Threw my best round at our course today. 71 playing rec pars. +4 on front 9 ties my best and I managed +1 on back 9 and even got par (7) on our monster 855' dogleg. Yay!
I guess that made up for throwing my $20 glow disc (that I also dyed) into the creek. (CFR glow champ monarch, quite stable for a monarch, turns but always flexes back for me, TOO MUCH this time, I'm thinking it is a standard monarch and will turn over for me, whoops)
I'm pretty sure I can find a kid down there or use a friend's kid to fish it out, I'll just offer kid a few bucks.
My putting has gotten better using the turbo putt. There was a group of players between 11 and 12 that saw me putt it on 11 for birdie, when I walked by them they were all trying it. I stopped and showed them how, then went on to tame that back 9 somewhat.
I was pretty consistently throwing around 180 - 200 feet on drives, I learned that I am pivoting on the ball of my foot and not the heel. Pivoting on the heel has gotten me more in the 200 - 230 foot range. I figure as I work out my form issues and improve my run-up I will gain more distance with each thing I get right.
I'll start playing the pro pars (same tees, just different par) when I can consistently and accurately drive 300'.
It is pretty strange, I'm not really that good but I think I could beat anyone I ran into out there. A couple out of towners and a couple locals I've met would probably go 50-50 with me.
Played most of the course with a younger guy and his girlfriend this morning, his 1st time playing it, his girlfriend didn't play. He only had one disc, but at least it wasn't a warp speed bomber driver like those other kids, he had a sensible fairway driver, Innova DX Eagle. I didn't keep his score but I threw a bit better than him.
A couple guys with their sons of around 8 to 10 throwing frisbees let me play through, the kids were looking through my bag and loved my marbled and painted orange and blue midrange. They all looked a bit stunned when I threw a sweet hyzer flip to bomb (for me) straight down the middle about 220'.
Yeah, I'm lame, hyzer flipping a 150g sidewinder a measly 220'.
I'm carrying 150 DX leo, 166 glow champ leo, & 150 DX sidewinder for drivers.
Mids are 172 mako and 174 axis.
Approach - 172 soft anode
putt (some approaches) 174 medium ion.
I lose a little bit of distance but gain in consistency with DX leo over sidewinder even though my leo is getting a bit flippy. Glow champ leo is much more stable, it hardly flips on me at all and only flips all the way over with grip lock. I might keep the leos and trade out the sidewinder for my glow champ teebird. It is more stable than the glow leo and works a decent flex shot or when I need hard fade left.
MIds are ok, but I need to get something more stable in there for headwinds, like my vector or my coyote (if I can find it).
Love this game!
Gonna look into some stencils for dyeing all this glow champ I have laying around!