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Step 10How to lay out an awesome disc golf course in your own home
To get the most out of your homemade capcatcher, you should lay out a series of fun holes to play inside your home. You can make more capcatchers, or just move the same one around for each hole.
Like a regular outdoor disc golf course, there should be quite a bit of variety to make for a fun, challenging experience. Here are some ideas to help you lay out a great indoor course:
1. Create a variety of hole-types, with some difficult and some not so difficult.
2. Assign a "par" rating for each hole. The lowest number of successful throws to reach and get into the basket without any major mistakes should be par. Birdies will happen when you make great throws, have a little luck, or make excellent recovery shots. (Having a par rating makes the game work. You've got to have a standard to compare your performance against.)
3. More talented or experienced players should start each hole from a greater distance, or from a more difficult angle.
4. Take advantage of the specific features of your home to create challenging holes. Go down hallways, in and out of rooms, up and down staircases, etc.
5. Designate certain areas or elements of your home as penalty areas. Here are some examples:
- Create "sand traps" by naming certain sections of flooring, rugs, or furniture as such. If you land on these, the penalty is that you have to make your next shot with your odd hand (left for righties, right for lefties).
- Create "water" areas the same way. If you land in these areas, you have to take a stroke penalty and shoot your next shot from the point where your cap first crossed over into the "water area."
- Create "out-of-bounds" areas. If your bottle cap lands in these areas, you must take a one-stroke penalty and retake your shot from the previous location. Also, try banning certain walls completely. If your bottle cap touches these walls at anytime, it is out-of-bounds.
Thanks for looking.
Like a regular outdoor disc golf course, there should be quite a bit of variety to make for a fun, challenging experience. Here are some ideas to help you lay out a great indoor course:
1. Create a variety of hole-types, with some difficult and some not so difficult.
2. Assign a "par" rating for each hole. The lowest number of successful throws to reach and get into the basket without any major mistakes should be par. Birdies will happen when you make great throws, have a little luck, or make excellent recovery shots. (Having a par rating makes the game work. You've got to have a standard to compare your performance against.)
3. More talented or experienced players should start each hole from a greater distance, or from a more difficult angle.
4. Take advantage of the specific features of your home to create challenging holes. Go down hallways, in and out of rooms, up and down staircases, etc.
5. Designate certain areas or elements of your home as penalty areas. Here are some examples:
- Create "sand traps" by naming certain sections of flooring, rugs, or furniture as such. If you land on these, the penalty is that you have to make your next shot with your odd hand (left for righties, right for lefties).
- Create "water" areas the same way. If you land in these areas, you have to take a stroke penalty and shoot your next shot from the point where your cap first crossed over into the "water area."
- Create "out-of-bounds" areas. If your bottle cap lands in these areas, you must take a one-stroke penalty and retake your shot from the previous location. Also, try banning certain walls completely. If your bottle cap touches these walls at anytime, it is out-of-bounds.
Thanks for looking.
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Great attention to detail in the finishing!
Dan