How long had you played before your first par round?

[Itchy]

I learned one summer on a pitch 'n' putt. Was going under par before the summer was over. Then went to school and the course there is pretty legit. Took me about 5/6 months of playing that course before I got an under par round.

This summer I spent designing a course with a portable basket. Going through Parks & Recs to put it in later this calendar year. I thought I'd made it pretty difficult, but after 4 months of playing the tweaked version of the course I went -2. Only time I'd gone par or under though and there was zero wind that day, so I'm sure that helped.

[new013]

I really started taking disc golf seriously and playing quite a bit in the fall of last year, didn't play that much over winter but I believe sometime in the winter was the first time I hit par at Kentwood, our local pitch and putt. I didn't start keeping track of my scores until 3/5/11 and the first recorded round I have is a 53 at Kentwood.

[Smigles]

About 4 months till my first tournament par round.

I am sure though that I played par before on our local course, but I dont have all the old scoresheets.

[tgm]

I just finally made it under par (53) at Acorn Park, MN last weekend. They had the holes in the winter locations but I was still pretty happy. Previously, my best on the course was +2. This season I've seen the most improvement in my playing.

[zeppelin47]

I've played Acorn a couple of times. I think my best was +2 or +3. It's pretty short, but rather wooded, so I would imagine that playing it would be easier once the leaves fell, but I've only played it in the summer.

[jenb]

Over 6 years to score 54 on an 18 hole course. Posted par is 56, but it's a 46 SSA course. So it's a pretty easy course, but not exactly a pitch and putt.

[UFO]

Interesting thread, but would be better if everybody could state hours played instead of yrs and then applied that to the same 18 hole course. I know guys that play every freakin day - one of their months with consecutive days played would easily equal a weekenders year! And we have lots of courses around here that are tough in the DFW area, those cats that posted about being naturally gifted would still get that @ss handed to them for quite sometime before shooting a par round here. But nevertheless, interesting thread.

[jenb]

Finally went under on my second course ever on Monday. It was my fifth ever round on that course. It's a "beginner" course where par is about a 900 rated round. I was more like 6 over there at a tournament a few weeks ago.

[JR]

That's quite a swing meaning 48 ratings points. Congratulations! Also i read on the PDGA forums that you regularly throw to 350-375', which is great for anyone so for a lady and in such a short time you must have attacked the sport like a rabid animal and trained a lot. Good times What changed to make that 6 stroke improvement and do you think you can keep the new level of playing? 5 times on a course is not much is it partially getting to know how to play the course better or were you playing better?

[Mark Ellis]

My first week. I quickly learned that putting was darn near impossible for me. So my first round at Firefighters (Troy, Michigan) I threw every upshot under the basket and took 18 pars, never risking a putt outside of 10 feet or so. Then the grim reality set in that par at an easy course was going to get me nowhere.

The real question is how long until you shot your first 1000 rated round...

No idea. Probably before a 1000 rated round was invented. Now that I know they exist I need a lot more of them.

[Ismo.L]

A little over two months went before i hit the par score.

[ChrisWoj]

I would say somewhere between my 8th and 10th round on my first course - Ohio Northern University, in Ada, Ohio. It is a fairly easy course - from those short tees the SSA is probably 44 or 43. Keep in mind that before I ever played a course - I'd played the ENTIRE prior fall semester with frisbees and trees/tables/benches as targets. My first tournament a month later I was playing 900 level. But, to answer Chuck's addition to the thread it was another two years I believe before I finally shot a 1000+ rated round at the `07 Hambrick.

[JHern]

I've shot under par on dozens of courses, and don't remember my first...but only a few months ago shot under par at my home course (DeLaveaga), which is around 1000-rated par.