Yesterday I was throwing a quick round at Shorewood Park, and I decided to throw a few discs on my favorite hole in the park (#9). This is a short hole over a foot bridge, approximately 200 feet long. The fun part about this is, that it almost needs to be a straight line because you only have about a nine foot wide path through the trees. I was throwing well up until that point and I figured it was a slow day, why not try for some Aces?
Needless to say I did something I had never done, nor seen, before. I got two Aces in a row (back to back). The first one was the white disc (on the right in the picture), which is a KC Pro Roc (I had stated in my previous post "Know Thy Bag and Discs" that Rocs are my favorite discs. The second (blue on left) is a First Run Star Cro; both discs are made by Innova.
I was really excited and happy with my throwing. This would make aces # 28 and #29 for my Ace total. I went to collect the discs that I threw, that were not in the basket, and noticed one thing: I was missing a single disc. This always seems to happen once the foliage grows around the course. Then I noticed that not only was I missing a disc, but I was missing my favorite disc. My Glo Roc. My go-to disc. The first disc my hand automatically goes to on the tee-box at every hole.
Normally if I lose a disc, I will spend approximately five minutes looking for it, and then give up. I have all my discs labeled on the back with my name and phone # (another future topic) if anyone finds it. Almost all the discs in my bag are replaceable with extras in a box in my garage. This one...was not one of those. I walked around the brush, likely poison ivy, and weeds for 25 minutes. The good news is that I found it...finally. This was also after three groups had played through while I was looking.
My throwing was off for the rest of the round because I had cooled off. But the day was great because I left the course will all my discs and two new Aces. Good Day = 3 / Bad Day = 1
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