First ace? [Archive] - Disc Golf Course Review

Asvetic

07-13-2008, 01:50 PM

I had my first ace about 4 or 5 years after starting to play DG. It was on the Blue Course at Codorus (Hanover, PA). Hole 12 downhill. Short, maybe 250-300 feet. Because of the downhill throw, the disc would sail and sail, mine s-curved and right at the last second CHING! Right into the chains. Sadly, I haven't had a true ace since, just a lot of close calls.

radsnowsurfer

07-13-2008, 02:01 PM

Been waiting about 4 years now, I've hit metal probably 5 or 6 times now.

Midnightbiker

07-13-2008, 02:56 PM

Same here. Waiting on mine.

magictenor1

07-13-2008, 03:08 PM

1st one came about a year in on #11 at Lafleur's Bluff. Had many object aces years before when I played at USM in college but that was my 1st on a basket course after picking up the sport again with baskets and newer type discs. I started playing with a real frissbee-165G.

sonny

07-13-2008, 03:13 PM

I've had three aces.

First was at Horizon Park in Winston-Salem, NC after about two years of playiing. 1989 or so.

Second was at Cornwallis Road in Durham, NC two or three years later.

My third was last year at Sunset Park in Rocky Mount, NC. The thing about this ace is the course was brand new at the time and the holes were reconfigured a couple months later. The hole I aced doesn't exist anymore.

mobster

07-13-2008, 04:26 PM

Playing a little over a year. Hole 5 at Deis Hill with my left hand.

goob069

07-14-2008, 11:58 AM

Just got my first ace last saturday. Hole #13 in Wrightwood, CA on the Mt. High dgcourse. Slight uphill about 280 Ft.. Used my esp discraft XL. Been playing about 3 years now.

Amorybulldog

07-14-2008, 12:57 PM

Had been playing a while (4+ years) before the first one came. S-flight on hole #7 at Lake Lowndes in Columbus, MS. Great day, stunk up the rest of the round.

Ace number two: red wasp stung my throwing hand on the hole before. 300 ft ace on number 10 at Tombigbee St. Park in Tupelo, MS.

Ace number three: number 6 at Tombigbee with a local pro. Great shot straight in, he was excited for me. Checked his website to find he has aced it 20+ times. Crazy.

Ace number four: My home course, I designed most of the course, especially this hole and I was the first person to have an ace on it. #5, The Dragon's Back, at Panther Prowl DGC in Amory, MS.

Since number four I have 3 novice tees aces. I aced hole #6 in Amory at night with my right hand on a skip and then a few months later with my left hand at night(right hand was broken). How many folks can say they've aced the same hole from the same tee with both hands. Also aced number 9 from the novice tee with my left hand during the broken hand phase.

Last ace was a warm-up shot just prior to a tourney, wasted ace.

PhattD

07-15-2008, 10:01 PM

May 5th 2010 #7 Fitzgerald Park in Grand Ledge. Do I Get kudos for calling my shot? (assuming I make it any how?)
I started playing Around '93 with an eclipse. Job and Family took precidence around '95 and I hung it up til last year. You get really rusty not playing for 12 years lol.

mike_riewer

07-16-2008, 12:19 PM

I have been playing for a little over a year now. But, I play in the land of ten thousand lakes, so the season is shortened dramatically because of the cold. So in the 10 months of discing, I have not recorded an Ace yet. But, I have hit chains 4 times. Now I just have to get lucky.

dobbins66

07-16-2008, 04:59 PM

Got my First Ace on New Years Eve (12/31/06) on #4 (310 ft) at Shillito Park in Lexington KY with a Star Wraith.

It took me over two years to get my first Ace after many bounce offs and chain-outs, but I got 4 more in the 3 months after that.

Over the past 6 months I've added 3 more - Two of them on Shillito #14 throwing a High Thumber with the same disc. One was in our local League and the other in the 2008 Lexington Open (A-Tier), so this Banshee earned me about $210 dollars on two shots.

Also had a skip ace off the Ice at Boone Wood (Cincinnati) during their Ice Bowl this year. Craziest conditions I've ever played a tourney in. They had about 3 inches of snow with a half inch ice layer over it that caused discs to really act weird.

Total of 8 in the past 18 months after 2+ years of 0. Still none backhand.

treethacker

07-16-2008, 10:36 PM

Hey Mike Riewer you need to read Dobbins 66 reply to see about playing in the cold weather. Disc golf has a season??Thats news to me;)

PhattD

07-16-2008, 11:30 PM

Made a smart alek comment about aces yesterday. got my first one today lol. #18 at fitz 308' blind shot surrounded by bushes and trees.

DirtyMittenDG

07-22-2008, 06:23 PM

YEEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I finally got my first legit ace today!!!!!!!!!! Took me a little over 4 years

I used my "171 Discraft Buzzz-D" and it was Hole #3 at Civic Center Park in Auburn Hills, Michigan!!

http://www.dgcoursereview.com/gallery.php?id=345&mode=gal#

Ok so maybe the hole was only 105 ft., but it was still off of the tee pad and it was a down hill shot

Best part is that me and some friends made an ace pool before we played the round, so I got the ace and the paper!!!!

Iceman

07-22-2008, 07:12 PM

Still waiting on my first ace. A friend I work with got his first ace this summer and also won the ace pot. That would really top it of nicely. :) Congrats.

treethacker

07-22-2008, 09:29 PM

Hey 162StarValkyrie,an ace is a ace is a ace!! Congrads!! Must be a great feeling:)

Nickwells

07-25-2008, 11:33 AM

I got my first ace yesterday @ Cass Benton in Northville Michigan on hole 10! I've been playing for about 2.5 years. Feel so good to finally get one. I've been so close far too many times.

agentdozzer

07-25-2008, 09:03 PM

My first two aces were on hole four at banklick woods. Then i scored one on hole six at pride park, Pride has a 99 foot hole that i have gotten at least five times. Hole six at gulley, but my favorite is hole two at aj jolly over the lake there was a crowd a fishermen and i got a big applause it was awesome:D

cdavid74

07-26-2008, 12:24 PM

First ace came yesterday, but on an object course. It will be my first ace until I get one in a basket then that one will become my first ace.

This one came at Gilbert Lake State Park in Laurens, NY on hole 9. A 200' hole with the pin protected by a group of trees about 3/4s down the fairway. A RHBH annie with a 177g wolf broke right too early but pinballed off one of the trees and clipped the pin. I guess its better to be lucky then good sometimes.

Luke@DiscTrips

07-26-2008, 03:33 PM

It was on Elliott Park, a short, super-wooded 9 in Elkhart, Indiana. Hole #4 was short but a complete maze of trees, and somehow my old Roc found a little hyzer path and just nailed it. That was about 4 years into my more serious career (and 9 after I started), and I only have one other since then -- a wide-open 180-footer in South Dakota. I've retired the Roc.

sidewinding

07-26-2008, 04:14 PM

I'll probably never get an ace. I used to always run it on shorter <200' holes but after giving up hudreds of birdies I learned to layup short and right on those holes. When your old like me you have to take the birdies when you can get them.

progjake

08-04-2008, 03:18 PM

Made my first ace today!

Hole #10 (old #6) at Bryant Lake Park in Eden Prairie, MN. It's a 300 ft downhill hole with some trees before the green. Used my 169g Wizard and thought I overshot the green at first (you can't see the basket from the teebox). Then my friend says "did you hear that, you hit chains!" so we both go running up and there's my Wizard sitting in the basket!

I've been playing a little over 1 year so it feels awesome to have my first ace already.

darktoaster

08-05-2008, 08:27 AM

I got my first ace on hole 3 at Lenora Park in Ga after playing for about 3 years. The basket is over a hill and completely blind so when we heard the chains we went sprinting over the hill and when we got there it was sitting in the basket. I was so relieved because I had hit chains on that hole a few months earlier but it had deflected away.

In the three years since then I have hit 7 other aces. Most have been on holes around 250ft in length. But I have one that is around 300ft and one that was about 360ft.

My favorite ace so far was a skip ace that I shanked to the right of the fairway. It flew through a stand of trees amazingly missing all of them and then hit the ground and skipped roughly 30 ft forward and 20 ft to the left straight into the basket.

My second favorite ace happened earlier this year when I had hurt my right arm and was forced to learn how to play left handed for 3 months. In just my third game playing lefty I aced hole 1 at Lenora Park. Needless to say my friends weren't exactly happy seeing that only one of them even has an ace. I don't think I will ever let them live that one down.

disc-o maniac

08-19-2008, 06:23 PM

do u guys retire your disc after a hole in one?

PhattD

08-19-2008, 09:33 PM

I retired my first ace disc. I'll let you know if I decide to retire my second. At the very least I will write ace disc on it so if I lose it whoever finds it will know it's an ace disc.

Donovan

08-20-2008, 04:16 AM

do u guys retire your disc after a hole in one?

I didn't. Huh, it never occurred to me to do that.

discinator

08-20-2008, 05:45 AM

Still waiting after about 3 years. I've had a few hit the top of the basket off of a skip and I drilled the post underneath once as well. My knack seems to be hitting really weird approach shots. I don't know why but I've hit about 8 or 9 different weird shots. Maybe some day that first will come.

johnt1969

08-20-2008, 09:50 AM

I don't know the exact date because it was back in the early 80's but my first ace was Hole 11 at Winton Woods in Cincinnati. I aced it with a big trash can lid frisbee because that's what we played with back then. It's only a 90 foot hole but when you're a 13 or 14 year old kid it definitely counts.

http://www.dgcoursereview.com/course_pics/877/b39230fc.jpg

My last ace was a few months ago at Buckhorn #8. Thank god it hit the basket because if it didn't it would have been in the lake. I threw it way too hard.

http://www.dgcoursereview.com/course_pics/199/b11e2d1b.jpg

John

Huff

08-20-2008, 10:06 AM

Still looking for mine. Theres a local course I play and hole 17 is a dogleg. I've hit chain and metal there several times but no ace yet. :( but I only started playing seriously last year. It'll come.

