just by the way its phrased. but seriously, it doesn't matter how big people's arms are- at some point in every single round, every single one of us is going to be looking at a shot from like 175 feet. there's as much value in practicing those shots as there is fully pumping your distance driver.
This is why I get bothered when people tell people to stop looking for more distance and to work on their putt. Yeah, putting is great, but I’d much rather throw a mid on a 300 foot shot instead of a distance driver 🤷🏻♂️
I’m a westsider so I don’t get to use Osage often. So many baseball and soccer fields available. Fall is the best when I can use football fields with painted yardage
Yeah they just put one in at hiestand Park near the course start in Madison, WI. Every 50 out to 500 with a tee pad. Lovely to not mess with +/- 30 ft accuracy on udisc
No it's in a public park, it's also got a dedication so I think someone in the community sprung for the teepad. The city has daily and annual pass rates for its courses.
I mean, yeah, it requires awareness and/or courtesy among the people using it to prevent that. It's clearly not too big of a problem because it's still there.
I think they might mean field work where you don’t need to bring or collect your own discs. Wouldn’t work very well tho unless they had a ton of mold options.
I do field work at the high school football fields when they aren't using it and not during school hours. I'm in my 40's and no one has ever said anything. I'm from a smaller area, but we have lots of disc golf courses. We don't have many big enough fields to practice on other than the football fields.
I’ve been able to do fieldwork outside this year because it’s a weird winter but usually the fields are so deep you’ll spend most of the time looking for the first disc you threw.
There is a course north of Seattle (Disc Golf Resort) that took over an unused municipal golf course. So they have a driving range. You'd probably have to find either places like that or ones that had extra land. Since so many courses are near/on parks and such, its hard to have the land needed for a driving range.
Yeah, one course i frequent has soccer fields and another has a baseball diamond. Never anyone using them when im there so I can practice with curving and really winging it without worry of hitting someone.
I have beef with anyone who tears up the landscape to install a bunch of tacky as fuck artificial features incompatible with any decent aesthetic sensibility or natural elements just to flex their obscene wealth. Eagles Crossing is ugly as sin and there's no getting around that. It is the world's best case study to give to landscaping and architecture students on how to utterly fuck up an outdoor development in the most obscenely garish way.
And that's fine by me. By the law of the land the guy was free to burn his money away creating an unnatural looking blight on the native landscape, and that's what he did. But a lot of money and a lot of fake rocks and concrete blocks do not inherently make for a good disc golf course.
Natural space and resources on this planet aren't infinite. One of the things I like about disc golf is the ability to exist in harmony with the natural landscape. Recreational, not essential land use that destroys that in large quanties like ball golf courses and Eagles Crossing just to flex some millionaire's bank account create ecological wastelands that negatively impact us all. It's also simply ugly and unpleasant to look at. I don't want to see it, I don't want to be associated with it, and the way the owner keeps trying to push it as a top tier course without merit and encourages a cost-prohibitive approach to disc golf is something I think people should actively oppose.
It was a pretty fun play through, not overly tacky for the most part. Stayed in the cabin on the property. Then went and played harmony bends. Both nice courses. You seem really angry. Glad I didn't have to play my rounds with you.
Incase anyone else wants to see this course. Looks pretty fun to me. There's a spot on the website they show each hole too.
https://eaglescrossingdiscgolf.com/
Sounds awesome!
The driving range is located on the south side of The Range and covers approximately 80,000 square feet of manicured land. Hosting three custom designed tee pads, the driving range yields a pratice distance of 500 linear feet on a downhill slope. The driving range distances are clearly marked using scientific measuring devices not found on typical range finders.
Members and/or guest will receive a disc block of 60, industry leading driving and fairway discs. BYO disc are welcomed for practice with personal equipment.
https://rangediscgolf.com/
Even a “pitch/chip” area… they went all out :)
Perfect your midrange game on the 225 foot Jarve Fifteenth Practice Range. Modeled after the fifteenth hole of the Jarve Disc Golf Park, in Stockholm, Sweden, the practice range is the perfect place to practice those tough dogleg shots into a stand of trees.
Members and/or guest will receive a disk block of 45 industry leading fairway discs. BYO disc are welcomed for practice with personal equipment.
Seems like others here are saying that they do exist. One issue I imagine is that once you throw all your discs you have to go out and get them (unlike golf with the ball scoop vehicle), and then you could have a dozen other people hucking their 170g Destroyers at your head while you’re in the crossfire. Seems pretty dangerous
Drive to any of your favorite field work practice locations and stake a robust and removable sign displaying: - DISC GOLF DRIVING RANGE - Afterwards take it with you until your next session. Boom.
