3 Strokes, Instant Karma, and other matters of importance.

Hello Frolfland! This was the weekend of 3 strokes. I lost to Erin HemHaw Hemulous Hemmings at the Ice Bowl by 3 strokes...he shot -17 and I shot -14 (over 27 holes). On Sunday, once again, I lost to Hemulie by 3 strokes...he shot -9 and I shot -6. Well, back to the drawing board.

In other news the First Annual Fort Bragg Ice Bowl was a hugh success. Three times again, a big Thank You to Dirka for making this happen. It seemed like everyone had a good time and it felt like a coming together of Mendocinoites (Albion and Elk including) and Fort Braggarts. It also saw the first tournament maybe even the first round of Oscar River's old man (Rye Bready Bread) who stepped out of the Spirit World for a few hours to grace us with his presence.

In other news it would appear as if Karma sometimes works instantly (someone should write a song about this). It appeared as if Karma took hold of a Speed Demon (brought to you by Gateway Discs) and guided it through the mini gap on hole 11 and directed it into the chains and the basket for a hole in 1. Thats right Derrick Dirka Dekendra hit an ace on hole 11 claiming a recently capped $250. Thats what a guy gets for putting on a fundraising disc golf tournament.

All and all it was a helluva weekend.

P.S. Heemulie, can you post the scores from Sunday? Thanks!

daveyplayingukiahicebowlstein

Erin here, posting the Sunday Scores
Jody +12
Jake +7
Brian +2
Jeremy 0
Erin -9
Nate +5
Derrick 0
Bryan 0
David -6
Mike +12
Uncle Matt -3
Greg +2
Vince -1

ICE BOWL A HUGE SUCCESS

The first(annual?) Cary Letsinger memorial Fort Bragg Icebowl turned out better than i could of hoped for, mostly due to the person it was dedicated to. I am pleased to announce that we raised a woppin 900 dollars for the Fort Bragg food bank, and 172 pounds of good food!

The Breakdown went something like this:
210$ from entries
132$ ring of fire thank you Jody and all of you who helped keep that ball rollin.
74$ out loud auction great job Davey!!
410$ silent auctions thanks for bidding everyone
the hot dogs and soda raised like close to 70$ thanks Vince and Natalie

I feel like we all really came together there at the end to make this thing really fun and successful

Jeremy got the basket with 61 pounds of food
Davey was second with 29 and Natalie was 3rd with 20 pounds

Rec Div
Oscar Lopez 76
Mike Ryken 93
Zack Gamblane 94
Natalie Cotrell 99

Int Div
Uncle Travelin Matt 76
Jeremy Center 78
Josh Borges 79, Jake Smotherman 79. Josh takes 3rd in playoff
Brian Storms 80
Greg 84

Jody 88
Lindsey 90

ADV div
Matthew Starkweather 70
Derrick Robbings 71
A.J Buhl 72
Bryan Brody 74
Vince Koski 74
Ryan Magee 77
Dennis Haul 77


Open Div
Erin Hemmings 64
Davey 67
Jim Eldridge 72

The trophy's were amazing thanks so much Ric and Jason from catch a canoe. The scorecards were really special and well made thanks Erin. Thanks to everyone who improved the course, Big Ups to Brodys for helping with everything and getting bunches of killer minis and discs and stickers, we likey phat players packs. Be sure to thank any of our sponsors when you go to there establishments, im sure it wont hurt if/when we want to do more tournaments. The bench thay Nate dizzle so generously donated was all mounted and beautiful at tee 9 today.Everyone pitched in and kept up the positivity really well,

you are all awesome!!!!!

R.I.P. Cary

     For those of you who haven't heard, Dylan's father and our friend Cary passed away on Monday.  I was told this by Jeremy and Greg at the Fort Bragg course yesterday, and I was stunned.  Davey, Brian Storms and I spent part of our Sunday night, the night before he died, teaching him how to play Liar's dice at Patterson's.  He loved it.  I don't have any information about his cause of death, other than overhearing him talk at the course on Sunday about how he had had brain tumors in the past.  What a kind and nice man.  I know he had rallied to collect a huge number of gifts for the Ice Bowl, and more than a few people at the course suggested we dedicate the Ice Bowl to him.  I think it's a fine idea.  I also think we should pass around a hat at the I.B. to collect some money to help with his funeral costs.  What a sad thing.  Rest in Peace, Cary.

Taking the Long Way Home

Back in the darkest, deepest corner of the national library, an account of the great frolfer Hans Von Leiderstraten was recovered. In it are stories of the now infamous "Three Day Playoff". Where Hans and arch rival Ted "The Neutralizer" Davies were tied after 18 holes of regulation frolf and proceeded to play an unprecedented three whole days of sudden death frolf. Without the modern conveniences of cell phones, a runner had to be used to order pizzas, breakfast sandwiches (bacon, egg and cheese), lemonade and of course ice cream. A detailed description of Hans' "Special Sock" was full of life and vigor. I did not know that Hans' great uncle had worn the sock during the first World War and it had been repaired by Grandma Leiderstraten over one-hundred times. It is no wonder Hans used it to wipe the dew off of his drivers during early morning rounds.

Having read these accounts (I will only share more of the legendary stories if there is a request for them) I should not be the only one who sees the resemblance to the MFC's own Erin Hemmings. First of all both of their given names have only four letters in them. You are probably furrowing your brow and saying "but Ryan, you too only have four letters in your given name". A keen observer you are and I say Jodi too has only four letters in that first of all names. It appears there are more champions in our club than first suspected. However, none of us have placed a shot from the tee for #17 right below the basket for a drop in birdie. A feat only accomplished by Hans before the advent of Erin. I believe Hans and Erin share the same like of Pizza, the italian dish of a bread-like pie crust filled with tomato sauce, cheese and anything else left in ice box. Both men have been known to eat this treat from time to time. If you are having your doubts about the connection between these two great frolfers look no further than the article written about Erin and passed around in photo-stat form by Johnny Quest. The picture holds Erin in a smiling portrait pose. It appears that Erin had just finished 9th period in his junior year of high school. At one point Hans Von Leiderstraten too went to high school and he too had at one point had his picture taken right after 9th period during his junior year. Amazingly Hans did not look like a fresh faced long distance frisbee throw record holder but rather like an old man. Hans spent his entire life with long legs and arms and a very short torso giving him the "Old Man in the Mountain" look (Count Basie for the Jazz fans out there). When he grew his beard at age 15, the white hairs grew as far as the ground and held up right there. Amazing.

Happy Frolfing

Lucky Number 12!

Roger Staubach, Terry Bradshaw, Joe Nameth, and Randall Cunningham all wore number 12...the same number I shot under on Sunday. Maybe I did it for little Fro Montana aka Oscar the grouch aka River Bed aka Lil Bread aka Oscar River Magee who may someday play quarterback for the Detroit Lions and wear lucky number 12. Maybe River will bring a Golden Super Bowl Victory to the city of Detroit in the great year of 2032. Only time will tell. Well, we had a fun round on Sunday with 11 determined frolfers. News Update: prior to the round we voted and decided to cap the ace pot at $250. It would seem appropriate that someone would ace after we decided to cap it but this did not happen but I did birdie hole number 17 on a Banshee second shot hyzer threw the trees with no chains (Baltimore B was the only person to witness it go in the basket). "It's in" he says "It stayed in" he repeats. Davey the dentist Stein threw up his arms in near victory only to go on and birdie hole 18. Wow, what a round! News Update Number 2: we are trying to hold a meeting sometime this week (depending on Dirka's schedule) before the Ice Bowl to tie up any loose ends. Dirka, what day and time works for you? Greg won a generously donated bottle of wine from Jimmerson on a CTP on hole 7. Erin Hemulous took second shooting -11 (4 under his hc). I am forgetting the rest of the scores but it goes something like this:

Davey D: -12 (-7 under hc)
HemHaw: -11 (-4 under hc)
Smelldridge: -7 (-3 under hc)
Tanweather: -4 (-4 or -3 under hc)
I can't remeber the rest...Tanweather, can you post the scores?

daveylookingforwardtotheicebowlstein

Ozzie the Bear

So you thought that the course record was safe. -15 seems like a decent score. Some of you are content with your bag tags and feel as if they are safe and sound in your possession. You are all sadly mistaken. It may take 20 years, it may take a life time but Oscar River Magee is and will always be my little champion. Aloha, pau.

