Devou Park Classic yesterday. My play over the past week has been pretty much garbage, so I went into the tournament with pretty low expectations. Despite the heat and humity I felt pretty good warming up, though.
After the first 18 holes, two of us were swapping the lead of the MA4s (no other old guys were willing to join me in the MA60s for 36 holes on a rolling course in Kentucky in mid-summer... what gives???
) and I was down a stroke with a respectable +8. My next 9 holes were just weird, bogies on the easy holes and pars on the tough ones. With four holes to play, I was two strokes down and figured I need to card a birdie or two to get back in it, so I made a throw that went 50 feet almost straight to the side and made a complete circle in the road before settling OB. I took a double on that one and thought I was out of contention, now down by four. I made a bit of a charge in the last three holes and picked up three strokes, including a final hole birdie. I wound up seven over my rating, so no complaints.
So, in hindsight, happy with my play in general, annoyed that I tried to pull off a shot that was way beyond my capability, and happy about finishing second at a course that I haven't always played well. I did end the day winning one of the two post-tournament closest to pin competitions. All-in-all, a good day of disc golf.