Sound Off - The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly (over 1k posts!)

[Frank Delicious]

good: I have been practicing my flick again after becoming a backhand savant and it is getting back to where it was.

better: going to follow the USDGC lead card on sat.

Ugly: My dog knocked a bowl out of my hand this morning and it shattered. One of the shards ripped a pretty big hole in my big toe and I probably should've gotten stitches but went with a lot of butterfly bandages. I need it to heal quickly because I play my only PDGA next weekend.

[JohnnyB]

Good: I have enough of a name at my local course that people I've never met have heard of me.

Bad: People have given my number out to random strangers.

Ugly: I have a friendly competitive round with a golfer that's new in town who's heard I'm competitive from more than one group he's played with. And thanks to 70+ hour work weeks for the past couple months I'm severely out of practice.

[JimW]

Good: Shot my best round ever at Taylor yesterday, 57. That's one better than my best there and two better than my best on a non all-shorts pin layout.

Bad: Missed two putts

Ugly: Followed it up with a hideous round today, a 67 where 6-7 of the strokes were from missing putts from 10-25 feet. Didn't make a single one from farther than about 8 feet.

Great: After doing a bunch of putting and driving practice, played another round and shot a 55. Go figure.

[gratefuldisc]

good: while slacking off at work, tossing a few behind the building last night I was throwing my fairway drivers so clean and consistent. 5 laser straight hyzerflipped jls in a row landing within 5 feet of each other. I pulled out the r-pro boss I have been messing with and crushed it 6 feet high and easily my longest throw on flat ground. It felt awesome

bad: while slacking off at work, tossing a few behind the building today I was either torquing everything over into a roller or skying it into a nose up stall.

awesome: while slacking off at work, tossing a few behind the building today, I found my long lost qjls in a bush. It was my first jls and I loved it until I lost it 6 months ago and had no idea where.

ugly: I work too much and haven't played a round in 3 weeks.


(for the record, its my part time second job and I have a lot of down time)

[Trey133]

The good: I got to go to usdgc from thurs to sat.

The Better: I got to see every pro play including lead card where Locastro pulled out the upset.

The Even Better: I was one of the first 6 people in line for the spectator roc's

The Still I Can't Believe It Gets Better: I made $300 in one hour selling two of the discs I purchased

The This Is Getting Ridiculous: I Shot A 58 on Spectator Day!!!

(just kidding on the last one, it wasn't a 58, it was a 68).

No bad, No Ugly whatsoever... This was one of the coolest weekends of my DG life.

[JohnnyB]

The good: Shot my best round in months(9 down at riverpark) and even hit chains on seven. My driving was solid, the weather was perfect and I was nailin puts like a deity.
The bad: Through one drive nose up making the par a little more difficult?
The ugly: I have no friends.

[victorb]

Ugly: Shot a +10 the first round of the C-Tier I played this weekend, worst tournament round I've shot possibly ever.

Not so ugly: Was tied for 2nd in the division.

Uglier: 5 shots out of the lead after the first round.

Ugliest: Shot a +4 the second round, but still not a good round.

Not so bad: Managed to hang onto second place.

[JohnnyB]

Ugly: Shot a +10 the first round of the C-Tier I played this weekend, worst tournament round I've shot possibly ever.

Not so ugly: Was tied for 2nd in the division.

Uglier: 5 shots out of the lead after the first round.

Ugliest: Shot a +4 the second round, but still not a good round.

Not so bad: Managed to hang onto second place.

I wouldn't fret your performance too much. From the sounds of things, the same factors that led you to shoot an ugly round effected every one else as well.

[BLURR]

Good: After playing for 6 years, I have finally picked up a roc(2 days ago) and started to learn how to throw it.
Better: Played a quick round at my local 9 holer yesterday with Roc's as my mainstay for mid's and shot a -6.
Best: I 3'ed the 693 foot hole with two roc shots and a 10 foot putt.
Bestest: Learning to throw the roc has made my drivers go further too. I am now focusing on a smooth hit and getting more rotation on the disc with the same speed I had before. Disc's are flying longer. Need some more time to work on this...but things are looking good.

[what'shisname]

Good - We've had some great weather this november for twilight/glow golf and i've been able to get in a lot of rounds lately.

Better - I've been getting my mid range/approach game dialed lately, using mids for more drives and touch approaches has been working well.

Best - Took 16 skins tonight.


and Bad - I'm still a terrible putter.

[logjammin]

ugly - On my way to Anderson park course in Chapel Hill, NC yesterday, I had a strong premonition about acing hole 1. It's a steady downhill slope, about 240, trees on both sides of the fairway. I think I could get a very straight flight on a downhill throw like that; all I have to do it throw it in the right direction... In my fantasy, I ace #1, then turn around and walk from the tee back to my car and drive away, leaving the disc in the basket. Then comes reality: I hit the hole # 1 sign, 15 feet from the tee.

bad - My drives didn't get much better after that. I'm hitting trees on the majority of my drives.

good - I made a few long shots, well beyond what I would call putting range, 50-100 feet

[turso]

Good - It's only 3 months to spring

Bad - It's still 3 months to spring

Ugly - It's fucking cold, snow everywhere oh and it's still 3 months to spring.

[peppermack]

The good: it's been a mild winter

The bad: have not played DG in 4 months

The ugly: my game in general is going to be scary when I play again.