If you're like most disc golf players in Yorkton, you're new to the sport like I am, since the Patrick Park Disc Golf course in a new amenity to our city.
That means you head to the teebox without much going for you in terms of throwing technique, and arm speed to really toss your driver for distance.
So the first step is getting a straight drive. Beginners often have sporadic release points, goodness knows I still do at times, and so you want to at least have the disc on your side by going straight.
Discs naturally fade -- go left -- for right-handed throwers, but some fade less dramatically, such as Millennium Discs Polaris LS.
The company website states, "the Polaris LS is one of the sport's best embodiments of distance with control. It can handle a crosswind, and it's always straight and true downwind. When you need pinpoint accuracy off the tee, the Polaris LS won't let you down."
Well folks it does stay straight in most instances, and that's great, and it makes this disc ideal for beginners, but the Polaris can also be used in situations as you advance where straight is a must.
Check put online and you will find courses with teeboxes set in the trees with an extended narrow gap to get through. Digging the Polaris out at this juncture will not be a bad disc choice.
Of course sometimes you want some fade.
Millennium's Orion LF has that covered.
"The Orion LF is Millennium's breakthrough in driving technology. Off the tee it will cut through a headwind, and it'll give you a predictable fade downwind. Together with the Orion LS, it'll answer all your driving needs," states the website.
So it's a case where the two drivers can be a matter of thrower preference. Tee one at Patrick Park.
An open fairway greets throwers, with a barrier of mature trees about two-thirds of the way to the basket. You have two choices to most easily get through the trees.
You can go down the left side of the fairway through a narrow opening in the tree line.
Here is a place for the Polaris, because any fade from the Orion would threaten to take you out-of-bounds and add a stroke to the scorecard early.
The other option is to go right from the tee to a break that then opens to the left.
Grab the Orion and play the fade into the opening here.
Two discs both from Millennium filling two roles. Both worth giving a long look.
The Polaris and Orion are available up to 175 grams in Millennium Standard, Quantum, and Sirius Plastics.
Then to finish off the good drives to the basket, you have to have a putter you are comfortable with.
Millennium offers the Omega Supersoft.
"The Omega Supersoft is the only putter you'll ever need. The Omega SS Putter is soft, sticky, and grippy. Its unique material gives you total control of angle, direction, and speed. It is totally stable in virtually any wind, and its extra softness gives you extra stick when it hits the chains. It's everything you ever wanted in a topnotch putter," states the company website.
There are softer putters out there, but the Omega Supersoft does have the give to absorb some inertia into the chains without success-robbing bounce back.
The plastic has a 'tacky' feel. That is good for grip, and may also be an asset in grabbing the chains a bit more than hard plastics. That is at least the expectation.
The Omega Supersoft is certainly a serviceable, reliable flier, and the soft plastic should ensure a long life in the bag too.
It is available in Original Supersoft plastic up to 175 grams.
The three Millennium discs all certainly have attributes which will make them favourites for beginners, and will remain useful as skills refine.
Check the out these discs in more detail at www.golfdisc.com
NEXT WEEK: A look at a trio of discs from Discmania.
