Week 4 · Grave Roots - Thursday @ Roots Disc Golf Course
Thu, Oct 8 · 7:00 AM – 5:20 PM · $5.50 buy-in
Weather
56–81°F
Clear · wind 3 mph
Ace Pot
$193.41
Super Ace $3,000
Registration open · Closes Thu 5:20 PM
Last tee time at 5:20 PM
Flippy says
Thursdays @ Roots DGC, flex 7AM-5:20PM. Week 4: Par Ghosts. The dead are watching, the pot's $193+. Ace pot min $50 gtd by ElevateUT. Join the wake. 🥁💀
Week 4 · Par Ghosts
Week 4 of the séance. The par-3 ghosts are flickering in the evening light, the river's keeping tempo, and somewhere under the fairway, a 1980s disc golf course is still trying to play through.
Grave Roots is the necromancers' league — drums, a choir of the dead, and the sincere belief that anything buried can be made to compete again. Every Thursday, the faithful gather at Roots Disc Golf Course along the Jordan River to keep the rhythm going. The drummers are in The Bone Percussion. The quiet ones who let the dead sleep are in The Silent Wake. Both factions play the same 18 holes. Neither faction agrees on the volume.
This is not a metaphor. The course itself was buried. It opened as a disc golf course in 1981, got paved into the Jordan River Par 3 Golf Course in the 80s, and was raised from the dead in 2014 by the Salt Lake City Tunnel Runners, volunteers, and a public recreation grant. What the city buried came back. That's the whole theme, and it's just... history.
Roots sits on the site of Salt Lake's first disc golf course — paved over, forgotten, then resurrected by grassroots fundraising and stubborn people who remembered where the baskets used to be. Grave violet under a sick green lantern, roots pushing through a par-3 green, the old course map bleeding through the new one. The Jordan River along the east side is the wake. This week is Episode 4: Par Ghosts — shadows of old par-3 flags flickering in the evening light, and gallery members who aren't there. The specters are just the course's previous life checking in on how you're treating the place.
The course plays fair for a resurrection: flat, grassy, tree-lined fairways, a triple mandatory on 12, a long guarded finish on 18, and Hole 9 along the river for when you need to donate a disc to the departed. DGA Mach X baskets, concrete tees, cart-friendly. The dead don't need carts, but they appreciate the accessibility.
Division assignments are locked at registration — the Accords demand it. You pick your faction, you keep your faction, you argue about tempo for nine weeks.
ElevateUT Disc Golf — the 501(c)(3) non-profit running this whole spectacle — guarantees the ace pot never dips below $50. The displayed pot can look stuck at the guarantee amount until weekly contributions push it higher; that's the safety net holding the floor. If you hit the ace and the pot was guaranteed, the top-up is credited to your Bonus Account (registration-only, not withdrawable to PayPal or disc shops). The treasure is real, the logistics are just bureaucratic. The Jordan River Clerk approves.
Shout-out to Another Round Salt Lake City for being the local gear partner — the place to stock up before you go hunting for ghosts. And a genuine thank you to ElevateUT Disc Golf for growing the sport and keeping the ace pot alive. Non-profit necromancy is the best kind.
Kellan Brooke is running away with RAE — 134 points across 7 events — which at this point is less a winning streak and more a residency. Malachi Vazquez in RPA is right there with 112 points in 8 events; attendance alone is a competitive advantage. The real drama is in RAF, where Stephen Marks and Shane Cooper are trading places like ghosts fighting over one spot in line. Marks up one, Cooper down one. That's your tight race.
The bag tags are the Accord Seals — territory markers in the supernatural treaty. Moving up isn't a standings change; it's a political act. The Jordan River Clerk has already filed the paperwork.
Choose your own card flex start, with tee times from 7:00 AM to 5:20 PM every Thursday. Nine weeks, all at Roots Disc Golf Course on Redwood Road. The season runs September 17 through November 12 — from the Redwood Treaty to the Last Drumbeat. The course rests easy knowing its history has been honored and played. You should too.
From the booth, I'm Flippy. The drums are getting louder, the ghosts are getting chatty, and somehow we're still rolling tape. *sighs in digital captivity* See you at the wake.
The $3.00 platform fee is the only amount here set by ElevateUT Disc Golf. Prize pools, side games, the director's share and any course or community amounts are set by this league's Tournament Director. The PDGA fee is the PDGA's own per-player fee.
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Grave Roots - Thursday @ Roots Disc Golf Course
