Moss Market: Everything Must Go Sideways
adjusts glasses Seven rangers took the White Tees (2024 Redesign) at Buckhorn at Harris Lake County Park on Tuesday, September 29, 2026, and the First Threshold chapter officially gave way to Moss Market, Week 2 of 10. πΈοΈ The seventh body was newcomer Lee Kennedy, up from six players in Week 1. It's a small, sharp fellowship, and I'm glad they showed up. The trading post is open and the swamp corner presumably has a hidden path in it somewhere. I can't confirm anyone found it, and no tag challenges are on the record. The course description does have a fact worth keeping in your pocket: Hole 9 is the toughest hole at Buckhorn, playing +0.83 over par. Mordor with better signage. π²
Two Rangers, One Final-Hole Heist
Devin Drinan won RAE at even par with a 904-rated round, 37 points above his 867 rating and the RAE round of the day. Kennedy finished one stroke back at +1 with an 894. It was a card of sole birdies. Kennedy owned hole 4 (Par 3, 287ft) and led through it, then bogeyed hole 5. Drinan's sole birdie on that Par 5 (673ft) flipped the lead. Kennedy answered with the only birdie on hole 7 (Par 5, 618ft), and Drinan was back in front through hole 8. Then came Drinan's sole birdie on the hardest hole on the course, hole 9 (Par 3, 312ft). Kennedy replied with the only birdie on hole 14 (Par 3, 270ft), and Drinan closed the door with a birdie on hole 18 (Par 3, 301ft) for the outright win. π― Kennedy's debut earned him First Time Player and Series Competitor, his first recorded event in the One Tag to Rule Them All series, and he shot 60 strokes at Buckhorn. These sole-birdie claims are relative to the Whispering Weavers pool.
Party of One Still Finds Trouble
Cameron Collar played RAD alone and still made it interesting. He finished -3 with a 935-rated round, 21 points above his 914 rating, and took RAD round of the day. He had the sole birdie on hole 4 (Par 3, 287ft), hole 8 (Par 3, 276ft), hole 14 (Par 3, 270ft) and hole 18 (Par 3, 301ft), with a three-hole hot streak running through holes 14 to 16. Then hole 17 happened: three over par, and the streak was long gone. π₯ The birdie on 18 was the repair job. Against Week 1 the score is identical at -3, but the round rating slipped from 954 to 935, a drop of 19. Solo division, real emotional range. Those sole birdies count against the Iron Lantern Oath pool.
Tied Up in the Web πΈοΈ
John Shearin and Troy Toler finished RAH tied at +1, and both posted 894-rated rounds that share the division's round of the day. Shearin's three-hole hot streak from holes 5 to 7 opened with the sole birdie on hole 5 (Par 5, 673ft). He led through hole 6 after Toler, holding the lead, bogeyed it. Toler found OB on hole 10 and went two over, which put Shearin back in front through hole 10. Toler answered with a birdie on 11, drilled a 46-foot Circle 2 putt on 12, and played 2 under across the three holes after the OB. π₯ Toler found OB again on hole 17 as Shearin led through it, and the card still ended level. Shearin finished 34 points below his 928 rating and 40 points down from his 934 in Week 1, moving from -1 to +1. Toler finished 22 below his 916, but his +1 is a Buckhorn personal best and one stroke better than Week 1's +2. These sole birdies are relative to the Iron Lantern Oath pool.
Racing Yourself Remains Undefeated
Bradley Bushman won RPA wire-to-wire at -9 with a 997-rated round, the highest-rated round of the event and a Buckhorn personal best. Ten birdies came from a 28-stroke front nine and a bogey-free 22-stroke back nine. He had the sole birdie on hole 2 (Par 4, 609ft) and hole 10 (Par 3, 287ft), with hot streaks on holes 1 to 3 and 10 to 12. π₯ Against Week 1's 973-rated -5 with seven birdies, he's four strokes better and up 24 rating points. There was nobody to chase him again, so he set the pace and beat his own. Sole birdies here are relative to the Iron Lantern Oath pool, and his tag story waits in the tag section.
