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Number for scores look at people look at Stats it’s totally up to you well probably otherwise I got my phone easier I’m sure bigger computer yeah I got you Okayed while defending her title and becoming a two time w annual charity open champion Prist Oh Oh Oh [Applause] good morning disc golf fans and welcome to the state capital of Texas Austin Texas for the 2024 open at Austin presented by flight Factory discs Brian erhart Nate Perkins here Tournament Central time yet again as we await the tea off of our feature cards for the fo
Division Nate you are an Austin local you love the City of Austin you love the dis Golf Community here in Austin y bring us in well Brian I mean you you saw it on the intro right there we we got cowboy hats and frisbees I mean Austin loves disc goof we’re in the
Capital of Texas Texas loves disc goof they have the most tournaments every year they have the most active PDGA members and we’re in the heart of it central Texas Corridor we’ve got Dallas Fort Worth to the north we’ve got Austin Texas and we’ve got Houston Texas to the
East that little triangle right there makes up the majority of active PDGA members Austin has 50 courses within a 25 mile radius and you got even more if you go outside the city limits it’s had courses since the late 198s it’s got the iconic Zilker Park bran the downtown
Disc golf course that at one point was the second most dis golf blade course in the world only behind I believe it was Morley Field that year out in San Diego but people come here and they they they show up with their you know their starter packs it’s that kind of place
The zoker park this golf course and we’re looking at a few Scenic sites around the area that’s the pennybacker bridge overlooking the Colorado River of course we’ve got the famous dirty six right now and we’ve got South by Southwest happening right now in downtown Austin Bryan the biggest music
And Film Festival in the entire world 250,000 people travel to this state capital for this Festival we happen to be here at the same time and right now we’re blessed with some good weather we’ve got some gnarly stuff on the horizon some potential hail and thunder
Later in the afternoon but we zoom in on the fo scores right now and it’s a beautiful Bluebird Sky day Brian we are at the Harvey penck Golf campus and Nate we have to talk about this you know you hear golf course and a lot of fans of
Disc golf say oh boy here we go again but Nate this is a unique relationship talk about what the tour has been able to do here yeah well it’s uh Neil D’s team they’ve had the open running since 2014 14 they used to have it in Woodville they had it in belon they
Heard that the tour was headed to Austin they wanted to be a part of it he had a good relationship with the Harvey pinnick owner and they’ve been able to do a lot of workout here specifically the work here in these wooded holes Nate
This is the dream I mean if we can cut into the woods that the golf courses are built around that’s a perfect facility for the tour and it gives the players a lot of what they on as well multiple holes have changed this year new holes
Have been cut into the woods yes there are those classic traditional golf style holes out in the open big open shots artificial out of bounds but there is a pretty healthy balance of wooded technicality required Nathan yeah certainly Brian and I think that this is one of the biggest changes from one year
To the next in a course I love to see you know the tour and the the team here at Harvey pinnick taking that feedback and you know using it right away I mean it’s they didn’t just change a few holes they changed the entire flow out here
And I’ve heard a lot of positive feedback from the players on the ground Nate I think we should zoom in on on the wooded holes that we have uh been able to cut into because that’s a really special thing and it gives the players a little something to look forward to
Let’s fly hole six right away look at this par for yeah this is tight you got a little staggered Gap at the beginning meaning you most likely having to try and feed this one on Heiser and get it to flip up flat and then drift a little
Bit to the right the first Gap is maybe 8 feet across and the trees are right on the teapad can get in the mind you have a Mando right but more daunting than that Mando is the looming OB line in the woods I understand this from a couple different
Sides If part of the woods that you’re playing through is brutal to the point where players might not be able to get back there without taking a significant amount of time to get to their discs and scrambling isn’t very inspiring I understand that the team here has opted
To put it really tight and players are going to want to play some of these Fairways playing the Miss do I want my disc to spin counterclockwise or clockwise to make sure my kicks aren’t as violent when I when I’m trying to advance these Fairways because OB looms
Around every corner let’s zoom into hole number seven8 this is the most daunting skinny middle tree potentially in disc right now OB on both sides what do the players have to do here well if you hit that tree and you kick right or left your OB you’re throwing your third shot
From 100 feet off the te and you still have this low ceiling Gap to feed it through it’s only 305 ft but it’s ju it’s tight enough on each side that you really have to commit to the shape and you’re throwing toward out of bounds either way now we’re going to
Jump into hole number eight another wooden shot 570 and oh yeah Nate we also have the white staked OB on each side of the Fairway some players are definitely focusing heavily on playing the Miss and making sure that the option they choose gives them a highest percentage of
Staying in bounds on a 570t hole it’s kind of dealer’s Choice off the te what do you think yeah a lot of people are saying that it makes you think you want to try and feed a forehand there to stay away from the out of bounds but I’ve
Heard a lot of players talk about they’re just slowing things down right there a lot of people are just throwing a turnover putter on the left side making sure they come up short of that OB and this is a similar Gap that we had on last year’s whole 17 if you can
Remember some of the drama from that finish we have all these tiny trees that make the perfect rough on either side well we saw multiple times when players were just too far off on the left side and the shot to actually push through that skinny Gap is a really overstable
Disc on a forehand that pushes forward as it’s flattening and it’s not a straight forward scramble all these skinny trees up towards the basket make this hole really daunting and of course we have the out of bounds this is going to be a stretch that players going
Birdie birdie birdie are G to feel like they got out and got away with murder here and do you remember that that was the hole that MC Beth like tried to break people were trying to break they were laying up short going over people were going out of bounds like it was a
Conundrum of a 17 and now they’ve turned it into a much larger and in my opinion a much better par 4 it’s great to see the improvements the players are thrilled with what they’re seeing at least overall uh you know it’s a brand new course so they still have to do a
Lot of learning this weekend but Nate Paige Pierce is here Paige Pierce is giving another effort after coming back from a long Hiatus she got 10th place at the chess.com she got 13th Place at Waco she said she’s feeling okay but it seems like her attitude is in the right place
We talked to her earlier in the week let’s hear what Paige had to say in her own words I think it’s going to be a lot different uh skills being tested uh I’m not really throwing many drivers which is pretty weird at a golf like when you the viewers are thinking oh they’re
Playing a ball golf course it’s I’m not really throwing many drivers I’m throwing a lot of passion shots which is a eight-speed um lot of buzzes and yeah I I I’m throwing my drive maybe like four or five holes um but yeah it’s going to take a lot of angle control in
The woods and like slower Tempo shots that you you just have to hit your gaps if you if you hit a tree in those woods ws and hit early you’re you’re struggling to get the bogey and sometimes there’s even OB so uh yeah double Bogies could be coming into play
On those on those wooded holes I’m not content with 10th Place uh you know it’s yeah I I want better for myself I always do even I think you know even Kristen and evina winning the the events like they want more for them themselves too there’s putts they missed there’s drives
They missed um yeah I threw some amazing shots that I’m like still replaying in my head and that’s trying to trying to uh uh you know have some confidence on those amazing shots I watched leave my hand um but yeah I know that there’s a
Lot of work I need to do I just I have all the shots I have all the putts just like getting consistent if I was as consistent as Kristen I feel like I could be up there in the top three every single week so I think that I have the
Advantage every single weekend with the Positive mindset that I try to live with and yeah sure there are times where it it stumbles but I feel like for the most part I feel very positive and I think that that’s my biggest Advantage overall of anything that I could bring to the table
Is I take a double I take a 12 last weekend the next round I take a three on it so um not not trying to hold on to those things and and just move forward I love the patience coming from Paige I love when she’s talking like you
Know what it’s GNA come I just have to keep putting the time in and I have to keep making my best effort putting my best foot forward and like she said in that press she said The more shots you throw the more times you fail but also
The more good shots you throw so you have to fill your brain and fill your memories with those good shots so you remember who you are as a player I mean especially coming off of such a long Hiatus I think the best of Paige Pierce
This season is Yet to Come what do you think Nate yeah I absolutely agree I mean I I think the premium shots are are back she’s able to shape up to 450 fet again it really is just about you know limiting you know how bad her misses are
Because at chess.com she played great golf but then she would all of a sudden triple bogey a hole and and it was because she was a little timid and she wasn’t sure of her line and the Miss was pretty drastic same goes for wake up she was playing really good golf that round
She took a 12 and then just found herself in a bad spot tried to take it over the water too many times polls like that are the difference between her getting you know a Podium finish or a top five finish the last few event so I’m actually impressed at what we’ve
Seen from Pierce so far considering shattering her ankle we’re running it back to last year which was her best performance of the year if you just go by the eye test I mean she was cashing from deep in circle two just playing the win the whole time and we’re talking
About memories here Nate we’re talking about filling your your thoughts with good memory she won here pretty solid and and this is the tournament that Kristen tar finished in fifth place which it’s funny to say that fifth place is a bad finish but you know paig won
Paige straight up won the tournament and this is her tournament to defend now and you know we’re talking about the 10th place and the 13th Place but this is a tournament that she knows how to win it’s not an entirely new course so she still has game plan on some of these
Holes and it’s just managing you know the golf in the woods essentially yeah and Pa paig is comfortable here I don’t know if you remember the bit last year but she she was going to the luck reunion every day after her tournament Ryan she she was going to see Willie
Nelson play I mean that’s like if you’re here in Austin during South by Southwest you might might as well you know indulge in in some of what Austin has to offer I felt like that was a big part of her Victory last year and we in the press
Conference we talked to her she’s seeing music every day and every night like she’s already you know messaging me what she’s going to see this afternoon and on Saturday you know opting for the door venue because of the rain and everything so I I think that she’s just really
Comfortable here she actually lived in Austin before and she has a lot of fans here her family’s going to come down and watch her so I think she actually is a threat to win this tournament well Paige has her extracurriculars Kristen Tatar the winner from last week in Waco saw
Kung Fu Panda this last week she told us after the round really she’s doing the extracurriculars as well in a little bit lower frequency but Kristen is here to take down a victory and Kristen gave us some beautiful words it seems like we’re getting mental game advice every
Single week let’s just take a listen to what she had to say at the presser earlier this week how do you feel about coming back to a course or a tournament that you didn’t perform up to your expectations is that in your head at all or are you thinking about last year’s performance
Whatsoever um I remember it well and I remember the moment I mean I think the emotions were just super high um but usually these kinds of rounds come to me because it it g it allows me to feel these feelings that I haven’t been feeling so now I know I
Just accept them and I just let these feelings go through me and and I haven’t been really looking back at it with uh any emotion at all it’s it was just one event it happened that’s okay um coming here actually it feels like a whole other event because the courses
Have been uh the course has been changed a lot um but yeah I don’t know I remember it was a tough final round for me I I played solid the first two days um but it’s just something that happened and it doesn’t mean anything right now I feel like
This you know Nate we got some wonderful Clips here from the presser but she said some more things that we didn’t even show here and the one thing that stood out to me is when she was talking about playing a quote unquote bad round or shooting a bad score she said when
Rounds like that come to me this is how I react she understands that certain things in dis golf are out of her control and she’s Truly Come into that she believes it I I can feel it when she speaks when something like that happens when you get fifth place instead of
Winning even though the spotlights on you and everyone expects you to win she’s trying to tell herself like listen like it doesn’t matter like I can’t control some of these things if somebody beats me somebody beats me but she’s going to put her best foot forward as
Well uh I believe that the term is me mental flexibility allowing yourself to feel these negative emotions without placing a self judgment on it I think you hear hear that across the sports world and you see some of the best athletes ever get really emotional really passionate and really angry
Sometimes but they keep pressing and that’s what we notice in all of our be best athletes in in disolve as well yeah you know you know what that you know Kristen’s mindset reminds me of is you know a a book I read the mindful athlete talking about how Phil Jackson actually
Coached the ’90s Chicago Bulls one of the great basketball teams of all time basically Tau them Zen Buddhism and that’s that’s really what Kristen’s on right now when she’s talking about a round coming to her you know Phil Jackson teaching his team to you know
The triangle to let it work let it come to you let the three-pointer come to you we don’t hear a lot of disc offers talk in that light I’ve heard Eagle McMahon talk a little bit about that mindset you know some some Joe dispenza mindset about creating your reality but we
Really do get a lesson from Kristen tar every time don’t we Brian yeah and it’s just it’s really exciting to continue to watch her evolve as a player and as a human being right in front of our very eyes because yes we do talk to her
Pretty much every day now and you know what she deserves it because right now she’s clearly the best player in disc golf with that we’re going to take a quick commercial break we’re going to talk a little bit of n Ganon Burr won himself a big old 10-gallon hat last year here can
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Ganon Burr a question for a chance to win a signature disc Ganon will be answering questions in that Community all of next week but before that we’re going to hear from Ganon right now on Tournament Central as he spoke yesterday at yesterday’s press conference how do you celebrate a win
What what do you like to do what’ you do after Waco’s Victory honestly I don’t know it depends sometimes we’ll go get some Domino’s pizza or something that’s kind of a tradition me and Gavin Babcock have we’ve been doing it for a couple years now if we all both play pretty good or
