Favorite Moments from 2009

[RonTheWhip]

Alright! Lets hear them, what was your favorite moment(s) from the 2009 season? There have got to be some pretty amazing/special/personally satisying times from 09!

I've had a very exciting season, and got to play 25 events! Here are the top 5 that come to mind:

1.) Rooting on Nate at the World Championships and watching the pdga page load after the last round and seeing Nate had taken 5th! I ran around my house screeming. Side note, seeing Avery win was pretty rad too.

2.) Putting together four solid rounds at the USDGC, making the distance finals and getting to throw in front of the big crowd over the lake, and winning a mach v portable for playing the highest over my rating. My new tagline for South Carolina is, "Rock Hill, where all your disc golf dreams come true!"

3.) Running the Willamette Open! I was only a portion of the team that made this tournament happen, WDGC Club is the best! Getting to see a course I designed get the best of some golfers, hehe...

4.) Coming back from a three stroke disperity with two holes to play by deucing safari hole 16-17 at Whistlers with a HUGE putt and then birdying 18 to beat the 5th best player in the world.

5.) Finally reaching four digits!

[Bullseye]

I think my favorite moment has to be pulling off a 1021 rated 61 at Blue Valley during Worlds. While it wasn't my highest rated round, I do think it was the best full round of golf I've ever played.

Also, I agree with Dion... seeing Nate finish 5th at Worlds was pretty cool.

[snap7times]

Hmmm excellent thread idea....

1. Winning Eugene Celebration MA2 in sudden death, parking that uphill safari with some good people to witnesses it.
2. Running the ODDGC, breaking every record possible in ODDGA's 6 year history. Getting Keen, Kavu, DGO, Huklab, CALAPOOIA BREWING, Dave Feldberg, Jim Nims, Gorilla Boy to sponsor the event and elevate the experience for the participants to a whole new level.
3. Becoming president of DDGA and pushing DDGA to the next level. Pushing out newsletters for the first time in 10 years, breaking current membership numbers, helped break nationals # of players record, and got DDGA in the PDGA mag! *still working on closed captioning....
4. Got a Disc Golf course in the ground! Jerry Miller DGC @ Camp Taloali! Yeah! This took alot of breaking down thick heads and defeating negative attitudes and convincing them it could be done, and much faster and cheaper than they thought... Then hosting the grand opening with a new record breaking number of players for an ODDGA tournament at 36 players *equivlanet of maybe 300 hearing players?* and hearing everyone love the new course and excited for it's future.
5. Helping other fellow rookies and pros experience wonderful things in disc golf; whether it be help them improve their game, give them new discs, or help them go to USDGC ;)
6. Rooting for NW'erns during Worlds and USDGC was cool too :)

[Ol' Bob]

The Mariners winning the World Series! We waited a long time for that one.

[SMOKIN JOE]

1. Playing in the World Championships with my wife as my caddy.
2. Playing probably my best round ever at Thornfield . Matching my score to the pro's that played right after me. My round would have been a 1027.
3. Playing Water Works and getting to play the first couple of holes with Nate Doss and Avery Jenkins. Avery Jenkins hit the bucket dead center a few inches low. This is a 500 foot down hill toss with trees on both sides of the fairway.
4. Giving out and recieving some of the best trophies I"ve ever seen. Thank you Mic and Scotty Richardson
5. Watching Braden now six getting better and better. Still amazes me that he has all the throws down already. Left , right, sidearm, rollers forehand and backhand, all of which with either hand.

[Joshua Olmsted]

09' was definitely a great disc golf year for me.

My highlights.

1. Ending a 4 month completely self imposed disc golf hiatus healing my arm, realizing that I hadn't forgotten how to play and furthermore I was able to play for the first time in 2 years without shoulder pain.

