The singles from my ward are going to the local park (it’s huge), to learn disc golf. We’re only going to have an eight-hole course because that’s all the equipment I can get together. They all know how to throw a frisbee but can be considered competent, not great at distance/target on the throw.
How should I determine the par for each hole?
Here is a link to the park in Busan.
We just start playing a little disc golf, informally (in the back yard (10 acre back yard) ) of our bass player’s house/studio. We’re mostly of the competant/suck at distance/accuracy stripe of player.
We’ve got one honest to buddha net/basket thingie, two more that we McGiver’ed together, and two or three fake targets (you have to knock the bottle off the saw-horse kind of thing). As for par, we mostly just make it up as we go. However, the one true disc golfer among us is a little bit more militant about hole distance and pars.
Off the top of my head, I’d guess one par stroke for each 50 yards, and a par-stroke for the putt. But then you have obstacles and dog-legs to consider too … don’t know if those should be added par-strokes.
But … really, I have no clue, I just had to post in a thread about disc golf considering that I just played last night, and I’d barely heard of the game before last week.
Why only 8 holes? If you’re short on materials, just designate a trashcan, lampost, etc as the 9th hole. If you’re just starting out, just make everything a Par 3. That makes it easier to keep score for everyone. You can change things around as your skill level improves.
Disc golf is very big here on campus, and the “holes” are all trees, signposts, and the like. I’ve only once ever seen an actual hole apparatus in person.
Meh, just keep score the old golf way. Negative points is the most confusing part of the sport. I’ve never played using it.
Generally, in my experience, almost every hole is considered par 3 in disc golf. The classic example is De La Veaga in Santa Cruz. This is considered one of the top courses on the planet. It is really long. Hole 13 (also known as I-5 in reference to the really long Interstate 5) is 550 feet long. It is still a par 3, although most people would be stoked to get a par. It’s a dogleg left, so the description says that it takes a 330 foot drive and a 300 foot approach. Fuck, talk about feeling inadequate.
Back when I was shooting about a plus 2 on my local course, I went up there and shot about a 50 over par, which was good for last place. I haven’t played in a tournament since.
To fix not having enough holes, don’t substitute a tree or a bush, just use a different tee box. Let there be two different starting points for each “hole”. We only use nine baskets, but have the layout where (for example the first hole) we are shooting from the north, then when we make the turn it becomes the 18th and we are shooting from the south.
As for the par question: most standard courses i been on use a par 3 format, but “par” is really relative to who is playing.
I haven’t played there for many years, but I never liked that course. Not only is it long, but the “fairways” were just too narrow. There was also way too much poison oak on the course.