Share your "ACE" stories here!

Everyone remembers the hole-in-one they made on a disc golf course. Some have that single cheerished ace while others are fortunate enough to have more. Please share your most memorable "ACE" shot with us. I will never forget my 3. All of them happened on temporary demo courses I set up in past years. They may all have been only 180 feet or less in length but special moments indeed. The first of those two ace discs I put in a very special place to me. My dad died of cancer 8 years ago on this day, Feb. 25th. In his coffin, at a Veterans Military Cemetary, those disc were placed by his side. Dad was a great supporter of my disc golf campaign drive here in Connecticut.

Bill Mikuliewicz
PDGA #7378

All joking aside...Are you for real? Did you watch one too many episodes of The Beaver? Why dont you fill out your profile on this board? Have drugs been a big part of your life? Are you a female with a guys name? Are you AD? Have you ever worn those really cool white jackets with the straps?

Just so you know, I am the local [*****] here on the board, some others are close and others are still in training and some others are just dilholes that try to be an [*****] but arent very good at it (my mommy said I was the best at it) but I dont belive in holding back. Dont think that I am just picking on you, I'm just as evil to the ones I love/msgboard/images/clipart/happy.gif

Just to entertain you I will go along with the "Barney" Ace story...

Ive had alot of em./msgboard/images/clipart/proud.gif

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We now return you to your regularly scheduled Ace stories.../msgboard/images/clipart/proud.gif
Twas Tax-day 2000, April 17th, the second Monday league of the year. At the 185' hole 17 in Olathe, Kansas, with the pin in the far left blind position, I unleashed my 175g Banshee into the spike hyzer line of density...uh, destiny. For if it were not a month where the leaves were still vacant, my chosen path would have surley been met by immense foliage. But, alas, my screaming Banshee carved a path through the wooden guardian...and crashed into the DisCatcher (with the added internal chains, thank God!) for a hopeful blind Ace. With five comrades in tow, we rounded the corner to see my midnight blue projectile resting comfortably in the cold confines of the canary yellow basket...surrounded by five measley birdie shots. A $116 Ace Fund and $25 from my brothers made for a profitable league night that I will never forget.../msgboard/images/clipart/proud.gif

my most memorable ace happened at Tom Bass at the Texas States sept.2000 on the hole after the Dragon hole,(added hole "C".). The first hole of the final 9 at worlds2002.I had just succumbed to a double circle 6 on the dragon when i told the members of the group the only redemption would be to ace the next hole. Once I let go of the disc I couldn't stop looking at the basket to see the disc, and believe me I tried. Someone said"looks good" another said "mabye", I threw up my hands yelled"one time!" then gasped as it hit and STUCK! The first thing I thought was WOW....the next was "I hope I don't look like a giddy little girl." as I danced my way to a $292.50 redemption.

The object course around Ft Wetherill in Jamestown, Rhode Island(followed by cliff-jumping, of course). It was my bachelor party so I had honors. Hole #1, big elevation change, clang! Must be density

I have bagged tons of ace's in my discgolf days but the most notable was the one summer that i was on the afternoon shift for the whole summer, our ace pots get caped at $500, it was half way through the summer and nobody had hit one yet, i woke up the morning of league and the first thing that i had go through my head was that their would be an ace today, and that i wanted to be their, i called my work and took a sick day, i showed up to leauge and everybody asked me what i was doing there, i replied that i was going to get an ace, they all kringed without even warming up i was in the group on hole #3 at V.A. Barrie park n St.Thomas, STOCKY Bob Harris gives the start, i was first on the tee and wouldn't ya know slam HOLE IN ONE for $500.00 nothing like calling it 8 hours before it happened, that turned out to be a $725.00 dollar day because i also got paid for not going to work, since that day i have called two other ace's, one at the Hall of chains classic in canton OH and another 3 weeks ago at league, I love this game

[MTL21676]

Ive had 7.....6 since May....but besides getting one in a PDGA in the 2003 Buckhorn Open, Id have to say the most memorable was at a Private course in the NC mountains..a very short nine hole course.....I aced a 150 straight down hill hole not once but twice that day....the coolest thing about that day was we play 36 holes....my buddy had 2 aces that day as well

5 years, one witnessed ace, 1000 one dollar bills. Hole 10, Jimmy Porter park in Carrollton Texas at hte 2002 Carrollton Open. The hole that claimed one of my first run CE Valks the previous year. I only had one first run left in my bag. Ususally this is a big hyzer hole, but there was a slight headwind, so my last first run valk came out. Threw it straight over the pond, flexed a little to the right. Thats gonna be close. Then it nestled softly into the bottom of the basket. Sweetness. One day I'll get tired of this story.

[chris]

ehh . . . I got this ace . . . uh . . it was cool

As I've never told a short story in my life, here's a little background for this story. Two years ago at the KCWO, I found out there were some spots in the open field the night before the tournament. So I dragged my wife and a buddy down the morning of the tournament. After Friday's rounds, my buddy was arrested for possession and I spent over 4 hours chasing him down all over Overland Park, KS from one police station, to the county jail, to another police station, and finally back to county trying to make bail.

Anyway, after 3rd round we were tied and were grouped together on the 10th tee at Rosedale. BTW, I'm in the ace fund as is everyone in my group except my buddy. Well the horn sounded and I threw the blind turnover a little hot, but luckily the chains got in the way and kept me from going way past.

So not only have the rest of these guys who don't know me paid the $5 ace fund, but they actually fork out $5 on top of that and give it to me right then. And my idiot friend who is not in the ace fund, who I spent all of Friday night trying to bail out of jail, who is playing me $5/stroke for the tournament, stiffs me. Unfreakingbelievable.

[seewhere]

TX 10 $866.00.. Tom Bass park 378ft? SWEET.. got 5 total last year and now have 10

Seewhere, I would wager to say you are the ONLY person to ever Ace that hole.....(hole 17 Wilmont)

Not impossible,(obviously) but not an easy Ace!!

