Courses I've Played II

I'd like to descrbe the last 3 courses I playe: The first as outside of Vernon, VC, was private, and was at the home of a very clever and congenial mana who constructed the course on his hillside home.  Some of the features I particularly enjoyed on this pay($5) to play course were: 27 holes of mostly short but sometimes very steep slope wooded disc golf course with a variety of targets including high propane tanks suspended from trees, a copper gong man he crafted and hung from another tree, and baskets and drain pipe and copper tonals.  All this was in the atmosphere of a local club where the businessmen and others  can come if they are invited, and out of towners are generally welcome.  The second day I played with them there was a tourrnament which occurs every Thursday after 4 PM.  Everybody pays 10 dollars and thereis prize money for the winners as well as a "player's pack of a shooter on the 18th (of 27) hole.  The night I played it was a cinnamon iquor of flavored whiskey and was very tasty.  My play was rushed and poor as i was held up by road construction on the long drive from our campsite on Lake Okenagon.

Saturday, June 28, 2 time zones to the east, I played in a one day tournament at St Paul, MN, the Kaposia Open, held at a course of same name, which i a 24 basket trip thru deeply cut forest near the mississippi River in S St Paul.  There were no other grand masters or senior grand masters in the am ranks for me to play with so I played with the pros of same age, and was a division of one, which I won with lousey scores, relatively speaking.  The course is very challenging and I met some interesting people including Richard Hasch, Chuck Kennedy, and Allen Hanson, who I expect to see in Kalamazoo for the ProAm Worlds in August.

The next day as we were going down the Mississippi Bluff highway to the Root River Valley town of Lanesboro, we went thru Winona, which has a lakeside course with water hazards, significant wind, many OB possibilities, and varied length holes.  I'm not playing up to the level I did last year and I suppose I may need to accept that, but for now, I'm designing remedial programs to spiff up my long shot accuracy and do a bit better with up shots as well.  I was so impressed with Gene Fackler's roller and then John Ross's roller, that I'm working with those shots.  Here in the midwest, the courses are more manicured and suitable for this shot.

Tomorrow we will go to Wisconsin and I'm going to try the La Crosse course which is well-regarded in my PDGA directory of courses, where incidentally, directions etc to these courses are available.