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Ritzkes/Vaughan splash to victory at wet Patty Putts Easter Eggstravaganza

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By Patty Putts for Mangy Coyote Media The Easter Bunny was busy hiding eggs throughout Riverside that aided in the disc golf action, each prize containing a mulligan for use at the Inaugural Patty Putts Easter Eggstravaganza on April 8 in Swift Current. The teams were out shooting low despite warm, breezy afternoon conditions that produced wet footing at Riverside Park as the 2023 winter snowpack dissipated. Coming out on top of the field, we had Isaac Ritskes and Mathew Vaughan shooting a solid -11, edging out Team Deadly Arlen Nickel and Jeri-Ann Brownbridge who shot a -9. They were followed by Dustin Usher and his son, tied with the threesome of Patty Putts, Caleb Laverdiere and Brady Seib. Both teams shot -8. Everyone found some eggs and spent their mulligans how they deemed fit, but no one made a mulligan more worth it then tournament host, Patty Putts. Standing on Hole 13 not happy with where his Champ Rhyno landed, Patty declared his team was using a mulligan egg. He reached for...
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Hyzer Nation on the Reservation: The McKays

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Originally published at Acerunners.ca . A father’s words cut deep when competition with his son gets, well, competitive. In the summer of 2018, Balcarre, Sask.’s Ian McKay used some dark psychology to defeat his adult son Gage in a game of ball golf. Cousin Nicholas Leclerc, who was also playing that day, suggested they try a game of disc golf.   “I was losing (the ball golf game) and started trash talking Gage which got into his head,” the McKay patriarch said. “I ended up coming back and winning. Gage was still mad when we got back to the car, so Nick suggested we should try disc golf to break the tension. We played a nine-hole pitch and putt, and I was hooked.”   Five years later, the McKays have collected a provincial championship, more than a dozen podium finishes and are two-time  World Bush Disc Golf Championship of the Universe  doubles title holders. They also constructed a course on their home reserve of  Peepeekisis Cree Nation .   Called  “...
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Team Deadly annihilates at challenging Ted Bowes Memorial Ice Bowl

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Team Deadly, Saskatchewan’s disc golf power couple, is beginning to live up to their name. The Deadly duo out-tossed the field at the 2023 Ted Bowes Memorial Charity Ice Bowl. (Murray Disc Golf, Watrous, SK). Arlen Nickel shot 49 in deep, snowpack conditions to edge Adam Bolig by one stroke. Meanwhile Jeri-Ann Brownbridge - the second and better looking half of Team Deadly - scored 59 to win the Women’s Division by two strokes over Wendy Chapman. Third place winners were Trevor Radchenko in the General Division and Shawna Alysia in the Women’s Division. - Mangy Coyote Media
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Prairie Arctic disc golf: The Hardy Walk Among Us

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Originally published at Acerunners.ca . The hardy walk among us, their smiling faces in ours only to be recognized in the harshest of conditions. Some say they are crazy, but those who know the secrets of playing disc golf in the dark, depths of a Saskatchewan winter understand each other as if members of an exclusive club of dedicated survivalists. The sport of disc golf is exploding across Canada, particularly in the Prairie provinces where the playing season is purely dependent on Mother Nature’s whim. In Moose Jaw, Sask., a small group of weather-beaten players will not be stopped regardless of Her temperament. About a dozen players, most of them in their 30s and 40s, have vowed to play a few rounds of golf every week of the year, including the torturously frigid months of November through March. They call themselves the Moose Jaw Huckers and they have proven to be among the hardest-core disc golfers on the windswept, snow-packed Arctic Prairie landscape. “We’ve played winter golf ...
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Melville OKDS Frozen Chains closes with McKay trio on top

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  Winners of the 2023 Melville OKDS Frozen Chains Putting League included (left to right) Nolan Schlecter, Tammy McKay, Gage McKay, Dan Coomber and Calla Coomber. Gage took home the basket for highest overall score in six weeks of play. The sun has set on the inaugural OKDS Frozen Chains Melville Disc Golf Putting League with one family dominating the final 2023 standings. The McKays from Peepeekisis First Nation claimed the top two spots in the Open Division and first place in the Women’s Division through six weeks of play at Miller School in Melville. Gage McKay claimed first in Open and first overall with a final score of 450 points over his best four rounds. His father Ian was second with 375, while Melville league director Reed Wishnevetski claimed third with 364. Overall, Melville finished seventh in the OKDS Frozen Chains circuit, which includes leagues in British Columbia, Alberta and Saskatchewan. Melville’s 21 players finished with a club average of 51.4 per cent putts-m...
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Heimburg, Allen both score second Las Vegas Challenge titles

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  As Catrina Allen paced herself through the final round of FPO division play at the Las Vegas Challenge on Sunday, Calvin Heimburg and Kevin Jones took the MPO division to the tournament’s final hole at Wildhorse DGC in Henderson, NV. Jones came into the final round of the tournament with a two stroke advantage over Anthony Barela. While the former played solid golf through the front to hold that differential on the field most of the round, the latter struggled through the back nine of the final 18. Barela could not find the disc for swirling winds that encompassed the region the previous few days as well. He ultimately slid to eighth at minus-25. But Calvin Heimburg snuck up five spots on Saturday to challenge Jones for the championship on Hole 16 of Round 4. After both parring the 17th, Heimburg smoked his drive over the water on the par 4 18th to just hold in-bounds by inches, Jones’s effort was low and forced down by the wind. He ended up wet and out-of-bounds. After a clean a...
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DGPT Rundown: Las Vegas Challenge by Innova: MPO Round 2

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  Barela, Jones, McMahan take charge on LVC’s Day 2 Yesterday’s co-leader Anthony Barela set the pace in Round 2 of the Las Vegas Challenge presented by Innova on Friday. With weather conditions still cool but calmer than the previous day in Henderson, NV, Barela shared the hot round of the day with a minus-12, spiking him to the top of the leaderboard at minus-20. The six-year pro relied on long, accurate drives to overcome some putting hiccups within 30 feet. The short-misses didn’t seem to cost him, as he played bogey free golf. Meanwhile, Kevin Jones maintained his hold on second place, putting together a round of minus-10, leaving him at minus-17. Jones signed a scorecard free of bogey blemishes, as did Eagle McMahan, who also took hot round honours with a minus-12 on the day. He now sits third alongside yesterday’s co-leader Scott Withers. They are followed by Andrew Marwede at minus-14, while Calvin Heimberg and Luke Samson are seven strokes of the pace at minus-13. Canadian...
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