Our “Bastard” relative, “Frisbee” (or disc) Golf

Most of you probably never heard of the PDGA which is short for Professional Disc (?!) Golf Association.

The “game” is played by throwing a disc into a trashcan looking basket or at (?) it.

According to the PDGA the object of the game is to traverse
a course from beginning to end in the fewest number of
throws of the disc. The game is very inexpensive and requires
no athletic ability whatsoever! Apparently there are over
3000(!) established disc courses as of 2010 and most of them
supposed to be free!

No one really knows for sure who invented it or when. If i had
to guess it had to be on or near some military base where
people decided to throw their paper plates into the trash
instead of taking it there. (Hey, my theory is as good as the
ones that are out there!)

Anyhow, if you have absolutely nothing better to do and just
have to know more about “Disc Golf” click HERE.  And if you happened to be in the Netherlands in 2010 and just aching to play some Disc Golf check out this awesome indoor facility below…

for more info click HERE

Rule 2 Match Play

Rule 2. Match Play

2-1 GENERAL

A match consists of one side playing against another over a stipulated round unless otherwise decreed by the Committee. In match play the game is played by holes. Except as otherwise provided in the Rules, a hole is won by the side that holes its ball in the fewer strokes. In a handicap match the lower net score wins the hole. The state of the match is expressed by the terms: so many “holes up’’ or “all square,’’ and so many “to play.’’  A side is “dormie” when it is as many holes up as there are holes remaining to be played.

Rule 1 The Game

Lost Or Out Of Bounds

Rule 27. Ball Lost Or Out Of Bounds; Provisional Ball

Out Of Bounds are marked by white stakes.  If you hit your ball out of bounds you must take a penalty of one stroke and distance.  You have to hit another ball from the spot you hit it out of bounds.  If you can’t find your ball in five minutes that ball is deemed lost.  You must take a one stroke penalty and distance . You would need to go back to the spot where you hit your ball from before it was lost just the same as hitting it out of bounds.   If you think your ball might be lost or out of bounds you have the option of playing whats called a provisional ball.  A provisional ball is a second shot from where you just hit your ball.  It speeds up the pace of play and if your ball is out of bounds or lost you can just take your one stroke penalty and play the 2nd ball that you hit.  Make sure you hit a different type of ball so there is no discrepancy of which ball is the first or second.  You also need to let the people you are playing with know that you are going to hit a provisional ball and tell them the difference between the first and second golf ball. 

How To Properly Drop From A Water Hazard

Rule 26. Water Hazards (Including Lateral Water Hazards)

There are two types of water hazards, they are called water hazards and lateral water hazards.  Water hazards are marked by yellow stakes and lateral water hazards are marked by red stakes.  If you hit your ball in a water hazard (Yellow) you have to take a one stroke penalty then you can play a ball from where you originally hit it in the water, drop a ball any distance between where the original ball was hit and where the ball entered the water hazard, or take a drop two club lengths from the marked line where the ball went in the water hazard.  If you hit your ball in a lateral water hazard (Red) everything stays the same as it was for the water hazard (Yellow) except you don’t have the option to drop behind the hazard because the lateral water hazard runs along the side of the playing area, not across it.  Usually your only option when hitting it in a lateral water hazard (Red) is to take a drop two club lenghts from the marked line where you think the ball is in the water.