Thursday, August 9
Hot off the presses: A report from investigative reporter Pat Govang, who abandoned his post as my caddy and went to Kaposia to watch the big boys.
"Some final scores from the morning round at Kaposia: Steve Rico -3 (current tournament leader), Cam Todd -2 (2nd place), Climo -2 (3rd place), and Barry Schultz has battled up to 4th place.
"More notably, Scott Stokely blew out his elbow and is out of tournament. I think he hurt it yesterday; today he tried to play but was falling down from the pain. I saw the elbow after the round and it was pretty swelled up, probably some ligament or tendon damage. They're trying to get him to a specialist."
Temps are in the 80s, it's very breezy, the winds are definitely tough out there.
The best 'work' job I've seen at the tournament happened at the end of the round today. I'm waiting to tee off on North Valley hole #15, and watching a group playing the monster uphill 800 foot hole #13, which is the toughest hole on the course. Dave 'Nez' Nesbitt from Houston throws a powerful, solid first drive, right in the center of the fairway. The key to this hole is to put your second shot into the tiny landing zone that plays sharply uphill.
Nez rips his second shot, and touches down in the landing zone. Beautiful. As it finishes last inches of landing, the disc hits a little rock and bounces up. Remember that it's really windy. The disc is slowly falling backwards in the wind, then does this weird little flip, then rolls a couple of inches in the other direction, hits another rock, straightens out, and finally rolls 50 feet downhill in the worst possible direction and into a nasty grove of pine trees, where he can't even see the spot where the disc landed. Being a consummate pro, he dealt with it really well and better than I would have. He ended up with a six.
Stokely Injury
