5 ways to organize the discs in your disc golf bag

If you’re not yet doing this …

Do it.

The biggest perk?

Instantly, without hesitation, you know if you’re missing a disc.

Also, just so we’re on the same page, there’s no single way to go about doing this. If you own a disc golf bag, organize your discs. Likewise, if you prefer to push (or pull) a cart everywhere, organize your discs. Be it from left to right or up and down, find a method for your setup.

Here are five of the most common ways to do it:

1. Speed

From slowest to fastest:

• Putters
• Midranges
• Fairway Drivers
• Distance Drivers

* Note #1: Work utility discs into the end of the lineup, assuming there’s a need.

The main benefit of setting up shop this way is that you generally know where to reach when a certain disc type is needed. There’s no hunting for a fairway driver when you know where they reside in your bag or cart. Also, think TV infomercial: There’s no comical fumbling of discs.

2. Stability

More of the simple stuff:

• Understable
• Stable (Straight)
• Overstable

* Note #2: Flip the script on the above, should your brain work better the other way around.

As a matter of personal preference, I like to combine this method with the first one mentioned on this list. In my bag, from slow to fast, discs are ordered by speed. But within each speed section, from left to right, I order everything from my most overstable stuff to the flippiest of my discs.

It works for me.

3. Anarchy

For as much as I love the guy, Gregg Barsby does this …

And I hate it.

Bag-building anarchists couldn’t care less about where their frisbees go. As long as they’re in there, all is well in Zion. As such, wherever there’s space available, you’ll see them (literally) smashing discs into bags and carts. There’s no rhyme or reason to their madness …

And they prefer things this way.

Ted Bundy behavior, if you ask me.

4. Rainbow

Here’s the message this method transmits:

“I’m a raging obsessive-compulsive.”

Not only do you have to memorize the color wheel, but to complete the “look” of a proper rainbow bag, you’ve got to find (and buy) discs in just the right color – talk about commitment.

Ella Hansen is a rainbow-bag proponent.

5. Frequency 

This strategy is somewhat rare, but it gets used often enough.

Regardless of speed, stability or color, the idea is to put the discs you use most frequently where they’re easiest to grab. To a certain degree, thanks to putter pouches and pockets, everybody does this. Going this route takes things a step further, however, opening up the ideology to ALL discs.

Because your “workhorse” molds get the job done, you throw ‘em like mad.

Naturally, they’re rewarded with prime real estate in your bag.

Above all else, disc golf bags and carts are a means of keeping frisbees organized. Left to their own devices, they do a mediocre job of it. Take five minutes to establish a disc-organization system, and you’ll be pleasantly surprised at how much more fluidly your rounds operate.

Organize your discs; build a routine.

It’s easy.

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