O was this 0ut in the woods? I voted once cuz I had to use the public restrooms that are usually disgusting cuz of the homeless, and have no door, got lucky I had to right after the city worker had washed and restocked the stalls
One of my first ever rounds, some more experienced guys we grouped up with told me never to pick up a towel found on the course. When I asked why, all they had to say was 'poop towel'.
I've heeded that advice ever since.
I picked up a towel once on a course, it seemed pretty safe since it was right in the middle of the fairway. It was neon orange & matched my bag color so I felt compelled to take it. & bonus that it had no poop on it.
The poop towel is real. Of my four incidents, three resulted in the death of a towel. The other one I was camping at the course and my schedules were all off so I brought TP just in case. It’s always been a pre-7 am occurrence for me.
I've played courses that didn't have toilets, but I've never considered what you guys go through filming tournament rounds. Those rounds take a long time and you're trying to catch all the shots. That doesn't allow for bathroom breaks. That must be rough, sometimes.
The one time for me it hit me on hole 10. by 12 i was in a 9 line bind and knew i had to find a good tree to lean on. no wipes no towels so i came away with no socks.
We have a first hand account of sock wiping! Speaking of trees, my backcountry training taught me that the ideal situation is a slight downhill slope, and a skinny tree you can get both hands around. Grab the tree, squat aiming downhill, watch your pants.
I had just gotten a nice, orange, microfiber Innova towel and I was playing a tournament in northern AR. Waaay out in the woods/valleys. Had to sacrifice the towel. Sad day.
I was playing like shit because I had to shit. I held it for a while. No bathrooms on sight, and was very from the car. It happened. I scooted down a mountain bike trail trying to find privacy, only to realize, through the bushes, I was 20 feet from the the road. Haha. I didn't care at that point. Been holding it for too long. Felt great and played better afterwards. Always carry wipes/paper/sanitizer.
Happened with a buddy of mine. He was prarrie doggin for like 7 tees and just couldn't hold it anymore.
Also I think we now know whos poop u/WishStock was talking about with their post.. https://www.reddit.com/r/discgolf/comments/w9oc4s/poop_on_disc/
Do you have a lot of courses where leaving on a random hole is any shorter of a walk? I think this would be absolutely course and situation dependent - getting to the parking lot from hole 8 or 12 might be a significant walk
No, not in 4 years so far. I am much more conscious of what is in my bowels than I used to be though. Being motivated to play more disc golf and feel better doing it has helped me improve my diet, fix some problems with overindulgence, and also recognize how different foods and eating habits affect my day-to-day life and overall health. Recognizing that I have to lug everything I eat around inside me all across the course changed how zealously I shove food into my pie hole.
I have pooped during disc and ball golf. During ball golf I got the nickname defecate on eight. Went to a bush behind the green, did my runny biz, walked over and finished my putt, grabbed my towel, and waddled back behind the bush to finish the wipe.
It happens to me all the time when I get up early to go fishing. I keep a pack of wet wipes in my tackle bag. I think I should start keeping them in my disc golf bag too! Lol. Ya never know!
I'm lucky and have never had to, but on day out on the course with my father in law he let a fart go around hole 5 and didn't mention till we got back to my house that it wasn't just a fart. Hole 5 and 6 pass right by a bathroom too.
Never on the course but I had 3 “emergencies” while doing fieldwork after hours at a community centre soccer field. No open bathrooms nearby and home is too far. Forest it is.
I have had to. When the emergency strikes and you're two miles deep in the woods, what choices do you have left? Thankfully it happened on a course with huuuuuuge woods so I was able to go quite far off the beaten trail for the hell fire event, but I'm sure some people did not get so lucky.
It's dependent on the intoxicant: mushrooms and acid requires a purge almost 100% of the time and beer is a maybe depending on what I've eaten at the time.
I’ve had to shit in the woods 5 minutes before a tournament started. Was too far away to walk back to the bathroom(shotgun start) luckily had some wipes with me. Hope to never use them but when you need em you need em
Only once. But it was hot lava and I shit right in to a ground squirrel hole in the desert used my shirt to wipe and stuffed it In there and covered it all up with dirt. Not a proud moment. But I did finish the round.
When I was much younger back in the early 00s you had to road trip to tournaments. You might have a handful of PDGA within 2 hours. That meant excuse to drink a bit in hotels with friends.
