Disc Golf is Fun and That’s the Most Important Thing, Ever

By Josh Woods ~

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Photo Jesse Wright

I recently gave a presentation on disc golf at a sociology conference. At the end, someone asked, “What’s so important about disc golf?”

Of course, she didn’t ask the question quite like this. It was subtler and nicer, but that’s how I took it. Continue reading “Disc Golf is Fun and That’s the Most Important Thing, Ever”

Bad Santa 2.0 Spreads True Meaning of Disc Golf

By Josh Woods ~

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Participants of the Bad Santa 2.0 event played at The Gulch on December 22, 2018 (Hamburg, Michigan).

What makes something funny? Where does fun come from? Is disc golf fun when it’s funny?

Part of me wants to answer these questions by reviewing scientific research on humor. But then, that might not be much fun.

As the poet E. B. White put it, “Humor can be dissected, as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the purely scientific mind.” Continue reading “Bad Santa 2.0 Spreads True Meaning of Disc Golf”