EDGE Skill Shot Competition

Well . . . I won this baby in 2004, in Des Moines, but I sure didn't win it today. It was fun, though, Ben barely beat me - by 11 points out of 700 some. We started out getting an explanation of the procedure and rules from Wyatt (shown below; to whom we went back with questions several more times). If you haven't done this competition yet, give it a shot. It's as grueling as playing 18 holes and probably much better for your skill development.

On the way to start, we were overwhelmed by a bunch of dominant males in red, then realized that it was okay, because Worlds TD Terry Miller was in control.

Halfway through, we met up with Dawn Pengelly, from Kalamazoo, Michigan formerly of Quebec.
She and Sheila get to compete against each other quite regularly. Dawn and her husband, Arthur, who is from New Zealand, were house guests at the BRATS course for the DGLO in June. (Athur's home course was closed during the filming of the Lord of the Rings movies: Whenever you saw Gandalf riding his horse along a road on the way to Hobbitown, you were viewing a scene taking place between Holes 4 and 5 on Arthur's home course.)

Then we ran across former PDGA board member John (Chappy) Chapman (Kansas) and his friend [uh-oh, I forgot his name, someone email me]. That's current PDGA board Pete May (Augusta, GA), second from left, who figures to be a dominant competitor in the Senior Grand Masters division, starting on Tuesday. (How about that spiffy cart with the umbrella - I bought it Friday at a yard sale for $15.)

Finally, after stopping at a grocery for fresh fruits and veggies, we pulled back into the Sheraton Four Points where the PGA is gone and the PDGA is now dominant. (Those folks don't even know we exist yet, at the PGA that is, yet we now have 2,000+ courses in the US, moving up on their much more slowly growing 7,000+!

Sheila has titled this last image: "Tired and Cranky Terry." I am tired, probably cranky, too. But I sure look forward to two 18-hole mixed doubles rounds with Sheila as my partner tomorrow. Our games complement each other nicely and all we lack is a drive longer than 325' - which shouldn't matter at the two Dretzka courses!

If I had known about the Ernest Hemingway look-alike contest - http://www.sloppyjoes.com/news.htm#hemingway07 - I might have been smiling more. We may well go down for that next year.