The UGLY Truth About PDGA Live

This Week In Disc Golf we had the first event of the season which brought all sorts of drama that Swiss Cheese will breakdown everything you need to know

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This week in disc golf both ab and evina answered the critics with statement victories Olympus didn’t disappoint but the PDGA sure as heck did Jefferson and I might have just experienced what will become a premier dgbt stop and so much more what’s going on all you dis generates I’m sitting in a Starbucks

Somewhere outside Monroe Louisiana it’s swiss cheese with the disl world you guys already know I’m the one with all the holes in his game and you’re watching this week in disc golf where we cover all things disc golf from the past week thanks everyone for taking the time

To watch and especially to those who have subscribed Jefferson the minivan and myself are currently in route to Waco if you haven’t subscribed make sure to do so it’s the easiest way to help build a channel to support us while on tour make sure to continue to check out

All the content as we are one of the few to bring all the action from the road and tour stops to you the start of the season was a resounding success Olympus and hopefully chess.com Invitational have already established themselves as one of the Premier stops on tour in just

Its inaugural event if you haven’t checked out the interview with Nick Carl and Jeff korns highlighting the efforts of the team and all their hard work getting the event ready for the start of the Season make sure to do so for those of you who have enjoyed the vid already

We’ll do our best to continue to highlight differing aspects of every stop who have thought that all Anthony Bella needed to do to get his first Elite Series victory was his buddy Paul MC Beth to spend a Millie on a property and throw a tournament and most importantly refrain from being his caddy

On the final day jokes is side AB got that monkey off his back and quieted the haters who claimed he didn’t have the mental makeup to finish a tournament late round airs misses and of course there was European op Island blowup and here he was a double bogey on 17 that

Narrowed his commanding lead down to two strokes heading into hole 18 that features what an island green with Ricky Waki charging only for him to ice the victory with two perfect shots putting himself at top the podium for the first time of his career and aace facing the

Demons from Whole 16 at the European open and what could be the Catalyst to jumpstarts AB Ascension to the top of the sport we have seen young talents who struggled to find Victory only to Rattle off a big season after finally overcoming their first hurdle just take

A look at genon Burr’s lvc playoff disappointment in 2022 only to win usdgc later that year and to follow that up his best season and top three finish in 2023 AB was ninth in dgbt points last season with eight total top 10s and a second place at Worlds he was so good he

Finished ahead of other Pros with dgbt wins in Cole Rolan and Paul McBeth only Eagle had more points than him without an Elite Series Victory on tour for him to start off the season with a victory with his Elite arm Talent both backhand and forehand above average putt that

Will keep him near the top 10 at most events there are few reasons why AB could not finish in the top three in dgbt points and possibly compete for player of the year the chess.com ALS also highlighted the ever growing Trend that the sport is getting younger the

Top 10 featured more players under the age of 25 than the Mainstay names of the sport who carried the tour for years only two veterans on tour in Ricky’s second place and Matty O’s sixth place finish were in the top 10 as some of the youngest names in the game continued to

Make their presence known on tour Aaron Gage’s 1060 rated 8 under was the hot round of the tournament and moved him into second place yet with names like Gavin Rathbun Jesse Nan Joey buckets and Gavin Babcock knocking on the door and on top of some of the more established

Future of the game names and Kyle Klein and Ganon Burr truly shows the talent has caught up and is on the verge of taking over it could not be more evident in the foo Paige Pearson her first returned from an ankle injury only finished three rating points later of

Her career marks in Elite and Majors where she won 43% of the tournaments she entered from 2011 to 2023 this past weekend it netted her a 10th Place and a full 19 Strokes off the lead and that was without Kristen tar in attendance the field is getting stronger along with

Evina who overpowered this difficult track in impressive fashion EVN it might be even more of a Redemption story than AB heralded as the next upand cominging player coming out of Europe after some lopsided winds overseas only for her to come to the states where her putting Yips was the only narrative that

Surrounded her game there’s no way to sugarcoat just how bad some of those misses were just abs absolutely horrendous to watch yet most if put in that same situation would have crumbled even further into self-loathing or left a game all together and do more unwanted trauma than a child reading the Red Fern

Grows but evina persevered I just deleted Jefferson and eyes round at Olympus cuz I played so terribly that I didn’t want that video to see the light of day and I’m known for the holes in my game couldn’t imagine my low lights played or discussed on repeat like evina

Had to endure but in the tournament Aina bounced back from her worst day on day two with a 1031 rated 8 under hot round that cruised her to Victory by five strokes and her first Elite Series victory in four years also she was best off the tea over the weekend and in the

Entire Foo which continues to put her into scoring positions unlike the rest of the field who really needs to know how to putt when most of the time they’re near dropin when she’s that good that and to have the joyful response of laying up an easy Eagle putt on 18 was a

Moment that should not go unnoticed laughing at her past in a victory moment was a cherry on top of the great weekend the FBO saw some very strong performances from the top of the leaderboard in Ella Hansen Missy Ganon and Holland Hanley who all made the podium themselves some will be looking

Towards Waco and The Undertaker likee return of Tatar to finally pay more attention to the lady’s game however if these four ladies can continue their play Tatar just might be pushed unlike she has experienced over the last two seasons other major news from the weekend was the PDGA live system going

Down halting live scoring for those following the action the actual Pros during the event and every disc off event using the app for that matter and I want to make a note that the crew of the tournament did an excellent job of getting paper scorecards out to resolve

