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I was feeling pretty good. I can see why this course is one of the top in the state. I am not much for throwing shots I can't see the basket, but most of the holes on this course were designed well. As I got to hole 9 I started to feel "funny" I was getting light headed. As I was playing hole 13, I sat down and called the wife. I could not stand up without feeling dizzy, I was debating on calling 911. I did try to get up and play and felt like I was going to throw up. I sat back down for a while. I did eventually finish that hole, walked the next 2 holes and looked at the tee for hole 16. Instead of walking that hole, I climbed up to my car and took a quick nap. I knew I was done for the day. A little disappointing I didn't play the last couple of holes and the other 2 courses, I had the daylight. But I also had to deal with the flat.
I aired up the tire, drove into down and found a Doller General to buy a plier to pull the screw out of my tire. Using their parking lot, I pulled off the tire and plugged it. I already knew how to do this and carry the kit with me just in case something like this happens. But when taking off the tire, it was worse than I thought. The plug held no problem, but the tire was cupping and had spots of the radials showing. I needed a new tire. Looking at google, every tire store was closed on Sundays I could find. Most of the Walmart's in Nebraska didn't have a tire center. I did find the one in Hays KS had a tire center so I headed that way instead of camping in Nebraska as planned. I slept in the Walmart parking lot actually in Nebraska, then drove into KS and pulled into Hays 30 min after the shop opened. No tires my size…..
On the way to the next Walmart, I stopped in Victoria KS, I had planned on this being my last course of the trip anyways. I still had plenty of time so I played the little course there. First thing you notice is that hole 9 is several city blocks away from hole 1. I really needed to use the restroom and found one in the park near basket 8. I thought about it and figured I would rather make the walk early and finished next to the car instead of driving back up to hole 1. So I started on hole 9. The course starts at the high school with a couple of very long holes. The tees are marked with a stick and most are easy to see because they are inside of circle 1. After hole 3, you throw across the road and down a wash/park/green space. 3 different holes on this course throw over roads. And the walk from basket 9 to hole 1 is best just walking down Main Street instead of back though the park.
On to Great Bend. I stopped at the Community College course before Walmart. This is a little 9 hole pitch and putt course across the campus. Being Sunday, there was no one around and I had the campus to myself. There are alternate holes listed on UDisc, but I played the original 9 hole layout that had the old DGA signs. Another quick play.
At least this Walmart was able to look up the tire quicker than the Hays store. No tire my size. On well, I had already scoped out a shop in Wichita that I knew was open and another Walmart in Hutchinson. At this point I was heading to another school yard course, but turned and went directly to Hutchinson first. I was not going to play another course till I had the tire situation fixed. I felt like I was on borrowed time. Well, Hutchinson was a strike out, but at this this guy knew what he was doing and he checked all the Wichita store locations. No tires my size, he could order them and have them on Tuesday…….
So on to Wichita to see if Soto Tires had a tire so I could comfortably drive home. I get to Soto and of course they are super busy. I finally had the lady working look and found a tires the same size I needed. We agreed, $50 mounted, but as we were walking to the front of the car, she notices the bulge on my front tire. Wow, glad she spotted it, that would never have made it back to Texas. The guy looked and found a R17 tire that was slightly wider than my other tires for another $50. I wanted to drive home safe so I was ok with it. They actually were quite quick with changing the tires out and I was on the road again and felt good. I started to head to Oklahoma when I remembered there was a burger place I had been wanting to check out. Ate lunch/dinner at NuWay, a crumble burger place. I ate at #1 NuWay. Home made Root Beer, home made Onion Rings and a Crumble Burger for under $10. Root beer was VERY good, Onion rings were good. Burger was different. I liked it, but it's kind of hard to eat. I should have asked him if there was a trick to it. Probably will not be back though, more places to try.
After lunch I headed over to Duck's Disc Golf @ Clapp Park. I have played both courses there, but the shop wasn't open or even there the very first time I played. I stopped in, found a used Shryke and got a couple of stickers for my window at the store.
So I had already calculated I could get in another course or two on the way home. My stress level had me exhausted along with the fact I had only slept in my car the previous 2 nights. 2 of the courses I thought about were on Church properties, didn't want to look up if they were playable in the evening, I decided to hit the new course near Sweetwater. As I got close, I went ahead and stopped at Love's for the clean restroom and cheaper gas. As I left, I elected to drive though Perry OK instead of back down the highway. Well, the speed limit changes from 45 to 35 and I didn't catch it in time. Got pulled over and yet again, did everything right and was given just a verbal warning.
