Disc Golf 09/04/2006

Jon with new bag

For Labor Day, we went to a disc golf tournament. This was our first tournament since the other one that we tried to attend was rained out. It was the inaugural Blue Skies Over Texas Tournament. We met at Starbucks on 620 at 7 am to carpool down. When we got there, Jon realized that he forgot to transfer his bag of discs to the car! Doh! So he bought a new bag and some discs and borrowed some more.

Round 1

We entered the novice division. And luckily, I was grouped with John and Jon. It seems that they used alphabetical order for the groupings (Gravitt, Grimm, Hamzy). We were grouped with “Nacho” who was a pro and who was also our guide for this round. He was laid back and fun to play with (and also quite the mary-jane smoker).

Sponsor signs

Each hole had sponsor signs by the tee box. Beware the Blair Keebler Project!

Jon in tree

John lost his disc in a tree. So we invoked Jon’s super powers and got him to climb up the tree. Unfortunately he was not able to quickly get to the top of the tree and we were holding up other golfers. So he dropped down. Luckily, the next group was able to knock it down and gave it back to John.

Ring of fire

After we were finished with the round, we went and ate lunch. They provided us with hamburgers and hot dogs. And after that, was the ring of fire. The ring is a contest where everyone gathers around a goal and putts at the same time. Whoever’s disc makes it into the goal gets to putt again. Until there is one putter left and that person wins a prize. Sadly, I did not win any prizes…

Tichu!

After that we still had an hour before the next round of golf started. So we played a game of Tichu and introduced Curt to the game.


09/04/2006 The scorecard for a game of Tichu

GT or T bet made or lost

This team scored more points than the other or one twoed

GT/T Team #1 GT/T GT/T Team #2 GT/T
Jon & Curt JohnG & MarkH
 
55
    45  
  75    
125
 
  100    
300
T+
  150   T- 250  
  150   T+ 550  
 
205
    595  

For round two, we played the course backwards. They had reversed all of the tees and goals for the course. This created a challenging and completly different experience. Fun! This time I was only grouped with Jon. It seems that they used the scores to create the new groupings.