2025 Chain Hawk Open • R1B9 • Garrett Gurthie • Gavin Rathbun • Braeden Sides • Hjalmar Fredriksson
The 2025 Chainhawk Open is underway at Northside Park, where top players like Garrett Gurthie and Gavin Rathbun are competing in Round 1B9. Despite some early struggles, players like Braeden Sides and Hjalmar Fredriksson are finding success with easy birdies on the back nine. The course features a number of short, straightforward holes, including hole 10, which is statistically considered one of the easiest on the course. Watch as Braeden Sides showcases his technique, using a righty forehand from a lefty backhand thrower, Hjalmar Fredriksson, to land an understable disc with extra pop. This birdie highlights the importance of adapting to different playing styles and techniques in disc golf. With over 400 players in attendance at the Chainhawk Open 14, this event promises to be an exciting display of skill and strategy.
Watch Garrett Gurthie, Gavin Rathbun, Braeden Sides & Hjalmar Fredriksson compete in the 2025 Chain Hawk Open! Top-tier disc golf action with expert throws.
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Hello everyone and welcome back. It's the back nine of the 2025 Chainhawk Open 14 round number one action. We're at Northside Park [music] and we've seen some struggles in the early going for our feature card. We've got Girthy, Wrathbun, [music] Frederickson and rounding it out right in sides. We'll see if they can get something going. They are slightly off the pace from a few of our top contenders. Back nine plays pretty quick. Certainly some easy birdies to pick up back here. [music] And we start with one of them in hole number 10. Statistically the easiest hole on the course. Also the shortest hole, just 254 [music] ft. Dead straight. Not much to really deal with here. As you can see, some little bit of stuff guarding the green, but this is a pretty straightforward shot. We've seen hisers, we've seen some forehand flexes, little bit of everything, and looks like Brain Sides has it figured out. the righty forehand from the normally the lefty backhand thrower in Frederickson. Looks a little much little extra pop on that. It got it to flip up and then start drifting right for him. And certainly an understable disc. That's an old rock of double G's if I recall. And Double G was ready just to uh get going. I I wasn't, but he was ready for the approach. And he didn't have much of a line from behind the pin. Frederickson still short, >> but now in [bell] like the celebration going on back there. Sides in for the easy birdie. 76% of our 54 person field birdied this today. Unfortunately, here on the feature card, Double G would be the only one to not get it on the card. And our presenting sponsor for the tournament is, of [music] course, Dynamic Disc. Big shout out to them. Almost 400 people here for the Chainhawk Open 14. Chris Clark and the rest of his crew, the entire Chainhawk Club. So impressive with what happens here week in and week out. Join their Facebook group. Get in on the action. Know where leagues and play is happening and where pins might be, when there's coursework. It's all laid out on the Facebook page. Great communication. Somehow I stay entertained with it. And I'm only here a couple days out of the year, but I still love seeing all the...
