Last Saturday was the 5th Alabama Amateur Open Disc Golf tournament. Sean and I went up to Montevallo with our friends Pat and Larry to compete. Robyn was signed up to go, but a last-minute migraine kept her from competing. I decided to move up from the Novice to the Recreational Division a few weeks before the tournament. The night before the tourney I checked the registration on-line, and saw there were only about six people in the Rec division. I figured I'd go ahead and pay the extra $5 to move up again to the Intermediate division... I found out later there were a bunch of people that signed up late for Rec, so there would have been a pretty good field to compete against anyhow. I ended up 16th out of 32 in Intermediate, and my score would have tied for first in the Novice and been second in Recreational. There's another tournament in Trussville next weekend, the same day Robyn and Sean leave on the 15th birthday cruise. Pat and I might drive up....

There was also an article in the local paper about the Alabama Sports Festival that mentions us. They didn't know Sean was part of the Tindall clan, as he was registered as Sean Heslep. The article can be found here.

Robyn and I went to Huntsville Friday night for a Billy Dean concert, and spent the night to do a disc golf tourney over in Athens on Saturday. Concert was pretty good, a really intimate setting in the Von Braun Center Playhouse, with three singer/songwriters on the the stage at a time. There were only about 200 people in attendance, so everyone got to participate in the "meet and greet" during the intermission and after the show. I picked up a Whitey Johnson CD and had Gary autograph it. Robyn got a bunch of autographed Billy Dean stuff for her shrine, as I call it.

Saturday was the "Summer School" tourney over in Athens, at Athens State University. It was a pretty small field, only 21 total. It was supposed to be an Amateur only, but Lavone Wolfe showed up to blow up the course ratings.... Robyn won the Intermediate Women's division, and I won the Novice Men's. Time to move, up! I'll be playing at the Alabama Amateur Open in the Recreational Division instead of Novice.... Should be fun !!

I took Robyn, Thomas and Luke to see Jonny Lang in concert Monday night at the Montgomery Performing Arts Center. Front-row seats, to boot. I was pretty surprised that the show didn't sell out, but the radio station was pushing a two-for-one deal Monday morning.... And they were broadcasting live at the Center right up until showtime. It was an awesome show! Pictures to follow, as soon as I can get them out of Robyn's phone...

Yesterday, Luke Robyn, Larry and I went up to Montevallo for the Alabama Sports Festival Disc Golf tournament. It was a really fun day. I shot 54-50=104 to take first in the Novice Men, Luke shot 69-70=139 to take second in the Juniors, and Robyn shot 74-72=144 to take third in the Novice Women! We all won Medals, and I got an extra disc and a $15 gift card. The forecast had called for a thunderstorm or two, so I didn't take the camera, which I really regret now. Next time I'll take the camera(s) no matter what the weather, to preserve the event for posterity. When he gave me my medal, Tom Monroe, who ran the event, said: "If you keep this up, they're going to start yelling 'bagger'!".

The Alabama Amateur Open is in three weeks on the the same course; I'll have to get Robyn and Luke a PDGA membership before we go up for that one I already have one, you can look me up here. I guess I really should start putting in a little more practice time, as well!

Robyn, Luke (the disc golfer formerly known as Sean), and I went down to Mobile this weekend to camp out and play disc golf. We left here around 1:00 P.M. Friday, drove to Mobile to Chickasabogue Park, and the park was full. Next time I call ahead for reservations (sheepish grin). The attendant was nice enough to not charge us the $1 a head charge to play golf on the course there, and it turned out to be a nice little track. I GPS'd it, and the .KML file will be posted shortly for use with Google Earth...

I also finally remembered the camera as we were walking across the street to the back nine. We headed back up I-65, stopped for Lunch/Supper at Waffle House (At four-thirty, we still hadn't had lunch, so...), and then found another campsite, about 13 miles up I-65 and another fifteen or so off the beaten track. Nice folks, they hooked us up. Even got me a Propane tank since I left mine at home...