2007 Spring Fling
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For the 3rd year running the Spring Fling sold out over a month in advance. The 95 entrants came from as far away as Las Vegas, Palm Desert and Ventura. In the end locals prevailed in all divisions of this SoCal series PDGA “B” tier event. The players won over $4000 in prizes. We paid out to 39 of the 95 players(41%) in 8 different categories. In addition to the prizes won we gave out another 30 prizes in the free drawing running the gamut from shirts, hats and windbreakers to vintage World championship videos. All the players were fed lunch of Pizza, fruit and salad and each was given a Lightning #2 Hyser disc, and Innova mini, a cup cozy and a tourney T-shirt for their entry fees. Playing conditions were nearly perfect. Light breezes and mid 60’s with a slight overcast in the early morning burned off to reveal a perfect day. Mirroring the gorgeous weather there were 3 perfect shots on the day. Roger Wing in his first ever PDGA tourney aced hole 14 with a horkin’ hyser. Richard Hockaday got the rare skip ace on hole 10 and our tourney Advanced winner William Lister aced hole 18 with another booming hyser shot. After lunch our local course champion Micah Dorius was gracious enough to host a clinic on putting for all the players. After which we had a “mondo” CTP for everyone. Josh Egbert won an Innova Skillshot basket for his $1 “mondo” fee. The tourney is two rounds on a rare closed course here at Morley Field. The first round was a normal 19 hole layout but for round 2 we combined holes 1 and 2 to make one difficult hole including a tunnel mando for the players to deal with. We also combined holes 3 and 4 to make one long hole there as well forming a 17 hole course for round 2. We also switched up all the other holes to new pin placements so the players could experience 2 unique courses for this event. Each division was contested hotly. Chris Mason in the Advanced leader group thought his pressure packed 25 footer on his final hole in front of the crowd was for the win over first round leader Alex Torriente. Only to find out later that stealth bomber William Lister scorched the course with a tournament best 43 coming from the second pad and to win the tourney. William won a $400 portable Mach III donated by the DGA for his efforts. In the Intermediate division Brandon Langston overcame a one-stroke deficit to win by 2 strokes over Josh Egbert. He received an Mach lite portable basket along with a new Innova competition bag full of discs. In the Novice division Sean Wilburn a last minute wait list entrant went wire to wire to win by a single stroke over late charging Chris Bucklund. The Women’s Advanced had Allison Wylot cruising to a comfortable 4 stroke victory over local Brittany Breed. While Fia Hedberg slipped by Rita Nash in the Intermediate Women’s division. The Am master division always a hotly contested division here saw Mike Kvasnicka win his first major here at Morley over a trifecta of challengers all 2 strokes back. Mike won an Innova skillshot basket and some discs. We had 3 Juniors this year. Tim Thomas the oldest at 15 bested his younger brother and 2nd place finisher Matthew Miranda. All the Juniors were awarded prizes. Finally, in the Grandmaster division the only out of town player to overcome a local Ben Farrington outlasted the always upbeat local Alan Burke by a 2 stroke margin. We’d like to thank our sponsors DGA, Innova, Discraft, Lightning and Millennium Disc Companies. Also Keith Gregori, Dudek Engineering, Palm Desert Disc Golf Club, Mark Madden Construction and Billy Richards. Without their generous support the payouts at this tourney wouldn’t be what they are. Also like to thank staff…Mac, Kent , Donny, D2, D-Nice, Don and Tommy. Also my shop staff helped a ton…Aaron, Roger, Dan, Mitch, Josh, Brandon and Steve. |
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