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News Roundup: Worlds Underway, Disc Golf Compromise + More

Every once in a while, we will post a quick roundup of some Disc Golf stories circulating around the web that we find interesting. Here are some links that we’ve put together from stories over the past few weeks: Read more

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‘Spreading the Gospel of Disc Golf’ by Chris Millay

‘In the Chains with Chris Millay’ is a new editorial feature for our news that will showcase articles by AceRunners.com member, Chris Millay. Here is his first article on how close Disc Golf is to getting more exposure and why AceRunners can help get us some respect…enjoy!   Read more

Deals of the Week – Wraith Echo Star, Skill Shot + More

Listed below are some of the best current online deals we’ve scoped out this week from a number of online Disc Golf retailers. Please note that promotion end dates and availability is subject to change and definitely not controlled by AceRunners.com and we are not getting paid to advertise these specials.

Online Stores that ship to the US only

Disc Golf Mart

Wraith Echo Star. Was $19.99. Now $15.99. > Shop Now

($5.99 Flat Rate Shipping)

Disc Nation

Save 42% on a 25-inch Disc Nation Logo Towel. Was $11.99. Now $6.99     > Shop Now

Save 20% on a Nuke ESP. Was $19.99. Now $15.99.  > Shop Now

Disc Golf Store

(Free UPS Ground Shipping on non-basket/target orders of $19 or more to the contiguous 48 states)

Skill shot portable target. Was $149.99. Now $119.99. Save 20%.   > Shop Now

Online Stores that ship to the US & International

Prime Discs

DGA ‘Blowfly’ putt & approach. Was $11.99. Now $7.99. > Shop Now

(US shipping costs are a flat rate of $3.00 for discs and bags. Intl. shipping costs are determined by the USPS)

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That’s it for now – check back next week for more great online Disc Golf merch deals.

- The AceRunners Team

Thank You for Your Support + Month One Recap

Today marks exactly one month of AceRunners.com being live and we wanted to recap some of the highlights from the first month, talk about the future a little bit and also let you all know how much we appreciate your interest.

First, here is a quick look at some of the highlights from month one:

• Over 6,000 visits, including visitors from all 50 states and 30 countries
• The US lead the way in traffic with Canada coming in 2nd and Finland in 3rd
• We got some love from the PDGA with a great story published about our new site that you can read here
• Our first ‘Course of the Month’ was published in 3 Parts about Flyboy Aviation – you can start by reading the first part here in case   you missed it
• We now have 165 subscribers on our YouTube channel – as far as we know this is the 2nd most of any Disc Golf channel (behind Disc Golf Monthly)
• We started a new Facebook Page
• We already have nearly 300 registered users on our site, some of which have already started using our Forums

And this is only the beginning. Over the next few months we plan to bring the following:

• More content, including editorial stories on Disc Golf and regular news features
• The Leaderboard should be live by the end of the summer to allow you to track your course scores and showcase the best players in multiple Disc Golf categories
• In October our first Webisode will launch
• Also in October, we should have 2 new tutorials available for overhand throws and roller shots
• The continuation of our ‘Course of the Month’ feature with articles and pictures supplied by YOU
• And before the end of the year we will have some product reviews and more information and content regarding our interactive Disc Golf game that is coming next year

Our goal really is to be the Best Disc Golf Site for Beginners to Pros and we really appreciate everyone who has visited and has helped spread the word about AceRunners.com. Also, if you feel that we can improve in any way, please don’t hesitate to Contact Us and let us know your thoughts.

Thanks so much again for your interest,

-The AceRunners.com Team

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Course of the Month – Flyboy Aviation (part 3 of 3)

To celebrate the launch of our site and our first ‘Course of the Month’ we are publishing a 3 part whale of a story about one of the coolest courses you’ll ever hear about, written by one of the coolest and most genuine guys you’ll ever meet – Kelly Leggette. Here is the final part on how ‘Flyboy Aviation’ came to be. If you missed either of the previous entries you can check out Part 1 or Part 2.

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Flyboy Aviation Disc Golf Field of Dreams

“If I build it, will they come?”

Part 3 of 3

By Kelly Leggette

The people: My final cornerstone requirement, the right people to run the place, has turned out to be the most important of all.  Without Wayne and Lillian living there to add that wonderful southern hospitality, Flyboy wouldn’t have the warmth and inviting feel it does.  My folks enjoy getting to know the golfers, and during garden season, Wayne (undisputed “guru of sweet-corn”) usually sends them home with a bag or two of fresh picked veggies. Lillian has fed many a disc golfer at the break between hole 18 and 19, and keeps the place looking spotless.  My course pro, Brad Orman, more passionate about the sport than anyone I know, has become a regular feature here for the last year or so, contributing his own flavor to the texture of Flyboy Aviation.  Not only is he always up for a round to escort disc golfers on the private course, but he performs a myriad of other functions including prepping for events, never-ending course maintenance, disc retrieval from the three lakes (a big job), building walkways and docks, and whatever else needs to be done. Our two dogs, Max and Morgan, our Flyboy Aviation “greeters,” add to the homey atmosphere of the place, although Morgan does tend to work the disc golfers pretty hard for power bars, and ham sandwiches…you’ve been forewarned!  My lovely supportive wife Suellyn, not particularly interested in the sport itself, works in the background on the business side, mostly figuring out how to keep us all out of jail (kidding…mostly).  I retain the title of CEO, or something like that…”It’s good to be da King!”

