Disc Golf: June 2008 Archives
I was going to Wilco this morning but decided to change my mind and went to the Rivery instead. I got a birdie on hole one and pared most of the rest of the course.
It looks like they stole a brick that was used for a bridge and instead used it for a sign that points to hole 12. Sigh. I wonder how the park officials feel about that tactic.
I went to Old Settler's park today after my morning bike ride. And, as luck would have it, I met a new player. His name was Chris and he was visiting from Tyler (who's wife was attending a party in Round Rock and he took the opportunity to play a new course). He had mistakenly parked at hole 14 when he turned in after seeing a basket. I can understand that since I do that all the time.
He asked if he could join us and we agreed. He also suggested to play skins for a quarter a hole to make it interesting. This is not something I would normally do, but I agreed. Wow, was it a total slaughter. He is by far the best player that I have come across. He birdied something like ten of the holes. He was able to throw his Star Destroyer and his Star Excaliber perfectly stable. And long distance too. He threw it consistently underneath the basket from 400+ feet away.
It looks the the dam construction has removed another hole. Those bastards! It looks like they removed the small hill in the background and replaced it with an identical one made from fresh dirt. Of course, they forgot to replace the basket. (I hope that they don't lose it).
The Wilco's Tennis shop has some weird hours. So I went to stop and buy another year's pass during lunch. And played a round of disc golf of course. I threw three birdies.
And had a good first throw on hole 3. I don't know why that hole is so hard for me. But when I have a good throw like that one, it makes the day better.
I woke up early enough this morning to go biking for 25 miles before disc golf. Since the meetup group has now moved to 9am, my options for finding someone to play disc golf were rather limited. Fortunately, Nick was up for a game. We played "skins". Not to escape this brutal heat, but only to record who won which hole. Sadly, Nick was nigh-invulnerable.
Some stoopid tagger wrote this on a couple of the benches. Grrr! Probably some crazed vegan dissatisfied with supermarket vegetables...
A quick round at Wilco today. I wanted to renew my season pass, but the tennis pro shop was closed. Sigh. At least I got three birdies.
The group went down to Circle C for disc golf. This time, Gravitt used playing cards to separate the groups quickly. And the other group went off to hole seven to start. Sweet. Unfortunately, it rained for the first few holes. But that quickly cleared up, thank god. We did have the added challenge to throw around a sewer maintenance truck on hole one. No one seemed to want to skip the hole. They just threw it. Luckily, no innocent workers were harmed.
After we were finished, Jon and I went to eat fish tacos at Wahoo's Fish Taco on Rio Grande and Fifth street. Then we drove over to Central Market to get some dessert. And, finally, we stopped by Great Hall Games just because. This made for a longish day.
