Disc Jag Flashback: 1997, Hamblin Hills, Galesburg, Illinois

Or possibly it was Williston Downs, the first of the two Knox College courses we played in Galesburg, Illinois, but my guess is Hamblin Hills. Both 18 hole courses were object courses, there being no baskets within 45 minutes of the Knox College campus at this point (now there is at least one pretty good 18-hole course in town).

In the first two images, we see Leonard demonstrating a good approach and then driving stroke. He is also demonstrating the kind of hair that he had then that got him invited to a Metallica concert when we was randomly wandering the streets of Chicago. I think you can see why. Mike Baran in the third image is the guy Leonard and I used to play with the most in college. I was digging back through a bunch of old photographs to find the appropriate one of me in the 90s to use as the "author" photo on the March Sadness blog, and I found these, perhaps the first instances of the pre-Jag jags. This was before Eric O and T-Town played disc golf: though they both lived not far from here, perhaps their sights were set on something other than disc golf then, heathens that they were. I have no memory of playing with them before, I think, Minneapolis, when Leonard moved there circa 1997-1998.

At some point we did have to move one of our holes after we broke a window on the administration building on a stray approach shot. I want to say it was someone else's miss, but I think it probably was me.