The Ice Bowl

The Ice Bowl!

I recently went to my first disc golf tournament, and since I am currently stuck in Dissidia Duodecim (the 2^nd Final Fantasy Dissidia); I thought that I would write a blog about my first foray into formal competition in disc golf. Weirdly enough, the competition was sponsored by the Lutheran Campus Ministry, and since I was at one time a member of the Lutheran church, it seemed like a good omen. I have been playing disc golf recreationally for several years, so I am a not a complete noob, however I do have my moments when completely pull a New England Patriots and crap out in the end. Just before the tournament I had gone out to several of the local courses and just kind of played a few rounds. One of the courses is pretty sweet because a lot of the holes are in a forested area, and require some tricky throws. Anywho, I was feeling pretty ballsy so I registered for the intermediate category. This would turn out to be quite a stupid idea, but more on that later. And now, onto the course!

So, I have played this course before, but only the blue holes. This course is normally only 9 holes, all of the violet ones are temporary ones. The violet ones were bitches, for multiple reasons. Firstly, I’ve never played them before, I barely had a chance to walk through the temporary holes to get some kind of an idea about the layout. Secondarily, B2 and B6 were over 500 feet, which is a fucking long way when you have chicken arms like me. Lastly, some of the baskets on the temporary holes were complete shit. Like this.  The green one in the middle is a little bastard, it was bad enough that it was on the longest hole nestled in a group of trees, but the little bitch has one set of chains and my disc just flopped right out. I definitely did worse on the back nine then I did on the front nine.

I won’t get into the rules for tournament play too much, instead, here is a picture of them.

Now, as play started, it was really god damn cold. It did not get any warmer than 35 degrees the whole time. There was a brief interval where snow flurries were coming down really strong, which sucked. I was wearing three layers. This is me hanging out in the warm car before the tournament started. I really didn’t want to stay out there for very long. But as it turns out, the tournament lasted three hours, so I ended up staying out  in the freezing conditions for awhile.

I turned in my score card, so I don’t remember exactly what I got on every hole. Needless to say wind decided to fuck with a few of my throws and send them way the well in the wrong direction. A few of the trees decided to be assholes and reach out and grab my disc. I ended up only getting a few pars, got a bunch of bogeys and like 3 double-bogeys.  I ended up +16 with a 70 overall. With fifteen people participating in the intermediate category, I took 10^th place. Which I suppose I can be proud of, because of the freezing cold, the bastard wind, and some shitty baskets I guess I am lucky I got a 70. Coincidently, if I had entered into the recreational category I would have gotten fifth. .

And is the story of my first disc golf tournament. I did not place well, which is alright I suppose, I did end up with a tournament disc, and a spot marker. The twenty dollar entrance fee wasn’t bad, the money went to charity, so I suppose everything went alright. But lesson learned, next time, I am entering the recreational category.

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