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2013 Masters Cup Am Weekend Winner Peter McBride

It was a spectacular weekend for disc golf at the 2013 Masters Cup Am event! With perfect weather, a dedicated staff, and a full field of eager golfers, the stage was set for an awesome tournament. There was some great golf played on each day, with rounds that were rated unofficially well up into the thousands.

The highlight of the weekend though was DGA’s Arm Farm Team Captain Peter McBride’s outstanding caliber of play. Each day Pete shot under par and held the lead for all 3 days of the event. Pete was greeted by a gallery of friends and family after completing hole 27 on Sunday afternoon, and was all smiles as he accepted congratulatory cheers from everyone in the crowd. The event was concluded with the huge raffle and awards ceremony Sunday evening where Pete was awarded with the first place trophy and a custom Mach III Portable basket. Needless to say, it was a great tournament with great times had by all.

The Am event was a great kick off for the Masters Cup Pro weekend that is happening on April 26th – 28th. A big thanks to the tournament director TJ Goodwin for a hell of a job putting on this magnificent event, as well as all the sponsors, volunteers, spectators, and players. Ed was definitely looking down on all of us this past weekend with a big smile on his face due to all of the hard work and dedication put into this tournament by everyone involved. So thanks again to everyone who was out there and DGA looks forward to seeing everyone again during the pro event in two weeks!

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Save Pinto Lake Disc Golf Course:

Pinto Lake Disc Golf Course, home of the 2011 PDGA Pro Worlds Disc Golf Championships is threatened. A small group of people who live in Soquel oppose the Pinto Lake Disc Golf Course in Watsonville and they have petitioned the Santa Cruz County Parks Recreation Commission to have the course removed! Please help and show your support!

What can you do?

1. E-mail Santa Cruz County Supervisor Zach Friend and let him know how you feel about Pinto Lake Championship Disc Golf Course. This will only take a minute of your time, but your input is valuable.
2. You can also sign the Facebook Petition to show your support for the Pinto Lake Championship Disc Golf Course!
3. Show your support and visit Pinto Lake Disc Golf Club or call Santa Cruz County Parks 831-454-220
4. Come to the Parks & Recreation Commission meeting Monday April 15 at 7 PM and show your support for disc golf in Santa Cruz County Parks. The meeting will be held at the Simkin Swim Center, 979 17th Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA 95062 (in Live Oak, Soquel Ave exit from Hwy 1).

The 18 hole course is designed by Disc Golf Hall Of Famer Tom Schot, a renown disc golf course designer with over four decades of disc sports experience. Tom also designed and founded the famous DeLaveaga disc golf course in Santa Cruz, Ca in 1983. People familiar with DeLaveaga will remember how the course transformed the area from a local garbage dump littered with refuse, broken glass, old appliances and broken-down cars, inhabited by squatters and used for four-wheeling into a beautifully cared for park, safe for people of all ages to enjoy.

Pinto Lake County park disc golf course was designed by Tom to fit into the natural surroundings of the park with multi-use at the core of the design philosophy. Part of this philosophy embraces the goal of bringing new people into the park system. Disc golf at Pinto Lake park now realizes this vision and the park is accessible by all to explore and enjoy. Please show your support for this gem of a course!

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Kent’s Deaf Disc Golf Videos – How To’s Disc Golf Lessons

We recently updated Ambassador Team Member Kent Schafer’s page with some great tutorial deaf disc golf videos. Kent has been an incredible ambassador for the sport of disc golf. These videos are just one small contribution to the disc golf community. Kent’s home town is Springfield, IL., and his home town course is a 6 holer at Wisconsin school for the Deaf where he introduces 100+ students yearly to disc golf.

Make sure to swing by Ambassador Team member Kent Schafer’s team page to check out his bio and his deaf disc golf tutorial videos. The deaf disc golf tutorial videos are down the page below his bio and include are video lessons for Driving, Tactics, Disc Stability, Rollers, Hydration, Out of Bounds, Putting Lessons and Strategy.

Kent’s Deaf Disc Golf Videos – How To’s Disc Golf Lessons

If interested in finding out more about deaf disc golf check out the DDGA site. The DDGA has an active forum for all things deaf disc golf related as well.

If you are new to disc golf and want to find out more about the sport make sure to read up on Disc Golf Education and Development as well as the Disc Golf Rules for Recreational Play.

If you have any questions about deaf disc golf and you want to contact Kent leave a comment on his bio page and we will make sure that he gets it.

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The 2013 Fantasy Disc Golf season is underway with the 2nd event now in the books. The Texas State Championships was the second stop on this year’s Fantasy Disc Golf tour. But there is still plenty of time for you to sign up and win prizes for each person event throughout the season.

This year the main Fantasy Disc Golf Gold Tour 2013 league is giving away a custom Mini Basket for each events point total winner. This means you could win a basket for each stop on the 2013 Fantasy Disc Golf tour!

