I’ve got three words for you …
Patio. Umbrella. Lights.
Full disclosure: I don’t own any of these myself. My home doesn’t have a patio worth outfitting with an umbrella, so I hardly need a source of light for one. And within the disc golf realm, I hadn’t discovered the brilliance of these things until last week during a late-night round.
Unless you live in Florida, Arizona or any other year-round pizza oven, you’ve noticed the weather getting colder, as well as the days getting shorter. As such, a buddy of mine invited me out for nine holes of glow golf after he’d put his kids to bed. The setting was nothing more than a vacant pitch-and-putt. After 9 pm, nobody’s there but a few random couples and dog-walkers.
When I arrived, I expected us to do what we’ve always done, which is to say …
Nothing.
We’ve played the course so many times during the day that, even without light, we know where the baskets are. We’ve got our glow discs. And we’ll bring a flashlight along for the ride. But if at all avoidable, we go out of our way to NOT make a production out of the experience.
Still, I’ve thrown enough glow rounds to know what’s commonly used to illuminate a pin: Glow sticks are cheap, mini flashlights get the job done and reflector tape’s an okay option, too.
Anyway, we roll up to the parking lot, and my partner in plastic-driven crime busts out nine of the aforementioned umbrella lights. He attached five; I attached four. We left ‘em lit and proceeded to do two laps of the nine-hole circuit. This much I can confidently say …
The best glow golf of my life.
I have no earthly idea if this is widespread disc golf knowledge, but it should be …
Hence, this post.
If you’re at all intrigued, you’re looking for a patio umbrella light that splits down the middle. There should be a clamp on each side of the divide, so as to make ‘em fit on any size post.
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We put ours inside the basket near the top of the pole – just underneath the band. Protected by the chains and in a spot not often smashed by an incoming disc, the nine lights went unharmed.
Fully lit, you’re looking at something like this …
Practically a spaceship.
Every basket was easy to spot from the teepad. And though I’ve become accustomed to blindly throwing at where my head tells me the basket is, not having to guess was a welcomed perk.
Apart from a few glow discs I already use year-round and a small LED flashlight, I’m not one for taking glow golf too seriously. Eight or nine bucks for one divvied up amongst friends makes outfitting a course doable, though. Especially if you run a league during the fall or winter.
And again …
They make for EPIC glow disc golf.
I’m giving these the Green Splatter stamp of approval.
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