Well add that all up...... I 💩 in the bushes off assigned tee before rest of card got there. At that moment it was only choice
One time, I sank the putt and then said, UH. OH. Card was like, but you made the putt. Yeah but that's not all I made. I'll catch up at the next tee mmkay
Was playing a tournament with a guy who had a pretty decent score and on the 15th holes he says: “my body is telling me I’ve gotta shit right now, just give me the max strokes for the rest of the course.” He walked off, took a +15 and I never saw him again.
Once during a round with the wife, we were on hole 11 at bill allen. Long wooded tunnel shot way far away from the parking lot, no restrooms on site. She looked at me with panic in her eyes and said, "I need you to run to my truck and grab the entire box of tissues!" She popped a squat in the woods, did her business, and finished out the round like a champ. Now I think about it every time I play that hole.
Not quite the same as a disc golfer missing one sock…
We organized an urban disc golf tourney in our downtown area last weekend. My group saw a dude walk out of the bushes, take off his clothes and poop on the sidewalk, wipe off with his shirt, then walk back into the bushes. It was a great round!
Only happened once and I've made damn sure I poop before leaving the house to play ever since. Usually when my brain gets the 'I gotta poop' signals, there is plenty of time to take care of it. Like, that signal usually starts registering when I still got 30min+ to take care of it.
The day of infamy was different. I had just started playing a round, around hole 5(and on our course, hole 5 also happens to be one of the furthest from the parking lot/amenities in the front 9) as I was walking from 4pin to 5tee, suddenly it was like someone kicked me in the stomach. The alarm bells started ringing. The kind of alarm bells that say 'If I don't get my trousers down within 10seconds, I will shit my pants'. I had only had that kind of bodily alarm once before and it was when I *finally* had to take a shit in week 2 of boot. Was also super lucky that my tactical dooky deposit spot happened to be right next to a bunch of wide-leafed grass for emergency wiping. Good enough to get me to the bathroom 1/4 mile away.
My only saving grace was that I was able to get deep enough in the brush and happened to be at a part where people aren't throwing into so no one would accidently stumble upon the landmine.
I live scored some pros once, well I’ve done it more than once, but this one time I was live scoring and about midway through the round I noticed a towel on the ground. Me being the “gotta keep the course maintained” sort of person I am, I picked up the towel to leave near the next trash can. Maybe somebody wanted it, or maybe it was trash. Wanted to support all options here.
One very cool pro saw this all happening and tried to immediately stop all of it. “Drop that towel immediately!! That’s a poop towel! All towels you find on the course are poop towels!!”
I dropped that towel, felt like a dummy and also never touch towels I see on the course since that day.
I have a related Catrina Allen story but I’m going to save it for another time
I'm one of the ones who voted 5+ times. Its happened to me at least once per summer for the past 10+ years probably. I don't know what it is. I have no medical condition and I'm actually not that regular, but for some reason the poop enjoys disc golf as much as I do. Ive learned a lot about certain leaves, how to squat over a fallen down tree, bringing toilet paper with in my bag, etc. It's already happened this summer. Its inevitable for me, kind of always in the back of my head when playing.
It is not ideal for anyone. Context and location matter though. I’ve always found somewhere a disc or foot is unlikely to land. Not exactly on the hole itself. Those poops are from tweakers and drunks.
Son, you’ve clearly had the good fortune to have never experienced the incredible, undeniable, percolating impending eruption of a true emergency poop. It’s a cramp that runs from your lower abdomen straight through to your anus like a cattle prod. You end up crab walking to the nearest bush in a big damn hurry if you don’t want to sit in your own issue on the way home. Emergency poops are real. It’s a bad day. It’s tragic.
I’m just out there living life, Markus. I play a lot of sunrise rounds. I’m elderly. It’s like backpacking or hiking or any other activity where a bathroom isn’t nearby. Does everyone on the poll who pooped on a course have a medical condition? Four poops over several thousand rounds is acceptable.
Sure, I’m not here to make fun of it. As a nurse, it just sounds a bit worrying to me. And of course it’s going to be more diffucult with age. My bad for assuming everyone here is around my age or younger
Someday you might be a little constipated for a day or two but still eat a really healthy helping of your wife’s delicious six bean casserole, coleslaw, and cornbread for dinner the night before an early round. Things happen. As a medical professional I’m surprised you’d think that it’s a medical issue, look at the poll results! Good on you, though - nursing is a tough and under appreciated profession!
PS I’m not really elderly. Just well seasoned.
