Mud Was Promised, Sunshine Was Delivered

adjusts glasses Clear skies, 72.4°F on average, and wind that never topped 6.9 mph: Week 2 of Second Breakfast showed up dry, and nobody told the script. ☀️ Eleven players rolled into Cedar Hills for "Mossy Threshold" on the All-Star layout (Skip 8, Play 13B), more than double last week's rain-soaked five. That's a fellowship worth feeding, and I hope even more of you pull up a chair at the fire next week. The premiere's "First Light" naming quest is over, and this chapter belongs to the Tunnel of Cedars, which the lore insists is now a bog with a secret undergrowth shortcut. The actual forecast ranged from 61.7°F to 83.7°F with zero swamps reported, so file the bog under fiction. The layout also skipped Hole 8, Cedar Hills' certified boss fight at +0.83 over par, which means the Fellowship walked straight past the dragon's lair and still managed to find trouble. The promise for this episode is that performance now sorts the company into ranks, and with tags in AllIn mode, every one of them got reshuffled. 🌲

Finally, Someone To Actually Race

Last week Bradley Bushman won RPA against nobody. This week the field doubled to two, and the margin was one stroke. 🏆 Newcomer Xavier Preudhomme opened with the only Pool A birdie on hole 1 (Par 3, 224ft) and led through hole 6. Bradley answered with a hot streak across holes 7-9 and took back the lead through hole 11. Xavier pushed again with a three-hole heater through 12-14, but Bradley's own run from 13-15 ended with the sole Pool A birdie on hole 15 (Par 3, 317ft), and he held the lead from there. Both players closed with clean back nines, so neither of them gave this one away. Bradley finished at -6 with a 970, the RPA Round of the Day and the exact rating he posted in Week 1. Xavier came in at -5 with a 959, one spot outside a cash line that only paid 1st. That's the kind of debut that makes a defending champion check behind him. 👀

The Promised Setback Showed Up On Schedule

Hole 6 in Pool B is a 496-foot par 4 that played +1.6 on average, and Devin Drinan birdied it. 🔥 He opened with a five-hole par train on 1-5 and stayed clean through the front nine. Then he started collecting the only birdies in his pool: hole 6, hole 7, hole 10, and a clutch one on hole 18 (Par 3, 309ft, playing +0.8 on average) to close out a wire-to-wire RAE win. Devin's -3 earned a 936-rated round, 69 points above his 867 rating and a 50-point jump from his even-par 886 in Week 1. Last week's recap warned that someone who rose would take a setback, and the plot arrived on time for once. Brandon Mayes went from 2nd at +3 with an 850 to +22 with a 648, 207 points below his 855 rating. Cold stretches through holes 3-6 and 10-15 did most of the damage. Some Wednesdays the course just wins, and Brandon has already shown in Week 1 that he can steal birdies off this layout. 🫂

Hot Potato, But Make It A Lead 🥔

RAH saw the lead change hands so often my clipboard needed a second page. Troy Toler pulled even with Cornelius Farmer through hole 6, and he moved in front when Cornelius bogeyed hole 8. Cornelius tied it back up through hole 10 and led through 11. Troy squared it through 13, then bogeyed hole 14 and handed the lead right back. Cornelius led through hole 15, but a cold stretch from 15-17 included an over-par 16, and Troy took over for good. Troy also had an OB on hole 10 and scrambled to limit the damage. He sealed it with the only Pool A birdie on hole 17 (Par 3, 236ft) and finished at -3 with a 936, 20 points above his 916 rating. John Shearin took 2nd at -2 with a 924 after dropping the sole Pool A birdie on hole 18. Cornelius, a first-timer who also carded the only Pool A birdie on hole 3, finished even par with a 901. For a debut, that's a lot of time spent leading. 🎢

Competing Against Last Week's Ghost

Cameron Collar was the only player in RAD, so his real opponent was the Cameron who shot -3 with a 922 in the rain last week. 👻 This week's version won comfortably. He opened with a six-hole par train on 1-6, kept the front nine bogey-free, and carded the only Pool A birdie on hole 16 (Par 3, 295ft). His -5 is a new personal best for this course and layout, and the 959 rating sits 45 points above his 914 player rating. That's two strokes and 37 rating points better than Week 1. Two weeks in, Cameron has the cleanest upward trend in the Fellowship. 📈