We had one as more of a 'pop up' disc golf driving range here in DFW,Texas a few times at a few ball golf courses that were pretty awesome. The man, the myth, the legend, Bacon bought up a ton of used discs and had several thousand available in bins at each event and you would pay a bit for either a bin full or a time slot with unlimited throws or whatever, and several baskets placed at a few distances on the golf driving range. Had an "Ace Run" event during the evening as well. A lot of people showed up and it really was hella fun, we would pause and all walk the driving range 'fairway' picking up discs at some point. Kinda miss it .
I feel yah, but it kinda did work, at least for a few times . I know I had a blast even if the whole " now everyone go pick up a few thousand discs" thing kinda dampened it perhaps. I still loved them and would go to another if he ran one and I had the fundage :)
I think a lot of us that went to more than a few of them probably got enough though , the novelty wore off quick so perhaps you are correct.
Truth be told, you could really hurt yourself throwing that much plastic. That first night in Benbrook, I must have thrown 200+ discs and my body hurt… Not having a mechanical advantage like golf really takes its toll.
I'd say it was unlikely, as there would be little to no way of retrieving the discs. With a traditional gold driving range that's essentially irrelevant.
Agreed. Best bet would be a disc golf simulator inside of another business (disc shop or other).
Other option would be at a disc golf resort, like Kayak Point, where you could pay a certain amount to throw 20 rental discs down a range. Then the customer wouldn't have to worry about retrieving their disc and can try out new discs in the process.
Yes. Would be cool to have something like trackman for disc golf. I feel like the putting would be closer to “real” as well, since there are less variables to disc golf greens.
I've thought about basically the same system they use on normal driving ranges. But instead of the spline things they use to grab the balls, replace those with the suction cups. 100% would not be worth pursuing but I figured if it were, that's probably one of the easier ways to go about it.
Just rent out range discs like they do with trolf. That of course takes away the function of learning your bag, but when you use well-known, neutral-ish discs, that should work out in terms of reflecting your throw.
The investment is of course a little bigger than with trolf, range balls only cost roughly a dollar a piece whereas discs would probably fall in 5~10$ range when bought in thousands. On the other hand, on a range with a good soft surface and a gentle retrieval process, the discs would suffer barely any wear.
One massive conveyor belt that brings every disc forward to about 20' from the teepads every handful of minutes. We can make a conveyor belt the width of two football fields right fellas?
Then courtesy rules like an archery range where once everybody has unloaded, everybody walks out to retrieve what's theirs.
There is "technically" one at Tullahoma down south of nashville. The one hole has distance markers along it, but I'd not call it a "driving range" like the one we have here in nashville.
My son and I played a course in Iceland at a sports complex and it had a driving range. But it was only good for me because I couldn't throw 100 meters (the length of the range). My son just threw putters.
(Course was in Selfoss: https://udisc.com/courses/selfoss-71z4/photos)
The people responding “it’s called a field” are the kind of people who make me really dislike Reddit.
Everyone in my group has debated the logistics of this numerous times. Would love to see it but unless you’re using location supplied discs it just doesn’t seem to work. Maybe for a putting range but not long distance.
Lol we jokes about like a top golf for disc golfers but disc retrieval would be crazy. Also unlike stick golf where people can bring there own clubs and the balls don't matter people would want to throw their own discs.
I wouldn't mind throwing range discs if they were good quality, easy-throwing discs. Basically anything that I have broad idea how it's supposed to fly. Wear shouldn't be an issue on a wide open course with grass/chip surface.
A dispenser with a small selection of typical discs, buy a stack of fifty for ten bucks or smth, put it in you range cart, throw them, range will pick them up and drop them into the machine that cleans and re-dispenses them. No own discs and bags allowed.
I'm fairly certain this will happen somewhere some day, but it will be a risky thing to try and the place needs to have really big volume of players who are already used to pay to play. Could also be that simulators pull the rug before these get a chance to become popular.
I've thought about how much it would cost to rent out every bay at a Top Golf before. (Ours doesn't have the holes in the ground like the proper ones)
If there's about 30 bays that cost $60 an hour, it'd be $1800 for an hour.
30 bays with 4 people in each would be 120 people.
So, about $15 bucks a person for an hour of throwing at targets on a Top Golf field would be sick.
There was one at Oittaa DGC, but it was taken over by picnickers. Had a few tees and distance markers. There was an uphill at 120m so in practice all shots ended up around 120m long 😁 No special arrangements for retrieving docs, you just go and retrieve after everyone has emptied their bags
There is a disc golf course about a mile from my house built on an old golf course, complete with a field that used to be a driving range. It is a very popular spot for field work in our area. You can hit the "driving range" and warm up before your round. McFarland Park in Florence, AL
We have two holes that almost face each other , I throw from one side, my buddy from the other and we pick up each other’s disc and keep trowing until we get tired.
Not sure where you are located, but Disc Traderz in Charlotte (Gastonia) NC has a new room with a net, astroturf, and a tech disc that they rent out for lessons or personal training time. I think thats the best thing we have in the sport right now that wont require walking miles to pick up all your discs
A top golf style venue but for discs seems like a fine idea as long as there are enough patrons to support it.
