I went down south to see the Wu Dang Monks perform. They played at the Akins High School Performing Arts Theatre on 1st street south of Slaughter Drive. Which was right next to this course that I have not played at before.

Apparently, some a-hole stole the goal for hole 16. People are selfish, destructive, and ignorant for most of their life…

The holes here are very short. Short enough to be called “an ace rich area”. There were many holes that were less than 200 feet.

You can see hole one from the tee. There were enough trees for me not to consider throwing a straight shot. Instead, I threw high and to the right hoping that it would fall back onto the course. It barely made it to the left of the course.

Sadly, Mark threw some discs in the tree. For the first time, we finally found the disc stuck high in a tree. As a bonus, Mark found another disc. The next time, we were not so fortunate. And we were unable to locate his disc.

On hole 5, my first throw landed close to the basket. And I was able to birdie the hole!

Hole 15 is on top of a hill. The goal is in the middle of the clearing at the bottom.

On the way out, I notice an interesting sign. Hill Country Aeromodelers apparently has a section of the park for themselves.

Went out this Friday again at the usual place. When I was throwing a couple of practice shots, I notice that my Star-TL disc flew farther than my Star-Wraith. The Star-TL is a fairway driver and is the brother of the Teebird. The Teebird-L is “longer” or “less overstable” (which means it flies straighter). The Wraith is a distance driver and, therefore, should fly farther than the Teebird. Right?

Apparently not! It went past the tree on hole 1. And it went close enough to the goal on 18 to make a birdie!

On hole 6, my second shot came pretty near the goal. Too bad I missed that putt!

At the Mexican Ice cream store, John told the lady to dump in his Lime ice cream into the large Agua.

Today, we took a road trip down south. We meet up at the Starbucks at 620 at the ungodly hour of 7am. Strangely enough, Jon did not double up on caffeine. John was kind enough to pick me up on the way there and to drive down south.

It was definately brutal for the Jo(h)ns. On hole 5, we had the bright idea of throwing to the high right over the woods and hoping that the discs would naturally fade to the left back onto the course. Jon lost his disc when it faded right and out of sight. And it keep going bad. I finished that hole 4 strokes ahead of John and 3 ahead of Jon.

Here John thumbs his disc (throws it like a baseball) out of the woods after loosing his disc when we lost track of where his thumb went.

Of course, we got discs stuck in the trees. That is nothing new for us.

Unfortunetly, Jon got his disc stuck in the top of a very tall oak tree. He was unable to make it to the main trunk to continue climbing up the tree and rescue it. So we called it a loss (Jon’s second for the day).

It briefly rained twice, which was not fun…

Next, we stopped by the new Disc Nation store. It is situated between the Circle C disc course and the Mary Moore Searight disc course on Slaughter boulevard. They clam to have 10,000 discs in stock or 350 models to choose from. It was certinally the largest store that I have seen. And we definately bought some discs to stock back up on what was lost.

After that, we headed out for lunch at the Salt Lick. I notice that the fields next to the Salt Lick had grape vines growing. It seems that Texas wines is the hot thing now…

Mmmmmm, this way to great bar-b-que!

Next stop was to head off down south to Kyle. Which was relatively close… well a Texas-sized close of 20 miles. We had a hard time finding the disc golf course. We missed the turn off, but on the second time around we found it. It lead straight into the Steeplechase subdivision on Bluestem Road. After we found that road, we took Goldenrod Street straight to the park.

And boy is that city A.R. about warnings and signage. Yeah, these pebbly trapezoidal tee boxes are a real hazard… wink, wink, nudge, nudge….

They did spend some money on some great looking aluminum signs… using full color and professional graphics. A little confusing though. While they did have two tees for most holes, there was only one goal. Maybe they switch them around at times? I didn’t know if the “A” or the “B” goals were in use. That golf course looking fairway was the artist’s imagination though…

This sign is definately scary! Gah! I am definately alergic to poison ivy… But that didn’t stop me from playing and trudging along. The other bad thing about this course was the thick and tall grass at places. You could easily loose discs in that.

The course tracked back and forth over the small stream. And they used an interesting bridge consisting of concrete tubes. Although at most spots, there was a lot of erosion from earlier heavier rains.

Back in May, we had wanted to play a tournament here in Kyle. But due to heavy rains, we were told that the course was under water. And I can see why. Most of the course is three or four feet above the level of the river that runs through this park. It certinally cannot withstand heavy rains like Old Settlers Park can.

Here is some poison ivy with some strange growth on the leaves. A plant virus?

And this explains all of the warning signs around here. One partially finished tee box. We used the other tee box. But I have to wonder, surely it would be cheaper to buy another couple bags of cement and some more of that pebbly aggregate and finish this tee box off, than to go around and install signs after the fact?

The creek was small but we did manage to dump a few discs into the water. The water was stagnant and murky. But we were able to find and rescue the discs.

What was strange here was all of the extra discs that were laying around. The person in front of us told us that he had left a couple of discs that he found. I think that there were six extra discs around the course. We each picked one one and left the rest for others.

After we were through, we drove back north to Austin. We did stop off at Cabelas. The mondo 185,000 square foot travel destination. Two levels, aquarium, shooting arcade, fake mountain with trophy animals, restaurant.