The issue but this is truly more of an embarrassment and should be highlighted more over than any trophy talk over the weekend the decision made by the PDGA in the roll out should be more scrutinized many other commentators in the sport want to highlight that it was only for a

Short duration was resolved quickly and simply Growing Pains of a new app that should be anticipated however the PDGA replaced an already working model with their own competing version while also changing the rules to force every player at a sanction event to use it to keep

Their own score only for it to go down during the opening weekend is more comedic than pho’s 420 being disc golfer’s favorite number on coverage I understand the PD GGA wanting to gain control of the sports statistics but their actions only seem greedy and obviously too ambitious some might want

To cast these criticisms as me being a udisk fan yet I only use each of these apps for the statistics that they provide as I don’t play in tournaments nor officially score my rounds I have no dog in this fight only highlighting the absurdity of the moment hopes are the

Problems are resolved as we have yet to hit the peak of the Season where the app capabilities will only be stretched further with multiple sanctioned events even more players scoring daily at least should be a concern for the community and not just simply brushed off as it

Was expected with a new system but Swiss having the distance on putts is a neat feature that’s what the Defenders will Herald to skip over the drop coverage yet while at the event I noticed that I felt there were some inflated numbers surrounding some putts keep in mind

Those distance numbers are inputed by different volunteers at every stop and when a similar model was implemented by udis years ago it was dropped cuz volunteers complained and often couldn’t keep Pace having statistics that are at the whim of how good or bad a volunteer is makes about as much sense as

Professional self-governing their sport so skip me on that narrative and if you still disagree a number of Pros have also chimed in on udis and PDGA live debate some other tournament quick hitters Pate occurred over the weekend as Haley King pointed out that the pdj had to post an alert to players that

They should not be urinating in the player parking lot many guesses as to who exactly was the culprit yet most are thinking too small who’s to say it wasn’t multiple players due to the Rain from the past weekend it left some of the course flooded resulting in the

Weird calf deep water being played as casual a few Pros were seen in the water like Eric Oakley throwing from his lie for Cynthia ricotti her lost disc in the Casual area it could not have resulted worse in having to take a stroke and a ret Terry was critical of Cynthia for

Taking too long and not following the rules of the game which could not have been further from the truth we were on the card watching and heard Cynthia ask her card mates to start the clock and followed up with the additional questions if it was started she followed

The rules to a t even after dgbt representative incorrectly told her to Simply drop her disc and throw from where the disc entered the water only further highlighting the need for paid professional officiating on the course KJ lost two strokes for not arriving to the te box 5 minutes before teeing off

Simon got poison ivy on his throwing hand everyone’s gotten soft on Brody with his latest reveal of him losing his drive as of late if you’re looking for sympathy here it’s not coming less than a year ago Brody was reving in the fact that Paul MCB Beth finished below former

Jes cameraman Joy trali at the Estonia open only for it to come full circle on the McBeth owned property after a performance that was uglier than Paul’s day one outfit Choice Paul was only a fedora away from looking like like a European tourist on holiday at Disney

But back to Brody who ended up finishing all the way down in 108th Place only 18 places and seven strokes behind guess who former cameraman Joey maybe spend some more time throwing some plastic than shade on the sports trophies and while we’re at it with all that was accomplished in short time surrounding

The event the logistics around the chest tent and getting one of the most famous people in the world in Magnus and Carlson to attend the disc golf event missing on the trophy not being engraved for the event being the worst Miss over the weekend doesn’t deserve the amount

Of time spent on it but it’s 2024 and Foundation still wants to go after the loow hanging fruit of trashing trophies with disingenuous checkered board takes was the Optics funny sure does it need to be beaten to death despite everyone knowing it will be engraved later no especially with chess.com getting the

Purse to nearly 100 Grand in its first year and being more of an active sponsor and growing the actual sport than any other sponsored event I’ve ever attended last but not least let’s get to some quick hitters silus Schultz released a video announcing his attentions of full

Tour this year and most importantly his need for funds to replace little Sebastian his car the tour is certainly better with silus on it he’s one of the sickest disc golf content creators textbook form and best hat merch in the game so make sure to support order

Donate or have him Coach your form to get him on tour with a new ride Loft has a Kickstarter for a couple of new discs cat gives us a glimpse into her shower routine and C Doan goes into some of his offseason work that and on our way to

Wakeo we were fortunate enough to throw Cactus Rock the Dylan SE property that is yet to be open and is still currently under construction the same Williams Brothers who were crucial in shaping up Olympus course guided us over the stunning property what these three are doing along with a few volunteers is not

Only an immense undertaking but what in all honesty will be a for sure future dgbt stop carving out paths on the side of steep terrain cutting and pulling trees removing and bringing in dirt on top building bridges over water throughout the property all that without electricity and almost a gorilla style

Approach to the work the property was still very much being trimmed cut and the back nine was still underdeveloped the property still has a lot of work and the four months lead up to the first event yet walking this property still left me speechless and in wonderment at

The beauty designed to be an elite level course from scratch with both Paul McBeth and Avery Jenkins hands involved has yet to be seen in the Disc Golf Community when this is finished and grassed over the best I can describe this course is a blend of Olympus and

Northwood black with all the elevation and woods that those provide and I can’t wait to return once it’s completed and guys that’s a wrap for this weekend disc off if you are attending the event look out for the two goofballs in media vest probably looking lost come say what’s up

And maybe make a cut for a future vid if you’ve stayed this long thank you and Pat yourself on the back if you aren’t subscribed make sure to do so while you’re at it like comment and share and if you want more check out all the previous episodes and all the content we

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