Keeping #8

I played a bag-tag round with Brant and was able to hold onto #8. I had one bad hole, #6, where I had a roll away on my 4th shot and so ended up with a six. I had a couple of birdies and so I ended up with a plus three. Unfortunately Brant did not play very well either and ended up at 6 over...

I am sure he will play better tomorrow and get rid of #14. I just hope I can shot better as well and move up too!

New basket for Moraga

Our new basket for the Moraga Disc Golf course arrived today from DGA.

Now that I have a job, I wanted to replace the vandalized and broken hole 3 basket with a new one and so made the decision to buy this basket as a gift for the course. So I bought this new Mach V basket as well as a couple of extra "sleeves" (so that we can install a few alternate pin locations) and two new basket number plates (one for hole #1 and the other for the new basket on hole #3). It costs around $450 bucks and although I may use a small amount of club money, this is mostly a donation from me (and my wife Kristin).

Hopefully I can get it installed before the rains come. I am looking forward to seeing people's reaction to it, and to the new pin placement options we'll have with this new basket. As for the old one, I have not decided if I want to try and fix it up and use it as a practice basket by hole #1, or sell it for future project costs. I am really not sure how much I could get for it, but Jeff Fiedler seems to think it would be valuable to sell... so we'll see. For now I am just excited to have received the basket so quickly, as I just ordered it last week and for putting it in the course soon.

From 14 to 8

Well I played in the Friday bag-tag round with Matt, Craig, Brant and Chika - and came in fourth in a playoff. Chika took first with a 3 down, and then Matt with a 2 over, Craig and I shot 3 over, and then Brant went from #1 to #14. I did not play all that well and am still having issues with my drives. I did putt ok and that saved me. I had no birdies on the round, and still managed a 3 over.

Craig and I tied after 18, so we kept playing and when he birdied the first hole the #3 tag was his. I don't mind being #8, as that is about what I should be. But still it was all right there and I just could not drive well enough to get under par. Oh well, hopefully I can do better next time.

Chika ROCKS!!

I got my lost disc back tonight!! My friend Chika found my lost Wraith in a tree on hole #3 at Moraga. I had all but given up on that disc, as it has been a few weeks and I spent a lot of time looking for it to no avail. I was so excited about getting it back, that the fact I won the weekly tournament seem anti-climatic. THANK YOU AGAIN CHIKA!!!

Well that, and I had thought that my friend Karen had gotten second... as it turns out, I made a mistake in her score and she got 6th instead. Still her personal best in the tournament and one better than her handicap - hopefully she wins next week!

Needing good Karma

Well I have officially lost my first disc... in the bermuda triangle of my own making. I "grip-locked" my back-up candy wraith on hole #3 in Moraga yesterday during the tournament. I had to go back and throw from the tee and eventually took a 6P on the hole. It has come to my attention that a number of discs have gone missing since I moved the hole to its current position, and so that area to the left of the basket and down the road towards hole #8 has become our own Bermuda Triangle.


Today I went back to look for it and while I found someone else's red/black FLASH I could not find my disc (despite 2 hours of looking). I hope that this is where all my good Karma pays off, and someone will find it and give me a call. I do have my name on it, but as it is a practically brand new fund-raiser candy wraith I am not sure the finder will be able to resist just keeping it themselves. For the record it is a Purple see-through Wraith (169 grams).

If anyone does find it, please give me a call!! That disc was just starting to get broken in and I don't want to have to start the whole process over. Plus those discs are hard to find anymore. Come On Karma!!!