Sports & Fitness
Disc Golf
Throw a disc down a fairway into a metal basket, usually for free
Public courses are generally free, which is the sharpest difference from golf: three discs — putter, midrange, driver — cost less than a meal out. Scoring works like golf, and eighteen holes is three or four kilometres of walking. Power comes from rotation rather than the arm, and over-using the arm is the standard mistake.
First stepBring only a midrange disc, since drivers can wait, and play the front nine at a no-fee course, counting every throw.
Barriers
Cost to start
Under $50
Going deep → $300–2k
Alone or with people
On your own
Effort
Light
Without a teacher?
Self-taught
One session takes
1–2 hours
Where
Outdoors, free
Why people take it up