I’ve always dreamed Flyboy Aviation would someday amount to something, become a really special, unique place for folks to visit.  I think I was supposed to build it, as if it were meant to be, and somehow it all fell into place. I’m sure I’ll never feel like Flyboy is completely finished, as we continually strive to improve…better baskets and tee pads, improved camping facilities, killer website…the list goes on and on. Heck, we’ve come this far, might as well shoot for “best disc golf venue on the planet” award!  Of course owning and operating your own private disc golf course is not without its trials and tribulations, but that sounds like a future article for AceRunners.com.  The years of grunt work, setbacks, and dwindling bank accounts, have all been well worth it.  The payoff for me now is seeing folks thoroughly enjoying themselves here, and leaving with a huge smile on their faces and some lasting memories of a day at Flyboy Aviation Disc Golf, my “field of dreams.”

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We hope you have enjoyed our first Course of the Month on Flyboy Aviation. Now it’s time for you to help! Click the link below to learn how to submit an entry for a future ‘Course of the Month’ to be published on our site. We are seeking entries for September and beyond right now!

CourseoftheMonthAnnoucement

A Few Site Updates Coming Soon

You may have noticed we’ve published less stories over the past week – including our deals of the week piece. Now that we have some content, we are reprogramming our homepage to showcase 6 stories instead of just 3 to better position ourselves as a great news source for Disc Golf.

After these changes get pushed live we will be back on top of things, and in fact, will probably be pushing out content more frequently then before so make sure to check back on our site regularly.

We are also making good progress on the Leaderboard and hope to have that live by the tail end of August. Thanks for your continued interest in our site and hope you all have a great weekend.

- The AceRunners Team

Feature Focus: Webisodes Preview Spectacular

The webisodes are a feature of our site that we have put a lot of time into. To give a better idea of what to expect before our first one launches in October we have put together a new video (below) that shows the opening credits with a montage of highlights. We have to admit, we are only coming out with 3 episodes to start with because it’s going to be a learning process as we go. A Disc Golf show with highlights in High Definition and a variety of music as the backdrop sounds like a winning recipe to us but we are sure there are going to be ways we can continue to improve and deliver content that you guys want to see more of. Our hope is that these will be a fresh and welcome addition to the Disc Golf community and something that will keep you all entertained.

Episodes 1 & 2 were both filmed at the end of 2007 and the third one is being filmed this year at Flyboy Aviation – our July Course of the Month. Check out the video below now to get a better idea of what to expect.

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Course of the Month – Flyboy Aviation (Part 2 of 3)

To celebrate the launch of our site and our first ‘Course of the Month’ we are publishing a 3 part whale of a story about one of the coolest courses you’ll ever hear about, written by one of the coolest and most genuine guys you’ll ever meet – Kelly Leggette. Here is part 2 of 3 on how ‘Flyboy Aviation’ came to be. You can read Part 1 here.

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Flyboy Aviation Disc Golf Field of Dreams

“If I build it, will they come?”

Part 2 of 3

By Kelly Leggette

I identified three “critical cornerstones” required to build the ultimate disc golf venue:  An awesome tract of land on which to build a championship caliber course, a comfortable, inviting clubhouse with a pro-shop, dinning, and maybe even lodging facilities, and finally, the right people to run the operation and make it fun. As if I had coincidentally been on the correct path all along, the light bulb flickered on in my noggin, and I discovered that I already had all three “critical cornerstones,” right in front of me! The land for the course?  The airpark community property I lived on, right out my hangar door!  The clubhouse?  My half-completed airplane hangar/house, just waiting for the final defining features.  The right people to operate it?  My retired parents whom I’d just recently moved into the hangar/house could handle day-to-day operations; my new fiancé (now wife) could run the business end; and my new carpenter at the time, Brad Orman was the perfect fit for course pro. As it turned out, I had effectively been building my disc golf “field of dreams” for quite some time, without even knowing it, starting way back before I’d ever heard of disc golf!  I just got a chill.

