Sorry about the delay, just got payments out. Week 6 was a fun new adventure out at Whispering Doakes! Great turnout despite being out in the Valley, for the first ever rated round out there. Lots of ...
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Sorry about the delay, just got payments out. Week 6 was a fun new adventure out at Whispering Doakes! Great turnout despite being out in the Valley, for the first ever rated round out there. Lots of fun shots on that course - I look forward to the next round of either leagues or a full-on tournament!
Joe Schacht schacht pretty low, to grab A pool by 5 strokes - also a 1006-rated round! Dan nudged out a few other really really really awesome players to take 2nd place all by himself.
Murphy Dykstra almost matched Joe, with a red-hot 46 to take down B pool, also by 5 strokes. Morgan grabbed second place with a 51 - I predict you guys will be in A Pool pretty soon!
A cool thing I discovered by accident - for some reason DGScene temporarily uploaded a weird layout to the PDGA site, putting Whispering Doakes at 30 holes, par 90. And when it did that, for some reason everyone's rating went up by about 50 points. I'd always been led to believe that it's all about how the propagators play the course on a given day, but apparently par is not totally irrelevant. I tend to hear a lot of the same people making two different claims: that Alaska is disadvantaged in the ratings system, AND that insanely difficult holes that people rarely ever birdie are par 3s. Maybe if we were a little more liberal with our pars, we could nudge our ratings up a point here and there.
Tomorrow is at Peter's Creek - doesn't look like a total washout, and those trees do a good job of blocking rain anyways. Let's smack some birches around!