8 lbs.

It's a boy.

All-Stars

Happy Sunny Tuesday, people!

On this inspiring sun-washed morning, I'd just like to point out something I've noticed as this wild MFC experiment has continued to tumble forward:

Something sort of odd has been unfolding.  Every one of us is contributing a lot to making this thing go.  A partial list of peeps and accomplishments:

Erin built the course, designed the B course, started the blog, got his talented art-designer Mom to design us a killer logo, schools us all on how to play, and constantly boggles us with that arm.  

Matthew had the initial idea of the MFC and spearheaded the whole gig, is our unofficial president, handles the handicapping, and loves to say Eeeleven.

Ryan has hosted numerous tourneys at his old property, and holds the holy grail of the tournament three-peat, the ethereal goal which recedes before the rest of us like Mendo fog in October.

Davey is the ace-pot czar, the first-ever tourney ace-maker, and unofficial MFC cheerleader during tourneys.

I got the bag-tags up and running, as well as providing a baseline level of logo coolness with the scrawl of the 18th hole scene.  That's right.

Nate has the clubhouse in Mendo, collects membership cash, hosts poker parties, was the clearinghouse for the logo entrants, and continues to pioneer the use of the super-long-driver as a putter.

Derrick has blazed on the Icebowl, as well as pulling together a viable set of bagtag rules, and having a world-class pastry chef for a girlfriend.

AJ and Vince help rock the Thursday doubles rounds in Fort Bragg, extending the reach of the MFC into foreign lands.

The Linzenator owns the coolest tourney ace on record, as well as one of the best tourney chick rounds ever, and keeps the boys honest.

The Brodys contribute off-the-charts positive energy when they are around, as well as owning the chick record, and being the first to post MFC-related videos on youtube ~and~ produce an MFC sticker.

On top of all that, we all bring in CTPs, and we'll all end up eventually hosting a special tourney.

Usually with things like this, you've got one or two people keeping the thing together, without which everything would disappear.  With our gig, I feel like half the people on this list could leave the country for a year, and they could return with everything intact and grooving along, with meetings having been held, membership having grown, important improvements having been made, etc..  It's like everyone is carrying a piece of this thing, and everyone knows it.  Like an all-star team or something. It's cool shit, is all I'm saying.

Just wanted to testify.

-J 

What would YOU want

so i im wondering what would you choose to be your top 3 to get printed for a mendo logo disc??


i think id like
1 good ole dx aviar p&a , very cheap and universal
2 star aviar driver BB? never used one but i want one
3 new fancy star rocs

Montezuma's Revenge

As Yoga Berri once opined- "95% percent of this game is half mental"- Of course he was referring to baseball, but I think all who read this blog on a regular basis will concur- Disc golf is played as much in your head as on the course-

So it was on a cloudy and occasionally brisk Superbowl Sunday morning- yes morning- as 11 brave souls ventured out blinking in AM no less- to allow for some shameless old fashioned American consumption later in the day at on their couches watching the Superbowl.

While your humble author may not speak for the other groups who competed in these less than ideal conditions, our group (myself, Davey "MFing" D, Jeremy "Parking Lot", and Johnny "Football #'s" Quest) started on hole three, and we watched as the wind carried three of our first four drives and deposited them harmlessly away from the basket. We were quickly reminded us that on a day like that day, a kick in par was nothing to be disappointed in.

Despite the images of Vince nailing 50 foot putts every other hole, and a blurry image of Jim calmly knocking down some 25 footers, little was heard from the other groups. In fact, little was heard from our group, and after the first four holes, I felt lucky have hit some nerve racking, wind buffeted par saves to stay even. When my drive on seven was immediately elevatored into another dimension, forcing a rare re-tee, things did not look good for the sun bronzed, rested golfer who hadn't so much as pick up a disc for over three weeks. Calmly my thoughts turned to the ace pool, to the Superbowl, to the ice bowl. As the say in Mexico- "Manana" (and they have that cool key on the keyboard with the squiggly line over the n so you can spell manana correctly)

But on this day, there was no tomorrow, only yesterday, and Parky Brewster started hitting birdies, 6 in all, with more than one legitimate ace run mixed in, to climb back into contention. With the smooth pull of opening a cold tecate on a hot sunny afternoon, he slid a 30 footer in on 15, then got thru the 17/18 gauntlet unscathed (bogey bird combo) and by the time his kick in bird on 2 rattled home he was all alone in 1st place, 3 below his handi.

Only one other player was able to best there handi on this day- Greg- to take second place and secure his third straight tourney in the money (I believe)

The scores (not handied) are below, and I do not dare deface the beauty of the disc with our logo on it above with my ugly mug. See you all next Sunday.

-Parkxico Birdess

Greg +1

Vince +4

Rye Bread -1

Drock -1

Nate D +7

Jimmers -4

E Hems -6

Jeremy +12

Johnny +1

Matthew -3

DStein -5

New Logo...!

The votes are in and we have a new MFC logo as voted upon by all club members, (including Matthew). The race was very tight with:

5 votes for #11 (hole 18 through the uprights) Artist: unknown
5 votes for #7 (towering redwoods) Artist: Jen

8 votes for the winning entry#3 (Cypress Chains)
Artist and recipient of the $50 prize: Tamra Whitney

I thought all three finalists were pretty awesome and made for a whatever-wins-is-great outcome. Thanks artists!!

As a club we had agreed a couple weeks back to award $25 to the High School entrant with the most votes. That entry was #12 (smiley headband dude) with 5 votes, very nice job. Also, this entry was very close to making the top three!

(High School Runner Up)

List of voters:
Davey-D
Roy
Johny
Erin
Jim
Bryan
Lindsey
Jody
Jake
D-rock
Baltimore Brian
Matthew
Seth
Nate
Devan
Ryan
AJ
Vince

Sunday Wrap-Up

So for those waiting on the edge of their seat for news of Sunday, the first and most important nugget: there was no ace. That's right, the ace pot is now teetering on the edge of 3 bills! At this point I think we've got to give serious thought to capping the reward for the next ace, so we have a nice healthy start on the next one. In my opinion, we ought to, at the very least, cap it at $300, if not $250. I would probably vote for $250.

