I've been toying with this idea for another dimension of disc golf. You see, expanding the Kewaunee course from 11 to 18 holes has been slow, so my mind has begun to wander. Get this...

How about installing "target zones" throughout the course? These could be something as simple as a hula-hoop, or other bright, open structure that you would have to throw through for extra points. Essentially they would be in the location of a perfect or narrowly achievable throw. They could even be in a high risk, high reward area like an alternate narrow tunnel to the basket through thick bushes. There could be multiple per hole, near the tee, near the basket, or right in the middle of the fairway. One could be set up on the right side as well as left side for both types of arms. Imagine standing on top of a tightly wooded hill, you see the basket 300' straight ahead through a 25' wide fairway, but there is also a 5-10' wide gap on either side where the perfect backhand or sidearm would be greatly rewarded and a slight error would be punished severely. Whether it is a blaze orange 5' diameter ring or a smaller hula-hoop, you'd know where the bonus targets were. Either way, they wouldn't be set up to harm your overall strokes if you did hit them, they'd be placed at ideal flight locations. Would their presence possibly harm a decent throw that may hit the ring?

What I don't have worked out is how you would score it, or if it would be worth the risk in all cases if you were also playing against one another for actual strokes. Maybe they are a bonus, where if you nail it, you make a buddy shotgun a beer, or carry the beer cooler until he hits a target. Or the one who has hit the least bonus targets at the end of the night has to buy dinner for all. What do you guys think? How many would be interested in an alternative spin on the game such as this? What would be a good way of scoring the targets, playing for points, or gaining a "free throw" for hitting one and effectively taking off one stroke?

thats a good idea actually. the pointscould work out lots of ways.. stroke reductions, earning mulligans, seperate score competition, whatever works that day... kinda like non-compulsory mandos and/or object targets inside of the actual hole. seems like it would be good for shot selection, accuracy andcourse management skills. very interesting idea for practice rounds.

the baskets are compulsary, hoops are optional, and there will be three judges on each hole to score 1-5 for difficulty of shot, execution, and grace.

seriously, though, i've always thought it'd be fun to play "golftimate" played with a putter with two baskets about 100 yards apart and whenever a player catches the disc within 50 ft. of their basket the catcher gets a free throw for the "goal". play with as many or as few people as you want.

Nice concepts! That would help so many peoples games out if they had an option of taking the tough route to make up a couple of strokes to catch the opponent.

I like the soccer type game as well.

with the hoops you can make it really interesting and hit the wallets... say $0.50 from everyone on the card if you make the hoop. we play $0.50 skins a lot of times and that seems to liven up the action; of course with the way petrol is going, we may not be able to afford to play skins much longer...

That's it! With gas prices, and road trips hitting the pockets a little deeper, he (or she) who hits the least number of targets, has to fill the tank with gas for the road trip. At those prices, there isn't going to be anyone who doesn't risk rifling a disc through the hula-hoops all over the course.

That sounds like it'd be a lot of fun for a casual pro/am type of tournament.

You could place some hula hoops at high locations like 20 feet up hanging from a tree which could be a target to hit with a tomahawk.
On other holes you could make archways on the ground for roller shots.

What you do for prizes is you have a table full of merchandise (ctp type prizes). For every bonus target you successfully navigate you receive a raffle ticket. At the end of (or even between rounds) the tournament you randomly draw the ticket #s out of a hat to decide you gets what prize. By passing through more targets you increase your chances to get the booty.