How to speak the language of disc golf

Disc Golf Slang Most people who play disc golf know the usual terms and language. There are many other words that people use to describe things that happen in the course. Words that are not in the dictionary or in the general vocabulary of disc golf. I have collected some interesting terms from other players and from what I have read other players use. I will share the common ones, and some better ones that are not common that I have found.

They sent me a great story a couple of years ago. A player who was new went out to play a round with his dad, there was a reporter and a photographer in the field of the local newspaper. He asked if he could take a couple of pictures for a story they were doing about disc golf; the boy said yes. The photographer stood about 50 feet from the edge of the street; the guy dropped his drive and hit the photographer in the chest with his driver.

Very embarrassing and funny now, but nobody wants to do that. I love this story because it shows exactly why everyone wants to improve. I put together the terms that I have learned over the past 30 years playing disc golf. Terms that will make you feel like you know what others are talking about. Disc golf is one of the fastest growing sports in the world. One of the main reasons for its popularity is that players of almost any age and ability can play.

I play with guys who are half my age and I beat them all the time. I am 62 years old and in good shape. I know older people who still gamble. There are no limitations. If you can move around the field, you can play. If you’ve never played, you should. If you play now, keep playing. It’s great exercise and a great way to socialize. When it comes to sports, it is also very inexpensive. You can start with as little as three discs. A driver, a midrange and a putter. For only around $ 30 you can get started. Most of the courses are free.

Common Disc Golf Language

• Ace Put the puck in the basket on the first shot

• Hyzer Release the puck with the edge closest to your body higher than the other edge.

• Anhyzer The outside is higher than the inside edge.

• Overstable The puck wants to sink into the ground when you release it. So that it is not hyzer, you need to break it and throw it hard with a light anhyzer.

• Understand You can throw with less twist, less snap to fly straight.

• Rotation When he throws the puck hard with a good snap; it will rotate in the opposite direction to the way it would normally rotate. If you are throwing your right hand back, it will rotate to the right.

• S curve The flight of the puck begins as anhyzer, then hyzer at the end of the flight.

• Break The amount of spin of the disc when you release it from your hand.

• Driving The launch from the tee.

• Getting closer The shot of the drive to basket.

• Short stroke Throw the puck into the basket.

• Subjection How you hold the puck when you’re pitching.

Disc golf terms invented by players

• Dead man When your putt hits the side of the basket and falls to the ground.

• Chain tuxedo Several great putts in a row.

• Bogey Sandwich A scorecard with a bogey bogey by.

• Black ace Making the wrong hole.

• Cabbage The rough weed.

• Chastity belt The yellow band of the Innova shoes.

• Dry metallic sound The sound a putt makes when it hits the chastity belt.

• Hit the nickel A putt that hits the license plate.

• Horking A great long shot.

• Premises on the road Taking an unconventional path to get to the basket.

• Wood lifting When you hit all the trees.

• Mirkwood Very thick woods.

• Nickel A score of 5 we have a hole.

• Nuclear shule Very coarse rough.

• Fly by Putt at the correct height, but navigate the basket.

• Imp Two of something very lucky.

• Gaack Missed a short putt.

• grenade A shot that is high and falls fast to the ground.

• Head banger When your puck lands under the basket and you can hit your head on the basket when picking it up.

More disc golf terms

• Paper plate A bottom disc.

• pig putt A putt that is really bad.

• Pinball A shot that hits several trees.

• Pinball Wizard Hit multiple trees continuously.

• Rooted When the root of the tree prevents the shot from jumping.

• Saturn A score of 6 (Saturn is the sixth planet)

• Shank Any shot that doesn’t do what I wanted.

• Shule Heavy weeds off the street.

• Sneak In Flight instruction on disk.

• Snob A throw with the tip of the puck up.

• Snowman A score of 8.

• Spinach Shrubs, trees and undergrowth.

• Taco Hitting a tree so hard it folds like a cue stick.

• Tombstone A disc golf puck that hits the ground and comes to rest on the edge.

• Treefelction The tree gives you a nice deviation.

• Valet service When you park your unit under the basket.

• CRF Candy fundraiser.

• CTP Unit closest to the pole.

• DL Dead last in launch order.

• Fat When you get to the first available tree.

• LB Lucky bounce.

• THIRST See the eye disk.

• YSA You are still far away.

• Burst of the Gods When the wind blows the record out of line.

• Get greasy Sneaking through the trees.

• Lawn dart A disco that has landed partially buried in the ground.

• Merked When someone hits you on the head, jump out of a tree.

• Tombstone For those discs that stick to the edge in muddy ground.

• Helicopter A shot that must descend directly at the end without curving.

• A fraud The perfect unit.

The terms in the top section are what you need to know. These terms will help you understand the game and how to play and how to play better. The rest is just time that other players use when they are playing.