Disc Golf Jargon Most people who play disc golf are familiar with the usual terms and language. There are many other words that people use to describe things that happen on the field. Words that are not in the dictionary or general disc golf vocabulary. I’ve collected some interesting terms from other players, and from what I’ve read other players are using. I’ll share the common ones, and some better non-common ones I’ve found.

I got a great story sent to me a couple of years ago. A player who was new came out to play a round with his dad, there was a reporter and a photographer on the field from the local newspaper. He asked if you could take a couple of photos for a story they were doing about disc golf; the boy said sure. The photographer was positioned about 50 feet from the edge of the street; The guy let go of him and hit the photographer in the chest with his head.

Very embarrassing and funny now, but nobody wants to do that. I love this story because it shows exactly why everyone wants to get better. I’ve put together the terms I’ve learned over the past 30 years playing disc golf. Terms that will make you feel like you know what others are talking about. Disc golf is one of the fastest growing sports in the world. One of the main reasons for its popularity is that players of almost any age and ability can play.

I play guys half my age and beat them consistently. I am 62 years old and in good shape. I know older people who still play. There are no limitations. If you can move around the field, you can play. If you have never played, you should. If you play now, keep playing. It’s great exercise, and it’s a great way to socialize. When it comes to sports, it is also very cheap. You can start with as few as three discs. A driver, a midrange and a putter. For only around $30 you can get started. Most of the courses are free to play.

Common Disc Golf Parlance

• Ace Put the puck in the basket on the first shot

• Hyzer Release the disc with the edge closest to your body higher than the other edge.

• analyzer The outer is higher than the inner edge.

• overstable The puck wants to hover on the ground when you drop it. So that it does not become, it is necessary to break it and throw it with force with a slight anhydride.

• understand You can cast with less spin, less snap to fly straight.

• Rotation When you launch the hard drive with a nice snap; it will spin in the opposite direction of how it normally spins. If you throw your right hand back, it will swing to the right.

• S curve Disc flight starts as hyzer, then hyzer at end of flight.

• Break The amount of spin in the puck when you release it from your hand.

• driving The launch from the tee.

• Getting closer The shot from the drive to the basket.

• short stroke Throw the puck into the basket.

• grip How you hold the puck when you’re throwing.

Player Invented Disc Golf Terms

• dead man When your putt hits the side of the basket and falls to the ground.

• chain tuxedo Several good putts in a row.

• bogey sandwich A score card with a bogey by bogey by.

• ace black Playing the wrong hole.

• cabbage Raw weeds.

• Chastity belt The yellow band of the Innova shoes.

• dry metallic sound The sound a putt makes when it hits the chastity belt.

• strike the nickel A putt that hits the license plate.

• horking A huge long pitch.

• local road Taking an unconventional path to get to the basket.

• wood lift When you hit all the trees.

• black forest Very thick woods.

• Nickel A score of 5 we have a hole.

• nuclear shule Very thick rough.

• fly by Putt of correct height, but navigate the basket.

• fluke deuce A two of something very lucky happening.

• gack He missed a short putt.

• Grenade A high shot that falls quickly to the ground.

• head thumper When your puck falls under the basket and you could hit your head on the basket while lifting it.

More Disc Golf Terms

• Paper Plate An unstable disk.

• pig putt A putt that is really bad.

• Pinball A shot that hits multiple trees.

• Pinball Wizard Continuously hit multiple trees.

• Rooted When the root of the tree prevents you from shooting.

• Saturn A score of 6 (Saturn is the sixth planet)

• Shank Any shot that doesn’t do what you wanted.

• Shule Heavy Weed off the street.

• Sneak In disc flight instruction.

• Snob Throw with the nose of the disc up.

• Snowman A score of 8.

• Spinach Shrubs, trees and undergrowth.

• tacos Hitting a tree so hard it folds like a dowel.

• tombstone A golf disc that hits the ground and comes to a standstill on the edge.

• treefelction The tree gives you a good deflection.

• valet parking When you park your unit under the basket.

• FRC Candy fundraiser.

• CTP Unit closest to the pole.

• DL Last dead in launch order.

• FAT When you reach the first available tree.

• pound Lucky bounce.

• THIRST See the disk of the eye.

• YSA You are still far away.

• Gust of the Gods When the wind blows the puck out of line.

• getting greasy Sneaking through the trees.

• lawn art A disco that has landed partially buried in the ground.

• merged When you get hit on the head by someone thrown from a tree.

• tombstone For those discs that stick to the edge in muddy terrain.

• Helicopter A shot that ultimately has to come straight down without curving.

• A fraud The perfect drive.

The terms in the top section are the ones you need to know. These terms will help you understand the game and how to play it and how to play it better. The rest are just temporary ones that other players use when they are playing the game.