Today we took a road trip and went to a course out in Lago Vista that was new to us. John, myself, Mike and Jon carpooled there (meeting Jon at Starbuck’s of course). We arrived early, so we practiced a bit. When everyone else arrived we chose teams. But, instead of our usual process of flipping discs, John got out a deck of cards. We had decided to have three teams of 2, 2, and 3. I imagined that he would use sets of cards to distinguish the people like Clubs for team 1 and Hearts for team 2. Or, perhaps, he would use the rank of cards like Aces, Kings, or Queens. But he was determined to be different. The black Aces would go together, the red Aces would be a team, and the three Kings would form the last team. Okay. And after all of that, we still rearranged the teams…

Man, the lake is low! No possibility of water on our course.

Seven people is a lot to play with. But we played quickly today. Perhaps it was because the course was shorter than usual. Or the fact that we were the only people out there today.

On hole 5, they had tied together with bailing wire a large vine that had been cut apart. It made an effective obstacle since the majority of people hit it.

It seems that hole 6 is no more… I wonder why?

There are an aweful lot of deer around here in Lakeway. Unfortunately, none of them chose to be targets for John when he was throwing discs. They stayed away from the course while we were there. Perhaps the Elk warned them…

Curt was having problems with his foot today. So he took his shoe off and played with out it. It didn’t prove to be any handicap.

I had a nice throw on hole 18. The tee is at the base of the hill and the basket is on the top. The basket is protected by cedar trees.

Adam looks like a Cheshire Cat, don’t you think? We went to a restaurant for lunch. And on our way home, we decided to take a detour to check out another close course in Leander. However, it was quite the adventure to get find it. The directions are truely atrocious: “Directions: At the corner of Osage Dr. and Bagdad Rd. West on 1431, go 1 mile past 183 and turn right on Bagdad. The park is 4 miles down on the left at the entrance to the subdivision.”

It didn’t help that John’s odometer doesn’t have tenths of a mile and I used it to measure out four miles. Eventually we gave up and turned around and started looking for parks. Not many people have heard of disc golf, so the general public turned out to be no help at all. We drove around some subdivisions a bit and eventually worked our way back to the corned of Osage and Bagdad. Of course, after all that effort, I finally noticed that the park was visible from that intersection.

The corrected directions should say: “At the corner of Osage Dr. and Bagdad Rd. … The park is … on the left at the entrance to the subdivision.”

The park is really tiny and crowded with residents. It is perhaps 200 feet on each side with a gated swimming pool in the middle of it.

Jon managed to throw out of bounds into a condominium. Mike then proceded to throw his disc into the side of one of those buildings narrowly missing a window. He ditched that disc.

Oh yeah, now you tell us that this is a private park.