Firm Ridge: This is my go-to/everything putter. This is my main putter as well as my main drive/approach putter.

Firm VP: Anytime I want to throw the Ridge but there's too much headwind, I'll use the VP.

Firm Summit: Anhyzer putts or roller tee-shots.

Have fun out there, if you start taking it too seriously...you won't play as well. Practice practice practice...it really does pay off. For most people, field work is great but for me that doesn't cut it. The 'practice' that works best for me is playing every round with something on the line, whether it's a club tag, $1, or just bragging rights. I get more out of competitive rounds than I do if I just go to a course by myself or throw in a wide open field.

Maple Hill in MA
Warwick in NY
Token Creek in WI
Waterworks in KC
The Grange (Darkside) in VA
Whipping Post and Woodshed in WV
Knob Hill in PA

Vibram Open
Virginia Open
West Virginia Open
Sakuna Matata
KC Wide Open

This would have to be in Steamboat Springs in the 2009 Steamboat Open. I had a pretty poor first round that landed me somewhere on the 2nd card of a 3 card field. The second round started OK and we began on hole 10. I started off with a 3, then birdied the next 4 holes (2, 2, 3, 3). I struggled a bit after that paring the next 3 holes. Stepped up to hole 18, threw it to about 35 feet and hit the putt. Felt good walking to hole one that I might have something started. Threw my drive on hole 1 and hit dead center bucket, low, for a drop in 2. Next hole is about 320' with a vertical drop of 67'. I threw a sidearm 1st run Champ Gator and BAM, ACE! At this point I'm just happy to have gone 2, 2, 1 and be -4 for 3 holes. Next hole is about 280' and you throw out of a chute in the woods, over a field, then the basket is back in the woods. Took the same gator I just aced with, pured the shot out of the woods, hyzers back in...BAM back to back aces with the same disc! To make a long story shorter...I 2'd hole 4 (530' with a vertical drop of 75'), 2'd hole 5 (285' with vertical incline of 67'), 2'd hole 6 (175' with vertical drop 16'), 2'd hole 7 (248' with vertical drop 13'), 3'd hole 8, 2'd hole 9. That gives me a stretch of -10 for 8 holes in a sanctioned tournament, and a score of 17 for the front 9. Shot 41 and next best score was 48.

You know who I would not want to face at the Players Cup? Mitch Sonderfan.

As Mitch said to me, "hmmm, this could have been the best tournament I've ever played."
He shot 1048 & 1049 rated rounds to win the 2011 Mile High Open by nine strokes.

Just a few weeks earlier, he played "the best tournament I've ever played, start to finish" and won at the Johnny Roberts Memorial.

Well done Mitch. We'll be rooting for you at the Players Cup - and feeling sorry for the players that go up against you.

Dana Vicich wins at the Sinnissippi Open and the Morton Pumpkin Festival. He left me with a wonderful insight: "Disc golf is cool."

Vinnie Miller takes down a crowd of young guns nipping at his heels and wins the Live Oak Summer Open and the Fly Ink Sizzler, where he shoots a 1069 rated 14 under par.

Mitch Sonderfan plays "the best tournament I've ever played, start to finish" and wins at the Johnny Roberts Memorial.

Ross Brandt wins The Lake Superior Open at the Mont Du Lac Ski Resort, a true north woods paradise. Nice shooting Ross!