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With one of the most-recently-constructed courses, the Sandy Beach Disc Golf Tournament on September 12 was an amazing success, said Kelly Butz, who owns Sandy Beach Development.
The course was constructed in August and there have been people playing on it ever since, he said. With so strong a commitment from players, it was established that this was the ? rst of an annual tournament. The next one is slated for July 30, 2016.
The rules for disc golf are very similar to regular golf with the difference that instead of launching golf balls, the players throw discs (well-engineered Frisbees).
Trevor Lyons, who was the tournament director, revealed that Aaron Kienle was the men鈥檚 winner with a score of 60, which is one over par. The women鈥檚 winner was Chanise Kienle with a score of 81, which was 23 over par.
For the longest-drive awards, Jason Kienle won for the men with 320 feet and Cindy Pittman won for the women with 125 feet. For the closest-to-the-pin award, Owen 麻豆传媒AV won with a shot that landed 14 feet and eight inches from the pin.
Sandy Beach has been in the development stage since 1987 when Jim Hupka subdivided 28 lots. Soon afterwards Hupka鈥檚 daughter and son-in-law purchased the property and took over the development. Under the direction of Kelly and Debbie HupkaButz, another 31 lots were subdivided in three different areas.
鈥淥ut of the 59 total lots available, we have 13 that are still available on our website: ,鈥� said Kelly.
In recent years, 鈥渨e were looking for something new and exciting that we could do differently out there, and we鈥檙e looking into costs of setting up a disc course,鈥� he said. 鈥淐alvin Daniels had approached me this summer and asked if we would consider doing it.
鈥淗e came out and walked around with Trevor Lyons one day and mapped out a course. I liked it, and after finding out that we didn鈥檛 need the of? cial baskets and could use 鈥榯onnels鈥� or 鈥榯argets鈥� instead of the official baskets. I was eager to get started!
鈥淏y the end of the weekend, we had the course set up and were playing.鈥�
The interest in the Parkland region is steadily growing every day with the more people that hear or play a round of disc golf, said Butz.
鈥淚t is truly a sport that can be played by any age, and is inexpensive to play. We will be doing more fundraising with hopes of installing the back nine holes and eventually having the official baskets. Right now it is basically all our own costs with the 鈥榖uild it and they will come鈥� attitude.
鈥淥ur cabin owners that have played the course and love it! Word of mouth spread and I think most have tried and/or played in the tournament last weekend.鈥� Butz said. 鈥淚t is free to play, and we encourage everyone to come out and give it a try.鈥�
This tournament came together so fast and was so big, next year鈥檚 tournament will be bigger and better than this year, he said. 鈥淚t is a real good addition to our community here and we hope that everyone respects and helps to support it in the future.
鈥淲e were grateful for all of the community support in donated prizes this year. Everything came together so quickly that it is almost a blur!鈥�
