Birdshot tournament august 9

[Midnightbiker]

I had a great time. Thanks to everyone who came out. I live in the area, so if anyone is coming this way to play Kingwood again , shoot me a PM and I will be happy to meet you out there if I can. Great Tournament. Thanks to Andi, Matt, Billy and Chuck for a great day.

[ERicJ]

Originally Posted by ERicJ

It will be interesting to see what sort of SSA this course generates.

Using results from 23 players rated >800 I get an SSA of 53.12 from the PDGA spreadsheet.

ERic

[tarazarr]

I had a few hours to burn yesterday afternoon while I was waiting for my son to come in on a flight, so I thought I'd run over to Academy buy a disc and go out here a get a round in. My first time at this course and holy crap! I've never seen so many dang Banana tree spiders in my life. It was like being in a horror movie! I don't see how anyone can throw a fifty anything on this course! You gotta walk around with a big long stick everywhere you go, totaly puts you on tilt from the start. Maybe it was just being out there by myself or something, but it was un-nerving

I think whoever threw the most shots at that tournament should have been declared the winner, just because they probably spent the most time off the fairways in spider heaven!

Do those things die off in the winter?

I totally just walked right on past #17 already being freaked out by the size and shear numbers of those spiders, I had no interest in walking into yellow jackets as well.

I felt like a little 6year old girl out there tiptoeing around with my big stick all freaked out.

Kudos to all the players who were able to throw a decent game out there...I know I sure couldn't yesterday.

I temporarily lost my disc on #6 (it faded hard right and buried itself under a bunch of pine needles) and I spent at least 35 minutes walking through that area of spider infested dead trees looking for my disc (I only brought 1 so I couldn't just leave it) that totally threw me off for the rest of the round

[mattman]

yes, those spideres die off in the winter or they go to Florida. I have seen lots of spiders at the wilmont course, but I remember seeing some spiders the size of small rodents way up in the trees at that one course... I won't advertise a place I can't play. booooh

[discmagnet]

Last year the spiders were gone before the fall season. And Mattman is correct about the other course's spiders putting the ones at Kingwood to shame. The only difference is that there are some holes out of the woods.
Last year I watched a one of those spiders catch and mummify a locust. It was crazy!

[tarazarr]

one wrong step and I thought I was going to be mummified You know it's bad when your disc deflects off a tree and sticks in the web

[mattman]

one wrong step eh? have you wondered what happened to Capt. America? Last seen being carried off by a spider.

[tarazarr]

I think it was the 35 minutes I spent looking for the only disc I had out there that freaked me out, cause you couldn't just ramble around looking for it, I had to watch every freakin step and the fact it was buried in pine needles, I probably tip toed past it 8 times before finally seeing it. After that I think I just got clostaphobic and arachnofobic at the same time, by hole 15 it was starting to get darker and I just wanted out of there....alive and unbit/stung

Funny how places like that screw with your head when your by yourself

[Midnightbiker]

After my Yellow Jacket attack, the Bannana Spiders don't bother me at all. Also, I am more afraid of the Copperheads out there. I have seen 4 out there.

As far as the spiders go, they are only out there May-October. Around October they completely disappear. Also, its nice to play out there in the fall and winter , because a lot of the undergrowth dies off, and the trees loose their leaves, and it makes the course play a little differently.