Morley Field Disc Golf Course

Angel Garcia & PP vs. Micah Dorius & Cristian Cullen go into sudden death after a tie at -15. On hole 5 Micah parks it and takes the win. PP aces hole 10c. Good turn out tonite and see everyone next Wednesday at 5pm.

This year’s Spring Fling featured 7 different Amateur categories. Four descending skill levels of men’s, one woman’s and 2 age protected divisions. This is an annual PDGA sanctioned B tier, SoCal series and DGA series event. Having 95 participants play on a closed course. This year featured two 19 hole rounds of 2 different layouts featuring several pin positions seen only for tournament play.

Dutch from NP Trophy produced perhaps our best looking burl plaques ever for all the winners.

In the men’s Advanced division a north county local Travis Cutler the eventual division winner started off by throwing an ace for his very first throw of the tourney on hole 2 long. Ironically, it was the second ace thrown on that hole in that group as Patrick Paramore throwing two players ahead of him aced the hole first. Amazing. Of note, second place finisher Jason Purdue shot a magnificent  -13 down the first round garnering a 1060 player rating for his efforts.

In the women’s Advanced division Shonda Garcia held a one stroke lead over Allie Robles after the first round and her consistency and solid putting held up in round two as she eventually won by 3 strokes.

The men’s Intermediate division saw a great battle at the top as 3 players ended regulation in a tie for first at -4.  A quiet but determined Daniel Vega was the eventual sudden death victor over Chris Parker and Eddie Arinduque.

The men’s Recreational division lacked drama at the top as Derrick Dreyer crushed the field by 5 strokes but after that only 2 strokes separated next 5 players of a nine person division.

The Novice division was won by local Greg Davis who’s rarely seen as he always plays so early in the morning. Greg’s the Good Samaritan who’s always finding and turning in lost plastic on the course. He finds so many he usually plays free.

The men’s Masters division (age 40 and above) was won by daily local Doug Larhette. Doug led from the outset. Doug carried the weight of being the heavy local favorite well as he never wavered in his quest.

The men’s Grandmaster division provided another great battle for the lead as Jeff Brown beat Christian Cullen in a sudden victory playoff. Always courteous and upbeat this is Jeff Brown’s first ever and well deserved victory in Am Grandmasters.

Lunch this year was provided by a combination of salads from California Kebab and delicious carnitas and roasted chicken street tacos with beans and rice from San Diego Taco Company.

Dale Chambliss (a soon to be dad…congrats Meesh!) won the Skill Shot basket in the giant mondo (ring of fire) after lunch. After 3 players hit the shot  Dale won in a throw off where all 3 contestants went for the shot all missing by 15 feet. Dale won by 1.5 centimeters when we measured the throws.

Perfect weather greeted all the players this year for a change and the free drawing saw a record number of donated items from the various manufactures (Voodoo, DGA, Innova, Discraft, Prodigy, Legacy and  Millennium. Plus So Cal and the SD Aces donated items) given out to the participants. The tourney went off right on time every round and except for a minor pin placement screwup in the second round (holes 2 and 3 next to each other…oops sorry) everything went off without a hitch.

Thanks to all who helped out Mac, Joanne plus everyone on staff from the shop who gave up their day so all the locals could have their day. Till next year…

Z-ya

Advanced MA1

Tyler Tremelling 57406

Shaun James 56831

Matt Howard 46716

Daniel Boe 53503

Fred Aguero

Ben Neely 22216

Jack Daniels 39125

Dale Chambless 41010

Carl Renda 32852

Mike Tyberg 37755

Shane Dehner 39169

Chad Duckworth

Taylor Mate 49145

Jason Purdue 56547

Justin Martinez 49953

Travis Cutler 50619

Chad Nichter 50192

Tom Vincent

Casey Sowa

Greg Stanbro

Patrick Paramore 38001

Edwin Rodriguez 51360

Salvador Brambila 49185

Jason “Jet” Tydingco 56202

Mark Verrochi 41379

Dave Dohr 47985

Mike Xazarian 52016

Intermediate MA2

Chris Parker

Hans Desner

Billy Romhild 11884

Danny Zwolenski 28993

Robert Martin 25847

James Barnes 47955

Joey Capparilli

Eddie Arinduque

Richard Ewald 52674

Chris Wright

Santos Miranda

Daniel Vega

Wes Schneider 45240

Damon Newman

David Brambila

Jason Wolck

Glen Kluge 51365

Michael Olivarez 46530

Cliff Griswold 44347

Recreational MA3

Sean Mantell

Eric Repp 57912

Jack Fluty 58279

Thomas Matlock

Stuart Coleman 916

Novice MA4

Richard Ayers

Gregory Davis

William Schneider 54367

Masters MM1

Jay Harbin

Doug Larhette 50212

Braden Coolidge 50095

Steve Fawcett

Alex Mate 43781

Mark Hauser 13459

Robert Eames

Jeff Nessen 21884

Chris Ganem

Mike Henry

Grandmasters MG1

Jeff Brown 43727

Xian Cullen 28200

Bill Richards 11016

Ben Farrington

Spence Stevess 47078

Jeff Graham

Randy Brown

Don Vincent

Advanced Women FW1

Pam “Iam” Vaughn 54207

Shonda Garcia 46370

Allie Robles

Round 1:	Round 2:
1)C	1)E
2)F	2)B
3)E	3)C
4)A	4)G
5)F	5)B
6)A	6)E
7)A	7)F
8)E	8)B
9)G	9)A
10)C	10)E
11)A	11)F
12)E	12)H
13)D	13)F
14)E	14)A
15)E	15)D
16)D	16)F
17)E	17)F
18)C	18)B
19)C	19)B

