2020-09-10 Soehnstetten: Bad Luck A quick evening round in Soehnstetten, at 20C and a bit of wind in various directions. I played with my full bag: - D P3 (2) - JB Zone - ES Teebird - S Valkyrie - M OLF - Lucid Felon 1) MOLF backhand, a bit left. 14m lay-up. Drop-in. -> 3 (A prac- tice drive with the Teebird landed 6m to the pin.) 2) Teebird forehand with a horrible amount of wobble, turning over and flying far beyond the pin and beyond the ridge. When did I throw such a horrible forehand the last time? I cannot remember. Teebird thumber approach back up, a bit short. 14m missputt. 3m putt. -> 3 3) SVL backhand, better than usual. It went straighter and went into the tree branches. 10m to the right and I would have landed on the green! 14m Zone layup, a bit long. 5m putt. -> 3 4) MOLF backhand, a bit right, but overall a good throw, almost pin-high. Missed the 14m putt. 3m putt. -> 3 5) Again I went with a backhand (SVL), with a slight tailwind, it seemed. The throw was a bit too high, flying straight for the most part, but then fading long ways down left. (A practice drive with the Felon forehand on a pure hyzer was better. I should ap- proach this hole forehand each time, playing for par.) Short Zone backhand approach, which made it only 20m of the 30m to the pin. :-( (A practice approach with the P3 backhand was good.) 10m missputt. 3m putt. -> 4 6) Zone forehand, passing the basket on the right height, just a bit short, landing right. Made the 6m birdie putt! :-) -> 2 7) Zone backhand, this time with hyzer ... but a bit too much, landing early left. One should never land uphill on these holes! (Maybe I go with the Felon next time.) I had a very obstructed layup, which rolled away from the pin to a 10m putt that I missed. Drop-in. -> 4 8) SVL overturned ... but what a shot! It was about 5m downhill, but if I cut the 120m distance to say 105m it still is far! A nice throw, but not what I needed on this hole. (The practice drives with MOLF and Teebird landed 4m and 3m from the pin!) A bad P3 backhand approach, going 10m long. :-( Missed the putt and it rolled to again 10m. Missed that one too, then dropped it in. What a horrible result, when I could have been parked! -> 5 9) SVL way left (by hole 8's pin). Zone hyzer, too long. Missed the 12m putt. 3m putt. -> 4 (No single good practice drive on this hole.) 10) SVL high, left and short. (All practice drives going high and left.) Good Zone forehand approach. 3m putt. -> 3 11) Zone forehand. 6m birdie putt. -> 2 12) SVL backhand hyzer. Missed the 6m putt a tiny bit high. Drop-in. -> 3 13) SVL backhand a bit left, but with a good roll just 5m to the pin! Okay, it was a death-putt, but still a short distance. Missed it low. 4m comebacker, again missed low! :-( That one rolled 30m down the hill. I abandoned the throw and re-putted, this time making the short putt. -> 5 14) SVL a bit left. Scary 8m putt, but I ran it. Missed it. Drop-in. -> 3 (The Teebird drive landed 3m to the pin. Many times I've had good Teebird drives on this specific hole.) 15) SVL forehand! Another early release like so many times on this hole, landing right. 22m jumper layup. Drop-in. -> 3 (Prac- tice drive with the Teebird forehand left a 7m putt.) 16) SVL backhand, pin-high right, a good throw. Missed the 11m putt a bit high on the band. Drop-in. -> 3 17) Felon forehand, pretty straight. 25m jumper spike-hyzer lay- up. 3m putt. -> 3 18) Teebird backhand anny flex, too high and thus short. 20m lay- up. 3m putt. -> 3 This made a score of +6 (=60), which is just above my average. The two double bogeys hurt. Many times I've had bad throws: - The bad forehand on #2. - The bad approach on #5. - The overturned drive and the three-putt on #8. - The bad drive on #9. - The missed 5m/4m putts on #13. These sum up to 9 strokes, theoretically. On hole #8 and #13 I could have made birdies instead of double-bogeys easily -- 6 strokes! With only these two holes changed that round would have been a tied personal best. Thus, on the one hand I cannot lament, but on the other hand, the round did include a lot of bad throws. Drives: - 10 SVL - 3 Zone - 2 MOLF - 2 ES TB - 1 Felon How I should have driven: - 6 SVL - 5 ES TB - 3 Felon - 2 MOLF - 2 Zone Use the Teebird more! Use the Felon forehand more. Putts: - drop-ins: 7 - 3m putts: 7 (7/7) - 4m putts: 2 (1/2) - 5m putts: 2 (1/2) - 6m putts: 3 (2/3) - 8m putts: 1 (0/1) - 10m putts: 4 (0/4) - 11m putts: 1 (0/1) - 12m putts: 1 (0/1) - 14m putts: 2 (0/2) I.e. I made all 3m putts. I made half of the 4-6m putts. I didn't make any putt outside 6m. Layups: - 14m layup: 3 - 20m layup: 1 - 22m layup: 1 Only one layup resulted in a missed putt. http://marmaro.de/discgolf/ markus schnalke