University of Texas grad student and NCDGC Individual Champion Andrew Lowrie. Photo: Dalton Slantis

After shooting two modest rounds Thursday at the National Collegiate Disc Golf Championships, the University of Texas’ Andrew Lowrie was relegated to the fourth card for the event’s Championship Flight Individual Final 9. He was content to try to move up a few places in the standings and maybe break into the top 10, which would qualify him as an All-American, so he talked strategy with a teammate and came up with a plan to keep his approaches safe on the elevated, mounded baskets at the Hippodrome Disc Golf Complex’s Dunipace Dunes course.