You know it’s just a good weekend we we get some Domino’s Pizza and kind of hog out I guess you w a big old cowboy hat last year for taking this down what is the minimum amount that fans need to to PayPal you for you to wear it on hole
Number one of this weekend I don’t need anyone’s money is it is it going to be Cowboy Ganon no I actually have no idea where my hat’s at I think I might have gave it to my grandpa or something I don’t even know where it’s at uh I have
The belt that was on the hat but I don’t know where the Hat’s at I think I’m going to break down a lot of the holes well you got to be careful because there is a lot of OB actually in the woods this year which definitely makes it
Difficult uh with tree kicks and stuff so some shots I’m throwing uh forehand versus backhand is to purely prevent a tree kick OB um you have this OB on the right throwing an anheiser forehand any tree kick just kicks OB be right so there’s a couple holes that actually
Makes you think a lot more uh I try to find the safer side of the green if I can or the safest side of a shot that makes it so even my bad shots are probably going to result in a par instead of a bogey um so it makes you
Think which is which is good to see and obviously OB in the woods is something we see sometimes at like Northwoods which is a very difficult course um so it’ll be it’ll be cool to see how it plays out I think I think they’re going to play play pretty tough I don’t be
Surprised if people average like even to like one over through those wooded holes in the middle there Canon is your returning champion and now he’s looking to go back to back alongside of Defending last weekend’s title at Waco this was the season Nate where I truly realized this kid could be the
Best player ever if he keeps healthy and he keeps the motivation I mean he invented a new style of putting if you ask me like it’s like a mix between Rick and you know Emerson Keith kind of drawing from that left HP getting so much power and I feel
Like this event is where we realize that we could see the first M player average better than 50% from C2 Brian it just didn’t seem like he could ever Miss with that pa3 I just I look at the way he plays the game I also listen to the way
He talks about the game this shot with that stubborn neutral mid-range off Landing getting it to finish at the very end to play the slope of the hill I mean he’s such a high IQ player but he chooses a play style that doesn’t need overthinking and I think
That’s the key to his success I I I filmed an episode of a my show called catch with him and he let me in really deeply about why he chooses the flex style over the Heiser flip talking about misses and how big the misses with one
Style are compared to the other and and now he’s learning the Heiser flip in case holes demand it I mean we saw him at Nevin start to really work through that different stock of throwing and uh he’s just continuing to become an overall threat across the board uh but
Nate something I want to key in on holes six seven and eight those wooden holes he’s talking about kind of changing his decision making to play the Miss on certain sides of the Fairway you know what’s interesting Kristen tar pretty confidently in her press conference said
I don’t really think about that I only think about making the shot whatever is most confident for me is what I’m going to throw I don’t really care what the layout is yeah that’s I I think Kristen has the opportunity to to think that way because of her Division I feel like you
You have to kind of think about the miss a little bit more in the impo division because it’s a little bit more stacked and if you’re making a critical mistake early in round one and you find yourself three over through a three-hole stretch you’re going to be w on the
Leaderboard you’re going to be chasing it it I feel like she has a little bit more space there would you disagree with that I I would agree and disagree I I mean first off the numbers she’s putting up you can’t there’s nothing you can say about that so if Ganon played that style
And had that level of confidence in his abilities across the board forehand backhand you know he’d be putting up good numbers so I think it’s just a thought process and a game plan and a way of of playing the game so uh I don’t know I think Ganon is just one of those
Players that says I’m always scared I’m always stressed out I hate these stressful situations I want to avoid getting myself into these places and you know what that’s the beauty of our sport you can play this game so many different ways and the way he talks about the game
Right now was so fascinating I’m still trying to figure out if he’s being sarcastic half the time when he talks about how he plays maybe he’s trying not to let us in too deeply on how he’s kind of carrying himself but right now it’s just really impressive to watch and he
Just continues to go on a tear second place at chess.com first place here he’s first in the point standings but Nate we got to talk about the man who almost won this tournament last week and beat Ganon Burr approaching the prime of his career Luke Humphries Luke Humphries nearly
Took this Tournament down just an emotional day overall talk about it oh that was the the putt there on two to kind of get himself back on track after the three putt on ho one I mean after three putt it just seemed like he was going to have nerves all day close that
Conversation quick with the putt on two and then this is actually where he changed things up ganon’s first Miss he missed short Luke makes it on the ninth and then this shot no one was birding this hole I think there were seven birdies on the day out of the 112 person
Field he flexes the D3 out to 40 ft this was the most electric Putt in the last three years Brian absolutely chilling running it back but Nate this is the this is Luke’s putt this is Luke’s bread and butter this was the first skill I recognized when I played with him for
The first time in 2018 where I was like oh no is am I gonna have to be that good from that distance and then you know what we’re starting to see a lot of players just like Luke Humphrey’s prefer to be just outside the circle to being
Just inside the circle we talked to Luke earlier this week after the dust has settled after wakeo let’s take a listen I’ve thought about it a lot I think there’s no way not to there was a layup play I could have done two or three different things I
Could have four-handed one out left I could have been more aggressive with a forehand roll there was so many different plays but in the moment I felt like that was the play and I’m not going to fault myself for trying to win a tournament at the end of the day I
Didn’t lay it up bad or or do anything I got aggressive like I had been doing all day like I did on 16 like I did on 17 I stuck with the game plan that I had brought in that had gotten me to that position and uh I don’t regret it now I
Was trying to win a tournament how is it with the mental makeup coming into this new tournament is it just fresh are you still holding on to things where are you at on that I definitely I I I don’t want it to be totally fresh I played a great
Tournament last week and I want to keep some of those feels going at the same time I flew out the next morning after the tournament and haven’t been on the grounds until just now so I haven’t played a practice round I’ve been with my family in Arkansas getting some some
Time in with him which has been fantastic so there’s there’s not like a confidence I can feel from having thrown the shots that I’m going to need to throw but um actually on tour life a couple nights ago Uli told me that this course sets up well for me so I’m going
To trust a friend and uh and hope that he’s right before we send it out to the ground for round number one for the fo division it’s perks picks time it is week number two Nate you’re currently in the lead walk Us in to what we’re going to
Be picking this week perks pick Pi my favorite part of the day Brian our first question we have to pick Foo Podium all right we’re staying away from Kristen tar we’re going to let her be this week I’m going with my girl Holland Hanley finishing in the top three this week not
A bad pick I think evina Solon is going to be a pretty good bet out here especially if the wind picks up especially if the weather gets bad I think evina has got what it takes she’s my pick for the podium Nate what’s next all right we’re going to pick an moo
Podium as well it’s so difficult picking an m p i mean anybody could rise up we could have someone that you know hasn’t cashed yet on the tour rise up and get their first Podium especially when we have a dynamic course like the one here at Harvey pinnick short holes with ob in
The woods we’ve got rain we had to factor in I’m going to go Kyle Klein getting his first Podium of the year because the weather is looking to be inclement because there’s going to be lightning delays and it’s going to be a lot of unknowns if I were to pick a
Player to play a tournament with these types of weather conditions who’s not going to get bothered I’m gonna pick Ricky Yaki raincoat Rick raincoat Rick is GNA be my choice to take Podium this week and and very well could win this tournament as well Nate what’s the final
Pick all right heimberg did not play last week dealing with a little bit of an elbow injury can’t really throw the forehand he’s feeling a little bit better Calvin I believe opted did not play on a feature card this week the question remains will Calvin make a
Chase or lead card this week I’m gonna go with yes that heimberg is going to return in dramatic fashion this week I’m going to give Calvin some time to feel things out I know coming off of an elbow injury your body’s a little scared of you know if I throw hard
Here will it hurt again and maybe the throw changes a little bit maybe the tempo changes a little bit I’m going to say no that is my pick uh sorry Calvin I’m going to give you the benefit of the doubt here I’m going to let you uh have
A weekend off the cameras Nate all done perks picks is over week number two complete we’re going to send it down to the ground Foo action about to begin here on the dis golf Network Brian aart Nate Perkins you’re stuck with us folks we’ll see you this afternoon [Applause] defending her title and becoming a two-time Waco annual charity open Champion kisten [Applause] Tatar it feels amazing to be competitive again I sort of like proved to myself that I still got it on the mark from Circle two near perfect just outside the bu’s ey from way downtown Nails it looking Unstoppable
Today tap in birdie two time back to back prod present Lego Champion Kristen catar welcome into beautiful Austin Texas for the open at Austin presented by flight Factory disc we in the newly updated Harvey pinck course tons of changes and it does not look easy who can hold on to
The bowl for 18 holes you’ll find out live on the disc golf Network and there is Tatar in the building Dez let’s watch the disc golf excited to watch the dis all today in Austin Texas it looks like a beautiful thing to do so yeah it does
Great look downtown right there and the weather was a little dicey last night but de saided shaping up beautifully this morning yeah glad it roll through Yeah and welcome into the booth I am Ian Anderson that is Hall of Famer and three-time World Champion over there Dez reading hi we’re back at Austin got Paige we got tar what do you make of day one uh day one I think is going to shape
Up to be a battle of The Titans with the new course here at the open um the changes it’s kind of anyone’s game you know everyone has a little bit of lay of the land but with the changes it’s going to put a new mix out there for everyone
That should be really really fun to watch tons of OB in the woods really tough course is oh the woods are going to be you got some uh experience here in Texas though Dez let’s check out some of that action right here in case you don’t know who Dez
Is where we at here Dez this is 2002 Houston world championship this is my first one that I won I was actually named Brook of the year and won the World Championships the same year and we’re looking at 2005 in Pennsylvania and 2006 in Augusta awesome cool moments there de love got
Love those can’t imagine I few people have experienced what you’ve experienced it’s pretty amazing I’m I’m blessed congratulations it’s G to be a Tatar so coming off Waco looked a little rough to start the tournament then kind of did her thing Kristen really does a good job
Of managing her course she took five Bogies across the four rounds and that really did do the separation she didn’t win all the rounds and come to head tohe head but she dominated in those less mistakes and coming into Waco not really her best tournament last year or sorry
Into into Austin no she finished off Podium I think her one of her only two if not her only one that she finished off Podium maybe going for a Redemption year this year we’ll see absolutely here is round three at wo where she put the put the hammer down Dez she really did
She took 11 Strokes off of Ella and 12 Offa own who ended up finishing second in this one round only just phenomenal unbelievable play I think for Kristen to to come back and actually after having such a dominant season in 2023 to put that first win
When she came out is really a mark of a champion yeah absolutely cut There there she is she had a great offseason too picking up sponsorships and all kinds of awards over in Estonia so cool if one of us wins in dis golf we’re all going to exciting and be winners with her absolutely she’s really propelling the game to the next level
And we kind of mentioned there that was her second worst finish last year 978 rating which is awesome but terrible if you’re tar I guess I guess so she looks good she looks confident all those puts are going in her consistency is her superpower it is it
Is and her ability to make a mistake and process and then move on from yeah I love that batter game really doesn’t get rattled you could really see it when you’re watching coverage yesterday or last weekend we are going to fly on over to Hole one for our second feature
Card nice Gallery shaping up here oh no whole one is a really nice opener it’s kind of feels like a got to get it does doesn’t it it does you got to F you know you got to throw over that wel back the open in Austin sponsored by flight
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Arm that’s been bothering yeah that’s new got some elbow pain right now Paca Florida sponsored by MVP and Fight Factory Madison [Applause] Walker somebody’s closer do well that’s a DOT wow and rounding out your feature card from Finland sponsored by Innova Disc evina [Applause] saladan what a feature card here doz this is
Fantastic evina problems de going long well our Putter’s been hot so I think just opening with a long one it might just be able to shake those nerves off and get it right up there let’s check out reading’s rubric brought to you by our friends at blacking disc.com for
Premium disc golf store so I think uh you need to get your putt on as we’re seeing with some of these changes a lot of the fpos holes are in that 300 to 350 ft range which means everyone can reach them you better get your putt prepare for weather right now it’s passed
Through but we don’t know what the other days are going to be looking like and every hole has OB stroke so it’s important to minimize those when you can there’s going to be a wooded section in the Middle where even a good shot could take a Ricochet so it’s important on the
Front end and the back end to control all those OB Strokes that are in your own control great point from one Hall of Famer to another Juliana corver this is the old hole 18 now hole 9 play to that Peninsula just right of that sidewalk Center screen everything’s short of the uh
Short Grass is out of bounds nope who who she’s waiting we’ll check back with JK shortly back to our second feuture card that’s own Scoggins looks like she’ll be First Act a live look down from our flight Factory drone got to love that you can head over a flight Factory disc all
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There hey hard open and once you’re outside the circle it’s a 50/50 yeah evina I believe also just outside the circle back to JK on the T of n o That’s OB if it didn’t skit her off it’s a really tough shot it’s a far to reach that green and maybe the play
Is better to the left Solin in for birdie love love it she gave it a running yeah and coming back is Scoggins oh no starting the day with the unforced bogey very rare right here yeah over that arm isn’t giving her putt troubles as well agree Allen looking at two
Excellent whole R really sets up to start your around with that birdie and Madison Walker does just that with an absolute tap in there is the Scoggin Bogey and after Solon drops in that part we’re going to sneak in a break on the other side Tatar we’ll be back in just a Few been rocking these polos all year I love the breathability and comfortability they’ve allowed me to perform at a high Level check them out at lightfactory disc.com The I’m the I’m the best I’m the best I’m the best hanging on my chest I’m the best I’m the best I’m the best I’m the best I’m the best I’m the best I’m the best hanging on my chest I’m the best I’m the Best I think this golfing can improve our community in many ways it brings put together that maybe some of these kids who feel a little bit lost could find something like this gol find friends find people to come together and play the sport encouraging people to work together kids to know one another love