PhattD

08-20-2008, 10:18 PM

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Thank god it hit the basket because if it didn't it would have been in the lake. I threw it way too hard.
John

I hear stuff like this about aces alot. I makes me wonder how many aces are really not very good shots that just get lucky. I mean doyou really want you disc coming in chain high from 300' out? Most of the time you won't hit chain and will have a long duece putt.

darktoaster

08-21-2008, 08:36 AM

Exactly my thought. I have decided that the best aces are big hyzers or skip aces because both of them would have stopped close enough for fairly easy birdies. While the straight as an arrow laser type of ace would blow by and leave a 50 to 100 foot putt most of the time.

trifocal

08-21-2008, 11:10 AM

I retired my first ace disc. I'll let you know if I decide to retire my second. At the very least I will write ace disc on it so if I lose it whoever finds it will know it's an ace disc.

I found a guys Ace Disc yesterday. Kinda curious because the date of the ace was over 2 years old and the disc was still in play. I returned it to the disc shop across the street where they have a returned disc bin. The owner of the shop will email the discs owner.
I've been playing 3 months and am aceless (one really close that hit and hung in the chains, fell and balanced on the rim of the basket...time stopped as I stood on the tee pad...then restarted as the disc tipped out. aw man...still exciting to replay in my head. Yesterday I hit 2 poles Chunk! Drop in deuces.
I'm 50 and am with Sidewinder (Post #24).
I play for the Birdie and shoot to land it within 15' on the easiest putting side of the basket.

trifocal

09-18-2008, 09:16 AM

The stars aligned, the wind was soft, the sun was not in my eyes and there were no witnesses...cept a couple of ground squirrels and a hawk, but somehow I managed to throw a Roc from the tee pad into the basket on #12 at Vallarta-Ast (aka Token Creek).

Yesterday afternoon.:)

jedwards

09-18-2008, 09:35 AM

Woodland Mound Park in Cincinnati in the mid 90's on hole 15. A few months later at the same course hole #9 (have hit that one twice). Since then I have only had two since moving to NC at Dorton Park on holes 1 and 4.

JR Stengele

09-18-2008, 11:43 AM

University of Idaho hole #2 with my proto wizard.

magictenor1

09-18-2008, 01:21 PM

Many aces can be considered as a bit lucky. If you are firing aggressively at the pin every time you will probably go way past some times. I saw someone make an ACe where his shot would have been at least 100 ft away if it didn't go in the basket.

discwombat

10-07-2008, 09:09 PM

Just got my first ace today!!!! 10/7/08 at Bull Run, Virginia. On hole 13 (165 feet) with a 174 gram Pro TeeBird-L. Started playing disc golf in June of this year. I played frisbee golf from 1984 to 1992, (object golf with large catch frisbees.)
Scott

Geoffro

10-07-2008, 11:13 PM

Donovan

10-09-2008, 04:26 AM

I've been playing three years, and have only one "Ace," one that I don't really count as the hole was 100'. Still a neat feeling, but I don't feel that it's a real Ace with that short distance. Riverside Park in Merrill, Wisconsin with a Shark. Still waiting for the first real one.

BAH! Tee to pin, first attempt...it's and ace! BTW, you don't think ball golfers go...Oh it was only a 95 yard par 3, so I won't count it.

Dude, brother, an ace is an ace no matter what the place.
Just love it!

magictenor1

10-09-2008, 09:13 AM

Ditto. If it's your first shot on a hole it's an Ace. Congrats!!

tomjulio

10-09-2008, 09:49 AM

I hear stuff like this about aces alot. I makes me wonder how many aces are really not very good shots that just get lucky. I mean doyou really want you disc coming in chain high from 300' out? Most of the time you won't hit chain and will have a long duece putt.

Brilliant brilliant. These are my thoughts exactly.

The times I have hit chains I KNOW that if it would have missed it would be another 100ft away. An ace is killer, but give me consistency and parking a floater within 10ft of the hole every time.

discflinger

10-10-2008, 12:59 AM

Great to read about so much chain raping! Yeah, the short ones count too! My shortest one was my prettiest. 170' hole 4 @ Honey Bear in Peru with a medium wizard that was on the chains as soon as I released it. I didn't get my first until a year into serious playing, #6 East Swinney w/ monster, but I've managed to rack up 13 with some out of state. My first was a blind rhfh shot that just thunked in the basket (no chains necessary), I didn't even know until I walked up on it. Luckily, I had a 24oz Heineken w/ me and celebrated immediately.

Geoffro

10-10-2008, 11:17 PM

BAH! Tee to pin, first attempt...it's and ace! BTW, you don't think ball golfers go...Oh it was only a 95 yard par 3, so I won't count it.

Dude, brother, an ace is an ace no matter what the place.
Just love it!

Thanks, Don, and magic, too - maybe I'll start counting it. I can't wait for the 300' ace - I have dreams about it (no kidding).

bjreagh

01-20-2009, 11:37 PM

My first (and only) Ace in 12 years of playing was about 3 years ago, Sharp Springs, Smyrna, TN- hole #9. It is a sweet hole over a large sink hole full of water where the basket is set in among a rock formation on the other side.

I am a high school teacher and I encourage my students to play DG as well. Well that day 4 of them were at the park and joined me. I pulled out a JLS 1.6, threw a dart over the water and the rock wall and in it went. The kids went bananas (so did I). They thought I was so awesome!

A couple days later I got to the same hole and pulled out the same disc, nailed a tree, and into the drink it went. I searched for it for hours over a span of 2 days, but never did find it. I now know that many people have the others present sign the disc and it gets retired to a trophy wall, but I was of the mindset of "it went it last time, why not try it again!!!" Oh well, makes for a good story I guess. :)

DSCJNKY

01-20-2009, 11:42 PM

Sylmar Hole 7 (old course) 10-24-2002
Had been playing 53 days.
Now I have 11.
DSCJNKY

ShaZaun

01-21-2009, 12:08 AM

I have not yet aced... ther are a few hole in William Cameron Park that I've come close to aceing but this isn't horseshoes or hand grenades.... I'm still throwing and hoping for one.... one of these days

wholegrain

01-26-2009, 01:00 PM

First ace was by myself :( Hole #1 on W.Swinney in fort Wayne, IN. 174 Champ Eagle tie dye.

tamahawk

01-27-2009, 05:46 PM

my first and only ace to date was at a course that is now closed.

may 26th, 2007.
otter creek park.
Hole #17, 290ft.
star teerex.

EclipticOne

01-27-2009, 06:39 PM

been only playing in southern oregon for the last year. still not good enough to drop one in. had a few that came pretty close. we and my friends are all still waiting to watch or hear one

Legend KILLer

01-28-2009, 12:43 AM

I've been playing around 5 years and don't have one. :(

It sounds bad but this kind of makes me feel better. I've been at it for a year and a half & still have nothing. Hit chain twice but no go.

What pisses me off the most is when people who don't put in the time and DON"T even have their own discs, get an ace. Bastards! Lucky Bastards!

MONDO

Lost in the Brambles

01-28-2009, 01:11 AM

I've only been playing for almost 2 years...and though I've had three aces, I would would much rather be consistent. Yes an ace is one of the best feelings in the world(comparable to sex), but I've only scored an even round on a 12 hole course once. Most of my rounds I am over par by a lot, so I consider myself lucky to have made even one ace. I'm not complaining but those who haven't had there moment yet, I'm sure it's coming. Disc on my friends and may the disc luck be with you....

Zero_army

01-28-2009, 04:59 PM

First and only ace for me came after about 5 months of throwing. Was playing around with the forehand shot, and got really lucky with it. Hole number 8 at Big Mine, sailed in a perfect arc and *ching* Jumped about 6 feet off the ground, had all my friends sign it and then retired it. 160-ish DX Orc.

discflinger

01-29-2009, 02:43 PM

First ace was by myself :( Hole #1 on W.Swinney in fort Wayne, IN. 174 Champ Eagle tie dye.

How long ago was that, man? I bet you get at least 2 this summer.

gcr_russell

02-01-2009, 03:06 AM

Ace number one finally happened for me today, and with plenty of witnesses. I throw forehand always off the tee, but last night decided to start working on my backhand, something magical happened and all of a sudden I could accurately backhand drive somehow. today I take my newfound skill and decided practicing would be good playing rounds throwing almost entirely backhand. Sure enough my last round of the day right before I have to leave for work I get a perfect dead center no questions about it ace on a 241' hole. Ive got a fever, and it feels like I should definetely be able to repeat the shot. I thought I was addicted to disc golf before, now this is just gonna be ridiculous

Lost in the Brambles

02-01-2009, 03:32 AM

CaptainAnhyzer

02-02-2009, 12:32 PM

Raintree Park in Troy, MI
Hole #7, 257ft RHBH
8-1-1989
Innova XD i think.....

http://www.dgcoursereview.com/course_pics/253/e48a2013.jpg

Guurn

02-02-2009, 01:37 PM

Might as well make this my first post on these boards.

My first ace was in the late 80's on hole 1 at Acorn Park in Roseville Mn. Back then it ran parallel to the hockey ring and was only like 150'. The disc was a Stealth I think. I just know a few years later when I had moved on to a XS for my main driver I gave it away to some guy I saw playing with catch discs.

I went 7 years without an ace at one point. Now they aren't as rare.

skottyb

02-02-2009, 01:46 PM

my first and only ace to date was at a course that is now closed.

may 26th, 2007.
otter creek park.
Hole #17, 290ft.
star teerex.

I hear ya, my first and only was on #9 at OCP...

elevated plastic

02-02-2009, 01:57 PM

Been playin for about a year, and hit hole 1 Bijou Park. It's like 180-220 not sure. Anhyzer Star Stingray(the only disc I could make go right at the time) I have 7 more since then.

gwillim

02-02-2009, 02:18 PM

I have two friends who have been playing for a little over 5 years now. They started playing together and have progressed into really good golfers, of more or less equal skill. One of them has about 15 aces, the other has still never had one!

My girlfriend got her first ace last spring with an anhyzer teebird flex shot. It was during a weekly doubles event so she cashed about $60 for it as well!

