Starkey, Dr. Bob, and Ms. Robertson

Starkey, David. "Eighteen holes of frisbee golf." Arkansas Review: A Journal of Delta Studies 27.2 (1996): 17

This short story, entitled Eighteen Holes of Frisbee Golf, follows author David Starkey and one of his colleagues Dr. Bob as they play a round of Frisbee golf. Starkey explains that they had recently been playing "...once a week during the semester, almost every other day during vacations (Starkey 4)." As the holes progress, he describes the tricky shots that they both have to make. He also is very descriptive when it comes to Dr. Bob's frustration, because apparently Dr. Bob usually plays very well, but this round was not turning out to be his best. Something else Starkey does is he keeps score all along. For a while, Dr. Bob is up one, but after a few mistakes, Starkey ends up a few strokes ahead.

This short story could be useful in my ethnographic study if I ever wish to describe the game from the perspective of someone other than myself or someone I interview. It also provides me with a way of demonstrated the diversity of Frisbee golf, because Starkey and Dr. Bob play by slightly different rules than the ones I play by.
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Robertson, Sarah. "Be a Flying-Disc Jockey!" Prevention 54.7 (2002): 84

This brief article outlines a few family traditions and rituals of Sarah Robertson, the author. She describes how her father introduced her and her siblings to the game twenty years ago and they still play with in-laws frequently. She then tells the reader her family's version of the rules of Frisbee golf, which turns out to be fairly similar to those of Starkey and Dr. Bob. There is one key difference: Robertson's family plays in doubles, which allows one to choose which shot one likes better of the two teammates' shots.

This article may be valuable to me for the same reason that Starkey's was: comparison. This gives me just one more variation of the game of Frisbee golf from yet another perspective. This article will also give me an opportunity to introduce the rules of doubles Frisbee golf.