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Long corra was OB as we saw off the te throwing three now on the par 4 this might be a part five up oh on this side and that’s good news of your cat merch oh my that’s looking good in Blue she have a multi-stroke lead on the field after the uh the rough hole for Quarter over to two and Allen throwing her drive big dog leg right she’s going to have a lot of work there Dez she did the first important thing which was get across the landing Zone um this te actually moved from last year so it’s on the other side
Of the Ravine to force that par five onto the women in the fo division Walker Yeah by pushing a little more towards that OB to the left they’re going to set up a better second shot Solon a little more want on this one what a reaction
Dez my goodness rip six wanted her back in wow that does not usually happen Scoggin can take advantage of her beforehand this is a great play off of the T going to filter towards the middle just fine there for own one more look at this evina throwing it OB but back in Bound
Somehow oh we heard it this is just firing in there up to the right here Boop and just the perfect roll back wow got to love it hey luck luck works both ways right d yeah so right now we are going to uh take a look at hole two it is the fifth
Hardest hole it’s a par five the first important thing is clearing the goalie Ravine and then you’re going to find yourself around the corner We’ve Got Big Trees the circles around the trees are not OB but there is OB to the left and to the right as we proceed down for our
Second and third shots players negotiate the low canopy coming into what is now the golf green they need to either decide to fly over it play short deciding if they want to do that par five or try to go for the birdie four and we saw at JK the ground’s a
Little wet those golf greens aren’t really skittering like they’re used to no I think as the temperature changes we did get that big rain that came through here uh the later tea times are going to find a different uh course than the earlier T times did out
Here the green sits on that little bit of null so it’ll be interesting Walker throwing two L she’s going to be laying up short of the golf green playing as a par five oh unfortunately found the OB still a chance to save par throwing four from there another live look down from our
Flight Factory drone it’s a coupon code Austin for 10% off flight Factory gives us a good look at those Obie now little pinch n she’s all right fantastic play we can see that she elected to go for the steady play to set up the birdie with that low canopy no
Need to bite it up anything you can’t handle yep smart Golf and eely a forunate to be in Balance do you think she has an a line into the the pin from there I would her so I think the farther you creep to the farthest of the OB the better you get
But that canopy is really going to keeper still on the short side oh Ian it looks like she had a clear look at it look it my goodness oh wow I hope that’s as close as it looked that is taking advantage of when your disc lands in the best situation after
Of not the best Drive it really rolled to the perfect line didn’t it look at this opening and look at the shot that is how you keep that good luck going as you take advantage and you just execute that’s beautiful the best thrower of the disc
Love it she is unbelievable look at that smile and now Scoggins throwing her second can she beat the Green yes right that sets up for an easy birdie and definitely a look at the Eagle yeah exciting Two Eagles love it oh wood M an eagle after the bogey on one help erase
That course is looking beautiful and I talked to the players I got chance to walk the course yesterday and everyone’s like it doesn’t feel like I’m playing on a golf course other than you a couple holes where you run into a golf green but they made great use of the property
Do it really is it uh Harvey penck was a legendary golf professional and he was also um a prolific mental coach so it’s really exciting to see disc golf being able to be played at this golf course oh cool Walker about to throw four after the OB second
Shot see that it’s still wet out there she has to really dry off that disc give her a chance yeah that is the beauty of a par system you’re a defending champion in the house with the most elite or major wins in Texas besides the woman sitting next to me look at
Paige that’s what I was just talking about all right well at least two Texans are holding down the deep in the Heart of Texas stats there there you go that is a that’s a good win ratio uh Paige is definitely a a well she’s a favorite sister or daughter however you want to
Say that here in Texas we’ve been watching her play since she was a young One hopefully this be the weekend she can get back into that Paige Pierce Forum we’re all used to one of her biggest Rivals for all these years Katrina Allen thring her third of the par five that’s good not great good not great um I think we’re seeing this par
Five play um fairly easy as we look down the stats so people as you look at that then you just really need to know that uh a birdie is good and there your scores cat merch ho five through seven and corber did drop off with that hole nine results took a six double
Bogey there on nine you saw the two OB shots that led to that Holly Finley playing well two through three Scoggin for eagle nice solid play Eagle attempt birdie drop in yeah Walker for par the right action doz just a little low yeah she definitely needed to put a
Little more juice on that for shot to get her a little closer well outside the circle yeah that’ll be a bogey for Walker P Pierce here defending Champion be teing off in just about three minutes now paig keeps getting uh stronger and stronger as she gets into more and more plays
Absolutely Allen looking at birdie never a doubt cat looking nice early the extension was all on she was right at the Circle chin High good putt yeah let’s roll back that zuka yeah look at that extension the follow through it’s all day in the drive looking nice the putt
Looking nice Solin in for Eagle here we go oo get it are we going to see some fun out of her this year this putt found and we always know she can drive the comeback Eagle putt I’m excited for what the year is going to hold the putt looks different it looks
Great yeah agreed wow love to see that that’s a walker bogey going to jump on over to your leader cat merch with a that finds the bottom of the bucket look at that she had to work the wooded angles there we’re going to see a lot of open where
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Was so excited I think it sat pretty well right on yeah I was trying to find anything wrong with that dis flight and I couldn’t find much oh my goodness yeah I flipped over okay and still almost dotted beautiful wow exciting we are going to be flying back
In and a whole one for your other feature card your defending Champion your number one player in the world Holland Hanley and Valerie manduo the other two joining tar and Pierce little Shenanigans though does welcome back to the open Aus presented by flight Factory this is your feature card
1055 first up on the T box from Pensacola Florida she’s your current open Champion rookie of the year 2010 five-time World Champion sponsored by Discraft Paige [Applause] Pierce [Applause] next up on the T from sabolo Texas a previous open Champion sponsored by dis graph and lucky Ace disc Valerie [Applause] manano
That flattened out on her a bit it did that’s somewhere in circle too next up from Estonia your two time in current world champion sponsored by latitude 64 Kristen [Applause] Tatar what’s new days the car throwing a great shot you got to love that eyes are open Vine Tas first in the circle
Sponsored by disc crop and flight Factory Holland Hanley [Applause] wo right by me hit the tree hey everybody putting on hole one across the bridge you got a there they are making the walk across the bridge and our man Nate Perkins he is down there on the ground with Paige
Pierce take it away Nate well Paige we we could talk disc off but we do that pretty often let’s let’s talk about the music that you’ve been seeing out there we got to see my uncle Bobby Perkins last night where’d you go to after that show what’s the
Music been like yeah it’s been amazing every kind of music and just like pleasant surprises everywhere you go I ended up at a like a recording studio I thought it was like a the greyhounds a big awesome band was playing there and I thought it was a venue but it was a
Music studio so I got to see them live record their album on the spot and they printed the vinyl one of one right there it was super cool I feel like too often your division uh kind of gets the short end of the stick with the weather but
We’re supposed to get hail and thunderstorms later how does it feel right now yeah it feels amazing I saw that it might start coming down at 1 but it honestly right now it feels and looks good so hoping for the best all right thanks for the interview Paige good
Luck thank you Nate and Paige making time for us there Allen putting for Birdie on hole three same hole we saw Solon hit the pin on the T she hits the pin on the putt but not the bottom cat merch T of [Applause] nine this is the tricky hole where we
Saw Juliana take the double the green to clear is actually 330 before it is at 225 as we’re seeing very difficult yeah Hanley putting for two on whole one nailed it little stepper on the elevated pin gutsy putt to start the day for Holland let’s roll back that
Zuka we got to love a step through absolutely really keeps the dis nose on plane you see it very rarely wobbled right off of that center cut where she wanted it to hit in manduo from the other side also looking at two we talk about Paige’s ankle injury a
Lot but you know Val’s still trying to find that pre- ankle injury form is she not I agree uh anytime you’re coming back from an injury it takes a lot of repetition uh to get your body ready and really to mentally get yourself back to where you were pierce with an obstructed
Look looks like we’re going to go toar first oh little bit of elevation let’s see if Pierce can grab a stroke on the world Champion all right we got uh just one I’m surprised really just one of the three birdies on that toll one of the four great effort from P just a little high yeah she was really stretched out there and you know we always going to go talk
About her ankle injury for a while uh even though she did have it up which meant she had plenty of power maybe her spin to release was not where she wanted to to be but being really stretched out does put you in a different position to make a putt with
You everybody in for par besides Hanley and Ebina almost had the ace on three the drop in for two oh well I’m glad that one stayed as a competitor anytime you want to hit the basket let’s have him stay there and that’s one that’s going to send some putts back that
Green and over to merch on nine throwing three par still available it’s a really Pinchy green with the OB she is in the right position to hit it but it is small oh that’s unforunate is that short OB i’ you could hear say that’s unfortunate so player usually knows nine
Getting people nine is not fine right now no it’s not we’re on the T of four throwing way downhill with Aina this one’s nicely dubbed big pinck cool Aina like it 350 down downhill it’s like a 7% downhill grade there is merch grabbing her meter in and we now be throwing
Five oh my God and you can see how this really does taper there’s really no Landing Zone it’s all green or nothing it created some great Dramatics last last year as a whole 18 not off by much as merch that will be a double Hanley now on the T of
Two this hole is really going to set up good with Holland’s uh ability to throw the left hand or backhand and the Forehand yeah good and save feel like she cranked it a little more than she might have wanted to the left Pierce too much Dez too much that shot I don’t really have anything on that shot it didn’t look good out of the gate one and two both looked a little early out
Of the hand to my eye for Paige whole one she was really quick on a Cadence was that what it was I mean I’m not quite for sure but I just thought that she was quicker Mandu Hano will this settle imp backs no very tricky everyone’s trying to land
To a nice soft position but it’s a small Landing Zone and uh players are using mids to overstable drivers to hit that and they got a lot of power so it looks like they’re finding that OB easier than normal and let’s look at the skirt of Kristen it’s blowing y I love the
Forehand on this wall if you got it it’s going to finish the right way all day away from Obi there oh my goodness that’s a bous drive that’s beautiful set up very nicely we’ve seen two Eagles on that hole Kristen has got herself in good position to maybe put a
Third scogin looking for her third birdie in a row after the bogy start yes count it nice job such a baller love watching own merch for [Applause] six and that’s going to drop cat back to three under on the day Your Leader evina speaking of that birdie putt did it just dropping
Him in keeping it and is now your Solo four down over the last three holes and she didn’t get the hole one I know a great look at hole two from your flight Factory drone code Austin 10% off all weekend long that is you can see it really pinches down
For that second shot Dez it does yeah we can see the longer Landing Zone but because it’s only 180 to clear the stream itself it’s playing a lot longer a lot shorter drives are going longer jumping over to Allen looking for her third birdie in four holes on whole [Applause]
Four nice and solid her stroke just looks the same every single time right now one off the lead now merch on 10 downhill Island hole oo this is Le and de it is oh that’s op manduo grabbing a meter in off the OB Drive throwing
Three par still there on the par five it is and you can see from the position the farther you actually push to that line I mean there is a fine line I did say that you wanted to kind of like go towards that line but right now Val’s got a very
Uh tough situation here she’s definitely just placing another shot to set herself up that forehand does set itself up the best for the drive we’re seeing the backhands not yield the best results yeah and now Paige will do the same from just about the same spot
Paige laying up short of the golf green or that is the intent anyway looks like it worked hauling up next look like a mid or a putter we’ll see a layup shot short of that green I agree that was almost really bad Dez no one wants the layup OB oh my gosh got
Away with one there jump it ahead to evina I believe this is 16 last year uh tricky par 4 you got Obie all in that Valley and she’s going to take that right hand side and just smoked as that is a perfect shot just a perfect
Shot I’m going to throw like EV and I grow up I think we all do God she’s good Tatar what a drive in fantastic position per a second yeah I love it uh looks like she’s sizing up to go for it I don’t know why you would not she’s
Got definitely the power to clear that green uh you might as well put yourself in position that looks like a highp speed driver skips it off the green and rolls out in the Fairway still it looks like it does uh that really does show us
How good evina shot was that we had seen earlier yeah and perk with taking a look at Holly Finley’s scorecard right now she is two down but I’m told that’s not exactly the case fill us in there yeah that’s right Ian Holly was the latest victim to the two-stroke
Penalty for not showing up to your tea time 5 minutes prior and we still haven’t quite nailed down how to reflect that on the PDGA live scoring unfortunate situation there for Finley yeah it’s getting people de every week we’ll see how many hopefully it stops at some point stops it’s going to
Take before everyone gets on board yeah I’m sure it’ll happen here all right Hanley inbounds somehow after that second shot throwing three not great no she’s just riding it right now yeah play a little army golf I do feel like you want to NAB as many
Birdies as you can on the front and the back half of this course evina throwing two after a great drive just outside the buse I do yeah when you feel it you feel it and back to pierce throwing three on all two oh sorry excuse me throwing four for the OB Drive
It’s another Miss left and is that op it might it stayed all right oh my goodness long grass doing her a favor there it’s hard to say where that OB was but uh I was surprised that that stayed safe merch from the drop zone for par honest effort it looks like the