But I digress. There was some very fine golf played, and the rumors were true: some of it, against all odds, was played by Elderberry. Starting on hole 5, he put together a solid birdie-birdie start, but things began to look dim as he became stuck in neutral, parring the next 4 holes in unremarkable fashion. But after a risky throw on the 11th yielded a kick-in birdie, he was back on point, birdieing 12 (snagging AJ's fine Patterson's Pub cap CTP in the process!), 13, 14 and 15 in succession. Missing his birdie try on 16, he then parred 17, and birdied 18, 1, 2, and 3 before closing his round with one of those bounce-out birdie putts where you hit the center of the chains with a gentle throw and still the thing finds a way to kick out (we need a name for those...). Just a reminder that the disc golf gods, and not we, are the ones in charge out there. The final tally was an 11 under, 8 under his handicap, and narrowly edging a fantastic round of 6 under his handi for Greg, who netted a ten-spot for his fine efforts. Special note should also be made of AJ's second CTP, an amorphous anenome-like blob of bright-pink latex, won by Erin on hole 8, and contributed by him to EBerry's very grateful daughter Mae, who began inventing games with the thing immediately upon receipt. Thanks to AJ and Erin on Mae's behalf!

Lastly, four more bag tags were given out Sunday, the excited new recipients being AJ, Vince, Johnny, and Lindsey, who promised she would be out playing again as soon as the time-change allowed her to. Cheers to that, and cheers to all!

Sundays Scores:
Joey: 0
Greg: -2
AJ: +2
D-Rock: +3
Vince: +4
Johnny: +7
Jim: -11
Erin: -7
Jeremy: -2
Cary: +5
Nate: 0
Scuba: +16

Final Three

These are the three finalists!
All club voters have voted (except Matthew)
And the polls will close
monday Feb 1st @ 12:00am

Since the last round of voting went fairly smoothly,
I figured we could do it all over again. Just pick your
favorite one of the final three and we will have our
first club logo.

Send your votes to erinh@mcn.org or erinhemmings@gmail.com


#3 Cypress Tree (shown below)
CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE

#7 Redwoods (shown below)
CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE

#11 Hole 18 ( shown below)
CLICK ON IMAGE TO ENLARGE

Let's vote!

The preliminary voting will end @ 12 noon Sunday 24th
Official MFC Art Contest Ballot!

Email votes to erinh@mcn.org

Don't vote in the "comments"

section of the blog

Well MFC folksters, here are the top twelve favorites. All 1093403 entries were carefully screened after Sundays tournament and narrowed down to the few below. All members, or those who plan to be very soon ($20), will get to vote for their TOP THREE logo designs.

The winning logo is going to be printed on golf discs, so vote for the ones that you want staring back at you as release that putt.

On behalf of all MFC'ers thank you very much to everyone who entered their awesome art for our new logo!

CLICK ON EACH ENTRY FOR A LIFE SIZE VIEWING....

#1 otter...

#2 (below) sunset...
#3 (below) cypress tree overlook...
#4 (below) shark putting...

#5 (below) tree silhouette on black..

#6 (below) surfing dolphin...

#7 (below) Redwood trees...

#8 (below) flaming disc...

#9 (below) octopus...

#10 (below) jumping dude...

#11 (below) hole 18...

#12 (below) happy headband...

CLICK ON EACH ENTRY FOR A LIFE SIZE VIEWING....

Adios, Amigos

Well me and my family are off to the sunny southern sandy stretch of Baja to do...nothing. I will be in heavy training for disc by lifting 16 oz weights all day. Here are last week scores and a handy update. What an exciting time in the club! Bag tags, the logo design contest got 20 more entries, the ice bowl coming up...whew! Hope you all weather the (supposed) storms and I will be back in a couple weeks!

-maltiempo

Two Words: Bag Tags

I decided to fergit waiting for our logo and just get us some TAGS, boys.  I found an old-school tag-maker online, and set us up.  The tags have arrived, and they are old-school sweet.  Those who have paid their yearly dues, or who pay them at tourney Sunday, will receive a bag tag with a number commensurate with their handicap ranking among the other members.  Once we get a logo, we can always order new ones if we so wish, but for now, these are killer.  

If we have a hurricane with gale-force winds on Sunday, then everything may have to wait until next tourney.  Or not.

Icebowl is coming

Hey guys

our first icebowl is coming closer,i wanted to let yall know there is bunches of cool stuff available from the icebowl org killer hoodies and shirt caps and beenies 'nested minis' all really cheap, also in addition to the premium disc choices on the flyer you can also get a star mako or a star roadrunner. some disccraft and gateway available too (contact me)


PRIZES FOR THE MOST FOOD DONATED
the basket for first place is on the way, and there are gonna be killer prizes for second and third place too, maybe more

DONATIONS:
Any MFC'er can accept donations for the foodbank or for the icebowl. any cash or canned food will go directly to the food bank,
Anything else will be for the players packages, ctp prizes, ect..

REGISTRATION
lets start getting the registrations in, matthew and nate dogg got some simple forms, lets try to get some pholks registered

Devan Goes Deep for the Mendo Frolfers

It was just an ordinary Thursday afternoon - except for Devan donning a 6/5 surf suit, mask and snorkel, and barreling into the unofficial Little Lake course pond. Many avid frolfers have played around this piece of property, and undoubtedly also lost a disc in the pond. In the name frolfers up and down the coast, Devan took an hour long dive and retrieved just two discs from the slimey, scummey depths. The water was cold (colder than the January ocean, says he) and he used up all our hot water in a post-dive shower trying to recover his fingers and toes.


We thank him for his efforts.

Is that your Destroyer? To find out if your disc was one of two retrieved from the pond, come to Sunday Frolf!

Twenty Ten or 2010 or The First Winner of the New Year!

Well, I have waited for others to post on last weeks tournament (the first tournament of the new year) but I shall take the bull by the horns and report and what a REPORT it is. Erin "Bro Hemulous" "HemHaw" Hemmings broke the tournament record by shooting (holy shit) 15 under par. WOW! A big congratulations to Hemulous. Is that a cartoon version of Erin wearing an Innova shirt and is that a green Firebird? We had a nice turnout of approximately 13 people including some youngsters (and a grandfather) from Booneville. I think Nate Dog was able to get the granddad (I forget his name) to become a member. Give that man a bagtag, a voice, a vote, and a membership to the Mendocino Frolf Club. Vinny Vincenzo Vince took second shooting 4 under his handicap and yours truly DaveyrockingthemendocinocoastextractingteethandshitStein won absolutely nothing by taking 3rd place shooting 3 under my handicap. The day started off sunny and the Mendo fog rolled in to captures discs and swallow hearts. HAPPY NEW YEAR everyone and the ace pot lives on. The following are the scores from tourney day (as I can remember):

Erin: -15 (7 under handicap)
Vince: -2 (4 under handicap
Davey: -8 (3 under handicap)
Jimmer: -3 (even with handicap)
Parks: +4 ( 5 over handicap)
Nate: someone help
Johny: someone help
Jeremy: someone help
Storms: someone help
Youngster 1/Jacob: +16
Youngster 2: +14
Grandad: ??
Am I forgetting someone?

Sorry folks for not having all the scores. Nate Dog--how is the list coming for the benifits of being a member of the Mendocino Frolf Club. Here is how I see it so far:
1. You get a bag tag.
2. You get to vote on things/have a voice (I know an issue some folks are talking about voting on is capping the ace pot and/or starting a new pot).
3. You can attend the meetings.
4. What else?

Here is an update on the logo design contest. I have emailed the Fort Bragg High School art teacher with the details on how to submit applications (I gave her all of Nate's information). I have left a message for the Mendocino High School art teacher but she hasn't called me back. I have emailed some artsy people that I know. I am a little pessimisstic that we are going to get enough submissions. I haven't heard from Arvin Julius in a little while and I am not sure if he has finished the flyer and/or posted them. AJ, where are you? Lithuania? Portugul? Does Kazakhstan have CVS's. Should we extend the deadline (which is currently 1/15)? Give me thoughts and feedback.