[timmyg]

I've posted this one previously but it's preety freakin crazy. #8 at Lone Lake(MN) I walk up on a group of golfers sitting at the picnic table behind the tee. I ask if I can play thru and they say yeah man show us how it's done. I throw a Magnet high and right, at around 100ft off the tee, it hits a duck in the air, which redirected the bad shot directly in the chains. The duck dipped a little but quickly regained his flight. The table of golfers jumped up and went crazy! Most of the golfers are tourney regulars and the story comes up quite often! Good Times!

FAR OUT TIMMY!!! Definately a good one.....most my aces are pretty ordinary.....only have 3 in my 5-6 years. Long hyzer, crashing into the chains and sticking, Dyed, KC Eagle, second one, sidearm skipperwith a KC Firechicken, and most recent, a Z-predator, skipped up, and stuck in the side of the basket.

At least they were all witnessed....

[seewhere]

thanks Cong. yea it was a pretty SWEET

i've only hit one thus far in my time. it was hole #2 at ponca city's war memorial course on the A placement. It was about a 250 foot RHBH hyzer with a 2nd run CE Valk. it was one of those throws where you kinda just step up and toss, and fortunately for me it just so happened to stick into the chains for my first ace.

Hole 15 at DeLa used to have a big pine tree right in the middle of the perfect anhyser shot to the basket (for right-handed throwers). I was playing sunday morning doubles with Myles Harding in my group, not as my partner.

My turn to drive and I throw a beat up roc and it looks like it's going to hit the very top branch of the tree. Right before it hits it gets a little air bounce and pops up over the branch and misses the tree. As the disc flies over the tree Myles yells out "IT'S IN" and sure enough it smashes the chains and sticks. The kid called it. Fun stuff.

[rshelt]

I don't get aces, I just see other people get them, and once again I had to sit through someone else getting one at the NT in socal this weekend. 1st round, Hole 12, 395' straight downhill, Dave Divine pulls out his 8 time roc, and bang. It was the beginning of a great weekend for him.

[chris]

I think Timmy's in the lead right now for best ace story!!!

Definitely my first stands out. I took my dad out to show him what disc golf was all about — this was December of 1987. I started playing a couple years earlier, but never showed him. So we get to the second hole at Hazelwood in St. Louis and I nail it. We both went nuts!

[crusher]

Hole #15 at Veterans park, Arlington, Tx.

As we walk up to the hole, one of the other players is sitting by the tee pad and his group is not in sight. We ask him why, he say's "I'am tired and waiting for my group to play the holes that I cannot ace" We proceeod to give him a hard time(in fun), and then he proceeds to get all huffy and tell us to go %@$# ourselves. During our stare down, the rest of the group tees off. As I go to tee off he says "go @$*# yourself! I walked up to the tee and threw my inverted Roc in the bucket for $586.00

I turned around and told eveyone that "I $@#%@& myself"

Many people that read this board were there to witness this. It was truly memorable...

[my_hero]

Craigy, the <FONT COLOR="ff0000">red</FONT> dots that appear when you actually type in bad words like [*****] would have looked a lot better. However, nothing would have looked as good as that ace. I was right there on #17's tee/msgboard/images/clipart/happy.gif

[oakhollowdgc]

ALL MUST READ THIS ONE...at the 2000 combined worlds, Billy "Nature Boy" Crump hit an ace heard 'round the world! it was approx. 2 am at the hotel parking lot. we had around 10 of us (even a few guys from new zealand) playing object golf, through the parking lot and around the adjacent businesses. near the end of the round, we circled back towards shoneys. yes, the shoneys "big boy" was aced by the Nature Boy. Rumor has it that we woke up half the motel from the cheering that erupted after Billy's disc hit the big boy!!!

KIlborne short 2 with an aviar on my 39th birthday.Feb4th

2 that come to mind right away...

Final hole during MN State Doubles Championships. A sneaky turnover Roc on the very woody hole 8 @ Calvary.

and

Random Doubles. Hole 6 @ Calvary again. Tim Schreder just aced the hole and I stepped up and sat my disc right on top of his to push the hole.

2002 Worlds Houston Texas it was the first throw of the first day...see if i can do it again in Flagstaff /msgboard/images/clipart/happy.gif

pete, i remember verifying that scorecard at 02HPW. :^p


anywho, i've got 10 aces in about five years-- mostly with rocs in wooded courses... but my favorite to watch was with an eagle in about 25 knots of wind on a WIDEOPEN hole on a small hill... one of those freaky flights that bob and weave in the wind... SPLASH... right into the chains of the (orig) #17 at acadiana park...

hit my first tourney ace ever in jackson miss-- the week after the GC events in houston. grrr. a week earlier and i'd of made 1200 instead of 50. dammitboy!

[ozdisc]

$10,000 will be up for grabs 3 times this year during the ZiegenBock Texas 10 events. At 3 of the 10 events a $10,000 ace prize will be available.

Now that will make a nice thread topic with a lot of smiley faces if it gets hit once. Imagine if all 3 get hit/msgboard/images/clipart/happy.gif

It will also make a great video clip since all the throws will be filmed.

[marcace]

I was playing Cruzita and he had a one stroke lead on me at Mackenzie Park in L-town. I said, " I need an ace on this hole to beat you" he proceeded to laugh and say whatever old man....bling blam /msgboard/images/clipart/happy.gif the rest is history......

[timmyg]

Here's another crazy situation. My first course design(Bryant lake MN) my first throw at hole#1 I aced. This last fall I was involved in designing another course in the town I grew up in(Edina mn) and my first throw on that course, hole #1 I aced! Good carma I guess! Neither of them off of ducks.
Sorry I've ben posting so much, I'm kinda excited to get out of the cold and get to Phoenix if ya can't tell!