Wind’s going to pick up on us a little bit cor of that flag manduo and her fourth I was with you that looked good didn’t it almost smashing chain still have that left for par that’s was a really good manage of the OB stroke it
Was as a competitor when you take the OB stroke it’s so important to be able to manage yourself down there to get that par and a drop in par is even better Katrina and her second even better than Solin they are dueling on that card aren’t they Dez I’m thinking our second feature
Card is running hot right now making their walk into the green that’s threes T right there top left of your frame for Eagle [Applause] Tatar well played hole Yeah she just makes it look easy Hanley a long look at birdie after two not great Shots jumper well is dry there she’s got the walk that she’s out Scoggin for birdie yes it’s going to put her about five in a row right that is four or five in a row wow Pierce that was four in a row for Scoggin that
Was not for biry that was for par so Pierce picking up a bogey on whole two Hanley hoping to avoid that fate looking at car she did leave herself a tester but you do want to go for any birdie put that you can possibly go for
Oh oh my oh my goodness is that in that group call right that’s on the line look at our great work yeah over it’s out no question oh my oh that was nasty de little dirty oh and how does it get oh yeah the the line is OB that is correct knows no
Thickness oh man one more look at this unfortunately oh she’s just going to reput it isn’t she yeah it must be closer makes that one at least you do have the option of always rethrowing with a penalty and that’s true if it goes OB sometimes it’s closer where your last putt was salty
Yeah Tatar making that birdie look easy this card is kind of all over the place uh Tatar is going to have to stay focused along with all the other competitors each one is doing their own thing right now you find it’s kind of easier to get
Going when someone on your card is is keeping up with you I do I when a card runs hot together it’s the better way to play Manu Hano you see a lot of Mis puds rollways OB shots it can kind of get into your head um and get you out of a
Rhythm also because you have to take that extra time to show where other lies are Marco bees it’s just a whole different thing you make good points evina for birdie that putt is so good Dez it is we’re really seeing the difference from last year yeah yeah five
Down after five uh her extension is so forceful instead of a weaker extension that she had in 2023 oh what a what a treat it is watch Allen to go four through five just missing whole [Applause] three here leader a bit ago C merch throwing her second here on whole 11 par 5
960 a lot to miss here does I think she did it I I feel like she did too potentially a long Eagle bid we I’ll show you that once it happens your top 10 and that’s a day one top 10 right there some really hot starts in the
Scores though you surprised by that or did you kind of expect that I do feel like the course sets up um easier in the middle in the end or I’m sorry easier in the front end to the back where the middle is going to see it’s most wild swings
Tar yeah nice done I know on hole three they shortened the pin from last year to force more putts it was almost like 30 or so 30 to 40 ft longer and people were just laying up so they brought it into the 275 it brings that Hill play into
Action and also you have to putt onu hanu it’s a little shy not a commitment right [Applause] there Pierce to erase the bogy from the hole two oh Pierce hangs it out wide does get the green flag putting From the Rough putting From the Rough and putting downhill Hanley
Quite a bit different than our second feature card definitely on the tf6 Solin and this is where we’re headed into the woods does yeah these are new holes that are carved out and oh my gosh there’s OB in these Woods that looked okay though it did
Yeah I like that the fact that we could hear her snap she’s she’s driving with commitment she’s going to hit the lines Allen next this was the shot I saw off the t2 I do feel like it sets up on the best shot yeah and really well thrown by
Katrina the backhand line looks so touchy and just a lot to miss you had to make your disc really move right off the start and that’s where evelina’s did not um she actually kind of like was making it move harder than it needed to Fine
Line a live look down at whole 3’s Green in your feature card as they approach everyone has left with a tester here we do not have any uh basket hit or Park jobs no that’s pages that popped out Mandu Hano first to put you want this to go in or miss the
Basket right does you do uh when they moved this Basket in they did put it on that Ridge it’s going to give him some awkward puts it does Miss got some wind ripping out there yeah Nate is the the wind starting to pick up out there we’re starting to hear
A little bit on the mics seeing some trees move around yeah it’s just crested 10 mph uh Valerie had a pure head headwind putt right there Paige is looking at a pretty much direct Tailwind she’s asking her card mates right now double cheing that she’s outside the circle and she will
Get the green light to follow through on this one thanks Sir love it huge make from Pierce absolutely she didn’t even need to step she just got the read felt comfortable over the Putt and took all the factor of the fear out of it and that is such a scary putt with that sloped green huge make Hanley from the other
Side also looking at birdie back to even she goes I like it her putt really does translate nicely in the wind if it kicks up she’s got great spin yeah to angle control birdie and a double followed by a birdie for Holland hu Hano walking to her parut really nice make yeah
Tar closest of the punch for birdie sees the [Applause] day evina on six hit early still has to make the corner throwing two too so good s sometimes you throw your up shot first that’s that’s a one one does third shot for Merch on the par five that has that left for birdie
Getting back on birdie train after a couple rough holes and back to six for Allen in her second oh not as good as position as we thought you would have uh but manages like just playing for par despite the great Drive merch to tap in birdie that’s on the par 5
11th that’s not a cookie cat you’re not Andrew mared love a cookie love having cat on T her you we’ve got a great group of Foo players a lot of personalities it’s a fun to be able to follow along it keeps it fun for sure there there are your
Scores let’s check in on our Cana current conditions you can see the skyline it was it was blue when we started Dez they did say it was rolling in we had some stuff rolling in beforehand temperatures nice and humidity cannot say the same a little sticky out there perk
How’s it feeling man you feeling that stickiness you feeling that wind how are the can current conditions on the ground my man yeah it’s yeah it’s definitely sticky Ian and the teads are muddy and Slick the players have been talking about it and the wind is really ripping right now 15
Mph left to right on this shot and you have that OB looming deep into the left so players are going to really want to swing this and and and hope they can fight back into the wind yeah that’s going to be a tough shot thank you
Nate there is fors T Center screen for your flight Factory drone chucking went down the hill pretty soon o look at that Banner oh yeah local mid talking it over with silver l i could talk over them cuz no one understands them hey we do have a big Estonian fan now
For our Estonian fans shouts to them great discussion one great read great win read great elevation read well played her caddy has one of the best forand in the world also partner see there is a lot of discussion on the T so big penck is uh feeling some wind and giving some uh
People some thrill out there let’s see what the backand does doz page that that rolled off the green yeah that one really never had a chance with the way the wind was going and that sheer Heiser it just really kept that fight plate down Henley more aggressive line from Holland little flat to
Release there was the that was a shot great back stop on that tree as well and madano beautiful what a shot love that view from the flight Factory whole six evina throwing three look like shallow Circle too I think so did a really nice job managing that jumping ahead to 12 in [Applause]
Merch didn’t get the flip on it no we heard her kind of say oh and who looks like a caught a late tree though I want to say for maybe hopefully a putt yeah I think it’s in a putting Zone just not a park zone Allen in her
Third you know she played this one really nicely does she did and she’s just got a great touch a lovely shot it’s a slow throwing shot into there gosh just one Birdie on the day for whole six that by Rebecca Cox so par is good on six is good on
Six Rebecca Cox has three birdies two Bogies and it one down tied for 11th paig Pierce has a long birdie look back on whole four oh sick R everything but indz what a bit love the commitment love the fact that she’s jumping on her ankle right now something that we’ve always seen and
Known Paige for jumping down the hill even gosh Paige’s face will usually tell you what’s going on it’s she’s not one of those that hides tatara for birdie she’s just kind of machine out there she is producer Mo likes to call her the Estonian eraser just erases the competition to
He would ify the record books as well she’s doing a good job [Applause] there well done by Holland and will be manduo or Pierce looks like Mandu Hano a fantastic Drive [Applause] Valerie now tied with her sister Alexis at one down Pierce for [Applause] par evina with a par putt on whole
Six tricky yeah first bogey of the day for Solon birdie look for Merch tried to ride that headwind Ines or I feel like it um if I’m going to talk a lot about extension on puttings um it is a headwind you do want to release it lower but uh she did not have
A good firm extension that it was definitely she needed more and Allen for par on ho six oh no and on the opposite end that was a little too much it was oh after playing that hole so well just have the putt cost her there yeah her tree hit said it
All no competitor wants that that’s a buggy for Sol in and that’s well made nice rebound right there for Aina uh knowing her putting Rose occasionally to see someone hit early and she stepped up and made her PT that was a bogey there for Scoggin as well six playing
Tough yeah the power on six is a great score it’s actually kind of one of the first holes that you’re going to come into the woods and it is OB left and right very tricky only 10 pars on the day out of 50 players I feel like if you can survive
Six seven and eight you’re doing good yeah take a look at five you can see the OB Beach kind of Valley in the middle forces you to play around that and really you got to make a decision off the tea here with that tree does yeah as we’re riding uh through the flight
Factory the OB is to the left all competitors want to stay high on the ridge line the trees have been trimmed up from last year to allow a little more air under your disc this is a classic dog leg left it is 520 ft average the third hardest hole with a fourpoint
Average but this Landing zone is around 330 and then you have to throw over the OB to a basket that’s on a slight pitch it shouldn’t yield you too many trouble putts but you’re going to come in slower on the second shot and want to try to put yourself right into that
Ridge with the Box tar [Applause] yeah it’s a nice shot taking all that OB out Salin T of seven all right the little Gable par three in the Woods trick not tricky with that b sector yeah not the worst reaction though thankfully somewhere in the Fairway still Hanley back on five
Forehand is going to keep everything safe it will allow you to have the safe shot but you will have the longer shot on the second hole or the second shot Katrina the forehand Flex I hope that stayed in it did that’s good onano back on five start Landing [Applause] Zone and
Pierce all right all great drives by our group evina throwing her second tree edge of Fairway Circle two for par yeah she’s going to have to get that putt on TF 13 with Merch this played as a par five last year now it’s just a little par three yeah even though they cleaned
Up a little bit to give you a visual on the basket this was actually I believe aced by Kia from Estonia with Christen Nar in a practice round oh awesome evina for par get it get it get it oh that’s what we’re talking about huge make from the parking lot evina
Solonin let’s roll back that zuka replay look at this one of uh Harvey pen great quotes was uh sinking big putt makes your confidence sore and it devastates your opponent he wasn’t wrong he is not wrong and we are back on five with Tatar throwing her second
Just a couple steps out into Circle two for Kristen Hanley also throwing two yeah all those for hands are getting a little steamy if they would come in a little short of the basket it would absorb the skip that they’re getting off of that forehand it’s a great play but
They’re coming in too high and too hot yeah it’s hard to blame him for missing long cuz you just don’t want to miss short here all day that’d be almost like stroken distance yeah it’s brutal manduo she’s swinging it out more well she won’t get the distance at
Least and there’s exactly what you just talked about yeah frustration sh have a putt for power though and she’s a great putter Pierce like a putter or a mid for Paige that’s got to go it didn’t I don’t think so either and then never cross that’s the worst one that is completely
The worst stroken distance the stroken distance talking about oh my goodness yeah but you can see Paige knew it immediately like there’s so much room on the backside Dez you just you can’t make that mistake you cannot make that mistake you have to know you’re a strong
Enough thrower and not try to place it there and that’s kind of where those mistakes happen when you’re trying to place the disc so throwing four and we’ll have this left for five in a bogey yeah yeah you text over there for Allen with a birdie look barely sat in bounds off the
Tea she had to shavee that one doz she did those are hard to make yeah merch for Birdie on 13 you saw the drive and there’s the putt finding home she is feeling hot after that double and bogey she’s coming birdie birdie being honest now no other Reds the joys of
Sports never change guy Nate talk about that that Miss we just saw from Paige Pierce right there well yeah an that’s the fourth big inside miss that we’ve seen from Paige Dez actually picked up on it on whole one’s t-shot just a little quick on the footwork and not letting herself get to
The spot that she normally hits on the backand and that one’s going to end up costing her two strokes my total is five Strokes so far on this round yeah W you saw it Dez yeah I’ve been playing with Paige for quite a while and you can
Kind of tell when someone is in the routine and maybe hurry coming down the hill for birdie toar I don’t know if there is a better clutch putter when there is death behind a basket it is ice right there give me Chris an all day very impressive yeah it rolls
Backwards see manuo landed in bounds but unfortunately rolled OB will have this left for Par and you can really see the difference of the mistake of making sure that you’ve hit bounds here is almost not a double mistake when pages did not cross that stroken distance really Tough not to be but at least it sat it did it’s like a five worst case for Val Paige looking at a putt for five as well I do believe hers went a little bit far maybe right at the Circle not too bad couple steps in and it’s a double for
Pierce seeing a lot of B basket hits this group right now is uh just uh dinging some baskets with lack of extension kind of can get contagious out there that was a Hanley par a boy followed by a double from on duanan Pierce one more look at this
Tatar this is Strokes on the card not a doubt all chains all where you wanted to hit Sweet Spot all day they are headed into the woods all right so now we’re coming up to that whole six the one that has been brutal for everybody y oh we’re going to fly hole six
Doz H six 535 ft par 4 newly carved out of the woods it’s a nice little stretch here we do have a Mando on the right OB on the right also it is 290 to The Landing Zone straight shot any way that you can get it to land I think the best
Thing to do is to keep your disc low any tree kick is going to force a quicker OB onto shots as the disc comes for lining up to the second shot still a lot of trees in the way as you can see lower the better try to minimalize kicks OB
You’re just negotiating whatever route your disc happens to land into continually finishing up as we’re seeing pars are great which is a par 4 the green itself is guarded could have different looks around for putting so keep it low keep it safe find your shot
Make it work pars are good on par or par agreed finding your shot’s so tough on this one it is most of these T teads you can step up and all right that’s the shot you know it’s very clear what you should do but here and we can see I mean