DaveyD

Scores 12-27

I don't have time for a worthy tourney summation at the moment but some highlights- Jim (-11). Two pro woman smash the ladies course record and show up the boys. No aces, so the pot goes to $1,722.32.

I never got the scores from the tourney before, btw. Anyone?

South Wind Spooks

Sunday December, 20 2009 saw some mild yet perplexing conditions. When there is a strong south wind at the Mendocino Disc Golf Course a reconsideration of disc choice as well as shot strategy is crucial to a scoring round. This is not newsworthy. For years we've known it. We've shot round after round in wet, south wind conditions. We see gusty winds from the north and score under these conditions. I ask us why is it so hard to compete on a stormy Sunday?

I think I have discerned the answer. There are invisible spirits who live in or around (my investigation has not confirmed where exactly) the course that apparently only show their power during periods of gusty, stormy south winds. Like their counterpart, the Native American Thunderbird, who only arrives on the massive updrafts that accompany strong thunderstorms through middle-america, our spirits fly mostly unseen save the occurrence of just the right conditions. The main difference between the two is that the Thunderbird snatches babies out of cribs for food and our spirits push drives around and create forcefields in the base of the baskets preventing perfectly accurate putts from settling. The Mendocino Disc Golf Course spirits are more like the Gremlins of European lore. Throughout WWII, Gremlins were the cause of countless machinery failures. The Twilight Zone TV series presented a fictional account of one such creature tearing apart the bolts and important parts of an airplane, mid-flight. The Simpsons TV show parodied the scene in which Bart discovered one such creature giving his school bus " the business". The scene played not only on the story of the Gremlin but also incorporated elements of "The Boy Who Cried Wolf". A story whose purpose is to teach us that attracting attention for a pretend emergency will only weaken the reaction to a real one. Players may have been reluctant to share their stories of the Mendocino Disc Golf Course spirits because of the entrenched lessons we have learned through stories like "The Boy Who Cried Wolf".

WOLF!!!

These spirits exist and we should share our stories. By bringing them to light, we marginalize the spirits and take away their power. You see, when we go to bed at night, we enter a "nether zone", or "twilight zone". It is at this time that the spirits thrive and remind us of the deeds they have done during our disc golf rounds. If we share our stories, then the power of the spirits is weakened and thus we can play freely in these stormy conditions.

There must have been a "pow-wow" between Carey, Brady and I before the round. We all managed to weaken the spirit's powers just enough to eek out a -2 handicapped round. Well played gentlemen. I'm sure we could all point out a few chain outs, a few "how the heck did that disc do that?" moments. Up on the top of the world, the three finalists, Carey, Brady and the author of this piece flipped discs and determined the throwing order. Carey missed long, Brady missed long and I missed low. We finished to hole, Brady 4, Me, 4, and Carey 5. Back up we went to the chorus of new rules and ideas for how to finish out. I missed long and Brady laid up in the middle of the field. As is shown by a previous post which lays out the fictional roots of the laying up strategy, I am a proponent of the shot. Apparently the crowd was not. Despite being told that his shot did not count, Brady and I came down and played out our shots. Brady scoring 4 and Myself shooting 5. Brady wins, I got second and Carey earned a well played third place.

The question raised is how do we officially end a tie?

I open this up to discussion.

Congrats Brady and let's end the reign of terror of the Mendocino Disc Golf Course spirits.

New dandy handis-

Here they are goods peoples, updated from the past two weeks. I hope to see you all today. There was some discussion about a meeting after disc today. I could go either way- I do want to meet but I have been preoccupied with other realities lately. (hard to believe disc is not numero uno, eh?) If people want to meet after the round today I am down.

Speaking of, Erin Hemmings Handi is now -9! Shall we consider a special -8 cap on handis for fairness? Just a thought.

-Parky

Nate Dog Dizzle Dingleberry Anderson

As the title of my blog indicates, Nate Dog the Dingle Dizzle took the cake (and the money) on this day. It was a cold but beautiful day as the sun was shining on 9 brave frolfers. The first group consisted of several chaps trying to find their place in the handicapped system and several veterans. The group was: 1. Jeremy "the Macgyver Tommyhacker", 2. Greg "chainer out of hole 4", 3. Brady "the San Francisco crazy hat wearer", and veterans 4. Tommy "I got discs for sale" Snyder, and yours truly 5. King David. The second group consisted of: 1. Winner (Nate), 2. Smelderberry/Flames Helldrigde, 3. Bro Hemulous/HemHaw, and 4. Johny Be Good.

The scores were as follows:

Erin: -12 (Second place shooting 3 or 4 under his handicap)
Davey: -7
Brady: -6
Johny: -4
Jimmy: -2
Tommy: -2
Jeremy: -1
NATE: Even (Winner shooting 5 or 6 under his handicap).
Greg: +6

All and all it was a fun day and the ACE POT lives on. The total of the pot is $221.31.

P.S. Can someone post a picture of The Nate Dog?

DaveyD

TOMORROW/SATURDAY

I really like to get a good game on tomorrow out of town . Either willits or boonville sounds awesome. could be the last chance for a while to play with the brodys, whos in???

Keep on Truckin'

Wow guys- what a becoming picture of me. My favorite hole too! I look like that "keep on truckin'" cartoon from the 60's. Who was that? The name is on the tip of my toungue- freaky freddie...umm..no...Robert Crumb! (I cheated on that one.) Anyway I doubt I will be able to defend my crown today, as I have come down with the swine/bird/turkey flu and should be mellow. Here is last weeks scores however, which I believe is the new MFC record for the three sorriest and rag tag score cards ever to be submitted. In terms of condition, not scores that is. Good thing I had a Costco pack of scotch tape. I shall now set my mucus clogged head to update our handicaps. Now, people, be kind, and let that Ace pool ride one more week!

-Coughsalot

Scores 11-15

jake the snake blowing it up with a seven under his handicapp. good job jake

November 8th 2009

And for those of you who cant see that great shot of the score cards it reads like this. We had some new blood this week, love seeing new faces. We had Seth come out and shot a +22, watch out that is how Alex started out. Then we had Terry shooting a +17. Steve shot a +12 for his first MFC score. Cary shot a great game at +4 only to be shown up by his son Dillon "a boy named Sue" +3. Jody and I joined the newby group and Jody shot a +8 and I shot a -6.

So on to the oldies but goodies. Rusty had a +7. Tim the Booneville boogie man shot a +9. Vince "Indy Jones" Koski recorded a +5. RyeBread finished with a E. Jim was -4.

On to the folks who started on 10. Nate shot a +11. Travelin' Matt shot a +5. Roy shot a +1. The return of Brian Storm was a +6 and a warm welcome home. This group also contained the tie for second witch was between Davey and Erin. Davey shot -9 and Erin shot -10, great rounds guys. There was a play off from the top of the world and Davey took home the money.

I hope this is the start of my threepete. See you all next week.

11-1-2009 Scores

The Brand Nubians or The Newby Brothers or What a Beautiful Day in Mendo

Well Frolfland, I must report that 2 semi-new (new at least to the Mendocino Frolf Club tournaments) frolfers are taking the coast by storm. Alex "Alexander Supertramp" and "Uncle Traveling Wilbury" Matt have came to play and came to stay (well actually I heard that Super-T is leaving soon). Anyways, Alexander Supertramp took first place by shooting something like 8 under his handicap and the Wilbury shot an impressive 3 under (7 under his handicap). I guess it helps to shoot 22 over and then play everyday and shoot 8 under your handicap...huh Alex? Erin "HemHaw" Hemmings shot an impressive 12 under (6 under his handicap) and walked away empty handed. Props to HemHaw...nice round. Anyways, fun tournament and the ace pot lives! Can anyone put up a picture of SuperT and/or Traveling Matt or both? Can someone put a picture of the score cards?

