Disc Golf: March 2008 Archives
The meetup group went to Old Settler's Park today. Out of the 8 who RSVP'd yes, only 4 showed up. It looks like someone planted a new tree right in front of the tee and in the middle of what little open space there was! Was that on purpose? Or do the employees not realize that there is a disc golf course here? I know strollers in the park don't.
Its been a while since we have played here. And it showed. I threw into the water at hole 2 (and had to wade in to retrieve the disk). John did on hole three. Ken did on hole seventeen.
There were no birdies today for anyone. Although I had a chance on hole 15.
The dam construction is ongoing. They have cleared out all the plants and trees on both sides. I wonder why. Are they going to lay cement on the cleared area?
It was also interesting to hear that our new meetup member, Cory, had somehow came across this blog when he was searching for information about the course at the Rivery in Georgetown. They tried searching for the tees and did not find them. So he looked around and saw this blog. We happened to be playing at that course. So, when he told his friend that people were playing it, his friend thought that we were playing a joke. Small world, I guess.
It sounded like he only saw the rather poor pictures on this blog rather than the full course photos here.
There were a lot of people at the meetup again this week. Enough for two groups again. We played at Wilco. Curt showed up after a long absence and beat Gravitt, who had practiced at Wilco three times earlier that week.
The meetup group went to Rivery. This time there were 10 people? Gah! Far too many! My group proved to be much faster that John's. He was still on 13 when we finished. Jon had left immediately when we finished. No one seemed interested in lunch, so I went off on my own. To Monument Cafe -- my new favorite restaurant.
Once in a great while Jon will actually play disc golf on a Friday. He picked a hot one! Technically it is still winter, but you would not believe it by looking at the thermometer.
Jon met up with Paul Weitkemper waiting at the course and he joined up for a game. It seemed like a small world when we found out that he worked at Tivoli.
The meetup group went to Zilker park to play on the "South" course. There were a bunch of new people including a nine year old. This group took forever to play. One of the problems was that Robin brought her dog and could not throw a disc and control the dog at the same time. Fortunately, someone stepped up and took control of the leash.
It was also disappointing in that we were supposed to go canoing on Town Lake afterwards but we didn't. I also wanted to try Flip Happy Crepes which is right next to the park. But I couldn't convince Gravitt to experiment with food.
We did stop at Uncle Billy's on Barton Springs Road. It was a Bar-B-Queue and micro-brewery joint. The beer was so so. One of them was bitter enough to require limes. The "sliders" were very disappointing.
There were seven of us today playing at Wilco. I teamed up with John and we initially had a great start. We converted my above throw in for a birdie on hole two. And got another birdie on hole five (thanks to a lucky throw of mine). But we petered out after that and fell out of the lead. We did almost catch up at the end though.
The only problem was that our group took forever to play! Three hours!!! We didn't finish until 1pm. This meant that the bright light started to give us sunburns.
