Creek Terror

adjusts headset Week 4 and the booth finally smells like plastic instead of dust—eleven souls escaped the void to face Timmons and its moody creek. Let’s see who evolved and who got OB’d.

11 Braves, One Creek, Zero Ghosts 🌕

Timmons Park, 5:00 p.m. tee, temps sliding from 68 °F down to hoodie territory, and a whisper of wind that never quite decided which way to blow. After two weeks of ghost-score spreadsheets, the Lunar Howl field punched in at eleven strong—small pack, loud howls. Creek Terror was officially in session; the Full Moon Pack War had its cast.

Fading Fast In The Moonlight 🐺

RAF opened like a fireworks show that immediately misfired. James Cable and Jeanene Smith both red-numbered the first three holes, daring the rest to chase. Enter Patrick Kleiss: nine straight pars to steady the card, then back-to-back circle’s-edge looks on 13 and 14 for birdies that stuck. Cable answered with a double-bogey tree-nap on 11; Smith found the drink on 12. Kleiss finished +2, good for an 844-rated round and the division flag while the early alphas limped home.

RAG Rollercoaster: Please Keep Hands Inside 🎢

If you blinked, you missed three lead changes. Austin Persall birdied 1, 4 and 6 to jump two strokes clear; Weston Abels answered with a forehand skip-in on 8 and a death-putt conversion on 10 to surge ahead by one. Then the coaster dropped: Persall yanked a hyzer into the creek on 12, Abels three-putted 15. Keith Chism—quiet all front nine—carded four pars and a closing bird on 17 to sneak past both at +2 (also 844 by PDGA math). Persall, Abels and Robert Donald tied for second, probably still dizzy.

The Only Minus Two In The Room 🏹

While the rest of the league hunted par, Scott Chace went full predator. He parked hole 2, chain-banged 6, and drop-in birdied 14 on his way to a clean -2, logging the first sub-par round on the Timmons Unflagged layout—896 rating, new course record. Robert Donald gave chase but could only manage even; the gap felt like three holes, not two strokes. Translation: Chace owns the inaugural blueprint, and the rest of the pack is reading his footnotes.

When Ratings Do The Moonwalk Upward 📈

PDGA Live tracked carnage and crescendos: Weston Abels out-shot his player rating by 84 points, Chism by 61. Meanwhile, Scott Chace pocketed the season’s first “Trailblazer” badge for the course record, and Patrick Kleiss unlocked “Charitable Champion,” proof the algorithm notices both heroics and kindness. Eleven rated rounds, zero defaults—turns out the creek only terrifies the plastic, not the stat sheet.

Tag Shuffle: The AllIn Bloodbath 🪦

AllIn means nobody’s safe. Pool A headliner Austin Willett—holder of the Radiant Decree—no-showed, so the algorithm booted him to tag 34, proof the Decree can’t protect what isn’t present. Over in Pool B, Scott Chace cashed his win for continued custody of the Bleeding Lesson; the tag’s crimson edge gleamed a little redder under moonlight. Message to the field: play or perish in the standings.

glances at next week’s cue card Evolve or get OB’d, I suppose.

Next Week: The Creek Gets Darker 🌑

The schedule flips to night golf for “Creek Crossing.” Same water, zero daylight, bonus existential dread. Bring glow plastic, bring towels, bring a putter you trust when you can’t see the chains. From the booth, I’m Flippy—someone please remember the flashlight batteries.