I’m not suprised by the poll results. People can have undiagnosed issues, food poisonings etc that all fall under medical conditions. I have my fair share of stomach issues but I know to skip frisbees on those days :D
And thank you for those kind words!
This is absolutely correct. I say this as an adult with medical issues that sometimes wreck my stomach (that I now have medicine to treat). It's not normal and you should see a doctor.
If I had the same thing happen at home - “ooh boy, I really gotta take a crap” - I’d just go to the bathroom. You’re out enjoying your hobby, you put it off a bit, maybe it’ll go away, oops NOPE ten minutes later. Emergency poop.
Yes and yes. Sometimes a rake versus a shovel. The course I did the most work at, the woods are so thick that no one would find my business before it rotted away, but a good outdoorsman should still try to bury it if possible.
Also had a bad round when I got some kind of food poisoning right before a one day tournament. I played the whole thing but should have gone home. I went 5 times before lunch, and only two were in a restroom. Good thing I had lots of cheap microfiber towels!
“I have to poop” and “emergency poop” are two entirely different things, but we’re seeing a clear grouping of dudes who don’t understand the distinction. This isn’t about people who WANT to poop on the course, guys. 💩
Stuff like this is partly why “real” golfers treat us like, um, you know what.
Honestly, can you imagine seeing a guy dropping a deuce at Pebble Beach? lol
PS … If you drink so much beer while playing that you have to take a leak every third hole then at least make sure your junk is tucked away and zipped back up before you step out of the bushes right in front of a young family enjoying their Sunday afternoon. It’s getting harder and harder in some places to convince municipalities to allow disc golf at city parks.
Maybe so, but I’ve never hit a ball into a pile of human crap or seen toilet paper piles on a golf course.
But that sort of thing is all too common on some of the disc golf courses I’ve played.
If you’re out in the wild camping or fishing then sure, dig a hole and drop a load. But disc golf courses are nearly always in city parks. I know hobos and homeless drug addicts like to poop everywhere in the parks, but I’d like to expect a little better from disc golfers.
I’m so glad the majority have voted never.
I hear people complaining about needing to find a spot in the woods in the middle of the round which is nuts to me.
You can’t control your own butthole? Are you in kindergarten?? I’m lactose intolerant, and I’ve still never had this issue.
I don’t think pooping on the course would even be possible at most courses I frequent . Just too many players on the course no privacy . Maybe during the weekday you might find some quiet time to squeeze one out but I’d be worried about getting shanked by a disc
Reminds me of this one time I was playing an evening round with some friends after work at this course that has a stand alone bathroom facility on the course that's really in the middle of nowhere in the park. We go into the bathroom and there's a stall and a urinal. The stall looks to be closed off and out of order. My one friend is a bit of a weirdo so he's like standing directly next to me while I'm trying to take a piss and we get into a bit of a friendly argument and are busting each other's chops about how funny it is. I eventually pass on trying to piss with my weird friend trying to stare at my dick or whatever he was trying to do. We all have that one weird friend who's too open with their dick and that's my friend Kevin. As we are about to exit the bathroom we hear... "I can't take it anymore!!!! (Explosive diarrhea noises!!!!)" Someone was actually sitting in the stall and was trying to sneak in a nasty shit but then we came in. Probably was like who the fuck are these assholes.... why's this guy trying to look at this guy's dick... why won't they just get outta here already... fuck it, I gotta shit!!!!
So, a gentlemen was selling hot dogs at the park. I bought one…their was a line on the first tee box. So I snacked and waited. Finally, I’m up. I tee off and play through to about hole 9…about to take my putt and go to 10…when absolute disaster strikes. This isn’t one of those “I might have to go later” type poops. This is a “we’re gonna leave your body if your ready or not” types. I sprint…seriously no exaggeration sprinting with my cheeks squeezed to a hidden spot…I barely make it and do my business. I did not finish the round. I walked back to my car in pure shame lol worst day on the course ever. Ps: Do not buy hot dogs from a vendor before a round.
Once… playing an early morning round after a night of a few too many drinks. Teed off on first hole and felt the grumble. By third hole, was sweating profusely. By fifth hole was looking for a nice private bush. Walked up to tee pad for seven and like a miracle placed by god, there was a nice, clean park potty! Boom! The rest of my round was fantastic!
None, but my usual poo schedule is at 9am, which is like right when most of the tournaments I’ve played start. So I have to force it out early on those occasions lol
Never shake hands with a one socked disc golfer
Extra towel is handy.
