The points in this article will help you in disc golf at any age, but was written to help you stay competitive with younger players, as you grow older. These strategies and ideas are based on my experiences as someone over 50 who started playing in 1979. I’m going to focus on 4 areas, all of which are equally important in the overall goal of staying competitive in disc golf, as you get older.
The first part is weight training. Weight training will make you better at disc golf at any age, but is a necessity when you get older. Weight training will help you perform better at most other things in you life as well. A good disc golf workout should be a full body workout that works your legs, core muscles, and upper body, all of which are used to throw a disc. You don’t have to spend a lot of time at it to show amazing results, 30 to 45 minutes per day, 3 times per week is all that is needed.
The second part is cardio exercise. Stamina is critical in staying competitive at disc golf. If you are in the middle of your round and you start to get tired, you will not be able to focus as well on the shots and your mind will start to wander. You will just want to be done. Your concentration will be affected and your shot making will suffer. The guys that I disc golf with most of the time in Minnesota are my sons in laws and my grandkids, and we normally play 54 holes when we play, they are much younger than me but I don’t get tired and I can keep up with them no problem. We even played all 6 open courses at Highbridge Hills in one day, after playing 64 holes the day before.
Part three is disc selection. Using the newest fastest disc on the market is not necessarily the best thing to do. You want to use discs that you can throw with control and accuracy. I will take a 280-foot drive down the middle of the fairway over a 350-foot drive in the woods anytime. Use discs that you can control, even if you lose a little distance, touch and control are the answer.
The final part is course strategy. The majority of disc golf courses that you play are going to consist of most holes 450 feet or shorter. The key to staying competitive is to play for par and to be dead accurate from 200 feet in. On holes over 300 feet, use the discs that you can control on the drive, if you throw 250 to 300 feet down the fairway and put the approach shot under the basket, you're good. If you can get in the basket from 200 feet in with two shots, you will par most and get several birdies on the shorter holes.
Work on approach shots and putting and the get out of trouble shots and you will stay competitive and you will win a lot as well. There is no reason why you won’t be able to play as long as you want to play.
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get a grip. It's going to take a lot more than that. See you Saturday morning meet us there 6:00am.
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