My first (and only in 9 years) was during a mini at Veteran's Park in Arlington TX. Hole #5, a righty hyzer down hill. Couple of funny things about the ace. First of all, as soon as I released the disc (sweet 180 RAM) one of my card mates, Tom Sicard, started running down the hill hollering and screaming in excitement. Did I mention that the disc had JUST left my hand? Well, it hit chains bang on and stayed in the basket. We celebrated and then started realizing that it was worth over $700. i was floored. The ace was much more meaningful than the $, but i was excited about both. The second 'funny' aspect of the ace was that at that exact same moment, Claydog Brummit hit an ace on another hole. The celebrations were concurrent so we didn't know the other had split. Claydog still whines at me for splitting "his" ace. Oh well, just sitting here looking at my only wall hanger and wishing I was out at Veteran's.

side note - those of you who know Tom Sicard of caourse are not surprised to hear about his reaction to my throw. Still kinda trippy though /msgboard/images/clipart/happy.gif

I aced two short tee holes back to back(in the same practice round). Hole 13(skip) and 14 at my home course Brent Hambrick Memorial Discgolf Course.

I watched Brian Schick in a practice round after a Columbus Open in the early 90's. He aced hole 10 at the same course from the short tee with two back to back throws with brand new aviars that he just won from the event. That was awesome!

How many aces have you seen happen seconds before the 'two minutes' warning? Too funny!

How bout dark aces...I mean in the dark, not wrong-hole aces. Complete blackness at Kentwood in Raleigh, hole #7 (about 275ft - uphill)...the "Grinch" Roc...like butter baby!

[playtowin]

veterans park, hole 4, kinda rainy, 2nd to last hole, hit a pancake with an X2 for $726.00... Funny thing, 4 guys on the card, two had already thrown when I turned around before I threw and asked "$33.00 split?" Dusty and Justin thought $33.00 on a $726.00 ace pot was too much. Only Keither agree'ed to the split! 17th ace was my first one for any cash! Think I pee'ed my pants a little! lol

[lafsaledog]

I have 10 aces so far ( most of them on home courses of Akron and Buchmiller Parks in Lancaster County PA ) BUT the most memorable of them all has to be one that was not hit on home course .
IT was 10-21-99 at Sedgley Woods . MY Birthday is 10/23 and I always ( although I missed 2000 cause of a broken leg via disc golf ) visit Sedgley on a Thursday around my B day to celebrate and take time off work to just disc golf .
Every Thursday they have a tag challenge ( OH by the way not to brag and not the heavy hitters are there on a Thursday but I have never walked away from one of those tags without a GOLD ONE = TOP 20 finish ) followed by a doubles ( random draw by " finish in tag " )
ANYHOW , a guy from hometown ( JOHN LIGHT ) hit an ace on hole 13 ( the gulley shot - a 208ftish shot over a ravine with a downed tree protecting the basket ) during the tag round worth 50 dollars .
THEN during the second round I hit an ace on same hole for 99 dollars ( during doubles round ). I hit that with a 172 SSRYNO .
also tied for 1st for doubles round with -9 and to top it all of I split money with my doubles partner and he was a microbeer brewer and I came back to Sedgley a month later to a keg of homebrew beer .

THE OTHER traveling ace I have is at a 36 hole course just north of Oklahoma City .
I had just gotten off the BROKEN leg stint ( however still in air cast ) and hit a 197 ft TOMAHAWK ace with a 159 Polaris LS 1.1

[chains11864]

My ace total is around 40 ...short Virginia courses!

First ace #5 @ Pohick Bay, Virginia, was off a tree about 20ft short, and left, of the basket.

Multiple aces during warm-ups before tournaments...always bad-luck!

I have 1 ace, about 1 minute before the 2 minute warning, #22 Pohick Bay, Virginia.

I have 1 ace, about 1 minute after a round, after we signed the score cards, #18 Whiteclay, Delaware.

I have seen Landon Furlong, of Virginia, ace #8 @ Rolling Hills, Michigan....and then the next round, (same day), he aced it again. The third time around, he missed by inches! We have a picture of him, with the ace disc still untouched in the basket, he has his hand up with 2 fingers out (because of the 2 aces), but it looks like he is just very happy about getting a "birdie".

I aced #3 @ Sherando, Virginia, only to have Matt Clark put his disc on top of mine, literally, with an ace, we were playing together. It is a wild feeling to walk up to "your disc" after an ace, but to walk up to 2 discs resting together was crazy. Maybe if we left them there, together, long enough, they might reproduce more "ace-discs"?

I aced #17 @ The Grange, Virginia, which was worth $480 dollars, for about 5 minutes, when another cheer went up...now $240...then the second round 2 more aces...ending amount $120. The weird thing is that it was a monthy pool of money, and took a long, long, time to get to $480, and then 1 day...4 aces!

Albert Charron, of Virginia, aced #6 @ Burke Lake, while talking on his cell phone. He did not put it down...he WAS talking on it as he threw!

There are more...just can not think of them right now.

are you asking about real aces? like during a full 18 or just throwing until one goes in? Most of my bud's and myself don't count them unless there is a golf game in progress.

[chains11864]

titleDISC...congrats, and keep the spirit of that "wall hanger" alive!

matchu...What a "downer"!

A person shares a warm story, about their first ace, with no malice toward anyone, only inviting others to join in on the fun with their stories...and then there is someone like you with..."real aces"....SHUT UP!!!!

An "ace" is when a person propels a disc, from the designated area (ie. concrete tee-pad), into the designated target (ie. basket), PERIOD. Basically, a made "tee-shot". (excluding penalty throws and more of the obvious...)

There are tournament aces, (National Tour, A-tier, B-tier, etc...).

There are monthly, and weekly league aces.

There are aces that happen during play of a round, whether it was an 18 hole, or 9, or 22, or any other number of holes that create the course layout.

There are aces while warming-up on a hole, or a course. Yes, a person may throw 3 "tee-shots" at a target, and if 1 goes in, it is an ace, because they were practicing their "tee-shots", just as they would practice "putting".

