Turkey Day Doubles

I got up early this morning to play a Thanksgiving day round at Loriella with Austin, Justin & Tim. The weather couldn't have been better. We ended up playing double. Me & Austin vs. Justin & Tim.

Justin & Tim ended up -10 and Austin & I ended up -8. Austin was hitting the drives and I was hitting the putts to keep it close.

Austin throwin' a 450' shot...

The Season is Over...

Winter is finally setting in. I'm still playing but the tournament season is done for 2012. It had been more than 20 years since I had played in tournaments. Bowling Green Open in 1994 and not much has changed.

I played in 7 events this year and finished at the bottom or dead last in my division 6 times. The only exception was the Battlefield Open in Richmond where I finished 12th out of 26 players in intermediate. That was a bid day for me. It was the first time I had ever finished in the prizes in a PDGA sanctioned event. My prize? Three Crystal Z Buzzzes.

My worst tournament had to have been the last two. In Advanced Masters at the Winchester IFO I was had a terrible first round but the second round was going much better and with 2 holes left I was beating my morning round by 5 strokes. Unfortunately for me I had a 6 & 4 to finished the round and finished with the exact same score. I finished last and the kicker was a real nice guy who has been only playing for about a year and in his first tournament finished ahead of me because of the end of the round blow up.

The exact same thing happened again last weekend at the Fall Colors at Newport News DGC. I had an average morning round (I was still in last place) But my afternoon round was going so much better until with 4 holes left I decided to fuck it all up and finish with the same score as my morning round and put a choke hold on that last position.

I have decided that next year I am going to be in the Advanced Grand Masters division and will be semi-retired from tournaments and play in local tournamnets only. I can finish last locally. I don't need to drive 150-200 miles to finish last anymore.

On a better note I finished my latest dye last night. I have been wanting to do this one for a long time...

All Hail the Disc!

I make no bones about my political ideals. I also believe that President Obama is one of those once in a lifetime historical figures that is at the right place, at the right time. I had been wanting to do an Obama dye for a long time and when I got my hands on a Glow Leopard I didn't waste any time.

The red got under the mask and messed up the blue a little but some of the guys that have seen it say it's a cool effect. Leopards are my favorite discs but I haven't decided if I'm going to put this one in my bag  or hang it on the wall. I might try it again and if I can keep the colors from bleeding I'll hang that one up.

Bored at work = evental disc dye

A few nights ago I was bored at work and started tinkering around with the Spotsy DGC logo to see if I could update it.

This is what I ended up with...

I think I did okay. Later that night I figured it would make a pretty good disc dye and after about an hour of cutting I ended up with this on my old 166 Discraft Glide....

It turned out a lot better than I thought it would considering it was a beat up disc. There were some bleeds but not too bad. The outer edge is not as dark as it looks in the pic.