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Because this section is free of charge, community events are subject to run based on available space. Religion items are published on the Saturday church page. Email events to [email protected].

TODAY, MARCH 16

ADULT ARTS AND CRAFTS: Let creativity shine to create a cute craft or inspiring art piece from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. at Ruby B. Archie Library auditorium. Ages 18 and up. No fee. Registration is required by calling, 434-799-5195.

FRIDAY, MARCH 17

FAMILY GAME NIGHTS: Relax with family and come out for a fun night of board games, sports and outdoor games at Coates Recreation Center from 5:30 to 7 p.m. No fee. Registration required by calling, 434-799-5150. Sponsored by Parks and Recreation.

SATURDAY, MARCH 18

CARS & COFFEE: Old Dominion Classic Sports Car Club will hold Cars & Coffee from 9 to 11 a.m. at Crema & Vine, 1009 Main St. For more information, call 434-548-9862.

JAPANESE CULTURAL EVENT: George Washington High School Japanese class and club will host the third annual Japan Day free event in the GW auditorium from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. There will be Kendo, Taiko Drumming, a tea ceremony, prizes and more. Register online at https://tinyurl.com/yse2tj2z.

CLASSIC MOVIE CLUB: Enjoy a classic movie with discussion following at the Ruby B. Archie Library auditorium from 11 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. “The Adventure of Robin Hood” (1938) for ages 18 and up. Registration required by calling, 434-799-5195. No fee.

ARCHERY 101 WORKSHOP: Learn the basic safety, anchor points, draw and release, care of equipment and essential safety skills with a USA Archery certified instructor for ages 5 to 17 at Coates Recreation Center from 10:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Cost is $12. Registration required by calling, 434-799-5150.

HOMESTEADING 101: Learn from local homesteaders Ben and Amber Martin at Glenwood Community Center from 10 a.m. to noon. No fee. For ages 5 and up; registration is required a week prior.

MONDAY, MARCH 20

PRESSURE CANNER LID TESTING: Virginia Cooperative Extensive Office, 19783 U.S. 29 South, Suite C, Chatham, will check pressure cooker lid and gauge used for canning at no cost from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. For information, call 434-432-7770.

TUESDAY, MARCH 21

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Supreme 18 brings new challenge to Dynamic Discs Open | Gaz

admin championship, course, eric mccabe, feedback, gold, golf, lot, open, par, player, scott tjachman, sport, tee 0 Comments April 30, 2022

A new championship-level course debuted this year as part of the Dynamic Discs Open.

The Supreme 18 at Jones Park is replaces the previous Jones West, Jones East, and Jones Gold courses.

“Jones Gold — it’s a course, that has definitely had some history, dating back in Emporia as to when I’d been there, I think first time in mid 2000s, 2008, 2009,” said five-time world champion Paul McBeth in a video about the redesign. “But now 2021, I think it is small. I think that’s the biggest thing is where the talent level is now, a lot of the players can throw up and over the trees, not use the course the way that it was originally designed.”

Course designer Eric McCabe heard that concern and met it head on. He agreed with the need to improve and redesign the course after the 2021 DDO.

“We started after the tournament last year and looked at the course,” McCabe said. “We looked at the scores from everybody and decided, you know, if we want to do something next year big, and we’re hosting the world championships, we gotta get a course that’s a little bit more aggressive.”

The gears started turning and McCabe went to work laying out a few different designs. He presented them to Doug Bjerkaas and they discussed which one might work best for Jones Park.

“We ended up going with the one that we have now,” he said. “We started construction and putting in the new baskets around November.”

Supreme 18 brings a number of new challenges for some of the world’s best players, and McCabe said it was a collaborative effort with a number of different parties.

“This couldn’t have been done without a team here in Emporia,” he said. “Our DD crew, Doug Bjerkaas. Keith Krause, and a couple of others that have really helped out with the process. Obviously the city of Emporia, too, for helping out with some of the funding to put some benches in there.”

McCabe said benches may not seem like a big deal, but in the disc golfing world? They are almost a necessity.

“I’ve been playing golf here since the late 90s and I’ve always thought, ‘Why don’t we have benches at our courses?’” he said. “You know, every other course you travel to, that’s a good quality, high-rank course, has benches.”

McCabe said the city’s willingness to assist with the project shows how much it values what disc golf brings to the community.

The course itself is both aesthetically pleasing and a lot more challenging. A limestone island at Hole No. 1 was designed and built by Scott Tjachman. McCabe said Tjachman was able to build the island is a matter of days.

“It was pretty amazing how quickly he got that turned around and we absolutely love it,” he said.

Supreme 18 will again be the featured course during the PDGA World Championships in August, giving players at the DDO a chance to preview what they will be facing. So far, the new course has delivered on its promise to be a challenge.

“A hole one, for the FPO — the female pro open — there was only one birdie on hole one, and it’s pretty crazy. It’s a challenging island hole, which is kinda cool, but scores were all over the place for the women and and the men.”

