2022 TruBank Des Moines Challenge | IN THE MIX PODCAST | EP13
The 2022 TruBank Des Moines Challenge is an Elite Series event that took place before the annual World Championships of Disc Golf. Hosted by Nick Hanson and Isaac Goldblatt on the IN THE MIX PODCAST EP13, the episode provides an insider's perspective on the popular tournament. The duo discusses Picknick Park, a challenging open-style course with various obstacles, requiring players to have a range of tools in their bag. The podcast highlights the unique aspects of the event, including the mix of short and long shots, as well as the need for good shot shaping to achieve high scores. The hosts also touch on the course's difficulties, such as consecutive par fours and hard par fives, balanced with refreshing ace runs that allow players to recharge. The episode features a round-by-round analysis of the tournament, including the first round's feature card featuring Andrew Fish, Simon Lizatti, Nicholas Antala, and Benjamin Callaway. With over $100,000 in cash prizes, the TruBank Des Moines Challenge has set a record for the most lucrative three-day event in disc golf history.
Watch top players compete in the 2022 TruBank Des Moines Challenge on the IN THE MIX PODCAST, Episode 13.
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hello all you beautiful people and welcome back to in the mix my name is nick hanson alongside me is isaac goldblatt how you doing today doing pretty well pleasure to be here in the booth with you and gonna get down to brass tacks about about the des moines challenge yeah so we're here at the true bank des moines challenge presented by discraft it is the stop before worlds um which people are very excited about but you know we've got to get this elite series under a bell first uh pickard park uh tell us about it a little bit picker park is a nice open style park uh with lots of different obs that will challenge your players but there's a mix of wooden shots and open bomb shots so you really gotta have all types of tools in your bag too to get to the top score yeah it's nice to see that we have multiple holes under 300 feet on an elite level um course and event because they do require good shot shaping to get the birdie and there's also plenty of me that you can have troubles yeah for sure it's not draining to go par four par four or even like a hard par five after one another where in this you you have some ace runs where even right away you can stay refreshed attack and have different opportunities yeah so the tournament itself has uh achieved a record um the most cash ever for a three-day event so congratulations on that purse that's freaking sick upwards of a hundred thousand dollars um so congratulations on the sponsorships that you were able to acquire thank you for sponsoring the event um all the sponsors out there but let's get right into it um the event was a little up and down to say the least to start yeah to start at least you could say that so get into why that is in the first round here so on our first round on we had a feature card of uh we had andrew fish simon lizzat nicholas antala and uh benjamin callaway it was a an amazing round one card and we got all the way through to uh hole 18 where simon lazar was setting up for his approach to the green all the other players were ready to...