The Steady Ed league sponsored by DGA is also giving away a Mach II – Portable disc golf basket with custom Basket Blades to the overall tour points winner. So stay diligent with your picks, as there is now a permanent basket being offered as a grand prize to the overall winner of the Steady Ed league.

Both leagues are FREE to join and you win prizes in both, so there is no reason for you to not be apart of these awesome Fantasy Disc Golf leagues!

Check out more about the leagues here and sign up today.

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Collegiate Clash National Collegiate Championships Fundraiser Winners

Collegiate Clash North Carolina State Discs – 3rd Place WInner of the 2013 tied with University of Santa Barbara.

DGA is happy to announce that the winners have been selected for its first annual Collegiate Clash National Collegiate Disc Golf Championships Fundraiser program. This first year was unique because there were actually two ties in the points race for the scholarships. The first tie was between the top two schools for first place, and then there was another tie for the third place scholarship.

DGA combined the first and second place prizes and divided them equally between the two first place schools. So with that said, DGA is proud to award the California State University Monterey Bay Otters and the Oregon State University Beavers each with a $1,500 scholarship. University of Santa Barbara and North Carolina State tied for third place and earned themselves a cool $250 each.

For those of you not familiar with the program, the Collegiate Clash is an opportunity for collegiate disc golf clubs to purchase custom stamped discs that feature each university’s logo in the middle of the iconic National Collegiate Championship ring. The schools’ disc golf teams earn points for the discs that they purchase and use those points to buy DGA baskets or save the points to try and win the grand prize of a $2,000 first place scholarship for top point earnings. Second place receives a $1,000 scholarship, and 3rd place earns a $500 scholarship.

CSUMB Collegiate Clash Disc – 1st Place 2013 Winner tied with Oregon State University Beavers.

All scholarship money will be used to help the teams cover expenses associated with traveling to the National Collegiate Disc Golf Championships. This is the first year that DGA offered its Collegiate Clash program and is honored to help all schools involved with their fundraising efforts, knowing that the money earned will go directly back into each school’s disc golf program. Stay tuned for the next Collegiate Clash Fundraiser program that will begin in late summer 2013, and please contact DGA if you think you or a local university is interested in taking advantage of the program.

DGA is a proud sponsor of collegiate disc golf and wishes all competing schools the best of luck this year at the 2013 National Collegiate Disc Golf Championships!

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DGA just released its newest putt & approach disc, the Breaker. Recently at the 2013 Memorial Championship in Scottsdale, AZ., the Disc Golf Guy caught up with DGA Team Captain and 2011 Masters World Champion Jon Baldwin for a quick overview of our new disc, how it feels, what it flies like, and the best uses for it.

Special thanks to the Disc Golf Guy for putting this video blog together. Please view, like, comment, and share if you would. You can also check the Disc Golf Guy’s site at thediscgolfguy.com.

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Shasta goes through his bag and discusses his discs. Video coverage by CentralCoastDiscGolf of Shasta hucking, chucking, driving and putting on the same discs so that you can see them in flight.

In the bag with DGA ProLine team member Shasta Criss

Putters:
Atlantis – Old school Reef.
Reef – His “putting putters”.
Titanic – Upshots and driving putter. Wind Putter (more understable).

Midranges:
Aftershock – Goto Midrange.
D-Line Aftershock – beat in and really flippy.
Squall – Goto in between fairway driver and mid-range shots. Also turn over shots, technical rollers, hard-pan straight sliding finishes.
Shockwave – Over-stable midrange for dumping left.

Fairway Drivers:
Undertow – 300′-350′ shots with nice tight S-Curve, nice Hyzer disc.
Rogue – Very straight and turnover shots, good for cut rollers, Hyzer releases finishing straight.
Hurricane – Faster Driver, good into the headwind, good predictable hyzers, doesn’t flip over.
First Flight Hurricanes – Straight 350′+ drives.

Whats in your bag?

Elite Shield Bag

About Shasta Criss – (Team DGA Page).

About CCDG:
CentralCoastDiscGolf has a cool youtube channel featuring a variety of disc golf videos. http://www.youtube.com/user/CentralCoastDiscGolf

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Team DGA – KK and JB 2013 Memorial

Team captain Jon Baldwin started the season off strong with two 2nd place finishes at the Gentleman’s Club Challenge in Las Vegas, NV and The Memorial Championshipin Scottsdale, AZ.

Jon shot the hot score of the 4th round when he carded a 1059 rated “46” at Fountain Hills that left him only one place shy of the winner, 13- time World Champion Ken Climo. Jon’s 3-way tie for 2nd place earned him a $900.00 pay day to pair with his $700.00 Vegas winnings.

KK Getting Some Air Time!

Kristie “KK” King overcame a flu bug during the first part of her trip and cashed in her first NT event of the season taking home an 8th place trophy and $225.00 cash.

Team DGA will be representing their home state of California as they compete at the upcoming St. Patricks Classic in Orangevale, CA on March 22nd-24th and The 28th Steady Ed Memorial Masters Cup April 26th-28th in Santa Cruz.

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