2019 Spring Fling Wrap Up

This year’s Spring Fling filled up quickly with a full field of 95 players split between 8 divisions, with the largest being the Intermediate field (34 players) followed by Advanced (26 players).  Thanks to generous donations by our disc sponsors (Innova, Discraft, Dynamic Discs, Legacy, MVP, & Gateway), all divisions had well over 100% payback.  

Faced with persistent heavy rains throughout the first round, competitors played through challenging conditions for what should have been the easier layout of the two rounds.  A few were able to play well through the rain, with Shane Dehner leading the field with an impressive -9.  The other hot hands belonged to Eric Shanahan and, in the MA2- intermediate division, Matthew Dregidga (shooting a personal best), both with -7.  

During the round, Eric “Shrimp Toast” Long won sponsor Mad Con’s Hole 8 closest to the pin competition, while Pam Vaughn won amongst the women, each taking home some new plastic for their accurate drives.  

The second round gave way to clearing skies and a longer, more challenging layout.  The MA60 division saw Fred Aguero maintain his lead over the field, finishing 11 strokes in front of 2nd place with a combined -5.  MA50 saw a very competitive field topped by Mark Hauser with a cumulative -4, besting 2nd place finisher Alex Mate by a stroke and 3rd place Mike Lamb by two strokes.  

The MA40 division also had a tight field after the first round but saw Quinton Henry pull away in the afternoon with a second round -5 to win the division by 6 strokes. The Women’s division saw Pam Vaughn pull away in the second round to win the division while Kai Barrios shot a consistent +3 both rounds to win the Juniors division. 

The MA3 recreational division saw a burgeoning field of new players closely competing, with David Weltsch winning by a stroke with a combined +6.  The large Intermediate field was a tight competition with only 5 strokes separating the top 10 finishers.  Ryan Covert maintained consistency in the 2nd round to come off the second card and win by a stroke with a combined -4.  

The Advanced division also had its share of drama in the 2nd round with hard charging Jon Yergler and Willie Grenis both shooting -7 down to make their way into 3rd & 4th place, respectively.  But neither could catch 1st place winner Shane Dehner who followed up his -9 first round with a -1 on the more difficult layout.  Giving him a run for his money was Don Burdette who was able to make up a stroke on the 2nd round but would finish just one stroke off the lead with a combined -9 for both rounds. 

I’d be remiss to not thank all our staff and volunteers that were an integral part of setting up and having the event run smoothly.  Mitchell, Tyler, & Chris who kept the shop lines short; Clint and Oscar for helping groups out on the course; EJ, Eric, Mac, & Snapper for coordinating all the day-of logistics and payouts, Joanne and Amplified for setting up lunch, & Jesse Myers for the extensive work behind the scenes for player registration.   

We want to congratulate all the winners and thank all the competitors for braving the tough morning conditions and making another successful Spring Fling here at Morley!

Snapper's Wrap Up - 2018 Spring Fling

This year’s Spring Fling went off as well as any Spring Fling we’ve ever run here. We had 8 different PDGA Amateur categories this year. There was one ace in the tournament. Junior player Kai Barrios skip aced hole 17 for his first ever ace. Fortunately, his mother caught the once in a lifetime magical moment on video. Kai was one happy young man walking around after the tourney with a fist full of dollars from the other players and staff keeping up the age-old tradition of giving an ace recipient a dollar for their efforts.

This year had several first-time winners. Ozzie Fausto won Advanced. He shot a two round cumulative score of -15 to edge out first round leader Charlie Grenis. David Neria survived a three way play off in Intermediate for his first win. Matt Tregidga is so happy to now officially be kicked out of Novice division as he outlasted the 21 player Novice field by a stroke. Quinny Kravitz having shot the best first round of the tournament at -8 earned his first PDGA Masters victory. Eric Ducharme having suffered thru multiple 2nd place finishes topped last year’s winner Hans Degner for his first Grand Masters victory here at Morley. We added a Senior Grandmaster division this year and John Maki the wily local veteran bested first round leader Pete Hembrow who played Morley the first day the course was ever put in way way back in 1977. In the Women’s division Rianne Hamiliton not surprisingly won for her third straight year. And finally, 12 year old Disc Golf phenom Xaelen Nash crushed his field shooting a -5 with 8 birdies in his second round to once again win the Junior Division. Xaelen has set several Junior world distance records as he’s grown up. He birdied both long 5 and hole 6 back to back in the afternoon winds this tourney. His final score was actually one stroke better than the 22 person Intermediate field. Somebody should warn Ricky and Paul. Xaelen’s coming!

This year’s included lunch was provided by my son’s restaurant Amplified Ale Works. It was a real treat for the players who were upgraded from the usual Costco pizza. Our sponsors this year were Innova Disc Golf, Discraft, Dynamic Distribution, Gateway, Legacy and MVP discs. All of whom donated hats and clothing for the free drawing and discs for the player prize packages.

