IOS #4 @ Rockford, IL--07/07&07/08

[Jon Brakel]

First round scores are up for Sunday. http://www.pdga.com/tournament/tournament_results.php?TournID=6653&year=2007&includeRatings=1#Intermediate

[can't putt]

Thanks, guys and gals, for another well run and very enjoyable tourney.  Having the final scores posted by the time the players get home is sweet.  Maybe soon you can get my scores up before I play. 

So, how many poison ivy reports are there? 

[Jon Brakel]

Final results were up as Bruce started awards. Thanks, I'm glad you had a good time! It usually takes 3-10 days for poison ivy to break out so any reports of poison ivy at this point wouldn't be from Rockford.

[mirth]

I have a patch of something on my right leg, started itching last night before bed. I haven't been anywhere outdoors since 6/24.

[Tom McManus]

I have a serious case of poison ivy. 

[Jon Brakel]

I have a serious case of poison ivy. 

So does Brett. Brett's didn't come from Rockford though. The one thing that I know about poison ivy is that it hasn't been studied much except for by the makers of poison ivy guard products. So, although poison ivy "usually" takes 3-10 days to start breaking out, I have also read that some exposures fall outside that norm.

[Dan Michler]

I have a serious case of poison ivy. 

i have a serious case of sauna sack.

[tree]

I have a serious case of poison ivy. 

What I thought was an allergic rash to raspberry bushes on hole 12 now looks like poison ivy I'm sure it's from Crystal Lake.

[Jon Brakel]

I have a serious case of poison ivy. 

What I thought was an allergic rash to raspberry bushes on hole 12 now looks like poison ivy I'm sure it's from Crystal Lake.

I bet it's from Roselle. I'm pretty sure I saw poison ivy on holes 8 and 9.

[tree]

I totally forgot about Roselle! You are right!

[Dan Michler]

mcmanus probably got it friday night when we were looking for that last drive i threw on 22 before dark.  i told u it was on the edge and yet u jumped in that stuff like it was a hot tub with jessica simpson in it.

[Jon Brakel]

mcmanus probably got it friday night when we were looking for that last drive i threw on 22 before dark.  i told u it was on the edge and yet u jumped in that stuff like it was a hot tub with jessica simpson in it.

After the first time I got a poison ivy rash I played Channahon and threw my drive into arm pit high poison ivy plants. It was during a tournament and I just took the unplayable lie penalty and played on. At the end of the tournament my disc was on the lost and found table so I put it in a plastic bag and took it home and washed it with soap and water.

[Bruce Brakel]

I developed some resistence to poison ivy about the same time I started taking fish oil daily.  There might be a connection since fish oil is secreted through the skin.  Probably the oil on the skin resists the urushiol oil. 

When I get poison ivy, the blisters occur almost always about a week after the exposure.  But, you can get poison ivy off unwashed clothes, a disc golf towel, your dog or cat if they've been in it, so you don't necessary have to have been in live poison ivy recently to get it.

[can't putt]

That fish oil thing is interesting because it's been my experience that resistance to poison ivy decreases with both age and exposure.  Might be something to remember.

Regardless of when current poison ivy rashes were initiated there is no denying that Anna Page is LOADED with it.  Especially the alternate holes on the old course.  Most especially hole 20 where if you didn't hit your line (and I didn't either day) odds were strongly in favor of your disc lying in a patch.  (I'm highly resistant though, so it's all good.  )

[damonshort]

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Walgreen's Vitamin A&D Ointment works wonders. 

[Bruce Brakel]

For those of you who heard about Kelsey and Kira's misadventure on Sunday, they seem to be o.k.  They were wearing their seatbelts.  The driver had minor injuries and the car is not what her parents are going to want to see when they get back from Italy!    

[pickax]

I'm glad to hear they are ok. It's also a good thing Diana didn't hear about it during the round. She would not have been able to concentrate.

[mirth]

I didn't hear anything about their misadventures but I can guess what happened. Glad they're alright!

Dan, I have two words for you: Gold Bond.

[Bruce Brakel]

Yeah, and two more words for me, "Remember the..."   

[mirth]

thats why going home saturday night was clutch