Disc Golf

Also called Frisbee Golf (although I suspect there's a brand name in that)…
The course is laid out a bit like a regular golf course but the 'holes' are these baskets and you fling your flying discs in their direction. 

This one is by the Omaka River west-ish of Blenheim. The first one I ever saw was on River Terrace in Ashburton and I was completely bamboozled by it. Someone had to explain their purpose for me.  Are these a thing anywhere outside NZ?

One of my cousins is a proponent of the sport and travels about with a special case full of assorted flying discs - for long and short shots and curving round trees and so on.

Scully would not sit for a photo with it. We are still working on 'stay'. It works until she sees the phone come up…

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  1. That sounds much more fun than golf.

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    1. Both would be exercises in frustration for me.

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  2. Scilly is a female who likes to preserve an air of mystery.

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  3. We have had Frisby Golf here fro about twenty years. I have never played but my son played in high school. Mostly fun- not competitive. Odd invention I think- somewhat clever.

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    1. Aah - you have possibly a point of origin. Families seem to make it a Sunday pastime.

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  4. Only seen it there.
    A camera shy dog?!!!

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    1. She must come from a household of phone scrollers As soon as I pick up a phone she diverts her attention.

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  5. Hari Om
    Somebody was playing about their Hills Hoist one day and had a flash of an idea for adaptation. When they fall out of fashion, they'd make good hay holders for feeding the cattle... YAM xx

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    1. Linda Sue might have id'd the origins. Not sure if they have Hills Hoists in PNW (they don't know what they sre missing - perhaps they could adapt a Frolf basket.)

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