2021-07-12 Birdies and a Double 5 birdies, 1 bogey, and 1 double bogey for -2 to tie my personal best. It was a nice evening round at Soehnstetten: great weath- er, hardly any wind, few people playing. After hole 2 I met Dirk and we played the rest of the round together. It was nice and re- laxed with him (though, on the first hole together (#3) it might have rushed me a bit and eventually caused the double bogey. But OTOH it might also challenged me and thus caused some more bir- dies. :-) I played with D P3, JB Zone, and S VL -- a three discs in my hand round. #1: Zone backhand straight drive. I didn't get it over enough, thus it landed short left. 20m layup. 3m putt. -> 3 #2: Zone forehand, not quite far enough. 10m missputt. Drop-in. -> 3 #3: Valk backhand ... a bit left (as always!). Unfortunately I had almost nothing from there. I tried a P3 forehand ... and that hit the tiny window, flew past the pin and into the horrible scrubs behind it. :-( After minutes of searching we found the disc. I had even less from there. A Zone forehand at least got me to the fringe of the scrubs. Then I missed the 10m putt. ... and scored a double bogey. -> 5 #4: Valk backhand, good drive. 20m more of a layup than a run. -> 3 #5: Valk backhand, good drive. 20m approach. -> 3 #6: Zone forehand, this time with more power. Went a bit long, but made the 10m putt uphill! -> 2 #7: Zone backhand, a bit right but well positioned. 12m missputt, 3m putt. -> 3 #8: Valk backhand, beautiful drive! 3m putt. -> 2 #9: Valk backhand, another beautiful drive (possibly my best yet on the hole). 3m putt on the elevated pin. -> 2 #10: Valk backhand, and yet another beautiful drive, landing center fairway. (That's more important now that they have in- stalled OB logs.) The 20m putt uphill was too unlikely to make, but I made the following 4m putt. -> 3 #11: Zone forehand, good drive. (Here too are OB logs installed now.) My 4m putt made it just barely over the rim! *phew* -> 2 #12: Zone backhand hyzer. I thought it was too straight and thus long, but actually it was perfect! 3m putt. -> 2 #13: Valk backhand, a bit too left. Went with a P3 upside-down layup into the branches of the bushes. There it stuck and left me a 4m putt that I made. -> 3 #14: Valk backhand, a tiny bit high and thus short. But I had a safe 5m putt ... which I shanked! :-( -> 3 #15: Valk backhand, again a bit high and short. Missed the 8m putt. Then made the 4m putt. -> 3 #16: Valk backhand, good drive but a bit too left, leaving me with 15m to the pin. I went for it and had a good line, but hit the cage and rolled back to 17m! :-( The second putt was not as good but it stayed at close range. -> 4 #17: (Now with a new tee, which makes the hole much shorter, thus easiliy reachable, but better garded and I had no clue what to throw.) Went with a Valk backhand hyzer, but took it much too inside, hit something, dropped down. Missed the 8m putt (There was wind on this one hole.) then made the 3m comebacker. -> 3 #18: Zone backhand, full power and probably thus yanked a bit to the right. Good distance but off direction. Open 15m putt, missed. -> 3 It was a good round. Lot's of birdies. Some chances missed. Not much I can complain much about. Anyways, I wanted to play a nice after-work round and exactly this was the case. The next PB improvement is coming closer, it seems. Concerning the bag: I use the Zone more and more on the course. Now for the drives on #12 and #18 as well. This is a good sign. (On #18 I need to go full power, which reduces the accuracy a bit, but nonetheless is is the way to go.) In Soehnstetten, the difference between Valk and MOLF is small. Any of the two is fine. I can't really decide which one gives me better results. There's no need for another disc actually. Yes, I like to throw the Teebird on #14, but the Valk/MOLF give me almost as good results. Maybe for those uphill drives (#15, #16) a more light or more understable disc could ease things. But all this is nothing that would convince me in carrying a fourth disc. And btw: I need to eventually birdie hole 1! How difficult can that be?! Birdies are also missing on #5 and #17. Hole 17 will soon be bir- died, now that it was shortened. Hole 5, however, is a challenge, as my discs have too much fade (thus landing down left), I don't throw them low enough (thus they fade down left), and I anyways just barely get the distance. Plus I seldom go for the 15-20m putt because of the rollaway risk. I rather lay up. But maybe I could try a big sky anny dis- tance line with an overstable disc, especially with north-west wind. that line could get me close to the pin (but also risk OB). We'll see ... http://marmaro.de/discgolf/ markus schnalke