After a hearty breakfast at Macho Taco, we took a road trip down east of San Antonio to a new course, the Max Starcke Park in Seguin. Today's players were: Steve, Keith, Dave, Lif, Bob and myself. Temperatures were in the low 60's when we started but it was about 77 degrees and almost muggy when we finished. Skies where mostly cloudy and a persistent breeze of 15 to 20 mph was blowing.
I really liked this course, it is in a city park, situated on an old pecan orchard. The course is mostly flat with lots of large pecan trees on the fairways. Throwing low was the key today, to avoid both the lower hanging branches and to keep your disc out of the wind. The course has nice concrete tee boxes, decent signage and disc catcher baskets. Most of the baskets seemed to be planted a little too low to the ground. I also found the course very clean with plenty of trash cans. It would be nice if they added a few benches. We liked the course so much we played it twice.
I liked to layout and flow of the course although some of the holes are very similar to one another. There was no rough to speak of. Another thing I liked was that the holes had legitimate distances for the pars they were assigned. The two par 5's could have been a touch longer. Steve birdied both of them on both rounds; the rest of us had a mix of pars and bogies on them.
I played pretty well today. I got off to a slow start with three bogies but I settled down after that. My drives were long and straight. My approach shots were very good, sometimes ending up under the basket. And I made every putt that I thought I should make. I did not have any birdies, but I had several opportunities and each time the putt was just outside my comfort range. I did not have a single double bogey.
There were six birdies on the first round: Steve(5) and Keith(1). There were four birdies on the second round: Steve(3) and Keith(1). No discs lost and no discs found.
Round 1
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| Bob starts us off |
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| Heady with a lousy first throw |
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| Steve with his two start |
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| The mighty Guadalupe River! |
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| Keith on the fairway |
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| Lif with an approach |
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| Heady trying to get it close |
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| Big Dave lets it fly |
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| Steve keeps it low |
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| Heady sinks his putt |
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| Dave lets it go |
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| Steve got some distance today |
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| Heady going under the net |
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| Dave makes his putt |
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| Keith reaching way back |
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| Steve with a birdie on #9 |
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| Steve with a birdie on #13 |
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| Heady with a flick. Lif shows his belly |
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| Keith on the fairway. |
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| Keith sinks a long birdie putt on #15 |
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| Blob on the 16th fairway |
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| Dave lining up his shot |
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| Steve with a birdie on #18 |
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| Official Scorecard. Recorded by Steve. Compiled by Rob. |
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Round 2
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| Lif with a long putt attempt |
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| Steve with some body English |
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| Lif drills this one |
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| Steve with a "Black Ace". Sort of... |
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| Dave with nice style |
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| Bob putting on #9 |
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| Dave throws it in |
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| Steve with another birdie on #9 |
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| Heady sinking another putt |
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| Steve in B&W |
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| Keith with a very nice drive on #18 |
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| Lif teeing off |
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| Walking the #18 fairway. It turned out to be a nice day |
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| Keith with a tap in birdie on #18 |
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| Official Scorecard. Recorded by Steve. Compiled by Rob. |
