FEATURE: Disc golf in Rochester
Poised atop a small grassy knoll, Dan Hastings lines up his shot. He gets a feel for it once, twice, three times, all the while grasping a thin, neon-yellow piece of plastic by the very edges of his fingertips. The fourth time, he lets the disc fly - no, soar - clear across the park.
"Get over - over!" he urges the disc around a tall oak tree in the way. Almost like it can hear him, the disc curves at the last second, narrowly avoiding a branch and floating gently to the ground.
"Wow!"
"Nice shot!"
"Yeah, that's a beauty!"
The three other players are impressed, but by the end of the night, Hastings isn't satisfied with his score of two under par. In a matter of days, 19-year-old Hastings will be up against more than 400 of the best amateur disc-golf players from around the world, and he's got to bring his A-game if he wants to beat them.
"Sure, I want to win," he says. "But I've got a lot of practicing to do still."
That's why Hastings is taking advantage of every league night offered by the Greater Rochester Disc Golf Club, and playing all seven courses in the Greater Rochester area. Hastings is just one of dozens of local players preparing for the Professional Disc Golf Association Amateur World Championships, which will take place in Rochester July 24-30. Players say they're ready to show off the growing popularity and strength of the disc-golf scene in Rochester.
Disc golf is much like regular golf - or as disc-golf players sometimes refer to it as, "ball golf." Players throw from a tee area at a target, the most common being a Pole Hole. The two- to three-foot metal pole is surrounded by a basket and metal chains to cushion a disc's landing. The goal is to get your disc into the basket in the least amount of throws, called "strokes."
Tony Inzana, a professional disc-golf player and current vice-president of the Greater Rochester Disc Golf Club, says disc golf isn't just about throwing a Frisbee around. "It's throwing a Frisbee with the same mindset as if you were trying to hit a golf ball," he says.
Like golf, players carry different discs for different shots. "Putters" are heavier discs that don't go as far, but are more accurate. The thinnest, most aerodynamic discs are reserved for driving, and tend to go farther. And mid-range discs, as you might guess, are somewhere in between. Players carry around anywhere from 10 to 20 discs during a game. That may seem extreme to the disc-golf neophyte, but, "It's much lighter than a bag of golf clubs," Inzana says.
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