Wednesday, August 8
Here it is, the second day of singles!
Yesterday, the best thing that happened to me was that I got stung by a wasp, clearly the highlight of the entire process. I was shooting with Randy Beers from Miami, who will be running the Am Worlds next year, and Scott Innis from Iowa. These are first class guys and very fun to play with, which only proves that if you're at Worlds and play badly, there are always others who will play good. You can make a million great shots and still have a terrible round. It's all about how many shots you miss.
I actually had a reasonably good round today.
I've arrived for lunch at Damon's, and its full of golfers. Blair Paulsen of Alacrity Media is sitting at a table, and it appears he can barely keep his eyes open. He needed three editors and three editing banks to smoothly create his video production this year, but only has one and one. It does look good! The lead announcer once again is the talented Rappin' John Houck of Circular Productions, and the guy who runs National Doubles every year.
It's nice to be inside where it's cool, and to be among so many cool people. I'm sitting with former World champ Johnny Sias, former Masters champ Jim Akins, Disc Golf World News publisher Rick Rothstein, Pad Timmons of Discraft, PDGA Administrator Brian 'Guru' Hoeniger, Javier Kowalski -- who came in 2nd last year in Masters -- and my caddy and PDGA Financial guy Pat Govang. He's still carrying the bag!! Over there is Gregg 'the Miniac' Hosfeld, and here comes PDGA Tech Standards chairman Jeff Homburg, California's Johnny Lissaman and Oregon's Thumper Parsons.
Speaking of Mr. Hosfeld: Yesterday between rounds we had an hour to kill, so we're sitting in shade in a vain attempt to escape this oppressive heat, when Hos and Jeff Watson started putting on a mini disc demonstration. These guys are awesome! They have the ability snap a mini with their fingers, it floats around, then they'll kick it with their feet back up to the hand, then sideways slap it to the next guy. Great entertainment.
I hadn't met Jeff Watson before, a former World champ from Sarasota Florida. I was early for a round and wanted to play catch (what a great way to warm up the touch shots), and enlisted Jeff. The guy is absolutely great! You can tell just by playing catch if someone can control a frisbee. Overhand, skip, flip sideways, upside-down…he could do it all. Truly a gifted player, it was cool to meet him.
Ah, lunch has arrived. Buh-bye now.
