Disc Golf Rant Time - Foot faults give no advantage

[@Archaedes797]

John Malkovich plays disc golf and hes a stand up guy about it. Thank you sir

[@KarstRats]

The only foot faults i think should happen is if you step past your disc or like an entire foot length to the side of it. Or if you step off the fairway end of the teebox. Cause just like in ball golf you cant be on the fairway while driving its in the tee box. But with the teebox rule should come a 5x9 standardized teebox that all courses that want to be counted as official courses will have to install. Yes thats a lot but it can be done with upcycled turf laid kn plastic so it wont rot and a level surface so its not like you have to buy concrete or wood.

[@sarinhighwind]

The tee box is a "defined throwing area" and yes, you should be punished for stepping passed the tee box. For Tour stops, there are tee pad regulations to follow btw. But when we come to throwing in the fairway, the lie has been opened up greatly from before, mainly because people were not hitting it. so they doubled it in size practically, and players STILL cannot hit it. You just need a part of your foot in that giant sheet of paper, it gives you over a foot of error in all directions to try and execute the shot within the rules properly. So, Ignoring the rules gains you an advantage if you can just step anywhere willy nilly.

[@dgspindoctor]

This is spot on. It shouldn't be so hard a) to hit your lie and b) to acknowledge if your card mate or you didn't hit the lie.

[@ztsb_koneko]

Rules are not just suggestions. If there is even one rule that is not enforced properly, it devalues all the other rules too, and once we stretch the rules a bit, it's likely we keep stretching them more and more. I mean you can look 2023 DGPT coverage and see top players a few feet off their lie... even on standstills, throwing a scramble shot... where being a few extra feet to the side might make a pretty big difference.

[@shanaman23]

could you take your keys off of your hip when you throw? 😆😆 it's loud

[@sarinhighwind]

Its that counterbalance!

[@saltyshellback]

Yeah! Firsties!