European Marathon
We arrived in Stockholm and within an hour of landing we were able to meet up with our entire group that will be traveling with us this year. The lineup is Wysoki, Owens, Mirabel, Knott, Skelenger, Miller, Burbee, Locastro, Brathwaith, Rico, Musick, Goff, Synthya, and myself. That's right! Four rental cars deep! Before we made the drive to Northern Sweden, I decided that we should take everyone to the World Famous Jarva Disc Golf Park. Jarva is one of the World's premier disc golf championship courses.
We made it to Northern Sweden after a 12 hour drive and stayed a night in Sundsvall at the beautiful hotel Boget overlooking the city on the way. We spent the next few days practicing the course and working at the Latitude factory.
The Scandinavian Open challenged the players with some of the toughest weather conditions I have ever seen in a major. The rain was constant, the bugs were prevalent but despite all that, the course was as beautiful as ever. The Skeleaftea course is still one of my favorites because I prefer a style of golf that rewards accuracy but doesn't penalize every missed shot with an out of bounds stroke.
I had a tough start to the event but I played hard, smashed my hand into a tree, and managed a 55 in the final round, and managed to get 4th place. Not bad for a guy who never played one round in the leader group.
After the event, I loaded the group up and we headed to Rovaniemi, Finland, home of the real Santa Clause and Santa's Village. While we were in the Arctic Circle, I've started a new tradition where you take the polar plunge into the freezing cold as our annual cleansing. The first year it was just Wysoki, Locastro, and Owens. This year everybody jumped in (myself included!) with the exception of Brody Miller.
We continued on to Nokia and practiced the course with no sleep (three days of no shut eye). The whole team and I headed to Helsinki and taught a clinic to 80 plus players, and visited the Westside factory. The Westside factory was awesome! I finally got my hands on BT plastic. Thanks Janne!
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