It does look like it’s clear but because it is so wooded you just don’t know how much you can bite off Kristen with the box and a share of the lead Mr Mark yeah one over your other leaders Solin on the T of eight this one sets up with three
Different routes that you can take and she chose that left route it look great back to six for Hanley can this stay inside that tree no it’s in the Fairway at least it is manduo the stand still here yeah this is kind of like a classic move that we’ve seen
Throughout usually probably throwing a mid to control the speed I kind of like that I do too yeah Allen and fourth one off the lead of eight early ground in a weird reaction yeah yeah hard to say back to six for Pierce also slowing down looks like a
Putter one point for the back yeah we heard it one point for the back best of the bunch there well done Pierce n how are those tea pads looking so far on my walk yesterday they seem like pretty nice pretty nice tea pads man yeah we had rain in the middle of
The night and you know again the mud down here in in Texas it has just enough clay in it that it sticks to the shoes players track on it early in the morning and right now they’re pretty muddy and pretty slick I’ve heard the these players on this first feature card
Talking about it but the ones here in the woods seem to have a little break from that gotcha okay thanks Nate looking at merch T 14 okay that’s hey we got a full flight right there yeah Allen after the early ground hit throwing her second wooded section yeah got H down things happen
Back Hanley throwing two back on six and birdie out of the equation after that t-shot she’s going to go mid or putter for her second was an overturn but it’s in bounds is the Silver Lining and made progress I think on holes like this you have to
Just kind of keep your focus see what shot is coming up to your hand and just deliver Allen and her third that’s leaking into jail although nice kick yes and we can see there’s a lot of scrambling going on so your game plan in the woods will usually not be
The same as you had in practice you have to be ready to scramble and do different shots tatara throwing her second while she does this Nate what you make a whole six man what did you see out the te as far as shots and maybe seconds oh I think it’s amazing the work
That they were able to do in such short amount of time and there’s been a little discussion of whether or not OB in the woods is necessary but I kind of like how much it’s making the players think and how hard it’s actually going to play this weekend I’m with you Nate it’s
Definitely presents a unique Challenge and I do think the way they’ve carve these holes out you’re going to need the OB just to keep the disc into the right Fairway mhm Aina still got that confident swing that’s going to translate once she gets out of those woods Mandu hanu in her second
You can see the Pierce drive just ahead of her not bad just need to hold the turn a little longer agree third shot for evina on the par 48 not the easiest look here Dez it is not it filters down it’s a lower canopy it definitely puts the premium on that
Straight shot yeah and a really nice Pat and pending approach from evina just into the bullseye Allen about the same little closer nice and you can see that Allan exercised the fan grip that uh gets a slower spin on the disc it allows you to control the nose a little better from a
Smaller distance Pi in her second it’s a great second shot but it’s still not going to produce a birdie or anything close to it yes uh again if we keep uh working our way down to par on that one and knowing that you’re not going to always get the best lies
Yeah sometimes in these it’s nice where you have your caddy that you can kind of just banter back and forth and not get so wrapped up into where my is landed this is a bogey putt for Allen on ho eight that’s her third Miss in the circle today doz she could be leading
This thing yeah just a little short back to six for Hanley and her third fan fantastic yes she really seized that opportunity that she had and uh just slid it Tatar looking pinched we’re going to be able to see some creative shots from our FBO Players don’t know if I’ve seen Kristen have to get on knees too often to execute a shot that’s beautiful took the high percentage shot right s for par P [Applause] eight snuck that one in on it and then that you did still with a share of the lead there’s Allen bag on double
Unfortunately after missing the boki Putt and back to six for manduo oh no Dez this really got into the corner didn’t it you can see how much work that they actually did to cut out these holes um basically each of those Fairways that we’re going to see six seven and eight
Looked like this coming into the open it’s out it is out and even hit stuff coming out that’s that’s tough Titan there so boki best case now for Mandu Hano cat merch’s Drive got so far she could see the basket but she did not take advantage Dez did not that was a
Tough out though it was it was to be fair Mandu Hano and her fourth well done yeah limiting the damage that’s as good as you could get Yeah Pierce and her third that’s in there for a look at par yeah there is uh the par is H getting Strokes on folks yeah and back to merch for her third on the par 4 a look at par from Circle two on 14 for Merch in the Fairway is the tar for
Her par or birdie yeah this is far the first blemish for Kristen just a bogey though whole nine Solin has eat up merch and corver and deina gets another victim whole nine I know my people want to try to go over that green but you got to make sure you
Get over Pierce doesn’t get over the rim on the putt that’s another bogey missed opportunity there by Paige agreed [Applause] Hanley that is a good four on M six manduo for bogie wow we saw quite a bit of hedging right there by mahano mhm she couldn’t quite pull the trigger
I wonder if that tree was kind of in her swing a little bit or something it was awkward was kind of lining up a turbo oh Bogies for Pierce and Tatar they are on to seven whole nine and Scoggin is that ob2 oh my gosh wow nice I will say whole
Nine it’s kind of a blind t- shot Dez right absolutely you know you’re throwing up the hill you can’t really see the OB you can’t you just know you had to fly the green at 330 or you play left but then it’s only 220 some feet to
The left and then that OB comes up quick too so it’s a full drive or it’s kind of like a baby like heer up shot it’s a well-designed hole is what you’re telling me It’s Tricky challenge it uh it definitely puts a premium on knowing your speed knowing which disc to throw
And how much you can get off yeah and I think a little later in the day that evina drive finds bounds you know it really dried up on that wet green more than likely jumping back to seven for Hanley that is a Miss for Hanley and a kick OB even yes brutal
Brutal got to fly over in the bottom left for you go this is just a nice ni little 305 ft par three bis sector classically in the middle choose left or right it does get a lower canopy as the disc nears the green so it’s important
To I think use a higher speed driver a Miss for Tara but at least it’s inbounds say yeah was surprised that we got a couple Ricochet off of this one I knew six and eight would produce some um I didn’t think seven would onano oh that yes asking you shall receive I
Guess I don’t know which caddy asked for that but they got it they did Pierce she is slowing down that’s a putter that was not it Nate was not it what are you seeing on this page Pierce swing it seems like it’s there one minute and it wasn’t there that minute
Uh if you if you ask me I think she’s not really collecting herself long enough on the teapad I mean in the last two seasons she’s kind of gone to that quicker routine but right now she is is just not accepting the moment playing a little too quick and you could tell just
From the body language that that putter was going to come out on Heiser I haven’t seen yet thank you Nate appreciate that she this tree deciding whether it’s Holland or Paige appears it looks like it with the OB to where the LIE would come in at Paige going forand roller here I would
Hope [Laughter] not there’s a lot of wood chips there are yeah it’s a very unpredictable ground now it looks like a flex forehand that was really nicely done she was able to like put a little bit of heat on it keep that angle down low and
Use her body to propel that disc almost forward nice Redemption shot after the t-shot yes Scoggin found OB off the t is she going to find it again yes no oh no no is the correct answer after a while get it on that’s right yeah everybody’s dancing the Drama Oh My
Goodness wow whole nine is leveling some games today how did that happen I feel like if you go beyond the drive you are setting up almost for an OB second shot it seems like it huh speaking of OB Hanley off the T throwing three almost skipped it in good recovery there to
Minimalize the damage and Tatar inbounds a little wide with her second swings in beautifully though jumping back to n and evina after her OBT shot Oh I thought I thought you got her with the commentator curse there do oh the things you don’t learn she made
It in and she’ll have a look at par for evina there is a nice par for Pierce after the drive Hanley this should be for bogy and mandano cleaning up par it’s interesting I don’t remember Valerie having those little bit of extra hedging that she has going on I wonder
If she’s got some pull problems now that you pointed it out I’ve also yeah it’s definitely different it’s different mhm and Solin in for par not to be a single bogey that’s great on with your first drive OB that’s you can save him but that’s good jumping ahead to 15 and Cat
Merch got a 345 ft par three this is probably one of the trickier ones because it’s went from the left side to the right side so if you are throwing that backhanded throw you’re going to have to really fight the hillside to get it to stick and Scoggin on the green of nine
Fires it home take advantage of it nice jot a par after the OB Drive is that right that would be wow impressive for the solo lead for Merch on 15 along birdie P bam dang finds the bottom from range she’s looking good on the tea like she’s
Owning the tea she’s feeling the groove it’s kind of how you keep it rolling yeah thanks to zuka for rolling back this replay like I roll my cart all around hman Park these days no stepper needed cat just drills it right on the Heiser heart well done on hole eight Kristen first available
Nearly yeah that would never had a chance either left or right M Hano it’s a great height there looks like bad ground play I think so I thought we’d see a skip me too it looked perfect for that skip Pierce our first look at a back end on this one that’s that putter again it’s coming out late this time though inbounds inbounds the Silver Lining
Canley that’s what Nate was talking about there it was you could even kind of almost see it splashing as she was showing that gosh late Tree on a great looking drive I’m going to take a quick peek at our scores and your leader has a two-stroke lead now after that huge putt
Yeah she’s really feeling feeling the just she’s feeling her own game right now she’s staying in it and it’s really showing holes to go curious if they’ll be able to chase her down or not let take a peek down the leaderboard there we see genon also in
Your top 10 that’s a bunch of bunch right there yeah it is threes and twos so we’ll save a peek down the leaderboard for later jumping back to pierce in her second on the par 4 e useful shot that great recovery shot she’s now put herself into a position to
Attack for the par yeah the other side of the Fairway but about the same distance Kristen throwing her second so goes Woods yeah right a great looking shot on unfortunately Nestles on that tree it is really as a competitor and a player it’s important to process
Those bad lies uhhuh it was still a good shot right yes evina going down the hill on 10 can she keep it in bounds very nice she can jump that one if she wants to and jump it ahead to 16 and merch Your Leader that’s little 320 we do see these
Bunkers but uh if cat’s feeling it this merch that’s a good shot I don’t think that was a bunker onto that side I think that’s just a third spot that that was great nice smooth swing from merch there look like she barely trying mondu Hano back on eight finds the middle
Tree and Par will be tough from there he look down at hole 8 from your flight Factory drone reminder head over to flightfactor disc.com use code Austin for 10% all weekend long they’ve got Holland Hanley gear there if you’re a Holland Hanley fan oo mhm she beat the jail Des she
Beat the jail she’s putting for the birdie best we’ve seen so far yeah really nice H’s partner in Caddy believe his name Tyler and Mandu Hano throwing three nice not bad not bad Pierce and her third coming up another misfire oh yeah injuries with players and I don’t even mean to use the
All the time but um it’s just hard sometimes your release is good sometimes it’s bad and we’re seeing that right now yeah from Pierce to Allen putting for birdie there it was oh look like that was par from the Drop Zone excuse us there oh sorry I thought you were what a
Save it’s always good to see Allan catch those big ones in um just been a great Landmark for the game tar throwing three trying to flex it through the Gap seeing how difficult it is to get down that uh small tunnel Solan inbounds on 10 putting for birdie
Not her best looking effort there does no I think she even was laughing at that one so at least it’s still very close and a live look down and you can see why we do have OB in the woods cuz there’s a cliff and a
Creek right there yes and I uh I do know that they’re going to have a spectator Village in the middle of those two it might happen over time and that’s going to help out with that OB to to keep the spectator safe Pi’s throwing four forand roller coming oh boy where does it
Stop can’t hear that hey sometimes you bowl them that’s a strike right there for Pierce that is merch for birdie you saw the drive a live look at your leader that is she is in classic merch form where she’s cool yet goofy it’s working for is that a three-stroke lead
Now I think it is yeah she’s six down now yeah there it is it just updated tar for par that far no nearly the Fairway for that par putt there was a lot to ask for manduo just about the same Hanley this is a birdie putt for Holland be a great
Make that was so good all kinds of chains and it just skitters on out for hauling on a great looking bid I do love it when we see our athletes want to Chas him in yeah let’s take one more look at this Paige Pierce forehand roller in the
Woods so tental Dez she is putting a lot of speed and angle on this disc knowing it needs to get through you do run the chance if it doesn’t hit anything it went through those trees look at that what and I mean it’s still going and
There’s OB on the back side so I mean it’s a risky play but that is all she has when we look back and find Paige in the woods yeah and now let close out the hole Pierce heartbreak the are coming back for [Applause] bogy a double
Wow forar after missing the I feel like we’ve heard that sound a lot today there is a pierced double after missing the bogey putt this is a par for Hanley she’s silently getting Strokes on this group [Applause] mhm this is evina on a t of 11 r five
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With a thre stroke lead cat merch on the T of 17 17’s one of the longer holes where the FP will be playing a longer pin and a par four over the mpos on ho nine Holland Hanley will she be another victim you can see that she was doing
The layup um yes she still tested it this it was that one looks so bad it might have been good yeah oh my goodness that’s Mandu hano’s t- shot on nine oh will it get off the green yes barely [Applause] perect a well-earned smile for Val for Val the
Th that wind is really carrying the flight play over you called it tatara o off the T on nine see if Paige can make adjustment looking to carry the green is Pierce that look like a good adjustment it did too much too much power wow should we way up the Fairway at
Least uh with that tricky Dre we’re seeing some errant t- shots I’m looking at our can current conditions fill us in my man yeah they came out of the woods uh to some whipping R wind headwind right to left you saw it get under Holland’s disc you saw Kristen make the mistake
Paige’s shot looked great but then late in the flight it just became a kite guys it’s going to be hard on these next four or five holes thank you Nate looking at Holland and her second a right to left Crossing L onto this peninsula green oh so even though she was inbound
She had a long way to go and Nate was that ever in at any point for Holland no she made the Fatal mistake she’s only going to move up 30 ft or so throwing her fourth M oh my another stren distance do yeah oh they could
Just see it I thought we got rid of that rule come on guys only in your own game yeah that’s the goal still faced with that same shot inbounds somehow for all in Handley she really made the adjustment I mean she almost well she did she threw her
