Beaver Branch NIGHTMARES!

This discussion thread is for documenting those holes that you would love to forget!

For me, it would be a round on the gold layout on hole 18. This is the hole that is across the back pond and up on the mound. I recorded a double circle 9. I threw two discs in the pond, one on the drive, then one from the drop, before finally making it over. After making it, I failed to lay up on the mound, and I proceeded to try to hit the putt, missing and leaving myself with a DOUBLE circle 9 in the end!

If you can imagine this...after Ianded I land back towards the next pad. I putted went by the basket over the mound and almost OB! The I tried to hit the putt again, missing (and going back to where I was....after missing putts two time in a row, I laid up my eight shot and got my nine. The worst thing about this was I have having a great round, and playing competitive with Breske and Rubotoe!

[B Mo]

I know there are some nightmares to share out there! I have seen people lose up to three discs on some of the holes at the Branch!

[ObiwanKANEobi]

Ironically the same weekend as my dream weekend! Hole 16 silver. 262' throwing from the woods to the house. I almost park the hole. Landing right on the rope from the putting contest leaving myself exactly 20' putt. No problem heck I hit a 50' putt to start the round on hole 2 for a duece and parked hole 3 for a two also.... yeah right. 5 putts later I walked away with a 6 and not even enough confidence to fill a thimble. Game set match last place choke fest insued. The final tag sort curse came through again!

[B Mo]

That is insane! It seems like you can always have some successes and a couple nightmares at the Branch...

I started the second round in the lead group, and I went OB pond on Hole 2! Oops...Shot from the drop for a Circle 5! Then I went on to deuce 3 and 4, so I was back at even! A nightmare and a dream all in one! I had to fight hard psychologically to forget about the bad start and ended with two 55s...Like I said on the other thread, not good, but not bad either....It is often hard to restore confidence, but somehow I did it at DETCKO....

[Scooter Crunch]

This is a story from Adam Harris from the DETCKO tournament/weekend... Enjoy!!! LOL!!!

I went out play this week and noticed my bag was partially empty from a rough weekend at the Branch. I count 2 drivers, 2 putters, and a mini missing. I seem to have left behind my red/yellow dye mini, and my red/blue splatter dye white star TL, somewhere as I played along.

I splashed my Blue Champion Barry 2003 Beast, in the first Sunday round (with initials SD and a 383 number on back). In the afternoon round, I got the pleasure of splashing my yellow APX and my black APX and my blowfly, ALL in the lake on 6. That little lake ate me up so bad I almost walked in with my boots on to retrieve ALL my "putters". Here is where you can laugh at my expense - yes three putters went in the water on three consecutive throws. Almost ruined my day with all 3 putters I brought all ended up in the same lake on the same hole in back-back-back throws - luckily when my blowfly spashed, it floated! As I asked how many holes were left to walk in wet boots, my group strongly recommended I not go walking in boots on, as they could see the blowfly floating towards the edge. The "triple cirle 10" I took did hurt my score, as I went from 2 over to 9 over in one hole. But the floating blowfly saved the day so I could at least finish the round with dry boots and a putter!

For the record - I won a pink Hydra as a trophy to remind me of that little debacle by #6 lake. I'm keeping the disc and printing the story up to tape it on back. Now I have the "I was so bad, its funny" disc right next to my ace discs on the trophy wall. Thanks for the permanent memory in a pink Hydra, kind of really made fun of a rough finish to my tourny and sent me home smiling.

(I'll come rake the lake if you want, after it warms up a bit.) If you find any of these I'll be greatful, as the TL and Beast are 2 of my favorite drivers....
Please feel free to laugh at my expense and share the triple cirle 10 story, as I'm sure you don't get too many of them. Had a great time despite leaving / losing half of my bag!
Adam

[Scooter Crunch]

I would have to say I feel for Adam with this story that he sent Bmo and I. I felt that is belonged on this thread as it is a true Nightmare... Therefore, I have to add my 2 cents in because I sort of have a simlilar story in that I lost 3 Cobra's in that same pond... With me it was hole #12 trying to go over the pond up onto the hill where the basket is located. On Saturday during the tag match in the morning I went OB twice, once off the drive to loose a Proline Cobra and second off of the drop zone pad with a DX Aviar putter which luckily landed close enought to the edge to be able to be retrieved... I ended up finishing the hole with a double circle 6 after hitting a pretty nice putt up the hill to save that...

On Sunday during the actual tournament I lost 2 brand new DX Cobra's with the Beaver Branch Disc Golf Course stamp on them... Both were lost on that same hole #12 that I had lost the Proline one on the previous day... Therefore bringin my total to 3 lost Cobra's in two days on the same hole... Overall that was the worst thing the whole weekend because other then that I had a great time and can't wait until the next one. Let alone the next tournament at the Branch!

See you on the Course!!!

[Cape Crusader]

have you ever lost one one behind you?

well i have at the branch funny thing is its the same pond talked about hole 12s pond but i was driving on 13 what ????? you all are thinking how can you hit the pond that is behind you well it wasnt easy. driving off of 13 tee pad I cranked out my star TL and hit the first big tree on the left the disc make a loud crack and i never seen go. I looked for 15 mins or so but never found it came back early next morning before the tourney an looked again still no disc ?? i just though gone too the woods gods. so about a month or two later run into BMo at tourny and he hands me my TL , asked where did you find it , my dog retrieved from the pond ,

[B Mo]

Sounds like a nightmare with a happy ending!

[B Mo]

I recently watched a Circle 8 (SNOWMAN) on Hole 18 (Mound Hole - last hole coming back over the back pond). H-Bomb played "tennis" throwing it over the mound back and forth (after going OB pond initially). 5 QUICK strokes no one wants to see!