Well, I think I can safely say this was the worst tourney performance I’ve had yet this year. Certainly not the TD’s fault! The courses were awesome and everything ran super-smooth. The only problem was that I was working until 4am the day of the tournament. Got home at 5am, got in the car at 6am, drove 2 hours to Winter Park and teed off around 9am. If were not for my absolute love of the game and abundant sense of humor, I would have just curled up under a tree and passed out. The first course (YMCA Rockies) has been absolutely decimated by the dang pine beetles. It was a layout that I would have totally loved if I had even just a few hours sleep.
The second course was pretty cool, it was at the top of the Winter Park ski resort and played about halfway down the hill. A few downhill bombs mixed with challenging uphills and winding woods shots. I really liked it, just wish I could’ve had some rest beforehand.
On the morning of the second day, I split my head open on the TV stand at the hotel. The round didn’t get much better :( Oh well, gotta have the bad round to make the good ones look better. The other bummer of the weekend is that my fiancee and a bunch of good friends were injured in an alpine slide crash after the round. We were able to use our lift tickets to ride the slide down. I got down fine, but a light rain started while they were halfway down. The brakes are useless when the track is wet and they all crashed into each other at the bottom. Fortunately it was just bumps, scrapes and bruises for her and my friends, but some others weren’t so lucky, some bones were definitely broken :(