2017-10-02




                          Evening Round



Have been on the Wiley course  for  a  round  before  evening.  I
played one round, but threw several second drives for practice.

I scored Par on the shorter holes and Bogeys on the longer holes,
and  a  Bogey-5  on  the  shortest hole. In sum: 33 (i.e.  6 over
Par), which is rather bad for me.

On the longer holes, I mainly suffered from nose-up -- as usual.

The shortest hole (#5) was a desaster. It's 50m  straight  ahead,
which  woods  and a drop on the left and some sparse trees on the
right, but the middle is open. Usually, I throw the  Comet  there
from the tee. I did so this time too, but happened to give it too
much hyzer. The wind pushed it further up and it faded  into  the
bushes  and  trees to the left and also went down the slope. From
down there I threw a Thumber with the overstable Teebird. It came
back  up  but I should have thrown a Tomahawk to get a roll left,
towards the basket. The Thumber, however, rolled right. The  fol-
lowing  approach  was  bad  and  I missed the putt, ending with a
Bogey-5. Ironically, I parked the second drive with the Pure  and
also  parked  the  drive with the Zone. Bad disc selection or bad
luck? ;-) Next time I'll pick the Pure, because  it  cannot  fade
that  much  as  the  Comet, thus reducing the risk or sending the
disc into the trouble zone.

Again, I noted the discs with  the  most  successful  drives.  It
were:  JLS  (4),  Champ Teebird (3), Star Teebird (3), DX Eagle-X
(3). Just as I decided to remove the JLS from my bag (because  it
has  a  different rim, whereas my Teebirds and the Eagle have the
same one), I realize that it is a most successful driver for  me.
Seems it should stay in the bag.

For most approaches I threw the Zone. That  disc  is  money!  I'm
glad to have it.

Then on the last  hole  (100m,  right-to-left  wind,  plants  and
bushes  on the left) it started to get dark. I threw two straight
drives, then the JLS went too high and faded into the plants.  It
already  was  darkish,  thus I couldn't see where exactly it went
in, only approximately. Okay, I continued with  my  forth  drive.
Then, the last disc, I threw a roller.  It didn't turn enough and
... rolled right into other rough.  Two discs lost  on  the  last
hole  and  the lights vanishing. I finished the hole then started
to search the discs. At least, I  knew  approximately  where  the
discs  went  in! After some first looks, I focused on finding the
easier disc first: the roller. Still it was three meters  in  the
rough!  It  took me over ten minutes to find it. Then another ten
minutes or more until I got the maroon-colored JLS. At that  time
it was so dark that I had to use my hands in order to find out if
something was a disc or not. Still, I won the  race  against  the
darkness!  :-) It was the first time I had to search so long with
the fear  of  having  to  leave  the  disc  behind.  Without  the
knowledge of the approximate location to search for it (which was
right in both cases) I probably would have failed. For  the  next
time:  If you have thrown one disc into the bushes, get it first,
before you throw another drive.  ;-)

It wasn't a successful round but one that yielded a  lot  of  ex-
perience.



http://marmaro.de/discgolf/   markus schnalke <meillo@marmaro.de>