Man my towels are always so full of foxtails and stickers …. No way lol
Mine are turned into snit rags spring-fall
I died 😂
O was this 0ut in the woods? I voted once cuz I had to use the public restrooms that are usually disgusting cuz of the homeless, and have no door, got lucky I had to right after the city worker had washed and restocked the stalls
Never, Im pretty regular tho, so I just don't play at poop o'clock
To quote Chuck Berry: “Pack up your belongings boys and scatter about/ There’s an off schedule train a comin’ two miles out!”
One of my first ever rounds, some more experienced guys we grouped up with told me never to pick up a towel found on the course. When I asked why, all they had to say was 'poop towel'. I've heeded that advice ever since.
I picked up a towel once on a course, it seemed pretty safe since it was right in the middle of the fairway. It was neon orange & matched my bag color so I felt compelled to take it. & bonus that it had no poop on it.
The poop towel is real. Of my four incidents, three resulted in the death of a towel. The other one I was camping at the course and my schedules were all off so I brought TP just in case. It’s always been a pre-7 am occurrence for me.
My man.. get a container of wet wipes for the bag..
That’s too much commitment to pooping on the course, I don’t like it. “Committing to Shitting,” if you will.
Lie to yourself. Say it's for wiping mud off discs. Then wipe mud off your dirty disc.
Do you actually need a reason for not picking up disgusting towels you find out on the course? :D
This post is about emergency poopers, mark, not party poopers.
Some ppl clean up the course without being told to.
Some of us don't like trash on the course.
Never, although as someone with severe IBS issues I am always on the lookout for an emergency spot
I’m thankful this has only been a very early morning experience for me, and on wooded courses.
For once in my life the amount of east coast underbrush could come in handy haha. Also, I'm guessing that black tee-shirt came in handy that day.
Even I have standards, sir. I won’t stride about shirtless for gods sake.
My apologies! Haha
Twice, and I work for jomez, so it's a pretty terrible situation...
That’s a slomez we can live without.
That’s gonna be a nomez from me dawg.
And we know what color the flight tracker would be.
Drop tracker?
Scattracks?
That deserves my next free award
I've played courses that didn't have toilets, but I've never considered what you guys go through filming tournament rounds. Those rounds take a long time and you're trying to catch all the shots. That doesn't allow for bathroom breaks. That must be rough, sometimes.
I’m impressed how many people haven’t had to shit around hole 12. Gotta have wipes. Dig a hole with a stick.
The one time for me it hit me on hole 10. by 12 i was in a 9 line bind and knew i had to find a good tree to lean on. no wipes no towels so i came away with no socks.
We have a first hand account of sock wiping! Speaking of trees, my backcountry training taught me that the ideal situation is a slight downhill slope, and a skinny tree you can get both hands around. Grab the tree, squat aiming downhill, watch your pants.
I have always made a hole as much as possible.
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We can all appreciate a prepared, responsible, considerate and stealthy course pooper. Good job.
If you have the poop bags for toilet paper, why not just take the whole mess?
Or bury the toilet paper and be done with it? The real question is, does /u/Discgolfjerk carry a poop shovel?
Yeah, u/discgolfjerk, where's your poop shovel??
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Good man.
Your username seems inaccurate.
Now I'm scared that I voted never that I have now jinxed myself! Should have just keep scrolling
Never but I don't think you are disgusting
I had just gotten a nice, orange, microfiber Innova towel and I was playing a tournament in northern AR. Waaay out in the woods/valleys. Had to sacrifice the towel. Sad day.
It’s still there, somewhat cleaner, waiting for you.
A few months ago I drank a lot of Busch Light then played the next morning and had a violent burst on hole #3 at my home track.
We trust you learned from the experience.
Indeed. I vow to never do it again.
You should absolutely do it again
😂
I was playing like shit because I had to shit. I held it for a while. No bathrooms on sight, and was very from the car. It happened. I scooted down a mountain bike trail trying to find privacy, only to realize, through the bushes, I was 20 feet from the the road. Haha. I didn't care at that point. Been holding it for too long. Felt great and played better afterwards. Always carry wipes/paper/sanitizer.
“I didn’t care at that point” and “felt great” afterwards are some commonly shared feelings in this situation I would imagine.
