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Britdisc,
A big feature on disc golf appeared in the Scottish Sun last
Friday.
Liam Young posted the following to the BDGA e-group, and I
thought it would be of interest to the wider disc community.
<quote from Liam begins>
Most of the 'quotes' from Guy are complete balls, made up by the
'journalist'. Disc Golf comes out of it very well, but it's absolute
proof that the tabloids simply lie. The photos are good, but too
big to pass on after scanning. I'm including the text below. I
haven't bothered trying to fix text recognition after scanning. It's
almost total lies so isn't worth the time. Guy said nothing about
Colin Montgomerie, and Michael Jordan was nowhere near the
place. So please don't pass this on to be mistaken for the truth.
Looks like the Sun doesn't just have tits on Page 3, they employ
them as journalists as well.
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"HOW TO PLAY GOLF WITH NO BALLS".
The Eyes of the World are on Carnoustie, but could Tiger and
Monty hack it
on Mull?
By GRAEME DONOHOE
COLIN MONTGOMERIE is among the favourites to win The Open
at Carnoustie this weekend and scoop his first ever major event.
The man who won last week's Loch Lomond tournament is on top
of his game and confident of beating the world's best golfers on
home soil. It seems Monty has been Europe's lead-ing
moneywinner for ever with the skills he developed at the home of
golf. But Monty - dubbed Mrs Doubtfire by American fans - is
almost as famous for his legendary temper. And there's one
Scots course guaranteed to push him over the edge - Scotland's
only FRISBEE golf course on the weather-beaten isle of Mull.
Frisbee golf has taken off in the U.S. and top players are now
competing for up to £100,000 a tournament. But MuLL
greenkeeper Guy BoLton reck-ons Monty wouLd crack up and
never con-quer the new craze because he's too FAT. Guy said:
"The sports are virtually identi-cal although I'd say frisbee golf has
all the thrills and spills while being a fair bit more energetic. "A fit
guy like Tiger Woods would have no difficulty taking it up and I
reckon he should come over and try it out when he's finished in
Carnoustie. "But I'm afraid I could see our Monty struggling
because your arms need a lot of stan~ina and his are just too
flabby "I'd imagine he'd completely blow his top if he tried it out
because he hates being no good at something - he gets totally
demoralised. "And I wouldn't fancy trying to calm him down while
he waited for his ferry to get back home to the mainland" The
sport's becoming increasingly popu-lar in Britain with more and
more fans ditching their clubs and making the trek to Mull to play
on Scotland's only course.
Excitement
And the Scottish Sun decided to get into the swing of things and
try out the new sport to see if it can rival The Open for excitement
The rules are almost identical to golf -the aim being to get down
to each of the 18~boles in as few throws as possible. There's
even a variety of different dis-tance discs - ranging from driver to
putter - to throw towards specially made baskets on the 'greens'.
My handicap for real golf has always been a complete lack of
ability. ~ut while I might get in trouble throw-ing golf clubs around
in frustration, in disc golf it's actively encouraged.
My first attempt from the 'tee' was a brilliant effort which flew
straight and long - beginner's luck. Soon everyone was diving for
cover and it was clear there were the same pitfalls as real golf as
I struggled with my aim. The game manages to capture the
sense of fun though It has the same scoring system as real golf
and here I battled to meet the 63 par for the course. There was
no danger ~t the course record 48 being broken witf~ me around
But Guy, 35, reckons ~t won't be long till the fledgling game
rivals its ancient father. He said: "Disc gQlf is massive in the
States and more peopl, are beginning to hear about it in Britain.
"We've held the Scottish Open in Mull for a few years now and
this year was the best ever - we had over 100 players. "There
might only be a £70 prize pot but players are competing for the
honour and the trophy and we even have players trav-elling to
compete from America" Guy added: "The sport is great fun and
unlike golf you don't have to spend a for-tune on clubs, shoes and
other equipment
"All you need are yo~tw. discs which only cost about a fiver each
and they're not easily lost unlike balls.. "It only gets expensive if
you score a hole in one because we. follow the same tradition as
golf that That Means you must buy a round for everyone in the bar'
"I would certainly encourage anyone who's travelled to Carnoustie
for the Brit-ish Open and has a couple of extra days to come over
to Mull and tryit out" One big an of the sport is basketball ace
Michael Jordan - who even sneaked a visit to the Scots taLe
because he was deter-mined to play on Scotland's only course.
The world's biggest earning sportsman -who raked in £20 million
a year before retiring earlier this year - made the trip during a 10-
day Scots break in May.
Jordan, 36. visited the home of golf to take on Scotland's world
famous courses including St Andrews, Royal Troon and
Turnberry. But the 6ft 7in former - Chicago Bull hero's tour
highlight was his trip to Mull. Yet Guy didn't even know who his
latest Yank visitor was until he recognised him in the pape~&
later that w..kl Guy laughed. "I can't believe the world's richest
sportsman came to play and I never realised - I'm now wracking
my brains to work out if I've also missed guys like Arnie
Schwarzenegger, Mike Tyson or Jack Nicholson' "Disc golf is a
big thing in the States so we get a lot of Americans popping over
to p lay here while they're in Scotland because we're listed on the
sport's official Internet site. "I don't follow basketball so I only
clocked who he was when I noticed him in the papers - the only
thing that really stoodout was he was incredibly tall. "There was
about seven people over with him and they were a good laugh.
"He was wearing shiny new white train-ers but there's quite a lot
of sheep ~ on the course so by the time they finished the round
they were totally cak edt "But they were all just laughing and jok-
ing and asking if St Andrews was like this as well.
Stars
"They told me they'd played a few courses in Ireland and
Scotland but that Mull was the best fun they'd had yet. "The y
were really quite blown away with the views we have up here and
I suppose now it should have been no sur-prise that Michael was
one of the best players I've ever seen" Guy - who also runs Mull's
Dalriada Kennels - is now hoping to get a High-land & Islands
Council grant to buy a clubhouse just in case he has any more
star visitors He said: "My ambition is to raise enough money to
build a clubhouse "This is something the local authorities should
take more seriously - kids love the game and you could do a tie
in with all the local schools. "Mull's a great place to stay and this
could really put the island on the map. "Who knows, maybe in a
few years our sport will put guys -J~ike Tiger Woods and Cohn
Montgomerie in the shade." oYou can book a round of frisbee
goLf by contacting .Guy BoLton on 01688 500249.
U DRIVING ME CRAZY... expert Guy shows our Graeme how is
should be done
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