The meetup group went to Old Settler’s Park today. Out of the 8 who RSVP’d yes, only 4 showed up. It looks like someone planted a new tree right in front of the tee and in the middle of what little open space there was! Was that on purpose? Or do the employees not realize that there is a disc golf course here? I know strollers in the park don’t.

Its been a while since we have played here. And it showed. I threw into the water at hole 2 (and had to wade in to retrieve the disk). John did on hole three. Ken did on hole seventeen.

There were no birdies today for anyone. Although I had a chance on hole 15.

The dam construction is ongoing. They have cleared out all the plants and trees on both sides. I wonder why. Are they going to lay cement on the cleared area?

It was also interesting to hear that our new meetup member, Cory, had somehow came across this blog when he was searching for information about the course at the Rivery in Georgetown. They tried searching for the tees and did not find them. So he looked around and saw this blog. We happened to be playing at that course. So, when he told his friend that people were playing it, his friend thought that we were playing a joke. Small world, I guess.

It sounded like he only saw the rather poor pictures on this blog rather than the full course photos here.

There were a lot of people at the meetup again this week. Enough for two groups again. We played at Wilco. Curt showed up after a long absence and beat Gravitt, who had practiced at Wilco three times earlier that week.

The meetup group went to Rivery. This time there were 10 people? Gah! Far too many! My group proved to be much faster that John’s. He was still on 13 when we finished. Jon had left immediately when we finished. No one seemed interested in lunch, so I went off on my own. To Monument Cafe — my new favorite restaurant.

Once in a great while Jon will actually play disc golf on a Friday. He picked a hot one! Technically it is still winter, but you would not believe it by looking at the thermometer.

Jon met up with Paul Weitkemper waiting at the course and he joined up for a game. It seemed like a small world when we found out that he worked at Tivoli.

The meetup group went to Zilker park to play on the “South” course. There were a bunch of new people including a nine year old. This group took forever to play. One of the problems was that Robin brought her dog and could not throw a disc and control the dog at the same time. Fortunately, someone stepped up and took control of the leash.

It was also disappointing in that we were supposed to go canoing on Town Lake afterwards but we didn’t. I also wanted to try Flip Happy Crepes which is right next to the park. But I couldn’t convince Gravitt to experiment with food.

We did stop at Uncle Billy’s on Barton Springs Road. It was a Bar-B-Queue and micro-brewery joint. The beer was so so. One of them was bitter enough to require limes. The “sliders” were very disappointing.

There were seven of us today playing at Wilco. I teamed up with John and we initially had a great start. We converted my above throw in for a birdie on hole two. And got another birdie on hole five (thanks to a lucky throw of mine). But we petered out after that and fell out of the lead. We did almost catch up at the end though.

The only problem was that our group took forever to play! Three hours!!! We didn’t finish until 1pm. This meant that the bright light started to give us sunburns.

The meetup group played at Wells Branch today. And since the course is so tiny, we played it twice. John did well except for one hole. Where he broke down on putting and took five attempts to make it into the basket.

I had a couple of birdies. Hole one was one example. After throwing a hyzer out over the stream, it came back down to land under the basket.

After disc golf, we headed out to Cafe Panini in Round Rock where we played some two player games with meetup folks.

After two rainy and miserable days over the weekend, I just had to go outside when Sunday turned out to be beautiful. Jon and John were up for it and we decided to head down to Pease Park. It was unsurprisingly crowded. We had to wait in line for two groups to play hole one. And another group of people came behind us as we were waiting.

Look, how considerate! People left their garbage ice for us.

It seems that a low tech “cooler” is a bag of ice that they use to hold the beer. And it seems that these people left it hanging on a tree when they were done with it…

Hole six is heavily wooded. Jon makes his throw. And I convince him that he should have used a pancake shot (a hammer thrown horizontal that skips on the ground). Well, I was perfectly right! That throw landed in the basket! He would have had a birdie if it counted…

We stopped for beer at Opal Divines and played some darts. Well, let me rephrase that. Others played darts and I just threw them… randomly.

Jon had an interesting throw. One dart stuck in the back of another one! And look at that dart board. Why are the numbers randomly upsidedown or flipped?

The meetup group played at Cat Hollow AGAIN, so I ditched them to play at Wilco. Which is a challenging course. Unfortunately, this course is starting to get really popular. Man, was it crowded today! I had a couple of within range first throws for a possible birdie. However, I missed the putts. So sad. But I made up for that on hole 13. My first throw hit the ground and skipped up to hit the basket! An almost skip ace.

There is some more changes in the construction at Old Settlers Park. It looks like someone wised up and put in doors in all that orange fencing. Torn fencing from people having to climb over the fences probably gave them a clue. And it looks like the removed all of the trees on the side of the dam. So sad. That will change how two of the holes play. It looks like the basket for “C” hole (or is it A or B?) is still there. We’ll see how long that lasts…

I started out with a long putt for par on hole 1. Which is nice. This is a challenging hole.

On hole 7 I had a great throw through the mandatory box. And it was while someone else was watching. It was close enough for a birdie.