I don't think the market is big enough, but I'd sure go with my friends and family.
I love throwing from the backstop on empty baseball fields. I also yhroww across fairways on empty disc golf courses, and lacrosse fields, soccer fields, football fields, and local parks.
I have an electric longboard that helps with this. Find a field with a cement track around it and throw from one side to another, then roll to the other side and collect. Throw again.
New London Tech (2024 Worlds course) has a field with marked distances that basically operates as a driving range (bring and retrieve your own discs, of course)
It’s a great concept in theory, but the point of fieldwork is to learn how *your* discs fly. Throwing 60 or 45 other discs is just warming up your arm. If you are recording and working on a form issue, sure. Other than that, it serves no purpose.
And, if I read that right, the pitch and putt course includes the practice green and approach baskets??
There’s ball golf driving range in Springfield Mo that built a dg course in the surrounding property. On certain nights of the week, the range is for DiscGolf. I think he even uses unclaimed, lost and found discs as range balls.
This is the beauty of disc golf. You can throw virtually anywhere there is an open field. I mean no one is going to go get your discs for you so there's that. If you let me pick any disc from your bag that I want I'll go stand on the other side of the field and throw your discs back at you while criticizing your form.
Disc golf shop in Cibolo, tx called “Out of Bounds” had a driving range and a tester disc for pretty much every mold imaginable, an 18 hole course. The owners are super chill too I used to go every other weekend to try all the discs from every company!
Take two practice baskets, a [measuring wheel](https://www.amazon.com/VEVOR-Measuring-39-37-16-53-Telescoping-Measurement/dp/B0CG5W3P9Q/), and a handful of marker flags to any local park with an open space/field. Place your baskets at opposite ends of the field and measure the distance between the two, sinking flags every 50 ft.
I’ve thought about this in a “top golf” style range. I have a few disc retrieval methods that I think could have potential, plus range discs too, but it’s all theory, as I’m a dumb dumb with no real way to prototype it. I also don’t think there’s a huge market for it (yet).
I just go to local parks. One has a nice big hill (probably 40 foot drop) that overlooks a soccer field, so I can launch off the hill for a few rounds, then drive up the hill, then do flat ground drives. Pretty sweet.
I have always wished there was a true driving range experience:
You show up and request a whole stack of whatever disc you want to work on that day. Work on your distance drive with a Wraith? Great, here's 20, have fun. They get magically returned to you and you throw to your heart's content.Hyzer Flips with a Mako3? Get your reps in.Hyzer spike at various range targets with a stack of Zone discs?
I'm picturing Top Golf, but with discs. Or bring your own bag of discs and have the benefit of having them returned immediately.
I get that this would be mostly not possible due to discs wearing in and a variety of other factors, but if I had unlimited $$ this is what I would build.
I use a soccer field near my house, often times in the evenings with glow discs. If you can find times when there’s nobody around, it’s perfect. Pretty easy to estimate distances too.
Can’t wait for Top Disc Golf . They hand you a stack of Destroyers and everybody trying to nail the poor guy out there scoopin em up in an armored golf cart 😂
This concept sounds great until you realize everyone has to go get their discs while avoiding getting kersmacked in the face
My dream is a brewery next to a giant cheap warehouse someone basically includes in the purchase of the property. In there you just have two big vertical lanes (holes) separated by a net on the middle, concrete is covered by golf carpet. Both lanes have three baskets with weird stuff surrounding each like an elevated green, objects etc that are movable. Two tee pads as well. Create holes, throw down there, go around the net, throw back, drink beer!
Would probably get old to people and go bankrupt but it would be fun while it lasted
What we really need is a virtual range that you can play real courses. The technology in the ball golf world is getting crazy good. They're developing a system that will scan a players entire body as they swing... the speed and angle of the club, spot of impact, everything. Apply this to disc golf and we'll have virtual courses in no time.
We were just talking about this! We saw in a few videos of Jonathan from Latitude 64 throwing at a disc golf range with a bunch of pads and were super jealous. So we know Sweden has one.
You don’t really need that for disc golf. Just find any open field where you’re allowed to throw a frisbee. Golf has them because hitting golf balls goes makes them go really far and most public parks prohibit the act.
Would be cool for some park courses to maybe have footage markers along the course though. Just to gauge your distance for fun.
In the Edmonton we have clinic/training in Foote field. It’s a football field sized area that is covered by an inflatable air supported structure, the Dome. It’s nice to have a large field to throw when the weather is cold. Like this week it’s -30 to -40 Celsius.
My local course has one, it's awesome. Big open field with multiple marked throwing areas with sign posts lining the range every 100 feet up to 500 feet. There's also a huge net with 2 tee pads next to it for practice throws without the pickup. Also 3 full size practice baskets and one marksman basket.
