California State Championships this weekend!
The California State Flying Disc Championships will be held this weekend - Saturday, Sept. 17 and Sunday, Sept. 18 – at Kit Carson Park in Escondido. The focal activity of the weekend will be three rounds of disc golf played on the extended layout at Kit Carson. Two rounds of golf will be played Saturday, with the first round teeing off at 8am (7:30am players meeting) and the second round teeing off at 1:30pm. All day long players will be competing in some of the other events, including accuracy, putting, a flying disc skills contest and a hole-in-one contest. A Freestyle Frisbee demonstration will be held at lunchtime for your entertainment, and we also hope to have one or more of San Diego’s popular food trucks on hand to sell lunch.
Sunday’s round of golf tees off at 9am, followed by a Double Disc Court demonstration, Freestyle contest, hole-in-one contest finals ($250 payout) and awards. Players can register to play just golf, or for an additional fee also compete for the Overall Frisbee Champion title. Players and spectators can also compete in any of the non-disc golf events for a small fee per event. Come out and play, or support your favorite player!
New Course Preview!!!
The bad news? No doubles at Kit Carson this Saturday because of a cross-country race.
The good news? Aces board member Mark Verrochi has put together a field trip for Aces members to the new Olive Glen Disc Golf Course at Sycuan Golf and Tennis Resort! This Saturday (9/10/2011) at 10am, Sycuan will open up their new 9-hole course for a mini-tournament put together by the Aces. A $5 entry fee gets you an 18-hole look at the new course (maybe 9 short tees/9 long tees?), with prizes for the best 3 scores. And I wouldn’t bet against there being a bagtag melee as well…
The Olive Glen course is set, as you might guess, in the middle of an old olive grove. The holes are shortish, as the course was set up for kid’s camps and recreational disc golf by resort guests, but word from a few Aces who have had an early look is that it rewards accurate, straight shots down the rows of trees and punishes wild, errant olive-harvesting shots. The course is pay-to-play, with registration being handled at the golf pro shop: 3007 Dehesa Road, El Cajon, Ca 92019, phone 619.444.2128 for more info. Join us 10am Saturday for the unveiling of more San Diego baskets!
California State Flying Disc Championships – Coming Very Soon!!!
Kit Carson Park will host the second annual California State Flying Disc Championships on Saturday and Sunday, September 17th and 18th 2011. This is a So Cal and PDGA sanctioned event and will be three rounds of golf from the long tee pads at Kit Carson Park Disc Golf Course. In addition to disc golf, the event will have accuracy, putting contest, skills contest, freestyle and DDC.
Tournament Directors Randy Wylot and Mark Verrochi are planning an event that is very player-friendly, using the long golf layout that was a big hit for the Spring Fling, and bringing back the other Frisbee events that added spice to last year’s tournament. Tournament Central will be near the Kit Carson practice baskets, and the extra events will be held in that vicinity to make participation and spectating as easy as possible.
Online registration is available at DiscGolfU.com – check out the links to DGU and the tournament flyer on the right sidebar of this page. See you there!
More Trees at Montiel Park?
The City of San Marcos is applying for a grant that would (among other things) pay for the addition of irrigation lines and landscaping at Montiel Park in San Marcos. If you’ve played Montiel, you would probably agree that more trees and landscaping would improve the park and the disc golf course.
If you’d like to help make this happen, please send an e-mail to the San Diego Aces Course Representative for Montiel Park, Allen Risley @ rizbee@teamrizbee.com. Your e-mail should describe your use of the park and your support for the addition of irrigation lines, landscaping and erosion control measures for Montiel Park. All of the e-mails received from disc golfers will be collected and forwarded to the Director of Community Services, Craig Sargeant-Beach. Thanks for your help!
Oceanside Open this Sunday @ Goat Hill
Time is running out to register for the Oceanside Open, a multi-format disc golf tournament to be held Sunday, August 7 at Goat Hill golf course in Oceanside. The tournament, hosted by Kinetic Disc Golf, is being held to support the introduction of disc golf to the Oceanside Boys and Girls Club. If you’ve played Goat Hill before and wondered about the stuffed animals zip-tied to the fence near the 8th tee, that’s where the Boys and Girls Club is. These kids could use some discs and portable baskets!!
Sunday’s tournament has two different format tracks: a 2-round singles tournament using traditional divisions, and a 1-round recreational doubles tournament, in between the 2-rounder. T.J. Cruz and Courtney McSherry, the owners of Kinetic Disc Golf, have a variety of other side events (speed putting, longest drive, ring of fire) to keep players busy (and winning). Lunch is included in your entry, along with greens fees and cart. You can register online until Saturday at DiscGolfU.com. There is a flyer with more details and tee times located here.
Help support the Boys & Girls club of Oceanside !