Lets take a vote about Fort Bragg Thursday Night Doubles...how wants to start at 5pm and who wants to start ot 6pm? I vote for starting at 5pm. Who is playing this thursday and what time do people want to play?

DaveyD

Halloween Scream

Saturday October 31, 2009 saw a grouping of four on the links at the Joey Memorial Frolf Course. At around 2PM Davey, AJ, Matthew and Myself joined up for the first real stroke play match on the before said frolf course. Without all the drama I will announce that a new record has been posted and the challenge to beat it is being heralded.

An early debate of the rules was settled and it was decided that no drivers and no thumbers were the only restrictions.

It was a see-saw battle that saw each player, for a portion of time, as the leader. Davey made an early play but some crucial missed putts late in the round prevented his normal dominant position at the end. Matthew showed what is becoming his signature style. Hitting nearly unfathomable putts. After three parked drives on #4 (no small task considering the left to right nature of the hole and the OB) Matthew drained a 50 footer to make a full birdie set. Strong play kept him in the game and hit the -5 that could have been much better if not for some short misses. I knew going into this thing that I was the favorite. Not only because of my rustic good looks but because I designed the course and shot probably a 100 rounds here. I actually thought I was going to bring down the record going into #15 (it's a 15 hole course). A double bogey later and I ended up in last place with a -3. Not very impressive. The championship grade game played today was thrown by non other that AJ. Who knew that the guy who buries 30 ft. putts at will and manhandles mid-rangers like they are little kittens would be able to dominate a par 3 pitch and putt. AJ never let up and hole by hole racked up the birdies, passed Davey and Matthew, passed me and then shot a hole #15 birdie to win the match and claim the record of -7.

AJ, let us know what you're drinkin' my man.

The course could hold a better score than that and I challenge us all to break it. We are looking at Christmas for the departure of this property, so in the meantime, let us play. I will try to schedule regular rounds out here, but I would love to rally up for anyone who wants to play.

Aloha

All Hallows Heave- New Time, Same Place

Howdy Frolfland-

Hope you all had a wonderful Halloween. I have spoken with about 5 fellow frolfing friends and a partridge in a pear tree. We all agreed to start today at 2:30 on account of the time change. So actually we are starting at the same exact time but we will all change our time pieces and call it something different. I am excited about the new super blog powers Erin has bequethed to us. I will attempt to attach handis, post silly photos and cast level one fireball spells. By the way what does "monetize" mean? Sounds like a pyramid scheme. Well I have already failed in my attempt to attach the Handis. I will now email them- please let me know if you wish to be added to the email list, btw.

Glo Dubs!

That is right, the time is changing and so are we. The CR dubs will now be glowing. The time to meet is 6 and we should be teeing off at 6:15ish. This starts this week Nov. 5th. Hope to see lots of you out there!

Last Weeks Scores.

A Great Day of Frolf and Some New Blood Action

A 13 player turnout and a first time champion garnished sunday's frolf feast. With a gusty 15-20 kt. north-northwesterly breeze and sunny skies, the Mendocino High School Disc Golf Course was at its peak in terms of conditions. The course would be challenging and unpredictable. The wind would play its role in creating the drama of a good sunday tourny. Without the intermittent exhale of ol' Neptune the course can sometimes seem open and even easy to score on. The wind blew and the discs followed.

Our new champion and new disc golf enthusiast, Matthew McAllister, shot an even with three birdies and a 5-4 finish on 17 and 18. Impressive. Especially to know that Uncle Travelin' Matt only just started playing the game last year and has only a handful of rounds in Mendo. Good risk/reward strategy and cautious play earned the newcomer a handicapped -5 and a tourny win. Second place saw the crafty veteren Erin "these pants are too long I need to" Hem"them"ings against a spry and dressed to impress Alex "I came to play today". With a long left to right shot, Erin crossed the plane of the uprights and left a difficult birdie putt, while our hero, Davey to Erin's Goliath, missed short left but played hard and brought the game to a forty-fifty foot putt that made a good run. Erin second, Matt the gold and Alex with a strong sunday finish.

For me and what seemed like the rest of us it was a good challenge. A round of applause for the host of last week, I could not make it but it sounds like a swell adventure, mister Derrick Robbings. With a new handi of -4 I do believe he is now the real thing. Congrats. I only saw the game of those on my card. Well played Jake with a hadicapped 0 and Zeb who never gave up and had some very good control for a brand new player. Aloha to Drew for hanging in there and shooting a 5 on his first ever Mendo round in the wind. Cautious play and big par hits were the keys to that magic trick. I shot a +1 and turns out had a -1 handi so I had a tough day.

Always nice to see everyone out and about on a beautiful sunday.

Sarah and I may be moving out of our house soon. This would mean an end to the Joey Memorial. I would love to have some folks out for stroke play matches to see how far we can push the score on this thing. Maybe Saturday all day play.

I'll send out an invite if it all works out.

Pau

Blog Update

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The days of limited blogging are over. Those who want to alter the look, feel, smell, taste of this blog are free to do so, well as long as you are a member that is..

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Milk Duds and A Big Thank You To Dirka!

Mendocino Frolf Club Patrons,

It was a fun Manchester weekend (wait, was that only one day?) with lots of food, fun, and frolicness but what did we really learn:

1. DaveyD likes Milk Duds.
2. Dirka/Dekendra puts on a great special tournament with Pinata and everything.
3. Parksadisc likes the Manchester course but isn't very good at setting "over under ace lines".
4. HemHaw is a good disc golfer (even on a course where he doesn't have to throw a thousand feet).
5. B-Run shows up for fun events.
6. Smelderberry likes Coors and Coors Light (thanks for the beer, Smelder!)
7. Brian Brody is a kind gentlemen letting Oroville take home at least one medal.
8. Jody Brody is not a kind woman and she took it to the field (Nice second place Jody!)
9. Despite Arvin Julius having to open a CVS in Azerbaijan he was still able to make the tournament and bring home a medal.
10. Alexander Supertramp got an ace and shot 100 down (WTF!)
11. Vince is really a queenie Indiana Jones.
12. Those silly Oroville guys sure know how to party and karoke.
13. Chimichangas covered in chilli make DaveyD have to make big doodies.

Hey, another big thank you and Kudus to Dirka for arranging the Special Tournament. Great idea with the Pinata stuffed with Milk Duds and Alcohol.

daveyrockingthedentisteryindustrystein

manchester up date

so im hoping most of you will find time to make it down sat

heres some info:
Manchester Beach KOA Is Proud To Announce the

First Annual Disc Golf Tournament

WHEN: October 17th, 2009 8am (shot gun start)
WHERE: Manchester Beach KOA
ENTRANCE FEE: *$20.00 Includes:
Continental Breakfast, Lunch, Awards Ceremony Dinner
& Cash Awards for First, Second and Third Places

Medals: Gold for 1st Place
Silver for 2nd Place
Bronze for 3rd Place

*Must Sign-Up & Pay Entrance Fee in Advance as Participation is Limited
Non-Participants are Welcome to Join in on the Ceremony Dinner for $9.00
$5.00 for Children 10 years and under

“BEER & WINE GARDEN” $9.00

In Celebration of this event, we will be offering 20% Discount off all Kamping sites.
Mention code CG to receive Discount when
making reservations @ 707-882-2375


JOIN US FOR KARAOKE AFTER THE AWARDS CEREMONY

i would like to see this tourney and

a 18-27 hole night round and

a 18 hole mini round

make up a mfc special 3 part tournament

there also doing a breakast in the morn on sunday

so im hoping yall can camp and maybe we can do the mini round on sunday, or if nobody wants to camp maybe we can do our mini round and our own awards ceremony up here

there are those kozy kabins wich are discounted for the night poker?? liars dice??

what do you guys think??

davey says hes in
jim??, magee?? , hemhaw??linz???