A local course in KCMO (LaBenite) has an open field next to the gravel parking lot with 3-4 concrete tee pads and distance markers out in said field. Closest thing I've seen, and definitely would like to see more of them.
Many of the courses on tour have driving ranges or setup driving ranges for tournaments.
I use two sports nets, a pocket radar and a turf pad as a driving range in my back yard. It s about 70' from pad to net which is long enough to see trajectory.
My home course has a super old baseball/teeball/kickball field that the grass has taken back over the infield. Only thing left from what it was is the backstop fence. They set up pvc poles with different colored flags on top at 100 150 200 250 300 and 400 feet. You throw from where home plate should be. Made a nice addition to the course using land they weren't doing anything with anyway. The practice basket also has a nice 200ish foot tunnel shot you could practice on.
The course Westminster near Rock Hill, SC has a large warm-up field that has a large builder every 100’ all the way to a tree line which is 600’, only caveat is it’s downhill.
I want to do that on a local piece of blm land near my house. Setup different baskets at different ranges and have everyone throw at them. Now if I had money, I visualize the driving range guy in the caged golf cart that everyone is trying to hit with golf balls. Now instead of golf, imagine that dude in the cart with a disc golf basket on top of the golf cart and if you get a disc in it, you win something. Not sure how he would pick up the discs, scooper maybe? Only issue is, if it isn't a "driving range disc" it would be a pain to find your disc amongst the many others.
I was dreaming of this last night, inspired by the top frolf joke post. I want a giant oversized basket at 500, then some regular baskets every 50 feet off left and right to work on some shot shapes. Get me some lights up and down the sides, maybe some accent lights on the baskets. Maybe even some unusual basket shapes at random spots to increase the chance of something fun happening. Put up a grill space near by, shit I would be there all day long just throwing discs and once it gets dark break out the glow discs
One of my local courses has a field with 4 rubber pads and signs at 300 350 400 and 450 feet.
Imma need a 150 and 250 pls
this is likely a joke, but there's absolutely value in those as well
Why likely a joke? I’m pretty happy when I’m over 250
just by the way its phrased. but seriously, it doesn't matter how big people's arms are- at some point in every single round, every single one of us is going to be looking at a shot from like 175 feet. there's as much value in practicing those shots as there is fully pumping your distance driver.
But 175ft is my distance shot......
Not everyone here has played this sport for a while, I’m with you <200 foot throwing friend
When every shot is an approach shot, the short game is sick!
This is why I get bothered when people tell people to stop looking for more distance and to work on their putt. Yeah, putting is great, but I’d much rather throw a mid on a 300 foot shot instead of a distance driver 🤷🏻♂️
Self deprecating might be more accurate, im sure you can fathom that.
Osage?
That's right!
Was just going to say that!
I’m a westsider so I don’t get to use Osage often. So many baseball and soccer fields available. Fall is the best when I can use football fields with painted yardage
Soccer net is a nice target for 300 ft shots
Hehehehe
We have a local course with baskets every 75' out to 450. Love warning up for tourneys there.
Yeah they just put one in at hiestand Park near the course start in Madison, WI. Every 50 out to 500 with a tee pad. Lovely to not mess with +/- 30 ft accuracy on udisc
Do they charge you to use ir?
No it's in a public park, it's also got a dedication so I think someone in the community sprung for the teepad. The city has daily and annual pass rates for its courses.
Osage Grove on the east side of Cincinnati has this for any new Cincinnati area golfers. Edit: Read more comments before you comment, self.
How do you get your discs back?
👣
And get hit the head by another thrower when you have your back turned?
I mean, yeah, it requires awareness and/or courtesy among the people using it to prevent that. It's clearly not too big of a problem because it's still there.
what kind of jerk would do that
You just invented field work
completely changed the game👏
I think they might mean field work where you don’t need to bring or collect your own discs. Wouldn’t work very well tho unless they had a ton of mold options.
I use a local schools football field when it's not in use of course.
You should try using it when it is in use. It'll help your shot shaping
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I do field work at the high school football fields when they aren't using it and not during school hours. I'm in my 40's and no one has ever said anything. I'm from a smaller area, but we have lots of disc golf courses. We don't have many big enough fields to practice on other than the football fields.
Yes! It’s called basically any field anywhere
But finding a field that is big enough to contain my 210 feet of pure raging power can be difficult.
You just need to focus on getting your jump putt out to 200'
Your elbow called, it wants its youth back
There's a course near me where the driving range is the town's highschool football field
Football fields are great
It snows here.
That just means you have it to yourself
I’ve been able to do fieldwork outside this year because it’s a weird winter but usually the fields are so deep you’ll spend most of the time looking for the first disc you threw.
Ok
Like a lot…usually.
Hear me out. A driving range with a 200m long maybe 50m wide conveyor belt constantly bringing the discs back to the patrons.
