O Kaposia!

So Eric O and Mark E and I played some disc today at Kaposia, still one of my very favorite courses, in south St. Paul. I'm up in Minneapolis for early Thanksgiving for a couple reasons, one of them being disc golf. Overall I think I prefer Thanksgiving to Christmas pretty much all around, not having kids. There's the weather situation, too, to think about. You can pretty much guarantee that we'll be playing in snow, if at all, if I'm up for Christmas. But Thanksgiving is anyone's guess. Maybe, maybe not. The Cities are on an epic drought, so it was all dry, though evidently snow is forecast for tomorrow. Low of 34, high of 50. Light wind, often seemingly in our face, whichever way we turned. Very pleasant weather.

Kaposia is one of four epic courses in the Minneapolis area, along with a few other good ones. Kaposia is the big daddy of the region, though, surely the first pro course in the area. It's 24 holes now, after its original 18 had to be pulled back to 9 because of (according to Leonard?) somebody finding toxic waste on the back 9. The new 24 is excellent--I remember the original 18 well, and have played a version of this 24 before, but not this exact 24. 2 holes from the old back 9 have never been brought back, sadly, most famously the hill-to-hill hole, which I once 9ed. (You threw from a high elevated tee across a valley to an elevated green with a ton of possibilities to roll discs away.) At any rate, 2 pleasant rounds.

My iPhone died pretty early into the round so I have few photos. Here are 2:

 

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Round 1: Ander +11, Mark +20, Eric +32. As you can see this is not an easy course. Admittedly it's maybe not quite as hard as that. I 5ed hole 24 to end poorly on an otherwise solid round (several of these holes are legitimate par 4s; the +s are not from par, but from 3s). Eric's worst round, he said, in several years. 

Mark had to head out to Important Bidness, but not before we had lunch at a random little burger joint that was hilarious and delicious. Ostermeier and I went back to attempt the beast again.

Round 2: Ander +15, Eric + 24. Not exactly a barnburner of a round there, though Eric and I were close through 9, then we started separating. 

Highest score per hole: 6 (all of us threw at least one 6). Lowest: 2. Total birdies by the group, round 1: 1 (Ander, on the first hole). Total birdies by the group, round 2: 2 (both Ander, holes 17 and 18, both part of--sort of--the original 18). No discs lost but one forgets about the leaves. We don't really have those in Arizona.

Makin love--out of nothin at all.