Yes, I’m writing this, even though I wrote THIS just a few short weeks ago …
I guess that’s why I used the word “accidentally” in the headline – the better word might’ve been “unexpectedly,” but this article’s already live, so there’s no sense in going back and changing it.
Spoiler Alert: Though I’ve taken my disdain for the Polecat craze public, the secret’s out: As soon as my article on the Halo Polecat being “one of the dumbest things in disc golf” dropped, I was dead-set on nabbing one of my own from the Innova Factory Store …
Why, exactly?
I wanted to review it.
For some odd reason, people like to read about the Halo Polecat – clicks, baby.
Anyway, a couple of weeks back, I managed to nab one – hot pink and flat as a pancake. With a nine-hole “pitch-and-putt” located directly across the street from my house, finding the right place to test out the Halo Polecat wouldn’t be an issue: The layout was made for this thing.
After church, the wife and I don’t do much on Sundays. We take things pretty slow. We’ll cook a nice lunch, visit with neighbors and maybe go on a walk. Yesterday, it was a nice day out, so we buckled our twin, 11-month-old boys in a stroller and grabbed a couple discs to toss a few holes.
Remember: I’m working on a review of the Halo Polecat – two birds with one stone.
It happened on only my FOURTH-EVER throw with the meme-fueled disc …
The fourth hole at the course we played is a short hole – nothing calendar-worthy or anything. It’s a relatively straight, 205-foot hole with a slight bend to the left. The only real obstacle is a tree positioned to the left of the basket, the limbs of which prove problematic for ace runs.
I’d only brought two discs with me: the Halo Polecat for all off-the-tee duties and a KC Pro Aviar for actual putts. The hole’s so short that you can go standstill, but I opted for one of those mega-slow, “twinkle-toe” walk-ups with a baby X-step – a half-swing was all that was needed …
The forthcoming review will dive into this in more detail, but don’t forget: The Polecat is a dog dish-shaped, speed-one putter – it moves through the air REALLY slowly. I hit it with a good amount of hyzer on the release, and I hate to say it, but watching the disc fly was a blast …
Thrown with a gentle backhand, the puter held its hyzer line, tracking from right to left with zero sense of urgency. I kept thinking it’d fall out of the sky and nestle under the basket, but what the disc lacked in speed, it made up for in glide – it just kept drifting and drifting and drifting …
And then, Mike Breen:
“Bang.”
My wife witnessed it – my two sons did, as well: They were (literally) speechless.
No, this single throw won’t entirely alter my upcoming Polecat review for the better, but it sure as heck will be taken into account. Full disclosure: I didn’t foresee this happening at all …
In fact, my original plan was to give the Halo Polecat away to a reader after the review was complete – run a Twitter contest or something. Now? I’ll need to think about things …
I might just have to Sharpie my name and number on the back – we’ll see.
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Editor’s Suggestions:
- What’s the ‘Sleepy Scale’ in disc golf?
- Get rid of headphones in professional disc golf
- The Innova TL (or TL3) is disc golf’s purest fairway driver
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