There are aces that never even land in a basket, these would be found at target courses. Example...Pratt Park, VA, designated targets are marked trees.

There are aces on par-2 courses, yes the same applies there.

There are aces in "mini-golf" too. You know, those little discs that look like the big discs, and the little baskets that look like the big baskets?

By your standards...if I just started playing a round of disc golf, and I aced hole #4, then it started to rain, and by hole #16 I left, I guess the ace would not count?...WRONG.

I will let you be the one to walk up to the 12 year old kid just after he gets done unloading his 5th shot at the same hole, and it goes in ...and he is screaming "ace", and you can tell him with all your wisdom, "that was not an ace, because me and my buds do not count those".

Just as you have walked up on this persons thread, and done the same thing.

Again...titleDISC...congrats, and keep the spirit of that "wall hanger" alive!

Chains

[tiltedhalo]

back at home we have a family object course in the backyard park, and hole 7 is just at 300', with a right-hook because of the branches. the target is a medium sized tree with a massive knothole about pinhigh in the trunk. At one point a few years ago, when I was still throwing all flicks, I had a string of seven aces in a row on the same hole in seven consecutive rounds over the course of 3-4 days... something about a max weight KC Banshee and a strong flick and it would hyzer into the knothole like it had radar. That hole is still my most frequent ace, but nothing will compare to that string of perfect shots.

I've had real aces on baskets, but the odds on those were way better than the odds of consecutive knotholes.

[bambam]

I got my first ace yesterday at the ZT10 Lewisville event... but as one of the witnesses wrote on my disc, "Pretty *******' ace... bad timing!" You see, my first ace was right before they called two minutes for the second round. /clipart/angry.gif

But it was still a nice run. It was #7 at L.L. Woods course, which is 280' with an island green, of sorts. The pin is on a triangular patch of land with OB on all three sides - road on the far left, and concrete ditch in front and behind, which join to the right of the pin. Basically, it's a "man or mouse" shot. Of course, two minutes later when I threw it for real, I went long into the creek behind for a circle 4.

I hit the ace with a 180g flat-top KC Roc... Ziegenbock Texas 10 full-color stamp, of course! /clipart/proud.gif

[jasonc]

VERY nice Ryan!!! You and those [*****] flat rocs seem to be working together pretty well. Now I have 1 more person that got an ACE before I did, THANKS ALOT [*****][/msgboard/images/clipart/happy.gif]. Of course if I could throw 280 it might help!

[nix]

That was a sweet ace, Bam...I was waiting to start on #6 and heard that Roc slam chains, but did not see it...

[bambam]

Hey Jason, thanks.. and hang in there, man. I was feeling the same way, like I'd never get one, but it just happened outta the blue. You'll get one, don't worry about it.

Thanks, Nix... wish ya could've seen it.. it was a thing o' beauty! Of course, I'm a little biased, tho /clipart/proud.gif

[jpg420]

hit a $500 skip ace at sarasotas north water tower park yesterday in handicap woooooooooooooo hoooooooooooooo

[pterodactyl]

Nailed #7 in Stockton for a whopping 85 bucks yesterday. Later had one jump out of the chains on #10.

[MTL21676]

it wasnt me but I can remember doubles at Kentwood in Raleigh a summer or two ago both groups on the same card aced the same hole (16)

Ahh finally, got my first Ace. Hole #2 a Riverbends Park in Michigan, on a chainstar basket nonetheless. I love my Roc.

Ahh finally, got my first Ace. Hole #2 at Riverbends Park in Michigan, on a chainstar basket nonetheless. I love my Roc.

Too Many to count but they are all nice /msgboard/images/clipart/happy.gif

Just joking!

[bambam]

Hey Rob, now if you could just learn to putt, you'd be good! /clipart/proud.gif

Who needs to putt when the disc goes in on the first shot... When the rest of you figure out how to do that, putting will be a thing of the past.

I was only playing disc golf for about 4 or 5 months when I hit my first ace! (in front of about 15 people) about 260 foot flick shot. I have since learned how to play, but haven't hit another since (1.5 years ago). I have hit chains 5 or 6 times and the basket 6 or 7 times since. This seems like a unlucky ratio. Maybe this post will bring me some ironic luck!

Oh yeah - I have had 2 black aces since though ( holes/fairways were pretty close together). Thats kinda sad- 2xs as many black aces as regular aces!

i hit hole 8 at de laveaga it was a kc banshee and it was a left handed turn over flick that skipped in, it hit the chains so hard that it sounded like a train wreck.

my only other ace is hole 25 at de la, what a rush around the tree for a blind ace

booooooo yaaaaaaa

Anyone else have the experience of a drought followed by a bunch of aces? I've been playing since '99 (casual at DeLa, where I have seen someone ace #8 and hit chains myself) but no aces until two weeks ago. #15 at northpark in Seattle. Just yesterday hit #11 at Lakewood in seattle, 2 in 2 weeks after none in 3 or 4 years!
Someone told me once that they come in bunches... If i get another one before the end of the month, I'll believe it for sure... :D

[Pizza God]

Yea, as I have posted before, I have not hit an ace sense April of 1999. I had also been playing for 4 years before I hit my first ace. :o

Now if I would only get out and play more, I may break that streak. :D

I have made 4 aces since my play on the courses.

Most memorable one was an Ace at my Favorite Tourney (Big Arms on the Brazos) because my brother was caddying for me when I drilled it. He was a ball golfer then, He is a disc golfer now.

I once played a casual round with a guy from Abilene that came to play the Midland course. I hit an Ace on hole # 2 and thought I was giving a good showing being that it was my home course. He then nailed an Ace on # 7 not that long after. I have never seen that done again, Not in the same round.

