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Member Information

Member Name: Richard Vinson

Nickname(s): #13

Hometown: Winterville, NC

GVDG Number: 13

Role in GVDG: Founding Member, Member (3 years)

Years playing disc golf: 10+

PDGA Number: N/A

Aces: ECU course: #1 in three different pad/pin positions,. #2 twice, #3, 4, 5, 7, and 8 a bunch of times, # 9 twice, #10 once from both normal and alt pad, # 12 twice, #14 once, #15 twice, old 18 a bunch of times. Farmlife. Holes 3 and 5 once Meadowbrook: Holes 7, 8, 17 (short tees) once. Wrong hole ace at Horizons Park in Winston. (see favorite disc golf story).

Favorite Courses: Farm Life, Country Course (Louisburg) and, of course,Meadowbrook.

What's in your bag? Anything stable to overstable

Tournament/disc golf accomplishments: Won Am Division at Farm Life (I think it was their first yearly) way back when I played every day.

Favorite disc golf story: On the way back from a tournament at Reedy Creek in Charlotte, our group stopped of to play Horizons in Winston Salem. At the time (it may still be) a ridiculously easy course and it seemed everything but two holes was less than or around 220 feet. We jumped in with a local which pointed out the holes as we went. Having won the previous hole, I was first off the tee. The local pointed in the direction of a basket about 200 feet out (slightly to the left) in a crop of trees. I registered what I thought was my first ace at the park and commenced to celebrate. The local then pointed out that I had aced the wrong hole and that I should have been shooting at a different basket (unlike all the other holes, about 340 feet out, not to far off to the right from the basket I hit). Even though I officially took a three on the hole, I still call it an ace because it was a hell of a shot. Nothing but chains.

Things you like to do off the course: Guitar, Amusement parks

Occupation: Group Leader (Pharmaceutical Analytical R&D)

Email: N/A

Advice to other golfers: Play as often as possible. If you only play every couple of weeks, you can't expect to ever be on your A-game. Play in groups of 4 or more whenever possible. If you always play solo or in groups of 2, you will suck come tournament time due to the much slower place