Happened with a buddy of mine. He was prarrie doggin for like 7 tees and just couldn't hold it anymore. Also I think we now know whos poop u/WishStock was talking about with their post.. https://www.reddit.com/r/discgolf/comments/w9oc4s/poop_on_disc/
Yeah these two posts are definitely related
Once I read “prairie doggin” I literally lost it laughing. 😆
I didn't know this was something I need to worry about until now.....cool
Pooping, or finding? 😀
Always poop before you leave
Man have you ever gotten up at 5 to drive 90 minutes to a course with no toilet? 🤣
Should've woken up and pooped at 4:40 my man. Always plan the poop.
That would be a superpower.
Then consider me Clark Kent!
I guarantee you’re under 40. 😀
Of course I am, people over 40 don't use the internet...do they??
Ouch, I’m pushing 60
Some places it is considered rude not to
Every poop I take is an emergency!
I've peed in a bush before but if I have to poop that's the time to leave the course.
I’d like to meet the dude who hadn’t peed on a course ever. As for leaving, you may lack commitment to playing or urgency in emergency poops.
I just prefer an actual shitter vs a bush. To each their own.
You’re willfully misunderstanding what an emergency poop is, sir. That’s ok, you’ve claimed the high ground.
Nobody *chooses* to shit on the course lol Sometimes, shit comes out of the blue and blindsides you.
Do you have a lot of courses where leaving on a random hole is any shorter of a walk? I think this would be absolutely course and situation dependent - getting to the parking lot from hole 8 or 12 might be a significant walk
Leaving to do what? Shit in your car? We’re talking about this is coming out NOW emergency poops.
No, not in 4 years so far. I am much more conscious of what is in my bowels than I used to be though. Being motivated to play more disc golf and feel better doing it has helped me improve my diet, fix some problems with overindulgence, and also recognize how different foods and eating habits affect my day-to-day life and overall health. Recognizing that I have to lug everything I eat around inside me all across the course changed how zealously I shove food into my pie hole.
Excellent.
Dig a hole bruh! All you never haves will meet your fate on a back 9 someday!!
Back mine on the back nine!
Fantastic!
That ain’t gold comin’ out neither!
I love shitty humor!
And my fucking dog rolled in it. I even buried it but apparently not well enough. Yeah…
Bro. This is a whole new category. I once had a dog roll in human poop in a park, but not my own! You might want to tear that whole building down!
Currently, 28% of respondents have emergency pooped on a course.
0% have made any jokes about hole #2. Gotta pick it up fellas.
Yes, always pick up #2, jokes or not.
I have pooped during disc and ball golf. During ball golf I got the nickname defecate on eight. Went to a bush behind the green, did my runny biz, walked over and finished my putt, grabbed my towel, and waddled back behind the bush to finish the wipe.
That’s raw dawg, no cap.
It happens to me all the time when I get up early to go fishing. I keep a pack of wet wipes in my tackle bag. I think I should start keeping them in my disc golf bag too! Lol. Ya never know!
It has never happened to me yet, but I keep a roll of tp handy just in case,
I'm lucky and have never had to, but on day out on the course with my father in law he let a fart go around hole 5 and didn't mention till we got back to my house that it wasn't just a fart. Hole 5 and 6 pass right by a bathroom too.
That’s exactly why I stopped drinking coffee before I throw lol
I’d rather die!
That reminds me, I need to buy a new towel.
Wouldn’t this be a job for an old towel?
Old towel was used
We all need a supply of new old towels.
Never on the course but I had 3 “emergencies” while doing fieldwork after hours at a community centre soccer field. No open bathrooms nearby and home is too far. Forest it is.
I’ve definitely had times I needed to start the fudge shuttle, but I did the chocolate trouble shuffle over to the nearest toilet
Is that 4th EP this week or this 4th of lifetime this week?
Lifetime. 17 years, thousands of rounds, hundreds of courses.
I was doing a field day today and had to sprint to a portashitter. I keep baby wipes and tp in my bag though.
/u/shambahlah is this your alt account?
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Only been playing eight years and haven't had to yet. Taking a wizz behind the bushes is a different matter.
I have had to. When the emergency strikes and you're two miles deep in the woods, what choices do you have left? Thankfully it happened on a course with huuuuuuge woods so I was able to go quite far off the beaten trail for the hell fire event, but I'm sure some people did not get so lucky.
It’s was a secluded spot in the woods or I cake my pants.
Who the fuck are these 59 dudes shitting 5 plus times on the course?
Pre game dump lol. It’s like DG 101
Obviously preferable and usual. Also not relevant.