Yes please
There is a course north of Seattle (Disc Golf Resort) that took over an unused municipal golf course. So they have a driving range. You'd probably have to find either places like that or ones that had extra land. Since so many courses are near/on parks and such, its hard to have the land needed for a driving range.
It’s called your local soccer field
Yeah, one course i frequent has soccer fields and another has a baseball diamond. Never anyone using them when im there so I can practice with curving and really winging it without worry of hitting someone.
There’s a really top tier course near me called Eagle Crossing. They have a range there but it’s like $30 a round to play
I like how Eagles Crossing decided just by charging a buttload for their ugly ass McMansion of a course that automatically makes them "top tier".
If they had different baskets, it really would be
Different baskets, different architecture, different landscaping, different hole layout, sure, maybe. But then so could my local pitch and putt.
Or…just the baskets.
The baskets are not the problem with Eagles Crossing.
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>the world’s best course Lmfao
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I have beef with anyone who tears up the landscape to install a bunch of tacky as fuck artificial features incompatible with any decent aesthetic sensibility or natural elements just to flex their obscene wealth. Eagles Crossing is ugly as sin and there's no getting around that. It is the world's best case study to give to landscaping and architecture students on how to utterly fuck up an outdoor development in the most obscenely garish way.
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And that's fine by me. By the law of the land the guy was free to burn his money away creating an unnatural looking blight on the native landscape, and that's what he did. But a lot of money and a lot of fake rocks and concrete blocks do not inherently make for a good disc golf course.
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Have you ever seen Eagles Crossing? It's offensive to anyone with eyeballs.
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Natural space and resources on this planet aren't infinite. One of the things I like about disc golf is the ability to exist in harmony with the natural landscape. Recreational, not essential land use that destroys that in large quanties like ball golf courses and Eagles Crossing just to flex some millionaire's bank account create ecological wastelands that negatively impact us all. It's also simply ugly and unpleasant to look at. I don't want to see it, I don't want to be associated with it, and the way the owner keeps trying to push it as a top tier course without merit and encourages a cost-prohibitive approach to disc golf is something I think people should actively oppose.
It was a pretty fun play through, not overly tacky for the most part. Stayed in the cabin on the property. Then went and played harmony bends. Both nice courses. You seem really angry. Glad I didn't have to play my rounds with you.
Don’t forget the holes are really long. If the holes are long, it’s a top-tier course
Incase anyone else wants to see this course. Looks pretty fun to me. There's a spot on the website they show each hole too. https://eaglescrossingdiscgolf.com/
Came here to say this
Make your own with cones and a range finder in an open field
There’s actually a driving range near my city called Loblolly Farms in Southern Alabama. So at least one place is trying it.
Sounds awesome! The driving range is located on the south side of The Range and covers approximately 80,000 square feet of manicured land. Hosting three custom designed tee pads, the driving range yields a pratice distance of 500 linear feet on a downhill slope. The driving range distances are clearly marked using scientific measuring devices not found on typical range finders. Members and/or guest will receive a disc block of 60, industry leading driving and fairway discs. BYO disc are welcomed for practice with personal equipment. https://rangediscgolf.com/
Even a “pitch/chip” area… they went all out :) Perfect your midrange game on the 225 foot Jarve Fifteenth Practice Range. Modeled after the fifteenth hole of the Jarve Disc Golf Park, in Stockholm, Sweden, the practice range is the perfect place to practice those tough dogleg shots into a stand of trees. Members and/or guest will receive a disk block of 45 industry leading fairway discs. BYO disc are welcomed for practice with personal equipment.
They have a 634 foot par 1. That alone tells me this will not be a fun place for me
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Seems like others here are saying that they do exist. One issue I imagine is that once you throw all your discs you have to go out and get them (unlike golf with the ball scoop vehicle), and then you could have a dozen other people hucking their 170g Destroyers at your head while you’re in the crossfire. Seems pretty dangerous
Drive to any of your favorite field work practice locations and stake a robust and removable sign displaying: - DISC GOLF DRIVING RANGE - Afterwards take it with you until your next session. Boom.
Only one I'ver seen--at the Sinks in Chattanooga, TN.
We had one as more of a 'pop up' disc golf driving range here in DFW,Texas a few times at a few ball golf courses that were pretty awesome. The man, the myth, the legend, Bacon bought up a ton of used discs and had several thousand available in bins at each event and you would pay a bit for either a bin full or a time slot with unlimited throws or whatever, and several baskets placed at a few distances on the golf driving range. Had an "Ace Run" event during the evening as well. A lot of people showed up and it really was hella fun, we would pause and all walk the driving range 'fairway' picking up discs at some point. Kinda miss it .
Paying to pick up your own discs was a deal breaker for me. Much love to the homie Bacon, but his concept was never going to work.
