The toughest types of disc golf holes are tight throws through trees. This type of hole requires you to throw hard, strait and low drives to get the disc down the fairway, but accurate enough to get through the trees and keep it in the fairway. The best thing about wooded holes is if you are accurate and have touch, you can compete with younger stronger players and beat them. There are several things that you need to be concerned with when playing in the woods.
Accuracy is more important than distance when playing in the woods. From the tee pad you should look at the hole and decide where you want to be when taking the second shot. Decide where you want the disc to land and focus on getting the disc to land on your spot instead of throwing as far as you can. Keeping your disc in the fairway is key to shooting a low score, especially if the woods off the fairway are thick.
Keeping the disc low is also very important, throwing the disc high will almost always cause the disc to fade hard at the end of the flight, which will likely take it off the fairway and into the woods.
Learning all the different shots is important so when you go into the woods and have to make shots from difficult locations, you will have them available to help you get out of trouble. Learning to throw overheads, rollers, forehands, backhands and other specialty shots will help you save strokes when you get in trouble. The more options that you have available the better.
Know the limits of your abilities, some times you have to just get it back in the fairway and go from there. Evaluate tough shots and determine what will likely happen if you go for an impossible shot, will it be worse? Taking an extra stroke and getting back in the fairway may be better than going for a shot that has a 10% chance of working. You can lose several more strokes if you hit a tree and go OB or farther into the woods.
If you play a wooded course you are going to hit trees and lose distance on shots and get frustrated. When you hit a tree and get upset, get over it and figure out how to recover and get to the basket. Being ticked off any longer than a few seconds will cost you more shots on the hole so forget it.
The bottom line is to focus on accuracy instead of distance, keep the disc low and when you get into trouble use all your shots to recover. Know when to just get it back on the fairway, and get the bad shot out of your mind before you take the next shot.
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Comments
lol. Amen!
Sage advice....I should follow it more often :-)
I can't even imagine trying to play this game through trees, but it still sounds like so much fun.
This sport is really becoming more challenging all the time - but it looks like fun.
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