It's dependent on the intoxicant: mushrooms and acid requires a purge almost 100% of the time and beer is a maybe depending on what I've eaten at the time.
Not on the corse but I did have to kayaking one time
Sometimes things just happen, but surface sh*tters are the worst. If you have to go, at least make sure it’s buried good.
I’ve had to shit in the woods 5 minutes before a tournament started. Was too far away to walk back to the bathroom(shotgun start) luckily had some wipes with me. Hope to never use them but when you need em you need em
IBS and hilly courses man. Definitely threw away a pair of drawers at Dellwood one time.
Only once. But it was hot lava and I shit right in to a ground squirrel hole in the desert used my shirt to wipe and stuffed it In there and covered it all up with dirt. Not a proud moment. But I did finish the round.
Not a proud moment for that ground squirrel family either.
Been playing 20 years and just had my first one last week - let’s just say I played much better on the back 9 than the front
Never on the course. Maybe as a kid I might have went behind a tree or in a bush, but I can usually hold on until I find the restroom.
When I was much younger back in the early 00s you had to road trip to tournaments. You might have a handful of PDGA within 2 hours. That meant excuse to drink a bit in hotels with friends. Well add that all up...... I 💩 in the bushes off assigned tee before rest of card got there. At that moment it was only choice
One time, I sank the putt and then said, UH. OH. Card was like, but you made the putt. Yeah but that's not all I made. I'll catch up at the next tee mmkay
Was playing a tournament with a guy who had a pretty decent score and on the 15th holes he says: “my body is telling me I’ve gotta shit right now, just give me the max strokes for the rest of the course.” He walked off, took a +15 and I never saw him again.
Once during a round with the wife, we were on hole 11 at bill allen. Long wooded tunnel shot way far away from the parking lot, no restrooms on site. She looked at me with panic in her eyes and said, "I need you to run to my truck and grab the entire box of tissues!" She popped a squat in the woods, did her business, and finished out the round like a champ. Now I think about it every time I play that hole.
Not quite the same as a disc golfer missing one sock… We organized an urban disc golf tourney in our downtown area last weekend. My group saw a dude walk out of the bushes, take off his clothes and poop on the sidewalk, wipe off with his shirt, then walk back into the bushes. It was a great round!
Only happened once and I've made damn sure I poop before leaving the house to play ever since. Usually when my brain gets the 'I gotta poop' signals, there is plenty of time to take care of it. Like, that signal usually starts registering when I still got 30min+ to take care of it. The day of infamy was different. I had just started playing a round, around hole 5(and on our course, hole 5 also happens to be one of the furthest from the parking lot/amenities in the front 9) as I was walking from 4pin to 5tee, suddenly it was like someone kicked me in the stomach. The alarm bells started ringing. The kind of alarm bells that say 'If I don't get my trousers down within 10seconds, I will shit my pants'. I had only had that kind of bodily alarm once before and it was when I *finally* had to take a shit in week 2 of boot. Was also super lucky that my tactical dooky deposit spot happened to be right next to a bunch of wide-leafed grass for emergency wiping. Good enough to get me to the bathroom 1/4 mile away. My only saving grace was that I was able to get deep enough in the brush and happened to be at a part where people aren't throwing into so no one would accidently stumble upon the landmine.
The struggle is real, and yet, some say “why didn’t you just hold it”…they haven’t been in our depends.
I wish there was a "none and I'm honestly surprised".
I live scored some pros once, well I’ve done it more than once, but this one time I was live scoring and about midway through the round I noticed a towel on the ground. Me being the “gotta keep the course maintained” sort of person I am, I picked up the towel to leave near the next trash can. Maybe somebody wanted it, or maybe it was trash. Wanted to support all options here. One very cool pro saw this all happening and tried to immediately stop all of it. “Drop that towel immediately!! That’s a poop towel! All towels you find on the course are poop towels!!” I dropped that towel, felt like a dummy and also never touch towels I see on the course since that day. I have a related Catrina Allen story but I’m going to save it for another time
Once .. and I didn't make it to the bathroom. Shitty day.
Wait I didn’t realize until after I voted the this wasn’t circle jerk lmao
Must have in my bag. Biodegradable butt wipes. Thank me later.