Body into it where her first one she did not and that wind as Nate Perkins was talking about just took the disc and kept it lb all the way mondano had by far the best t- shot hopefully she can take advantage you really do have to pay attention to
Your competitors and get some wind reads when you come out uh it’ll improve your game in Strokes if you can do that and these these players play with each other a lot so they know what the each other throws she made that adjustment hey we get to see hole nine
How it should be played that was awesome well done Val create Heiser flip as it controls the wind the heer flip and the wind will actually break and then ride the wind better tar was OB off the T and five off the lead right now and this doesn’t look like an easy
Par absolutely not this is not much farther than Hollands was this needs to get down and it does just in time curve check she will have that left for par to stay five off the lead of merch speaking of you saw the t- shot for a cat on
17 she got way down there throwing two merch out the Gap nicely that is just a perfect play this is a really tough second shot you do have to just pick that alley she did a great job and back to solonin on ho 11 classic par five really mirrors a
Ball or a golf green par five hole well placed I like it should have a great angle into into the Green from there looking at Paige Pierce her t- shot went OB throwing three I think sometimes those are going to be the toughest stances for Paige
Until she gets uh really secure in her ankles you saw her check the ground with the loose rocks a little work left for that par putt somewhere around circle’s Edge there’s mer merch putting it out there she really is and we can really see how tight that funnel to the green is
Hanley runting for five that would have been an incredible connect it would had a chain high but push it just a little right M Pierce walking to a parut another low putt from Pierce yep she’s probably just still getting back into her swing and anytime you’re going
To take an injury to your footwork and your legs it’ll take you a little bit of time to get into it she’s been really online all day though agree yeah it is just a matter of getting that extra power in there Tatar will grab a meter in and have this left for
Par to stay within five of the lead and staying close important for this one CU you know weather might come to the into the equation here you’re right we’re not out of the woods yet with the weather yeah Mandu hanu for birdie now for rare birdie yeah yeah excellent and you can see
There she didn’t do her hedge so it was at a longer distance where she just like stepped up and jammed the putet like we know her to do look at this wind for Holland is that a head doz left to right yeah yeah I think you right gets it in
Yep but unfortunately that is a double for Holland she’s picked up a couple big big holes today she has she did go through those woods really kind of unscathed but then yeah they add up quick let’s jump back to our leader on 17 merch has technically get an eagle
Bid she says oh look at that she knows where she’s at oh they said that’s for par smart play oh that was laying up for birdie tapping in par excuse me there guys that was Solon on the par 511 Dr that left for birdie here is the par for Merch lead stays at
Three oh it just changed Allen that was a birdy make on Hoy 11 for Katrina back on it m the wood holes got right yeah we’re seeing right there that middle section is where everyone’s Reds are coming in and I mentioned that merch lead is down to two that’s henna
Blamus at four down now birdies on three of the last four Solin speaking of birdies it almost stayed in it did yeah yep it’s hard to say with without looking at him head on uh sometimes they just hit a little too flat and high and splash out the right side and I
Mentioned henna getting to four down that’s how she’s done it so far nice and steady y nothing worse than a bogey nice to see that looking down at ten T and maduan with the Box the forehand with his left to right Dez what do you think uh we’ve seen the
Backhands been drifting and barely staying safe so I’m excited to see the outcome of this that’s good yeah better than we’ve been seeing definitely surprising with the way we’re seeing the wind on the open flag right there that was a good read by monano Tatar will she follow those Vapor Trails
As my man Pho likes to say oh with this wind though there’s not Vapor Trails left they’re gone they’re gone this is the little pinck compared to the big pinck which was four and that was Neil dbra pdj number 200 he is also part of the he’s the TD and the part of
The course designing crew tar going more or less right at it I like the height kept it this really flat too it did on a good day that would have I think tracked right to the basket I think got it pushed it just a little bit Pierce see our first
Backand Paige has been playing the game long enough where she just relies on that backhand it was almost it almost skipped in it was everything you needed to be sometimes you just got to let those go just elevation wind try to just blow it off let it not affect you surprised
Colin’s not leaning on the forehand here with her great forehand what we just saw from the first three yeah with her being both right and a four-handed dominant it’s hard to say um I actually feel like the back pan would probably work better with that wind coming in okay but it
Hasn’t been yielding these results either BCE in bounce is good yep Katrina we’re on whole 12 310t par three I do like this change I like that it’s reachable between the double Mandos it’s already um it’s really just a visual frightening everyone should be making it through those Mando trees but when you
Got two of them just like staring at you like two eyeballs it does uh put a psychological tear of you Aina ooh shaping up nicely that does look beautiful almost got her second basket hit of the day be fun track it yeah there is your
Leader did you get she is waiting on 18 to clear about 7 seconds in her bull ride one more one second left body language looks good she looks loose 18 is a it’s a little devil of a hole you know par five through the woods finish OB everywhere H way like we only waited to get off the course before the win really you know starts to get going yeah I think cat’s uh very fortunate in feeling that when she’s uh finishing up on 18 right now Pierce does not produce par what a great
Effort though it did that was one of her best looking putt Strokes that we’ve seen today another one light right online yes Tatar looking at birdie right around Circle Edge just to close her Gap to four great read with that Tailwind whipping she got it up just high enough
On that down she had a little bit of a Down putt with a Tailwind Hanley also putting for two quite a bit shorter much tougher win though look at that flag whip where are you aiming on a putt like this doz right above the basket boom her putt really does set up nicely
Into a head when she shouldn’t fear it too much he has great spin control and is always um direct line MH manduo also looking for birdie we’ll listen for this one that sounds good and Pierce losing Two Strokes to the card here look at this wind
Oh there we go like where did where did it go Dyan with kind of a left to right tail end on the next one in that big part five that is right yep I had to oriate myself pry look for Allen oh it’s a little interesting maybe the the tree kind of been
Her line I don’t think she wanted any part of it it looked like more of a throw than a putt her put number comes out on a Hiser similar to we’re seeing of evina is right now heina just get Tailwind right there we we’ll blame the Tailwind things are getting tough you
Got to really focus on this back six holes there are and let’s check out our keys for closing brought to you of our friends at blacking disc.com the premium disc golf store fantastic this was I was just kind of talking about this we’re surviving the middle we’ve got through
The wooded sections the back half the last six holes are actually birdie opportunities a little bit m in the opens but we’re seeing the wind play out so it’s important that the players take advantage of the putts that they can get know when to hold them and uh finish
Strong there are lots of holes with birdies and strokes to be had great look at the hole from your flight Factory drone and the t- shop for manduo now center cut that’s what you need guitar up next I really like that we’re seeing the diversity of shots we can see backhand
Shots we can see forehand shots it’s really whatever suits the player so the course is welld designed to accentuate the players best assets Handley is that one of the from Jack that is that one of Ja think you heard when I was talking players know each other so well you kind
Of know which disc they’re throwing that’s cooked never got Edge fine line between the shot we just saw from Paige the Hollands Holland had a little more of the Hiser to skip Ang P just laid out flat and it held it even though at the end it was star to
Curl in it was too flat to start with and didn’t really have a chance to come back she’s going need to come back at this point she’s down in 40th Place place as res wild that is wild it’s you know it’s it’s hard to judge someone when you come back from shattering an
Ankle um it’s important that we see her out here cat merch on the finishing 18 left side of the Fairway slightly off perhaps got out to start with Pierce throwing three on 11 not very far off the te you can tell little Calvin heimberg sighting the little catting for his buddy Madison
Walker oh yeah putting on the gear got to be official I love this really shows the great dis Golf Community the Touring prosos that are out there with the disc golf pro tour it’s uh facilitating just a wonderful Comm Community love it Katrina Allen on the
Tf13 circle yep beautiful I think in all of these uh holes that are 300 to 350 you want to get it somewhere in those circles Bina snap on that thing though it’s headed left I could not tell could you I could not no update yet we’ll let you know
When it comes in though manduo on 11 throwing two swings back right on time for fou that is a really nice shot when we looked at her shot she had a lot of OB to the left and right and the bunker and it all pinched and funneled to right
Where her distance was so this is a very classic designed hole it puts a premium on how far you’re going to drive to how far you’re going to throw your second shot to your Landing zones and we did just get an update on eolina putting for birdie Circle one Hanley and her
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Bit that’s Well Done by Kristen merch was OB off the T on 18 throwing three is playing as a par five she has got a long ways to go and that’s drifting there’s OB to the right [Applause] too all right back to 11 and Pierce her fourth coming up
Pe’s looking to carry the golf green and get onto the dis golf green that’s a great shot Dez nice carry yeah should be an easy up and down for bogey from there for Paige I like the Paige just keeps swinging yeah right yep mhm second shot for Natalie Ryan on 18 a
Massive drive that is a massive Drive she you can visualize where the PIN is oh my there’s OB over there yeah that was toast yeah oof closing in on the green on whole 11 as we look down from our flight Factory drone beautiful Austin skies blue skies shining in
Me how close are you to Austin D about an hour out I live out in the Hill Country okay cool yeah I’m an equal distance between Austin and San Antonio okay lovely of Both Worlds nice Mandu Hano throwing three heing Le that might have been some
Tree help do I I believe it was yeah was definitely going to flirt with the OB in bounds for birdie putt though is the result over to Tatar also third yeah nice adjustments a little lower maybe even a little higher speed disc live Katrina it’s another inside the circle
Miss for cat she’s still hanging though despite the misses you know that’s four inside the circle I want to say we’ve seen yeah those will add up though you just cannot have them yeah she she could be winning this thing right now Hanley in her third nothing wrong with that for
Holland she’ll be happy cat merch barely in Balance after her third we’ll throw four instead of five thankfully but look at this up and down she has left is she going out around the outside maybe guys or what do you do from here no there’s the mandatory oh
Yeah y so it’s going to have to force her to the left it does appear that she has a small micro hole open on that left- hand side but yeah right now she is trying to get somewhere in the green just to minimalize I think pinning it is almost out of the
Option she goes for it I love it that’s the hole excellent I think it was a little uh shorter than it appeared on yeah I think right uhhuh Aina this is for Birdie on 13 yeah yes so Paige laid up for bogey to the circle’s Edge do that’s that’s lack of
Concentration yeah and has this now left again another online bit from Pierce but can’t find the height they’re high they’re low still looking for that that goldilux but Pierce is going to go through some ups and down Downs when you come back from an injury and you know where you could
Be it is mentally very difficult to let go what you think you should be doing to where you are at oh manduo gave it a bit but skitters off the rim evina just two off the lead and speaking of on a t of 14 that’s a nasty kick Tatar for Birdie Gap is down to three and merch likely moving the wrong way on 18 this could get interesting fast yes especially with tar having so many holes left to go and most are birdie opportunities Hanley for birdie to get back to where she started today
Slides it in just enough to get it over the rim we’re seeing putts are a premium you have to make your putts there there are so many opportunities and the players that are making these putts are the ones that are in the lead right now everybody has given themselves an opportunity manduo for
Par and this is a unforced double for Pierce mov the wrong way again it’s in there somewhere Dez it’ll come out at some point you know that could be half the problem is she knows where it’s at and she just can’t unlock it you’re alluding to that being a a
Metal struggle and I can’t imagine we’re going to take one more look at this evina drive this time from the catch cam you saw the kick and it was headed towards out of bounds and unfortunately that’s where it rested so and those High shots in the woods have such an opportunity to go
OB on 18 Ryan and her third long look for birdie technically [Applause] Allen full 14 Katrina on The Fairway low shot low kick yeah 18 with cat merch should we have this for five does make it great recovery shot from the OB start the lead is down to one
Though that’s a five not a seven I promise oh it might have been a par actually huh I do feel like yeah we saw go be on the first dve yeah it was a par tar hold decent ground action though somewhere in circle two for that birdie bid handle next
Up still time for Holland to make a move Dez she’s been sneaky she’s been in it then just a few mistakes have uh cost her a couple different places no mistake there no that was all you wanted onano nice lift there big ground play yeah and Pierce Circle two look Circle two look
Everybody wants to get within that Circle one on that one I think it was only 315 granted it’s a double Manda with a side slope and some crosswind but Circle one back on 14 evina throwing three after the OB Drive testing that OB again but looks to
Be safe hopefully there’s a window out from over there Allan or second that’s the job done right there with her second shot right Yeah doz you you played a bunch of rounds with Paige what what do you what do you think I I really just feel like Paige is you know she’s just coming into like I’ve suffered an injury and so how do I go about that and is the longer you
Play in sports the more you’re going to have that we’ve seen Tatar have one and she’s come back and it’s just a matter of processing it had to be silent for that I was just feeling that one going in massive putt from Tatar long range goodness the power she can generate from
That straddle and keep that just tight line boggles my mind really outstanding [Applause] P reaction and this is one just really great trade of uh Paige Pier is her competitive Spirit to see everybody succeed yeah she does want everyone to succeed and beat you on that succession mhm the birdie
Putt got a little headwind lift perhaps there more than likely it was coming in from that direction from the te manduo has a similar look but shorter right into that headwind doesn’t even want it fair enough yeah and those are the times where it gets a little tricky you know as we’re
Talking about are we going to get the three round tournament in do you have only two I mean you can never really assume anything um but Strokes always do matter y Pierce coming back for par that one does the job and all I can say about this putt
