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April 16, 2007
April 14, 2007
GAC 2007
Today is GAC 2007 and I will be driving all around town in a pimp of a minivan (as pimp as a minivan can be) searching for clue packets. Please do not call the police and/or bomb squad on us this year. That is all.
April 12, 2007
Atlanta to Paris
Google Maps does something pretty interesting when you ask it to go from Atlanta, GA to Paris, France. No wonder it take almost 30 days to get there. Check it out! (hint: check out step 21)
April 7, 2007
Bowling Green Recap
Thought I would give a "quick" recap of the Bowling Green Amateur Championships this past weekend. First off let me say it was the best idea to get out of town for the weekend, go to another state, and play some courses I have never even seen before. It really make you feel good about you abilities when you can do well at some courses you see for the first time.
Driving up on Friday a little rough. Got a little later start than I would have liked and the Garmin led us astray because it was set on "shortest distance" rather than "shortest time". So took a short detour toward Murfreesburo, TN off the highway and headed back to the interstate when we figured out what was going wrong. We finally got up to Bowling Green around 6pm and headed out to Griffin Park to play one of the courses we would see the next day.
Players meeting next was at 7am and the local Knights of Columbus was taken over by over 700+ disc golfers. Our first round was at Miller Park which was nice tight wooded course. I practically threw my putter for most of the shots and weaseled out a one over par for the first round. I was on fire and putting game was on. Second round was at the course we practiced the day before. Didn't play as well as the day before because the wind had decided to start whipping up a storm that day. Fifteen to twenty miles per hour winds seem to the norm in Bowling Green from what I hear. I ended up shooting seven over par at that course which was still okay but not great.
Third round started at the probably the best looking courses in Bowling Green called Lover Lane. Nice open course with huge trees lining the fairways. The trees on this course had to be 5 to 10 foot bases that made them well over 100 years old. The course played long for the most part with some tricky lines. There wasn't much wind at dawn but quickly picked up as the sun began to heat the earth. I managed to keep score under 60 with the winds. The last round was at one of the most challenging courses I have ever played. It was just ridiculously tough. The winds seem to swirl on the open holes and the wooded holes were just insane lines. Two holes shot next to cliff that if your disc rolled out of bounds you had to take a drop and couldn't retrieve your disc until the round was over. If you lost your main putter on those hole well you out of luck the rest of it. I managed the tough holes and made couple birdies. But the wind kept my score high and even putting within 10 feet was a challenge. I ended with another seven over par to finish the tournament at +20.
Myself and the gang (Eric, Andrew and VD) went to the award ceremony course and watched the final round for the top in each field. I ended up being 10 strokes out of "cashing" at the tournament but I still felt I did good. Tieing for 138th place among 244 golfers in my division was a great win for me. Not to mention I beat everyone else I roomed with that weekend. Plus I do get to say I was part of the biggest PDGA sanctioned tournament ever. My only regret was not getting a chance to visit Clayton while I was up there.
