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

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 ...

  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...