Disc golfers love to make things complicated:
- One bag (or cart) is enough.
- The molds you have will work.
- Putting is what improves scores.
Yet, you’ve got enough bags to open a shop, can’t stop trying out the “latest and greatest” in new golf discs and worry more about throwing 400 feet than improving your C1X putting percentage.
Disc golf is simple:
Put the disc in the basket – and in as few throws as possible.
For some, the way the game’s approached is simple, too. I’m talking about “one-angle” golf. The concept is exactly what it sounds like: Regardless of shot, the disc is released on the same angle.
Aaron Gossage is a one-angle disc golfer.
Originally from Colorado, Gossage is a power thrower. As such, he favors hyzer angles. Right-handed, when he needs a disc to work left, he throws it on a backhand hyzer. And when the disc needs to work right, he throws it on a forehand hyzer. To account for the subtle changes in hyzer lines required by a course, more than most touring pros, he bags plenty of baseline stuff.
While others tinker with angles, he owns one – and lets his muscle (and the disc) do the work.
Now that’s great for Goose, but 99% of us will NEVER have his distance …
Opt for the hyzer-flip.
The trick to making one-angle golf work with less-stable plastic is commitment – putting your money where your mouth is. And I mean that literally. You’ve got to build the entirety of your bag around the ideology. It can be done, though. Nathan Queen does it. Matt Bell does it, too.
While Gossage’s bag is built around the beef Zones, Raptors and Forces provide, the bags of mortals like yourself could lean heavily on Judges, Stalkers and Wraiths. Varying plastics, weights and stages of wear help ensure you can hit any line on a hyzer-angle release.
Full disclosure: I’m NOT a one-angle disc golfer.
But I know (and am jealous of) guys who are – their doctrine is pure, undefiled and admirable:
- Belief No. 1 – Make practice easy.
- Belief No. 2 – Make bag-building easy.
- Belief No. 3 – Make disc-selection easy.
- Belief No. 4 – Make on-course strategy easy.
It’s the same thing over and over and over (and over) again.
The one-angle route isn’t for everybody, but if you hate your game …
It could be for you.
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Editor’s Suggestions:
- Disc golf: Stop comparing yourself to other golfers
- Disc golf: Do this with your off-arm when throwing
- The next generation of disc golf dominance is coming
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