These are the things that make this sport Awesome :D

[Pizza God]

A few years ago, I was playing a quick round before going to work. I met up with one of my new employees on the course and we played the last 2 holes together. Well, on the last hole, I always threw my whole bag at the hole trying to ace it. On one shot I bounced out of the bottom of the pan and turned to Jack and said, "thats how you do it". He then took HIS wippet and put it on the same line and right into the chains. It was the only shot he had "thats good enough for me" and he didn't throw another shot. From what I remember, that was his first ace ever.

I was playing at Hornet's Nest park in preparation for the Fall Finale, and I was on hole #5. There was a lot of wind on this particular day, and I had not been playing well. I got on the tee, and tripped off of the end of the pad, fell and busted my knee. While I was yelling obscenities due to the pain of my busted up knee, I look up and see my disc floating towards the basket, and then into the chains.

If anyone has ever seen the episode of the Simpsons where Ned Flanders has the Hollywood starlet for a girlfriend...
Remember when they were at the pops in the park thing, and Homer dropped his nachos next to Ned's new girl, and he says "doh!" then he looks up at her breasts and is like, "awwwww" (drooling)... that is very similar to what happened with this ace.

[ck34]

At the new Lakewood Hills course in the Twin Cities, in the same threesome, hole 1 was aced by the first thrower, then aced by the second thrower, then the third thrower's disc went right thru the chains and dropped out (of course he's a lefty).

#3 at de la,forehand banshee into the wind far out to the left then dropped hard right into the basket, #7-at lakewood(seattle)backhand, gateway sabre, skipped off the bank into the chains. 2 aces 8 years of disc golf, feel the next one coming right around the corner ;)

[cdamon]

Two fairly strange ace stories for me this summer:

1 - Playing the Arvada course (Denver) for the first time, my first throw ever on hole #7 (a slight hyzer around 330', red Valkyrie) goes in. Pretty cool, and the second "first throw ever" ace in my career, with the other 19 years earlier. Then I get to hole #16, my skip shot with a red Z-XL comes out early, splits two pines with no space between them, and hops into the basket. Weird.

2 - Two days after cleaning out the Hellyer ace pot ($272) I'm down in Stockton warming up on hole #5 (around 260'), and the same gang who saw me get the Hellyer ace sees me ace with a red Z-XL up the middle. I grin and apologize sheepishly, and they start to move on. Then I decide to try the turnover route with a beat Roc, and they watch out of curiosity. Wham. Consecutive shots, different routes.

Years ago at De La with Shawn Sinclair spotting, I threw a forehand roller on #4 which hit a squirrel, bounced up, and missed chains by a few inches. That would have been cool.

When I got #27 at De La ("Top of the World"), Dave Welty was practicing his putting. He watched it go in, said "Nice shot", and went right back to putting. Exciteable boy, that Dave.

Many years ago, in a monthly at Oak Grove, John Ahart drove first and aced #14. Joe Ursino (that tells you how long ago) demanded that John clear his disc. John eventually relented, ran up, and cleared it. Of course, Joe aced it. My drive hit the pole and I felt like a hacker.

-Conrad

I have seven aces this year and 22 in just three short seasons of golf, everyone witnessed except the first one.

#10 Toronto Island, paid $110 canadian though, my first two aces were in Medina short #11(one week to the hour apart, weird), long #1, #12, #15, Canton, OH, #18, #14(if you know this hole it was something special), medina, OH, #12 Shilto park Lexington, KY, Chris Dietzel and I had back to back @ Big Rumen Farms in Athens, OH, Norwarlk, OH #14, Hudson, OH #2, #18, #15($162 money shot), I have a couple @ Hudson Mills Michigan one of which was the hole I started on in the DGLO when the tourney started I took a 4 monster don't recall the hole the one with the spider netting.

[ross]

My two favorites would have to be:

a)on August 4, 2001 on De Laveaga's "Top of the World" #27, I threw a two-finger X-2 to finish off my buddy Doug Mitchell who had already begun to unravel (still waiting to be credited for that one on Greg Hosfeld's site :)).

b) then, almost exactly two years later (August 1st) with a Roc on Hole #11 (downhill slight hyzer, 67 meters) at Talin Huippu Park in Helsinki, Finland with the Finnish godfather of disc sports Seppo Nieminen looking on.


Ross

ACE 1 FOR TODAY (ACE 2 OVER ALL)

HOLE 3, DISC- BLUE TRANSPARENT Z-XS

I THREW THE DISC AND IT MADE A SMALL S CURVE FLIGHT, I FIG IT WAS GONNA HIT THE TREE AND BE A EASY 2, BUT I HEARD METAL, NOT CHAIN METAL, NOT POLE METAL, BUT THE ODD BASKET METAL YOU GET WHEN YOU SMACK THE BASKET AND IT BOUNCES OFF IT. SO I FIGURED, HEY AT LEAST ILL GET A 2. I WALKED OVER TO PICK UP A DISC, LOOKED AT THE BASKET AND IT LOOKED LIKE THE DISC WAS IN IT, BUT COULD NOT BE 100% SURE, CAUSE THE LIGHTING COULD BE JUST SO, THAT IT COULD HAVE BEEN THE BASKET KNOBS. SO I PICK UP SLIMER, MY GREEN CHEETAH, AND SIDE ARM IT UP FOR A PAR SHOT, BUT IT GOES IN FOR 2 SWEET. GETTO THE BASKET TO YANK SLIMER OUT, AND PLACE IT ON TOP, SO I KNOW ITS A DEUCE DISC, AND THERE IT WAS, MY BLUE Z-XS, ALREADY IN THE BASKET!!! ALL I COULD DO WAS LOOK DOWN AND BE IN AWE. I DID NOT EXPECT TO BE GETTING ANOTHER ACE THIS SEASON, YET ALONE ON HOLE 3, A ***** OF A HOLE.

