This week at Parma I was excited to play so I could repeat the drives, approachs and putts from Tuesday night. With a handicap of 24, I was "guaranteed" to be in the money again.
I pretty much played like the amateur I am. I was OB 5 times, my personal highest on any course at any time, and I lost 2 discs, and I even lost my disc marker (temporarily).
The first basket was #9 (which yesterday threw it about 20ft from the basket) was poor drive, then the approach was OB in ditch, then another poor approach which resulted in a score of 5. Starting a round with a 5 is not too bad but it seems that I stayed mediocre. My drives were in trees or were OB, my approaches hit tree branches or never made it to the basket, forcing another throw.
Basket 18 was a complete disaster; first I hooked the Xcaliber into the right trees, then crossed the course into a ravine deep in the forest to the left and kept on hitting trees trying to approach with a hyzer with my Star TL. Then I completely splashed the throw at basket 1, losing my used Xcaliber, which was this basket's "money" disc last night.
I ended with a 82; 4 par , 5 (4's) ,5 (5's) ,3 (6's), 1 (7)
I realized that I throw the same throw 99% of the time, a forehand sidearm, and tonight I was paying for lack of variety in throwing, and understanding disc flight. This course demands different throws and different discs. So afterwards, in the dusk, I started to practice with my brand new TieDyed Discraft Nuke by hole #1A, and threw it into the brush, and with the evening shade coming down, lost the light to find it properly. Nice disc, thrown only three times but never in a game, lost to the disc finders of the Parma
I do not have any positive thoughts about the night.
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