(DP) - Jacksonville
It was a bright, glorious day as Puma Pawson returned to Jacksonville
to continue his TWAC domination. While Rich "Bushie" Pike cowarded in this
northeast corner of Florida afraid to go north to challenge the mighty
Puma, he blustered after the long days, far, far ago, when he could
actually compete with the newcomer, Puma. The courteous, kind, and
always pleasant Puma understood the reasons behind his fear and make the
benevolent, friendly gesture of heading to Jacksonville for this amiable
match. Also along for the match was Darrell "Puma's sidekick" Gilman
and Simon "the Beast" Bouma. Rick, having learn the technique from Becky
"DOC" Pike, dawdled in an attempt to hopefully tire Puma out a bit before
the match.
During the warm-ups while waiting for Rick to finally arrive, Darrell
taco'd Pike's Pine on his first practice throw. Meanwhile, Puma, ever so
gracious, was helping prefect Simon's throw in hopes of having someone
provide some meaningful competition. Luckily, Rick's tardiness provided
some much needed practice for Darrell and Simon. Rick rode up on his
Vulcan bike and made his usual showy entrance. Puma asked if Rick wanted
to warm up a bit. Rick's reply was "oh, heck no, I'll beat you anyways!".
Rick, having played this course many times before and much more recently
than Puma, meticulously planned out which pine tree he wish to taco, but like
a poor marksmen, missed the target. Darrell on the other hand, taco'd Pike's
pine yet again while Simon had a marvelous throw through the trees and down
most of the fairway. Puma, not knowing that the basket location had been changed and
with no one kind enough to mention it, threw a graceful curve very close
to the old hole location before Rick chuckled, "Oh, they move the basket! Didn't you
know that?". Rick's dark side of the force black disk made a great recovery shot,
allowing him to bogey the first hole as Simon struggle with a 3 putt to tie Darrell and
Puma with a 5. Rick was thrilled at his early lead.
Rick was sure his lead was golden so he promptly threw towards hole
#3 forgetting they were playing the second hole. Darrell over torqued his
tee shot which only went as far as the first gully, while Simon and Puma
made magnificent tee shots. Simon's second shot was a clear attempt to
remove the competition as he clearly aimed for Puma, who was standing way off to the
side. Darrell's recovery shot was spot on allowing him allowing him to tie Puma
with a par as Rick made his second consecutive bogey with Simon 3 putting once
again for a 5. On the 3rd hole, after watching Puma, Darrell and Bushie avoid the
trees with their tee shots, Simon taco's the tree closest to the center line. He did manage
to avoid trees with his nice recovery shot only to taco the closest tree with his approach
shot. Simon is not happy nor hungry with all of the tacos! Rick made a reasonable approach shot only to 2 putt for his 3rd consecutive bogey. Puma concerned about Simon gunning for him, overthrew the basket to tie Simon at 5 while Darrell made his move with his second par.
Puma deciding to stop this nonsense and start actually playing, unleashes a mighty throw down the fairway. Darrell thinks that flight path may be a good approach as he follows that same line. Simon excited about the 4th hole as there are no trees for the first 250 feet, unleashes a tee shot in the general vicinity of the basket but more left than the others. Darrell and Puma's disc are within 2" of each other, and they argued about who had honors. Darrell arguing incorrectly that his tee shot went further astray and therefore was longest! An honest and unbiased bystander was called upon to provide a ruling so that the game could continue. The nice bystander rules that Puma indeed had the longest drive. Rick purposely decides to go against the grain, zig-zags around the fairway, weaving drunkenly towards the basket in order to continue his bogey streak. Darrell, staking his claim for the lead, making his 3rd consecutive par matched by Puma's par. Rick and Simon followed with a bogey.
