Disc Golf: March 2006 Archives

I went to Old Settler's Park again for another quick round of disc golf. I had the feeling that I was throwing a little bit farther today than in the past. So hopefully I am improving.

Think this hole in the ground has enough flags marking it off?

Today it was beautiful out and Mike and I played disc golf at Old Settler's Park. Mike had bought a Wraith in the Star line of plastic. I was looking into buying that as my next disc, so it was a good opportunity to borrow it from him and try it out myself. And I was lucky as well since Mike did not like the feel of the grip and kept throwing it in places that he was not intending (like the water). So I convinced Mike to give it to me! Woo woo!

We planned on going to the Rivery Park in Georgetown for some disc golf. I decided to park at Wendy's this time and walk down to the park from there. Unfortunately, there is construction going on so I had to be adventurous in making my way down to the course. I practiced for a little while and when no one showed up, I started out. Fortunately Jon showed up and yelled at me and then I started over.

I was a little worried about the state of the course. The throwing area for hole one was a lake. It was even more worrysome when Jon and I rounded the corner and discovered that there was no basket for hole one.

So we wandered over to hole two and once again found no basket and a lake where the basket should have been. After finding no basket for hole three we were surprisingly unfazed.

All of this searching did have good consequences. We did find the start of hole 17. We had never found that before and just used a dirt spot where it look like people threw from.

When we got to hole 4, we found this sign! Ahhh, so they rearranged the course! We have hope now!

And boy have they ever rearranged this course. Half of the holes are new. And they are located in parts of the park that we have not been to before. In fact, it seems that they cut down trees recently for this new course. Unfortunately, all of the signs looked very temporary. The slightest wind or rain will eradicate them.

There were also signs pointing where to go to next. Along with red spray painted arrows on the ground (these will probably last a day or so).

Part of the course is along the side of a hill. And there are a lot of trees that are obsticles. Which I hit. A lot.

Too bad this geologic feature was not part of the course.

Another day, another round of disc golf it seems. I arrived early to practice holding the disc and throwing the disc level. I notice that a lot of the disc's energy can be wasted when there is a wobble in the spin. Or when it is angled up too high.

Sadly, instead of using balanced teams, we picked the teams randomly. And so I didn't bother keeping score today.

Today was special in that this is the first time that Mike played with me in a couple of months. It was also special in that I was having a really off day for some reason. I could not putt well. My team-mates would throw better than me. And 7 was particularly brutal for me since I threw it into the water both times. Sigh... Still fun to be out and about though...