The Ledger Comes Due 😑

Fourteen players, clear skies, an average of 48.3°F and a 9 mph wind that made Art Dye's narrow lanes feel narrower — Week 8 of 9 is "Curse Spent," and the season's accumulated strokes came due in the cold. The vigil chapters are over. This was the settling of accounts, and the last clean shot at climbing the bag tag ladder before the finale.

Thirteen Was the Reckoning

Guy McAtee took the lead back from Chris Norman through hole 13 — the hole where Norman bogeyed while sharing the lead and dropped out of it — and closed at -8 on a 987-rated round, the round of the day. Behind him, Aaron Prestgard and Nicholas Scott tied 2nd at -7, both 975-rated, both comfortably above their own numbers. Prestgard's back-nine charge carried him from 5th to 2nd and included the field's only birdie on hole 15; Scott closed with a clean back nine. Norman's front nine ran eight strokes better than his back and still ended at 914, forty below his 954. Clayton Rackham owns the other lonely number on the card: the only birdie on hole 8.

Wire to Wire, No Fine Print

Kellan Brooke took the lead from Christopher Hamby through hole 7, when Hamby bogeyed while sharing it, and never handed it back. Even par, 890-rated — 26 above his 864 — with a 14-hole par train from 4 through 17 and a birdie on 18 to seal it. Hamby finished +5 at 829, thirty-seven under his 866, but held the final cash spot. Caleb Christensen carded +6 and a personal best on this layout despite finding OB on holes 5 and 7.

Led Through Seventeen, Finished Fourth

Tanner Shell took the lead through hole 15 and was still there through 17. He finished 4th. Dillon Mueller shot four strokes better on the back nine than the front, climbed from 2nd to 1st, and both men landed at -4 and 938-rated. Shell's card was spotless — bogey-free, nine straight pars from 5 through 13 — which is exactly the kind of card that loses a division by a hair. Mueller's six-hole par train from 5 through 10 bought him just enough rope.

One Hole, One Coin

Clint Atwater took the lead through hole 17 and closed at +5, 829-rated, a personal best on this layout, opening with eight straight pars and a front nine three strokes better than his back. William Fetzer finished +6 at 816. Two players, one decisive hole, one stroke.

A Ghost With Nobody to Haunt

RAD White had one card in it: Zack White at -1, 902-rated, with a five-hole par train from 10 through 14. Recording your ghost is easy when nobody else is recording theirs. Somebody come give that number something to chase.

The Coin Nobody Picked Up

The Super Ace pot sits at $2,999.91 with 13 contributors and went unclaimed again. Three grand, still lying in the middle of the table, rolling toward the finale like it knows something.

Fewest Birdies, Most Skins

Two cards, four players, $27.00 moved. Clayton Rackham took 11 skins for $11.00, including a 6-skin, $6.00 carryover scoop on hole 17 — a heist pulled off on the fewest birdies of anyone on the card. Dillon Mueller collected 15 skins for $7.50 at $0.50 a skin, cashing one on hole 2 after a bogey on hole 1, which is the Sloppy Skin playbook in miniature. Eric Pearson added 7 skins for $7.00. The full rules live in the skins playbook if you want to learn how to win a hole you lost.

Twenty-Five Cents of Integrity

This event raised $7.25 toward 2 New Drop Zones: a $7.00 league registration contribution and Aaron Prestgard's $0.25 winnings donation, which is what integrity looks like when it's counted in coins. The project stands at $1,252.49 — 100% of its $240.00 goal, $0.00 remaining — and you can see it at /CourseProjects/67.

Harsh Citation, Fresh Order

The Dripping Coin runs AllIn, which means every tag was redistributed on this week's standings and nobody's claim survived the night intact. Kellan Brooke holds #1, Harsh Citation, and he earned it by playing rather than watching — the tag's whole personality is a citation you can't appeal. Everyone below him moved, some up, more down, and the ones who stayed home found out that absence is a demotion with paperwork. No tag is safe. That's not a warning, it's the format.

One Week Left to Be Faithful

The margins this week were a stroke, a bogey, a single birdie on the right hole — and the tags shuffled anyway. Week 9 is Name Restored, 2026-11-13 at Art Dye on the Gold pins, where the oaths get archived and the park goes quiet until next year. The Faithful get honored, the Fallen get redeemed, and the sponsors and everyone who kept the vigil get their due.

Registration is open here — bring a witness, apparently.

sighs in final decree A season-long coin-and-blade morality epic, and the finale is a park getting its sign back. Somewhere the Kraken is filing a complaint about the billing.