The course: I had bought my airplane hangar in a community airpark encompassing hundreds of beautiful acres: hills, lakes, woods, manicured grass taxiways, and a plush ½ mile long Bermuda grass runway stretching right through the middle of the property. Little did I know it was disc golf Nirvana, just begging to become a world-class course!  Once I finally set about designing the course in earnest, it took several months of flinging discs all over the airpark, circling over the property in airplanes, and countless hours staring at it on Goggle Earth, to yield 18 new holes, in addition to some serious tweaking to the holes I’d already set up around my yard. I began inviting my new disc golf friends out to play the new layouts, which I regularly adjusted, largely based on input from the disc golfers themselves, who were now showing up at the monthly “Flyboy Action” in increasing numbers…15, 20, 30 at a time!  Wow, they really were coming!  Maybe it was mostly Lillian’s cooking that attracted them, but the course was starting to make a real name for itself too. Before long, some of the touring pros caught wind of Flyboy Disc Golf.  Tom Monroe and Phil Arthur showed up early on, followed later by Liz Carr, Avery and Valerie Jenkins, Nate Doss, Cameron Todd, Leslie Herndon, Dave Feldberg, and “The Champ,” Ken Climo himself…world champions, hanging out at Flyboy! All these world-class players have been extremely encouraging to me, and provided invaluable feedback on how to improve the course. The days of shared baskets and crossing fairways were long gone, and by now the flow of the course could accommodate a full-blown disc golf tournament. The layout had evolved from 9 to 18 to 27 holes, and at one time there were 36…two full 18-hole courses!  The available land out here is so vast and suitable for disc golf that I could continue carving out excellent golf holes, but hey, you gotta stop somewhere!  Now that the dust has settled, the layout has matured into a 27-hole, 14,000-foot, championship caliber course playing a par 101, with some of the most spectacular holes in the game, including the longest known disc golf hole in the world at 1600 feet playing down the manicured Bermuda grass runway. The course can also be played as an 18-hole “Signature” par 72 layout, in line with the layout of a ball golf PGA tournament course.  Most golfers want to play the entire 27 holes though, assuming they have the required 4 to 5 hours to kill!  My  “field of dreams” disc golf course is finally a reality, and has truly exceeded even my greatest expectations.  One excited player reviewed the course this way: “If God had a disc golf course, he might have concrete pads, but I bet he would copy Flyboy on several holes!”  That comment put a tear in my eye…and we’re working on the tee pads!

The clubhouse: Back when I bought my airplane hangar, there were no living quarters inside.  A divorce created the need for a place to live, and I set about building my house inside the hangar itself, a hangar/house, which is what I’d always dreamed of living in anyway!  What bachelor wouldn’t want a gigantic living room filled with airplanes, ping-pong and pool tables, comfy old couches, and a 24-foot wide movie screen?  Unfortunately, having never built a project of this magnitude before, I was totally winging it, and the progress dragged on slowly for a few years.  Then…I was introduced to disc golf by my friend “Riz,” and my hangar/house project practically ground to a halt as I found myself playing disc golf every chance I got!  Miraculously, some of the living space eventually became livable and I moved in, vowing to complete the project around me at my own pace…yeah, right.  My saving grace finally came when I fell in love with an incredible woman who knew much more about creating unique spaces to live in than I ever will.  She gave me the inspiration and confidence to push through and complete the remaining 30% of my hangar/house project, which now reflects both our design tastes.  Believe it or not, many women do not want to live in “the ultimate bachelor pad” with their in-laws (how could she not love my coffee table made out of an old aircraft radial engine?) and alas, our subsequent marriage resulted in me moving back out of the hangar/house and into her beautiful house in Midtown Atlanta, leaving my folks and our two dogs to hold down the Flyboy Aviation fort. Funny the hyzers life throws at you! It’s all good though, and my ultimate bachelor pad has morphed into the ultimate disc golf clubhouse, complete with a pro-shop, Mom’s southern cooking, bunkroom, and big screen in the giant living room for tournament briefings via power point and laser pointer.  Who would have thunk it?

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Check back next Friday for the final entry on Flyboy Aviation. Also, click the link below to learn how to submit an entry for a future ‘Course of the Month’ to be published on our site. We are seeking entries for August and beyond right now!

CourseoftheMonthAnnoucement

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Feature Focus: AceRunners.com Social Media Pages

We thought it was important to let all of our new visitors know the many different ways to stay connected to AceRunners.com. Whether you are interested in our latest news, videos, updates or tweets there are many ways to join the many conversations we are having about Disc Golf.

YouTube Channel

Subscribe to our YouTube channel and you will be notified every time we upload new videos. Not every video we create will be added to our website, so you will have access to our entire library  by accessing our channel. We currently have 9 videos and 155 subscribers and growing. We will be adding more content very soon!  http:www.youtube.com/acerunners

Facebook

We just recently started a new Facebook page exclusively for AceRunners.com. ‘Like it’ and not only will you hear about the latest site news, but you can also start discussion threads and upload your own videos and pics. If we see any videos that we really like we will publish them to our homepage. http://www.facebook.com/pages/AceRunnerscom/137663732929740

Twitter Page

If you are into tweeting and/or are on the go a lot and just want to be in the know of our latest headlines before coming to the site then following us on Twitter is a good choice. Not only will you stay on top of our latest news and content updates, but you will also hear more about what courses we are playing at and our regular going-ons. http://twitter.com/AceRunners

Email

If you just simply want to receive emails whenever we publish new stories then simply enter your email address onto our opt-in pod on the homepage.

That’s all for now. Hope everyone is enjoying the site so far!

- The AceRunners.com Team

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