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Juneau Disc Golf wraps up tournament season

admin Alaska, Alaska Capital, Juneau, Southeast Alaska 0 Comments October 29, 2022

, 2022-10-27 12:48:39,

Kassie Struble throws her disc (Photo courtesy of Jasz Garrett/KINY)

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) – Sunday was Juneau Disc Golf Club’s last tournament of the year.

It was named “Tombstone Doubles” for it was teams of twos, and people were in costume.

The final tournament took place at the Aant’iyeik course, which is located just past Auke Rec.

Kassie Struble, treasurer of Juneau Disc Golf, talked about how their Halloween tournament went.

“Our club president Joe and then one of our club members Mark won the tournament which was amazing. We got a bunch of candy that we’re donating to the high school football team for their drive-in haunted house fundraiser that they’re doing. The way this tournament worked was you have a partner, and you each get two shots off of the tee. And then you choose the best shot from there and you both get to take a shot from the best drive. And then hopefully, you make it in the basket for a birdie. And if not, then you take the next best shot for your putt, and so on and so forth. And with Tombstone Doubles, you get 54, you get par for the course, which is 54 shots for our course, to get as far as you can. On your 54th shot, both of your discs remain where they lie. And if you’re close to the basket, then you get to have a putt-off with any teams that surpass yours. If they land within 10 pieces of your desk, then you guys get to have a putt-off. And if the team that was on their 54th stroke wins, then they get to move on and take another drive from the next tee pads. It makes the game a little bit continuous, but also really fun and challenging. If your disc is ‘tombstoned’, you get to haunt the other players. So typically in disc golf, if you’re making a putting shot, everybody around would be fairly quiet so that the person could concentrate. When you’re in tombstones and you’re in costume, you get to haunt the other team that is making their putts. We call it putting under pressure. So you get to be like, are you gonna make this putt? So that’s a little bit more difficult if they’re used to playing in a super quiet environment. It breaks your concentration a little bit.”

The Huskies’ haunted drive-through will be October 28th-30th.

Struble said although the tournaments are done for the year, they will be starting a nightly league.

She also…

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Disc News

16th annual Great Land Cup tournament at Aant’iyeik Fields

admin Alaska, Alaska Capital, Juneau, Southeast Alaska 0 Comments August 28, 2022

, 2022-08-28 16:23:33,

Shannon Crossley prepares to throw her disc in the distance-run Saturday. (Photo courtesy of Jasz Garrett/KINY)

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) – Over the weekend, disc golf players competed in three rounds for the Great Land Cup.

Shannon Crossley, the Communications Director for Juneau Disc Golf Club talked about the event.

“We are participating in the 16th annual Great Land cup. It is three rounds and it’s from different tee box locations so it gets a little bit harder and a little bit harder every round. We are doing two rounds Saturday. Then one and a half rounds tomorrow. And then this year because we have so many contestants, this is the biggest turnout we’ve ever had. We had to cap at 45 contestants to play the last nine holes. There’s about 65 contestants here from all over the state and we actually have some people from down south too.”

Crossley talked about refreshments available at the event.

“We have Alaskan Brewing Co. They donated some beer for our participants which is really nice of them. We’re doing this little fundraiser for the club. Also, we have Blumen Dogs over here setting up the hotdog stand which we’re really excited about.”

Crossley also talked about the history of hosting the tournament in Juneau.

“The Juneau Disc Golf club right now is only two years old but there have been people in the community that have tried to start up clubs. So this has been going on with different people running it every year. Some people run it for four years and then hand it off and it’s just been kind of underground for a really long time. But a lot of people from all over the state love coming to this one because there’s nowhere else really like Aant’iyeik. It’s always raining and they love it.”

Matt Stevens, a previous contestant and member of the club, talked about what went into organizing the distance run.

“The long-drive competition I organized, I wanted to find a way to put in a long-drive competition that everyone in the tournament felt comfortable entering. And I finally figured out I could group them by scores. So that I have first, through fourteenth, they’re in a group by themselves playing for the longest drive, and fifteenth through twenty-fourth is in a group by themselves playing for longest drive. All the way down to fifty-fifth through sixty-fourth. They…

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Courses

Treadwell Disc Golf course proposal to be taken up in parks committee

admin Alaska, Alaska Capital, Juneau, Southeast Alaska 0 Comments June 10, 2022

, 2022-06-07 11:08:15,

(Photo courtesy of Shannon Crossley.)

Juneau, Alaska (KINY) – A new beginner disc golf course at the Treadwell trail is in the works in Juneau.

The aim is to build a temporary course to provide beginners easy holes to feel comfortable playing.

“The Treadwell temporary pitch and putt golf course is meant to be kind of a beginner’s golf course so people can throw from pin that is about 100 to 150 feet away, and we call it a pitch and putt because it’s not a full-size golf course, It’s a lot shorter holes,” said Shannon Crossley, the Communication Director for the Juneau Disc Golf Club

Crossley said that it will be temporary to test if a disc golf course and trails can co-exsist.

“We wanted to create a temporary course to test out an idea that disc golf and walking trails can coexist in the same area. We’re hoping to use the trail system to move elderly people and people with strollers and people with mobility problems through the course easier. So when we were looking for a place for a temporary course we were looking for a well-established trail,” she said. “We’ve designed the course so any frisbee is being thrown away from the major walking trails. So it’s still safe but accessible.”

The disc golf club held an on-site public meeting on the proposed course recently, and tonight, they will be attending the Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee’s meeting to present their plan.

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Crossley said after the meeting, they will move to work on the course and have it ready by July.

“After the Parks and Recreation Advisory Committee, we have about 20 to 30 volunteers that are available…

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