The other day, I was aimlessly scrolling through Twitter …
You know, like you do.
I saw this tweet:
I'll never understand #discgolf players who want to negatively connotate using a cart. Isn't it as simple as use whatever you want? Kind of like choices of discs in your bag? It's so ignorant to assume someone has "physical issues" cause they choose a cart. That's just stupid.
— anhyzerdg 🥏 (@anhyzerdg) September 23, 2023
I had to respond.
THIS is THAT.
Make sure Mr. Anhyzer reads this:
1. They look ridiculous
I’m in Utah.
My pioneer ancestors first arrived in the Salt Lake Valley over 175 years ago. To get here, they pulled handcarts filled with the sorts of things people needed to not only survive, but to start new lives for themselves upon arrival. Our beliefs may differ, but this is raw, tough-as-nails stuff.
Pulling a disc golf cart around a perfectly manicured city park is about as heroic as making your way through town with a little red wagon filled to the brim with your favorite Beanie Babies.
As insane as that comparison might sound, remember …
Discs are toys, too.
2. You need the exercise
You don’t need to sell me on disc golf as a sport.
I’m a disc golfer; I get it.
However, to those NOT familiar with your favorite pastime, it looks like a hobby – like little more than a walkabout with a few fastbacks. Given the calm, composed nature of the sport, it’s hardly a triathlon. But, come on – if there’s sweat to be had, don’t shy away from it. Should you accidentally engage a few new muscle groups, it wouldn’t be the worst thing in the world.
Bags help with this …
Carts don’t.
Carry a disc-purse like a man.
3. Using one is a production
Here’s my disc golf routine:
- I toss my bag in the car.
- I throw 18 holes.
- I head home.
With a disc golf cart, the process is …
Well, more complicated.
It’s a production.
The cart takes up an entire seat. And if it doesn’t, unless you’ve got a pickup, there’s a chance it needs to be broken down (to some degree) to fit in the trunk. Also, before you head out, make sure you check Disc Golf Course Review to see if the course is of the “cart friendly” variety.
During play, at some point, you’ll need to take a different path to account for logs, rocks and steps. And by the time you do get to your lie, don’t be surprised if you need to leave your cart in the fairway to gain access to your disc. You’ll push the cart. You’ll pull the cart. And when the terrain gets (mildly) tricky, you’ll need to pick up the thing and carry it around like an infant.
Not to mention the never-ending cart upgrades and attachments …
Don’t even get me started.
* Note: If your cart has an umbrella holder, toss it in the trash – you’re asking to be bullied.
4. Nobody uses that many discs
The pros? Maybe.
At a course like Fountain Hills? Probably.
But if you’re NOT a professional disc golfer, and you DON’T live in the greater Phoenix area, you’re throwing the same five discs over and over again just like the rest of us mortals. Yes, the occasional utility disc might work its way into the rotation, but that’s once or twice a round.
Buy a nice backpack, but know this:
One of those plastic bags from 7-Eleven could get the job done.
The cart’s overkill.
5. Your game better back it up (and it won’t)
The thing carts do best?
Draw attention.
Ricky Wysocki has the talent to use one. In a public park, amidst a sea of people who know nothing of the game, his play drops jaws. You smashing the first-available off the tee and air-mailing 15-foot putts won’t have the same effect. Quite the opposite, in fact …
It gets disc golf lumped in the same bin as cornhole.
You wouldn’t gift a Ferrari (your cart) to a lawn-mower racer (you), would you?
It needed to be said.
Do you love your cart?
Screw this article.
Maybe you’ve got a bad back. Or, perhaps a weekend of bag-totting hurts your on-course performance. If you use one and it works, no matter what others say, keep on keepin’ on.
Still, the jokes will persist …
And now you know why.
Have anything to add? Take to Twitter to let us know – we’ll actually (for real) get back to you.
Editor’s Suggestions:
- Review: The Discology Icon
- Gripe No. 45: Disc golf teepads with any kind of drop-off
- The DGPT Championship announces record-shattering pro purse
Real quick, if you happen to buy something through a link in this article, there’s a chance we’ll get a small share of the sale. It’s how we keep the lights on. To learn more, click here.
probably the worst article you’ve written. yeah, definitely the worst.
I second that…why alienate a significant portion of disc golfers with ignorance…
You beat me too it, what a wasted read, how did you get this published? LoL… keep scrolling the FB and Twitter Bud!! 👎🏽
100% agree. While he’s trashing players who use carts why doesn’t he trash players that throw distance drivers on 300 ft and under holes.
