The third annual Fear and Trembling tournament will be held at the Avenue Café on Wednesday, October 24, 2018. For the second year this will take the form of an objective-based pingolf tournament. Fear and Trembling is the tournament where, as Kierkegaard said, “anxiety is the dizziness of freedom” and we make our choices in fear and trembling.
In an objective-based pingolf tournament, you are given some objective (for instance, “light extra ball through the Gangway awards”) and are scored according to how quickly you complete the objective. If you complete it in 1 ball, you are scored one stroke. The games will be set to 3 balls and anyone who does not make an objective in 3 balls will be scored 4.
The unique twist of Fear and Trembling is that you have a choice of two objectives on each game, an “A” and “B” objective. Both are intended to be approximately equally hard, but your opinion on that may differ. You must choose, before you begin play, which objective you are shooting for. If you choose the A objective and accidentally finish the B objective? Too bad! It doesn’t count and you have to keep shooting for the one you chose.
Players may start anytime after 5 pm, but the cutoff for beginning the course will be 7 pm. The cost will be $10. $9 will go to the Capital Area Humane Society and $1 to the IFPA for our endorsement fee. This will be a WPPR-eligible tournament and best of all, there will be custom-made spooky trophies.