Why do people get offended by others who choose to putt with a driver?

I have been playing disc golf for 27 years now and I like to bring my own style to the game. When I started playing, it was on a course that we made up in Ames, Iowa at a park called the Arboretum. We played with the old Whamo 165 gram discs and our course was all objects. We had one par 2 and a par 5 with an alternate route. Fence posts, manhole covers and trees were the rest of our targets. I am definitely old school. My question is this, "Why do people constantly try to tell me that I must putt with a putter?" When I took up disc golf on a real course I had to determine which discs I liked and which did not work for me. I have been playing disc golf on courses for the past 14 years and I now know which discs appeal to me. My bag has only drivers. A midrange is just a driver that is thrown at a slower speed and a putter is a driver that goes in the hole. I know that by saying this I will probably get slammed by angry responses, because I find a lot of people who don't have open minds and don't want to accept anything different. Yet I see people do all kinds of different shots every day and I don't question their methods. The key to my method is speed and distance. Know your discs and know how to throw them. Putting is really in the mind more than in the hand. If you want to make that putt you will make it. Just do it! And stop hassling other people who do things differently than you.

[phillip c loyd]

i hear you i putt with a roc and they think its silly. but im still whipping them soundly
so i think they should relax untill they shoot good enough golf 980 or better till then
giving advice is alittle silly 27 plus years you know what works for you
30+phil

[Dane Pickens]

Well first of all alot of times I will putt a mid-range with a small circumfrance, at short distance. The Skeeter would be a fine reference. Putters do have an advantage though, and you should really have an open mind yourself and try one out. Drivers tend to get damaged by repeated strikes on the chains. Thus in turn the driver disc will fly different than origanal. Putters come in many styles than when you first started. Some putters you can bend and fold up in your back pocket, and others are hard and grippy similar to a driver. The key is the putters will stay straight for longer periods of flight. This is due to the blunt edge creating friction enough to slow the spin. This effect creates a more stable flight. Drivers will always tend to fade left more than a mid or putter, depending on the thrower's form. Get serious and get a putter. Do you see Tiger Woods putt with a 3 wood.

[Jacob Allen Perdeus]

i guess it depends on what style you have but you will never see a pro throwing a driver for every putt so its up to you if you want to do it the right way or if you have to be a little baby about it and do it your own way cause you want to be different from everyone... and yeah i would love to see you in a putting challenge when your using a driver for a putter... anyday

[Terry "the Pirate" Calhoun]

At the first One-Disc Challenge (a3disc and Discraft) the one disc was a hugely overstable driver, but everyone had to do every throw, including putts, with it. I had the best score in the Am division (more than 100 people) and loved putting with it.

I use regular putters now, but have always wondered, since, how consistent I could be over time with an overstable driver disc as my putter.