Unlike previous years, the 2022 club challenge was weird to everyone and not just me. Once it was announced that due to a scoring error that was discovered a couple days ago, the club I participated in was declared the winner for the 2021 event. Had the error not happened, I would have not been able to enjoy the win since I was in the ER finding out that I would have needed to wait two hours to get the bee stinger taken out of my leg.
Weather was the weird issue this year as it was necessary to halt play due to storms. Between that and one new hole causing a massive delay, the event needed to be shortened to one round. Since I finally played a satisfactory round in the event and knowing others from my club did well, was hoping that my club would win so I can hold the trophy and like Ray Borque finish with a win.
Unfortunately, that wasn't the case. What surprised me was how the event was lost. The two best players there who represented the second place club significantly underperformed in their round and had they shot their rating and not 10 shots worse combined than expected, their club would have won easily.
After watching some US players fail in the 1976 Olympic games, told people those athletes should apologize for their performance and then was asked if I would have done the same thing in their situation. My answer was definitely and for decades have been told by teammates that my apologies made towards them for poor performances were unnecessary.
Tonight watched coverage one of those two from last weekend play even with one of the best disc golfers in the world who a week later refered to that person as a legend. Commentary also stated about his positive attitude towards play even after bad shots.
I look at my left arm with two bruises knowing why they are there.
