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

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  “Sasquatch Alley,”  it’s a nine-hol