Area Aces

[Chainiac]

Appleton Area disc golfers tell us about your aces. Whether it's your first or twenty-first give us all the details. Date, course, hole, distance, disc, weather conditions, witnesses, money won, and anything else that may have lead up to the big event.

Well, I have had 9 in my 3 years of playing. My last was about a month or so ago on hole 14 (back tee) at telulah w/ a beat up DX Roc. Straight in!

Got lifetime ace # 11 on Wednesday on hole 6 at Pamperin Park with a Tsunami!

For those of you who know Pamperin, this is an extremely wooded and hard hole to even get near. It is 210' uphill and plays like 275'. Very narrow S-Curve opening to go through.

I hit it perfect!

On March 21st, I got my 2nd lifetime ace on the 15th hole at Pamperin Park in Green Bay. I used a Champion Orc. It is a short hole like 190 feet or something, but it's uphill in the woods which makes it play longer and harder. Mike Jolly was my witness. He signed the disc, and it is retired on display in my room.

I have 2 aces. Both are unfortunately at Kimberly and people laugh at me and say that Kimberly isn't a course. Anyways the aces are on # 4 with a QJLS - no witness. And #8 with an Orc witnessed by my brother Joe and Fishbone.

Hey Craig, do you know what happened to the #4 basket at Kimberly? It looks like it was run over by a bulldozer.

My first and only ace so far was last september 2004 at Grignon park in Kaukuana. Hole # 3-233 feet. Witnessed by brother and a nephew.

[Chainiac]

6/5/05
early morning round by myself which sucked b/c I didn't have anyone to celebrate with.
Telulah
#11
don't know the footage b/c there are no signs at the course. Maybe 250' or 275'. I'm not good with distances.
Champion Sidewinder
What makes it really cool is that one year ago today was when I had my first ace at Grignon #4 with a Z-XS.
Todays makes career ace #3.

Just nailed my first career ace a couple of weekends ago. It was on number 11 at Grignon (the one that runs parallel to the used car lot). I actually had to check the rule book to make sure it was an ace. I threw a swooping right-to-left hook my my Discraft XL and the disc actually stuck in the side of the lower basket! It taco'd to fit in between the metal that makes up the basket. I had two witnesses that mocked me the rest of the course, saying that it didn't count because it didn't land inside the basket.

Can't wait for my second...

[Chainiac]

Congrats Vball. A little taco sauce to go along with the story of your first ace.

I aced #11 at Grignon last year. I took the anhyzer route. Amazing short and simple hole except for the one thick oak guarding the right line to the basket.

Good luck on getting #2.

Looking for ace #4.

[superberry]

I just ripped my Blowfly into #10 at Standing Rocks (it's local enough). ACE with the Blowfly! Very sweet.

If anyone aces #6 or #10 (may become #13) at Kewaunee I NEED to know. They would be very sweet aces.

[shoe59]

I see this is a pretty old topic, but I am new to the PDGA and figured I would get some posts going.

So far in 2010 I have had three aces, all at Grignon. I got hole #10 on a skip (planned) with a champ Xcaliber one witness; it took a low HARD skip from about 40-50 ft. away from the hole (right in the money skip zone, as I refer to it) and hit the chains like a sack of bricks, I can't believe it stuck!

I got #14 with my soft magnet straight down the pipe -- it hugged the trees all the way along the left, with a very gentle anhyzer (1 witness).

And finally, a hole I've wanted to ace for years -- #16; I was in a huge group of about 9 players (the locals/league guys including Rich) and hit it with my new Discraft Glide. Took the right side of the middle lane, hyzered back around the last tree by the hole and stuck! I got paid about $30 on that one.

Side note, my bro just got his 1st ever ace on #11 at Grignon with his Star Mako -- although it's a short hole it was a sweet shot and it was basically in from the second it left his hand. He was so pumped, and he also got paid about $30 because we were in a big group again.

All were from the short pads btw. I really need to step it up and play the long pads here (I do at every other course...), but my friends generally don't want to.

[superberry]

I had an AWESOME Easter! I played my first round of the year at Winter Park with my 6 year old daughter while my wife and older daughter were running the trails. They were finishing up and called me to see where I was. I was coming up on Hole 9F and said I'd wait for them at the tee. They didn't come out to the tee and were waiting by the pin (alternate location in the woods right now). So, I decide to tee off and put a huge hyzer on my FLX Drone to slice in between all those trees. To make it even more pronounced the wind was howling off the ski hill and turned the disc almost straight up and down. Well, it made it into the woods then I heard the CHAINS! My wife and older daughter stood there for a moment, and since the pin is blind to me on the tee, I wasn't sure if it stuck. Then they both reacted and screamed and cam running toward me. It stuck! And making it even better, I slammed the chains right in front of them standing 20' from the basket.

So, we continue on our round as one big group now, we get off the ski hill and down into the creek valley. On Hole 12 I slammed the yellow band and was thinking "oh man, 2 aces in one day would have been incredible". So, we continue on and I think that yellow band calmed me down. We step up to Hole 13H back at the edge of the property, and the pin is in the winter location off the hill and to the right. It is a nice long and narrow shot with a hard fade right at the end. I pulled out the Firebird and flicked a bullet down the middle. It did what it was supposed to do, hooked around all the trees, and slammed the front of the chains. This one was wide open to us and we watched it all the way, seeing it stop in the chains and drop in the front of the basket!

TWO ACES in one day! I've had my luck for the year, I'm positive I'm done now. Those aces put me at 16 total in my lifetime (12 years playing).