Flying Lea Disc Golf Club

Next stop: Disc Jam!

Click here to see details. Camp with many members of the Flying Lea Disc Golf Club on Friday night, or just show up Saturday.

Then: Minnesota Doubles Series on May 20 at Bancroft Bay Park. Bring your own partner. Register by 9:30 a.m. See details by clicking here.

Thank you, Modern Woodmen!

The Modern Woodmen of America donated three trees worth $750 to the 18-hole disc golf course at lower Bancroft Bay Park. The three new trees are slated for holes 7, 8 and 13. The trees are a red oak, sugar maple and a clump birch. Flight restrictions prevented us from planting on some holes closer to the airport.

Credit for the park receiving the trees really goes to Vicky Legried, an MWA agent in Austin. The Flying Lea Disc Golf Club thanks her for her generosity, and it thanks Performance Landscaping for planting the trees. Kudos to the city, of course, for allowing the trees to go in.

Coming up: Fourth annual Bancroft Bay Open

2012 Discraft North Iowa Tour
Bancroft Bay Open
Albert Lea, Minn.
Saturday, May 26

Past Bancroft Bay Open champions:
2009: Art Schorn
2010: Nick Flores
2011: Jared Johnson
2012: Will an out-of-towner finally win our town’s biggest tournament?

Costs:
Men (3 Flights - Open, Advanced, Intermediate) - $20
Women (1 Flight - Open) - $10
Women always have the option to play with the Men for $20
Ace Fund (Optional) - $2
Currently there is $176 in the Ace Fund.
Ace Fund will carry forward to Mason City, IA (6/23) if no Aces.
Multiple Aces will split the Ace Fund equally.
Max of $200 per Ace will be paid out, any remaining Ace fund will carry forward.
EDGE CTP (Optional) - $3
All money collected is donated to the EDGE program, which dedicated to teaching Kids about our great sport.
Winner will receive a Fade Gear Disc Golf Bag and Disc.
Help us reach our goal of $100 at each of our Events.
So far we have raised $165 total for the year.

Schedule:
Player Registration - 8:00 to 9:30 a.m.
Player Meeting - 9:45 a.m.
1st Round Tee - 10:00 a.m.
Hour Lunch Break after 1st Round and Flight the Men
2nd Round Tee (Estimate) - 1:30 p.m.
Awards Cermony (Estimate) - 4:30 p.m.

Other DNIT info:
2 Rounds of 18 Holes
Trophy for the Winner of each Flight
There will be a Discraft CTP each Round (Winners get a SuperColor Buzz)
There will be a Men and Women WAK PAK CTP all day long
There will be a Tour CTP all day long for only Tour Members (except previous winners)
The $3 EDGE CTP will be out there all day long also
DNIT Fundraiser Discs for Sale (ESP Buzz for $16 each, Pro-D Challenger, Focus, and Magnet for $8 each)
Reminder: No Alcohol, Tobacco, Drugs, Dogs/Pets allowed and must keep shirts on during the Rounds

We already have 79 Tour Members for 2012! So we are out of bag tags; those stopped at #75. But we will continue to accept memberships if you have not gotten yours already. Attached are the current standings for both Women and Men.
Tour Memberships: (One-Time Fee for the entire season)
Men: $20
Women: $15
Tour Members will receive……
Disc
Shirt
Tour Manual

Austin wins MFA High School Championships

Thanks to the Albert Lea Convention & Visitors Bureau for its sponsorship!
Read all about the MFA High School Championships and see photos by clicking here.
Or check out the coverage in the Austin Daily Herald.

Show up April 29 to work on Gold Course

Work begins at 8:30 a.m. Sunday, April 29, on the Bancroft Bay Gold DGC. We need your help. Show up at whatever time you can. Bring yourself. If you have any equipment, whether hedge clippers of chainsaws, bring those, too.

Check out the news in the Albert Lea Tribune.
Click here for a map of the course proposed for the upper part of Bancroft Bay Park.