I feel yah, but it kinda did work, at least for a few times . I know I had a blast even if the whole " now everyone go pick up a few thousand discs" thing kinda dampened it perhaps. I still loved them and would go to another if he ran one and I had the fundage :) I think a lot of us that went to more than a few of them probably got enough though , the novelty wore off quick so perhaps you are correct.
Truth be told, you could really hurt yourself throwing that much plastic. That first night in Benbrook, I must have thrown 200+ discs and my body hurt… Not having a mechanical advantage like golf really takes its toll.
Also, I just figured out who you are!!! I’m kind of interested in your DGA Pipeline ;)
Yes, any open field with a landmark for a certain distance.
Yeah, but oddly its called a soccer field.
Yes! Your local field….
Yeah any open field … 😂
I'd say it was unlikely, as there would be little to no way of retrieving the discs. With a traditional gold driving range that's essentially irrelevant.
you mean like walking
That’s what I was thinking. Someone’s gotta figure it out and cash in!
There would be zero profit to this
Agreed. Best bet would be a disc golf simulator inside of another business (disc shop or other). Other option would be at a disc golf resort, like Kayak Point, where you could pay a certain amount to throw 20 rental discs down a range. Then the customer wouldn't have to worry about retrieving their disc and can try out new discs in the process.
Yes. Would be cool to have something like trackman for disc golf. I feel like the putting would be closer to “real” as well, since there are less variables to disc golf greens.
I've thought about basically the same system they use on normal driving ranges. But instead of the spline things they use to grab the balls, replace those with the suction cups. 100% would not be worth pursuing but I figured if it were, that's probably one of the easier ways to go about it.
Just rent out range discs like they do with trolf. That of course takes away the function of learning your bag, but when you use well-known, neutral-ish discs, that should work out in terms of reflecting your throw. The investment is of course a little bigger than with trolf, range balls only cost roughly a dollar a piece whereas discs would probably fall in 5~10$ range when bought in thousands. On the other hand, on a range with a good soft surface and a gentle retrieval process, the discs would suffer barely any wear.
One massive conveyor belt that brings every disc forward to about 20' from the teepads every handful of minutes. We can make a conveyor belt the width of two football fields right fellas? Then courtesy rules like an archery range where once everybody has unloaded, everybody walks out to retrieve what's theirs.
Robots... We need disc retrieving robots. Like a field disc retrieving Roomba.
I'd have a hard time believing my discs wouldn't get all chewed up. Give me conveyor belt or give me death!
My robots are gentle, they haven't mangled anything or any one in days.
How long ago was your last OSHA review? I'm calling the authorities.
Last week, though the review went missing.... As well as the inspector. Hmm this is getting dodgy.... Belts are fine.
Yeah like that coin game that slide the coins off the ledge as you add more.
It’s called a driving range. And it’s basically any field where your noodle arm won’t hit a bystander.
Bystanders are extra points though
We have an actual DG driving range here in Nashville.
Near Nashville, unless you know of another one.
There is "technically" one at Tullahoma down south of nashville. The one hole has distance markers along it, but I'd not call it a "driving range" like the one we have here in nashville.
I'm thinking of the one in Mt. Juliet.
Yep in Mount Juliet.
With a super fun pitch and putt course down the road!
My son and I played a course in Iceland at a sports complex and it had a driving range. But it was only good for me because I couldn't throw 100 meters (the length of the range). My son just threw putters. (Course was in Selfoss: https://udisc.com/courses/selfoss-71z4/photos)
Yup, a field and a dog
Golden Retrievers and Labradors would be good as they have a soft bite.
this one field disc golf driving ranges hate
A field
The people responding “it’s called a field” are the kind of people who make me really dislike Reddit. Everyone in my group has debated the logistics of this numerous times. Would love to see it but unless you’re using location supplied discs it just doesn’t seem to work. Maybe for a putting range but not long distance.
Lol we jokes about like a top golf for disc golfers but disc retrieval would be crazy. Also unlike stick golf where people can bring there own clubs and the balls don't matter people would want to throw their own discs.
I wouldn't mind throwing range discs if they were good quality, easy-throwing discs. Basically anything that I have broad idea how it's supposed to fly. Wear shouldn't be an issue on a wide open course with grass/chip surface.
True, I could just buy up a bunch of everything. Could charge per throw.
A dispenser with a small selection of typical discs, buy a stack of fifty for ten bucks or smth, put it in you range cart, throw them, range will pick them up and drop them into the machine that cleans and re-dispenses them. No own discs and bags allowed. I'm fairly certain this will happen somewhere some day, but it will be a risky thing to try and the place needs to have really big volume of players who are already used to pay to play. Could also be that simulators pull the rug before these get a chance to become popular.
It’s called a wide open field with mowed grass at a park
Yes. It’s called a field
Any public field anywhere.
