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Lifetime Ace #14, 2nd of 2020
Hit a blind ace today!
This hole doesn't look hard when you walk up to it, but it actually can punish misfires pretty badly: 220' long hole with no trees, but a paved soapbox derby track running left of, but offset from parallel (maybe 20-30 deg, or the 1:00/7:00 position - this crummy ass tee sign is incorrect) to the fairway, with a sharp downward ridge occurring exactly parallel to the derby track, and running between tee and basket. So, you can't see the basket from the tee, and the ridge can make it really tricky to accurately judge where and how hard to throw it. Play it too safe and you'll land well short, still up above the ridge and have a long downhill putt, backhand it too far left and the track will tear up your disc, and send you careening farther (too far and you're going down another steep downhill), and even if you put a teeshot about where you think you should, it's still really easy to land deceptively long and right on a forehand.
Anyways though, I let a forehand fly, heard the ching (a split second later than I expected to - I initially thought this was just someone else holing out somewhere else on the course!), and saw my trusty firebird (ace #6 with it!) sitting nestled in the chains!
Hit a blind ace today!
This hole doesn't look hard when you walk up to it, but it actually can punish misfires pretty badly: 220' long hole with no trees, but a paved soapbox derby track running left of, but offset from parallel (maybe 20-30 deg, or the 1:00/7:00 position - this crummy ass tee sign is incorrect) to the fairway, with a sharp downward ridge occurring exactly parallel to the derby track, and running between tee and basket. So, you can't see the basket from the tee, and the ridge can make it really tricky to accurately judge where and how hard to throw it. Play it too safe and you'll land well short, still up above the ridge and have a long downhill putt, backhand it too far left and the track will tear up your disc, and send you careening farther (too far and you're going down another steep downhill), and even if you put a teeshot about where you think you should, it's still really easy to land deceptively long and right on a forehand.
Anyways though, I let a forehand fly, heard the ching (a split second later than I expected to - I initially thought this was just someone else holing out somewhere else on the course!), and saw my trusty firebird (ace #6 with it!) sitting nestled in the chains!
