Another nice shot
Disc golf musings from a non-expert: March 5, 2025
Blog notes:
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I’ve been mulling over a few disc golf physics posts for too long — but I’ll be publishing them soon. This note is to spur me to get off my ass and pull those posts together as well as to let you know what’s coming up.
Disc golf on the cusp of spring
Thinking that spring was almost here and most of the snow had melted, we headed up to Clement Farm yesterday. Alas, in the north country (Haverhill is almost in New Hampshire!) the fairways were both icy and snowy, but with spikes they were walkable. We only lost one disc (on the first hole!), but there was plenty of ice and enough snow to lose discs elsewhere:
Also, major props to the volunteer crew that cleared the teepads at Clement! Clearing snow from the teepads is an old New England tradition.
Shot of the day
I had some bad shots and some good shots (duh!). I generally try to forget the bad shots (except for amusing blog entries and to learn from my mistakes). We have a tradition of sharing a Shot of the Day after rounds, and this was mine:
Hole 10 is a long downhill hole with trees lining the early fairway and also farther down on the right. What I want but rarely achieve is a low driving shot that stays generally straight and down the middle. What I usually get is a too-high shot that stalls too early and fades left into the first or second bunch of trees.
My old Meteor was flying pretty straight yesterday, so I pulled it out for this shot and resolved to match the angle of the hill. It went straight to begin with, then began drifting to the right. It straightened out in time to avoid the right-side trees, and I ended up getting a rare (for me) par on this hole.
This was one of those shots that makes you think you actually can play disc golf, and keeps you coming back for another year or two.
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