Nikko Locastro is in town to defend his title at the Otter Open in Monterey, and decided to get here a week early to practice the courses that'll be played at the 2011 Pro Worlds. I played some holes at DeLaveaga with him on Friday to get some action footage while interviewing him for the upcoming TV show Discmasters.
I've heard that Nikko is a workhorse before, and Friday I got to see it for myself. On each hole he threw as many drives as the flow of play would allow, along with multiple putts. That pattern culminated with at the Top of the World, where he emptied his bag trying to ace the basket in its mega-short position. Ironically, his very last shot is the one that hit the cage- and I think we did catch it on film.
He seems to me to be a decent enough guy, and more mature and focused than I was at his age. We're supposed to play a full round at Black Mouse and talk some more next week, and I'm looking forward to it. It's a funky tight little wooded course with all kinds of blind shots that you gotta play to learn the lines. Maybe, just maybe . . . either way, I look forward to learning more about what makes this rising star in the disc golf world tick.
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