Flippin' Discs

In my years of chasing the little white ball around the course and the 3+ years that I have enjoyed playing disc golf, there is one shot that I simply don’t have in my repertoire. The pitch out. During my white ball days, my family and friends often heard me refer to what has affectionately been known as “The Uncle Dennis Rule.” He and I talked golf on a few occasions and he was a big proponent of taking your medicine on bad shots and putting yourself into position to take a good one, instead of compounding your troubles. Essentially, he said, you hit a ball from a perfect spot off a tee you placed down and missed a fairway that was 40 yards wide. Now, you’re going to take an awkward stance from a less-than-perfect lie and try to make that ball, with a swing you haven’t practiced, get through an opening the size of a postcard to advance on the hole. Pitch out. Give yourself a chance on the next one. I only played a few rounds of golf with my Uncle Dennis. It was many less than I w...

My relationship with disc golf…well, it’s complicated. We’ve made some changes during my 3 years at Cape Fear Games. Some changes were made voluntarily, others, not so much. When I first started, we would have a small selection of each mold and sell down to 1 or 2, then order more, but we started to build a little back stock, slowly. Then 2020 came along and killed that. I hated to be the guy hoarding toilet paper, but it seemed much less self-serving than it was taking care of our local disc golf crew by ordering a little more than we would need right away, just in case it might be awhile until we saw them again. This past year provided even more challenges from the different brands. Here’s a little breakdown from the vendors you have come to look for at CFG. Innova We used to have about 60 discs in our overstock area in back, duplication of some DX Rocs, maybe some Champion Mako3s, a few star Valkyries, just a mix that kept the rack from being cluttered. It also allowed us to...

A long time ago... When I took the inventory position in May of 2019 at Cape Fear Games, it was based on the fact that I had some experience with and a passion for disc golf. Heath Newton, the owner of CFG, disc golfer and gamer extraordinaire passed me the torch of delivering in the disc golf section of the store. In my wildest dreams, I could not have imagined where we would be at the end of 2021. The journey has been incredible as 2020 created unique challenges for everyone in disc golf and by the time 2021 rolled in, we were ready to do just about whatever it was going to take to show our local golfers (and visitors alike,) how amazing this sport is and how much is out there. We expanded our racks, live streamed Discraft Retailer Mystery box openings on Twitch and Facebook, and endured all sorts of shipping delays and re-vamped timelines on new releases. Discmania started making their own discs. We added AGL and expanded the offerings from the Dynamic Discs, Latitude 64 and Inn...