Twenty-Seven Envoys, One Very Wet Ledger 🌧️
adjusts headset Twenty-seven players signed in for Kraken Wakes at River Bottoms, Week 8 of 9, and the water arrived on schedule: rain, a 48.9°F average, wind at 8.3 mph gusting to 14.0. This is the chapter where the tribute disputes stop being paperwork and something in the Jordan River starts reading the file aloud.
The Last Filing Beat the Deadline ⏰
RPA Gold came down to the final two holes and a scorecard that changed its mind twice. Miller Schenewark led through 17, then bogeyed 18 and was gone; Jared Lang had pulled even through 17 and took the lead on 18, where his was the only birdie in the field on a 429-foot par 3 the rest of the card averaged +0.8 on. Lang closed at -6 on a 986, 21 points over his 965 rating, a personal best on this layout and the final cash spot. Schenewark's 966 sat 21 under his 987 — the PDGA card lists Granbury, TX, which is a long way to come for a bogey on the last. Chris Norman ran his front nine three strokes better than his back and landed T3 at -3.
Two Signatures, Zero Appeals
RAD White had no lead change to narrate, because Zack White removed the possibility early. A -3 finish, six strokes clear of Marvin Atene at +3, built on the kind of bounce-back that quiets a card: after a +3 on hole 9, White birdied 10 and kept the ledger closed. The 956 was 35 points over his 921 rating and a personal best here. Atene's best beat was a six-hole par train through 6-11, which is a fine way to stay out of the water and no way to catch a man shooting 35 over his number.
A Record, a Crown, and a Kraken
RAH Blue got the round of the day and a rewrite of the course record book. Luke Baczuk tied Ryder Voelker for the lead through hole 3, took it through hole 4 when Voelker bogeyed out of the tie, and never gave it back — wire to wire at -8 on a 1006, 91 points over his 915 rating, and a course-record 50 that beats his own previous mark. Josh Hancock and Ben Allen tied second at -5 on matching 976s, Allen climbing from 5th to 3rd on a back nine three strokes better than his front. Voelker's 966 ran 29 over his rating; Tanner Shell at 876 and Chris Fox at 846 finished 69 and 77 under theirs, which is the regression story after Fox's 951 a week ago.
A Tie, a Bogey, and a Long Walk Home
RAE Red was decided by an answer, twice. David LaTour pulled even through hole 4 and again through hole 7, and both times Kellan Brooke retook the lead — through 5 after LaTour's bogey, through 8 after the second challenge. Brooke closed at E on a 926, 62 points over his 864 rating and a personal best on the layout, while LaTour's +8 took second with a front nine four strokes better than his back. Michael Whipple finished at +19 on a 737, 119 under his rating, and we'll leave that where the river left it.
One Stroke, Three Audits
RAF Green traded the lead three separate times and settled it by a stroke. Clint Atwater took it through hole 9, again through 11, again through 15, and the decisive beat was a bounce-back birdie on 15 after a +4 on 14, part of a 2-under run across 14-17. He closed +8 on an 846, 20 over his 826 rating; Stephen Marks took second at +9 on an 836 that ran 48 points over his 788 — the entire reason this was a one-stroke finish and not a walkover.
Eleven Is Haunted, Apparently 👻
Hole 11, a 321-foot par 3, played +0.6 and surrendered birdies to exactly two players, Kenneth Oetker and Schenewark. Hole 18 played +0.8 with Lang the lone signature. Schenewark also carded a 420 Club deuce on the 420-foot 13th, which is the kind of line item that makes a final-hole bogey sting worse.
The Last Envelope Needs Thirty-Eight Dollars
The River Bottoms Course Fund took in $14.70 this event — $0.90 from Lang's winnings, $0.30 from LaTour's, and $13.50 from the league's registration contribution. That puts the course fund at $961.55 of $1,000, 96 percent, with $38.45 left to raise. One more good Wednesday closes it.
Super Ace and Skins: The Ledger Pays Out
The Super Ace pot sits at $2,999.91 with 20 contributors and no ace, which means the suspense keeps compounding whether anyone likes it or not. On the skins card, Ethan Walker took 10 skins for $30.00 — including a 6-skin, $18.00 carryover scoop on hole 11 — while Lang collected 8 for $24.00 and Alexander Kil filed a zero. One card, three players, $54.00 moved; the skins playbook explains the format if you want to know how a five-hole push becomes a payday.
The Harsh Citation Got Served
AllIn mode means the Pool B bag tag board reshuffles every week, and this one reshuffled around a successful defense — Brooke held the #1 "Harsh Citation," played, and earned Still Standing, but the full redistribution moved everyone's number anyway. In a pool where absence is a demotion, the back of the line is always freshly stocked with people who had other plans. No tag is safe; that's the entire rule.
The Kraken Wants a Rematch 🌊
Baczuk's course-record 50 and a reshuffled tag board are the loose threads heading into next week, and Court Under Brine is where they get pulled. Week 9, November 11, same Yellow Baskets half-layout at River Bottoms — the Kraken wakes in the Jordan River and the season's tribute disputes get one final resolution, whether the court is ready or not.
Register for Court Under Brine
sighs in final decree Nine weeks of salt bureaucracy and the finale is a sea monster holding court in a Draper field, which honestly is the most legally coherent thing this season has produced.