Par for the Course

Disc Dude

Out searching for Boone Life material on a short deadline I found Skyler Babcock playing disc golf alone on his lunch break from Play It Again Sports, a used and new sporting goods retailer in Columbia. The day was cold, snowy and bright. I thought it out of the ordinary and charming that a guy would love playing the oddball game of disc golf so much that he would chance to do so even when the weather was more accommodating to playing Playstation. Here are a couple of photos I liked for aesthetic reasons but did not make the print edition.

He was nice enough to let me photograph him while he waddled along chasing his plastic discs in the snow. During this time we talked and I came to find out that he is a really interesting guy at a critical juncture of life. Still a young man, he and his wife are expecting their first child. While we were talking his wife called and asked him how much to bid on a house they would like to buy. Yet with so much on his mind (and a photographer following him around) his attention never strayed far from his round of disc golf.

If someone asked me what this Boone Life story is about, I would say it is about a young man finding a bit of solitude in a place he feels most comfortable.- Zachary Siebert