Lake Neuron

Follow-through

Originally uploaded by jicarney.

This is a 2006 photo, which I think I blogged at the time, of me playing disc golf during a T-G company picnic at Henry Horton State Park in Marshall County. It was the first (and, to date, only) time I’d ever played, but I enjoyed it.

Disc golf is played with small flying disks (think Frisbees, only smaller, denser and not necessarily bearing the Frisbee brand name). The “hole” is a pole with a basket-like arrangement of chains hanging from it. Play is much like regular golf; there are tees and fairways and you must try to reach the hole in the fewest number of shots. You don’t necessarily have to use the same disk from shot-to-shot, and the serious players may have different disks for tee shots and “putts” in the same way that a golfer uses his different clubs.

Anyway, they’re now building a disc golf course at the park complex in Shelbyville, right next to the rec center where I’m supposed to be working out (I’ve been sick this week, remember). Morris Winfrey (the man in the green shirt in the background), our photo technician, plays with his sons and was telling me that he’s seen enough to tell how the course will be laid out here.

I may have to buy some sort of inexpensive, multi-purpose starter disc and start practicing, once they get done with it and as the days start getting longer.

Tags: disc golf