The Valkyrie Kid

02-02-2009, 02:44 PM

That's pretty amazing. Feel sorry for the guy without one.

humchris85

02-02-2009, 02:55 PM

My first ace came after 3 years of playing. It was on Hole 4 of the Redwood Curtain here in Arcata (my home course). I was by myself, but luckly there was a couple of people putting out on one of the next holes that saw it and was able to sign my disc. Scence then I have had 3 more aces 1 on hole 17 @ the Redwood Curtain, 1 @ a course I designed in Hayfork, and 1 on Horse Mountain, all in 08'. I've still yet to get one in 09, I allmost did the other day, but close only counts in horseshoes, handgrenades, and government work.

Keep Hucking
-Chris UPDGA# 0001

dsg2667

02-02-2009, 03:07 PM

i'd been playing for about 2 months, it was at brookland middle school, hole #7. 200 ft. short shot, but for 2 months that was great. i threw a champion beast.

ive had so many close calls since then.

brennan

02-03-2009, 11:27 AM

I got my first on 1/31. Blind-ish tomahawk over some trees. #11 at Bear Branch in The Woodlands, for those interested.

edit: The picture for #11 on BB's page is misleading, it's a picture of the shot from the women's tee. I'll take a new one next time I go play.

OneBallWonder

02-05-2009, 08:59 AM

When I was 17, I got an Ace on Hole #17, Carter Park, Bowling Green Ohio with a #3 Hyzer Disc. That was my first Ace Ever.

Now, I'm 26, I got my 2nd Ace during the New Years Day Tournament, 1-1-09 on Hole #5, Winton Woods, Cincinnati Ohio with a DX Banshee.

Nothing like a 9 year gap. I'm on pace for like 4 in my lifetime.

zud00

03-05-2009, 03:26 PM

I just got my first ace today. I've been playing for about 9 months. It was hole one at Memorial Hills DGC in Huntington, IN.
I threw a Pro Valkyrie RHBH uphill, anhyzer around the trees. 240 feet. I was so stoked. My friend had just showed up so I was glad he was there to witness it.

valkyriefb11

03-05-2009, 03:33 PM

zud00

03-05-2009, 06:51 PM

congrats man! and at 240' thats a non-debatable ace ;)

Yeah, I was hoping that my first ace would be on a longer hole, not like a 120 foot hole or something. The uphill factor makes it seem longer too;)

80playedin10states

03-05-2009, 07:45 PM

my first ace was back in '95 and is one of my shortest at 165'. bayville park in va. beach, hole #16. hit my most current ace(and my longest at 330') in july of '08 at TC3 in dryden, NY..25 aces with at least 14 different discs...4 different states...im due for another!!

discflinger

03-06-2009, 09:52 AM

Hippy007

03-06-2009, 11:12 AM

First ace was on Feb. 28 at Horning Hideout #2 course on hole #17. 180 ft strait across a feild to a basket on the side of the hill. been playing serious for about 9 months now but have been playing object style for many years.

Hippy007

gvan

03-06-2009, 11:43 AM

The Valkyrie Kid

03-06-2009, 11:45 AM

willstradamus

03-06-2009, 01:14 PM

Midnightbiker

03-06-2009, 04:08 PM

My first and only was a 268' slight anhyzer shot. We had a new player with us and I was explaining how to throw anhyzer so it would end up at the basket. Then I put it in. I WISH that I'd had the composure to slowly turn back to him and say "Just like that," but instead there was a borderline girly scream and lot's of high fives.

Thanks for the laugh. I enjoyed that. I would do the same thing. My daughter and my wife are still making fun of me,because I made a great drive on a hard anny hole, and it hit a tree and went in the woods and I yelled a very loud "Son of a bitch!". They won't let me live that down.

Hippy007

03-06-2009, 07:25 PM

Congratulations Hippy007. Great feeling, huh?

yup.. and that was the third round of the day and I almost got an ace on the same hole the round before.. but yah nice to get the first on...

sidewinder22

03-06-2009, 10:44 PM

Just nailed my first ace today! Calvert Hole 9 Blue Tee 237' with my FLX Surge 174g. I had a good feeling as soon as it left my hand and watched it drop in. Been playing since last May. I never thought my first ace would be a backhand. Up till a few weeks ago I drove every hole forehand. Funny that the exact time was 4:20pm.

Lewis

03-09-2009, 10:29 AM

I witnessed an ace yesterday. I was playing some local doubles action, and the casual player in front of us dropped in a big hyzer drive smack into the chains. He and his girlfriend were excited, and we all clapped for him. It was fun to see. Maybe someday I'll get to do that. :)

jace

03-09-2009, 01:32 PM

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my luck will hav it happen when noone but the chains witness it.....

osbogosley

03-10-2009, 08:57 AM

Since I started in '82 I have hit about 40 aces. I can't remember the first one, but I just got the first one on my new course here in Brady, Tx. This is the story I sent out: The date was 3-6-09'. The location Richards Park. The wind was from the south, gusting to 25 at times. The suspect was an old man pretending to be a former disc golf star. He had spent the previous 7 hours behind the wheel of Dodge Ram. The suspect was next seen at Richards Park Disc Golf Course. Two acomplisses, Kenny and April, were witnesses. After some putting practice on hole 12, the suspect, identified as Scarylarry, drew his accomplisses over to a nearby tree and suggested some practice throws. Scarylarry drew back his disc and threw a left to right floater. 270 feet away the basket awaited. The disc stayed in the basket until the suspect removed it. More accomplisses arrived and the group embarked on a 3 on 2 match. Playing a shortened course due to the impending darkness, Kenny and Scarylarry finally tied the match at -4 and went to hole 17 in near darkness. Having the all important box, Scarylarry threw first. The hole is wide open straight at the basket, but he threw a hyzer over the soccer field into the darkness. There was a moment, after it disappeared, of silence, then that beatiful sound of chains hitting pole and the ring of an ace. The suspect does not know what else to say except he hopes you get to have days like this too.

FlyingDiscMagazine

03-12-2009, 05:36 PM

First ace (on a basket) was about 5-6 years after I started playing. Got it on hole 18 Alpharetta, Ga during a weekly scramble. It was probably a 200' or so shot, a little hyzer that went right in. That was back in 1988, don't know if the course is the same or what! I was playing with another newish player in my group, Brad Hammock. Immediately felt like every shot I threw after that would go right in the basket. (didn't work that way)

CaptainAnhyzer

04-01-2009, 08:02 AM

Ending nearly an 11 year dry spell, I aced #8 last night at Dubs !!!!!!!!!!!
Joralemon Park, Hole 8, 251 feet with 174 Champ Leopard

took home 100 bones plus first place $$ for the night too !!!!

Staying with the "First Ace" subject of this thread, it was my first ace in NY & my first ace OUTSIDE the state of Michigan..........

80playedin10states

04-01-2009, 09:29 AM

nice jeff!! april showers!!

CaptainAnhyzer

04-01-2009, 09:44 AM

nice jeff!! april showers!!Thanx !!!!! FDR Fools Fest this weekend then The Showers at Hyzer Creek !!!!! Gonna be a fun month of April :cool:

huskie2husker

04-01-2009, 09:47 AM

I had my first ace on #2 at Calvert in January after playing for 5.5 years. It was a short hole (from the red tees) and it was on a mulligan, but I still count it and retired the disc.

justin

04-01-2009, 10:50 AM

I had my first ace on #2 at Calvert in January after playing for 5.5 years. It was a short hole (from the red tees) and it was on a mulligan, but I still count it and retired the disc.
Hey, if it's important to you then that's the only opinion that matters. I think I'm going to be playing Calvert Road later this month while I'm in NoVa. It looks liek a fun little course.

Buckie

04-01-2009, 11:01 AM

Got one on 3-31-09 first hole at Johnson State College 205 feet,Hammer Champion Monster 171.Second ever in 6 years.

discjon

04-01-2009, 11:10 AM

First ace was at Churchville Park, hole 14. A pretty short hole, like 200', with a TeeBird. I had been playing about a year, and have had 2 in the next year.

EclipticOne

04-01-2009, 11:52 AM

My first and only was on a dogleg left shot on hole 11 at riverfront park, roseburg. i threw a dx destroyer and watched it go past a few trees and turned away thinking it would hit something... then it did! all chains baby :).... i coulda died then

jroll

04-01-2009, 12:31 PM

So far I have had three and they were all within the first two years of playing. My first was hole 7 in Laporte Colorado. blind dogleg to the left. I didn't get to see the ace but I did hear the chains and to my suprise it was in the basket. My second was on the CSU campus when they had the course in the middle of campus. straight laser right into the chains. the third was at Eudora on the short hole on the front nine. for the past seven years I have been trying to get another one.

thinknic

04-01-2009, 02:24 PM

Was on my birthday last year on hole #7 @ Beaver Ranch in Conifer, CO. I knew it was gonna be close when I released and I can still picture the exact flight pattern, always brings a smile to my face. :D

bazillion

04-01-2009, 06:33 PM

#1 was at hole 10 at Evergreen (Santa Barbara) on 5 July 2003. Threw my CE Leopard on a hyzer line and as it went along, I waited for the time when I'd say to myself, "Nah, too short" or "Nah, too far" but I never said it and the next thing I knew, it spanked chains! What a rush!

#2 came a few years later in Oklahoma City (hole #4 at Dolese) - a short blind shot with the basket up on a mound. Heard the CHING and then a bunch of guys walking to the next tee started yelling, "It went it!"

No #3 yet ...

Roller Coasters

04-01-2009, 08:53 PM

Happened just last Friday at Lakeview Park in Sarasota, FL. It was hole #8, about 260' over a canal with the hole a bit to the left. I threw my favorite Wasp and it started tracking beautifully. My buddy said, "that could go in." No sooner had he uttered the words when the sweet sound of the chains rang out and we started screaming like little school girls.

