Recent content by markmanchette

Sugaree and the Valle Crucis courses...close you eyes and listen, you will hear almost nothing. You're likely to be the only person on the course most days. At either course, I have probably seen 10 others, TOTAL, in 7 years of playing.

Yes, I am enjoying the lower summer temperatures, and I look forward to the surreal beauty of Fall. Winter? I’m afraid of it. I know many times I felt like I barely survived winter in Charlotte, and I know mountain winter is going to be long and difficult. I hope I can survive 23.5 hours...

Noah wins! Why am I not surprised? He's the most talented player I've had the honor of throwing with, multiple times! Congratulations!

I live in Charlotte. Carowinds is our big amusement park. We also have the NASCAR hall of fame museum. The science museum can Be surprisingly fun. We also have a LOT of PARKS. Mountain Biking is very popular here. There is also the water park, where you can paddle the man-made whitewater course.

Yeah Noah is awesome. An outstanding person, an outstanding disc golfer. I met him at Sugaree probably 2.5 years ago. He's been to blackjack and heritage farm with me. He also comes down to Charlotte from time to time.

I've been struggling with "severe persistent eosinophilic asthma" - I start a new medication Next week that will hopefully help, in time. www.fasenra.com

Just for the record, as much as I have enjoyed guiding around 70 people through various Boone-area courses, my health at this point does not allow for me to continue sharing the courses I love so much, with others. I just can’t do it anymore, and it’s for a reason I can’t fully explain on a...

Absolutely love the sum-it-up review of the weekend! Good times! Don’t forget the Strings & Chings tournament at Heritage Farm August 23-24! Hope we all get to throw again some day! Enjoyed it very much!

It has been my honor and my pleasure to play some small part in making this a special trip for you. These are some of the special moments in my life, as well. And I appreciate everyone upstream of myself. The course owners, without them, none of this happens. Rich, MANDO, I especially thank...

Enjoy your morning at Ramcat with Jamie. It was good meeting you and your friends yesterday. The weather really was extraordinary until the final 30 minutes of play. The parking lots were very wet but the courses themselves were great. Tee pads had plenty of traction. I’m glad it worked out...

We've already cancelled one of the two courses. I'll contact the other owners in the AM. It's late now.

Yes she has a solitary carcinoid tumor. It's only 7mm but it's already obstructing air flow into one portion of her lung. Fortunately it's not a metastasis of her breast cancer. She's also going to have a PET scan in two weeks, to verify that nothing has spread anywhere. Her breast cancer was...

Rich, I respect the family far too much to play, if they suggest we should not. I'm going to contact them immediately on arrival tomorrow morning. If they feel it's best we don't play, we won't. A few months ago I went, and there was a TRACE of snow and ice on the course. I left within 10...

Jamie thank you very much for the invitation. I wish I could join you Sunday, timing is just bad right now, unfortunately. My Birthday is May 31st, maybe I can come up and see you then. The rest of the Summer gets complicated. My wife is going to be having part of her lung removed, to hopefully...

Thank you for the advice, Rich. I did see that Boone got well over 4 inches of rain today. Basically we have 5 people that can only get together tomorrow morning. I have a pass from The Warden (we're trying to reconcile) and tomorrow is my only opportunity. We're going to be very careful and...