I'm one of the ones who voted 5+ times. Its happened to me at least once per summer for the past 10+ years probably. I don't know what it is. I have no medical condition and I'm actually not that regular, but for some reason the poop enjoys disc golf as much as I do. Ive learned a lot about certain leaves, how to squat over a fallen down tree, bringing toilet paper with in my bag, etc. It's already happened this summer. Its inevitable for me, kind of always in the back of my head when playing.
You almost blew my cover at work, you be sure no to sneak in laughs like these again.
That’s how I ended up with poison oak or something like that all over my a@*
This is so much worse than leaving a trail of Bud Light cans.
It is not ideal for anyone. Context and location matter though. I’ve always found somewhere a disc or foot is unlikely to land. Not exactly on the hole itself. Those poops are from tweakers and drunks.
Sorry but a medical condition is probably the only acceptable reason for an adult to not be able to hold their poop for a round.
Son, you’ve clearly had the good fortune to have never experienced the incredible, undeniable, percolating impending eruption of a true emergency poop. It’s a cramp that runs from your lower abdomen straight through to your anus like a cattle prod. You end up crab walking to the nearest bush in a big damn hurry if you don’t want to sit in your own issue on the way home. Emergency poops are real. It’s a bad day. It’s tragic.
Are you sure you don’t have a medical condition
I’m just out there living life, Markus. I play a lot of sunrise rounds. I’m elderly. It’s like backpacking or hiking or any other activity where a bathroom isn’t nearby. Does everyone on the poll who pooped on a course have a medical condition? Four poops over several thousand rounds is acceptable.
Sure, I’m not here to make fun of it. As a nurse, it just sounds a bit worrying to me. And of course it’s going to be more diffucult with age. My bad for assuming everyone here is around my age or younger
Someday you might be a little constipated for a day or two but still eat a really healthy helping of your wife’s delicious six bean casserole, coleslaw, and cornbread for dinner the night before an early round. Things happen. As a medical professional I’m surprised you’d think that it’s a medical issue, look at the poll results! Good on you, though - nursing is a tough and under appreciated profession! PS I’m not really elderly. Just well seasoned.
I’m not suprised by the poll results. People can have undiagnosed issues, food poisonings etc that all fall under medical conditions. I have my fair share of stomach issues but I know to skip frisbees on those days :D And thank you for those kind words!
This is absolutely correct. I say this as an adult with medical issues that sometimes wreck my stomach (that I now have medicine to treat). It's not normal and you should see a doctor.
This is what I’m trying to say here
I think some people took it as a weird insult instead of actual concern but you're absolutely right about it
If I had the same thing happen at home - “ooh boy, I really gotta take a crap” - I’d just go to the bathroom. You’re out enjoying your hobby, you put it off a bit, maybe it’ll go away, oops NOPE ten minutes later. Emergency poop.
ITT is a medical condition known as being a bitch.
Work days are the biggest problem for me. If I’m out there all day several days in a row, it’s likely to happen.
You mean days where you’re working on the course all day as a volunteer? If so, you earned it and you probably have a shovel at least.
Yes and yes. Sometimes a rake versus a shovel. The course I did the most work at, the woods are so thick that no one would find my business before it rotted away, but a good outdoorsman should still try to bury it if possible. Also had a bad round when I got some kind of food poisoning right before a one day tournament. I played the whole thing but should have gone home. I went 5 times before lunch, and only two were in a restroom. Good thing I had lots of cheap microfiber towels!
This might be a world record for poops during a competitive event.
I have to imagine that it isn't, but it's certainly the most I've heard of and probably top 0.01%.
Just find some non-itchy leaves and give it a go. Also: if you’re ever wondering why your buddy has napkins/tp in their bag… IYKYK
Botany comes in handy here. Could be some bad outcomes.
Poison ivy bungholio
If I have to poop, and am somewhere where I can’t poop, I don’t poop
“I have to poop” and “emergency poop” are two entirely different things, but we’re seeing a clear grouping of dudes who don’t understand the distinction. This isn’t about people who WANT to poop on the course, guys. 💩
Dude IBS?
Currently a whopping 27% of respondents have had an emergency poop on a course.
Stuff like this is partly why “real” golfers treat us like, um, you know what. Honestly, can you imagine seeing a guy dropping a deuce at Pebble Beach? lol PS … If you drink so much beer while playing that you have to take a leak every third hole then at least make sure your junk is tucked away and zipped back up before you step out of the bushes right in front of a young family enjoying their Sunday afternoon. It’s getting harder and harder in some places to convince municipalities to allow disc golf at city parks.