For Holland is that was a nice drive that was a nice drive give her the [Applause] bullseye Manu will drop in the par Aina still in trouble her fourth big trouble if it looks like a forehand roller hope that curled quickly it was all it could be I mean you you got it
Out there yeah you just it’s a hope Allen her third to set up the par putt looks like she’s done that that’s where we saw a merch lay up so uh 14’s te and green are very tricky a live look at 13 te at the bottom pin just across that pond to the
Left see it up there another live look down from our flight Factory drone and oh looks like evina got into the woods with that forehand roller just pitches out it’s going to be a double though that’s tough I feel like on whole 14 yeah that’s a good par for Katrina keeping in this
Thing Madison Walker gets it in there and here is the unfortunate double for evina drops her back to two on the day back on the TF 13 Kristen hey she’s deadly from anywhere [Applause] truth Hanley a little fluffy and it looks a little OB doesn’t
It I can’t see a stake but I would say yes from the one I could see on the far right yeah huano that’s it I do know that Cliff is about a 30ft drop off so it’s going to be high and tight on there for the OB oh my Pierce
A rough day one for your defending Champion she’ll have a long birdie put again as that one hung out wide and we have your leader C merch in the clubhouse looks like that’s they’re still giving her the birdie I guess so maybe she didn’t go OB on that first one
That’s a bonus it is that’s taking good advantage of all that you got then great Finish let’s send it on down the cat Merchant Brian aard take it away Brian how currently in the lead seven underpar effort cat merch I’m in the lead talk about it I don’t know I just went it just happened and now it’s done and it is what it is I saw you yesterday
In the background of the press conference slamming some headwind putts or at least putting in the pretty heavy winds how long were you out there and were you working on anything specific um I was working on something specific I wasn’t out there too long I was pretty
Tired yesterday but I was working on headwind putts and trying to get the get the putter like flat definitely missed one of those today but whatever it’s why I’m out there I’m practicing how are you this season just overall life I’m doing good I’m taking care of my cats my cats
Are loving life Jim got in a fight and lost one of his nails so he doesn’t get to go out at night anymore um I’m doing pretty good probably doing the best that I have been doing in a long time well cat you got the rest of the day it looks like the
The bad weather might come later in the day what’s uh the evening looking like for you it’s going to look like me tracking down my cat cat good luck tomorrow we’ll see you out there thank you Brian from cat to cat merge to Allen I know producer MO is loving that
Cat talk he’s a big cat guy I love cat look at the shape on this from Allen on any given day her flip up and heer fade is so good probably topnotch against anybody it’s impressive to see it even work against that wind evina whoa look at this move does that
Is the different that’s the power move so we got to see the Finesse side of it to the power side of Sol and a green light on the putt there at least paig Pierce for Birdie on 13 woo all wind there way with that one yeah I think that was just
Wind the goat’s in there somewhere Dez it’s waiting to come out she’s got to find a new one I think I think so yeah honestly true yeah you got to kind of like train and figure out how you are going to adapt to your new body and your
New standards it is in there I believe when we ever talked to Kristen she would say the same thing when she came back from her elbow she just tried to work within her new body and know what she can do there Shenanigans n what’s going on on the
Green here at 13 fill us in any yeah they’re just seeing who’s out right now Holland’s pretty close they’re both Circle two right here Kristen’s coming back into a a tail left to right all right thanks you sir it’s a great bit I always uh as a
Competitor I love to step up and take that first put um instead of deferring and waiting to the next person if it was close I’ve always been the player that feels like it’s more important to step up and make it instead of watch your competitor Holland trying to get
Comfortable it is a par look for Holland after the OB Drive outside the circle right I don’t think she had much there no and we’ll have this left for bogey not far off the bullseye though that always really smarts to the psyche when you’ve already thrown op and then
You do not have a chance to save it it’s a tough uh one to come back from we’ll see how she does on the next T it’s coming off a turkey as well she was on a hot streak there yeah unfortunately Holland’s been uh finding herself with the doubles and that’s really been
Driving her score down yeah you think this kind of a haul and Handley hole too you power backand Heiser it’s got to be disappointing birdie for Mandu Hano after a beautiful t-shot Scoggin for birdie perfect perfect on the green that we haven’t seen too many people be challenging let’s roll back this zuka
Replay on the pole perfect height gogin evina with a birdie putt the drive went just a little bit long so good to be on that back side you’re putting up at it not have to be down even over the last three holes love it oh another look look at this
Extension yeah you you’re noting that it’s there hey I uh I watched of [Laughter] golf on the green allen putting for birie three big CTS K Trina playing fantastic today second shot on 17 for bmus two off the lead of merch coming up Birdie on 16 can’t be mad at that solid
Progress back to 14 for Madu Hano well uh Birdie’s on three of the last five and has kept it clean otherwise it’s a tight line Dez it is a tight line B was just a little wide on that heer tar what do you think about the flex
Forehand here over the backhand I I do feel like it’s probably going to be the better shot the backhand is a really tough one to decide you’re either like really pulling over on something a flip up is almost feels almost impossible yeah and a great t- shot by Kristen
Look like Pierce will go backand it’s weirdly enough only about 285 to The Landing Zone but it is getting to that Landing Zone which is about right where we saw and Handley Oh shot that had potential yeah Katrina Allen we’re on the T of 16 320t par
Three we saw cat merch Park this one earlier Mis released by Allan doz yeah that’s the problem sometimes with that flip up Heiser it can just slip out a little low she looked really nice off the tea all day too really hitting her lines mhm I agree she’s put a good round
Out there yeah Scoggin that’s a full send from own the Hat even comes off she’s in his Z which is in the circle think she caught the hat too yeah points evina God she is Exceptional from both sides it’s exciting to see I’m excited to watch how uh her game translates into
The 2024 season yeah me too manduo throwing two on 14 still needs to make the Gap she’s out she is out yeah that second shot you really are kind of just uh puncturing through there yeah henna to move within one of the lead doesn’t want it
N saw cat mer do the same on 17 yeah it’s kind of not too many people are want to test that one elevated pin little open area for the wind handly throwing to Pierce has actually set this up almost perfectly this this is the best part of
The landing zone so if you do hit that right pocket you are straight ahead towards the pin is this turning I don’t think it did Nate talk to us about that Pier second shot yeah she was actually in a perfect Lane right there and she had Tailwind
Right to left and again guys just an underc committed Heiser out of the hand didn’t make it out the Gap I think it fell down safe though okay thank you Nate nice a finish there Tatar second really nice drive even better than Pages yeah textbook starting to charge that’s
Bird’s on three of the last four for Tatar looking at another one on 14 Allan on 16 the drive not great just lays up that was a moment ago we are now live with Scoggin putting for birdie an inch low for Scoggin visual frustration one does expect to make all
PS inside the Circle she’s in it she’s two down right now just five off the lead that would have really helped evina also a birdie look oh you could say that right out of her hands just way too much fluff back to 14 for Hanley Texas has has some interesting golf
Where we can have very I call it the Texas Slide so you can play half of our courses where you can leave it 50 short and it’s going to slide up to the basket or you’re going to play some that it’s just going to like it did right there
Just grab that grass and go nowhere and uh coming off of Brazos and and the Beast wakeo you got a lot of that Texas Slide yeah manduo and her third really nice speed control right there she took all of her footwork out of it just to make sure that she knew
The distance and the swing I find that to be a great way to do a shots highly recommended here you can see what everyone has left on 14 Holland first up it’s a bogey look you has not finished worse than third this year tight for 14th and moving the wrong way on
14 that is a pretty impressive stat obviously one that’s hard to keep going Tatar to move within two I believe in a sheriff’s side second that was such a tricky looking putt right there doz it really was she just does a such a good job of staying
Calm staying focused and in the moment and uh really just uh flatlining the putt yeah at right to left not a lot of marger for error Pierce looks like Tailwind Kristen always looks so calm over her putt compared to some other competitors Manu Hano in for
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With the slope and especially now right with the wind Modano a little bit of a threr doesn’t go anywhere though thankfully yep cooked it shove it ah head to 18 and hna bungus let’s see what we get for henna and in him back on 15 likes the forehand
Play two wide from Hanley that will likely be a layup for par from there yeah she’s going to have an obstructed second shot also under that bench 17 with Allen like that’s myg maybe maybe maybe we’ll see how the stance is over there for Katrina and we are back on 15 with
Madano throwing her second did paig just call party Foul did I hear that she said sorry Val oh sorry Val I think they were both kind of going at the same time are calling each other off gocha gotcha Holland her approach for par that’s done well yeah all right Aina the T of
17 that is just fine you’re in the middle you’re going to have some options Paige Pierce long birdie look we’ll have that left for par at least Tatar she wants birdie and we within one of the lead that was a smart putt Des that was an excellent run yeah yeah um on those
Longer ones and when there’s wind and there’s drop off behind it’s so important to just get it up and have a chance to drop it in instead of getting it up and blowing it by that could have been a very long comebacker you that OB is also lurking with a bad
Rule manduo looking at par cool look at that put from our flight Factory drone Holland walking to her power putt but we did see some birdies on hole 15 so as we look at the cat and Christen Kristen battle um cat did get the whole
15 so it’s a it’s a home stretch uh finish right now both cats that’s right huh yeah they’re both right there speaking of Allan throwing her second on 18 that was on 17 not 18 excuse me second for own on the same Look at this shot from scogin you got to love it anytime that we see own throw and she hits that Gap we got to account for that flare that’s going to happen that’s right we are in the woods with henna on [Applause] 18 a really nice out yes absolutely and
She was safe off the te so that was just her second oh this is a look here at 16 you can see the tpad just middle your your frame that pins up by that golf green just right at the bunkers you got to get this one Dez I do
Feel like you have to get this one I mean 398 M 320 yeah was like trying to do quick math thanks for flashing that yeah 320 yeah we saw the frustration when Scoggin missed it’s a definitely got to get yeah while they make their way to the green let’s go back to Katrina
Allen that her look at birdie and smartly laid up for par on this smart layup elevated pin same procedure we’re not seeing a lot of the Foo contenders wanting to contest this green with the elevated basket just kind of finding themselves right out of range yeah really tough to
Get super close on this one for a second I feel like it too we’re not seeing it so far in uh round one tar on 16’s T calling got to get looks like she’s going to get it oh that’s in there [Applause] cut oh yeah it’s bowel on the box
It was too high a little too weak on the turn Paige Pierce she’s going to be hunting basket going right at it his page outside [Applause] monano and now Hanley Holland gets it in circle one for a birdie look yeah the forehand definitely played better today for that shot
Scoggins birdie yes there we go now we get to see a put on that hole yeah we do dude I film this one more look at this smashing chains as we sneak in a break on the network back in just a [Applause] Few [Applause] n Some of my favorite discs in my bag are the Aeries discs they’re the ones I lean on to get close to the basket these are torque resistant discs provide a consistent fade at the end of the flight the best way to find your flight is to get out and use these discs
Yourself paig Pierce a long look at birdie nuts at B chain high at least she’s just going to have to keep plugging along just keeping her nose in it yep onu Hano I like the fact that it was up you know if any putt is up it has a chance
To go in I think there’s nothing worse than leaving a putt short cuz it just never has a chance tar again a chance to move within one another low one from Kristen yeah and if we’re going with that head-to-head match on 15 and 16 merch had got those birdies compared to
Tar let’s see if Hanley can grab a stroke on the card she needs it that is a little bit of the frustration with that super spin putt third shot for blus on whole 18 is a p that’s a birdie that is a nice birdie no putt necessary
She’ll be one off the lead with two rounds to go Hanley coming back for par that’s auor there if you are a spin putter you do need to have authority knowing that you will have a comeback that’s longer or about the same distance once around yeah Paige Pierce a little
Work left on her par putut two really nice [Applause] comebacks madano it’s an unforced bogey there for mandano after the birdie putt got away from her and missing the comebacker jumping ahead to 18 tap in Birdie on 18 for Hanah great way to finish within one of the lead as we
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17 a little short of Ideal do maybe workable maybe workable she definitely you know kind of in the woods the 2/3 rule is always golden if you can get 2/3 down the Fairway you’re going to have a better opportunity to scramble and keep that par as we are hitting 17 it is the
E 18th easiest hole 4.29 it’s like seven it’s actually seventh seventh hardest oh thank you I was like what just up thanks uh so um as you’re traversing down the Fairway you are just trying to be as clean as you can on The Fairway because we have got
OB to the right as the green approaches this is the time the pin you see first is actually going to be the mpos the fpos are finishing at the longer basket it is set on an elevated pin with a sloping green so even if you get out to
Set yourself up for the birdie your putt opportunity might be a little slippery we’ll see how uh players play it seen a lot of layups and one awesome putt from Owen right we have Yeah you got to love that about Paige though having the one of the worst rounds she’s had in a while you know and still being a nice presence on the C well and here it is too she even though she’s in 40th um she’s going to be able to play with
Some women that she’s never been able to play with and then likewise those women get a play with a five-time world champion so it totally sucks for pay but it’s going to be a blessing for some others and in the end that just continually progresses Tove and maybe
She can figure some stuff off out off camera tomorrow on the next you know Pierce throwing three good stop good stop get through that could have done it it could have done it it was a nice release and even as we were talking about Paige
Uh we saw at the wakeo her third round was her hot round and sometimes when you dump down lower on the card as a world champion player you’re able to refocus and that card actually makes your mindset still be like yes I am that world champion and then you kick off a
Good round and you get that feeling again I love to see that Allen on 18 after one throwing two pretty big reach out to angle here she’s definitely going to want to we’re seing her size up make sure she flicks her wrist to control that nose and hit that
Fairway in one of the fairways it is great second shot from cat there cat with a birdie can get within two of the lead pretty much lock in her League card for tomorrow as well it has been interesting the top three competitors that we see have all green birdie dots
