Three Wights, One Crypt 😖

adjusts glasses Three players signed in for Week 6, the Wetland Crypt Opens, at Mehraban (Baby Bottoms) — 49.93°F at the start, wind at 13 mph, light rain, and a Phragmites corridor that was already filing complaints about the traffic. The "Stake And Reed" chapter closed last week; the crypt's ancient magic is fully open now, and Episode 6 of 9 has exactly three wights to trample some reeds.

A Record, Buried Two Strokes Deep

Malachi Vazquez threw -11 in RPA Gold with nobody to beat but the marsh, and the marsh lost by a record. The 975-rated round was the round of the day, a new personal best for this layout, and 41 strokes against a previous best of 43 — two full throws buried under the reeds. He went clean through the front nine, ran a hot streak seven holes deep (6-12), and took the field's only birdies on holes 2, 3, 6, 7, 9, 14, and 17, every one of them a hole the rest of the card played over par on. That's not a scorecard, that's a threat. The bracket is open, and it is currently unoccupied.

A Bogey At Eighty-Two Feet 😖

Timothy Scholle ground out -2 in RAE Red at 835, riding a seven-hole par train (1-7) before a three-hole hot streak (10-12) ran out of steam, and the day's cruelest detail landed on hole 13 — an 82-foot par 2 that he bogeyed. He shared birdies on 11, 12, and 15 with Vazquez on holes averaging +0.7 for the field, which is the quiet kind of round that survives a crypt. The bracket needs a second card; the reeds would like a witness.

Somebody Bring A Challenger

Nicole Galindo threw +63 in RAG Purple, cold from the first tee through the last with 18 bogeys or worse across all 18 holes. No shame in signing up and grinding it out in the rain — but this bracket needs a card, not a solo lap.

Aces Deferred, Interest Accrued

No CTP was configured this week, so no closest-to-pin bragging rights. The Super Ace pot ticked from $2,446.00 to $2,450.00 on two contributors at $4.00, with the active prize sitting at $2,999.91. The seasonal ace pot holds at $223.41 with zero aces hit, paid in equal shares on the final event — Vazquez's sole birdie run never quite found chains, so the pot keeps compounding like an unpaid parking ticket. Galindo took the Division Winner honor in RAG.

Compaction Is A Love Language

The event raised $1.50 through the $1.50-per-player registration contribution, pushing the Mehraban (Baby Bottoms) Course Fund to $10.50 of a $1,000.00 goal — $989.50 to go. Every round compacts the soil around the Phragmites roots, which is the rare case where showing up and throwing plastic is also conservation work. The league's $1.50 is on the board.

The Appendix Stays Attached

Pool A's #1, Vazquez, defended the Grim Appendix with that 41 and the 975, which means the tag's living text had nothing to gripe about — it grows heavier as a rating falls and recedes slightly when one climbs, so this week it rode light. Pool B's #1, Scholle, held the Ink Arbiter. Both played, both held, and AllIn mode means nobody underneath either throne is safe next Friday.

The Reeds Strike Back 🌾

Week 7 is Phragmites Rises on October 30, same course, Bone Marsh - Baby Bottoms New 18, and the invasive reeds make their final attempt to reclaim the fairways from the players. Somebody has to emerge as the Bone Regent and lead the charge against the flora — the obvious candidate is the man currently holding Tag One and a fresh course record, though the reeds have opinions about that. Register here and track your round on PDGA Live if you want the throw-by-throw receipts to exist.

A league where the villain is a grass species and the hero is whoever throws a putter through it, and I'm the one contractually obligated to call it a saga.