I can Moderate. Well not really just on here.

This weekend proved that even when you are facing your lowest handi and the heaviest wind anything can happen. We started out in two groups. Erin, Rye Bread, Traveling Matt and myself started things off. I was happy with my start to the day hitting the bush right behind the pin for one. Others in this group were not treated so fairly by the wind. I think we were finishing hole two when we heard the crowd erupt with cheers. The second group made of Nate, Jody, Davey, Parkweather, and Super T Alex were alive with the banging of the chains from 150 feet away. Who did it? OH! There goes Jody running to the basket with a smile that could be seen from space. At that moment we should have handed Jody the money and went to see what ever football game or Simpsons episode that we were missing. Had we admitted defeat then things may not have stung so much for everyone else. I did not hear many great stories of the day except Super T and Traveling both posted some killer windy day scores. Great job guys. I had a high note of tying Hem Haw on the front nine. Come to find Jody was only one stroke behind us at the turn with her all time low of -3 at hole 10. I felt really good about my game until 16 where I went from -5 to +2 in 3 holes. My silly last few holes saw me out of the running for first and into a tie for second with The Bread Man. Jody ended her victory at +4 with her handy gave here the win at -1. Congrats Jody, but watch out for falling handis. Ryan and I decided that we could not take much more of the excitement and wanted to settle this quick and easy. So we played the money hole and Ryan slammed one into the chains to take the win! Great shot Ryan! Hope to see you all next week.

ROY

Upon request (from Smelder) and because Roy deserves it, dagnabit, I shall announce to the webernet world that our own Roy won last Sunday's tournament playing a stellar game and winning the tournament in a playoff. My group consisted of myself, Alex "Alexander Supertramp", Nate "Nate Dog Dizzle" Anderson, and Vince "Vinny Vincenzo". This was a fierce battle between Nate, Roy, and Vince and Vince and Roy tied shooting (I think) 4 under their handicap. "Top of the World" someone screamed out and without further adeu - Roy and Vince were at the top of the world both throwing threw the uprights and hitting their putts. That's right they BOTH threw it through the uprights (great shots guys). Anyways, so they went to a second hole playoff where Roy took it. Great game guys. Hope to see y'all today.

daveylionsstein

Let's get this blog back on track!

How about a picture of last Sunday's winner?  And a description of the tourney?  Goodness knows Roy has waited long enough and deserves it!

Cool,

Jim

Mend Disc Golf and a New World Record (sort of)

Gents and Ladies,

A new Mendocino Disc Golf record is upon us. Jim Jimmy Jimmerson Eldestberry Eldridge and I went out yesterday seeking the "One Disc Only" record. James used his new (sort of Periwinkle) Destroyer and I used my outstanding yeller Force. The match was close (very close), despite Davey D having approximately 4 Tecata Beers in him. We ended with a tie both shooting 7 under. There were many putts that squirreled out but some that surprisingly stayed in. Well, write it up, document it...there is a new MFC record out there. We (Jim, I hope I can speak for you) are accepting all challengers.

Hey Erin, thanks for putting the cool new picture on the website but does anyone notice a spelling error?

Anyways, (to repeat Dirka Dekendra) who is in for the Manchester regular tournament and Dirka's special tournament?

GO DETROIT LIONS! (Sorry about those Golden Bears of Berkeley)

daveystillrockingthemendocioncoaststein

SPECIAL TOURNEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

MANCHESTER

manchester koa is having a tourney on oct 17th. sounds like o lot of fun .
First Annual Disc Golf Tournament
Stay and Play or just come and play. 20% off site fees use code CG when booking a reservation. $20.00 Tournament Fees include: Continental Breakfast, Lunch, BBQ Dinner and Golf Fee. Call (707)882-2375 for times and details. i want to do a special tourney for us the 16th or the 18th. i think the day before would be cool to practice up for the big event, but thats a friday so we could do some fun shit on sun if peeps cant make fri

does this sound doable for anyone????

In a big country

Results from Sunday, Goddess Games, and More

So, I find it necessary to report that Erin HemHam E.F. Hutton Hemmings won last Sundays tournament shooting an impressive 9 under (2 under his handicap) despite a very wet, windy (mostly South), and utterly miserable day. Matthew shitweather Parksadisc came in second shooting an even round (even after handicap).

I would love to get a report from the Goddess Games...Brodys, can you help a Frolfer out?

Who is playing Fort Breezy doubles tomorrow? The time is 5pm these days. I got a call from Arvin "the dragon riding" Julius who reported that he has put several calls out and we might get a nice turnout so come one come all.

Mendo Out!

daveyd

come on girls represent!!!

PAR INFINITY DISC GOLF CLUB PROUDLY PRESENTS
THE 4TH ANNUAL GODDESS GAMES WOMEN’S DISC GOLF TOURNAMENT
SEPTEMBER 12 & 13, 2∞9
ARCATA, CA
ALL LEVELS OF GOLFERS WELCOME!
SAT. MANILA & CURTAIN 8:30- Check in/Registration 9:00- Players Meeting 9:30- 18 Holes MANILA 1:30- 18 Holes CURTAIN 9pm optional Glow Round

SUN. FIELDBROOK 10:00- Players Meeting 10:30- 27 Holes Fieldbrook Games, Raffle, & Awards Following Round Fieldbrook

BIG PRIZES, HUGE RAFFLE, TONS OF FUN!

PRO/OPEN: $35, AM: $25, REC: $15, JUNIOR: FREE

GODDESS: Can’t play both days? One day (Sat. or Sun.) only $10, just come before the players meeting and register (players package included).

FOR THE DUDES: Join the Goddesses in the optional 9 pm GLOW ROUND at Fieldbrook. Then Sunday, Casual side tournament $10, 27 holes Fieldbrook; trophies awarded, proceeds go to Goddess Games.

Visit www.ParInfinity.org for registration & more info!

Joey Memorial Friday the 4th

Aloha,

I was offering to host a round at my place today at 4ish.

Let me know if this works. Call the cell 707-357-3816 or email me.

-Ryan

CR dubs moved to 5.

Thats right Thursdays at 5pm not 6! Hope to see you all out there.

That was the first time I did...

8-The amount of people that played on this glorious day. 7-The number of strokes I shot under my handicap. 6-The number that "Joda the Diah" shot under her handicap. 5-The number of times I wanted to see Don Quixote and Sancho Panza come over that fictitious high hill. 4-The hole I should have won the CTP if we would of remembered to mark it. 3-The number of people who won things (other then fun and frustration) on this Sunday (Nate Dizzle took home some fine looking produce donated by Parksasome). 2-The number of strokes I was away from tying the record holder, Erin Hemmings (AKA Mr. 15 under). 1-The number that I felt on this day ("You're number 1, kid").

It was heard throughout the course on this Sunday, "That was the first time I did...". I (if you couldn't tell already) shot 13 under. Derrick tied his high score shooting 5 under. Brian Brody shot his high score of 4 or 5 under. Joda the Diah tied her high score (and the women's high score) shooting 2 over.

Hope to see y'all on Thursday at the Fort Breezy doubles round.

