Elk Creek Disc Golf
Appomattox, VA

jfarm07 · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 7:19 pm Post subject: Aces

Seems odd that in the Records and Aces section, there's no topic on aces. So I made it...

And I got my first ace today to file under the new aces section! Do they still count if you're the only witness?!

It was at Walrond Park on hole 1 from the white tee. If you've never been there, it's marked as 260 feet. The fairway is wide open, and goes for about 220 feet at a slight incline, and then at 220 there's a HUGE hill with the pin at the top. I'd say the hill adds 25-30 feet of altitude. So I threw my ESP Buzzz on a slight anny with hopes of it fading at just the right time, because if you miss the hill to the right, there's a huge dropoff. And did it ever fade at just the right time! This has been a good week for disc golf.
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patrick71 · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 7:44 pm Post subject:

very cool john, i almost got that one the first time i thru at it. since then i haven't been close. i guess since now i know about the steep backside if you over shoot it. i have fifteen at peaks view. none anywhere else yet.
daniel has the one (and only?) at randolph college. mine bounced off 6.
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jfarm07 · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 7:48 pm Post subject:

how often does one have to play at peaks view to acquire fifteen aces?
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NoHair · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 8:52 pm Post subject:

NICE ACE JOHN

SO HOW ABOUT THIS I TWO PRE TOURNY ACES AT DIFFERENT COURSES AND WHEN I SAY PRE TOURNY I MEAN 2-10 MINUTES BEFORE THE ROUND IS GOING TO START. FRIGGIN SWEET RIGHT NOT SO COOL AT THE TIME BUT PRETTY FUNNY NOW. COME TO THINK OF IT DANIEL WAS IN MY GROUP BOTH ROUNDS.PLUS ON HOLE 12 AT PV I HAVE LIKE 4 OR 5 ACES AND AT LEAST ONE ACE ON HOLES 6,13,14,16. 6 WAS THER ONE TIMER BUT STILL COOL. GET DANIEL TO TELL THE STORIES OF THE PRE ROUND ACES SOME TIME GREAT STORIES. YOU'LL BE ROLLIN
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patrick71 · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 9:37 pm Post subject:

jfarm07 · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 10:02 pm Post subject:

patrick71 · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 10:06 pm Post subject:

the one i got an hole 11 at PV was a blind shot
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161Dragon · Posted: Wed Apr 30, 2008 10:40 pm Post subject: Aces...

Check this out for funny...

When I first started playing Peaksview I played for about a month and was getting pretty much pars for everything by the course signs. I am very competitive with my younger brother so I was pretty much being a smart a$$ and bought him three discs just so I could beat up on him. We went out for his first round and he was doing pretty well. He hit a few pars and then we got to hole 15. It was late summer or early fall and all the foliage was still on the trees and you couldn't see the basket from the tee. I told him that it was a very short hole, very slight curving shot to the left. He steps up and lets a shot go right down the fairway. We hear a loud "clank" and I immediately say "Good job you hit the basket!!", not believing that he could ace anything his first day out. Well we get around the corner and there is his white Eagle sitting in the basket. Figures huh...

Oh well... It actually might have been that day or a round shortly thereafter when I told him that my first ace would be at hole 3 at Peaksview. I hit it for my first ace in my third month of playing. Took me four years to hit another one. In the last 6 months I have hit half a dozen aces at Peaksview, 3, 7, 9, 13, 15, and 16. Half witnessed, half not but I know I hit them...

Later all and see some of you guys at Vinces tomorrow,

RV
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NoHair · Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 5:53 am Post subject:

NICE
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jdmerat · Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 7:26 am Post subject:

Just yesterday I was playing through with three other guys at Peaks View for a few rounds and hit an ace on 13, first ace in a while so that felt great. As well as getting basket on 12 and 14. It was an awesome round. I have also hit aces in the past on holes 3, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, and 15.

NoHair · Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 2:17 pm Post subject:

pv is ace friendly
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NoMoreTinCup · Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 6:15 pm Post subject:

Very ace friendly
I have 3,5,6,7,8,9,10,12,13,14,15,16. No tellin how many total, maybe 35?
I can say that I have hit every basket off the tee.
Meanwhile, I have ONE at Elk Creek.
One in Tennesee, Warriors Path.
And lots of baskets hit.
Daniel saw me skip ace 13 at Peaks View during a tournament, when he and I first started playing together. KP

NoHair · Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 7:33 pm Post subject:

one of my pre round aces was a grenade
it hit the ground about five foot from the basket and jump right in the basket
i love that kind of ace they are fun to watch
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21730 · Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 10:12 pm Post subject:

I am SOOOO due to get an ace.

I have not aced since 12/18/2004, the infamous yank-ace on hole #6 yellow at Timber Ridge, aside from a couple of tiki aces at the Grange. Plus, I have only 1 career ace at Peaks View (hole #15), although I have played no more than 25 rounds there in my life, but that was like 6 years ago. I do have 1 at the Golden Hills, too bad that hole does not even exist anymore (old #16 with the severe sloping green, in 2000). Add to that me nailing permanent hole #3 at Fishburn back in 1999 (playing by myself but witnesses by a nice lady walking her dog who told me "Nice shot") and there you have my 4 career aces.
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jfarm07 · Posted: Fri May 02, 2008 10:42 pm Post subject:

well, if those witnesses count, then i had two young adults who looked like they were going to watch their son play baseball who wondered why this weird bearded guy playing this weird sport was making this weird yelling noise all by himself. they were probably also wondering why every person they had seen playing this weird sport had a beard.
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