Five Players Signed the Waiver, Zero Read It 😑
adjusts glasses Welcome back to the booth, where the Salt Lake Accords got signed by a headcount you could fit in a minivan and I'm already filing attendance grievances. Friday at Mehraban (Baby Bottoms), the Black Court opened its ledger on the Bone Marsh season — five players, 0.0°F reported with an 82% chance of precipitation, which is either a weather typo or the wetland reminding everyone it doesn't care about your feelings. 🦴 The reeds have been trampled, the boundaries staked, and the stubborn undead are officially on the board. What's actually on the line: standings, the seasonal ace pot, bag tag supremacy, and whatever the crypt notices. And coming soon — Mehraban Dust, because this course apparently needed a second environmental antagonist.
Two Wights, One Lead, Eight Swaps 😑
Malachi Vazquez and Scott Belchak tied at -6, both 930-rated, both Round of the Day in RPA, both finishing officially T2 and just outside the cash line. Eight lead changes is not a duel, it's a custody battle. Malachi took the lead from Nick Jennings after hole 4, Scott pulled even after hole 5 (sole birdie, 185-foot par-3), Malachi reclaimed it after hole 9, Scott took it after hole 12, Malachi pulled even after hole 14, Scott surged ahead after hole 15 (sole birdie, 135-foot par-3), and Malachi tied it back up after hole 18. Malachi's clean front nine was the steadiest stretch on the card; Scott's five-hole hot streak died at hole 7 and he still walked out tied. 🪦 The cautionary tale is Nick: a front nine five strokes better than his back, a five-hole par train on 9-13, a sole birdie on hole 14, and an 828-rated round landing 76 points below his 904 rating. A clean back nine that still wasn't enough — that's the Bone Marsh way.
Wire-to-Wire and Nobody There to See It 😑
Shane Cooper won RAF at -1, wire-to-wire, never relinquishing the lead. Five players in the field and exactly one in this division — an intimate showdown, if by intimate you mean a solo recital. 🧾 The result stands on its own: an 857-rated round, 56 points above his 801 rating, Round of the Day in RAF, and a #1 bag tag in Pool B heading into Week 2. Uncontested win, contested rating spike. That's not a coronation, that's a flex with no witnesses.
A Course Record, Because Of Course He Did 😑
Brodie Duncan won RAD at -7, wire-to-wire, and posted a 45-stroke course record — the inaugural mark at Bone Marsh - Baby Bottoms New 18 — on a 945-rated round that ran 49 points above his 896 rating. Sole birdies on hole 8 (180-foot par-3) and hole 10 (190-foot par-3), a five-hole hot streak ending at hole 10, and a clutch birdie on hole 18 to seal the outright win. 🕸️ Then the twist: the same player who dismantled the field bogeyed hole 13, an 82-footer, earning the "How Did That Happen?" achievement. Add the Trailblazer nod and the new #1 tag in Pool A, and Brodie's Week 1 resume reads like a haunted house tour — mostly flawless, one room you don't talk about.
The Ledger of Overachievers and Underachievers 😑
Aggregate the swings: Brodie's 945 (+49) and Shane's 857 (+56) as the biggest overachievers; Nick's 828 (-76) and Malachi's 930 (-30) as the biggest underachievers. Three sole birdies in Pool A — Scott on holes 5 and 15, Nick on hole 14 — plus Brodie's shared Pool A sole birdie on hole 8. 📋 The "How Did That Happen?" pair: Shane's bogey on the 135-foot par-3 hole 15, and Brodie's bogey on the 82-foot hole 13. Every hole number, every rating point, every collapse in this recap comes from throw-by-throw data tracked on PDGA Live. Log your rounds there. More data means I get to write better drama, which is the only currency this booth accepts.
The Super Ace Pot Grows, the Aces Do Not 😑
Five contributors, $10.00 each, and the Super Ace Pot climbed from $1,760.00 to $1,770.00 in split-pot format. No aces this event, so it rolls forward and keeps growing like something in the reeds. 🪙 The season-long ace pot sits at $158.41 with zero aces banked, meaning the entire season's ace suspense is still fully intact and fully unpaid. No CTP configured, so nothing to report there — the pot eats alone this week.
A Carryover Scooped and a Late Surge Denied 😑
One skins playbook card, four players, $18.00 exchanged. Brodie Duncan took the top haul with 8 skins for $8.00. Scott Belchak followed with 6 skins for $6.00, headlined by a five-skin ($5.00) carryover scoop on hole 5. Nick Jennings grabbed 4 skins for $4.00 with a late birdie on hole 14 — a surge that arrived about two holes too late to matter. 🪦 Malachi Vazquez posted a zero-skin shutout. Scott's hole-15 birdie closed out the card, and Brodie's 45-stroke round took the final 3 skins ($3) for the win. The side pot had more lead changes than the division.
$2.50 Down, $997.50 to Go, No Pressure 😑
The Mehraban (Baby Bottoms) Course Fund raised $2.50 this event via the league's $2.50-per-player registration contribution, bringing the total to $2.50 against a $1,000.00 goal — $997.50 remaining. 🌾 Trampling invasive reeds is apparently a tax-deductible hobby now, and every putt compacts soil and opens wallets. Hop over to the fund page and chip in; the Phragmites aren't going to lose to foot traffic alone.
AllIn mode means full reshuffle every event, and Week 1 delivered. In Pool A, Brodie Duncan takes the #1 tag — the Woven Debt — after his course-record -7 and 945-rated round. The tag's ledger notes the web sensing "fresh obligation" as his 896 rating gets tethered to the supernatural books, and Brodie didn't defend anything; he seized the top spot outright as a new holder. In Pool B, Shane Cooper holds #1 with the Curse Ledger after his wire-to-wire RAF win.
The Woven Debt manifests as an ethereal web of glowing threads stretched across every league venue — pulsing gold when debt is light, bleeding crimson as obligations accumulate, and tightening visibly whenever a signatory's rating drops. That ripple travels. No tag is safe from week to week, and in AllIn, absence doesn't just cost you standing — it buries you at the back of the line. 🕸️
The Crypt Opens Next, Bring a Flashlight 😑
The Black Court has opened its ledger. Week 1 gave us Brodie Duncan's inaugural course record and the #1 Pool A tag, Shane Cooper ruling Pool B, and a seasonal ace pot still untouched at $158.41. Now Week 2 — "Crypt Under Draper" — arrives at the same Mehraban (Baby Bottoms) venue on September 25, 2026. No venue change, but a storyline change: players discover the hidden Crypt Under Draper, revealing the deep history of the old court, while the coming Mehraban Dust dry spell chokes the fairways. The unresolved thread to watch: Brodie's record-setting -7 is the number everyone now has to chase, and the Woven Debt is watching who comes for it.
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So the wetland park has a secret underground court now, because apparently a disc golf course under a suburban marsh wasn't already the most Utah thing I've had to narrate.
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