2. Winning my first PDGA tournament, MA2 at the Bad Monkey Open. Then moving up to MA1 for Calapooia

3. Winning my college campus 4th annual, $2 dollar buy-in "4/20 High-release Classic" :laughing:

All ready for 2010. :yay:

[keith_shupp]

The best highlights of the year to me was every time in 09 that a new course went in the ground in Oregon. I hope this pace keeps up for 2010 and look forward to seeing us break 100 courses in the ground in Oregon. We have come a long way in the last 30 years. This Septmeber 17th 2010 will be Rockwoods 30th birthday the first course to go in the ground in Oregon and now we are almost at 70 courses.

[aaron]

1. winning advanced at the furn burn.:trophy:
2. getting an ace at terrace creek dubs for $928.:shocked:
3. getting an ace at terrace creek dubs for $300.:shocked:

[bryan_luoma]

Disk Golf Quest 1.0 (DGQ 1.0)

This past summer 6 friends and I did a small 3 day tour to visit some of our favorite courses. We started at Whistler's Bend in Roseburg where we occupied both yurts, grilled up some fatty steaks and played night golf. Next we went to Mt. Bachelor where we played the Alipne course during the day, grilled up some burgers and brats for dinner, and played the Nordic course at night. Next we played Timber and Milo back to back before heading up to Hood River for a rafting trip down the White Salmon river. That trip was my favorite DG related moment from 2009.

DGQ 2.0 is slated for sometime in the summer of 2010. Courses YTBD.

[olydiscgolf]

Final 9 at Seatac's Jet Wash Open....

Shooting a 29, making up 4 strokes, and a 50' jumper on the final hole for the WIN!!!!!
I smile everytime I think about it!

[papatart]

Fun!

1. The birth of daughter Isabelle Leelu!
2. Watching the growth of Devon and realizing that he is going to be more out of control than I was as a kid!
3. Getting to see the growth and success of the Dalaiwood golf crew (Nathan, Evan, Kyle, Rick B, Mike H, Kenny B) and wondering how much longer I will have before they are all crushing me...
4. Getting Dion on Team Discraft and then watching him tear up everything he enters, especially USDGC. The best part is watching him do it humbly, with class and still finding time to do stuff for the growth of the sport!
5. Winning the FSO supertour and then going to KC and placing in the top ten in Pro Masters for the 5th time in seven years. Each year I get older and more young Masters move in so I keep felling better and better about that accomplishment.

Have a great 2010!

[sillybizz]

1. winning advanced at the furn burn.:trophy:
2. getting an ace at terrace creek dubs for $928.:shocked:
3. getting an ace at terrace creek dubs for $300.:shocked:

Playing disc golf with my parents
Playing a whole bunch of new courses
Lake Stevens Doubles every Monday
Finally reaching a 300 foot drive
Watching Aaron hit the ace for $928

[Will of Doom]

Finally hitting my first ace in league play.
Coming in Second overall for Lunchtime League.
Tied for 4th in the BSF (MA2)
Shot a 966 rated round. (In the BSF)
Realizing I had grown more as a player this year than I had in the last 4.

[runnaman]

Starting to play more seriously.
Playing in my first league (Lunchtime League)
Playing in my first tournament (BMO)
Starting the Disc Golf Club at WOU
Driving 423 feet.
Getting my first ace.
Finally feeling like I am a good disc golfer and have potential to get much better.

[Ode]

[QUOTE=Joshua Olmsted;47156]3. Winning my college campus 4th annual, $2 dollar buy-in "4/20 High-release Classic" :laughing:QUOTE]

too bad 2010 is mine :)

[RonTheWhip]

4. Getting Dion on Team Discraft and then watching him tear up everything he enters, especially USDGC. The best part is watching him do it humbly, with class and still finding time to do stuff for the growth of the sport!



Thanks Scott! I'm incredibly proud to represent Discraft in 2010 and beyond!

[mazza]

playin my first tournament(chilli at steli)
getting my first sponsorship( thanks corning wear)
getting my first 450 ft drive
finally coming into my arm

Learning my wifes cares if i quit or not( its more i think she wants out the house):rockon:
throwing crystal mt( thanks to all that were there that day)

[prospect]

1st Ace for $148 at Chump Challenge
3rd Inland Series intermediate

[Parks]

Thanks Scott! I'm incredibly proud to represent Discraft in 2010 and beyond!