Big Turnout for Aces Member BBQ
Mark Verrochi sorts the rainbow of tags
Over seventy San Diego Aces members took part in the Member Appreciation BBQ this past Saturday at Kit Carson Park (July 16, 2011), which made it the highest-attended club event ever. The day started out with a work party, where volunteers moved baskets, cleared brush along the fairways, trimmed low-hanging tree branches and picked up hundreds…no thousands…of cigarette butts.
After the work party 66 players assembled for the giant bagtag melee. Kit Carson Course Rep Mark Verrochi took on the gargantuan task of collecting names and bagtags, and then redistributing them in order them afterwards. The top round of the day was a 44 carded by Max Nichols, followed by luke Christiansen with a 46. Max and Luke walked away wityh bagtags #7 and #9 respectively. Luke also had the biggest climb of the day, jumping from bagtag #406 up to #9, a move up of 397 spots. Jamie Tuckey (tag #16) fired a 48, followed by 49s from Jeff Nichols (tag 30), Dale Chambless (33), Aaron Van Matre (35) and Alex Nichols (36). Full results can be found here.
Perhaps the highlight of the day was the free pulled-pork lunch provided by Aces Club President Ryan Meyer. Ryan served up 50 lbs of BBQ-ed goodness to the membership, which all quickly disappeared. For once, no complaints were heard from the assembled disc golfers.
The event was rounded off with a prize raffle for all participants, and a series of several rings-of-fire which went on until there were no more prizes to give. Many thanks to those who attended and helped out. The big question: when can we do this again!?!
San Diego Aces 2011 Membership Appreciation BBQ
Aces Members,
Summer is finally here and its time for some fun in the sun. Your Board of Directors would like to invite ALL Aces members to our first ever Membership Appreciation BBQ! This event is for MEMBERS ONLY; so only bring friends that are currently members or plan to join at the event.
Saturday July 16th at Kit Carson Park DGC – (Near Practice Baskets)
7am to 9am -Early Bird Work Party
9am to 3pm – Bag Tag, Lunch, Games
We will be serving a FREE lunch to ALL Aces Members!
Menu:
Pulled Pork sandwiches, water and Gatorade.
Schedule:
ALL Day – Memberships will be available
7am – Work Party - (Raffle tickets given to volunteers for Shwag provided by Kinetic Disc Golf)
9am – Bagtag Challenge
12:00pm to 1:30pm – Lunch
1:30pm to 3:00 – Ring of Fire, Putting Contests, Etc.
All your Board Members will be in attendance, so come on down and meet the team that is working to bring more courses to San Diego.
2011 Club President,
Ryan Meyer
The Challenge @ Goat Hill – 1 Week Away!!
There’s one week to go before The Challenge @ Goat Hill, a 2-round, 36 hole PDGA-sanctioned tournament being held July 3rd at Center City Golf Course in Oceanside, CA. Work is being done on the course right now to install 15 new basket positions and new rubber tee pads for short tees. You can sign up for the tournament online at http://www.discgolfunited.com/disc-golf-tournaments/tournament-dashboard.cfm/tourn_id/213
Angel Garcia represents at Am Nationals
Each June, top amateur disc golfers from around the U.S. converge on Milford, Michigan with their eyes on a big prize – the U.S. Amateur Disc Golf Championship. ”Am Nats”, the name given to the event by players, is quite a tournament to win, because it means you have conquered “The Tobbogan”, an 8,824 ft., par-62 monster of a course that many call the best in the world. This year’s winner was Ben Calloway, from Davenport Iowa – a solid player who finished 4th earlier this year at the Bowling Green Amateur mega-tournment. Calloway fired two 1,000+ and a 999-rated round to win by 2 strokes over a field of 155 other golfers.
But the big news for San Diego disc golf fans is the performance of Aces member Angel Garcia, whose final-round 56 equaled the hot round of the tournament, and moved him up to 4th place, finishing just four shots behind Calloway. Angel’s 56 allowed him to pass 10 players on the final day of the tournament – no small feat. And that’s after moving up from a tie for 23rd place after the first round. Angel adds this great performance to the list of other top finishes he has had this year – winning the Advanced Amateur division at The Memorial in Phoenix and the Green Valley Open in Yucaipa. Angel is sure to return to San Diego with lots of Discraft Schwag (Discraft is the main sponsor of Am Nats).
Following Angel’s example of charging up the leaderboard, Aces member A.J. Risley also finished strong with a 1002-rated 59, which moved him up 36 spots to 32nd place. A.J. was 93rd after the 1st round and 68th after the second round, but was able to finish “in the cash”. Along with fellow Aces Carl Renda and Dale Chambless, he’s now driving home before hitting the road again for the Beaver State Fling in Oregon.
