1997: DoG. Jim’s golf game comes around.

Month			Tournament	Finish			Notable Wins/Losses
	Comments
April			Turkey Swamp	2-3, 9-th			L: Brooklyn, Anodyne, Philly
	The "Field of Death" is brutal to us. Five of us and a few Friends of DoG brave it out. We lose two, win two.. That meant that we had to play Philly in the game to go. To the quarterfinals. I had a phenomenal game after making perhaps 4 cuts on Saturday. With the score tied late, I get a block on Brendan, then Souheil picks the disc up and hits Brendan in the back of the head with it, and we trade out to a one goal loss, while Philly cruises through the remainder of the tournament. Zaz shows up after our game, asking when we play next. He finds another team, we drive back and play Scan Game for 2.5 hours, with Revi Shankar being a frequent answer. Now let us never speak of this again.
May			Mothers’ Day			6-0, 1^st			??
	Well, we won this for the first time since 1994, with only one team. I have no notes on this one, and indeed, couldn’t be bothered to write more than "M-Day 6-0 1^st". Oh, Brian played with Snapple as we crushed them in the finals.
June			NUA, Wilmington (NC)			5-0, 1^st		NY
	In what many regard as the best NUA tournament ever, DoG cruises through much to the delight of the fans. Toad and his fellow refs called a tight ship, sent Zaz to the showers, and issued a yellow card to Andy Sheeman of NY for arguing for being called offsides by a toe. We won a game 25-14 in 90 minutes. And we came up with all sorts of plans on working the clock, which quickly led to a more-optimized set of rules for timekeeping.
July			Boulder		5-3, 2^nd		Condors, "Dolomite"
	In what many regard as the best called-off-NUA tournament ever, we lost two one-pointers in pool play and a bigger one in the finals. The three day tournament was reduced to two for us after we had purchased tickets for a two-day NUA tournament. We picked up Sully the day of the tournament, along with locals Zeke and Ian. We thought our semis was to 17 instead of 15, and then played that game to cap, and came out flat in the finals, expecting the Condors to drop to our level. It was 8-4 before we realized it. I didn’t get fired up until one of the Condors (can’t remember which one, tall, thin, tan guy, you know who you are) played grabbsies with my jersey. "You do that EVERY TIME!" I yell. "I’ve only covered you one other point." "Uh, yeah, and you grabbed me then, too." We lost, 15-10 or 11. I shot an 82 at Estes Park instead of hiking, very cool watching the ball rise and fall in front of the mountains, course is only average otherwise.
September			Tuneup	7-1, 2nd			Sockeye
	Had a pretty full team for once. We didn’t go to Club Worlds that summer, remembering the previous year’s burnout. Sockeye went and beat Double in what many regard as one of the ugliest finals ever. Or so the drunken rsd "fans" said. Anyhoo, Sockeye beat us in the finals.
			Sectionals	2-0, 1st
	Is that right? 2-0? Glad I missed it then.
October			Regionals	7-0, 1^st			NY and Red Tide
	No clue. My stat book says I was there, and I can’t really argue with it. Oh, I remember now. I shot an 81 at Butternut the day before the tournament, with an 11 on the deadly par-5 10^th hole. You see, it was the end of the fiscal year, I had a day of comp time, and I went golfing.
		Nationals, Sarasota, across the street from a "Million Dollar Hole In One Challenge" at one of several thousand golf courses in the state, all with old people cluttering them.								8-0, 1st	Everyone
	The Comeback. 7-0 run on Sockeye to start their third straight finals loss, followed by 5 goal run for them initiated with a Full Haskell. Beat Z and Double (backdoor entry via Pack of Lies’ (Portland) turning down the invite) in pool play. SF women blew bubbles into my face while I was diving for a disc. Cork expressed his disapproval of their actions. I took the spiked SOTG disc and put it into my bag after the final goal of the Ring comeback against NY Saturday morning that qualified them for semis. The Spirit gods, if they exist, showed disfavor by giving Ring a 10-4 lead, then they must have started to play silly frisbee games as we came back to win 17-15. Then the finals, when Mooney got Bobbed and broke his collarbone. Phrase "loser beer" unhappily coined, as that limited us to one free beer from the bountiful beer truck.
42-7, 5 wins, 2 seconds, 1 "other". Fewest tournaments and games in my recorded history. Newbies included the Diceman Daisuke Koyama and three guys over 30. The term "Seeger contract" allowed Jay to practice part-time in return for part-time play, but he played so damn well we had to keep him in all the time. GE played their final Corporate League game, clearing the way for the first of Tech’s consecutive 5-2 titles. My golf game really blossomed, with a slew of scores in the low 80s, and finally shot a 79 with a tough up-and-down on the 18^th after chunking a wedge on 16 for a double bogey.