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I'm a post-collegiate collegiate athlete- The 2005 United States Collegiate Disc Golf Championships

So i have been playing a little bit of disc golf with some of the students that I work with at Vanderbilt. When I say 'have been playing' I mean that I have played 4 times in my life. Its much harder than you think, and if you are good at ultimate frisbee, you will be terrible at disc golf(different throwing technique). Last Wednesday at RUF, the group of guys that I have been playing with asked me if I wanted to go play in a disc golf tournament with them on Saturday. It took me a while since the Masters is on this weekend and I had planned on watching for about 4 hours on Saturday, but I agreed.

We traveled to Bowling Green, Kentucky (about 1hr from Nashville) to go play in the tournament. When we showed up at the registration at 9:30, John Trapp(another guy who isn't very good) and I found at that we were playing in the United States Collegiate Disc Golf Championships. It was that easy. I walked up, gave them $20, and I was a post-collegiate collegiate athlete playing in the national championship. It doesn't get much better than that.

I quickly took my shirt off, which was half way expected and began practicing putting. I stretched with John, and we headed off for the scramble part of the tourney. John and I's goal was to shoot 5 over par, and we shot 3 over so we were pretty excited about that. Then came lunch and a move to a different course for the individual competition. I have never played individually before, so i was nervous. My goal was simply not to get last. I played like crap, said a few cuss words(as if i am good enough to cuss?) and finished by shooting 15 over. BUT, I didn't get last. I beat one of the other guys on the Vanderbilt team who has been playing for 3 years.

Turns out, it was a two day tournament, but several of us didn't go back for day 2. But, for those who stayed the night and played round 2, there was a huge party last night and most people were going to sleep in tents. That would probably be an interesting thing to go to...

What I learned at the 2005 USCDGC:
1. People who play disc golf are cool in a disc golf kind of way
2. You can drink beer while playing in the USCDGC (i was with students, so i abstained)
3. Many people smoke pot while playing in the USCDGC (again, i abstained)
4. Disc Golfers are a sub-culture.
5. Girls who play disc golf somehow are more attractive than other girls. In normal life, I don't think that i would think they were cute, but they kicked my butt so hard in the individuals that they became cute.
6. There is a pro disc golfer named HB who lives in Bowling Green. He is a little scary(in a dirty old man kind of way), and he didn't wear a shirt yesterday either. He should have worn a shirt.

I hope yall enjoyed this, I sure did, and I look to make a bit more of a run at the 2006 USCDGC than i did this year.

posted by corbs @ 1:20 PM