I was asking Morris, our photo technician, about the best place to buy an inexpensive disc-golf disc that I could use to learn on at the park here. He was only too happy to let me have one of his older disks — battle-scarred, but perfect for me to practice with until I see whether I’d enjoy this or not.

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.

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