Everybody Can Juggle?

After our round at Manor, one of the guys we play with sometimes, Charlie, pulled some bean bags out of his bag and started juggling.  I said throw them to me and he passed them to me and I kept juggling and he came around and stole them while I was juggling and kept it going.  Every one of the guys who was there as we finished our round was able to juggle except the young guy Brandon.  Brandon has been playing disc golf for less than two months and he has an ace already.  That's just crazy.  Most of the guys couldn't just do three ball juggling--most of them were very good.

Charlie had some juggling clubs in his car.  I have some in my garage but I haven't practiced in a while.  I remarked that the bean bags were kind of like a Hacky Sack and that I had one in my bag.  I pulled it out and started playing hacky sack.  Amazingly, we all could play that too and most of us were pretty good.  I knew we had a lot in common but it was wild to see those hidden talents come out in the parking lot too.

The photo was taken by Kyle of the Cental Texas Disc Golf Meetup.  He's been taking a lot of them lately and posting them after our rounds.

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Almost Teams

Almost Teams:

This year I almost got to have a lot of fun with Texas Teams.  Our Central Texas Disc Golf Meetup almost had six people for an emerging division.  We would have 6 who played match play requiring 3 intermediates and 3 advanced.  We just didn’t quite field enough interest this year.  Some of the people who were interested would be playing up and some “advanced” for us would be intermediate players and some of the people interested in playing “intermediate” are definitely rec players.  I don’t always have to win but I certainly like to avoid dead last in tournaments even if you are going for fun.



There are going to be close to 290 disc golffers camped out in Wimberly for Texas Teams this year.  $50 gets you a sweatshirt, camping, lunches, and entry into the event.  Tony, our player with the #1 tag, doesn’t work right now so he wouldn’t be playing.  Jason committed to play with DG Review if they could field a team but they didn’t have enough players either. 

Parker, of the Double R, is fielding a team from Wilco.  I might could have gotten in on that but I certainly wouldn’t play for another team when our meetup is trying to field one.  Next year, it would be nice to field an “established team.”  That requires nine players in various divisions including Masters (over 40) and a female player too.  That would be the  hard part.  I'm really an outdoorsy person and this would have been a lot more fun to me than the other concurrent event which is Boardgamegeek.con so it really didn’t bother me that the event is the same weekend as Boardgamegeek.con this year.  I enjoyed my trips to the disc golf courses in the Dallas area better than the game room last year.  I even got Jon Grimm to join for one short trip.  I did enjoy playing some new games (Galaxy Trucker, Gypsy King, Hamburgum) and the poker tournament was a lot of fun.  I’m not playing as many games this year.  I probably should have bought a bigger house when I moved to Texas and then I would be able to host more. 

 

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Hole 14 at Old Settlers

Playing with our meetup on Saturday, I was under the basket for an easy par putt on hole 14. I remember when that used to be my nemesis. I would always bogie that hole. Now it’s rare when I miss par on that one. Good putting combined with a consistent upshot makes all the difference. My drive is longer too but not very much.

We played a CTP, a closest to the pin contest, at B Stub. Kyle got the disc Ken had brought and it was a Star Coyote. That’s a nice disc. You are supposed to play 13, then C, then B (from the tee box at the bottom of the dam) and then 14. Well, some jerks stole B’s basket leaving just a stub where it should be. This comes not long after the theft of the lock box funds at Wilco. Since we were going to be over by C’s basket anyway, Tony had the idea of throwing for B’s stub on our walk back to 14’s tee box.

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Flying Saucers

We had 14 at Wilco for disc golf.  Wisely, we split into 4 groups all playing singles.  It was a pretty windy day.




Almost everyone contributed to the ace pot and all but a couple had domino bag tags to exchange.  Co-organizers Steve and Matt both brought CTPs, prizes for the closest to the pin contests we held for hole 5 and for hole 12.  I really like how the meetup is coming together.  Matt suggested we bring bags and do a clean-up while we played.  That worked out well and I felt like we did our civic duty towards the course.  Kyle and Ken posted photos of Wilco and the putting contest too so it's not just me posting pictures and comments now.

After the round, three of us went to The Triangle near The Flying Saucer for a beer festival and a putting contest by DiscNation.  I picked up my Halloween edition Buzz too. 



If you made two of your putts, you got a coupon for a $5 pint.







The flying saucer is kind of a disc golf and ultimate themed bar with lots of brews and darts.





Usually I stay after the meetup for the second or third round of disc golf. This time I was happy I went to the festival instead. It was a lot of fun.






Oh, and a couple of the images were from Ken's postings on the meetup.

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