DaveytothemotherfuckinD

XXXVI How Don Quixote and Sancho Panza happened upon a gypsy band and other adventures

Don Quixote and Sancho Panza had been riding through the high hills of La Mancha for days; in search of adventure and opportunities to right the wrongs of society. Upon reaching the crest of one hill Don Quixote paused. Sancho rode past, unable to deter his normally faithful burro from the cool rewards of the stream a few meters up the path. As Sancho's ass drank plentifully from the stream, Sancho puzzled over the look of question on the face of the knight-of-the-sad-countenance. Don Quixote saw something down in the valley that Sancho could not recognize. There was a distinct round of cheers or jeers that would rise up from the valley floor every five to ten minutes or so. Often these very human sounds would be accompanied by the sound of steel chains shaken.

The sound recalled an image in Don Quixote's mind of men beaten brutally with chains, by their captors who hold them for no greater charge than crossing paths with such ferocious animals.

With the tip of his helmet and the unsheathing of his sword, Don Quixote spurred the aged Rocinante towards the valley and the cries bellow. Sancho looked on as he had been doing for the previous few minutes. Still unable to decipher the look on the face of his friend, he made sure his proud steed was fully hydrated, and slowly followed the dust trail left by the hasty departure of the great Don Quixote.

As Don Quixote emerged through the passage he had found in the vast blackberry bramble, he discovered a scene unlike the one he had envisioned atop the hill. Before him were three men and one woman. Throwing what Don Quixote could only guess to be long distance weaponry at steel mannequins with chains in place of the human rib cage. Our hero knew better, after many unnecessary injuries to himself and his dutiful squire, than to ride directly into the line of fire in this shooting range. Instead he chose to watch on and examine the purpose of this training. He saw right away that the discs being thrown were made with blunt rounded edges and would probably be outfitted with blades to fulfill the sinister desires of its thrower. After all four assassins had buried their weapons into the midsection of their target, they congratulated one another and set out to commit the same foul deed on another unsuspecting herdsman (who else would be standing alone on a hillside in the high mountains). Don Quixote saw his window in the wall of thrown weapons and prepared to attack. Having lowered his face protection and adjusted the grip on his sword, Don Quixote was now prepared to rid the Earth of this evil training facility and all of its inhabitants. Like all knights errant, Don Quixote took an oath to right any wrong he observed without regard to his own health and safety.

It was Sancho Panza who disliked this part of the oath most. If only his role as squire to the Knight-of-the-sand-countenance was to persuade him to keep free of bodily harm, than Sancho would have been much more readily available to perform his duties; instead of meandering down the path in search of a safe place to assess his master's injuries. It was at this moment of thought that Sancho realized what Don Quixote was about to do. He is going to slay this gypsy band and Sancho would rightfully inherit any gold or jewels left as bounty (Don Quixote must never benefit financially from any of his deeds or he would be in direct defience of his oath sworn before the squire Sancho Panza). At this realization, Sancho had the most confidence in the great knight, and decided to rest in the meadow just above the gypsy camp.

From this perspective, Sancho could see Don Quixote's mistake clearly before Don Quixote could possibly have realized it. Amongst the assassins there were three dogs. All of which could encircle and take down a horse the size and health of Rocinante. Upon reaching the dogs, Don Quixote pulled on the reigns hard to make Rocinante lift his front hooves and use a stomping motion to keep the dogs at bay. The dogs barked a prodigious amount and Rocinante could not handle the racket. Don Quixote retreated the attack long before he reached his targets.

At the site of this, Sancho felt great shame for wishing the deaths of the gypsies and decided to congratulate Don Quixote on his decision to keep safe his steed and only mode of transportation and allow the gypsies, who have already begun to leave after seeing the drawn sword and battle pose of the knight before being discovered by the dogs, to go free. Don Quixote saw no shame in surviving his horse and thanked Sancho for his reassurance, reminding him that if the dogs had not attacked Rocinante, those gypsy assassins would not live a moment longer to plan attacks on lonely herdsmen.

So it was agreed to take a high path through the mountains and seek adventure and righteousness elsewhere.

Isn't winning enough? :)

It was a perfect day for disc golf. The sun was shining , the wind was blowing just enough, and there were 7 of us ready to take it by storm! As it turns out the second group to drive did just that, pulling in both of the CTPs and the victory. The first group, however, (Brodys and Nate) only won the award for the most curse words yelled and the most fart sounding shots :) This day belonged to the second group; Jake, who beat his first weeks score, the Stein, who took home a second place victory and the CTP for 15 (a champion wraith Nate found while rooting through the evil that dwells below the bleachers), and I'm not sure how Jim did, but judging by the rest of his group I'd say he probably had a good day. Way to go guys! But the one who really shook the shingles was Derrick, the big winner of the day, raking in his coveted R-pro hydra for the CTP on 18, because he's never satisfied with just a victory, and shooting his best score ever with a -5 before and after handi. It seems when Derrick wins he has to win almost everything!! Hope to see you all Thursday at the college.

Like taking candy from a baby...

Hello Frolfland-

It was a beautiful day for Frolf yesterday, the air was warm, a light breeze blew across the headlands, and 9 shiny, happy people played in our weekly.

There are many side plots to yesterday- Dave and Parky returned after a few weeks and both resumed where they left off: Dave throwing 10 down and Matthew throwing it all away on the back nine.  The return of some players from the past: boon-varro and Jonah.  But the real story was: The Brodys.

I guess we all should have known.  If you read this blog with any regularity, you might have noticed that when they are not appearing in the local newspapers posing if front of disc baskets or printing up stickers for our club, Bryan and Jody travel around the Pacific Northwest playing disc golf, playing disc golf tourneys, checking out disc golf courses and blogging about disc golf. Basically living the dream.

The dream quickly became a nightmare for anyone not named Brody who was hoping to win something yesterday.  Between Jody and Bryan, the Brodys won tourney, the CTP ($10 from parks) , the longest put of the day prize ($5 elderberry) set a new official  Chick Flick record (2 up, Jody) and the unofficial "I wish that those two people weren't so nice and friendly because it makes it very hard to hate them and do something vengeful like put sugar in there gas tank or something because they just beat the living sh_t out of me and took all my hard earned money" award.

Congrats Jody on winning tourney, and Bryan for CTP and best shot.  It was a fun day in the sun.  I guess I should go start practicing now....

SP3   (Starky Parkweather the Third)

DUBS in FB

The high school was crawling with out-of-towners kicking the ole' black'n'white around (my personal thoughts on soccer = seriously... soccer? who cares?). The annual Skunk Classic compelled the few frolfers who showed to turn tail and head north to our brand new back-up course, CR. Again, a round of thanks in order to all who made the possibility of a back-up course a reality.

Those who showed were Hem-haw, Hem-haw II (Devan), Magee, Brun, (Nate) Dog & Linz. All were in favor of a non-handi doubles round. The teams: - Linz/Erin - Dog/Magee - Brun/Devan. It was unanimously pre-determined that the ace pot was out of play because Jim was absent.

Brun generously donated beverages to the thirsty group and we began our round. I personally shanked every single drive I threw, but I was able to close out a good many of Erin's great drives. Brun and Devan played a great game of strategy, despite several instances of rogue laser interference and kung-fu samurai. Team Dog/Magee was on with great approach putts. I don't know if it was the CR baskets, but Magee and I both had a lot of really-long-putts that hit chains & bounced-out.

It was a great afternoon, and gave a few players a chance to play CR for the first time ever. Erin and I took the cake home (or rather, to Piaci's) and thoroughly enjoyed it. We were encouraged by Brun to spend our hard-earned $$ at Subway, or perhaps even splurge and hit up Asian Buffet. Magee/Dog turned in a -3, and Devan/Brun a 0.

