Here we go, Where is the Dance Floor?

Today was the last day of practice and we all utilized it to its full potential. Jeff Hagerty went to play the two courses he plays tomorrow, Thornfield and Rosedale, while Jason and I headed to Prairie Center and then Shawnee Mission. We all then meet back at the hotel to get ready to go down to the Host Hotel to attend the Worlds Players meeting at 7pm. We meet Kevin Watson a fellow Oregonian from Kaizer at the players meeting and we all went out to dinner after wards at Famous Daves BBQ down on 14th and Watson. Meanwhile the weather was a brewing outside and the Light and Sound show started while we were heading to dinner. We decided on the way home to grab an umbrella at Walgreens in case the rain continues into our first rounds tomorrow.

Prairie Center is a shorter course in the middle of a nice flat park. We did not take any pictures of the course today because we were focused on our play and the course layout. We will be playing this course first tomorrow morning at 8 am and we wanted to be sure we had a very good idea of what to throw on each hole. Jason and I continued our score challenge and he currently had 1 stroke on me for the week so far. We started out playing on the front nine and Jason was very steady, collecting his pars and capitalizing on his birdies. I on the other had took a double bogey on hole 2 and started playing catch up. As we rounded hole 6 Jason still had three on me but we were stepping up to the longest hole on the course. We both dropped strokes to the course on this hole, Jason with a double bogey and me with a bogey. Hole 8 was the turn around for me, I birdied 8,9,10 pared 11, birdied 12 & 13. After hole 13 there was a 5 stroke swing in my favor now I was up by 2. We both played the rest of the course pretty even until Jason took a crazy OB penalty on 18 and I won by three. Overall we both felt good about our chances on this course, sure it is a short course and the higher rated players in our division will play well but we believe we can hang with them on this course.

We ended up grabbing some lunch at a Mexican restaurant just outside of the course and then headed up to play Shawnee Mission again. Shawnee is the course we will play second tomorrow and I was not comfortable with our first experience on this course. We showed up today to completely different conditions, the wind was gone and the weather was cooler, but most importantly we did not just get off a red eye flight with 3 hours sleep. Jason opted out of throwing any more shot but agreed to walk with me and putt from my drives. I started out playing the course significant better and started to get into a rhythm. The warm air was making for some great glide and my Star Eagle-x king for me on this course. It was my go to Hyzer disc for holes up to 375 feet. We played the first 11 holes then skipped to 16 and finished out the course on 18. Jason was a good sport and let me play the holes that I needed to work on and gave me encouragement and ideas for different lines on the holes. After the round we made a quick retreat to the hotel to get ready for the players meeting but on the way back we had to stop by Dairy Queen so that I could buy Jason an ice cream for our challenge on Swope the day before.

Back at the hotel we grabbed a shower picked up Jeff and made our way to the meeting. The players meeting was at the Host Hotels Ballroom and it was cool to see so many disc golfers in one spot.








While we were waiting to get into the ballroom people were having drinks and some of the kids were playing catch and throw in the lower section of the hotel. I can't believe the hotel was cool with it but it was entertaining to watch all the discs flying about.



We met Kevin Watson a outside the ballroom and brought him into our Worlds Disc Golf Family from Oregon. When we made our way into the ballroom we ran into Adny Hock and so we grabbed a seat with Nate Sexton, Ben Van Dusen, Kirk McAllister and Andy. Then as we were all chatting we saw Jay Harbour and he joined us. We looked around for Peter Belizi and Terry but they were sitting somewhere else. We had one of the two South Korean's who came for the Worlds Champions to take our picture as a group.



As the players meeting was going on the weather outside was threatening a thunderstorm, and it did not disappoint. We were driving to the restaurant and the lighting started to hit but it was far away because the thunderclap was 10 to 12 seconds post flash. By the time we got to the restaurant the thunder was about 1/2 second post flash and really loud. We were downtown and the lightning was flashing off the buildings and it was entertaining but worrisome at the same time as we started talking about how to get ready for a rainy round at 80 degrees. During dinner Kevin was telling us about the course that he designed down in Kaizer and was asking for people to come down and play it and provide feedback. Kevin is working with a limited resource of volunteers and we let him know that we will do whatever we can to assist him in finishing another course installation in Oregon. We said goodbye to Kevin after dinner and we made our way to the hotel but stopped by Walgreens to pick up three umbrellas just in case the rain continues through the morning.

We all are pretty tired so its time to get some sleep, that is if the excitement allows us to!!!!!