PEAK PUTTERS

Danny and I had played a game called 3 ball at the Team Trophy Challenge a few years ago. It was FUN so I decided to see if some of the gang would like to hang out and play out at Juniper Dunes. Here's how 3 ball works:

You place 3 (we used 4) posts similar to baseball tees out in your terrain. . .we chose to perch them precariously on sandy knolls. Then, your passenger has to place a ball on each of the tees without leaving his/her seat. . .after all the balls are placed, the driver has to repeat the course and retrieve all the balls. The clock stops when the last ball is retrieved.

We chose to use 4 Tees in roughly the shape of a baseball diamond. Screamin' Toylet built bases 1-3 and I used a baseball tee for home plate. There would be two winners. Fastest time and time closest to a predetermined time. . .everyone got three timed runs after a practice run.

So we had:

Royboy's Rubicon with Commando14 as codog.
TJ Dave
Danny
Dale
Don and his lovely co-driver
Me and Will rockin' Orville
Screamin' Steve and Dion
Lee and. . .a quiet young man (Nephew?)

and

The Benton County Sheriff's Deputy in a Humvee. . .more on that later.

The early group (Dan, Jose (Jose?), Steve and Me/Will) met up for some burrito action at Roberto's at around 10. We then split up. . .Dan went to the dunes to start scouting, Steve went to grab Dion, while Will and I went and hunted for a dune flag. . .finally found at the Moto-Dealer in Kennewick. The sales dude yanked one off of a quad and sold it to me for $8.

Then we regrouped, set up the course and proceeded to have a BLAST!!

Results:

Fastest Time
Jim/Will/Orville: 1:54.2
Danny and Don: 2:05.9
Steve and Dion: 2:10.6 (Roy did have a 1:58 in the practice round)

Closest to the preset time of 3:00.0:
BC Deputy: 3:05.0 (no joke. He nailed it with Dion in co-dog)
but, he wasn't "official" and just cruised around for the exposure

so

Dale with Dan in the codriver seat: 2:52.5
Lee/codog: 2:51.9
Roy and Dave: 2:50.9

Dale was taking video while David got some pictures. . .I was busy timing/scoring so I didn't get any of my own. I hope they post up. This was as fun to watch as it was to participate in. Also, I'm happy to report, that the club is now $40 less poor. Yeah!!!

So, post up your photos and videos!!!!

Was great fun. Really glad I came out even If I did end up with a flat.

Video is uploading as we speak - but it will be several hours even with creative transcoding. Mattawa internet.....

Videos Up!

Jimmy:

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Roy:

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Danny:

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Lee:

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Steve:

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Dave:

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Don:
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Great fun. I only took a few cell phone pics........................

Sorry I missed it!! Looks like a blast.

Jimmey, that was a kick in the arse! One of the best parts was the sheiff's deputy showing us the proper way to negotiate a closed course with four wheel drive in low traction conditions.
Good times! Maybe we need a three ball run of the month.

Haven't had that much fun since the Winch Fest that Commando, Oddball and I went on a couple years ago. Just have to do this again SOON!!!

Dion and I had a good time as well even though we were a bit under dressed... not crazy under dressed like Dale. Below are a few pictures that I took. Send me a PM if your interested in obtaining full size versions of these pictures.

It was a fun time, I'll get my pics up tomorrow.

3 ball is great fun! Can cost some $$ in carnage as Ive seen at the Jeep Bowl in the past.

Videos are up!

mattawajeep wrote:Videos are up!

The commentary on Lee's run is priceless. . .

OldGreen wrote:

mattawajeep wrote:Videos are up!

The commentary on Lee's run is priceless. . .

"There is some logic... I don't know what it is, but there is some logic."

My fave...

Thought for next time... for this and Juniper runs in general wouldn't it be nice to meet up at Hubby's afterwards; especially when we have more family with us?

Would be great place for awards ceremonies.

Certainly. . .or equivalent. . .

I'm thinking of getting some lighted balls and doing "night 3 ball". . .all kinds of ideas. . .

He also got his video hi-jacked by a quad!

Great work Dale

I'm picturing Peak Putter 3 ball league shirts. A logo something like, "... because bowling only requires one, NASCAR only requires 2, Three Ball Requires 4!"

Is the CrackBerry missing something? Where are the videos Mattawa speaks of?

Roman wrote:Is the CrackBerry missing something? Where are the videos Mattawa speaks of?

Embedded youtube videos in the second post.

Here's a link to my channel if you can't see them on here for some reason.

http://www.youtube.com/user/localfiend#g/u

...a little fun after 3 ball:

This first pic must be an optical illusion....Lee catching some air?...even if it's with one tire? Even the flat looks like it's sticking straight up in the air.

Danny wrote:This first pic must be an optical illusion....Lee catching some air?...even if it's with one tire? Even the flat looks like it's sticking straight up in the air.

It's real. It's not the hi-lift jack, because I think you can see it tucked away nicely on his rear bumper.

Good air Lee! That's a great picture.

I was wanting to go play on some hills after 3-ball, but I ran out of time and had to go.

I ended up with way too many pics to post.. but here are some of the better ones:

This is cool. You guys have inspired our members on trying 3 ball at Beverly after the clean-up.

That would make the cleanup much more fun to attend. There are a few tricks for setting up the coarse to keep it fair and safe. Type of obstacles at the tees and the distance between tees need attention.

Screaming Toylet wrote:That would make the cleanup much more fun to attend. There are a few tricks for setting up the coarse to keep it fair and safe. Type of obstacles at the tees and the distance between tees need attention.

It has been years since I have watch this game. Jeepscum brought this up to our club after seeing your fun. He has been wanting to do a 3 ball for some time now but I guess he never thought about the sand. He was thinking to two classes. One with rigs and the other ATVs. Of course the Peak Putters are welcome to come play too.

See link for clean-up details: http://www.easternwashingtonadventures. ... May-5-2012