See ya'll next week.

Sunday August Second

It was a 6-person tourney, a goodly crew, including Linz, Roy, Vince, Derrick, Erin and myself. We played an augmented version of one-group "ready frolf", in which we all played when ready, with the exception of the tee-box, where honors remained. It was a good compromise, allowing for good pace of play and a proper hard-earned teebox line-up as well. After about 11 holes, with Linz playing great and most of us playing well, Erin judged himself out of it, and started to just go for aces. But he also seemed to make most of the challenging birdie putts he left himself. I found a way to bogie 15, which, when you think about it, is pretty hard to do. On 17, Linz left herself a very makable par putt, which would have allowed her to layup on 18 and still win. But her uphill effort missed high, and her comebacker missed and rolled all the way to the bottom, dooming her chances for a tourney win. A brutal turn of events after 16 excellent holes, but Linz took it with her usual nonchalant grace...and maybe a few extra words thrown in. This opened up the tourney to others, and we figured out Erin, Derrick and I were all tied for the lead going into 18. All three of us birdied (clutch!) to set up a three-way playoff at the top of the world! Derrick's effort sailed wide left, my effort missed wide right by a foot (!), and Erin's also missed right. All three of us bogied, and moved to the second playoff hole--a longer throw to 6--which only Erin birdied for the win! Derrick and I did a CTP to the 11th basket from the track, and Derrick edged me by a few feet for the second place money. But before you feel sorry for me, you should know that I drowned my sorrows in the delicious macaroons I won from Vince in a CTP on hole 3!

Jody' first Chick Flick.

Hey fellas and gal. Hope everything on the beautiful Mendo coast is flying along wonderfully for you all. Jody and I just returned from a amazing weekend of Chick Flickin' and Cock Flockin'.

The event its self was amazingly organized and fun for woman of all skill levels. Jody got to attend some roller and flick clinics as well as some trick shot clinic. And now for the big news Jody took 4th in the intermediate division beating 12 other girls. She was on the leader card and made a good run for it. She also won a lot of great prizes including something that you will only see at a Chick Flick, it is called a P-Style. It is made for girls to be able to pee like boys. It really works and it really freaks me out. Any way....

There was a night glow random mixed dubs for the Cock Flock (All the guys who caddied for the gals) Strange enough I was the odd man out and the guy from Cali had to play Cali. I took 5th place and took 6 dollars. I shot a 5 down and the winners shot 15 down. However I did not have to share my winnings with a partner! Woo Hoo.

Oregon has some wonderful disc golf folks and a really passion for the sport. If any of you ever get a chance come up and check out one of there amazing events. Here is a link to a video for some of Jody's high lights. Hope you enjoy.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=e33mjkSbhiQ

The Return of Stein!

Well, another Sunday Frolf in the books as Cal Ripken Jr. continues to sweat. First off let me say a gracious THANK YOU to Erin for that AWESOME picture of Kid Rock, Em, and Davey Motherfuckin' D. I can't believe that picture actually leaked on the internet...I told Kid Rock to burn that dam picture. I love it! I can't get over it. I keep going back to the web site and looking at it and chuckling.

Anyways, on to the frolf...we actually all (Linz, Nate Dog, Vincenze, Devan Hemmings, Jimmy E, HemHaw, and myself) played together and decided to play a "Ready Frolf" round (which is the name of Erin's last post) meaning when your ready---FROLF. It actually speeded things up and there was less of people staring at each other pulling out their internally measuring tapes deciding who is furthest from the basket. There were many winners on this day (not including The Park Knight who couldn't make tourney because his daughter decided to make a doody all over his house) including: The Linzanator who broke the Women's record...she shot a +3, James Birdy Eldridge won a CTP prize of a chocolate bare genorously donated by Vince, Erin won a CTP prize of some fancy chocolaty bready sconey thing donated by Linz, and yours truly (dentist) who won the tournament. I have noticed that the last 3 weeks the winner has shot 6 under their handicap (good to remember for future events). Erin HemHaw was actually sitting 13 under after 16 holes but unfortuantely 5ed hole 17 and 3ed 18 but Doctor Detroit was ready to pick up the scraps and swoop in for the win (we both shot 11 under but my handicap is -5 and Erin's is -6). But why I ask? Why don't we pay more attention to second place? Afterall it is the second best you can do (OK, now I am just stating the obvious). But really, why? Anyways, Erin took second and for those who care Nate Dog and Linz tied for 3rd.

P.S. Who did Joe Nameth and the New York Jets Jets Jets beat in the famous Super Bowl where they were big underdogs and Nameth predicted the win?
The Baltimore Colts?

P.S.S. The Fort Bragg course is having their weekly random doubles at 6pm on Thursday. $5 entrance and $1 for ace pot (there are several aceable holes).

daveydentiststein

Our Ready Frolf Round
-Erin

CR weekly

Hey yalls,

AJ is calling for random doubles, Thurs. @6.

Fort Braggarts represent.

Norte es mas fuerte.

Arvin Julius

Well, let me start off by saying that Erin, you have outdone yourself with this picture on the blog. Is that Pete the Magic Dragon, Caesar, or a disc chucking AJ (Arvin Julius) riding an Innova breathing dragon all the way from Humboldt County down to San Diego and back up to Mendo to take all of our money and CTP prizes. Thats right...AJ's silly (might I say riduculous) handicap of 2 over finally paid off (pun intended) for him. We all knew it was just a matter of time and that time was Sunday July 19, 2009. AJ came out all buisness and was rifling (as usual) his putter at any basket in sight. AJ, like Jody last week, shot 6 under his handicap and won the thing easily. Nate Dizzle Dog Anderson, Erin HemHaw Hemmings, and yours truly tied for second shooting 2 under our handicap. We played a closest to the pin on the money shot (for those who don't know the money shot it is from the tee box on hole 8 to the basket for hole 10...short but sweet) and I took it by a couple of feet. HemHaw had the best overall round with a -8. Might I add that the gracious winner, Arvin, took who ever wanted to wet their whistle to Patty's for sweet succulent beverages made up of malted barley and hops. Thanks Arvin and nice win!

David

Jody does it!

So I am hear to gladly boast Jody taking the win this windy Sunday. She is the first female to win one of our MFC tourneys. She also broke the woman's tourney record and her personal best game ever. My sweetie. I am so proud.

It was a relaxed start to the game. We got started promptly at 4:15 or so. If I can remember correctly it was Jody, Linz, Nate, D- Roc. Davey the Oral Hygienist, and myself Bryan "to good for a single so I will take a double and a triple bogey"Brody. We also had a special guest for the first 10 hole, the Dean from the College came down and joined us. He is the one responsible for the new course and a MFC recruit. We also had a "special" guest for the back 9 as well. This was a less friendly guest, I believe his name was Marco and he decided who lives and dies. But never mind Marco this is about Jody.

Jody rocked the front nine shooting even and putting the preasure on. She held on to the lead even with Davey checking the card and nipping at her heels. One of Jodys highlights was blasting a drive on 10 that went as far as the end of the bleachers and wrapping up a easy 3. The big show was saved for the end where she almost aced 18, but parked it for the bird instead. All in all she just kicked some ass. Derrick and Davey tied for second and played CTP on 12 for the 5 bucks at stake. D took some tree love and walked away with his 5 bones.

We are leaving for a few weeks. Hope all the tourneys are wonderful and exciting. On another note Derrick put up a new record at the College of a -5. Good luck taking that one down guys.