A few days with Nikko...

[Woodpecker]

Nikko Locastro called me a few days ago and said he was in Austin to play a A tier event in Roundrock this coming weekend. I invited him and Carmen, his girlfriend, to stay at my house until the weekend and they headed south to San Antonio.

Yesterday, I took him out to my home course, McClain Park, and we played a round with a couple of friends of mine. Not knowing the course, Nikko shot -5 which I thought was great for a first time. Well, he was not pleased, to say the least. On the 17th tee box, I happened to mention that the course record was -8.

When we went out today, I asked him where he wanted to play as there are 5 more courses in the area. He said, without hesitation, that he wanted to bust that course record at McClain and off we went.

Another friend of mine joined us and I won't bore you with the details but he shot............... -13 under!!!!!

What an exhibition! At the end of the round, my friend dropped his bag and said "That's it. I quit after watching that! There is no hope for me" LOL

All I could say was "WOW!"

Woodpecker

[BrotherDave]

Yeah, that young man is quite underrated.

[sloppydisc]

But if you each had 12 beers first who would win?? OK, so he'd only iwn by a few strokes. Better!

[Usher]

I watched him play against Avery in an A-tier event in Colorado. Nikko ended up getting 2nd by 1 stroke and I told my friend that he is the next generation of disc golf, who knew that was starting this year.

[jgrosser]

nobody likes a namedropper..

[optidiscic]

Why do so many hate this kid....seems his name draws a lot of eye rolls?

[mambrose]

Originally Posted by optidiscic

Why do so many hate this kid....seems his name draws a lot of eye rolls?

on his "whats in the bag" he calls them frisbee's, maby thats why? i dono lol

[sloppydisc]

He's throwin' a lot of Gateway. Maybe all the Innova and Discraft Pyscho's all hate him. He seems like a 'whatever works' guy. More power to him. I am a non-competitive 'old guy' so whatever works is good for me. GO NIKKO!!!

[discpicable]

Originally Posted by jgrosser

nobody likes a namedropper..

So true! You know who else hates name dropping? My good friend Tom Hanks.

[PanicKJ]

I watched Nikko play at the USDGC. I couldn't help pulling for the guy. He put on quite a show. I couldn't believe he was 21-22 as he looked like he was 15! I got my USDGC spectator Roc's signed by Nikko. Most people I know are putting it on a shelf. Not me, I am throwing the damn thing! Discs aren't made to be collected, they are made to be thrown. I have gotten a lot of birdies with that Roc already. I think he rubbed a little of his luck off on it when he signed it!