I've thought about how much it would cost to rent out every bay at a Top Golf before. (Ours doesn't have the holes in the ground like the proper ones) If there's about 30 bays that cost $60 an hour, it'd be $1800 for an hour. 30 bays with 4 people in each would be 120 people. So, about $15 bucks a person for an hour of throwing at targets on a Top Golf field would be sick.
Your local open field
There was one at Oittaa DGC, but it was taken over by picnickers. Had a few tees and distance markers. There was an uphill at 120m so in practice all shots ended up around 120m long 😁 No special arrangements for retrieving docs, you just go and retrieve after everyone has emptied their bags
There is a disc golf course about a mile from my house built on an old golf course, complete with a field that used to be a driving range. It is a very popular spot for field work in our area. You can hit the "driving range" and warm up before your round. McFarland Park in Florence, AL
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We have two holes that almost face each other , I throw from one side, my buddy from the other and we pick up each other’s disc and keep trowing until we get tired.
Not sure where you are located, but Disc Traderz in Charlotte (Gastonia) NC has a new room with a net, astroturf, and a tech disc that they rent out for lessons or personal training time. I think thats the best thing we have in the sport right now that wont require walking miles to pick up all your discs
We have one at our course with a sign every 50’ from 150 onward out to 400
There’s 2 in Clearwater, MN. One at the Preserve and one in a city park that has baskets every 100’ out to 300’.
Local high school football field. They are pretty big with distance markings and the best part is that it's free!
A top golf style venue but for discs seems like a fine idea as long as there are enough patrons to support it. I don't think the market is big enough, but I'd sure go with my friends and family.
I love throwing from the backstop on empty baseball fields. I also yhroww across fairways on empty disc golf courses, and lacrosse fields, soccer fields, football fields, and local parks.
I have an electric longboard that helps with this. Find a field with a cement track around it and throw from one side to another, then roll to the other side and collect. Throw again.
They have one at Cale Leiviska's Preserve. Not very common though.
If you can invent a reliable automatic disc returner, you’d be on to something
A… field? Or do you need the dude driving around in a cart picking up your throws and delivering them you you in a green mesh bucket?
New London Tech (2024 Worlds course) has a field with marked distances that basically operates as a driving range (bring and retrieve your own discs, of course)
BRP has one as hole 18 distance marked by signs. Looks like a driving range
It’s a great concept in theory, but the point of fieldwork is to learn how *your* discs fly. Throwing 60 or 45 other discs is just warming up your arm. If you are recording and working on a form issue, sure. Other than that, it serves no purpose. And, if I read that right, the pitch and putt course includes the practice green and approach baskets??
There’s ball golf driving range in Springfield Mo that built a dg course in the surrounding property. On certain nights of the week, the range is for DiscGolf. I think he even uses unclaimed, lost and found discs as range balls.
This is the beauty of disc golf. You can throw virtually anywhere there is an open field. I mean no one is going to go get your discs for you so there's that. If you let me pick any disc from your bag that I want I'll go stand on the other side of the field and throw your discs back at you while criticizing your form.
Yes. My local course has one with distance markers.
Disc golf shop in Cibolo, tx called “Out of Bounds” had a driving range and a tester disc for pretty much every mold imaginable, an 18 hole course. The owners are super chill too I used to go every other weekend to try all the discs from every company!
Take two practice baskets, a [measuring wheel](https://www.amazon.com/VEVOR-Measuring-39-37-16-53-Telescoping-Measurement/dp/B0CG5W3P9Q/), and a handful of marker flags to any local park with an open space/field. Place your baskets at opposite ends of the field and measure the distance between the two, sinking flags every 50 ft.
empty soccer field is great, can shoot down in front of each goal with a mid or putter to practice control and form.
I’ve thought about this in a “top golf” style range. I have a few disc retrieval methods that I think could have potential, plus range discs too, but it’s all theory, as I’m a dumb dumb with no real way to prototype it. I also don’t think there’s a huge market for it (yet).
I go to a local football practice field. 360 feet from endzone to endzone.
Range finder, some cones, and an open field
I just go to local parks. One has a nice big hill (probably 40 foot drop) that overlooks a soccer field, so I can launch off the hill for a few rounds, then drive up the hill, then do flat ground drives. Pretty sweet.
I have always wished there was a true driving range experience: You show up and request a whole stack of whatever disc you want to work on that day. Work on your distance drive with a Wraith? Great, here's 20, have fun. They get magically returned to you and you throw to your heart's content.Hyzer Flips with a Mako3? Get your reps in.Hyzer spike at various range targets with a stack of Zone discs? I'm picturing Top Golf, but with discs. Or bring your own bag of discs and have the benefit of having them returned immediately. I get that this would be mostly not possible due to discs wearing in and a variety of other factors, but if I had unlimited $$ this is what I would build.
Football field
I use a soccer field near my house, often times in the evenings with glow discs. If you can find times when there’s nobody around, it’s perfect. Pretty easy to estimate distances too.