Ezekiel

04-02-2009, 09:12 AM

My first was about half a year after i learned the game. It was a really short hole at sweden park. Since then i have aced that hole one more time and the hole before it(which was a bullseye hole) once, which brings my total to three :)

mmmatt

04-06-2009, 07:35 AM

My first ace was yesterday! Playing Jordan Creek in Whitehall, PA with a friend. Hole #7 which plays over a pond. We weren't sure if we wanted to play it due to fear of losing a disc. I'm thankful we did! Flicked a wraith right over and it looked like it had a shot. Then I hear a thunk and I think "Oh, it hit the side of the basket, I'll just set it in for a two." Then, the guys taking a smoke break at the #8 tee start yelling at me. I just thought that they thought it was a good drive, but after a little yelling back & forth, they said it was an ace. I really didn't believe it and was shocked. Sure enough, it was in the basket when I walked around the pond. The guys nearby said it basically just sat down into the basket, no chains!

wolito

04-13-2009, 04:49 PM

I am a causal player and have been playing for a couple of years. Today a the local course playing a round, I came up to a short hole, only 150 feet but has a tight tunnel through the trees. I threw my first shot, a little to the left. I decided to throw another shot from the teepad and the slight hyzer shot went directly into the basket! My first ace! However, it was my second throw from the teepad, not my first. Does that count as an ace run and if so, how does that impact the value of my ace? Do you see it differently then if it was my first shot? I was just out for a casual day of discing, not keeping score. Either way, I finally got that first ace out of the way! Ready for more!

War Eagle

04-13-2009, 05:26 PM

I have had 2. been playing 2 months. One at oak hill 2 dog leg left hit right in the chains boom. 2nd one was at crooked creek in a tourney a couple days ago.

harr0140

04-13-2009, 05:35 PM

Well it sort of counts, but it was a temp hole with a temp basket setup for a CTP at the end of a tourney, this past Saturday, but I did make the shot and I would guess it was about 140'. Not really sure how far it was though.

There were about 90 witnesses (including at least 3 members of dgcoursereview) and I was the only one to throw it in. The beauty of it I was the second person to throw, I launched my 179 DX Rhyno with a little anhyzer (not much at all, just enough to keep that putter floating) and it started out at the basket went a little bit right and then dove hard left at the end of the flight right into the basket.

You vote . . . Does it count?

Maybe I should set up a poll.

harr0140

04-13-2009, 05:49 PM

Here is the poll I posted

http://www.dgcoursereview.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2744

REDARMY

04-13-2009, 06:13 PM

only 1, white birch park in hazelwood mo.

hole 13, a 200-ish hyzer, protected by a bunch of trees, but i managed to sneak it in. that was a few years ago, and i almost did the same thing on the same hole a few weeks back; bounced off the top of the basket :(

Matthew Gardner

04-13-2009, 07:18 PM

mine came year and a half after starting play. Lake Lowndes state park hole 17 340 ft. thru a brand new lime green star wraith that I bought before the round and nailed it. Had 1 since in last years Southern National AM championship palmetto course at blue angel park in pensacola, fl, a skip ace with my 1st run Xcaliber on a 260 ft hole

80playedin10states

04-14-2009, 10:11 AM

this will give all my haters a chance to bitch and tell me im bragging...hit number 26 yesterday with my jk aviar..

Midnightbiker

04-14-2009, 07:00 PM

this will give all my haters a chance to bitch and tell me im bragging...hit number 26 yesterday with my jk aviar..

Thats pretty damn cool. I am still waiting on my first.

80playedin10states

04-14-2009, 09:01 PM

took me over a year to get my first but they keep coming once you hit one it seems!! keep firing at them you will get one.

phishbrained

04-14-2009, 10:19 PM

Took me about a year and the only other ace I have is on the same hole. Real short downslope with hardly any obstacles, it was a straight dead shot with a putter. I'm hoping to get some more, but its more difficult on the longer holed courses I play now.

TerryP

04-14-2009, 11:41 PM

I've been playing since around last july,and I've got one at hole 9,mesker park. It's a left,hooking,shot. Guess its around 230?...buzz,skip ace.

HolySchnell

04-21-2009, 04:12 PM

80playedin10states

04-21-2009, 04:13 PM

i think that is called vandalism and it is a stupid practice...but just my opinion

runnaman

04-21-2009, 04:39 PM

That's done an my home course in Grants Pass. I think it's pretty cool because you get to see how many people have aced it. It's kind of like a trophie.

A.Mutt

04-21-2009, 04:58 PM

I don't mind the way it looks at all, but a good compromise would be to sign with a pencil so at least some may see it before its worn off.

giles

04-21-2009, 04:58 PM

i think that is called vandalism and it is a stupid practice...but just my opinion

Thanks for reminding me. I recall an old trick from elementary school. If you cover permanent marker with a dry erase marker and then remove it, the permanent marker should come off with it. I'm just about to go play some, I'll post if it worked.

80playedin10states

04-21-2009, 05:09 PM

vandalsim is cool now...wow i am old

harr0140

04-21-2009, 05:38 PM

In my opinion there should be a place to register aces, rather than putting it all over the signs posts etc, just register your aces. In fact I am gonna work with a web developer to figure it out. You could sort by distance, course, date, whatever, I think it would get used by the regular players, but I think the recreational players will still write on signs baskets poles etc. Maybe each tee sign should have a board to post rather than all over the signs and baskets etc.

If the courses we play have a contact they could be in charge of posting all of the aces each year to a list.

HolySchnell

04-21-2009, 05:41 PM

harr0140

04-21-2009, 05:42 PM

Ive got a lot of them IN MY OPINION, I just dont know how to implement them.

zud00

04-21-2009, 11:05 PM

pokamitch

04-22-2009, 12:09 AM

I've never actually hit an ace (hit the basket twice though) but what do you guys do when you get one?

On the course I first played on people sign the top rim of the basket with a sharpie when they get one but the other day I was at a different course waiting on the guy in front of me to play and he aced the hole, proceeded to sign the basket, but then got chewed out by another guy about to tee off on a nearby hole. Does anyone else here sign the basket when they ace?

We all sign the disc that was witnessed aced (every1 that we are playin' with) for the guy that holed it.
What I usually want on my aced disc is:1) Signatures of all the witnesses 2) Date and Time 3) Course, Hole, and Distance.
As far as signing the basket, never heard of that. It seems to me that it is akin to vandalism. Signing the basket wouldn't be permanent also. Wouldn't it get crowded with names too (if they stayed on)?

The trouble with Ace discs, do you throw 'em again or not?
I retired my 1st Aced DXBeast right away, then lost its replacement. Brought it back out for a few rounds, then replaced it with 2 more CandyBeasts (gave 1 to my brother and 1 for me). Now I am down to stealing my brothers disc I got him. I am ready to just use the Ace cuz I will NEVER leave without that disc. Or I will grow old lookin'

SomeChump

04-22-2009, 05:21 PM

So close to my first one last night in a tourney. 225', right off the chains.

justin

04-23-2009, 09:22 AM

I got my first ace at Buffumville Lake in Mass on Hole 18 (near position @ 290'?) 10 months after I started playing (Started 6/2006). Then I got one at 17 White to White at Borderland in Mass (265') 4 months later followed by #9 at Sabbatus' Owl course in Maine. That's practically a tiki course and was certainly less than 200' but it still went in. Nothing since then and I'm ok with it.

Little said bugs me more in this game than when people say they haven't got "their" ace yet as though its owed to them. Easy for me to say after getting a string of them early on but if you feel like aces are the most fun thing you can attain in disc golf then you're going to get bored quick.

Camgolfer

04-23-2009, 11:37 AM

No aces yet but my longest deuce was 8 inches... Oh not that kind of deuce. Real deuce was around 215ft on Hole 6 at Johnny Roberts in Arvada, CO.

zenbot

04-23-2009, 11:49 AM

rybassett

04-23-2009, 11:54 AM

Ist Ace on a basket Truckee, CA Hole #1 Pin A Discraft Buzz Anheizer

pokamitch

04-23-2009, 12:18 PM

When and what course did you have your first disc golf ace?
How long from the time you first started playing the game till your first ace?
How many since then?
By the way,still waiting on mine!!

1st ace was at Emerald Park, Mesa AZ hole #3 257' uphill (Dec. 13, 2005) with LHBH
It took me 19 years*
1 more since, Twila Reid Park, Anaheim CA Gorilla Course #10 170' (about 1.5 months ago) with RHBH

I have been clanking basket and top of the hole for a month on a lot of holes. I feel I am due soon for another!!!! :cool: Righty and Lefty

* Funny story about this is that the morning of the day I got the ace, I called my Uncle Pete to ask him, "If you play golf your whole life, do you think you should be able to get a hole in 1 sooner or later?" I was all around the basket for 3 months and never hit it so I was getting discouraged. He tells me, "I beleive more people DON'T get aces than those that do, regardless of time played." So, releived, I decide that maybe I won't get 1. Sure enough, that same day, I get it

Disc Golf Greg

04-23-2009, 02:35 PM

It's weird I've been playing since 01' yet I've not hit an Ace yet. And to make things even worse I have many, many near Aces. There is this one hole I almost Ace like half the time and yet no go yet.

Midnightbiker

04-23-2009, 03:18 PM

scarpfish

04-23-2009, 03:56 PM

Kind of strange. Yesterday, I was playing the same course which I hit my lone ace at, and almost hit the same basket again. I'd estimate I was long by about 2 feet. Only difference was that the basket was in the long placement this time.

Not all that exceptional, except that the course in question is three hours away in another state, and I maybe see it once per year.

Roc1Time

04-23-2009, 04:21 PM

Most of the time when I have hit mine, it just happens. Usually if I am trying to hit one, the shot sucks.

justin

04-23-2009, 05:03 PM

Always an accident. I'm always looking for a landing zone for an easy 3 or I'm trying to park it in my putting range.

milow369

04-23-2009, 05:08 PM

Most of the time when I have hit mine, it just happens. Usually if I am trying to hit one, the shot sucks.

exactly.

I got my first ace on #12 DeLaveaga "A" position (short left). Downhill shot with a large pine protecting the basket. Threw it flat and aimed left of the basket 25-30 ft., the disc flew flat and straight, then started the left turn dive, it found a window in the pine and slammed into the basket. I had probably played that position 30 times, came close once or twice.

So glad I was playing with a good buddy to witness. I yelled as loud as I could when I saw it stayed in.