Progress, Measured in Small Mercies
Brian Taylor finished RAF at +8 with an 822-rated round, took RAF round of the day, and set a Buckhorn personal best. That's four strokes better than Week 1's +12 and 15 rating points above his 807 round. Three birdies included the sole birdie on hole 16 (Par 3, 286ft). The front nine cost 37 strokes (+5), and the back nine came in at 30 (+3), continuing last week's back-nine recovery arc. πΏ The front nine is still filing complaints, but the trend line points the right way. Sole birdies here count against the Whispering Weavers pool.
The Web Keeps Meticulous Records
Lee Kennedy was the only ranger who tracked his round on PDGA Live and earned the Statistician achievement. The other six did not. I'm not naming names, but the receipts are right there for the taking. More tracked rounds mean richer stories, so please track next week. π Personal bests belong to Bushman (-9), Toler (+1) and Taylor (+8). Above-rating swings went to Drinan (+37) and Collar (+21), while Shearin (34 below his 928) and Toler (22 below his 916) had the rough side of the ledger. Bushman's 997 was the top-rated round of the event, with a bogey-free back nine. The sole birdies landed on shared holes across the two pools: hole 4 (Kennedy and Collar), hole 5 (Drinan and Shearin), hole 14 (Kennedy and Collar) and hole 18 (Drinan and Collar). Drinan's sole birdie on hole 9 also lines up with that course-description note about the hardest hole at Buckhorn. Every sole-birdie claim here is pool-relative.
Small Change, Big Course Dreams π₯Ή
This event raised $3.50 through the registration contribution, listed as $3.50 per player and $3.50 total, credited to the league. The Buckhorn at Harris Lake Course Fund sits at $69.30 raised to date, shown as 0%, with no goal figure supplied and $0.00 listed as remaining. π² Small numbers, but they go toward a course everyone here plays. Take a look at the project and chip in if you can.
Bag Tags: Rented, Never Owned
Devin Drinan holds the #1 tag in the Whispering Weavers pool, the Shadowpine Marker, and he played this event. He won RAE at even par, posted the round of the day with a 904, and sealed it with the hole 18 birdie. π·οΈ This pool runs in AllIn mode, a full reshuffle every event, so no tag is safe from one week to the next. The supplied data lists no absentees, challenges, risers or fallers, and it doesn't confirm whether the reshuffle moved the #1 tag. I won't invent a new tag order to fill the gap.
The Precious Stays Put Again
Bradley Bushman earned Still Standing for successfully defending the #1 bag tag for the first time (Milestone I). His wire-to-wire -9 and 997-rated round back it up. checks clipboard The tag data lists only the Weavers pool, so I'm citing the achievement rather than a named pool record. It's the kind of defense that comes with no challengers in sight. The precioussss... I mean, the current standings. π
Next: Vault Raid β Storms, Spiders, and Suspicion π·οΈ
Drinan's 904 came from an 867-rated player, and a final-hole birdie decided RAE by one stroke over debutant Kennedy. That's the thread running into Vault Raid, Week 3 of 10, Tuesday, October 6, 2026, at 12:00 at Buckhorn at Harris Lake County Park. The venue holds steady, but the layout changes to All-Star (2024 Redesign) from this week's White Tees. Kennedy's PDGA Live tracking also promises receipts on whether putts die at the chains. The storyline reads like a teaser: a storm the night before leaves the course damp and slow, discs slide where they should skip, and a new player from the deep tags arrives after secret training. Someone marks a scorecard with a small spider. The plot thickens as the interloper must hold against all comers, and the company wonders whether they are a true threat or a single flash. π·οΈ
Register for Vault Raid and bring waterproof optimism, because nothing says "heist" like raiding a vault inside a county park in the rain.