Handy new calendar!

This calendar is oriented toward Albert Lea golfers. Look for this sucker on the home page for now!

Club shirts!

Order your red Flying Lea dry-fit shirts by speaking with Andy Richardson.

League!!!!!!! Be there!!!!!!!

5:30 p.m. Thursday, Bancroft Bay Park
Pick your division!
• Entry fees: intermediate $3, advanced $5, open $7 and women $3. ($1 to the club, the rest to the prizes)
• If there are not enough for at least 3 players in each male division, the advanced division players will have to choose between open or intermediate.
• Participants don’t have be a Flying Lea Disc Golf Club member.
• There also will be options: $1 for a cash CTP, $1 for a prize CTP and $1 for ace pool.
• The cash CTP always will be Hole 9. The prize CTP always will be Hole 1.
Click here for more details.

Random Doubles League! Be there, too!!!!!

When: 5:30 Mondays
Where: Bancroft Bay Park
Cost: $6 ($5 to prize winners, $1 to course development)
Ace pool: $1
You: Be there!!!!!!!!!!

Images of the Flying Lea Disc Golf Club

We’re a fun bunch of disc golfers!

Can’t see the gallery? Click here to see it at Picasa.

Disc golf dollars

Club bank balance: $351.50
Recent purchases:
• Boards, 10-inch nails, washers and polyurethane to build weather-ready tee markers for Riverland course. That course now has long and short tees.
• Two zipper pouches, one for running doubles league and one for running singles league.
Goal:
• Concrete, wood and food necessary to build 36 tee pads at Riverland course.

Women
December Moore 70
Jes Williamson 71
Carissa Edwards 73

Putting champion
Nick Flores, won Back9Designs T-shirt

Closest to pin
Hole 1 (Bag Tag 3): Jared Johnson
Hole 3 ($5 cash): John Lerum
Modified Hole 9 (Boss): Josh Shuck
Hole 15 (Striker): Andy Richardson

CTP throwoff for Bag Tag 3:
Andy Richardson

Total funds raised toward course development:
$171

Photos from the Big Freeze Ice Bowl

Northwood Ice Bowl results

Members of the Flying Lea Disc Golf Club represented their state well at the Northwood Ice Bowl.
Check out the results.

Two of our own win divisions at the St. Cloud Ice Bowl!

Congrats to Ross Brandt for winning Pro. Good job Nick Flores for winning Advanced. Kudos to Jared Johnson, John Lerum and Dave Sime for great showings. See the results here. Way to represent Albert Lea!

On the World Wide Web
Check out Ross Brandt at Vibram’s website!
Engstrom wrote a column in the Tribune about disc golf truisms. Enjoy the read.

Albert Lea to host 2012 MFA High School Championships

The tournament will be at Bancroft Bay Park on April 28. Click here to read more.

Points race prizes from 2011

Points race winners and prizes
1. Jared Johnson: Go Cart (arrived, delivered)
2. Art Schorn: M-14 Practice Basket (arrived, delivered)
3. Lars Tonding: Latitude 64 Disc Golf Pro Bag (arrived, delivered)
4. Buck Monson: Phenix Quad Shocks (arrived, delivered)
5. Eric Harbacheck: Camp Time Roll-A-Stool (arrived, delivered)
6. Nick Flores: Camp Time Roll-A-Stool (arrived, delivered)
7. Ray Besco: Golden Retriever (arrived, delivered)
8. Dave Sime: Champion Ape (arrived, delivered)
9. Andy Richardson: Champion Boss (arrived, delivered)
10. Kody Phillips: Star Katana (arrived, delivered)
11. Tim Engstrom: Discraft Buzzz (arrived, delivered)
12. Robert Suniga: Discraft Drone (arrived, delivered)
13. Matt Sime: Vibram Mini (arrived, delivered)
14. Dustin Lynch: Vibram Mini (arrived)