Disc Golf: February 2008 Archives

The meetup group played at Wells Branch today. And since the course is so tiny, we played it twice. John did well except for one hole. Where he broke down on putting and took five attempts to make it into the basket.

I had a couple of birdies. Hole one was one example. After throwing a hyzer out over the stream, it came back down to land under the basket.

After disc golf, we headed out to Cafe Panini in Round Rock where we played some two player games with meetup folks.

After two rainy and miserable days over the weekend, I just had to go outside when Sunday turned out to be beautiful. Jon and John were up for it and we decided to head down to Pease Park. It was unsurprisingly crowded. We had to wait in line for two groups to play hole one. And another group of people came behind us as we were waiting.

Look, how considerate! People left their garbage ice for us.

It seems that a low tech "cooler" is a bag of ice that they use to hold the beer. And it seems that these people left it hanging on a tree when they were done with it...

Hole six is heavily wooded. Jon makes his throw. And I convince him that he should have used a pancake shot (a hammer thrown horizontal that skips on the ground). Well, I was perfectly right! That throw landed in the basket! He would have had a birdie if it counted...

We stopped for beer at Opal Divines and played some darts. Well, let me rephrase that. Others played darts and I just threw them... randomly.

Jon had an interesting throw. One dart stuck in the back of another one! And look at that dart board. Why are the numbers randomly upsidedown or flipped?

The meetup group played at Cat Hollow AGAIN, so I ditched them to play at Wilco. Which is a challenging course. Unfortunately, this course is starting to get really popular. Man, was it crowded today! I had a couple of within range first throws for a possible birdie. However, I missed the putts. So sad. But I made up for that on hole 13. My first throw hit the ground and skipped up to hit the basket! An almost skip ace.

There is some more changes in the construction at Old Settlers Park. It looks like someone wised up and put in doors in all that orange fencing. Torn fencing from people having to climb over the fences probably gave them a clue. And it looks like the removed all of the trees on the side of the dam. So sad. That will change how two of the holes play. It looks like the basket for "C" hole (or is it A or B?) is still there. We'll see how long that lasts...

I started out with a long putt for par on hole 1. Which is nice. This is a challenging hole.

On hole 7 I had a great throw through the mandatory box. And it was while someone else was watching. It was close enough for a birdie.

Today, the meetup group met at Old Settler's Park. We played the winter variant since the course is shorter and therefore less imposing to newcomers. I was surprised with the signs of new construction going on here. They took out half of the parking lot for construction vehicles.

And they fenced off a section of the park. But it seems that they respected the disc golfers and make the area around the basket accessible. Which is nice. But they did not realize that the tee is at the top of the path off in the distance. So they didn't need to change the fencing at all.

I do wonder how much construction is going on here and what the final result will be.