Disc Golf shots burned into your memory.

[smitty]

We all have them. The shots that you will never forget. They have been etched into your memory for ever and you may never get rid of them. I have seen thousands and thousands of disc golf shots. Tonight at league I had another one burned into my brain!

1) One of the shots that is stuck in my head, and I will never forget happened at the USDGC. Emac was playing hole 2 and hit an early tree and was what seemed like miles from the pin. He threw the most epic roller that I maybe have ever seen. Perfect shot down a 50 foot wide gap of grass circled the pin and fell over 5 feet away.

2) Another shot only a few holes later. Hemmi stepped up to hole 6 at the USDGC and crushed a star sidewinder on what was the most perfect anyzer line and the disc ended up 3 feet from the hole on the beach.

3) Took place at Worlds in KC. We were playing the private course, and this dude (don't remember his name) tossed this biggest piece of junk disc I have ever seen. The hole looked like a perfect roller hole, minus the tree that is maybe 50 feet from the basket laying on the ground that they jump horses over. The disc hits the ground, heads left, misses the end of the tree by 2 feet, turns right and parks the unparkable hole.

4) Alexi Bubis is messing around during a rain delay at the KC Wide Open. I am sitting in the pick-up with Emac in the parking lot. Boobs steps up to the hole and crushes an old Roc. I wish I would have got out of the truck and watched, because he smashed chains and aced one of the most coolest holes in Disc Golf.

5) Happened tonight. Playing doubles on a temporary course N. of 9th in Winfield. Jeff Rings partner Bill Burton throws a shot that ends up over the edge of the Walnut River and only a few feet from the water. Jeff had missed the mando and was in serious trouble. They both make their way to Bills disc. Jeff steps up and throws this crazy two finger overhand shot from 40 feet below the level of the basket. There is nothing but trees from the edge of the river to the basket. Jeffs disc comes over the edge of the creek, under the canopy of trees and BANG! Nothing but chains.


Lets hear about some shots.

[Schoen-hopper]

I've never got to witness a really long ace. That would have to be the best. Boobs aced hole 1 on the long position, which is just over 500' and agreeably one of the coolest holes in disc golf. Ben Maass aced a 450'+ hole in the Des Moines challenge. One of the longest holes at Ewing, might have been #13. Elaine King aced a 900' downhill mountain hole?

I don't have the best memory. Sometimes it's the bad shots that stick with me. I was playing the Frontier Open the year where it was blowing 40mph sustained all weekend. I was playing hole 11, alternate pad to original basket, and right into the headwind. I threw what looked like the perfect shot: low, just over the top of the trees, and flat, so the wind couldn't catch an edge, and hard to get past the water. The disc completed its flight right over the basket and just hovered there, and hovered there, and then started coming back to me... fast! It ended up farther away from the hole than the tee pad, but in the trees on the N side of big creek.

Another good shot gone bad at the same tournament. Playing the first temp hole they used to have after hole 12. I think it was "D" at the time. The hole played down the park road with a lot of trees in play. This hole was also playing extremely tough because of the headwind. I had a putt for 3, which was going to be a very good score. The putt hit the basket and started rolling back towards the tee. It rolled for a couple hundred feet and I thought it wouldn't ever stop, but then it did: in the road OB!

I think wooded courses would yield the most incredible shots / stories. One of my favorite holes ever was #14 at Ted's Dread. About 600' long, one had a pinball fairway downhill and turning left through the trees. There was definitely a lane, but you never knew how far your disc would fly before smacking a tree. Several times I saw a disc hit the first tree and a drive went all of 50' which made for some crazy efforts of trying to save a 5. But sometimes, although rarely, a drive would get all the way to the bottom with about a 150' left for an eagle 2! That hole had a long placement which almost justified par 5. That wasn't the only crazy tough hole on that course. I want to play another long, hilly, heavily treed course with water and OB- this course had it all.

[iqbal]

KCWO final nine in 92 or 93, Crazy John was chasing down Climo. They get to hole 18 at Rosedale with the basket in the long position. Crazy pins his drive up against the tennis court fence, Climo was in good position for the easy 3. It looked like it was over for Craze, the chances for him making a par were slim. So he throws a huge spike hyzer that knifed right into the basket. Truly unbelievable, the hometown crowd erupted.

Mike, Elaine's shot skipped off the top. She didn't ace it, nor did she duece it. Ron Russell was the only person to deuce it.

[_dm4]

That shot almost hit Juliana, who was in the group putting out. It was a practice round, I believe. I have the DVD if anyone wants to see it. It's actually pretty cool!