ON HOLE 15, I THREW SLIMER (GREEN CHEETAH), AND IT HIT THE CHAIN, WENT IN, THEN BOUCNED OUT. UGHHH THAT PISSES ME OFF WHEN IT DOES THAT. THIS IS THE 2ND TIME THIS HAS HAPPENED TO ME WITHEN THE LAST MONTH, THE DISC HITTING CHAINS AND BOUNCING OUT. TWICE NOW, IVE BEEN ROBBED OF ACES, 12 AND 15, I WILL ACE YOU YET OOOH YESSSSS IT WILL HAPPEN.

ACE 2 FOR TODAY (3RD OVERALL)
HOLE 18, DISC- EYEBALL TYE DYE Z-XS

TOSSED THE DISC, WATCHING IT FLY, IT LOOKED LIKE IT WAS GONNA FLY TO THE RIGHT, BUT IT SORTA LEVELED OFF, THEN STARTED TO CURVE AGAIN, IT HIT THE CHAINS, I FROZE WATCHING, JUST WATCHING, THE DISC HIT CHAINS, SLID DOWN THEN DID A LIL TUMBLE AND IT ALMOST WENT UP AND OUT OF THE BASKET, BUT IT SETTLED BACK DOWN INTO THE BASKET. I WANTED TO YELL OUT WOOOOOOHOOOOHOOOOOO!

ACE 3 FOR TODAY (4TH OVERALL)
HOLE 16(2ND ACE FOR 2ND NOW) DISC- SLIMER (GREEN CHEETAH)

WENT UP TO THE TEE, LET 4 OTHER DISC FLY, THEN TOSSED SLIMER, AND WATCHED IT, AND I THOUGHT NOPE NO WAY IS THIS A ACE, CAUSE IT WAS HEADING FOR THE LIL TREE BY THE HOLE, BUT IT WENT RIGHT THROUGH THE TWIGS/BRANCHES AND SOARED PAST, THEN IT TURNED IN, I STILL THOUGHT NO WAY IS THIS A ACE, CAUSE IT WAS TO HIGH, THEN IT DID A SLIGHT NOSE DIVE, RIGHT INTO THE BASKET!

September 1988, Pender Island, British Columbia, Canada - a very rough object course with rocks and pine trees everywhere. The target is a pole covered with sheet metal which makes a nice "bong" sound when hit above the crimping. I think it was one of the middle holes of the front 9, the tee is elevated and the pole was about 270 feet away. I somewhat shanked my drive into a pine branch about half way down the fairway, which redirected it into the center of the pole. It was pretty funny, and my only ace on an object course.

[Chris Hysell]

Did it stick to the pole? I don't count object aces unless it sticks.

BTW, hey Eric. Tell Elaine I still have her Innova putter.

no it didn't, I guess it didn't pick up enough pine tar! I guess that brings my lifetime total down to 35.

October 1990, Phoenix Worlds - a fairly flat (temporary?) course that had one hole about 250 feet away, between a small hill and a tennis court fence. The trick was getting over the hill, but the fence was only about 20 feet behind the pole, so if you went too far, the fence would either stop your disc, or bounce it back towards the pole. Essentially it was the perfect ace opportunity, so I went for, and nailed it, with a purple hammer. My only ace at a World's and I got a special laminated wooden number one with a hole bored through it - one of my most prized trophies! Strangely enough, while warming up for the round with Marty Hapner, he got a skip ace on a hole one or two before it.

[Karma Police]

I've only been playing for a year and a half and have 5 aces so I can't complain. I'd have to say my first and third were most memorable. My first was completely unexpected as I had only been playing for two months. Was about a 240ft uphill shot with the basket guarded by some pines. Complete surprise...and needless to say I was hooked after that. My third ace came on a short 160ft straight shot. But my dad was in town and took him disc golfing for the first time. To get an ace while he was there was pretty special. And I could jab at my friend Brian who was there b/c he just missed an ace the shot before!

I hit one Saturday at the Rock Hill Ice Bowl. First throw of the day on USDGC hole 3. Straight from my car to the tee. Skipped it in with a TBird. Too bad it didn't win me any money :(

titleDISC...congrats, and keep the spirit of that "wall hanger" alive!

matchu...What a "downer"!
A person shares a warm story, about their first ace, with no malice toward anyone, only inviting others to join in on the fun with their stories...and then there is someone like you with..."real aces"....SHUT UP!!!!

An "ace" is when a person propels a disc, from the designated area (ie. concrete tee-pad), into the designated target (ie. basket), PERIOD. Basically, a made "tee-shot". (excluding penalty throws and more of the obvious...)

There are tournament aces, (National Tour, A-tier, B-tier, etc...).

There are monthly, and weekly league aces.

There are aces that happen during play of a round, whether it was an 18 hole, or 9, or 22, or any other number of holes that create the course layout.

There are aces while warming-up on a hole, or a course. Yes, a person may throw 3 "tee-shots" at a target, and if 1 goes in, it is an ace, because they were practicing their "tee-shots", just as they would practice "putting".

There are aces that never even land in a basket, these would be found at target courses. Example...Pratt Park, VA, designated targets are marked trees.

There are aces on par-2 courses, yes the same applies there.

There are aces in "mini-golf" too. You know, those little discs that look like the big discs, and the little baskets that look like the big baskets?

By your standards...if I just started playing a round of disc golf, and I aced hole #4, then it started to rain, and by hole #16 I left, I guess the ace would not count?...WRONG.

I will let you be the one to walk up to the 12 year old kid just after he gets done unloading his 5th shot at the same hole, and it goes in ...and he is screaming "ace", and you can tell him with all your wisdom, "that was not an ace, because me and my buds do not count those".

Just as you have walked up on this persons thread, and done the same thing.

Again...titleDISC...congrats, and keep the spirit of that "wall hanger" alive!

Chains


That comment is a discgrace to disc golf. That is the # 1 thing that makes me mad the most about disc golf. Anyone who counts aces that aren't on their real shot in a round is pathetic. Practice aces aren't aces! Only aces in rounds should be counted. I have 5 aces in my 3 year career and I am proud of every one of them. I don't have 40 meaningless practice aces like some people. I guess I'll go and find a short hole and throw 50 discs until I get an ace. That would make me great. WHAT A JOKE!!!