Since then, I have had discs deflect off of baskets, chains, etc. but not in.

Now, I concentrate on getting the disc to a location around the basket where it has a chance to get in. I never "root" for an ace, I figure I will enjoy the moment after I see that the disc has come to rest in the basket. It's too heartbreaking to see it come close but not stay in and like some have said, thinking about it while you are in the box is probably not helpful. At some point, it's all up to the disc golf gods.

Good Luck

BENFTS

04-23-2009, 05:57 PM

exactly.

I got my first ace on #12 DeLaveaga "A" position (short left). Downhill shot with a large pine protecting the basket. Threw it flat and aimed left of the basket 25-30 ft., the disc flew flat and straight, then started the left turn dive, it found a window in the pine and slammed into the basket. I had probably played that position 30 times, came close once or twice.

So glad I was playing with a good buddy to witness. I yelled as loud as I could when I saw it stayed in.

Since then, I have had discs deflect off of baskets, chains, etc. but not in.

Now, I concentrate on getting the disc to a location around the basket where it has a chance to get in. I never "root" for an ace, I figure I will enjoy the moment after I see that the disc has come to rest in the basket. It's too heartbreaking to see it come close but not stay in and like some have said, thinking about it while you are in the box is probably not helpful. At some point, it's all up to the disc golf gods.

Good Luck

i have hit the chains but got a bad bounce at hole 12 as well. i hit my only real ace on hole 3 at Hellyer Park (Coyote Creek DGC). just this weekend i hit the basket on a 335' tunnel shot that didn't stay in either. so just like you i have one ace but have hit a lot of chains, basket, and poles.

pokamitch

04-23-2009, 06:42 PM

For you guys that have the aces, did you think you were going to ace the hole, or did it just happen? I find myself wanting an ace so bad, that when I step up to a short hole, I think about aceing it, and then I usually end up blowing my shot.

Everytime I throw, I feel like I can ace the hole. I don't actually think it is going in, but I Know I Can!! That is the mindset I take. Alas, it really never happens.

When I got my aces, I thought they were just gonna be really close to the pin. Instead, they went in.....

ERicJ

06-01-2009, 04:48 AM

When and what course did you have your first disc golf ace?
How long from the time you first started playing the game till your first ace?
How many since then?
First and only one: 5/30/2009 @ Cedar Brook Elementary School (http://www.dgcoursereview.com/forums/../course.php?id=1086): #1 - 147'
18 months from the first time I threw real disc golf discs at a basket.

For a while now my girlfriend has been saying we've been playing long enough that we should have an Ace by now. So this past weekend I decide that we should go "Cubby (http://www.dgcoursereview.com/forums/showthread.php?t=304)" and we head out to the shortest course in town. Kinda funny since I sorta predicted that I could get my first Ace there in this post (http://www.dgcoursereview.com/forums/showpost.php?p=2504&postcount=4). The course is easy enough that I'm gonna play it with just my 169 Pro Rhyno for everything. We do the high-five, "good round" thing and I step up to the first tee and toss the Rhyno out on a slight hyzer line and it sails perfectly into the basket. One throw, mission accomplished! :D

We played three rounds and had some more close calls, but no other aces that day. Jessica's best throw was on #3 where she bounced one off the top of the basket:
http://lh4.ggpht.com/_PkLiobixfto/SiNmo9Eh3ZI/AAAAAAAAoAM/SDCLtm1bPmo/s800/MVI_1911.jpg (http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/9r0AJZ_7oi6O6RgbMDtcyg?feat=directlink)

SpringDgLover

06-01-2009, 06:22 AM

My one and only ace happened on what was hole #6 at McDade on April 18 2009 with a Innova Star TeeBird 171g. It was approximatley 4 years after I had actually started playing disc golf. First of all I never tee off thinking I'm going to ace a hole. I basically picked a line I thought would get me closest to the basket. When I let it go I thought it was a little too high. But the angle was dead on and when it hit the chains it was a great, great feeling. Im lucky I had a buddy there to confirm it and I think he was more excited about it then I was. What I recommend everyone do, is don't try, it will happen, put the disc where it needs to be and eventually you'll have that loving feeling of an ace.

Midnightbiker

06-01-2009, 07:11 AM

I got close to getting an Ace yesterday at Miramar Park in Sea Brook, TX. I was on #5, which is a 250ft straight shot. I sent my disc slightly right , and it drifted back left, and came down at a hard angle, and missed the basket by inches. I didn't realize how close I had gotten till I walked up and saw the disc sitting 3 feet from the basket. So close yet so far away.

swellerdiscgolf

06-01-2009, 08:56 AM

More close calls than I can count. I've hit the pole, side of the basket, top of the basket, even skipped one off the top, I just can't seem to hit the chains. My buddy aced #4 at Bayville this past Wed, and when we played on Fri my disc hit the bottom of the pole on the same hole. It kind of irks me, as his ace came first in our group, when my "birdie" shots are always drop ins and his are always 30'ers. I am usually closer to the pin than anyone else in my group on those close shots, I just don't have that extra bit of luck.

billnchristy

06-01-2009, 09:14 AM

I think Alex will be the place for mine.

From the shorts (depending on pin positions) there are:
245/220
282/166
187/190/211
179/150
180/149
158
218
157/145
201/154
155
205
176/160

From the longs:
248/251/270
243/213
239/205
218
198/185
190
219
212/195

Should be some chances...now not sure how many obstacles are there...will find out in 12 days...I cannot wait to have a course within 2mi of work.

DiscJunkie

06-01-2009, 09:31 AM

First Ace was on #1 at Steed Park in Richlands, NC in late April of 2009.
First throw of the day to a slightly uphill, wide open 159' basket with a 172g ESP Discraft Impact.
A thing of beauty.
Been playing for a little less than a year now.
None since then, but I actually threw one in from 165' two weeks ago on my second throw at #17 at Castle Hayne, NC.

JimBeam

06-01-2009, 07:00 PM

I had been playing for about 2 months seriously, shot my first ace on hole #9 at Zilker Park in Austin, None since then, hit basket a couple times since, and hit chains last Friday but none have stuck

SpringDgLover

06-01-2009, 08:05 PM

[/QUOTE]When I got my aces, I thought they were just gonna be really close to the pin. Instead, they went in.....[/QUOTE]

Don't worry Biker you'll get one just be patient.

Nosh

06-03-2009, 12:13 PM

I've been playing for a little over a year now. I was confident that my main disc golf friend and I would get our first aces this year and that it was just a matter of who was first. Well... it was me. :D

6/2/09: Hole #1 at Sunrise Park, Bartlett, IL. 230ft slight downhill and wide open with my tie-dye Z Buzzz. Have you ever had an ace that was all basket no chain? This ace was soundless. I thought at first it was an optical illusion and the disc hit the grass behind the basket (it has happened before :p ). It took a few moments to sink it without that auditory confirmation but very cool nonetheless. I bounced my Champ Leopard off the top ring of the same hole on some practice drives before our first round of golf that day too. :cool:

fretgod321

06-06-2009, 06:00 PM

Took me 4 years since i've started. Finally happened about a month and a half ago. Hole 18 at Roper park in Lincoln, Nebraska. Sidearmed my DX Tee-Rex.

jhgonzo

06-06-2009, 06:14 PM

My first ace happened in 2007, about 9 years after I first learned how to play, but only about 4 years since I'd been really passionate about it and actually started striving to improve my game.

I was playing the short tees with my wife at Silver Creek Park (http://www.dgcoursereview.com/course.php?id=321), and on Hole #10 I pulled out my pink Champion Orc and skipped an ace right in. I think my wife was more excited than I was; she screamed and high-fived me and yelled "Oh my god, babe!" while I just stood there wondering why I didn't feel more elated. I guess part of it was that I just FELT that it was an ace the second it left my hand--there was a brief flash of my brain telling me, "That's gonna hit right there, catch a nice skip, and slam into the chains" without me consciously thinking about it. It was about a year before I aced another hole, which I guess I can't really count since it wasn't during a round, but it was still a shot off the tee and into the basket, and it was on my home course LTC (http://www.dgcoursereview.com/course.php?id=1498) on one of the tougher short holes (#13), and then a week after that I stepped up to the same tee at Silver Creek, again with my wife, looked at her and said, "I'm gonna ace this again," to which she told me, "Shut up." This time I used the Champion Wraith I aced #13 LTC with the week prior, and executed the exact same shot. I gave my wife a little smartass smirk, and she slapped me.

About a week ago, I got my 4th on #10 at Vollrath (http://www.dgcoursereview.com/course.php?id=800), a hole I always had a feeling I'd ace someday. On that one, I didn't even think I was on the right line and cursed what I thought was a terrible shot, my buddy said, "Nice shot," and then I saw it stall out and crash hard left straight into the chains.

It's weird how it took me so long to get that first one, and now I've got 4 in the last 20 months.

Midnightbiker

06-07-2009, 12:27 AM

When I got my aces, I thought they were just gonna be really close to the pin. Instead, they went in.....[/QUOTE]

Don't worry Biker you'll get one just be patient.[/QUOTE]

Almost got one today. I was shooting at #5 at TC Jester Park in Houston. The shot tee is only 230ft, and I threw a LS Polaris, and missed the basket by inches. I saw it going right towards the basket, and my heart skipped a beat. Almost, but it got away.

Disc Dog

06-07-2009, 12:36 AM

It took 1 year and 1 month. Basket 18 at Dorey park in Richmond Virginia. YOu never forget your first one.

Midnightbiker

06-07-2009, 12:53 AM

It took 1 year and 1 month. Basket 18 at Dorey park in Richmond Virginia. YOu never forget your first one.

I have been playing for two years. I have noticed that in the past few months, I have been getting closer and closer to getting my first ace.

A.Mutt

06-07-2009, 04:00 AM

Hole 2 at Blendon Woods with an Elite Z Buzzz, a few weeks ago.
I have been playing off and on casually for about 6 years ... just started getting serious about it this year. No other aces so far.

D.W.G.

