2018 Memorial Championships - R1 • B9 - Paige Pierce • Catrina Allen • Colleen Thompson
The 2018 Memorial Championships - R1 • B9 features an exciting round of women's disc golf at the Fountain Hills course. Four-time world champion Valerie Jenkins joins host Jerry Miller to discuss the back nine holes of the opening round, where Paige Pierce and Catrina Allen are among the top contenders. The discussion highlights the challenges posed by the wind and water hazards on the course, as well as the importance of placement over raw power when approaching shots like the 381-foot hole number 10. The video showcases Colleen Thompson's bogey on this hole, while Paige Pierce scores a birdie with a beautiful putt, highlighting her clutch skills. With tight scores and high stakes, the competition is fierce among these three world-class players, making for an engaging and informative watch for disc golf enthusiasts.
Watch Paige Pierce, Catrina Allen, & Colleen Thompson compete in R1, Back 9 of the 2018 Memorial Championships. Thrilling gameplay from world's top disc golfers!
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welcome back everyone to the back nine of the opening round at the 2018 memorial championships presented by disk craft I mean host Jerry Miller the disc golf guy and joining me is four-time world champion Valerie Jenkins Val a lot less water to contend with here on the back nine at the Fountain Hills course but we're looking forward to a really exciting opening event round here yep I'm hoping these ladies look are now warmed up after those first nine holes you can see the wind is still in play with that disc craft like blowing but hopefully these ladies can dial in these shots there's a lot of great opportunities for birdie back in this final nine and this shot is really just raw power if you're trying to get all the way to the basket here on hole number 10 381 feet but it's a very well protected green so it's really more about placement than it is even power yeah exactly you can't really tell from this angle but it does slightly go uphill and so you have to get your just to carry over the hill right there you'll see Colleen was at the top of the hill you know you want it if you have the distance you want to get up and over that hill and then the disc will kind of fade down to the basket hopefully Colleen's looking at saving her par from just inside the circle and she is short you gotta wonder if that tree branch there possibly hindered her sight wow that was a beautiful putt by Paige chin a nice wide-open view of the basket that's exactly what you want so that's landing the disc on the right side of the fairway and you don't have to even contend with that tree so that was a great clay little fist bump for one of our card mates in Katrina Alan great scoring spread here on ten would get a birdie by page Pierce the part by Katrina and the bogey by Connelly and Thompson and scores are still pretty tight just two strokes separating all three of these women and you even said there's three world champions here yep we got the four-time world champion right there page Pierce seeing if her distance can carry that disk of near the basket we've got it 2014 world...