But uh a double and a single bogey each oh you’re right Tatar on 17 throwing two the drive was good but leak a little right doesn’t get out but should have an up and down from there I think so pretty easy yeah uh 16’s really not playing as a
Birdie very few competitors are getting birdies on there just 11% birdies Scoggin that was on 18 not filter out for her and back to Holland [Applause] that was a fantastic maneuver as we were looking at Holland’s actual shot she didn’t have much um she took the widest and the highest percentage shot and
Executed perfectly aala on 18 throwing two you saw the drive incredible Drive OB left and right the entire way down that’s I want to say it’s in I I do believe it is in when I walked actually the Fairway they moved that left side of the Fairway in and cleared some extra
Brush out that was a really nice change really fair change yeah Pierce throwing four lovely Dro in five from there yeah the Obie really pushes in late as it gets towards the green CU that Cliff is right there correct I’ll look down for our flight Factory
Drone at 17’s last bit of Fairway and the green you can use coupon code Austin for 10% off all weekend long I am just loving these flight Factory drone shots it’s great perspective isn’t it it really is yeah tar has a long look at but she’s laying this
Up no close shave there that’s an easy par back to 18 for Scoggin and her third that had the shape to get there Dez so close gosh at the last one she needed to beat Hanley for birdie you love the aggression being this far back at this point you know she
Kind of had to or maybe not I don’t know I don’t know with that drop off I yeah her release looks so poor on it so it’s hard to even judge if the outcome was going to be good or not I just don’t know yeah well hopefully she can make
The comebacker in redeem herself for par now Handley we are sisa fising on the Ray’s basket de we are and and Holland she’s just got a little swoop and sometimes that uh can expose a flight plate in the wind and then with that spin we’re seeing her drift a little too far
Past evina in the woods on 18 throwing her third that looks close to the ob looks like it’s probably in though Hanley now for bogey this is a Mak or breaker got the head space you got you got to get into to make this putt yeah make it well done all in [Laughter]
Better stay in there you won’t get one more stroke for me I believe it’s a drop in bogey for Pierce that’s a drop in par for tar two off the lead is Kristen yeah and it’s really coming down to those 15 and 16 between merch and Tatar on the finishing here with the
Seven to five coming in and back to 18 we go for Allen this is her third and that’s in circle two for a long look at birdie yeah it’s open though Scoggin this is her birdie putt from the Fairway oh my you can see our hardworking crew from the flight Factory switching some
Baskets and pulling them that’s right down bottom middle of your screen is 18s T the baskets top middle more or less let’s fly it give us your thoughts here Dez 18 uh it’s a big finishing par five averaging 5.4 coming in at 685 ft we have OB surrounding the entire High
Fairway so OB left OB right middle of the landing zone is around 310 ft towards the basket right and left right and left split as competitors come down so you can kind of find pockets and Landing where anywhere but you can see it’s tight so you’re going to take any
Spot that you can the left side opens up yielding to a nice second to third shot into the home stretch of the green again surrounded by OB we can see the back Flags Landing anywhere near that pin and you know you are going to get your Putt in for the
Finish on the green Katrina Allen for birdie we’re in circle two right shape just needed a little more little more good round by Katrina evina it’s a birdie look also Circle to tough looking win too yeah look at her look at it just trying to figure it out
How am I going to throw it especially with her Heiser put de L us up even yeah she’s kind of wish she did after that one though and and that’s what we’re talking about with her Heiser Putt and that big wind whipping she got a direct headwind putt now to save
Bar then we’ll keep her four off the lead of merch really hard to lay up puts but you have to have a better attempt yes that’s a confidence booster right there after watching your putt go sailing by and then getting it in it doesn’t matter how it got in you got it
In solid catch by that basket Scoggins coming back for par nicely done not about round from own not really I mean especially we’re seeing her with a wrap on her arm which is a new um a new mode right now so I think that’s a good round there’s Katrina Allen and for
Par and let’s jump back to the T for Tatar not a bad looking drive there from Tatar welcome into the booth again Ian Anderson Dez reading right there day one what do you think I think it played uh we had a great day uh with the rainstorm that came through everything looked
Really good on the field and everyone is shaping up it’s it’s who is making puts who’s putting themselves within Circle one to Circle two and doing some rewinds thoughts on the redesign here of the course I think the redesign is fantastic and especially for the women um we’re
Seeing seven under par with merch coming in I believe I’m I’m going to throw maybe even cat finished or um Paige finish five down last year as a win so I think it’s playing easier and it’s more suited for the division it’s more exciting to watch it’s more fun to watch
Like this that’s what I’m saying yeah absolutely big fan of this course big fan of our field it’s could to be a fun final two days see who takes it down see who can grab the leading into the final looks like it’ll be cat for sure see if
Tar can get within one throwing two on 18 it’s progress it is not a ton it’s so hard to find that right height to not so high to get through the hole on wooded holes manduo no problem no that actually wasn’t the worst kick off the tree it
Still went forward quite a bit it didn’t it stayed safe Pierce throwing two almost but not quite for Pierce but at least it’s in that other Fairway yeah we hear paig talking about uh how galleries or we’re not quite sure who she’s talking about but um as you
Struggle through injuries or just being at a high level and dumping down to a lower level it’s difficult lots of more things will distract you the distance was nice for Holland but a little pinched on the angle throw in two not what she needed there Dez NOP still progression par
Five but you’re always wanting more yeah we can tell we have real athletes that are playing um we’ve always had real athletes but the shot analysis that goes on after every shot that we’re seeing really does show that these competitors are trying to better themselves in the
Moment tar grabbing range for her third shot I’m finishing part five it’s a fresh Fairway it is a fresh Fairway huge shouts to all the volunteers and crew and tourament directors making this possible it’s a ton of work nearly perfect that was beautiful I mean that had pretty much everything
That you could have done besides the finish that more or less locks in your leag card for tomorrow we have cat merch Hanna blumo Tatar and Katrina Allen on your league card tomorrow Tatar this is our powered by NAA shot that is some serious lifestyle power there want to keep your phone
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Coming down the home stretch everyone gets a little anxious a little bit of a frustration as you’re wanting to finish up and thinking about what could have been Pierce is our thir third finds the last group she needed to beat paig looking over at maduan yes B throwing
Three wow great shot yeah I did see that line it’s a nice birdie to finish Paige Pierce needs a new putter for this one yeah as players we usually do carry two different styles of Putters one that can bend a little more one that might Hiser a little more so looks like Paige
Might have picked an understable pter right here was a nice Bend just Pierce just a little more turn on that needed Hanley not much closer it’s a birdie look they’re calling from 50 right online just low for Hanley she’s had a really up and down round yes it’s been
Tough has six birdies today but unfortunately nine power strokes the other ones Tatar another chance to move within one and grab a share of second easy par it is instead easy par Kristen did go flat on the back yeah part is on the last four holes there is a nice birdie finish for
Monano and to get under power on the day excellent birdie got to love starting with a birdie and ending with a birdie yeah there is Hanley and a bar for Krist let’s check out our scores see how it shook out day one of the open at Austin presented by our friends at
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Feel yeah it feels cool finally to play decent round with no missed parts and everything like that yeah well talk about some of the newer holes they cut into the woods a little bit uh 6 seven and eight are pretty treacherous the OB is really tight talk about those wooded
Holes out here oh they are super hard if you miss your line like this month you can be OB easily and and I think you can take a like eight on every hole on there so they are hard you need to focus on every Sun a few different players had
Told me that on those holes with the tight OB inside the woods they’re actually playing a certain shot because of the Miss and some players are saying that they don’t do that do you change your decision off the te because of the OB no I don’t think so no well tomorrow
Any adjustments you need to make from today sorry any adjustments from today that you need to make tomorrow uh throw a little bit better I had three OBS today so I think that’s a little bit too much but yeah keep going the same all right well congratulations stay we’ll see you tomorrow thank
You and again welcome into the booth what do you make of words from henna it’s a strong day it is a super strong day and it’s good to hear that her putt was on and uh it’s just like we were talking about those middle holes are
Really kind of like a game changer so being able to come through there halfway clean is sets it up for the front and backand nice her and evina both clean up the putt this year they the field might be in for some trouble I agree yeah it’s
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She’s on the lead card now over the feature card and I think her feature card starting today we saw a lot of basket hits and if we look at the stats Kristen had probably one of the weaker showings of compared to the four that are going on to the lead card tomorrow
And it could have been indicative just to that card that she was on that’s true it was a little shaky it was a little up and down with the putting we heard a lot of dinks doinks dinks you know yeah Katrina got to play with evina they’re
Kind of feeding off each other really correct we’ve seen a lot of that lately where two players get hot and they just run away with it hey when you got someone was always going to push you and if the card gets hot it’s so easy just
To join in that if you’re the only person that’s trying to be the hot person you’ve got three that are kind of like as we say floundering yeah um it’s it’s hard to swim in that water kind of makes tatar’s round even more impressive to do that under those circumstances it
Really shows her ability to focus we saw in Waco when her shots were not like as clean as they maybe she wanted but she just took herself into her own Zone I would see her breathing through it and that’s one of her best assets yeah her
Ability to get centered on a putt I don’t think anybody anybody can match that right now no throughout the horr game yeah any other names you want to mention here on our top 10 want to give Rebeca Cox a shout out I love Rebecca Cox um I actually got to play with her
When she was maybe 8 to 10 I was doing a clinic yeah coming into the Ohio area so I’m a big fan of Rebecca Cox and the Cox family um way back in the Frisbee room I think she got the only Birdie on six day too wasn’t it something like that she
Did that’s right really impressive day for her she can keep it going maybe we’ll see her on that League card for the final round you never know do we have tar oh we do we are going to send it on down all right let’s see what she has to
Say let’s get it all yours guys now with Kristen Tatar Kristen we were expecting difficult conditions but it was a little different than than we both expected out there can you expand on that um yes I was prepared for like storms and like lightning and everything
Uh but it was a lot better uh in that sense the wind was very strong today and it was from another Direction actually uh compared to the practice days so it was definitely like interesting out there tough I had to like make uh different choices compared to practice
Rounds but um I’m just happy it didn’t rain yeah I think we are all happy that we got a dry one in today and can you talk about H just how difficult that front nine is playing and and specifically Hol 6 through n seem to be playing really tough for the for the
Field um yeah I I think um uh like I started out today I was uh I think four down through five and I I missed the putt on on the first hole I feel like you want to get those birdies in uh before heading into the woods so
You have some room to play with um the wooded holes are definitely uh playing tough I don’t know maybe it’s just uh early in the season and and we’re not used to like the Woods Golf right now uh but uh yeah the fairways are super tight then you have to worry
About OB so there’s a lot of like factors coming in when you go to the woods were you shaken up at all after your short Mis putt on whole eight for single bogey cing the double did that did that at all cause an emotional rise in you um I was a little like
Disappointed in myself because I wasn’t really committing to that putt I wasn’t like super far or anything um but it you know it’s disc golf it happens uh I just knew it I had to forgive myself it wasn’t easy like going into the next hole and then throwing OB as well but I
Was like okay just calm down you still have like two rounds and and more holes in this round to play so just uh take it easy all right Kristen thank you for the interview just two back of the lead we’ll see you tomorrow again on the lead card thank You thank you Nate and Kristen for that one more break the last one of the day on the other side we have the OTB after show we’ll catch you there what is the simplest way to improve your disc golf game the answer learn from the very best Paul ulber Simon Laz Ezra ader
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There are your scores after day one and welcome into the boo thr final time Dez more stressful which side of the camera this camera I’m definitely an athlete more than a commentator well you killed it day one really really very thankful you joined us in the booth well I appreciate
It it’s quite an experience um for you viewers out there uh the production value is top-notch uh the working components are here is outstanding when you really get in here you get to see yeah it’s wild that’s a great word for it it is really impressive we able to
Pull this off and you can never get your hair to go good in the headphones I decided no it’s just you just what you get it looks amazing though all right let’s OT be this thing we cheated we talked about it during the break so we
We figured out a good one right we did yeah let’s go with it the evina hit on three that’s that’s our pick Let’s see what Mary Mary pick for us what do you got what do you got Nick oh okay oh the roller but it splits the trees the second angle is crazy it was a good one but is it right see it splits this group right here oh I understand right there right right there that was crazy it is crazy it was crazy but is that the shot all
Right this is we’re going to see what’s going on on day two we’re right now we’re over for two or I guess one if we can keep ourselves together yeah love it all right guys that is all we got for t one on the foo side don’t go anywhere The
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Go Kristin!
Best commenting crew in the game
Why is that man allowed to play against women?
I was really impressed by the commenting Quality in this round. While I can not stand Ian paired up with Philo on MPO (seems artificially cracked up) it was a really nice experience this time.
And about Des. Best commenting I ever heard in all my DGN events (tuning in the last three yrs).
Yay Des , Good to hear your voice!
So, such a great pair for commenting! Really brought out the best I've heard from Ian in a good while! Thx for testing out different variations =)
Unbelievable, PP has a score +9 and the commentators still find ways to praise her. The mute button helps.
Does Catrina Allen have a baby bump?
We need more Ian commentating this season, dump Terry.
This is the most professional announcing I've heard in professional disc golf.
Kat Mertsch is such a lovable wingnut. Her interviews are amazing. <3