My best ace was a couple of years back at the Waterloo Classic in Austin TX. Waterloo just happens to be my favorite annual tourney and I look forward to it all year. Anyway it is the start of the first round, I'm top of the card, starting on hole 1, and there is a steady rain falling. Hole 1 is not very long but plays over a small rise that's high enough to make it a blind shot. I'm pretty bummed about the weather until my drive disappears over the rise followed by the sound of chains and someone yelling "ACE" from the next fariway. I was all smiles the rest of the round regardless of the rain. Just to add to the fun two of the players on my card were playing in their first tourney. I think they were more excited than I was.

My best ace story is about someone else's ace. Back in the early 90's prior to baskets the Missouri City TX course had 4 x 4 post for targets. For a HFDS mini we had set up temporary baskets. On hole 8 Jeff Lehman fires a line drive that hits the marked area on the post, bounces off and lands in the temp. basket set up a short distance away. Thus scoring 2 aces with only one throw.

[bruce_brakel]

Last Sunday at Shady Oaks [Streamwood] I threw a drive into the swamp on that short hole, #7 I think. I was so disgusted with myself that I was talking out loud to myself. Then I shut up when Lucas was throwing. After Lucas threw I finished saying, "What a totally crappy throw." While I was saying that, Lucas was acing the hole!

[reddman]

Last Saturday during the mini at the Lewisville Lake Park, I hit my first black ace on #11. For anyone that has ever played this course, you will know that it is not that bad of a shot to hit #12. #11 is almost 400'; to basket #12 it must be around 300'. Unfortunately, that is my longest ace to date. :( I still got a three during the mini. :o

[baldguy]

tonight I hit #12 at Bear Creek. My 2nd ace, this one was worth about $140 (won't know till I get my check next week :eek:)

good times :)

[Luke Butch]

Ace got hit at my local league tonight. Payed 2/3 of the pot. The winner recieved $620 Cash. Wishing I would have been the lucky one.

How about 4 aces in about 3-4 hours at Pender Is. BC tourney. :)

2 just before the 2nd round and 2 during 2nd round.

Only 1 ace was a basket ace, but the chains look thick enough to put a aircraft carrier anchor on it, so an ace there is pretty sweet. Well maybe not THAT thick.

Did I mention that Pender is a pretty easy (and fun) course? The last time I went there I aced 1,2,3,4,6,7,8. Everything on the front nine except for the easiest lefty holes 5+9. Hole 5 is so easy that a 4-year-old can get it with a humprey flyer, but I couldn't get it in over 20 tries, not even close.

In other words, if you just can't seem to get an ace, perhaps you need to plan a vacation to BC Canada next summer.

[Rodney Gilmore]

I got my first PDGA ace last weekend at the Alamance Pro-Am. Hole 20 Cedarock original course pro tees, listed on the card as 315' but plays a little longer (I think it may be mis-measured but I haven't gotten motivated enough to find out myself yet). I threw a blue CE firebird 174 flat and hard and just let it drop left at the basket. As soon as it started to hyzer I knew it was gonna be close and said, "come on, make noise". Sure enough it did and so did I. I let out a yell that the guys on Cedarock heard and probably the guys on Wellspring too. This is probably the coolest hole on the course to ace in a tourney because the course is open and there are at least 4 other holes that are right there in the same field. Not too big of a payoff, only $37 (we split the ace pool between all aces), but my first PDGA ace and had a gallery from all the other holes to boot. It took me from a pretty flat round (-2 thru half the course) to "on fire" and ended up shooting the 2nd best round in advanced on that course. It definitely put me in the right frame of mind for the next 3 rounds of the tourney.

[Chris Hysell]

Nice ace Rodney. You should thank me for that. I typically ace there and didn't go this year. In the past they would pay the longest ace. Somehow it was usually me. Maybe they got tired of that and decided to start splitting them. Well then maybe you shouldn't thank me.

[jefferson]

sweet ace rodney, my group was walking from 19s teepad and i got to watch this ace from release to finish. i was excited to see this ace, maybe too excited, and i think i yelled louder than rodney did. at least 5 people came up to me the rest of the tourney and said they heard i had aced #19.

How 'bout a 190-foot shot for a deuce? (No, I've never had an ace - only played for 3 months.) I made a shot today that just left me speechless. It's a 390-foot hole - #6 at Cane Creek Park in Cookeville, TN. My drive took me past the tree in front of the tee pad and over the ridge beyond for aabout 225 feet. I was off to the left quite a bit, so I took my Discraft Cyclone and with no runup or other footwork just launched that bad boy straight into a decent headwind and watched it travel about 190 feet in a graceful arc and nail the chains. CHING! My buddy and I just sat there for a moment, dumbfounded. I'm still amazed. /msgboard/images/graemlins/ooo.gif It was a moment of newbie nirvana. :cool:

[vinnie]

I have plenty of aces, just never a tree bounce ace.
Last Wednesday durning dubs,
Hole #9 at the Rock (240 ') I BADLY turned over a qjls through the tunnel and hit a tree 25' away from basket, it bounce off and landed in the basket and got paid $250

[Rodney Gilmore]

Thanks Jeff and Chris. So it was you Jeff that was credited w/ the mystery third ace on Cedarock we all kept hearing about. LOL

[m_conners]

The Riverside Glide was 2 weeks ago here in Tulsa and there were 2 really cool ace stories.

1) On Saturday the same guy aces 2 holes

2) On Sunday, 2 adv masters were on the same card and went on to ace a hole back to back...the funny thing was the guy who aced 2 holes on Saturday watched his ace earnings get cut in half :eek: I heard the look on his face was priceless.

