I finally made it to Alaska!

After spending a couple weeks at home after USDGC, Avery and I bought the tickets and flew down to Florida last Friday. Escaping the snow just in time, we arrived in Florida on a beautiful 80 degree fall afternoon. Cliff Stephens was just as we left it last year, with a few exceptions of some cleared out trees and cleaned up shule.

It has been an incredible year...steve brinster and I got married April 25th in Warwick New York- the same town we met in 7 years ago at the Warwick Icebowl- it was a dream week for us.  It was so amazing to have those closest to our hearts there with us on that sacred day.  we had the coolest wedding mini discs made- our wedding day was on Arbor day- so we had a funky tree with our names etched into the trunk as our stamp.   Here is the website address with our wedding photos: http://cart.jonqphot

2008 World Championships

What a year it has been so far.  Somehow disc golf and the experience of being a touring professional, keep getting better.  We managed to fit in some other activities when we weren’t on the disc golf course.  

Fenway Park
After the Vibram Open in Massachusetts, we were able to catch a Red Sox game at Fenway Park. The Sox lost but Manny Ramirez went yard in his last game for the Sox.  

The Tioga and Crew were waiting for me at the Des Moines Airport May 20th 2008. I had no idea what was in store for me! The Trip from beginning to end was unbelieveable! Just being able to hang out with such great golfers as Avery and Val was an honor in its self much less a great tutorial for my own game.  I'll get back to that in a second, more about IOWA, we crashed at Tanner Duncans house! Talk about hospitality! man Tanners crib is overflowing with it!!! And he has the Sneakiest Sick basement stash of frisbees!!

On our travels back to the East after the Big D in the Desert, Val and I played back to back tournaments in Kentucky. The second event being the Disc 'n Dat Bluegrass Open, one of my favorites due to the courses and the travel vicinity to my parents home in Ohio, an annual tournament that I used to play every year when I lived back home. It is also great to see some old friends that I have not seen in years, great time to catch up on some past DG stories.

The season is now in full swing, we have played 3 tournaments thus far this year. Including a 7th Place at the Gentleman's Club Challenge in Las Vagas, a 12th Place finish at The Memorial National Tour Event in Phoenix, AZ and a 2nd Place at the Aloha Sushi Classic in Walla Walla, Washington. I shot some amazing rounds, including a hot round to start the year off in Vegas and my career best round of 1088 the last round in Phoenix.

The off-season was very short and exhausting. I began teaching Disc Golf 199 at the University of Oregon for the winter term. I had twenty-five students and I learned that teaching was much harder than I had anticipated. I will be teaching again in the spring with sixty students in Disc Golf 1 and 2.