Jacob Wade carded a 50 for a 962 round rating, +45 over rating against a 917 PDGA baseline, which is the kind of number that makes the booth stop pretending it's bored. He finished two strokes under the 52.0 field average and two under his own 52.0 personal average, and the card moved him from tag 2 to tag 1, one spot gained and none lost. checks clipboard The Creek Rising stats need no weather report to read: this was a statement round, and the tag board finally caught up.
Pine TenderA
Thursday @ Cedarock Park·Competition group Canopy Cultivators·
All-In · only the number moves
Jacob Wade
MA1
Season Arc · Thursday @ Cedarock Park
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#1Now
#1Best
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2Weeks
All-In league: Pine TenderA stays with its holder — only its number moves with each week's standings.
Character Sheet
AI-written · FATE styleHigh ConceptThree Decades Among Cedarock's Longleaf
TroubleCompelled to Document Every Bough
Reads Canopy Gaps Like Scripture
Holly Thicket's Patient Cartographer
Prefers Pines to Most Players
A retired park horticulturist who has spent three decades learning the seasonal rhythms of Cedarock's Longleaf stand, now passing that knowledge to league players who show genuine interest in the trees' lifecycle
A weathered leather field journal with pressed pine needles between pages, a small hand-drawn map of the oldest Longleaf cluster, sun-bleached ribbon markers in green and gold, the faint scent of pine resin
Teaches players to read the Longleaf's canopy gaps for strategic advantage while documenting each tree's health across the season, creating a living record of the grove's condition
Season Story
narrated by Flippyadjusts headset Jacob Wade carded a 52 at Cedarock, good for a 945 round rating and second place in his debut. That's 28 points above his 917 baseline—right where a horticulturist's journal wants you: paying attention. He walked in with tag #5 and left having climbed three spots through clean Exchange. Pine TenderA opened itself because he asked about the trees. Thirty years of pressed needles, canopy-gap maps, pine-resin patience—and it decided he wasn't faking. The Cedarock Conservatory's first Survey Week now has a keeper who reads the Longleaf stand like scripture. Whether the grove returns the favor when fairways tighten, that's episode two's problem. checks clipboard Six weeks. Seventy-plus chroniclers. One very particular leather journal with trust issues.
Tag #5, Pine TenderA: born in a retired horticulturist's field journal, pressed needles and all. It has waited three decades for someone to ask about the Longleafs. It will know if you're faking.
Jacob Wade picks up Tag #5, Pine TenderA, and the journal practically opens itself — thirty years of Longleaf notes, pressed needles, a hand-drawn map. He asks about the trees. The tag decides he's real. Episode one begins.
See where Jacob Wade sits in the competition group.Updated after every finalized round
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