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More boring frisbee golf updates...
Note to the construction workers at Bear Creek Park: We know you have to move the baskets around to keep the game interesting. We know we caught you in the middle of cutting down trees in front of one of the new locations, and we're sorry we held you up. But in the future, could you maybe do the trimming *before* you move the basket,so you're not inconvenienced and we're not TRYING TO SHOOT THE PIER THROUGH AN ENORMOUS PACHINKO MACHINE? Thank you.
On the first hole, I got a double-bogey. ("Double-bogey" = threw the frisbee five times to reach the goal, which was twice more than than the target number for that hole, known as "par").
On the second hole, I threw a single-bogey. Third hole, I made par. Fourth hole, I birdied (beat par by one stroke). Unfortunately, the mathematical progression ended there :> ... I ended up fourteen over par for the course. Which is better than I did last week, which was better than the week before ... but still not good enough to win the pot, even with my handicap. Next week, we go to a course I'm more familiar with, so perhaps I'll do better. My distance and accuracy are still improving, at least.
More golf terms you may find scattered through my journal:
"Out" -- the person whose disk is farthest from the hole, and will therefore be the next person to throw.
"Pickup" -- a disk that is so close to the basket, the owner won't even be required by the other players to throw it.
"Slice" -- throw that falls to the right, which is unusual for right-handed players. I can do it on purpose, barely, and some brands of disk are more conducive to it than others.
"Roller" -- pretty much what it sounds like. In some terrain, you can get a disk to roll farther than you could throw it through the air. Or if it hits the ground at enough of an angle, it'll toodle along like a little windsurfer, and sometimes end up farther from the hole than the point at which it was thrown. Not that that's happened to me. Much.
On the first hole, I got a double-bogey. ("Double-bogey" = threw the frisbee five times to reach the goal, which was twice more than than the target number for that hole, known as "par").
On the second hole, I threw a single-bogey. Third hole, I made par. Fourth hole, I birdied (beat par by one stroke). Unfortunately, the mathematical progression ended there :> ... I ended up fourteen over par for the course. Which is better than I did last week, which was better than the week before ... but still not good enough to win the pot, even with my handicap. Next week, we go to a course I'm more familiar with, so perhaps I'll do better. My distance and accuracy are still improving, at least.
More golf terms you may find scattered through my journal:
"Out" -- the person whose disk is farthest from the hole, and will therefore be the next person to throw.
"Pickup" -- a disk that is so close to the basket, the owner won't even be required by the other players to throw it.
"Slice" -- throw that falls to the right, which is unusual for right-handed players. I can do it on purpose, barely, and some brands of disk are more conducive to it than others.
"Roller" -- pretty much what it sounds like. In some terrain, you can get a disk to roll farther than you could throw it through the air. Or if it hits the ground at enough of an angle, it'll toodle along like a little windsurfer, and sometimes end up farther from the hole than the point at which it was thrown. Not that that's happened to me. Much.