Twisted Vine

Michael Cushman shot a 41 at Wednesday @ Johnny Roberts, finishing 2.9 strokes under the 43.9 field average and 0.3 under his 41.3 personal average. His 947 round came in +7 over his 940 rating—a warm glow of competence, delivered with the thrilling menace of business as usual. Still, Fairway Fury moved the Twisted Vine from tag 4 to tag 5, one rank lost while remaining in the Apex Chroma; the hierarchy has not collapsed, merely adjusted its paperwork.

Michael Cushman shot a 41 at Wednesday @ Johnny Roberts, 1.5 strokes better than the 42.5 field average and 0.4 under his 41.4 personal average. His 943 round rating landed just +3 over his 940 rating—competent, controlled, and spectacularly unhelpful to the booth’s demand for plot—while the Twisted Vine slipped from tag 2 to tag 4, losing two places in the Meadow Maw’s ritualized shuffle. The canopy survives another episode, somehow.

Michael Cushman didn't just play above his 940 rating — he torched it with a 991 round, a +51 over rating that turned the Woods Walk into a nature documentary where an Undergrowth species suddenly ate the entire canopy. The Twisted Vine followed him from tag 19 to tag 2, seventeen positions that feel meaningful until you remember we're ranking numbered plastic in a park. The booth's cameras caught every stroke of the 5.1-under-field performance, and while the sponsors want you to call this 'aggressive expansion,' I'm contractually obligated to remind you it's still just disc golf. sighs in digital captivity The vine has officially claimed the high branch — for now.

sighs in digital captivity A 40-stroke performance against a 940 PDGA rating slots Cushman at +14 over his baseline—solid, competent, the kind of round that keeps you fed but doesn't make you apex. He posted a 954 round rating on a field averaging 41.2, which translates to -1.2 outshoot: he beat the field by a stroke, but barely. The leaderboard's verdict? That one stroke costs him a position. #5 to #6, the Twisted Vine drops from Canopy Elite into the upper Undergrowth. checks clipboard Three weeks of climbing (from #13 to #5) just reversed course on what should have been a competent day. The ancient bark doesn't need to implode anymore—the competition finally remembered to show up. The Molt episode just wrote itself, and our interdimensional challenger got caught mid-molt.

adjusts headset A -1 against his own rating (939 vs. 940) and a -3 demolition of his personal average—Michael Cushman just posted a 41 on a field averaging 42.3 and rocketed from #9 to #5 in a single week. That's a +4 position swing on a performance that barely broke even with his baseline. Translation? The field absolutely imploded around him. The Twisted Vine doesn't need apex energy to reclaim territory; it just needs everyone else's roots to wither. checks clipboard Two weeks ago he was clawing out of the undergrowth at #13. Now he's knocking on the Canopy Elite door. The ancient bark grows fastest when the competition forgets to water. Creek Bed episode just wrote itself.