FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME: A group of us including a recently new player(less than 1 year) went out to Selah Ranch for one day as the groups first time to play the courses. It started as a 12:30am drive to stuck sitting in an overnight chemical spill traffic jam until we finally made it to the ranch at 7am from Austin, Tx. 4.5 hrs turned to a 6.5 hr drive. With an hour and a half nap in the car waiting to play a whole day out at the what clearly seemed like a playground for disc golfers. We got up and began our day. From driving in ATV's disc to disc, tee box to tee box and not having a care in the world about how tired and how much time we had left for the day. The only thing that mattered was to make sure we enjoyed every minute out there. The biggest problem was no matter how beautiful the course was.....water holes were everywhere. Each person lost one casualty to the water for the day....except one person. The newer player of the group who sacrificed 7 discs to Selah Ranch. Despite the loss of multiple discs, once we finished what we thought was the last round for the day, our newbie spoke up before all of us. "So we have time to get the front 9 in at the first course. I'm definitely up for it if you guys are!" My roommate(who was one of the guys that traveled to Selah Ranch with us) turned to look at me with a giant smile on his face. He knew just as well as I did, we got this guy hooked on disc golf. It wasn't because of the trip he became hooked but after losing 7 discs to water holes all day and still wanting to play till the sun goes down......That says something. We finally finished the rounds for the day and got back into the car to journey back to Austin, Tx. We arrived back into town just short of 24hrs from when we left the night before. Each person in that group realized that we just had one of the best 24-hr road trip, disc golf playing, ace running, ATV driving, bonding time ever. All disc golfers want to be great at the sport but what is most important is the kind of love and passion you can still have for the game of disc golf. FOR THE LOVE OF THE GAME.