2026 Memorial Championship • Round 1 • Gannon Buhr • Parker Welck • Aaron Gossage • Chubby Killough
Watch as the top players take on the challenging Red Mountain course at the 2026 Memorial Championship. Parker Welk hosts this round one experience, guiding viewers through the 18-hole trek and highlighting key techniques for navigating the dense tree lines and thorny underbrush. Join Aaron Gossage, fresh off signing with MVP, alongside Ganon Burr from Disc Mania and Chubby Killough, a fan favorite in the Phoenix area, as they tackle this demanding course. The duo discusses shot shapes and strategies, including the importance of throwing from right to left to avoid out-of-bounds penalties. Witness expert techniques up close as Parker Welk breaks down each player's approach, offering insights into the pros and cons of different throwing styles. From Ganon Burr's narrow escape to save par to Chubby Killough's impressive long skip, this video provides a detailed look at the skills and tactics involved in competing at the highest level on the Disc Golf course.
Watch Round 1 of the 2026 Memorial Championship with top players Gannon Buhr, Parker Welck, Aaron Gossage, and Chubby Killough.
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Hello everybody and welcome into the 2026 Memorial Championship. [music] I'm your host Parker Welk and I'm going to help you get through this Red Mountain track. On the card today we have Aaron Gossage just signed to MVP. Parker Welk representing Dynamic Discs, Ganon Burr representing Disc Mania and world number one along with Chubby Killow, fan favorite around here in the Phoenix area. And today we're going to take you through all 18 holes of this round one experience. You can see there's a lot of trees, a lot of bushes, a lot of thorns. We're going to get through it. Let's see how it plays out. Hold one 414 ft. We've extended the teapad back. As you can see, we're flying over the amad with a ton of out of bounds. Now, this shot shape is going to be pretty specific. You're going to want to throw something from right to left. If you try and get too tricky with it, that's when you put yourself in OB danger, and you got to get it close, otherwise you're going to have some trees in your way. And this might be your first look uh at Aaron Gosage with his new MVP bag. Aaron taking it out wide. Looks to be pretty good. Barker taking a little bit more of a direct route and a little too straight into the right. Not necessarily in the best spot. >> Ganon Burr instantly looks down, shaking his head. seems to be going directly out of bounds and that's where it will end up. Here's our first look at Chubby. Not quite sure how he got the nickname Chubby. He's quite the opposite looking to me, but that's just me. I don't know about what you guys think. And the shot shape seems to be very good here. That's a big skip and goes out of bounds long, I believe. Ganon from a mile away to save par, but he'll just lay up and take the bogey. Not exactly the way you want to start off your tournament. I do believe this was his first uh tournament this year in 2026. So, I'm just getting some rust chipped off there. And my birdie look goes right off the top. And Chubby went out of bounds way long. And Chubby's running it, but a little low. Maybe some nerves going on there....