Since Glass Blown Open starts tomorrow, I remember a shot made by Ron Convers in the final nine, at the GBO, that was pretty cool. It was safari hole from just to the right of tee box #2 on the west course to basket #2. They were using the road as a tee box. There was a row of trees (I don't think they are there anymore, but maybe) that were pretty tight right in front of the tee. It was raining pretty hard, but no wind. I remember someone tried to go over the top (Laron Harris maybe?) and someone hit a tree trying to go through (Mike Randolph maybe?) but Ron went through and he parked it! I know he said something like "been throwing that disc for 20 years, I should know what it does by now"! Was cool seeing it go through that small gap and head right to the basket, in the rain!

Kyle da Man Klinger had an interesting ace in Stockton one year. Smitty should tell this story! You won't believe me if I tell it! Nobody ever believes me when I tell this story!

[kscustom]

Um my first ace was pretty cool a huge D with a 20-30 mph wind on 5(short) in norton.

The other day I was playing with Chad a lefty, backwards at norton 30-40 wind. From tee pad 13 to 11 basket, Chad through a hyzer that followed the dyke. Got with in 50. South wind so I went over the top of the trees that run along 12 fairway. My disc went out straight and just kept going out and up out and up out and up. Then it turned and when it did it made a 90 to the basket and it was crusin fast fast fast hit about 20 from 12 tee pad. Not parked but cool none the less.

Another time on hole 13 I saw don and Chad both birdie from outside the dyke. That was cool.

[disclizard]

I remember my Ace shot on 7-22-01 at Mississinewa state park during a tourney "it was a 27 hole course with 8 temp holes mixed in the Permanate layout. I was in a goup of 4 that included Greg a friend of mine and two other guys. The hole was hole D about 210' tunnel shot through a pretty dence woods. It looked like a narrow mowed grassy path just wide enough to back a truck in to drop of a basket. The tree branches hung over the road about 20' up all the way to the green and to the sides were trees ranging about 3 inches to 20 inches around. they cleared all the heavey brush into the woods about 15 feet and each side but cut down NO trees. the green was a clearing at the end of the path with about 30' all the way around the basket . Only two loan trees stood in the green one 5' behind the basket and one to the right front about 5' away. I was third to tee off after the first two both hit trees and ended up with bad lies in the woods but not in the DEEP woods. I threw a red comet as hard as I could with some Anni hoping to fly out along the left side and land some where infront or a liite to the right of the basket if not in. I released the Comet a little early and it flew about 35' before entering into the left side of the woods but not deep. The Comet went about 7' out but was still flying parralell to the path 10' off the ground rising to 15' but not hitting any of the trees it was weaving through. It straitened out and looks like it was going to turn back hyser when it struck a tree that was on the edge of the green clearing. The comet ricochet to the right and banged the chains and droped in the basket. high fives went around and One guy greg gave me a LincolnThat was my first and onely ace at a tourney. I also got the Comet signed buy the other three guys. When they were handing out rewards after the tourneyThey imposed a "club rule" of only first person to Ace gets the ace fund and a club member also hit an ace that day. Being a non club member I didn't get the cash. A good friend of mine Tom Woods who was a club member of the Barking tree frogs, that was the club name, was really disapointed in the call because he said he could not tell who made the first ace because there was lot of groups yelling for awsome shot all day. He was in the group that had the other Ace. After the tourney he has a small gathering at his personal 9 hole course for some relaxing glow golf. While there I saw an asome shot that involved a hanging basket on a rope that wenched 15 feet into the air. after every one has holed out you crank the wench to lower the basket and retrieve your discs and then raise it back up for next time. The shot was only 150' but it was a slight valley shot with two big Bushy Pines in the middle side by side. Tom threw an eagle with hyser around the trees It disapeared behind the one on the right and looked like it was going to be short and to the right as it came into veiw between the tops of the tree that are in the center of the valley that was only 20 feet deep, it did look as if it was going to be short. it struck the gound and took the most wierd skip bounce I have ever seen . I looked as if it went almost strait up as it flew into the hanging basket. High fives went around agian and I gave Tom the very same $5 bill I got earlyer that day.Be fore i left he let me pick out a mini from his mini basket filled with more than 100 minis . The one I picked is one of the first mini's I have that made me start to collect them . It is a Yellow discraft driver mini With a rainbow hot stamp of a Dog head with a cool hat on his head pulled down over his eyes. He signed the back with "Nice ace #B T.Woods 7-2-01 OOps late for the "Worlds". He was leaving that night for the airport to go to the AM worlds in Minn. He took 12th that year. Thats my story and I am sticking to it..... WTF...LAS

[discscout]

Lynn and Kelly were returning to KC from their honeymoon and stopped by McPherson to play the tourney. Kelly is in my group and throws an OB into the road on a really short hole. A car comes by a little later, runs over the edge, stands it up and the strong north wind walks it all the way to the basket for a drop in duece.