Also took my wife out to a course a couple hours away and she was shocked at my lack of concern in regards to theft or crime, when I’m normally reminding her to follow basic rules like don’t leave your purse in the damn car in plain view.

It’s a damn shame that more municipalities don’t recognize how much return they can get for the relatively small investment when building a decent course. A neighboring town just spent $200k building a bmx park that nobody uses yet could have spent a tenth of that on a phenomenal disc golf course that would bring in people from across the state and many other disc golf “tourists”.

This post was edited on 9/22/23 at 12:39 pm