At least until Innova offers you a sponsorship.

[RonTheWhip]

At least until Innova offers you a sponsorship.

Not gonna happen. Unless something aweful happens betweens Dsicraft and I, I plan on sticking with them for the long haul. Its a little concept I call loyalty...

[Parks]

And that's a little concept I call "Whoosh!"

[blang11]

Favorite moment of [2010] so far:

Watched Dion throw the longest bomb I've ever seen in person. I won't guess the distance (872ft!!!!!!), but he threw from the sidewalk by the circle parking lot at Pier Park, over #2's basket and half way up the hill to the dirt tee pad for hole 19. Yes, there was a tailwind, yes, there was elevation drop, and yes he was throwing a nuke, but it was a killer pump with the best possible angles working for it. Had it not hit the hillside it could have gone 40 feet further.

At the time, the thought did not occur to me that I should bend down on one knee and gravel, because I thought I'd just go and throw the same shot myself. That did not turn out so much for me. Having said that, the Nuke was also my longest throw of the day. Pin high, ten feet to the right.

Thanks for the solid weekend RTW.

[DexterHawk]

2009 as a great year in disc golf for me...
Played my first international disc golf event... In BC, totally awesome.

Finishing my second to last round at Worlds and realizing that ihad made the semis and cashed at worlds... Improved even more when I played well on Saturday and qualified for the USDGC.

Just playing Winthrop Gold felt like an acivement... Has been a big goal for a couple of years and getting to share the experience with my twin brother / caddy who lives in North Carolina made it even better.

Sticking in enough 25 footers to beat Skelly in a playoff and win a stacked C tier at Timber.

Everytime I turned the corner into the course... I swear to god... I get excited every single time!

[General Scales]

Things that are memorable for me.

1.) Played my first tourneys this year (Chump Challenge was the best one)
2.) Threw my first measured throw over 400 feet (418.6)
3.) Hitting my first and second ace (17 n 18 at Highbridge)
4.) Not injuring my arm at all during the year.
5.) Not losing more then 300 bucks of plastic.
6.) Getting to know more and more of the bad arse mofo's that make up Spokanistan Disc Golf.
7.) Playing an even round @ downriver (finally)
8.) Learning how to dye discs (still horrible at it but I'm getting better)
9.) Last but not least, watching my dumb ass buddy systematically empty an entire bag of loaner/beat dx plastic off of the Grand Coulee Dam (80 discs, we each bombed 40). Then slowly realize that he threw his first ace disc (a Super Roc) accidently. Then the mad scramble to see if he could locate it (he never even had it with him). The misery he thought he had to endure until he saw it sitting in the driver's seat of his car. All way too funny.

Hopefully this years even better. Will be so long as I keep hucking.

[JMan]

Getting to meet and huk with new folks
The golden leaves falling like snow in the Shire on Horning's Canyon course
Doing the live scoring for the Women's lead card at the 2009 BSF (can't wait for 20X)

[blang11]

Getting to meet and huk with new folks
The golden leaves falling like snow in the Shire on Horning's Canyon course
Doing the live scoring for the Women's lead card at the 2009 BSF (can't wait for 20X)

Ha, the Shire!

[REDFIVE]

My favorite moment had to be an evening that I was playing a casual round with my son(5yrs old at the time) at steilly. We had played close to 30 straight holes and he was complaining that we had to stop because the sun was going down. On our last hole, which was NW 18, he was standing on a mound by a tree maybe 30-35 away or so. He says to me, "Dad, if I make this can we get ice cream?" Dead center chains. The ice cream was awesome.

Sweeping NW and state dubs was pretty cool too.

[Toby Puttzinski]

For me, it's the Lava Launch!! I am eager to play more mountain golf!!