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How to make your own disc golf target

Contributed by: Eric J. Lubbers, YourHub.com   on 5/31/2006

Esteemed YourHub.com web producer Brendan Leonard just chastised me.

He was frustrated because my "dead stick" of a blog didn't mesh with the fact that I'm constantly spitting verbal blog entries at him without writing them down. I'm going to change that.

For example, Brendan was telling me about a recent trip to the Ken Caryl Disc Golf course where he was stuck behind a big family on a dolf outing, which made me think of my own dolfing family and the time we built our own disc golf targets.

I was in high school and flush with fresh infatuation with disc golf. Yuma, as one would expect, offered very little in the way of established disc golf courses, so we had to improvise. You know, using the "far metal Rotary sign on the fountain. No! Not the plaque, the big cog-looking thing behind the bush" and other immobile objects as our targets.

I decided that we needed some real, chained targets if we ever wanted to get better. I had a basic idea for a cheap and easy way to make a target, and a little community brainstorming (with Yuma School District groundskeeper Ken Kelly, First Presbyterian pastor Jim Webb and my dad) we came up with a design.

We built a total of eight, including the prototype, on one Saturday and bought 10 starter sets of three discs each to encourage some community play.

They're a little unwieldy and, frankly, if you live in the metro area, you've got access to professional targets in beautiful parks in just about every community, but they are good for rural or backyard play (Yuma Middle School still gets some play out of them in the spring when they set them up around the campus).

I'm working on getting some photos of the finished product, but until then, you'll have to trust my second-grade-level schematics.

If you're interested in building one, give me a jingle at 303-892-2615 or send me an e-jingle at lubberse@YourHub.com, because I would love to see photos.


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Submitted By: Tabitha Dial
posted on 6/8/2006 @ 1:44:57 PM
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Amazing artwork, Eric. I'm inspired..... to play frisbee golf again!
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Submitted By: Kevin Hamm
posted on 6/1/2006 @ 2:46:16 PM
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In college we used to drink some ... uh, pops ... and sneak on to the school's ball-golf course at night with our discs and play. Fortunately, it was a short par-3 course, and you quickly learned to track a disc's flight without actually being able to see it -- a skill that admittedly has few practical applications.
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Submitted By: John Zwick
posted on 5/31/2006 @ 2:23:23 PM
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The last thing I built was probably a fort made of couch cushions. It was too recent to not be a bit embarassing, but not recent enough for me to bask in its awesomeness. Screw it. That's on my list of projects for vacation.
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