Another challenge is Hole 16 which has a “pretty big par” for the men. Hole 10 only had one birdie. That honor went to Corey Ellis, a pro from West Virginia.

“A lot of that is the elements,” McCabe said. “A lot of that was the direction of the wind and how strong it was blowing, so that makes things a little bit more challenging when you’re out there trying to score.”

He said that can make it challenging when it comes to design, too, knowing that it can be windy one day and completely still the next.

“There’s a fine line between those two,” he said.

Perhaps the most exciting aspect of the course is that it’s actually two courses in one. Other than the Supreme 18, there is also the Supreme Short. That course is designed for the casual players who make use of the park most of the year.

“It starts at the same hole and the only difference is you don’t play that as an island,” McCabe said. “You can play the Supreme Short course and there will be a course map and tee signs out following the Dynamic Discs Open. You can go out there and kind of get an appreciation for the big, championship-level course, but not have to play it.”

Of course, you can play it if you want to.

“It’s a pretty good challenge,” he added.

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Disc Golf Masters coming to Johnson City in August | Sports

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Eyes of the sports world will be turning to Johnson City when the calendar flips.

The PDGA Pro Masters Disc Golf World Championships are set to begin on Aug. 3 and finish up Aug. 7. The action will be split up between Harmon Hills in Fall Branch, Sugar Hollow in Bristol, Va., and Johnson City’s Winged Deer Park.

“This will be an exciting event that brings together the best players over 40 to our area,” tournament director Tim Barr said. “This will certainly be an exciting event for our area and it will show that there are good courses in the area.

“We’ve got three courses rated inside the top 150 in the world by U-Disc, which is an app that is rated by the players. Harmon Hills was rated in the top 50.”

HOW DID THIS COME ABOUT?

“A lot of the credit goes to Gavin Andrews because he got in contact with the people at PDGA and started looking around for what we had to do to host a major,” Barr said. “A few years ago, when we hosted the women’s event, they really liked the way we did it and we were fortunate enough to win a bid again.”

The event was originally scheduled to be in the area last year, but due to the coronavirus pandemic, was rescheduled for 2021.

“With the shutdown, people were looking for a safe way to get outside and socially distance,” Barr said. “Disc golf is perfect and the popularity just took off. With this big event that’s drawing in players from around the world, this will only help the city corral big events in the future.”

A LOOK AT THE SCHEDULE

All of the festivities actually begin on July 31 with the Divisional Doubles at Harmon Hills.

“What’s pretty cool is that we have a bunch of players coming that are over 70 and those are the people that got the sport started,” Barr said. “Disc golf started in the 1970s, so it’s pretty cool to have some of those people here. We’ve got plenty of former champions coming and it’s certainly going to be an exciting event.”

There will also be several social events and a players banquet on Aug. 2 at the Millennium Centre ballroom.

ECONOMIC IMPACT

One can imagine that players coming in from all around the country and the globe will certainly add to the local economy.

“When we had the women’s event and that was only for three days, we had 156 players,” Barr said. “And I remember someone saying that it added somewhere between $500,000 to $750,000 to the local economy.

“We’ve got people coming in here for this tournament and staying 10 to 11 days. And with well over 100 more than we had the last time, the economic impact could be much greater.”

Currently, there are more than 250 players registered, but Barr expects that number to increase significantly in the coming days.

“Registration is open until July 31 and there are still some spots available in the B Pool,” he said. “We’re still in need of volunteers, though. You don’t have to have any experience at all to help. There’s a link on the website where you can go to sign up.”

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Chain gang’s back: Top disc golf pros return for Waco Annual Charity Open | Local

admin champ, golf, paul mcbeth, player, pro, seth fendley, sport, waco 0 Comments March 10, 2022

Local disc golfers routinely refer to the course at Brazos Park East as “The Beast.” This weekend, dozens of the top players in the world will look to tame that Beast and stuff their pockets with prize money in the process.

The Waco Annual Charity Open returns this weekend, running Friday through Sunday at Brazos Park East. Though the tournament dates back nearly 20 years, this marks the sixth consecutive year it’s been a stop on the Disc Golf Pro Tour (DGPT).

The tour opened its 2022 season last weekend in Las Vegas, and Waco marks the second stop. After a long winter, it’s safe to say the pros are buzzing to get back out there and try to cash in with some chain-tickling putts.

“It’s kind of cool. We start the season in Vegas, and then we come to Waco,” said DGPT operations director Seth Fendley. “That’s bit of a drive, you know? So what we see is some players just opting to start in Waco. So we see that sort of excitement is just as hefty in Waco as it is in Vegas, where we start. To some extent, it’s like a second start.”

Brazos Park East’s course was established in 2003 by local designer Joey Harrell and is generally ranked on any list of the top 10 courses in Texas. That’s part of the appeal of coming to Waco, Fendley said.

“One of the things that we’ve seen is that the sport has advanced. Very much like golf courses have gotten longer and more complex, so has disc golf,” Fendley said. “Even through all those complexities and additions, the Waco course still holds up. … In the planning process for this year we had a unique instance where there were no changes to the course. … We’re saying, ‘You know what? The course is running exactly how we want it be.’ So, that’s one of the big draws.”

