The Little River Golf Course hosted the now-annual disk golf tournament last Saturday and Sunday. One hundred forty disk-ers showed up for the event most expressing how much they liked to play disk golf on the Little River Course. For those not familiar with the increasingly popular sport of disk golf baskets replace holes as used in actual golf. The baskets are raised off the ground on a pole and have chains dangling above the basket. The object is to fling the disk into the chains so it drops into the basket. There were 19 baskets set up on the Little River Course and the course par was 64. Players came from as far away as the Bay Area, Lake County, Humboldt a couple from Montana, and even Albion Ridge. Disc golfers have an array of discs configured for driving, chipping, and putting. They have various bags or rolling carts to transport their discs around the course.

This disc tournament was a charitable event the money going to the Mendocino Coast Children’s Fund. Approximately six thousand dollars was raised. Dallas Albright from Boonville won the men’s pro-open division. Ronit Taggert from Sebastopol won the female pro-open with Brandon Langston from Humboldt winning the over-forty men’s division. Derrick Robbings, the event tournament director, states that the Little River event is one of thirteen tournaments taking place through the winter all for different charities. The events take place in Mendocino, Humboldt, Lake, and Sonoma counties.

Getting back to golf ball golf last week I asked Collin Fling and Bradley Theisen what was their most disappointing or humbling experience playing golf. Both were on the putting green warming up. Without hesitation, Collin said, “Topping a ball on the fairway with my three wood.” Bradley chimed in with, “This wasn’t my most humbling experience but it was my most maddening. I purchased a new chipping wedge and after using it a few times it broke in half after I hit a short chip. The shaft broke right in half. Brand new.” Bradley explained the grip was faulty at the shaft’s end allowing water to enter the inside of the shaft thus causing its failure. For Chong Majias taking a mighty swing at the ball and seeing it right where it was before the swing, a swish was the most embarrassing. “Or.” she added, “Taking that big swing and hitting the ball four feet. Aaugg.” Chuck Allegrini kept his eye on the ball last Wednesday, March 22nd. Chuck had seventeen pars and one bogie. Chuck said he…