Daniel and Disc Golf

Last Friday Abby worked so I took care of Daniel. We played quite a bit and he enjoyed following me around the kitchen chasing me or one of his blocks as I kicked them around. We were going to Simi Valley for Easter and I was going to play a course in LA one day so I decided to get some putting practice in.


Daniel helped me set up my basket.

He kept wanting to have one of the flying things that kept making noise when Daddy threw them so I washed off a Q-JLS and let him play with that. He mostly tried to eat it, but he was fascinated when I would spin it on its edge. He would pounce on it to stop it spinning and then pick it up and play with it.

As for my round in LA, I ended up playing at Sylmar on Monday. It was a fun round. The day started off rainy, but I checked the weather and it looked like it would be fine for playing and I determined to go ahead and play in anything except a downpour or lightning storm. The course has a "pro shop" and it's $2/day to play, but it's very worth it. I tried to call the pro shop and find out first-hand what the weather was like, but no one answered and it seemed as though the number was actually one of the course guy's home number. It was only a 30 minute drive so I went. When I got there at 10am, no one was about despite the website claiming they open at 8am. The course is in a public park so I parked and looked around for a drop box to pay. Finding nothing I practiced putting and set out. About the time I got to the 9th hole, some people showed up. I finished my round and hit up the pro shop for another putter and my greens fee.

I shot a 58 with no birdies. That's about average, if not on the better side of average, for me. I'm encouraged though because I missed two very easy birdie (~15-20 foot) putts (that's not the encouraging part) and had 7 others for birdie and 1 to save par that were normally outside my comfort range that were right on aiming-wise, but fell just a disc and a half's width short. So I think with practice I can make those easy putts which were pure nerves (people were around by then) just because of the repetition of practice and get a few of the longer putts to go in for some birdies and shave some strokes off.