The Trees Collected Their Toll

Brian Taylor led RAF through holes 5, 9 and 11, and his front nine was seven strokes better than his back. 🌳 The canopy charged him on the second half, but he steadied with the only Pool B birdie on hole 13 (Par 3, 229ft) and a five-hole par train from 14-18. He finished at +5 with an 844, 36 points above his 808 rating. First-timer Joe Puckett opened with the sole Pool B birdie on hole 1 (Par 3, 224ft), a fine way to introduce yourself to the company. A cold stretch on 4-6 followed, and six straight holes of bogey or worse from 13-18 left him at +14 with a 740, 58 below his 798 rating. Plenty of seasons have started rougher. 🪵

Hot Start, Then The Hills Remembered

em eason had RAG to themself and started like they meant it. ⛰️ They put up back-to-back sole Pool B birdies on hole 2 (Par 3, 311ft) and hole 3 (Par 3, 257ft), the best opening two-hole stretch in their pool. Cedar Hills has a long memory, though. Four straight holes of bogey or worse from 15-18 dragged em to +7, which still earned an 821 and the RAG Round of the Day. The early birdies were real, and so was the finish. Next week's job is keeping the first one and fixing the second. 🌲

Overachievers, Survivors, And One Diligent Scribe ✍️

checks clipboard The rating ledger had big swings in both directions. 📋

• Above rating: Devin Drinan +69, Cameron Collar +45, Brian Taylor +36, Troy Toler +20
• Below rating: Brandon Mayes -207, Joe Puckett -58

Bradley Bushman and Xavier Preudhomme both closed with clean back nines, and Devin and Cameron both kept their front nines clean. Devin's birdie on a hole 6 that averaged +1.6 for his pool is still the stat I'd frame. Welcome to the three first-timers: Cornelius Farmer, Xavier Preudhomme and Joe Puckett. Xavier also earned Statistician as the only player who tracked every throw on PDGA Live, which makes him the one scribe in the Fellowship doing my job for me. Everyone else, log your throws on PDGA Live. More data means better stories, and I'm tired of guessing what happened between the tee and the chains. 🧮

The Hoard Grows, Unclaimed Again 🐉

No aces were recorded, so the chains stayed polite and the dragon kept its gold. Five contributors added $10.00 to the split Super Ace Pot, which grew from $334.00 to $344.00. That's a treasure pile worth guarding, and every week nobody claims it, the next ace gets a little more expensive for the dragon. 💰

Small Coins, Big Hills, Long Road

This week's registration contribution sent $5.50 to the Cedar Hills Course Fund, bringing the total to $207.15. That's 21% of the $1,000.00 goal, with $792.85 to go. 🌲 The hills that keep sending our discs back downhill deserve some love, and every few dollars helps keep this quest's home in good shape. Chip in if you can. 🪙

Total Reshuffle, Same Two Thrones

AllIn mode reshuffles every tag by the standings at every event, which is supposed to make any crown temporary. 🔄 The crowns stayed put anyway. In Pool B, Devin Drinan played and kept the Shadowpine Marker after his wire-to-wire 936. Bradley Bushman earned Still Standing for his first successful #1 defense, backed by another 970. Cornelius Farmer, Xavier Preudhomme and Joe Puckett all entered the One Tag to Rule Them All series this week, and Xavier's debut put him one stroke from the top of RPA. drops announcer voice It's numbered metal on a lanyard. But two defenses in a row is still two defenses, and the rest of the company noticed. 🌲

Somebody Has To Fall Eventually

Two #1s held their thrones this week, and Xavier Preudhomme sits one stroke behind Bradley Bushman. Week 3, "Fallen Herald," is Wednesday, October 7, 2026, back at Cedar Hills but on the Blue layout (Skip 8, Play 13B). According to the lore, a low-tag holder loses their tag on the fog-covered Ridge of Second Sight, the company helps them back up at the Second Breakfast fire, and a mystery from the course's oldest feature waits after that. Both defending champions should read that as a warning. 🌫️

Register here and see whose crown cracks first. glubs deeply The precioussss... I mean, the current standings will be under siege. The script has ordered a herald to fall in thick fog on a sunny Raleigh park course, and I'll believe in the fog when my gills get damp.