Disc Golf Thursday
So since the wife decided that I needed a new pair of shorts, I had to go shopping, that meant a trip to Rosedale. Since she wanted me and Dylan out of the house anyways I thought we’d get a round in at Acorn to to kill some time.
Here’s how it went.
Hole 1, my drive starts fading left right away, grazes the dead tree on the edge of the swamp, and that slows it down so it fades back to the right nicely, easy approach, easy par.
Hole 2, nice little teebird to the edge of the opening, easy approach to about 5 feet, another easy par.
Hole 3, good drive to the top of the hill with my Valk, easy approach leaves about 10 feet, drop the par. Not a bad start so far.
Hole 4, what do you think, should I just send a low skimmer off the post? Ok I will, drop in birdie.
Hole 5, how about a nice long valk shot that weaves around a couple trees and ends up 5 feet from the pin. That sounds good, another easy bird.
Hole 6, poor release on the drive, means that I have to tomahawk an eagle out to try and save par, I leave myself about 50 feet, and take the 4.
Hole 7 good drive, fought through the trees on the left, easy approach to about 15 feet cause I threw it like a moron, drop the par putt.
Hole 8, got my drive way too high, left it left, had a very small opening to try and get it close, missed by about 6 inches and banged a tree, ended up with a bogey.
Hole 9, we got there and there was a group of 4 older guys who had never played before, we played the hole with them, and I had a very nice drive (about 5 feet short of the rock in the center of the fairway, just to the right) but as I released my second one of them said something, and I pulled my shot up and into a tree, bad got worse as I just threw my 3rd shot poorly and left myself like 40 feet, with a large branch across the height I wanted, I tried to go over the branch and failed, instead hitting the top and bouncing my disc back as far away as I was. I end up with a very ugly 6, and am happy to leave the group of new players behind.
Hole 10, drive leaked a bit left, leaving me no window, can’t get the approach close enough and I take a bogey.
Hole 11, great drive with the Valk, deep into the opening, second shot slipped out of my hand a hit a tree 10 feet away. Damnhellcrap. Dropped the 3rd close and took another bogey.
Hole 12, drive leaked left, but had a good window, dropped the approach close and saved par.
Hole 13, good drive, went left of the clump of bush and came back a bit, threw the approach a bit soft and left myself about 15 feet. Tossed the putt and missed everyfuckingthing. Didn’t even hit the basket. I don’t know what I did there, but it was uglier than Urkel after a 3 day meth bender. Bogey FML.
Hole 14, terrible release on the drive (still beating myself up over the last putt) great recovery with the comet, drop in the par.
Hole 15, another good drive, leaves me a nice window right to the basket, maybe 30 feet, I miss just a bit and end up 20 feet past because of the elevation. Hit the basket on the par save, and take a bogey.
Hole 16, solid drive, solid 2nd solid par. Nothing special here, just a good hole.
Hole 17, drive was a bit low and hung in the weeds instead of working back to the fairway (probably for the best as it was hole high, so any working back would have overdriven by a bunch) dropped the approach next to the post and easy par.
Hole 18, good drive, long second shot leaves me in a weird spot, right in front of a very thin path to the basket, or I can try and super hyzer a short shot around the brush, I try to thread the needle, and fail, end up with a 5.
Ending score of 63 or 9 over. Not super unhappy with that as I can count like 5 shots I should cut there (at least 2 on 9 cause my second shot is OK if I don’t have someone talk to me right as I throw) and a few putts that I should make. Had some fun, was surprised the course really wasn’t busy. Going camping with the wife this weekend, leaving the kids at Grandmas. Bringing discs to try and play in Duluth, but not gonna worry too much about it if we don’t get a round in on Sunday.