Full color Discraft Buzz. Limit two per person. Available soon at the Morley Field Pro Shop.

2012 Southwestern Team Disc Golf Invitational

This year’s team tourney was won by a patchwork but talented San Diego team. Rebounding back from an inglorious 6^th place finish last year this year’s locals rallied from second seed going into the finals the slip past (6.5-5.5) a veteran Santa Cruz team featuring 3 past world champions.  San Diego finished the prelims with a 6-1 record.  Santa Cruz won the round robin prelims with a 6-1 record having beaten San Diego 7-5. Last year’s second place finisher Huntington Beach fell to 3rd and last year’s winner Arizona fell to 4^th. The weatherman’s threat of an impending storm proved false as only the Friday night putting contest saw any perceptible mist at all thankfully.

The event itself is a seven round (12 holes each) match play event. 5 holes are added to our 19 hole layout to make 24 total holes. It pits each team member against a corresponding team member from each different team . So the number one team player plays each number one player from every other team one at a time in a 12 hole “mano e mano” duel. In match play total score doesn’t matter winning the hole is all that counts. If you score a 4 it’s OK as long as your opponent scores a 5. You win the hole and a point. 12 holes equal 12 possible points to be won. A tied hole is a push and points are not carried forward as they are in skins.  So when you see a score such as 10-0 that player actually lost 10 out of 12 holes to their competitor. Unless you’ve experienced it, it’s hard to imagine the humiliation or the exhileration of a severe beat down.

In the finals, as the players were awaiting the final few matches to be reported the San Diego players were suffering a lot of angst as it was rumored that Jeff Nichols and Marty Hapner were tied with just a hole or two left and that his playing partner Greg Olsen had already lost his match. That would have put the teams at a 6-6 tie and Santa Cruz was already ahead on tie breaker individual points. When it was discovered that Jeff had actually pulled out a 1 point win a loud cheer went up throughout the hometown crowd in attendance.

Team Arizona won the “Spirit of the Event” award this year. Team captain Dan Ginnelly’s wife Sue passed away this year. She was a much beloved and respected member of the Frisbee Family. In her memory all the members of Team Arizona wore a memorial T-shirt in her favorite sky blue color. For their extraordinary team spirit they received 3 discs each donated from our generous sponsors Innova Champion discs, Discraft, Disc Golf Association, and Legacy Discs.

Lunch this year was provided by California Kebab and Beer Gardens located in the promenade in PB. Marinated chicken and lamb, hummus, pita bread and several delicious salads greeted the famished horde. This is known as a party tournament to that end we provided the players a free keg of Karl Strauss “Red Trolley” at the tourney hotel in the “family reunion” party room 129. Daniel Lichtman hooked us up and Ian Funston hosted to event.

The putting contest on Friday afternoon was won by Kyle Eckmann #1 player for Huntington Beach. Kyle breezed through all 9 stations hitting the last three on his first of 3 allowed putts. For his magnificent putting display he earned $100. Senior grandmaster Hunt Hyde of Santa Cruz took 2^nd and $75, Legacy Disc owner Steve Rico took 3^rd and $50. Robert McIntee of HB took 4^th and $40 while Master Doug Werner also from Santa Cruz round out the top 5 and received $35.

This was the first year Santa Cruz took home money. Each 2^nd place finisher received $120 and 3 discs per player. All the San Diego players in addition to their custom plaques received $250 each and 3 discs per player. This years player package included a dry fit t-shirt and an embroidered and screened jacket plus 2 mini’s , lunch, all weekend play and free drawing where we gave out over $500 worth of Disc Golf swag to the lucky contestants who’s names were drawn and present.

As always there were a number of last minute changes requiring San Diego fillins. Of special note were Chris Rogers filling in at #6 for San Diego who had a winning record (4-3-1) and big Fred Aguero a last minute addition to the SD Aces team who had the second best record of any senior grand master at 5-1-1.

Once again I’d like to thank our marvelous staff: Jim McDowell, Eric Simmons, his son EJ, Hans Degner, Habib, Oscar Garcia and Ian Funston and Daniel Lichtman. Plus all the guys in the shop who did all the pre tourney prep work;Tyler, Mitch, Dan, Angel, Jon, Jesse, and Chet. Special thanks to Jeff Nichols for loaning us 3 baskets and providing spreadsheet results of the event for the web page.

Till next year Z ya.

Snap