5 epic, year-long punishment ideas for Foundation Disc Golf losers

To clarify, I’m not saying the guys featured in Foundation Disc Golf content are “losers.” Instead, I’m offering up a series of year-long punishment ideas for the dudes who face-plant challenges on the retailer’s YouTube channel. There’s a difference there – I want it to be clear.

If you’ve spent any time watching Foundation’s stuff, you know most of it has an element of competition. There are exceptions, but usually, winners are awarded with wrapping up a video and bragging rights. On the other hand, losers destroy discs, forfeit molds or stand at work.

But following in the footsteps of Trevor Staub’s annual “putter bracket,” whatever the challenge might be – and I’d assume it’d be the result of failing at something important – what if the punishment losers undertook was similarly of the 12-month variety? As a viewer …

Count me in.

Here are five ideas to keep the conversation going:

1. One year with nothing but a bucket hat

Wearing a hat is practically Foundation policy.

• Brodie: He goes dad hat.
• Trevor: He also goes dad hat.
• Hunter: More of a Melin man.
• Konner: Bass Pro Shops with bangs.

Silas is the only one “zagging” in the headwear department.

None required.

I propose an entire calendar year of rocking nothing but a bucket hat to mix things up a bit. I don’t care if it’s 100 degrees or snowing outside – that bucket hat is getting the nod every day.

Ricky Wysocki once made the bucket hat popular. Joseph Anderson recently brought the bucket hat back into the limelight at this year’s Chess.com Invitational. Regardless, for as utilitarian as it might be, there’s something goofy-looking about it that’s hard to get past – it’s very early 2000s.

That’s punishment enough.

2. One year with an over-the-shoulder bag

Nostalgia might soften the blow a bit …

But not much.

Two words:

Back. Pain.

I’m a nice guy: In order to mitigate the strain, I’ll allow for detachable backpack straps. They’ll (literally) lighten the load. Ten to 15 years ago, this was the standard look within the professional field. We’re not all that far removed from Ken Climo filming in-the-bag videos with his, as well.

Given their mammoth reach, attentive audience and the quality of the work they do, if anybody can resurrect the popularity of the traditional, over-the-shoulder bag, it’s Foundation Disc Golf.

This would be fun.

3. One year with a super-soft putting putter

Like, I’m talking Kleenex-soft.

My gut says this would be brutal. Personal experience tells me the same thing, in fact. But who knows? This could well end up being a blessing in disguise for the condemned party. Without naming names, like you and me, certain people at Foundation struggle from within C1X …

Maybe THIS is the fix.

Also, pick a brand – any brand. Virtually every major disc golf manufacturer produces a putting polymer that’s capable of folding in on itself. My favorite has to be Gateway’s commitment to the soft-putter community. No joke, these are actual plastic options: Soft, Super-Soft (SS), Super-Stupid-Soft (SSS) and Super-Stupid-Silly-Soft (SSSS). It’s time to buy a Wizard.

Enjoy putting with a Fruit Roll-Up.

Woof.

But hey, no rollaways, right?

4. One year with exclusively baseline plastic

I can’t find the source for this, and it’s driving me bonkers. Wherever it was that I first saw, read or heard it, assuming my memory’s not failed me, during his full-time touring days, Philo Brathwaite would go through an average of 20 DX Rocs over the course of a season.

That’s a lot.

If you know how to use it correctly, no matter the mold or disc type, baseline plastic is a godsend. Way back when, the likes of The Champ, Ron Russell, Scott Stokely and Barry Schultz all managed to win on the game’s biggest stages with nothing but it – it’s not an impossible feat.

But given what’s available today?

It’d suck to try.

It’s unlikely anybody outside of Brodie Smith at Foundation gets a crack at the “biggest stages” the sport has to offer, but Worlds is headed to Lynchburg this year. Watching an everyday amateur attempt to shoot well with an all-baseline bag would make for great viewing.

Twelve months of it.

5. One year with the Tilt as part of the setup

I’ve never seen the Tilt last longer than 15 minutes in a serious disc golfer’s bag. It makes for a cute, one-off YouTube video and then collects dust in a storage box for the rest of time and all eternity. This disciplinary measure would be a means of experimentation, more than anything.

For science.

What happens when the Tilt sees real, regular use? #InquiringMinds

I love Foundation’s stuff; I follow the channel religiously. You can’t tell me Hunter Thomas couldn’t have found some kind of use deep within the woods of New London as he aimed to card a 68 or better in 2023. What do I know? Maybe he wouldn’t have, but I’d like to see the attempt.

This would satisfy that.

* Honorable Mention: Banning the use of a towel could also work, but it feels overly harsh.

This is amusing.

This is light-hearted.

I’m hardly demanding a human sacrifice. But should the Lynchburg Boys decide to implement any one of the above as a form of retribution for losing a key battle in the coming years, you better believe it’ll add an extra layer of intrigue for subscribers – they’ll all pay attention.

Give the people what they want.

Do it to it.

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