You’re an idiot and everyone I’ve spoken to ever in my life dislikes you.
Fair enough 🙂
Dudes are salty because you have an opinion 😂
Yeah, but that’s okay …
Not the first time.
Won’t be the last, I’m sure.
I’ll survive 🙂
Thanks for reading, Diego!
Trashy, click baity article. Get over yourself.
Don’t let their negative comments bother you, Lucas.
They use disc golf carts.
One of the funniest comments this blog has ever received …
Love it. Absolute dynamite.
Thanks for reading, Connie!
I get it’s your opinion. I think I may also had the same thought. The reason I finally got a cart is because I’m tired of losing chairs and or umbrellas. The reason I take it out to some courses is so I can be accustomed to it.. No one wants to go into a tournament bungling around like you don’t know what’s up.. Lastly, I definitely disagree with the notion it’s a laughing stock of the sport..
Thanks, John!
Might’ve been the wrong word …
More of an “inside joke,” perhaps?
You’re gonna get a lot of crap for this article but thanks for having the moxy to write it. I agree with all 5 points. Just my opinion (people will forget this is an editorial)
Yeah, that’s just part of it …
Most seem to have overlooked the part at the end inviting them to “screw the article.”
Bad backs. Keeping the body fresh.
They’re mentioned, but honestly?
Most guys probably didn’t read the whole article …
And that’s okay 🙂
Appreciate you reading – thanks, Andy!
It seems to me you have a lot of opinions young man. Most of I don’t agree with. I always throw plastic with a group of older people. I myself am 73. I have had 2 back surgeries and need another. I not only use my cart to haul around my stuff but to sit on as well. So if my cart offends you, too bad.
I built my own cart it was fun and ppl are always checking it out lol
Sweet, man – very cool!
Most weekends my brother and I get in a round. We are in our fifties. I used to think carts were silly. Then my brother’s bad back began to cut our rounds short. So I bought him a cart (with a lid/seat) for his birthday. He loves it, it really helps his back, and we’re back to full rounds.
Congrats, brotha!
Yeah, I’m sure I’ll be there in a number of years …
And when I am, I’ll write a new article 🙂
Thanks for reading – best of luck to you and your bro!
I can’t imagine what your thoughts are on having a caddy. My main reason for getting one was I signed up for a tournament that was 22 holes and two rounds, the I ever played. I thought about having somewhere to sit down. Now I love it!
You’re in luck, Reginald …
We’ve already written about it: https://bit.ly/3wvxU6F
(the caddies thing, I mean)
revisit this in 10 to 15 years, your opinion is going to change. Or, go play in a TN summer when it’s near 100 and the humidity is thick enough to swim in, all the people about to pass out on the course look at you with envy as your sitting on your portable chair, with a cold drink from your chairs cooler, in the shade it’s umbrella provides, waiting for your turn to throw, that it also holds disc’s, that’s just a bonus
Okay, the intrigue’s been pricked …
Who IS this “someone relevant” character?
And yes, you’re probably right.
First ripping on folks using UDisc and now this. C’mon man, you have good content elsewhere, just let folks be and enjoy the game the way they want to enjoy it.
Dang this one really got to some people 🤣
“Cart Army” is a strong, united bunch.
5 Reasons Disc Golf Carts are Helping Your Game and Your Life:
1. Removing 12+ lbs. from your back removes joint strain on your lower body, where your throwing power comes from (and where it comes from the rest of your life).
2. Keeping a bag of your shoulders and back helps keep muscles loose in your upper body so you’re free to move smoothly through a throw.
3. Carts have a built in seat so you won’t lose your disc golf stool on the course (again… and again…..)
4. Carts have a built in seat for others to use in your group when a hole eats their lunch and they need to ponder their life’s choices.
5. Being different than the norm teaches you that life has lots of choices and that having others belittle those choices or being critical of others for no real reasons at all is absurd.
In short, roll a cart, pick out your favorite Walmart bag that has a rip in the bottom seam, grab your 6 disc Nutsac, or galumph your Pound Bag that holds 50 discs and 2 Camelbaks. Just get out and play.
Hes just mad because everyone who is adult enough to use a cart, is also adult enough to have stopped throwing a CHAMPION Rhino like, 5 minutes after they started the sport.
You forgot to mention the price(s). In my class, even though I’ve thought of a cart, I just can’t justify the high cost.
