Jonathan Baldwin

What a week it was, truly one I will never forget. Though I was playing very well for me, and in the lead or near the lead for the majority of the tournament, until this putt dropped, I was never expecting this was going to happen. I was very confident that if I continued to play as I was, I could do well, but just thinking about the possibility of winning a world title was unnerving, so I just tried to never look any farther ahead than my next shot. It turned out to be a great way to be fully absorbed in the moment, and allowed me to flow in a very intuitive, confident way. Definitely a factor in my tournament success. Another key factor was being in the right place at the right time.

I felt very forutunate that the worlds came to my back yard, mostly riding on the shoulders of a very enthusiastic disc golf promoter and my friend, Tom Schot. His energy and enthusiasm are what made this tournament happen. For those things, I will always be grateful to him for having the opportunity to be a part of the epic event that it turned out to be.

I was blessed to have the priviledge to contend for the World Championships on the very courses where I learned to play the game. Delaveaga in Santa Cruz, CSUMB in Seaside, and two relative new comers to the Monterey Bay area disc golf scene, Ryan Ranch in the Del Rey Oaks area of Monterey and Pinto Lake Championship Disc Golf couse in Watsonville. I had played Delaveaga since 2000 or so, it was the first permanent disc golf course I had ever seen, and I have been a steady user of the park ever since. Not long after that I began playing tournaments and the CSUMB Otter Open at the Cypress course was one of my first few tournaments, so I knew that course as well.