Indoor disc golf using plastic bottles and caps

Indoor disc golf using plastic bottles and caps
Play disc golf indoors by making your own miniature disc catcher (or in this case, a "capcatcher") from a 20-ounce sports drink bottle, and using old bottle caps as the flying discs.

For those of you that are unfamiliar with disc golf, it follows the same premise as regular golf, except that instead of trying to get a ball into a distant cup in the fewest number of shots, you try to get a flying disc into a distant basket-shaped target.
 
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Step 1Gather supplies

Gather supplies
Start by finding the right kind of bottle. I used an old Vitamin Water bottle, since that's the type of bottle I had.

I think Gatorade or other types of bottles will work, but they might require a little more effort on your part, as you'll see.

In addition to a bottle and cap, you will need the following:

Cardboard
Scrap fabric
Thin rope
Various sizes of dowels (1/8", and either 5/16" or 1/4")
Bamboo skewers
Basic crafting tools

You're probably going to want some extra bottle caps. The kind to look for are the ones that come on most sports drinks and family-size juice bottles.
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13 comments
Aug 9, 2010. 11:22 AMbgepp1 says:
Very cool. I'd like to make several of these and then transform my house into a impromtu indoor disc golf course for a day. thanx for posting this!
Oct 15, 2009. 4:50 AMdanielthomas72 says:
 This is brilliant, I'm sure as heck gonna be making this with thekids come the next school holidays...BRILLIANT.
Great attention to detail in the finishing!
Dan
Jun 24, 2009. 9:18 AMdunnos says:
uhmmm... what is disc golf? *blush* nice ible thought, when i clicked on the image i thought it was some sci fi disc flying O.o
May 21, 2009. 9:46 AMblam72 says:
This is fantastic. My entire family loves disc golf. I'm definitely going to try to put one of these together. Thank you for posting your design.
May 18, 2009. 2:40 PMcolethemle777 says:
this is awesome
Apr 5, 2009. 8:20 PMlkjfdsa says:
i just finished mine an hour ago and it is so addicting!
Apr 10, 2009. 1:05 PMlkjfdsa says:
here are a few pictures. yours is a little cleaner, better looking but it is still a pretty good attempt
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Jan 28, 2009. 9:15 AMc27_mari says:
It's great! good job =]
Jan 26, 2009. 12:17 PMthatsgreat2345 says:
This should be fun for the dorm room, have friendly competitions :)
Jan 26, 2009. 6:54 AMbumpus says:
This is sooo cool! :D

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I make all sorts of random stuff to entertain myself and my four boys. Some of it ends up here on instructables.