2017-10-13 Wental Made a visit to the small six-hole course at Wental. Unfor- tunately, the course was in bad shape. Two teepads should be cut free from branches in order to be able to actually drive from the teepad. On a third hole the teepad just wasn't there anymore -- all teepads are just grass, but that one was impossible to locate and the number sign was missing. Three holes were okay to play. I just wanted to have a nice time there, throw a bunch of drives, upshots and putts. I didn't take score, just noted the most suc- cessful drives, because my driver section has become a bit crowd- ed with a lot of overlap, and I like to figure out which discs are the best among them. Hole 1: Large right turn, uphill, free space before the basket, trees behind. Best was a Comet drive backhand, for a long putt for two. The forehands didn't work out that well. Maybe that's because of the uphill to flat topography. Hole 2: Short, with the tee on the left side of the road and the basket on the right side, everything lined with trees. Branches right in front of the teepad prevented straight putter drives. Again the Comet performed best. I threw it on a hyzer line around the branches and close to the pin. Forehand anhyzers are some- thing I should practice first. Hole 3: Dogleg right, first part lined with thick trees, basket within loosely scattered trees. Best drives were with my two most overstable discs forehand: Champ Teebird and Zone. Hole 4: A bit longer, fully straight, a few trees left and right. Best drives with the straightest discs: JLS, Comet and DX Tee- bird. All three were at the edge of the circle (i.e. if I'm lucky, I can make the putt). Hole 5: Missing teepad, downhill, some trees in the fairway, basket is to the left, right before a big tree. I threw hyzer lines for the fade. Closest were the Champ and Star Teebirds. Hole 6: Most difficult hole, branches at the teepad, a couple of annoying trees in the way, a bit uphill, slight right turn, basket on a slope down right. A good long forehand or a big anny backhand would be the best lines, normally. I couldn't go high because of the branches at the teepad. This pretty much eliminat- ed backhand annies. Best were my forehand drives with the Champ and Star Teebirds and the one with the new Star Eagle-X. Still, none of them was close, they all required long upshots. If I would have taken scores, I would have had twos and threes, maybe one four. This was the second time I played this course. The first time was at the beginning of January, when I had just started to disc golf. It was my first tournament (with freezing temperatures and snow). Back then I scored 22, 23, 22, 24, which were in total 7 threes, 15 fours and 2 fives. It's good to see how much better I am today. Even more, I can now do throws my- self, which I watched with awe, nine months ago. As it had been in January, the Comet is a great disc for such a small course. The Champ Teebird proved successful as well. Those two discs would have been sufficent for all drives. I had putts then, in many cases. If not, the Zone is such a great upshot disc (besides its out-of-trouble abilities)! That disc is gold! I even thought about using it as my putter. ;-) At the end, I practiced some putting on the last basket, because I had the slope there, which I don't have at the Wiley course. I switched back and forth between normal and straddle putts, and between more push and more spin putts ... it doesn't seem to matter much. With all techniques I can be surprisingly successful and I can miss bad. No variant feels much better than the others. I think I'll continue to experiment ... I'd love to have more such leisure disc golfing sessions with friends on weekends! There was a great atmosphere (nice autumn day, evening sun, colored leaves, and so on). It was relaxing. http://marmaro.de/discgolf/ markus schnalke