It’s taken 6 seasons of playing officially sanctioned tournaments as a PDGA member, but I’ve finally succeeded in finishing a tournament dead last. Well, dead last in my division any way; there was one male in M-4 who shot worse than I did and one male who started the tourney and did not finish. I’d …
Category Archives: Tournament Torture
Ice Bowl 2009
I’ve played in a fair number of Ice Bowls, but today was the snowiest. It was also the first Ice Bowl for me in which I’ve gone absolutely bone dry in the way of prizes. Couldn’t even score a raffle win. The image below might sum up a day that was both frustrating AND fun. …
The Great 8: Team Golf
It’s taken a few days to recover, but on Saturday, July 19, Ken and I successfully completed the disc golf iron man competition known as The Great 8. We rose a 4:30 in the A.M. to arrive at Zebulon park for the 6:15 players meeting. After picking up our players packs (a nicely stamped disc, …
2008 Vienna Open
So, last year I played in the Vienna Open and had a good opening round and an awful second round. Actually the scores are only 2 strokes apart, but that doesn’t really display the misery of the round. This year, tournaments and my schedule haven’t been lining up well, but I found that I could …
2008 Rock Creek Shootout
Saturday was the 2nd Rock Creek Shootout here in Tiffin, OH. Once again, Clare and his team put together a top-notch event that ran smoothly. As much as I mistrust Subway, they came through with good quality sandwhiches donated for lunch, and Ballreich’s donated potato chips that reportedly arrived still warm from thier Tiffin plant. …
Family Athletics
Yesterday was quite the day for competition in the Truffin household. In addition to the Bucyrus Bratfest, Sherry and I each were participating in competitive sporting events. [NOTE: I didn't actually see any of the Bratwurst Festival events this year. Sherry and Wade report that it was up to its usual fun. I DID get …
Vienna Park Open
Subtitle: What did I do to cheese off the Disc Golf Gods? I last played at Vienna Park in Temperance, MI when the Morefields visited us shortly after we moved to Tiffin. Returning, I appreciate it as a nice, little course, but I also understand why I haven’t made the effort to go back: way …
Discraft-Hoover Westside Challenge
I spent yesterday walking long arduous distances between holes at a C-tier tourney held on a temporary course held on the west side of the Hoover Resovoir in columbus. The east side of the Hoover Resovoir houses the National Tour stop known around here simply as “The Hambrick.” We had a beautfiul day for golfing: …
Stephens County Pro Am VI
I guess it was way back in Ought One, when we were living in Toccoa, GA, that I was introduced to disc golf by Ken Morefield. A gent named John Nisewonder had convinced the local recreation department to install a course at the Rose Lane park in Toccoa. About a month after playing my first …
Rock Creek Shootout
If the organizers of Tiffin’s first PDGA sanctioned disc golf tournament accomplished nothing else on Saturday, they have increased the number of people who now know that the water flowing through Hedges-Boyer Park is called Rock Creek. After the 14th comment, I stopped counting the times I heard someone say, “So, that’s what that river/water/crick/thing …