Thanks, Jim!
Good point.
I don’t own a disc golf cart. I don’t really want one either. That being said this is probably the dumbest opinion I’ve heard. People with umbrellas on their carts are the backbone of this sport.
Lol, tell me you don’t understand disc golf without telling me you don’t understand disc golf in an entire article.
It’s not just about carrying discs. It’s about all the other stuff you may want or need in a round, water, a speaker, lights, first aid, towels, a retriever, keys, wallet, phone. My bag is 20+ pounds. Good carts have a handle on to to lift and carry it over trouble areas like you mentioned but most courses I’ve been on are pretty cart friendly. No, I may not need all those discs for this round, but this isn’t the only course I play. I keep my discs together, and sometimes, yeah, I may use a disc I don’t usually use on this course. There are lots of discs that do lots of different things, and that’s not isolated to the pro’s game. It’s like saying, “why are you bagging so many wedges and woods? You’re not a pro; you can get by with a driver, a 3 iron, a 7 iron a wedge and a putter, oh and since those are the only clubs you’re using, you can just carry your bag.”
Casual rounds I will always use my backpack, but tournaments are another story. Longer than normal rounds (often two of them in the same day), with a full day out on the course, justify dusting off my cart. Extra snacks, extra water, a place to sit. I want my 36th hole of the day to be as good as my 1st.
Comfort disc golf is king
I want one but I’m so poor I have to put my food stamps on layaway.
Hang in there, Patty!
All kidding and chiding aside, Shoulder safety is a terrific reason to use a bag. Avoiding arm strain is another. These are especially true as you age.
“Yeah
Well
That’s just your opinion
Man”
Lol
Good read
You’re right …
It IS just an opinion.
(and perhaps a woefully flawed one – haha)
I agree
My brain hurts after reading this article.
1. My cart takes the ease off my throwing arm
2. Carrying food and water is easier to pull on wheels then weight down a bag
3. It makes for a great chair when on the course (most courses don’t even have benches)
4. I can have my cart out of my trunk faster than most with their zipper bags
5. My cart lasts longer then any bag did and equally around the same price range.
Ya living in the wagon days like your old heritage. Get with the times
As a beginner discer playing in my first pdga tournament I carried the three discs I had been using the most at the time. I placed in a two way tie for third.. all of the other very experienced tossers had either bags or carts.. I used my Aviar as a market only..
Every article you read screams “im a whiny little child who hates people for making there own choices” i guess thats why your career is running a disc golf blog lmfao.
I have similar reservations about carts. Usually when I see them on the course I know it’s going to be a slow moving card because these guys are usually packed down with a bunch beer and other miscellaneous gear – they’re making a whole afternoon out of it when I just want to play a reasonably paced round. Just the other day I got to the course and it was practically empty, but by hole 10 everyone was backed up because we were playing behind two groups of 5 (course regulars) over half of which were toting carts.
A majority of these cart friendly courses do not require half as many discs as they packing in their carts, and almost every fairway they stop playing and walk their cart over to park it at the next tee before taking their up shot.
It can be really frustrating.
Thanks for chiming in, Maxx!
What bag are you rocking these days?
DGA Traverse with a sweet tropical print. It would be a shame to hide that on a cart.
I actually downgraded to a smaller bag because I felt ridiculous carrying so many discs around.
I also play a lot of courses in rugged terrain because life is too short to frequent the same local courses. Can’t be climbing up the side of a mountain with a cart. That’s kind of what makes disc golf so awesome – you aren’t restricted to a (golf) cart!
Oh, that’s a good point …
Thanks, Maxx!
Look at the guy who wants to have a hot take for clickbait…well it worked…you got my one click at the cost of any future click. This is trash content.
You think disc golf carts are bad, someone uses an actual golf cart at my local municipal park… they bring it on a trailer towed behind their truck and drive it around the course on doubles night. Zero disability, they just want to be lazy and player faster. It’s pathetic.
That’s commitment to comfort.
Seen this on ball-golf courses, but never at a park – incredible!
Yo are probably right, because it’s difficult as it is… but what if somebody gave you that bag, as a gift? And all you wanted to do was get the most out of both scenarios, wouldn’t you then use it??? And once you found it could not only enclose your disks but a lot of booze so the sport wouldn’t suck as much, wouldn’t you use it all the time! ( no frolf cart, the sport automatically sucks). Try one then discriminate, until then hold your opinions to yourself cuz obviously you aren’t happy
If you have a very physical job like me a cart is amazing! I will always have mine! My body is beat up badly a cart is a huge help.
