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What are the top rated disc golf discs in each category?
Driver?
Mid Range?
Putter?
thanks.
there’s no “top-rated” discs. It all pretty much depends on what you throw like, and what your experience and skill level is.
The two biggest manufacturers, Innova and Discraft, both organize their drivers into categories. The longest ones are called Maximum Distance by Discraft; I’m not sure what Innova is calling theirs now. It used to be “long range, very long range and ultra long range” but they’ve changed it. They may use the convention a lot of sellers use now of “tee drivers” vs “fairway drivers.” An example of the Maximum from Discraft is the Avenger, from Innova the Eagle.
But shooting for the best-performing disc out there is like asking the oars to do the rowing. The testers rate each disc’s performance characteristics, not its quality. What makes the disc fly far and accurate is the thrower and different discs work for different people. So when you choose a disc, look at the specifics. These are the important things, in this order: stability; weight; plastic; speed; glide; and fade.
Stability confuses a lot of people. What it is is the rate of torque-free gyroscopic precession. That is, the tilt of the disc rotates too, like a spinning top, in the same direction as the disc’s spin. The more stable the disc, the slower its axis wanders. This is vital because disc “turnover” is crucial to getting long throws. It is hard to hyzer-flip an overstable disc. Stick to something understable to stable like an Innova Valkyrie or Leopard, maybe an Eagle, unless you’ve got the power to keep an overstable disc in the air till it flips.
weight: most discs are between 167 to 173 grams, to conform to the strictest rules. The lighter the disc, the farther it will fly, but it will also be more vulnerable to wind. There are 150g discs too.
plastic: the “[name of golf disc] XR2 super-wonder-mega pro” is generally the basic “[name of golf disc]” made with a better plastic and sold for 3 times as much. Better plastic will make your disc last longer. I don’t believe it makes it fly farther. If you see a $30 disc with the name of last year’s PDGA champion on it and lots of letters like it’s a GT race car, there’s probably a $10 version of exactly the same thing, that will fly just as well but might need replacement more often.
speed: a disc gets most of its distance from the first half of its flight, timewise. They slow down pretty quick. A faster disc is likely to go farther but be harder to control.
glide: how the disc performs when it loses its speed and has to cruise down to land. The higher the glide, the farther it will go at the end of the flight.
fade: all discs will fade to the left if they’re spinning clockwise, and to the right if counterclockwise. This just means if they’re still in the air when they slow down enough, they will dive to the side. Discraft is very specific about fade.
For midrange, there’s lots of options but the Innova Shark is a time-tested all-around approach disc that has a reliable fade and can be manuevered in all directions.
For putting, the Innova Soft Rhino is good.
The Avenger is a stable driver, and nice and reliable. You probably could do a lot worse than Avenger.
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Best Golf Magazine????????????????????????????
My boss is an avid golfer and for Christmas I would like to get him a subscription to a golf magazine. I have no idea what to get. I don’t know ANYTHING about golf. Please help. I would like one that contains tips and possibly discounts on equipment and supplies. Please when you respond let me know details about the magazines so I can see which one are suitable for him.
Thanks in advance
Personally, I like Golf Magazine.
Their instruction articles seem to be geared more for the regular golfer, not the Tour Pro. Their equipment section reads unbiased and frank, thanks to using scientific research to back up their equipment claims. They also have David Feherty, possibly the funniest man in sports as the back page writer.
Golf Digest is OK. They have Tour Pros like Tiger, Annika and Ernie Els, pro teachers like Butch Harmon and Hank Haney, but their articles seem geared more for an exceptional golfer. Their other articles are hit and miss (I personally hate the driving excursions, with the economy the way it is and all) but the good ones are very good. GD also seems to favor the “Big Name” brands with no scientific evidence.
Golf Tips magazine is kinda like Golf Magazine, but more of a cluster when you look at it. Their tips section is hard to look at sometimes, cause they use composite images as visual aides. It sounds like a good idea, but it looks undecipherable sometimes.
Personally, I rank Golf Mag #1, Gold Digest #2, and Golf Tips a distant #3. You can’t go wrong with either 1 or 2, and they both are offering discounts for a year’s subscription (golf magazine’s $10 for 12 issues).
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