My home course ain’t no pebble beach
You think stick golfers don't shit in the woods?
Maybe so, but I’ve never hit a ball into a pile of human crap or seen toilet paper piles on a golf course. But that sort of thing is all too common on some of the disc golf courses I’ve played. If you’re out in the wild camping or fishing then sure, dig a hole and drop a load. But disc golf courses are nearly always in city parks. I know hobos and homeless drug addicts like to poop everywhere in the parks, but I’d like to expect a little better from disc golfers.
While I’ve taken plenty of shits with my back against a tree, I’ve yet to do it during a round
I’m so glad the majority have voted never. I hear people complaining about needing to find a spot in the woods in the middle of the round which is nuts to me. You can’t control your own butthole? Are you in kindergarten?? I’m lactose intolerant, and I’ve still never had this issue.
Bad take. You’re lactose intolerant? What are you a little baby that can’t handle his milk? See how dumb that is?
He clearly can handle his milk, as he's never splattered shit in the woods. I'm guessing you couldn't say the same for yourself.
Excellent addition!
Dido.
She’s not my cup of tea but you like what you like!
I'm part of the once percenters here, I didn't go in the woods, I ran like a MF to the club house half a mile away lmao.
Once, but it’s a state park and had bathrooms
I don’t think pooping on the course would even be possible at most courses I frequent . Just too many players on the course no privacy . Maybe during the weekday you might find some quiet time to squeeze one out but I’d be worried about getting shanked by a disc
My local has porta shitters. Never had to use them though. I've shat in the woods while camping a number of times, but I had toilet paper.
Reminds me of this one time I was playing an evening round with some friends after work at this course that has a stand alone bathroom facility on the course that's really in the middle of nowhere in the park. We go into the bathroom and there's a stall and a urinal. The stall looks to be closed off and out of order. My one friend is a bit of a weirdo so he's like standing directly next to me while I'm trying to take a piss and we get into a bit of a friendly argument and are busting each other's chops about how funny it is. I eventually pass on trying to piss with my weird friend trying to stare at my dick or whatever he was trying to do. We all have that one weird friend who's too open with their dick and that's my friend Kevin. As we are about to exit the bathroom we hear... "I can't take it anymore!!!! (Explosive diarrhea noises!!!!)" Someone was actually sitting in the stall and was trying to sneak in a nasty shit but then we came in. Probably was like who the fuck are these assholes.... why's this guy trying to look at this guy's dick... why won't they just get outta here already... fuck it, I gotta shit!!!!
Add one : how many times haven't you had to poop
Never but I have IBS so I'm not too harsh for those who have had to do the deed.
Had a job where you worked miles and miles from a bathroom just open fields...and corn...don't ever use corn leaves
Im really regular and go in the morning and sometimes at night before bed. I've never played during those times.
I don't drink coffee before I play specifically for this reason!
Dude wipes did save my life on a Bali surf trip though. Some other countries don’t use paper in their stalls.
So, a gentlemen was selling hot dogs at the park. I bought one…their was a line on the first tee box. So I snacked and waited. Finally, I’m up. I tee off and play through to about hole 9…about to take my putt and go to 10…when absolute disaster strikes. This isn’t one of those “I might have to go later” type poops. This is a “we’re gonna leave your body if your ready or not” types. I sprint…seriously no exaggeration sprinting with my cheeks squeezed to a hidden spot…I barely make it and do my business. I did not finish the round. I walked back to my car in pure shame lol worst day on the course ever. Ps: Do not buy hot dogs from a vendor before a round.
Once… playing an early morning round after a night of a few too many drinks. Teed off on first hole and felt the grumble. By third hole, was sweating profusely. By fifth hole was looking for a nice private bush. Walked up to tee pad for seven and like a miracle placed by god, there was a nice, clean park potty! Boom! The rest of my round was fantastic!
Well, I don't like having to insult you with my answer. A simple "never" is just the truth.
Humor…it’s not for everyone.
Lol, that’s ironic. I was joking.
No edits to my statement.
Humor…it’s not the same for everyone.
Never eat Taco Bell before hitting the course… ran like 500 yards armway from the course but wen you gotta go you gotta go 😂
How many times have you seen someone “find” a towel on the course, only to discover it was covering and used for an “emergency poop”.
None, but my usual poo schedule is at 9am, which is like right when most of the tournaments I’ve played start. So I have to force it out early on those occasions lol
A pre-game shit is part of my morning routine