Epic Day of Golf in Kansas City

Today was an epic day of disc golf, we lucked out on the cooler weather (89) but the humidity was a little high today. We started the day off by heading to play Blue Valley at 9 am. The course was only about 15 minutes from our hotel room and was located in an older community of KC. The grounds look like they may have been an old ball golf course at some point, with the rolling hills and thick green grass. The fairways are mostly open but the holes are very long. We pulled up on hole 1 to a wait of two groups so we got a preview of hole 1 and how not to play it.

Hole 1


This course is like Milo McIver with significant elevation gain. It starts out like this, Hole 1 is an 803 foot slight dog leg left to a raised basket; hole 2 is 509 foot downhill shot that is reachable with a Teebird but has OB right behind the basket; 3 plays 693 uphill which requires two perfectly placed monster drives to have a chance for a putt. So the course continues like this for the rest of the holes, big uphill shots, nice down hill shots and rolling hills. The difficulty of this place was the length and some basket placements but accuracy off the tee was not critical.

We each had good shots here and there, many to save par and even one to save a bogie. Jason threw a terrible drive on hole 8 and ended up just past the trees off the tee pad. He then convinces himself he is going to throw the hyzer shot out over the road and bring it back to the basket. He then proceeds to grip lock it and nearly pick Jeff off standing on the road. Jason was frustrated with his mis-throw but gains his composure by marking his OB lie in bounds, grabbing his Rogue and throwing it from 180 out and crashes chains for the bogie 4. It was a great throw and was awesome to see!

McGrew's 4 save:


After 9 holes McGrew had me by 2 strokes and Jeff by 3 strokes. That was all about to change as we made our way to the back nine. Jeff and I jump out to an early lead on Jason after two holes making up 2 strokes and then on hole 12 Jeff and I crush our drives up hill while Jason had a short drive, Jeff and Jason put their upshots out of the circle and I put mine 3 feet short of the pin to take another stroke back and put me up by one on Jason and 2 on Jeff.

Mike on Tee Pad 12:


Each of us crushing drives on Hole 13:




Jeff and I jostle for strokes back and forth while Jason keeps back pedaling as we make our way to hole 17 we hit a back up and decide to call the round over as the 17 and 18th holes play out and back from the parking lot. Jason dropped 5 stokes to Jeff and I on the back 9 and I end up beating Jeff by 1 and Jason by 3.

We then had a few phone calls with Jay Harbour and we all decided to meet at Swope to play a round. When we show up Jay is there hanging out with Liz Carr and Al Schack. We all decided to play a round together and check out the course. Swope is a very well manicured course in the same park as the KC zoo. The course looks very nice and the layout is challenging but has some really close fairways. We all play pretty average and often throw multiple shots off each tee, trying different shots and angles. Jeff starts up the Bagerty Machine and cranks out some insane distance on this course. He throws a few annhyzer shots that looked inhuman. Liz Car was fun to watch as she had the distance on Jason either equaling him or beating him on the holes. She has such good form and easy going composure on the course. I have a feeling she will be at the top of the leader board more often in the coming years for Pro Women. Al is a true champion and a really nice guy, he also has the crushing throw that just makes you look at him in amazement. He also has a wicked quick putt often making 30+ foot putts with his bag on. It was a pleasure to play with Liz, Jay and Al at Swope. We managed to get a picture of the Oregon Boys on Hole 18.


After the round we headed back to the hotel to grab some pool time and relax. Later Jeff and I get the itch to go play Cliff Drive but Jason was tired so we left him behind and headed out to check out one of the oldest course in KC. The course is very wooded on the front 9 and very long and open on the back 9. Jeff and I have a couple groups in front of us that are playing slow so we start throwing multiple shots on each hole and challenge each other to try different throws and angles. Jeff ends up launching a couple of monsters on the back nine that give him some legitimate putts. My only glory was throwing a forehand shot down the road on 12 with my Firebird and leaving myself a 5 foot putt for the birdie. Jeff and I had a good time joking around and letting loose on some fun golf shots and laid back attitude. We finished up about 8:45 pm and headed back to the hotel to grab Jason and head out for some diner in the Light and Power District of KC.

Tomorrow Jason and I are headed to Prairie Center to check out our last course that we will play during the tournament. This is supposed to be the shortest course we will play and it has a good amount of OB. Jeff is headed out to play Thornfield as he plays it first on Thursday and we hear it is a very tough and demanding private course.