06-15-2009, 01:03 PM

I am still waiting for mine... Saw my first "REAL" ace this morning... Hole #11 at C.P.Adams--playing with a couple guys that I play with on many occasions... Ox throws his Champ.Sidewinder--little left right and back left again--CHING... The hole is about 190, and I think he only throws it about 200-225... Never the less it went in, and stayed in... Well done OX!!!

mashnut

06-15-2009, 01:12 PM

Just got my first one yesterday, at Tim Osmond Sports Complex (http://www.dgcoursereview.com/course.php?id=2672) on hole 12. It was a nice little blind hyzer shot, about 235'. There was nasty rough if you went long, so I threw my least favorite putter at it, and it stuck. It's no longer my least favorite putter... :D

Midnightbiker

06-15-2009, 02:50 PM

mashnut

06-15-2009, 05:40 PM

A dx aviar driver (I still don't use it for putts, but I'm going to use it more on approaches and shorter drives)

roadtripstuff

06-15-2009, 08:18 PM

Had been playing about 2 and a half years when I got my first ace. It was hole 8 at Blendon Woods Metro Park in Columbus, Oh. Its a short, (165ft, i believe) straight shot. Not by any means a difficult shot, but it was still nice to get an ace. Haven't had one since. I have hit the basket a few times, but nothing in the chains.

jdggna

06-15-2009, 09:13 PM

My first and only ace was with a pro leopard on hole 10 of http://www.dgcoursereview.com/course.php?id=287 ... its a really short downhill hole, but I had only been playing for a couple months at the time so I was pretty surprised.

drkstr

09-05-2009, 11:49 PM

My first Ace happened this afternoon.
Hole 12 Lake Stevens, WA. About 260 feet ~ I threw a 165 DX Valkyrie RHBH ~ the flight was perfect as the disc faded slighty at the end and slammed into the basket.
I've been playing for a year.

Dthunderchicken

09-06-2009, 09:55 AM

My only ace came on my first time to Jokerst Park. On the first tee I threw a blind hyzer over a hill and around a tree line. A gust of wind caught the disc and I figured that I was going to be way long. If the basket hadn't been in the way I surely would have been.

As I've often said, I'd rather be lucky than good.

Mr Mirth

09-06-2009, 10:18 AM

My first, and only ace, a Star Wraith, came last year at Yellow Creek Park, #9; wide open 300'.

I've friends who swear they witnessed another at Lincoln Ridge Memorial but I've no recollection.

Over the years I've hit innurmerable baskets and chains without sticking the ace, which made the ace at long last, rather anticlimactic.

:confused:

twistedturbo

09-06-2009, 10:27 AM

I got my first ace the other day a hole 8 at Johnny Roberts 366ft with an Avenger I had played 4 days before that one and hit the basket on the same hole I was happy it went in this time

Mr Mirth

09-06-2009, 10:37 AM

Congrats!

Same disc and flight to the basket, I presume?

discin311

09-06-2009, 12:48 PM

first ace #2 at BG 295 MRV blind shot i just heard it smash then i ran up the hill and it was in there

justindfpr

09-06-2009, 11:17 PM

Mine was on a hole that doesn't exist on our course after it was redesigned. 200 foot shot, 30 foot drop. Not really that impressive now but back then it was incredible. Took me 6 months to get my first ace. Have 19 since. Oh, it was at Richmond Lake, Aberdeen, SD. Only course we have.

XxInnovaxX

09-07-2009, 12:36 AM

took me 2 or 3 months for my first one...note i did play EVERY single day, 2 or 3 rounds...i was hooked!! i now have 3 aces in a little less than a year total(months put together, played for 4 months, quit for 9-10 and started back up)

First: Lewisville Lake Park, Hole #16 i think its about 180'? It was a skip ace, i was playing doubles with 3 of my friends. My partner and I had a 1 stroke lead when we came to the hole, ended up winning by 4...after the ace it was all over:).....to lay the story down, before every throw my friend would say "word of the day is ace!!"...well before my throw i told him the word of the day is Tee-Rex and held my disc up...i then threw it and CHA-CHING....we all went nuts lol

Second Ace: Bear Creek Hole #1, about 260' maybe? first in the air ace....2 witnesses

Third Ace: Bear Creek Hole#4, not sure how far but its short and wide open....the worst ace ever...one because it is the easiest hole on the course, and two because i hit this ace while playing by myself, THREE i was trying to relieve some stress, so i went to play golf, and i was relieving stress from getting laid off a couple hours earlier in the day..lol

BogeyNoMore

09-07-2009, 12:50 AM

6/14/09, Cass-Benton Hole #15, 215ft.

Sounds more impressive than it is... Hole was meant to be an Ace. Baskets about 50 ft lower than the tee. Just glide your putter down hill. I'm sure this hole gets Aced often.

That being said, I was totally stoked watching it glide towards the basket, realizing it had a sweet line, then... CHING!
Good Times!:D

Good thing my son suggested chucking a putter down that slope!

Usher

09-07-2009, 01:14 AM

I got my first ace the other day a hole 8 at Johnny Roberts 366ft with an Avenger I had played 4 days before that one and hit the basket on the same hole I was happy it went in this time

Congrats! That is not an easy hole to ace...(as if any hole is easy) I'm happy when my drive is dry on that hole!

bigjon318

09-12-2009, 02:36 AM

Popped my ace cherry today!

Kind of a cool story too....

Met up with an out-of-towner (Clark, if yer readin' this, had a fun round!) who had never played my home course today. We were coming off of the basket from 12 to 13's tee, and he asked if I had ever had one. Told him had never been close, but the next hole was do-able. Not 45 seconds later, I was hearin chains and slappin high-fives!!!

RHINESEL

09-12-2009, 03:16 AM

Congrats!

Scott Van Dyke

09-14-2009, 11:37 AM

Over 15 years until my buddy got his first one this weekend. Hole #14 at Vallarta-Ast in Madison, WI. It's a blind dog-right about 240 ft. from the am pad. Through a 175 gram Monarch RHBH with a normal Hyzer through the trees on the right side of the fairway. Had to go pretty deep in, but we heard the noise, and he just stopped and looked at me in disbelief. That was a cool moment.

I still have not had one in my 15 years however...

ERicJ

10-26-2009, 06:31 PM

When and what course did you have your first disc golf ace?
How long from the time you first started playing the game till your first ace?
How many since then?
First and only one: 5/30/2009 @ Cedar Brook Elementary School (http://www.dgcoursereview.com/forums/../course.php?id=1086): #1 - 147'
18 months from the first time I threw real disc golf discs at a basket.

Ace #2: 10/24/2009 @ MacGregor Park (http://www.dgcoursereview.com/forums/../course.php?id=646): #6 - 260'.
PDGA C-Tier sanctioned tournament. First throw of the second round.
Elite-Z Comet right up the middle.
$345 Ace Pot. :D

Played some of my worst disc golf of the year this past weekend, but that one throw made up for it all.

Maybe now my buddy Omega cuts me some slack on the first ace? BTW, where/when'd you hit yours?
btw this is going to be my last post until i hit an ace , told myself i wouldnt hit 1000 posts until i hit an ace as i feel stupid being an ace member with no ace. Still going to add some reviews until then, PEACE OUT:)

80playedin10states

10-26-2009, 07:39 PM

ERicJ

11-06-2009, 06:29 PM

[...]Maybe now my buddy Omega cuts me some slack on the first ace? BTW, where/when'd you hit yours?

btw this is going to be my last post until i hit an ace , told myself i wouldnt hit 1000 posts until i hit an ace as i feel stupid being an ace member with no ace. Still going to add some reviews until then, PEACE OUT:)

http://i136.photobucket.com/albums/q193/ejubin/bump.gif

discgolphinmafaukner

11-06-2009, 06:49 PM

I've been playing for almost 3 years and I'm still waiting :( I'm getting close though (although I'm aware it only counts in horseshoes and hand grenades)!

tlandegent

11-18-2009, 08:15 AM

Mr Mirth

11-18-2009, 08:24 AM

Sorry, but it must go into the basket to be legit.

Do shots landing on top of the basket count ordinarily?
No.

fairweather_fan

11-18-2009, 09:03 AM

i got my first ace this past sunday, 11/15/09.

hole 13 @ jefferson barracks (http://www.dgcoursereview.com/gallery.php?id=48&mode=gal&view=hole&hole=13&page=1#), 'A' pin placement- 290 feet.

the hole has changed recently with the removal of some trees on the left center of the fairway, opening up a big, sweeping, LHBH hyzer route for me. i was playing solo, through a foursome of young guys who had progressed to the center of the fairway, and were waiting as i teed. the basket isn't visible from the tee, but as my starfire flew along its majestic parabola, i knew it was a good shot- probably buried under the basket. i turned around to grab my bag and hustle up the fairway for my birdie, and keep the groups moving through the course quickly, when i heard chains and the foursome i was playing through erupted. i about snapped my neck turning around to see the excitement, and they were hopping up and down and whooping it up.

ACE!!!

1 down, many more to go?

CaptainAnhyzer

11-18-2009, 09:13 AM

Congrats Fairweather !!!!! Sucks that you didn't actually see it but an audience is always cool.

dirtydmix

11-18-2009, 09:17 AM

Bones2039

11-18-2009, 09:18 AM

My first and only ace came in late August of this year.

It was at Benton Beach #4 in Rice, MN. 210' shot that has you throw through a few trees near the tee to a open basket if you make it past the trees. Not that hard of a shot but I had only started playing in April of this year, so I was very happy with it. It was with my Cobra. I knew it was a good shot when I let it fly and it cleared the trees. I thought it might be just under the basket, but it hit the chains and fell right in. Was a good moment. Especially since I had 4 witnesses with me at the time.

I've come close a few times since, but haven't got another yet.

fairweather_fan

11-18-2009, 09:23 AM

Congrats Fairweather !!!!! Sucks that you didn't actually see it but an audience is always cool.

thanks, cap'n...if those guys hadn't been mid-fairway it would have been the ol' "if a disc lands in the basket off a tee shot, but noone's there to see it- is it really an ace?" zen koan deal.

damn, it was a sweet feeling. time to get another!