Ski Point at Lake Blackwell, owned by OSU so it had the OSU colors everywhere. It's just $5 for a day pass to play. The course has Orange (longest) black and white tee boxes. Some of the holes actually had 3 separate tee's. Several of the holes also had Black (shorter) and Orange (long) baskets. The course was well mowed with thick rough grassy areas that are not considered OB. There are some large tree's on the course and the course is mostly well designed. It's not a championship level, but there were some true par 4 holes. I was doing good, throwing well for most of the course till I hit hole 17. This hole is along the shore with an ob road on the right and into a headwind. I was so scared of throwing in the lake, I tried to throw one down the road to skip into the fairway. Of course I set it up higher, it turned over and landed in the rough. I looked for a little while then just figured I would come back after finishing the course. I parked next to the spot, even went back and tried to estimate where I landed. I spend another 15 min looking around. After getting into some briars and bleeding bad, I figured that $10 used disc will just have to replace it. I did find an unmarked Nuke though……
I did have to pull over and take a nap on the way home, but I got home before Midnight which was my goal as I had to be opening manager this morning.
Next week I am going to take it easy. I need to have my car looked at, something is vibrating under the car. It only does it when going faster than 65 and it's not engine related as it is constant. Plus I currently have 4 different brands of tires on my car with 2 different sizes. I may just write off that $100 as a quick fix/peace of mind repair on the road and get 4 new tires so they are all the same.
So there is a private course in Houston that the property sold and September is the last month to play the course. Looks like I may just do a short day trip down there to play a few new courses.
Favorite Course of the day – no question here, Rivers Edge is a sweet private course that Nathan has done a wonderful job building. I like courses like this, good mix of open and tight holes and not so long it kills you. I am not a fan of the "pro" shot over the "river" but there is a tunnel line on that hole that is just as sweet.
Best Course of the day – no question here either. The Canyon at Leaning Rock is a top 5 Wyoming course and I can see why. It was super challenging. Several holes I was throwing up shots because I was tired of looking for discs. I really wish I had not exhausted myself to the point of almost passing out. That is the 1st time I have walked off a course without finishing for anything other than darkness. Combination of being tired, lack of sleep, and probably too many monsters and not enough water did me in.
Worst course of the day – oh man, I could write another book on this one. Going with Wiggins. That was rough. No usable UDisc as it looked like they gave up trying to figure it out. There were a few posts that I think were suppose to be post markers, but nothing on them stated hole numbers. Shoot, UDisc totally skipped hole 7. Probably because that basket was hidden in a small grove of trees and is where you turn back to play holes 8 and 9. Oh, did I mention that from basket 9 back to the parking lot was my 2nd longest walk of this trip? On top of the course being mostly wide open, it was the weeds that were thick and tall in spots making it hard to find your disc. Hole 9 was the worst as it was at the low point and in a wash. The weeds were chest high on this fairway. I almost skipped playing this hole entirely. Shoot, after hole 5 I almost walked off the course. This is one course that I should have heeded the warning and skipped it.
I aired up the tire, drove into down and found a Doller General to buy a plier to pull the screw out of my tire. Using their parking lot, I pulled off the tire and plugged it. I already knew how to do this and carry the kit with me just in case something like this happens. But when taking off the tire, it was worse than I thought. The plug held no problem, but the tire was cupping and had spots of the radials showing. I needed a new tire. Looking at google, every tire store was closed on Sundays I could find. Most of the Walmart's in Nebraska didn't have a tire center. I did find the one in Hays KS had a tire center so I headed that way instead of camping in Nebraska as planned. I slept in the Walmart parking lot actually in Nebraska, then drove into KS and pulled into Hays 30 min after the shop opened. No tires my size…..
On the way to the next Walmart, I stopped in Victoria KS, I had planned on this being my last course of the trip anyways. I still had plenty of time so I played the little course there. First thing you notice is that hole 9 is several city blocks away from hole 1. I really needed to use the restroom and found one in the park near basket 8. I thought about it and figured I would rather make the walk early and finished next to the car instead of driving back up to hole 1. So I started on hole 9. The course starts at the high school with a couple of very long holes. The tees are marked with a stick and most are easy to see because they are inside of circle 1. After hole 3, you throw across the road and down a wash/park/green space. 3 different holes on this course throw over roads. And the walk from basket 9 to hole 1 is best just walking down Main Street instead of back though the park.
On to Great Bend. I stopped at the Community College course before Walmart. This is a little 9 hole pitch and putt course across the campus. Being Sunday, there was no one around and I had the campus to myself. There are alternate holes listed on UDisc, but I played the original 9 hole layout that had the old DGA signs. Another quick play.
At least this Walmart was able to look up the tire quicker than the Hays store. No tire my size. On well, I had already scoped out a shop in Wichita that I knew was open and another Walmart in Hutchinson. At this point I was heading to another school yard course, but turned and went directly to Hutchinson first. I was not going to play another course till I had the tire situation fixed. I felt like I was on borrowed time. Well, Hutchinson was a strike out, but at this this guy knew what he was doing and he checked all the Wichita store locations. No tires my size, he could order them and have them on Tuesday…….
