Gripe No. 68: Dried mud on golf discs

I’m serious about dry discs.

I’ve put my pen where my mouth is, too.

On this very blog, I’ve reviewed the following:

• The Towch
• The Disc Raptor
• The Retractable Towel

Few things mess with my mental game more than a disc that could be even the tiniest bit moist, dusty or otherwise dirty. Speaking of dirt, the topic of today’s post deals with it in both its wettest and driest forms: First, as mud. And then, as dried mud. But all of this on a golf disc, of course.

Apart from a steamy pile of dog poo, there are few things I want my discs landing in more than mud. Obviously, mud’s messy to begin with, so that’s no fun. Dirty hands make throwing dirty discs that much harder. Furthermore, it doesn’t matter how little action your towel’s seen that day, the second it attacks a mud-dipped disc, it’s likely done for the remainder of the round.

But it’s what happens after the round that makes me loathe mud more than anything …

It dries.

And when it does, it royally sucks to remove.

Obviously, this goes for discs that’ve sat in the stuff for a good bit and been neglected – duh. But it’s also just as much the case for the very mud-soaked throwers you attempted to nurture back to cleanliness on the course only moments after getting dunked in the nasty – remember my tools?

• The Towch
• The Disc Raptor
• The Retractable Towel

Heck, toss Innova’s DewFly into the mix …

Each is great.

But none of them are capable of fully removing all mud from golf discs, which means – yet again – getting the affected discs counterintuitively wet in your kitchen sink with some Dawn dish soap. And if it’s really bad, a butterknife to chip off what no amount of elbow grease will.

I used to do all of that …

Never again.

Chalk it up to fatigue, fatherhood or a combination of the two, but after a disc takes an untimely mud-bath, I wipe it down on the course as best I can. After that, whatever hardened remnants of the Earth’s crust remain will become a permanent fixture of its “character” moving forward.

I’ve accepted this outcome; I’m at peace with it.

But still …

I don’t like it.

#FirstWorldProblems

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