CaptainAnhyzer

11-18-2009, 09:25 AM

you actually would get a three on that hole. You have to basically throw your disc down then throw back in for par. If discs land on top it becomes a stroke penalty.

Uhhhhhhhh, where'd you read about this rule ?

CaptainAnhyzer

11-18-2009, 09:27 AM

damn, it was a sweet feeling. time to get another!

That'll stay with ya for a WHILE !!!!! Every person that plays that hole with you will know about it, LOL !!!

fairweather_fan

11-18-2009, 09:30 AM

Every person that plays that hole with you will know about it

oh, yes they will- i'll make sure of it! as i step up to tee off i'll be like, "just mark me down for one, fellas. you know i ace this hole, right?"

bwahahahahaha!!!

dirtydmix

11-18-2009, 09:33 AM

Uhhhhhhhh, where'd you read about this rule ?

because the disc needs to be on the ground to be able to be thrown again. You would have to take it down then throw. which results in you having to use another stroke to get it down. may not be a considered a 'penalty' but that is the rule.

DGChronicles

11-18-2009, 09:37 AM

got my first ace a couple weeks back after playing for about 2 months...
i hit it at hole #1 at duncraft castle point park in VA

CaptainAnhyzer

11-18-2009, 09:50 AM

because the disc needs to be on the ground to be able to be thrown again. You would have to take it down then throw. which results in you having to use another stroke to get it down. may not be a considered a 'penalty' but that is the rule.

I believe you're talking about the 2 meter rule, in which case the top of the basket is NOT above that mark. You would mark the disc directly below and incur NO penalty.

tlandegent cards a "2" for that hole.

2 meters = 6.5617 feet

CaptainAnhyzer

11-18-2009, 09:56 AM

PDGA rule for Disc Above the Playing Surface (http://www.pdga.com/rules/80308-disc-above-the-playing-surface)

scottp

11-18-2009, 10:40 AM

I had my first ace on 11/04/2009, 1 year after I started playing. A 271ft slightly uphill shot that hit the chains dead center, seemed to hold there and spin for a half second before dropping right in.

None so far after that, but I've had quite a few more metal hits afterward. I'm hoping to get two before the winter hits!

wolito

11-18-2009, 11:13 AM

My ace is coming. I have been playing for about three years and no offical ace yet. In the last month, I have hit the pole, hit the chains and a few days ago hit dead center on the top of the basket. I am dailing in my accuracy and will start hitting them. I can feel it.

mattdabbs

11-18-2009, 11:16 AM

Still no aces for me. Half a dozen into the chains but nothing has stuck.

The funniest was a hole about 270...threw my ESP FLX buzz on a sweet S-curve around some trees. It hit dead center into the chains, fell and hit the top of the bucket, teetered a moment, fell out and then did a victory lap around the pole before it came to a stop under the basket.

Technohic

11-18-2009, 11:26 AM

Like a virgin, I have hit all around the hole but never in on the first shot. Getting closer. Just need some hair to wrap around it I think.

Ilosediscs

11-18-2009, 11:37 AM

Got my first about a month ago after playing for 3+ years! Gentle hyzer on a wooded, left turning, 160' shorty. Thing just floated right in! It honestly took a few moments for it to set in... kinda in shock I suppose? Anywho - it was a great feeling!

175g Organic Wizard btw.

ibekent

11-18-2009, 11:56 AM

My first ace came after about 3 years of playing. (I'd had several hit the pin or chains and slip out.) It came on hole one of my home course - a completely open, flat 250 foot fairway. My second ace came a few weeks later on a 160 foot, heavily wooded hole. In both cases - as well as with most of my near misses - I had just started playing that day and so was rested and relaxed with a smooth release.

The second ace was better than the first because I had realized I was throwing the wrong disc on a Tuesday and thought "If I threw a Leopard, I would ace this hole." I visualized it, came back on a Thursday, got out of my car, walked straight to hole four, pulled out the Champion rainbow leopard, held it as I had imagined, visualized the flight path into the basket, stepped onto the pad, and threw the ace. Then I got back in my car and left. It was perfect.

ERicJ

11-18-2009, 02:37 PM

So... I've been way excited for the past few days because I nabbed my first "ace."
But... a buddy of mine told me it wasn't one... so, after a half hour of trying to find the rule, I come here...

I threw a thumber, 251 foot hole, at the end of the flight, it came soaring down, hit the top of the basket, bounced about 4 feet in the air, and then came to rest on top of the basket. Ace or no ace?

(Even if it isn't an ace, it goes down in the books as the coolest shot I've ever done)
you actually would get a three on that hole. You have to basically throw your disc down then throw back in for par. If discs land on top it becomes a stroke penalty.
Uhhhhhhhh, where'd you read about this rule ?
because the disc needs to be on the ground to be able to be thrown again. You would have to take it down then throw. which results in you having to use another stroke to get it down. may not be a considered a 'penalty' but that is the rule.

@ tlandegent: sorry, not an Ace.

@ dirtydmix: Mark the lie with a Mini (per PDGA Rule 803.03 (http://www.pdga.com/rules/80303-marking-the-lie)) and then hole out carding a '2'.

See also: PDGA FAQ: Disc resting on top (DROT) (http://www.pdga.com/faq/299#299n828)

bongripper0420

11-18-2009, 02:40 PM

Just hit my first ace last saturday (see sig):) Felt nice as Ive hit metal on this hole quite a few times.

Huk Finn

11-18-2009, 02:49 PM

...so if a disc is 3ft up in a tree, its under 2meters so no penalty right?

dont you drop the disc from the tree to the ground and throw from there with no stroke?

Technohic

11-18-2009, 02:51 PM

What if it lands in a big tree, more than 2 meters up, but you are able to stand on the tree branch and throw?

Huk Finn

11-18-2009, 02:55 PM

What if it lands in a big tree, more than 2 meters up, but you are able to stand on the tree branch and throw?

Nope. ;) Although I wouldn't rat you out.

ERicJ

11-18-2009, 03:55 PM

...so if a disc is 3ft up in a tree, its under 2meters so no penalty right?

Correct.

dont you drop the disc from the tree to the ground and throw from there with no stroke?

You mark the lie directly under the disc and play from that marked lie.
803.08 Disc Above the Playing Surface (http://www.pdga.com/rules/80308-disc-above-the-playing-surface)

What if it lands in a big tree, more than 2 meters up, but you are able to stand on the tree branch and throw?

The 2M penalty rule is now optional at the discretion of the Tournament Director.

tlandegent

11-18-2009, 07:51 PM

Thanks everyone for helping with talking about the 2 meter rule and my first "ace."

Admit it though, all of you are jealous of my sweet shot that bounced off the top of the basket and then landed back on the top of the basket. Comon, admit it.

If new viewers don't know what I'm talking about, look at p. 18 for my question on my "ace."

Thanks CaptainAnhyzer and all...

Definistrated29

11-19-2009, 01:51 PM

Hit my first ace today at Johnny Roberts Memorial in Arvada, CO. Hole 10. 174'. Got it with the first disc I ever threw. A 25cent 175g whamo putter I bought at a garage sale. I've been playing about a month but I play 2-3 times a week. The closest group to me was two holes away so no one else saw it. It was sweet. Got to watch it slightly anhyzer right in.

delve

11-19-2009, 02:32 PM

I got my Ace on basket #2 at Aant'iyeik Park in Juneau Alaska, my home course. I threw a Quest Double D, RHBH, it went way higher than I had planned and thought it was gonna be a total bomb, and it was, a Basket Bomb!!! It didnt even rattle the chains, just dropped in the basket and stayed. That was on the 13th of September, I have been playing for a couple years but that is the only Ace that Ive gotten so far.

Trashthrasher

11-19-2009, 10:15 PM

4/7/05 (my 2nd year playing) Hole #15 @ Sussex Village Park, Sussex, WI. 168g Discraft Talon. Straight 215ft w/ trees along right side. Right-hand Side-arm shot. I haven't had one since.

tstack10

11-19-2009, 10:22 PM

reading these makes me want to cry as I am still waiting impatiently for my firsy ace

ChainMan

11-19-2009, 10:25 PM

reading these makes me want to cry as I am still waiting impatiently for my firsy ace

I will definitely cry when I hit that first one. I've gotten quite a few in object golf but none in the ole basket. Poles, chains and outside of the basket but never in...keep chukin.

Trashthrasher

11-19-2009, 10:26 PM

4/7/05 (my 2nd year playing) Hole #15 @ Sussex Village Park, Sussex, WI. 168g Discraft Talon. Straight 215ft w/ trees along right side. Right-hand Side-arm shot. I haven't had one since.
I immediately retired the disc & made a clock out of it!!!:D

D.W.G.

11-22-2009, 12:21 AM

Finally got my first ace this morning... C.P.Adams in Hastings,MN--Hole #12--only 200', using my buddies Buzzz...

El cycib

11-22-2009, 01:22 PM

First ace last week on Hole #8 at Sunset Park in Lewiston, ID. Shortest hole on the course at 180 ft., so it wasn't THAT exciting, but still cool nonetheless.
Been playing about 5 years, and I expect it will be another 5 until I get my next one.

Geaver

11-28-2009, 12:02 AM

I had been playing for years, and putting a ton of pressure on myself to get one. I left my favorite yellow 167g elite z buzzz on a course and got a call three weeks later from the locals disc golf shop saying they had my buzzz. Two weeks later on may 29 2009 on #8 at circle c, magic finally happenned. I was so relieved. I don't think my feet touched the ground on the way to the basket. I had 5 witnesses to sign my disc. I will never forget my first, hopefully it's not the last!

MooTaters

11-28-2009, 02:45 AM

I've been playing around 5 years and don't have one. :(

Don't worry I witnessed my friend get his FIRST ace after 7 years of playing! Witnessed another friend get his second and I'm pretty sure this is his first year. Also saw another guy who I joined up(didn't know him) right at hole 1 and did 18 holes with him, he aced hole 16. Witness to 3 aces already with in the first 3 and a half or so months of playing.