So on to Wichita to see if Soto Tires had a tire so I could comfortably drive home. I get to Soto and of course they are super busy. I finally had the lady working look and found a tires the same size I needed. We agreed, $50 mounted, but as we were walking to the front of the car, she notices the bulge on my front tire. Wow, glad she spotted it, that would never have made it back to Texas. The guy looked and found a R17 tire that was slightly wider than my other tires for another $50. I wanted to drive home safe so I was ok with it. They actually were quite quick with changing the tires out and I was on the road again and felt good. I started to head to Oklahoma when I remembered there was a burger place I had been wanting to check out. Ate lunch/dinner at NuWay, a crumble burger place. I ate at #1 NuWay. Home made Root Beer, home made Onion Rings and a Crumble Burger for under $10. Root beer was VERY good, Onion rings were good. Burger was different. I liked it, but it's kind of hard to eat. I should have asked him if there was a trick to it. Probably will not be back though, more places to try.
After lunch I headed over to Duck's Disc Golf @ Clapp Park. I have played both courses there, but the shop wasn't open or even there the very first time I played. I stopped in, found a used Shryke and got a couple of stickers for my window at the store.
So I had already calculated I could get in another course or two on the way home. My stress level had me exhausted along with the fact I had only slept in my car the previous 2 nights. 2 of the courses I thought about were on Church properties, didn't want to look up if they were playable in the evening, I decided to hit the new course near Sweetwater. As I got close, I went ahead and stopped at Love's for the clean restroom and cheaper gas. As I left, I elected to drive though Perry OK instead of back down the highway. Well, the speed limit changes from 45 to 35 and I didn't catch it in time. Got pulled over and yet again, did everything right and was given just a verbal warning.
Ski Point at Lake Blackwell, owned by OSU so it had the OSU colors everywhere. It's just $5 for a day pass to play. The course has Orange (longest) black and white tee boxes. Some of the holes actually had 3 separate tee's. Several of the holes also had Black (shorter) and Orange (long) baskets. The course was well mowed with thick rough grassy areas that are not considered OB. There are some large tree's on the course and the course is mostly well designed. It's not a championship level, but there were some true par 4 holes. I was doing good, throwing well for most of the course till I hit hole 17. This hole is along the shore with an ob road on the right and into a headwind. I was so scared of throwing in the lake, I tried to throw one down the road to skip into the fairway. Of course I set it up higher, it turned over and landed in the rough. I looked for a little while then just figured I would come back after finishing the course. I parked next to the spot, even went back and tried to estimate where I landed. I spend another 15 min looking around. After getting into some briars and bleeding bad, I figured that $10 used disc will just have to replace it. I did find an unmarked Nuke though……
I did have to pull over and take a nap on the way home, but I got home before Midnight which was my goal as I had to be opening manager this morning.
Next week I am going to take it easy. I need to have my car looked at, something is vibrating under the car. It only does it when going faster than 65 and it's not engine related as it is constant. Plus I currently have 4 different brands of tires on my car with 2 different sizes. I may just write off that $100 as a quick fix/peace of mind repair on the road and get 4 new tires so they are all the same.
So there is a private course in Houston that the property sold and September is the last month to play the course. Looks like I may just do a short day trip down there to play a few new courses.
Favorite Course of the day – no question here, Rivers Edge is a sweet private course that Nathan has done a wonderful job building. I like courses like this, good mix of open and tight holes and not so long it kills you. I am not a fan of the "pro" shot over the "river" but there is a tunnel line on that hole that is just as sweet.
Best Course of the day – no question here either. The Canyon at Leaning Rock is a top 5 Wyoming course and I can see why. It was super challenging. Several holes I was throwing up shots because I was tired of looking for discs. I really wish I had not exhausted myself to the point of almost passing out. That is the 1st time I have walked off a course without finishing for anything other than darkness. Combination of being tired, lack of sleep, and probably too many monsters and not enough water did me in.
Worst course of the day – oh man, I could write another book on this one. Going with Wiggins. That was rough. No usable UDisc as it looked like they gave up trying to figure it out. There were a few posts that I think were suppose to be post markers, but nothing on them stated hole numbers. Shoot, UDisc totally skipped hole 7. Probably because that basket was hidden in a small grove of trees and is where you turn back to play holes 8 and 9. Oh, did I mention that from basket 9 back to the parking lot was my 2nd longest walk of this trip? On top of the course being mostly wide open, it was the weeds that were thick and tall in spots making it hard to find your disc. Hole 9 was the worst as it was at the low point and in a wash. The weeds were chest high on this fairway. I almost skipped playing this hole entirely. Shoot, after hole 5 I almost walked off the course. This is one course that I should have heeded the warning and skipped it.