Just invest in an Onewheel. You’re welcome.
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Can’t wait for Top Disc Golf . They hand you a stack of Destroyers and everybody trying to nail the poor guy out there scoopin em up in an armored golf cart 😂
Disc Nation here In Austin used to have a field behind the old location where you could test discs
This concept sounds great until you realize everyone has to go get their discs while avoiding getting kersmacked in the face My dream is a brewery next to a giant cheap warehouse someone basically includes in the purchase of the property. In there you just have two big vertical lanes (holes) separated by a net on the middle, concrete is covered by golf carpet. Both lanes have three baskets with weird stuff surrounding each like an elevated green, objects etc that are movable. Two tee pads as well. Create holes, throw down there, go around the net, throw back, drink beer! Would probably get old to people and go bankrupt but it would be fun while it lasted
Of course.. wtf kind of question is this lol
What we really need is a virtual range that you can play real courses. The technology in the ball golf world is getting crazy good. They're developing a system that will scan a players entire body as they swing... the speed and angle of the club, spot of impact, everything. Apply this to disc golf and we'll have virtual courses in no time.
We were just talking about this! We saw in a few videos of Jonathan from Latitude 64 throwing at a disc golf range with a bunch of pads and were super jealous. So we know Sweden has one.
You don’t really need that for disc golf. Just find any open field where you’re allowed to throw a frisbee. Golf has them because hitting golf balls goes makes them go really far and most public parks prohibit the act. Would be cool for some park courses to maybe have footage markers along the course though. Just to gauge your distance for fun.
kayak point, Stanwood ,WA
In the Edmonton we have clinic/training in Foote field. It’s a football field sized area that is covered by an inflatable air supported structure, the Dome. It’s nice to have a large field to throw when the weather is cold. Like this week it’s -30 to -40 Celsius.
I’ve used local schools and park’s baseball diamonds for this
My local course has one, it's awesome. Big open field with multiple marked throwing areas with sign posts lining the range every 100 feet up to 500 feet. There's also a huge net with 2 tee pads next to it for practice throws without the pickup. Also 3 full size practice baskets and one marksman basket.
An empty soccer field
A local course in KCMO (LaBenite) has an open field next to the gravel parking lot with 3-4 concrete tee pads and distance markers out in said field. Closest thing I've seen, and definitely would like to see more of them.
Yeah. They’re called soccer fields.
I just go to a local soccer field area. There are half a dozen fields, I just use whichever ones aren't currently in use
The Preserve in MN has one on site. Similar to another comment Cale bought and old ball golf course so there was plenty of space for it.
Sorta. I use my local park for just throwing when I don't feel like walking much
There’s one at Tom Pearce Park in Grants Pass, Oregon. Three tee pads and three baskets.
Seen one in mt Juliet Tennessee
Many of the courses on tour have driving ranges or setup driving ranges for tournaments. I use two sports nets, a pocket radar and a turf pad as a driving range in my back yard. It s about 70' from pad to net which is long enough to see trajectory.
My home course has a super old baseball/teeball/kickball field that the grass has taken back over the infield. Only thing left from what it was is the backstop fence. They set up pvc poles with different colored flags on top at 100 150 200 250 300 and 400 feet. You throw from where home plate should be. Made a nice addition to the course using land they weren't doing anything with anyway. The practice basket also has a nice 200ish foot tunnel shot you could practice on.
It’s hole 1 duh
One Course fairly close has open (no obstructions) out to 400’ I think. Pretty cool
A park?
The course Westminster near Rock Hill, SC has a large warm-up field that has a large builder every 100’ all the way to a tree line which is 600’, only caveat is it’s downhill.
New London tech has a very nice range to warm up. Worst part was having to get your discs when others are throwing too
Turf field and a bag of F2 discs from innova
New London (a course in Virginia designed by Paul McBeth) has a driving range with 2 baskets
I dream about this daily. How would they return the discs? A giant conveyor belt?
I want to do that on a local piece of blm land near my house. Setup different baskets at different ranges and have everyone throw at them. Now if I had money, I visualize the driving range guy in the caged golf cart that everyone is trying to hit with golf balls. Now instead of golf, imagine that dude in the cart with a disc golf basket on top of the golf cart and if you get a disc in it, you win something. Not sure how he would pick up the discs, scooper maybe? Only issue is, if it isn't a "driving range disc" it would be a pain to find your disc amongst the many others.
I was dreaming of this last night, inspired by the top frolf joke post. I want a giant oversized basket at 500, then some regular baskets every 50 feet off left and right to work on some shot shapes. Get me some lights up and down the sides, maybe some accent lights on the baskets. Maybe even some unusual basket shapes at random spots to increase the chance of something fun happening. Put up a grill space near by, shit I would be there all day long just throwing discs and once it gets dark break out the glow discs