Terry C

11-28-2009, 07:26 PM

1ST ACE!!! hole #16 at old farm park, west Mi. took me 15 years and man was it worth the wait. ( 255 feet uphill ). 11/28/09

valkyrie

11-28-2009, 07:28 PM

1ST ACE!!! hole #16 at old farm park, west Mi. took me 15 years and man was it worth the wait. ( 255 feet uphill ). 11/28/09

Gratz!

trashmonster1985

11-28-2009, 09:12 PM

trashmonster1985

11-28-2009, 09:13 PM

my first and sadly only was when i first started in 2007 at the bijou in tahoe on hole 8. tons of metal, but none in since.

trashmonster1985

11-28-2009, 09:16 PM

reading these makes me want to cry as I am still waiting impatiently for my firsy ace

i know, my first was when i was such a newb, and with a friends disc nonetheless (can you say beginners luck?)that i feel as though i am still waiting for my first legit one. even though the beginners luck one was from 250 out...

firsy?

trashmonster1985

11-28-2009, 09:18 PM

wow i'm eating this post up with all of my afterthoughts, my bad i'll relent.

trashmonster1985

11-28-2009, 09:18 PM

but then again,.. oh wait nevermind:)

Terry C

11-28-2009, 09:24 PM

Gratz!

Thanks valk, we gotta hook up for a round sometime, your in my area.:hfive:

Smelvis

11-28-2009, 09:25 PM

Midnightbiker

11-28-2009, 09:29 PM

my girlfriend got her first ace at davidson college in september. i know what someone is saying. the hole was about 160 ft give or take a few. but she glanced it off a trre hanging over the fairway. it was beautiful. still an ace in my book.

Most people on here have not even made a 160ft putt. Hitting the basket from that distance is something to be proud of.

trashmonster1985

11-28-2009, 09:34 PM

definitely. at bracketts 5 days later she skipped one in from over 100 ft out. at that point i decided she couldn't come discing with me anymore.

i hate that discing isn't a real word. who the hell writes the dictionary?!

trashmonster1985

11-28-2009, 09:35 PM

i'm gonna have to talk to this webster guy

grass_stain

11-28-2009, 09:45 PM

got my first on my birthday 11-23-09 #10 at branstrom, it skiped in.

ERicJ

03-08-2010, 12:16 PM

When and what course did you have your first disc golf ace?
How long from the time you first started playing the game till your first ace?
How many since then?
By the way,still waiting on mine!!

First and only one: 5/30/2009 @ Cedar Brook Elementary School (http://www.dgcoursereview.com/forums/../course.php?id=1086): #1 - 147'
18 months from the first time I threw real disc golf discs at a basket.Ace #2: 10/24/2009 @ MacGregor Park (http://www.dgcoursereview.com/forums/../course.php?id=646): #6 - 260'.
PDGA C-Tier sanctioned tournament. First throw of the second round.
Elite-Z Comet right up the middle.
$345 Ace Pot. :D

Played some of my worst disc golf of the year this past weekend, but that one throw made up for it all.
Ace #3 was an object ace.
1/30/2010 @ Jack Brooks Park - Cedar Hills (http://www.dgcoursereview.com/forums/../course.php?id=3281): #17 - 321'.
Casual round with the guys who were in town from Illinois. We got to hole #17 only to find that the basket had been stolen, so one of the Illinois guys said to play object golf to the closest landmark which was the trash can (321') by picnic table: threw green 172 ESP Surge big hyzer over tree and nailed the trash can for first object golf ace.

Ace #4: 3/7/2010 @ Missouri City Community Park (http://www.dgcoursereview.com/forums/../course.php?id=938): #17 - 323'.
Hole #17 is on the alternate tee layout from the white bricks, plays to basket #7. Threw a 174 Champ Monarch anny line at the leftmost tree, it sneaked through the edge of the branches and rode the wind all the way to the chains.

wolito

03-08-2010, 12:43 PM

^^^ Great Ace there ERicJ! A 323' ace gots to feel awesome! I think as the length of the hole gets longer, the value of the ace increases somewhat. That's not a Cubby ace for sure.

insobox

03-08-2010, 12:52 PM

First Ace was at Twin Parks on their Parkshire course on 12-4-2009. Hole #18 306 ft with 175g Star Boss that I had bought that day, all chains. I had been playing disc golf for about 10 months. I just got my second ace the other night 3-4-2010 at Zilker Park on Hole #8 (side with cement pads) ~360 feet with the same Star Boss, about 20 witnesses for that one and it was all chains. Been playing now for about 13 months.

pokamitch

03-08-2010, 12:59 PM

Dec 13, 2005 3:07 pm. Emerald Park; Mesa, AZ. Hole #3. 257' uphill, dog right behind some trees. Took me 19 yrs to get my 1st one...

2 more aces since. One LHBH and one RHBH

Peach

03-08-2010, 01:24 PM

When and what course did you have your first disc golf ace?
1/23/10 - Acorn Park in Roseville, MN - Fairway Freezer Tournament
RHBH and used a 172g Elite X Stratus.
You can view the hole here: http://playdg.com/courses/?s=MN&c=acorn&h=14

How long from the time you first started playing the game till your first ace?
Nine years. I was a very casual rec player until the fall of 2009. This was also my first tournament so it was a great combination (first tourney + first ace).

How many since then?
None, but like many others a few bounce outs.

Mack420

03-08-2010, 01:38 PM

got my 2nd ace yesterday. hole #1/mc clendan park/ only 90'. first skip ace. 1 witness

tistoude

03-10-2010, 03:24 PM

I had my first ace about 5 months after I started playing at Knob Hill hole #2 with a Flick. After that I had a pretty good run of about 1 per month for 4 months. I am up to 6 now (2 years playing), evenly split between RHBH and RHFH.

Eagle01

03-10-2010, 07:49 PM

[QUOTE=Peach;288985]When and what course did you have your first disc golf ace?
1/23/10 - Acorn Park in Roseville, MN - Fairway Freezer Tournament
RHBH and used a 172g Elite X Stratus.
You can view the hole here: http://playdg.com/courses/?s=MN&c=acorn&h=14

Got my first ace on 1/23/10 as well. Threw an 173g SSS Wizard 205' on close pin loc, hole 7 at Westmoreland Park, Eugene OR, just floated home. Awesome feeling!

sloppydisc

03-10-2010, 08:02 PM

My last ace was a few months ago at Buckhorn #8. Thank god it hit the basket because if it didn't it would have been in the lake. I threw it way too hard.

Nice job. I have hit that cage about 5 times. I have also donated about 5 discs to the lake behind it. And on top of all that I have taken some serious bark off those trees. I keep thinking that will be the hole I ace, but not yet. I am shooting for hole #11. Then I can pump my chest and brag. But I can barley reach it right now so an ace is a real long shot. Oh well, I can dream.

bpatton

03-12-2010, 10:10 PM

My first ace came on hole number 15 of the old tunnel course at Kensington in Michigan. It happened in the first year that I was playing, 1998, and I had one witness. I threw a stratus and it began to turn right just as I thought I was going to nail the tree that stands ten feet left and back from the basket. As chance would have it our group of friends had deemed that hole as the "six pack hole". Any aces were to receive a six pack from all witnesses. My buddy had a hard time getting that six pack too, seeing as how we were 16:D

Lewis

03-31-2010, 06:17 PM

I got what you might call a Cubbie Ace last week. I can't remember what day it was, but I was playing at my home course in Cobb County, GA. The 18th hole is a nice short, technical hole. It's only about 200', with tall trees left, right, and center, and a creek running down the right side of the middle of the fairway the whole way. Winter flooding has caused erosion to the point that the basket itself is only about 2' from a steep 3' bank down into the water. Most players I know tee off on this hole with putters, but I like to tomahawk a fairway driver. I was just out for a recreational round by myself, so I decided to try a couple of new lines on the fairway to see if I could put it a little closer to the basket without putting it in the water. I kind of liked the line I threw on my first hole, so I made a little adjustment with my second disc and tomahawked it into the basket. I had witnesses on an adjacent hole, and they were impressed, but I had to admit it was my second throw. I'll keep throwing that line, and keep hoping for the "real thing." Until then, it's nice to have had the excitement. :)

wolito

04-02-2010, 03:44 PM

Finally after three years of playing, hitting metal numerous times, the elusive first ace happened for my yesterday. I was playing a course in Colorado and on the 18th tee, the magic happened. I threw a Star TL pretty much straight on and it headed for the basket, looked good and then went right in! It didn't slam the chains like I thought it would, but almost like a putt, nice and easy. It was a par three, 322 foot hole. I jumped around and yelled like a little kid. It was awesome!

Myers

04-02-2010, 04:01 PM

1st ace was at Griggs Reservoir #13, April 2007, Discraft Z X2 , 253'
I had been playing about a year and a half.
Ace total is up to 12 now.

cornelius

04-03-2010, 01:24 AM

1st ace 1 year into playing my dad and i walked up to the shortest hole on the course he looked at me and said what will you give me if i ace this i said 100$ he missed i looked at him asked the same thing he said 100$ i steped up hyzered my esp buzz right into the basket he had the money in his pocket

beatUPboss

04-03-2010, 01:44 AM

how far was it and how did it feel awsome rite did he pay you???

beatUPboss

04-03-2010, 02:05 AM

my first ace was at liberty park it was on hole 3 188 ft with a star destroyer at that time that was as far as i could throw things are alot different now i play advance at la mirada disc golf course in california but when i got my first ace i had only been about 3 months into the sport but now i have 26 aces some short and some long but its been a blast the whole way through:clap:

Apothecary

04-03-2010, 03:11 AM

liberty aces dont count...:D

beatUPboss

04-03-2010, 03:23 AM

even if it was my first one

gcr_russell

04-03-2010, 04:17 AM

188 is nothing to be ashamed of, I got a 189' ace at the GCC doubles round before the tournament on their temp island hole with a little drone flick. Fun Fact- I played that hole 3 times and shot a total of 9 strokes, averaging par. First time an ace, not counted towards the tournament in doubles. 2nd round a drop in birdie ace run. 3rd time when I was leading by 2 strokes with 10 holes to play in the tourney I went OB twice and carded a 6.