Disc golf is a sport I knew very little about and through participating in it I have learned to enjoy a new pass time. It had never occurred to me to try this particular activity before. I had seen the baskets in parks and never knew what they were. In fact I didn’t even know disk golf was a sport until last summer. It hadn’t occurred to me to partake in this strange sport but when the opportunity arose I eagerly took it. Choosing to participate in a new activity is enjoyable for me. Learning new things makes life more interesting and may even open doors to something that will become very important to one. I learned that the strange metal baskets littering campuses and parks all over where actually used as “holes” for a very interesting game
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Brandon, someone who has been playing disc golf for quite some time and had invited me to participate, had the daunting task of explaining the rules and etiquette of the game to me. The rules of disc golf are relatively simple and were easy to learn. At the beginning of each “hole” there is a launch pad where one start one’s throw. After one makes his or her initial throw, they can take one step in any direction other than forward from where the disc landed in order to avoid obstacles. If the disc lands in a tree than one must throw from directly below where it initially landed. Each hole has a set par, or number of attempts to land one’s disc in the basket, when one exceeds the set par then they have one point added for each throw one takes over the par. For example, if it’s a par three and it takes one four throws to land one’s disc in the basket then one has one point added to one’s score. However if one land one’s disc in the basket in less than the allotted par then one has that number of points subtracted from one’s score. Much like many other games disc golf can also have house rules as well. When playing with Brandon he and his friend had two rules that were designed to help newer players. One was the ability to use a mulligan, something golfers also use, it allows one to re-take one throw if one messes up. The other was a “Homey Assist” which is when one player is throwing a putt and another player taps the first player’s disc into the
Brandon, someone who has been playing disc golf for quite some time and had invited me to participate, had the daunting task of explaining the rules and etiquette of the game to me. The rules of disc golf are relatively simple and were easy to learn. At the beginning of each “hole” there is a launch pad where one start one’s throw. After one makes his or her initial throw, they can take one step in any direction other than forward from where the disc landed in order to avoid obstacles. If the disc lands in a tree than one must throw from directly below where it initially landed. Each hole has a set par, or number of attempts to land one’s disc in the basket, when one exceeds the set par then they have one point added for each throw one takes over the par. For example, if it’s a par three and it takes one four throws to land one’s disc in the basket then one has one point added to one’s score. However if one land one’s disc in the basket in less than the allotted par then one has that number of points subtracted from one’s score. Much like many other games disc golf can also have house rules as well. When playing with Brandon he and his friend had two rules that were designed to help newer players. One was the ability to use a mulligan, something golfers also use, it allows one to re-take one throw if one messes up. The other was a “Homey Assist” which is when one player is throwing a putt and another player taps the first player’s disc into the