Of course, it’s still possible that some of these pros will make the Beast look like a kitten. These guys are the best players in the world for a reason. In 2019, five-time world champion Paul McBeth put together one of the most impressive rounds in the sport’s history when he shot 18-under in the second round in Waco. He tallied 18 birdies, one par and one eagle with no out-of-bounds throws on a course known for its numerous tree-lined tunnel holes. Not surprisingly, McBeth went on to win the Waco Annual Charity Open (WACO) that year.

Yet despite McBeth’s dominance in 2019, WACO has gained a reputation for wide-open competition and final-round flourishes.

“(McBeth) is a stalwart on tour, one of the top pros in the world, so him being able to come out and win is maybe not that earth-shattering,” Fendley said. “Then you turn around in 2020, you have Colten Montgomery win and it’s his first win on Tour, and then last year you had Nikko Locastro win and it was his second win on tour. … Same on the women’s side. We’ve seen a host of different winners on the women’s side, and it just creates a whole lot of excitement to have that sort of parity with the course.”

A full field of the top pros has registered for this year’s tournament, including past champs like McBeth, Montgomery and Locastro and two-time champ Jeremy Koling, as well as other successful pros like Eagle McMahon and Ricky Wysocki. On the women’s side, Texan and five-time world champ Paige Pierce will take aim at her third WACO title against a formidable field that includes past champs Catrina Allen, Evelina Salonen and Kona Panis. The latter is the tournament’s defending champion and she signed the largest sponsorship deal for a women’s player in the sport’s history in January when she inked a four-year, $500,000 deal with Dynamic Discs.

Panis, who has more than 58,000 Instagram followers, figures to generate some large galleries in Waco, along with Pierce, McBeth and pros like Brodie Smith and Simon Lizotte, who have substantial followings on YouTube. Lizotte is a native of Germany and former world record holder for the longest disc golf throw, while Smith is a former American Ultimate Disc League player who joined the pro disc golf tour in 2020, with Waco as his debut event. He’s well-known for his trick shot videos and for appearing on the CBS show “The Amazing Race.”

Fendley said tickets for Saturday’s second round and Sunday’s final round are sold out, but tickets are still available for Friday’s first round.

“It’s just like coming out and spectating any other professional event,” he said. “The excitement is there, the community really supports it, both players and non-players. I think the biggest thing is if you’re interested, be willing to get there early to spectate on Friday, or just watch online.”

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Disc golf provides outlet for community, brings players together | News

admin chad nech, economics, enid, enid disc golf club, golf, golf course, golfer, player, sport, tournament 0 Comments February 20, 2022

ENID, Okla. — Several years ago, Chad Nech was looking for an activity to lead a healthier lifestyle.

He caught the “disc golf bug” in 2016 and began traveling to various disc golf courses throughout Oklahoma and in Kansas and Texas to play in tournaments.

Then, Nech formed Enid Disc Golf Club and became a tournament director for Professional Disc Golf Association so he could organize and run events.

Nine disc golfers competed in the first tournament Nech ran in Enid. There were about 80 players in the most recent tournament.

“I wanted a community, so I built it,” he said. “Disc golf is just this inclusive thing that’s bringing all of these different people from all walks of life together.”

By 2017, EDCG was running tournaments and fundraisers, giving money back to nonprofits in the Enid area and helping fund additional courses and holes, such as the NWOSU-NOC Disc Golf Course and the 18-hole Meadowlake Disc Golf Course.

EDGC has grown in membership, reaching nearly 50 now, with the COVID-19 pandemic leading to an “explosion” in membership.

“(Disc golf) has given us an outlet in a time when we need it,” Nech said. “One thing I started to see — especially in 2020 — is that people just needed a good time.”

The cost to become an EDGC member is $50. Disc golfers who are interested in playing with EDGC get a free “First Flight.”

The 2022 season begins on Feb. 20 and will last for 10 to 11 months, depending on the weather. EDGC offers both sanctioned and non-sanctioned leagues, and players are awarded 1.5 points for every player they tie with or beat.

EDGC’s winter indoor putting league, which started on Jan. 9, will continue from 4-6 p.m. on Feb. 20 and 27 at Enid Axe and costs $5. Mulligans Over Meadowlake will begin at 11 a.m. on March 6 and costs $60 per team, with all of the proceeds benefiting Forgotten Ministries’ Youth Program, The Bridge.

Nech said the support from the community since 2016 has been great, adding he wants to keep seeing the sport grow in popularity, especially targeting youth.

“I definitely want to … focus on the next generation, because we obviously can’t hold the torch forever,” Nech said.

For more information on disc golf or to get involved with EDGC, visit Enid Disc Golf on Facebook or join the EDGC Facebook Group.

More information also can be found at Flight Farm, 1012 Hite Boulevard, which sells discs and other disc golf items and is open from 2-6 p.m. Monday-Saturday.

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