Global Warming Ace 2013!

So. It was high 50+ degrees on Friday, Jan 11. Today it is 22 degrees. But such are the vagaries of melting glaciers and sea ice, shifting precipitation patterns, hurricanes, cats chasing dogs, Brent Musberger's lasciviousness, etc.

We played at our Yorktown, often-techy course. Sloppy day, since snow was melting. The pins are in alt positions, improving most of the holes. Or maybe we think they are improved because we are conditioned to the old setup? Either way, we admire the alt pins.

Mark threw his disc into the water. So did I. Matt LOST his putter. How do you lose a putter? Well, you need a massively elevated green (hole # 9) over a running stream and swamp. You then need to miss your putt, have the putter roll blindly down the hillside behind the basket, and then--I suppose (we didn't actually see it)--the putter enters the rushing, snowmelt stream and is now resting in the throat of the disc golf gods. Goodbye, putter.

Another highlight is I threw in an ACE!!

Hole 13, a basically 90 degree forehand, techy and short (under 200 feet), coasted it down a falling fairway (the disc golf review site labels it a "valley") and let gravity unspool it right into the chains. Thank gods for the spider baskets, since it was clattering in the basket. But the chains held! Also, thanks to global warming. I can't really throw forehands in cold weather.

2013 might be a good disc year. Never had a January ace, fer sure.

Fling on.

S