Bad take. Still get in a lot (more) steps. Play in all kinds of weather. Carry stuff with you. Great for tournaments.
Hey Lucas, I liked the article. I push a jogging stroller I found on Facebook Marketplace for $10. I love it, and it saves my 57 year old back. Can’t count the number of times people have stopped me thinking I was launching my baby when I let the thing cruise down a hill by itself! One comment concerning a phrase you used, “airmail”, as in, “You smashing the first-available off the tee and air-mailing 15-foot putts…” I’ve heard Philo use the phrase in commentaries and it kills me every time. Where did this misappropriation come from?! Airmail is a GOOD THING. When I airmail a letter, it gets to where I want it to go, in the shorts possible time, along the most direct route. Isn’t using airmail to mean a missed putt the OPPOSITE of it’s original actual meaning? Could this be a Philoism that comes from “air ball” in basketball that he mistakenly morphed into something to use for disc golf?? I believe “airmail” to describe missing the basket altogether has got to go. Your thoughts??
Saw your email, Frank!
I’ll reply shortly.
Your “pioneering ancestors”! By that statement I know you couldn’t steer a cart let alone car.
I love my cart but very well thought out article.
Thanks, Skye!
And brotha, if that cart’s working for you, keep at it …
There are plenty of “case studies” that’d support it.
As mentioned in the piece, Mr. Richard Wysocki, himself.
Excellent article. Love freedom of speech especially when it makes me laugh. I’m a minimalist at heart. Love the people who needed to justify their cart use. Just get a bag unless you’re being played to play. Then may as well get a caddie to hand you your disc too!
Paid to play
W take
Man it’s amazing how ugly people get over something you put your time into that cost them nothing. I’m with you on this one the cart dudes are slow and frankly I don’t need to take half of my house with me every time I hit the course. When I get too old to carry a heavy bag I’ll just carry less discs. I did see a lady on a off-road electric scooter one time with her bag strapped to the handlebars and I must admit that was kind of cool
This article is trash, even for satire. Maybe 7 years ago it would have been funny.
Never used a cart, but the article is weak. At best. I am guessing it was meant to be satire, but it just comes off as petty and uneducated. Even with the disclaimer at the bottom to those who might use them for health reasons.
And to argue against what feels like one of your more prevailing arguments, no amount of backpacks vs carts on the course are going to do enough to justify disc golf as a sport to the unknowing public. The greater public will take the sport more seriously as the sport grows and expands to a wider audience. Which is a lot more likely to happen if people with a voice in the community aren’t going out of their way to alienate significant portions of the fan base.
Brutal. Also, who cares. People need thicker skin. Not every blog post has to be perfectly positive. Like a friendly round of no-stakes disc golf, a playful jab at your opponent is sometimes exactly what a friendship needs to retain a bit of spark. Also, do a counter about how hauling a backback will give you scoliosis or Leprosy or something.
Great idea, Harry!
I’ll get that one in the queue …
I’m not sure what’s better, your article or the clowns that replied defending their carts.
Nicely done and i agree. Best Green Splat article of the Year.
Keep it up
Thanks, Fletch!
It’s not for everyone …
That’s part of what makes blogging fun.
Not a big deal 🙂
I play with a group of retirees all over 70. We live in Florida and play on flat, cart friendly courses. We all pull Zucas. We go to North Carolina twice a year and we all bag it on the mountain courses. The best of both worlds. I have never been embarrassed pulling my Zuca around, it helps us old dudes with back issues.
Keep at it, James!
If the bag’s working for you (and your buddies), push and pull that thing till’ your heart’s content 🙂
Is this a real article or satire? I am in the masters and have a total of 4 herniated discs and a torn disc that I’m fighting. Picking up the bag even if it’s light over and over is very very painful. It’s not like grabbing your disc off the group. The cart helped me actually finish a round after 2 years of severe pain and feeling bored until I got to back and play disc. I have been disc golfing since 96 and this is my sport. Who are you to think a carts about image, and stupid gadgets. What gadgets do I use? The seat to help with the pain. The pockets to hold meds and water. The fan that wraps on the top of the cart to help as my pulse and BP raise due to pain. and think I’m an outlier, then my guess is you play with people under the age of 35. Your article is embarrassing to the sport. Do better.
Will do – thanks, Erik!