Darrell feeling buoyed by his success decides that the grass is too high and proceeds to "successfully" mow it. Puma unloads a mammoth drive which, sadly, finds the woods before it can curve back. Rick "Bushman" Pike lives up to his moniker and starts his first walk-about of the day,
heading back towards beloved hole #4. Meanwhile, Simon, the rational one, decides to just uncork a drive down the middle of the fairway during the chaos. Puma, deep in the woods was in trouble. However, he has practiced rollers due to his papillon's joy for chasing them, makes a nice
recovery and rolls out of the woods back to the fairway, only to watch it hit a tree root and roll back into the woods. Simon, somehow still hungry, proceeded to taco the tree on his approach but still made a nice par saving putt. Darrell and Puma bogeyed the hole while Rick rejoined the group with a double bogey. As they approached the woods, Darrell has the lead at +3, Puma at +5, Bushie at +6 and Simon at +7.
Puma having envisioned hole #6 during his exile up north and having been practicing the needed tee shot for this exact hole, proceeds to unleash his new found weapon of disc destruction with a tee shot to within 10 feet of the basket. Darrell unnerved by this awesome display of prowess, tries to
just scare the trees out of the way but that didn't seem to work as his disc violently collided with a poor defenseless tree. Rick and Simon proceed tree to tree towards the basket. Puma makes his birdie putt while the others struggle to keep up. Puma, confident about hole #7's flight path but forgetting that he usually used a different disk, threw his driver with rose majestically up towards to corner but never started the turn instead hitting a tree and ricocheting into the woods. The others leap at this lapse in judgement and throw more reasonable tee shots. Rick and Darrell proceed to make pars, Simon continues his aggressive putting style to reach double bogey while Puma hits a few trees coming out of the woods to settle for a bogey.
On hole #8, Puma throws a tremendous tee shot to within 15 feet of the basket setting up his second birdie of the day. Darrell and Bushie watch in awe and settle for a par as Simon continues his streak of throw his first putt past the basket so he can make the come back putt for a bogey. #9, the first
of two lake front holes, Puma feeling confident with his throws decides to throw across the lake for the first time in his life. However, at the last moment his decides to not throw his beloved long distance Undertow driver and switches to the Dragon which, sadly, falls 3 feet short of the shoreline. The Dragon floats on the lake mocking Puma for his decision. Darrell deciding to show up Puma throws his Dragon slightly more towards the center of the lake and watches as the two dragon discs float gracefully on the surface. Simon went more towards the shoreline and manages to find a flight path that allows the disk to at least remain somewhat dry. Bushie wimps out entirely and decides to go around the lake. Darrell tries his second attempts across the lake which falls short but miraculously skips to the edge of the shoreline. Puma's second shot was way off and fell into the palm trees. Simon's second shot just misses the basket and he settles for a par. Rick continues to play it safe and makes a par. Puma and Darrell make bogey. After 9 holes, due to Puma's 2 birdies, Darrell and Puma were tied at +5, Bushie was at +7 and Simon was +12,
On the 10th hole, Bushie continues his water phobia approach, playing it safe...very safe...
extremely safe, as he went closer to the soccer fields than the basket. Puma went slightly over the lake but the shorter route did not prevent a bogey, Darrell tried the lake route but decided to go via the trees and ended up with a disastrous triple bogey. Simon went around the lake but still managed a bogey.
The fireworks started on the 11th hole, as Puma made the first of his 3 consecutive pars. Darrell tried to keep up but could only manage 2 pars and a bogey. Rick managed one par before deciding that bogeys were good enough. Simon continued his overthrowing streak. On the long #14, Rick and Puma made bogies, while Darrell and Simon made double bogies. Rick kept his bogey streak alive on #15, while Simon and Darrell made pars. Puma settled for a Rick aka Bogey.
On the 600 foot long #16, Puma, Simon and Rick both struggled to get anything going and settled for a bogey. Darrell made a nice par. Rick faltered on #17 with a double bogey while Darrell, Simon and Puma made bogey. Everyone managed to make bogey on #18 to close out the day. As the scores were tallied, Puma had returned to his rightful spot:
Puma - 66
Darrell - 68
Rick - 72
Simon - 75
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