I owe a big thank you to my staff which included my son Alex who will be running this event going forward, my wife Joanne, EJ, Eric (who flew in just to help out with this event), Oscar, Jesse (PDGA data and morleyfield.com updates), and all my regular staff in the shop. A special thank you goes out to Zac Burnside who as a volunteer handles both computer  graphics, art coordination and gets our screenprinting  done as well. Also a special thanks to Chris Dilloway for artwork and general handiman skills in making this event run as smooth as silk for the players. This was my last official PDGA tournament till I retire at the end of this year. I owe a big thanks to all the tournament participants this year who made running this tourney amazingly fun for me as well. I had a blast this year. We have some special juniors coming up. The future looks bright for Disc Golf.

Thanks for the ride…

Z ya

2014 Spring Fling Results

Advanced Men Name Par Round #1 Round #2 Total 1 Oscar Garcia -12 50 52 102 2 Jesse Meyers -7 55 52 107 2 Patrick Paramore -7 54 53 107 4 Albert Zamora -6 51 57 108 5 Garrett Russell -5 54 55 109 5 Aubrey Daniels -5 52 57 109 7 Shaun James -4 57 53 110 7 Greg Stanbro -4 56 54 110 9 Mike Tyberg -3 55 56 111 10 Matt Howard -2 56 56 112 10 Andrew Allen -2 54 58 112 10 Glenn Swanson -2 54 58 112 13 Chad Duckworth -1 58 55 113 13 Mike Jewel -1 55 58 113 13 Derek Dreyer -1 53 60 113 16 Justin Martinez E 56 58 114 16 Chet Morse E 55 59 114 16 Santos Miranda E 54 60 114 16 Mitchell Zunich E 54 60 114 20 Utah McKellips 1 58 57 115 21 Gregory McDonald 2 58 58 116 21 Josh Hesser 2 57 59 116 21 Chad Nichter 2 57 59 116 24 Richard Ewald 3 58 59 117 24 Chris Armacost 3 57 60 117 24 Noel Sanchez 3 51 66 117 27 Tadas Mikuzis 4 57 61 118 28 Chris Parker 5 57 62 119 29 Matt Brody 6 60 60 120 30 Joey Capparilli 8 60 62 122 31 Taylor Mate 9 57 66 123 32 Chris Wymer 16 68 62 130 33 Derrick Rimington 18 64 68 132

Advanced Women Name Par Rd1 Rd2 Total 1 Vanessa Van Dyken 8 63 59 122 2 Allie Robles 16 66 64 130 3 Denise Diaz 26 67 73 140 4 Sarah Openshaw 27 73 68 141 5 Pam Vaughn 30 70 74 144 6 Laura Walsh 31 71 74 145

Advanced Masters Name Par Rd1 Rd2 Total 1 Mario Traba -7 56 51 107 2 Michael Homan -5 52 57 109 3 Braden Coolidge -4 53 57 110 4 Anthony Bassett -2 56 56 112 5 Dan Dantuma 1 59 56 115 5 Heath Weiss 1 56 59 115 7 Kevin Christie 2 57 59 116 7 Chris Calleton 2 55 61 116 9 Eric Ducharml 6 62 58 120 9 Heny Kaos 6 61 59 120 9 Hans Degner 6 57 63 120 12 Jeff Barber 7 58 63 121 13 James Barnes 8 59 63 122 14 Tom Millard 10 62 62 124 14 Alex Mate 10 60 64 124 16 Dwayne Allen 11 65 60 125 17 Brendan Sage 14 62 66 128

Advanced Grandmasters Name Par Rd1 Rd2 Total 1 Glenn Swanson Sr. -5 55 54 109 2 Fred Aguero E 57 57 114 3 Chris Dodds 1 59 56 115 4 John Maki 2 60 56 116 4 Spence Stevens 2 59 57 116 6 Allen Risley 4 56 62 118 7 Ben Farrington 5 58 61 119 7 Jeff Brown 5 57 62 119 9 Todd Murnan 7 58 63 121 10 Christian Cullen 11 61 64 125 11 Dale Ventress 12 61 65 126 12 Jase Arz 19 63 70 133

Intermediate Name Par Rd1 Rd2 Total 1 Bob McGarity -4 52 58 110 2 Glen Kluge -2 56 56 112 3 Garrett Ulrich -1 55 58 113 4 Thomas Matlock 2 57 59 116 5 Chris Ruddell 4 62 56 118 5 Tim Nordeen 4 56 62 118 7 Jason Fitzgerald 6 56 64 120 8 Joji Castillo 7 61 60 121 8 Damon Newman 7 60 61 121 10 Arto Nupponen 9 62 61 123 11 Bobby Martin 11 61 64 125 12 Eric Repp 12 64 62 126 13 Javier Roman 14 64 64 128 13 Payson Vikara 14 62 66 128 15 Connor Wright 15 60 69 129 16 Christopher Romano 24 68 70 138 17 Danny Zwolenski 999 999 DNF

