Was this morning! Played Johnny Roberts. For you non-Denver folks, it's a short course but tight with a creek through the middle and punishes mistakes unmercifully. My previous best was +1. I'm sure the experienced players like twmcoy and thatdirtykid have posted some amazing scores of -9 or better but, other than ththe +1, I've been anywhere from +4 to +8 most of the time. Today I threw a -5!
That's right, beat by best score by 6! Yes, by 6! Incredible.
Everything went right.
#15 goes over a bend in the creek with a choice of 2 small holes in the trees that you have to thread your disc through to get your disc up onto a flat open space. From there you can just ease your disc down to the basket next to the water. More often than not I miss the initial gaps, bounce off the trees and wind up wading.
Not today. Today I managed to miss the gaps completely and my disc was headed towards the right hand (wrong) bank of the creek where it would surely hit something and drop into the water. Nope, hit a tree and bounced almost 90 degrees left, still gliding and wound up near the top of the bank, in the gap between the trees, with an easy layup to the basket. Needless to say I didn't push my luck and try to run the putt but went for the layup and the par. Crazy lucky!
In addition to that one piece of incredible luck I just kept throwing everything right where I wanted to and made saving putts when something was off by a little. This was one of the rounds we live for!