[Greg_R]

hehe... that's not as bad as a guy in one of our local tourneys who hit 2 aces in a round and didn't enter the ace pot!

[jonnydobos]

Not the most spectacular ace, but it was my first one with some odd circumstances...playing at hudson mills in ann arbor, making up a league round by myself early in the morning after being out of town...stepped up to the pad on hole 13 started my throw when my cell phone rang but i continued with the throw, a nice low lefty hyzer that went around the bend skipped once and ching! my first ace and a skip in. I looked at my phone to see who called and it was my brother who I play with almost everyday...memorable for me, just wish others were there to share it with

I aced the first hole of the tournament at The Oak Hollow Open.

[noey21]

I have only had 2 both in casual rounds at Lagoon Valley (Vacaville, CA). The first is always cool but the funny thing is it was the day after the Willits tournament 2003 and I was dead tired so i called in sick. Well half way throught the day I feel better and decide to go play. Hole 7 255 with one tree and water within 25 feet if you hyzer ( for a rightie just a bit to much). I throw it and it goes right into the basket no chains no nothing bounces up and spins around some we couldn't tell for sure it stayed it. Being it was number 1 for me I was so pumped (round went to crap). My other ace is that same hole close to a year later.

[noey21]

I liked mine but I think I got more excited for my Wifes first ace. Again at Lagoon Valley it was leap year day this year (Feb. 29). She tees up on the water hole 4 it is about 210 hyzer with water on both sides and she hits right in and it falls out so she is so dissapointed. The very next hole is pretty similar with water on each side close in distance with a couple more trees (lots of wind both holes). I tell her throw the same shot and I have no idea how she did it but but sure as heck smack those chains for an Ace. I couldn't believe her compusre most people would have been still so ****** or dissappointed about not getting hole 4. I was happy for her but now I am worried she is going to pass me in aces.

I lead 2-1

Well I don't know if this qualifies, but I have been playing 3 or 4 years now and have 3 aces. The weird part is none of them are "clean" aces(as in flies from my hand into the basket without touching anything else.
First one Searight #6 Zmrv thrown way too low somehow takes first one skip not even half way to the basket, then another skip that sends it right into the chains. This hole is so littered with rocks and roots that you would never expect 2 clean skips.
Other 2 aces are both #6(yes thats right my 3 aces are all #6-666)at pease. Anyone whos played pease will remember this hole as the one with the raised basket sitting inside 3 trees. One ace bounced off the left tree and in with a firebird, and the other bounced off the right tree with a spider.
Still lookin for a "clean" ace, and wondering if its going to be on a hole #6.

[esalazar]

I was on my way to play disc golf the other day.I stopped by the store to grab a couple of things.went inthe store grabbed a bottle of water, fountain drink, a beer ,and a pack of cigarettes ,for which the total ended up $7.77.Amazed, I told the guys I was with I was going to hit an ace today .Sure enough ,ching ching, nailed an ace.i thought that was pretty cool! I now kick my self in the ace for not buying some lotto tickets that day.hey, you never know.

Nice! The called ones are the best. I gotta try that one of these times.

[keldog]

got one saturday with a brand new z-crush
right before the mini,it was the first time i ever used it
no aces during the mini :mad:
funny how that works

Hit Vetrans hole nine with at 8X rock for $750.00 yesterday :D

[keldog]

SWEET!!!! :D
Got to like a ROC :cool:

[quickdisc]

I was in Michigan in 92 and picking up my putter on hole # 16 at the lower course in shelby township. Some guy was driving the hole on us, his disc hit the middle of my back , shot into the chains and bounced out. He said it was my fault he didn't get his ace , even though our group had not finished the hole yet. I got my birdie and no appoligy from the guy throwing on us and he was upset ? I was the one who got tagged. :confused: Sorry your ace bounced out off my back........ :eek:

You should have kept his disc for that one. Bastard.

[rhett]

Scot Jamison "aced" hole 8 right at Emerald Isle from the short tee-pad after throwing OB in the dry lake from the long pad. It was beautiful lefty hyzer up high that stalled and fell perfectly into the chains.

All I could do was cheer, high-five him, and declare, "Nice save!" :D

[pterodactyl]

Johnny Blue Box got hole 10 at Stockton's weekly last Wednesday. $122.00 in the pool.
I think that means free beer tomorrow night for the Delta Windjammers!! Hooray Beer!!

[J_TEE]

I hit an ace at one of our Wednesday minis before it started one day. I took a couple of disks to hole #1, a few locals were putting as usual before the round, and I walk on to the tee box. A buddy stands right in front of the basket and yells"come on and hit me F%$#ER". I said "go ahead and stay there!" I threw..... and a big anny flew straight at him, i'm glad he moved, cause it hit"CHING" and actually stayed in!!! Needless to say, my round was crap after that. Guess I blew all my good shots in one throw!!!
Peace

I was in Michigan in 92 and picking up my putter on hole # 16 at the lower course in shelby township. Some guy was driving the hole on us, his disc hit the middle of my back , shot into the chains and bounced out. He said it was my fault he didn't get his ace , even though our group had not finished the hole yet. I got my birdie and no appoligy from the guy throwing on us and he was upset ? I was the one who got tagged. :confused: Sorry your ace bounced out off my back........ :eek:




if the dischit you 1st, how did the dude know, it would have went into teh basket to beguin with. sounds like you back deflected the disc a lil for him and teh basket spat it out cause it tasted bad

[pterodactyl]

Scot Jamison "aced" hole 8 right at Emerald Isle from the short tee-pad after throwing OB in the dry lake from the long pad. It was beautiful lefty hyzer up high that stalled and fell perfectly into the chains.

All I could do was cheer, high-five him, and declare, "Nice save!" :D



"Share your 'Par' stories" is another thread, Rhett!!! :o:D

Oh ya, thanks Johnny Blue Box for the Coronas!

[Blarg]

Then we can start the 'share your double bogey' thread!
I got lotsa those. :D