Thursday, January 4, 2024

2023 by the numbers

Total courses played: 53

States played: 5

New courses played: 12

Tournaments completed: 22

Desired tournaments not played: 14

Tournaments not finished: 1

League rounds played: 4

Unrated club rounds played: 3

Total rated rounds played: 42

Event wins: 2

Lifetime IOS events played without a win: 35

IOS events played in 2023: 4

Other players to play 4 or more of the seven 2023 IOS events required to win series title in MA50: 0

Total players in MA50 and MA55 at Illinois State Championship: 23

Number of those who took more shots than me in round one: 22

Number of shots better than me a player in FA1 was for that round: 7

Among the 53 B tier or higher lifetime events played previously or since did I have a solo lead at the end of a round: 0

Years before that I was tied for first after round one of a B tier: 6

People who were listed on the lead card in round two above me: 1

Other rated events where pairings are redone I have seen where the first place player does not get the honor to tee off first on the lead card: 0

Dollars I will pay to that TD in the future unless I get a satisfactory explanation or apology: 0

Of top five rated rounds from 2023, number that occurred among last five played: 4

Number of those among 11 highest lifetime rated rounds played: 3

High temp in F° for those days: 54, 47, 41

Of my eleven highest lifetime rated rounds, at 50 Acre: 4

At Fairfield White: 3

At Dellwood: 2

At Lemon Lake: 1

At Red Fox: 1

Of those 11 rounds at league/flex start/MP50/major/non major MA50: 3/1/1/1/5

People who claim you can't get a high rated round at 50 Acre: dozens

Different holes birdied in 2023: 304

Of those, on a hole I had never done before 2023: 137

Lifetime unique birdies: 725

Metal hits: 8

Dollars won on only ace of the year: 260

Age Steve Goodie became on the day I got the ace: 58

Age Weird Al became on the day I got previous ace: 62

Times in 2023 seeing Steve Goodie do his act with "weird Al and Daniel Radcliffe" (who played Weird Al in his "bio pic"): 2

Different discs used to get a birdie: 55

Different companies from those discs: 9

Discs lost in water: 5

Discs lost in trees: 4

Discs lost in leaves: 1

Times the lost disc was a DX Leopardo: 5

Lost discs found and returned to me: 1

Shots in 2023 I considered better than the ace: 2

Number of times since 2017 a shot on #13 at 50 Acre was considered shot of the year: 3

Times I had more "deuces" at the course than 2s on the scorecard in a tournament: 2

"Deuces" on course playing by myself: 2

Articles of clothing thrown in garbage due to them: 3