Waco Annual Charity Open | RD1 F9 | Panis, Young, Pierce, Salonen
Join Madison Walker and Erica Stinchcomb as they cover the 2022 Waco Annual Charity Open on the RD1 F9 course. The two hotkeys discuss their experience playing the first round in windy conditions, where temperatures were plummeting to a chilly wind chill of 24 degrees. They focus on Kona Panis's dominant performance last year, which included a landslide win by 16 strokes over Paige Pierce. The duo analyzes Panis's strategy for tackling holes such as the challenging starting hole with out-of-bounds lines and discusses the importance of adapting to crosswinds. Erica Stinchcomb highlights Evelina Salonen's aggressive play with an overstable driver, while Madison Walker praises Kona Panis's clever use of a sidearm in the windy conditions. The video showcases expert insights from top disc golfers as they dissect the strategies and techniques used on the beast of a course.
Watch top players Panis, Young, Pierce, & Salonen compete at Waco Annual Charity Open in round one's final nine holes.
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welcome to the 2022 waco annual charity open and i am so happy to be here i freaking love the beast this is the second disc golf pro tour event of the year i'm madison walker i'm erica stinchcomb and we are the two hotkeys oh today we only get to play one course this week which is awesome because we can dial it in and get better as the weekend goes on our feature card today we get to watch kona panas last year's winner paige pierce evelina saladin and heather young attack the wooded and wide open holes of the beast kona panis not only winning but winning by a landslide she shot 16 down over the three rounds last weekend averaging 996 golf holy moly we're right on the brazos river um and day one was very windy so cold it was so cold the wind chill was down to 24 when at the first tee time of the day um hole one was a brutal starting hole with out of bounds all the way around all the sides there was a right to left ripping crosswind a lot of people had to change their game plan from practice rounds to something a little bit more overstable the out of bounds line on the right does have that advertisement wall but it's pulled back a little bit so if you land on that wall you are ob for those of you who are students of the coverage you'll notice they chopped out a middle section that you can throw through last one previous years you're throwing over the bushes and now you've a bit more of a gap a lot of players are going to grab a putter or a mid in this case maybe something a little bit more understable to fight that right to left crosswind and hopefully prevent just that that sliding up the hill on the left-hand side i really like kona's play with the sidearm as well it just feels so scary because you can't see you can see the left out of bounds so it feels like you can control it the right side's blind but it's yeah sidearm was smart in this wind evelina looks like she's ripping on an overstable that's a rock three mid okay perfect yeah nearly parked but that is that is a tester at that...