Recreational Par Rd1 Rd2 Total 1 Michael Woodruff 8 63 59 122 1 Zack Fluty 8 60 62 122 3 Jarod la Jeunesse 10 61 63 124 4 Steven Shimmin 12 65 61 126 4 Michael Christensen 12 63 63 126 4 Dawson Nelson 12 61 65 126 7 Daniel Purdy 15 62 67 129 8 Rich Ayers 17 66 65 131 9 Daniel Cruz 21 66 69 135 10 Chris MacMillan 23 67 70 137 11 Kwame E. Welcher 25 66 73 139 12 Mike Ventress 28 73 69 142 13 Jeremy Reynolds 32 71 75 146

2010 Spring Fling Results

Adv.
Place	Name	Rd 1	Rd 2	To Par
1	Jason Rime	48	49	-13
2	Aaron Van matre	54	44	-12
3	Michael Homan	51	48	-11
3	John Ryan	51	48	-11
5	Alex Nichols	52	48	-10
6	Tracy Crowder	57	47	-6
6	Ian Funston	55	49	-6
6	Toby Brenard	52	52	-6
6	William Lister	52	52	-6
6	Benjamin Farris	51	53	-6
11	Josh Damron	54	51	-5
11	Joshua Kettlehake	54	51	-5
11	Adam Cook	53	52	-5
11	Daniel Lichtman	52	53	-5
15	Serban Farkas	52	54	-4
16	Adam Nash	53	54	-3
17	Carl Renda	55	53	-2
17	Evan Taylor	54	54	-2
19	Aubrey Daniels	55	54	-1
19	Randy Wylot	55	54	-1
21	Angel Garcia	55	55	E
21	Mark Hauser	54	56	E
23	AJ Risley	56	55	1
24	Brandon Coates	57	55	2
25	Dale Chambless	56	58	4
26	Mark Hawking	60	56	6
26	Brendan Sage	58	58	6
28	Josh Egbert	61	58	9
29	Mark Verrochi	66	56	12
30	Jack Daniels	58	66	14
31	Ben Rutherford	72	53	15
	Dave Parnell	53	999
Adv. Women
Place	Name	Rd 1	Rd 2	To Par
1	Rianne Short	62	57	9
2	Laurie Stroh	63	70	23
Adv. Masters
Place	Name	Rd 1	Rd 2	To Par
1	Dan Shorkey	56	48	-6
2	Mike Ramos	54	51	-5
3	Christian Cullen	51	55	-4
4	Dave Butcher	56	52	-2
4	Rhett Stroh	54	54	-2
4	Chris Carpenter	53	55	-2
4	Tom Millard	52	56	-2
8	Billy Romhild	57	53	E
8	Jon Berg	56	54	E
10	Allen Risley	60	52	2
11	Mike Kvasnicka	59	55	4
11	Jay Harbin	56	58	4
13	Danny Zwolenski	55	61	6
Adv. Grandmasters
Place	Name	Rd 1	Rd 2	To Par
1	Jeff Graham	50	55	-5
2	Frank Knapp	59	55	4
3	Don Vincent	58	58	6
4	Eric Simmons	58	60	8
5	Ben Farrington	61	58	9
6	Bill Richards	63	59	12
7	Dave Clapp	59	64	13
8	Jeff Brown	69	61	20
9	Kaylan Farrington	67	68	25
Int.
Place	Name	Rd 1	Rd 2	To Par
1	James Lee	52	50	-8
2	Mason Hamilton	54	49	-7
3	Ian Lelis	55	49	-6
4	John Arce	57	48	-5
5	Daniel Winkle	53	53	-4
6	Kevin Cooks	55	53	-2
7	Todd Fletcher	53	57	E
8	Anthony San Fillipo	56	55	1
9	Roger Rector	59	53	2
10	Jeremy Aubol	61	53	4
10	Dustin Sandgren	56	58	4
12	Robert Martin	54	62	6
13	Ryan Villanueva	60	59	9
14	Jon Enyart	63	62	15
15	Scott Hartle	64	62	16
Int. Women
Place	Name	Rd 1	Rd 2	To Par
1	Cari Cox	74	66	30
2	Sophia Martin	73	70	33
3	Rita Nash	75	74	39
4	Christina Scantlin	85	77	52
5	Janice Knapp	95	86	71
Recreational
Place	Name	Rd 1	Rd 2	To Par
1	David Lara	56	55	1
2	RJ DeLaCruz	54	58	2
3	Doug Flaherty	59	55	4
4	Robin Hendrickson	58	57	5
5	Brian Dowling	60	57	7
6	Oscar Garcia	60	58	8
6	Joshua Hesser	59	59	8
8	Tzaddi Morey	61	62	13
9	Michael Hole	74	50	14
10	Indigo Brude	67	58	15
11	Sean Villanueva	62	64	16
12	Mike Moran	60	68	18
13	Paul Vallett	66	63	19
14	Aaron Hagner	67	65	22
15	Ross Anderson	72	71	33
Novice
Place	Name	Rd 1	Rd 2	To Par
1	Tommy Vincent	66	56	12
2	Alex Mate	62	61	13
3	Brent Mars	68	59	17
4	Keith Gregori	71	72	33