With thunderstorms forecasted for the final round of the 2016 Kansas City Wide Open all week, all we could do was wait and watch the weather with our fingers crossed. Players that teed off in the morning got to play their final round at Swope Park under a clear, sunny sky. The afternoon tee time groups…not so much.
With only one round to go, the 34th Kansas City Wide Open is living up to its rich history as one of the longest running disc golf events in the world. Ricky Wysocki #38008 and Catrina Allen #44184 have been in the lead since the end of Round 1 and they’ll be looking to seal the deal tomorrow to win their first and third PDGA National Tour events of 2016, respectively.
It’s difficult to put into words just how enormous the disc golf course at Blue Valley Park in Kansas City, Missouri is. In its longest layout, the course distance surpasses 11,000 feet in just 18 holes, making it the single longest permanent disc golf course in the world. In the modified layout being played for the first Round of the 34th Kansas City Wide Open, it’s still one of the longest courses in the world, measuring in at 9,800+ feet with a par of 65.
Philo Brathwaite #26416 giving driving lessons at the free National Tour Pro Clinic at Swope Park DGC.
Not even a week has passed since the last putt hit the chains at the 2016 Dynamic Discs Glass Blown Open and we’re already set up for the next stop on the National Tour, the 34th running of the Kansas City Wide Open (KCWO). It’s shaping up to be a great weekend, with beautiful weather in the forecast and the courses in pristine condition.
The 32nd Kansas City Wide Open (KCWO) officially came to end on Sunday evening as Paul McBeth and Paige Pierce tapped in for their third PDGA National Tour victories of the year. After three days of walking some of the largest courses on the tour, often more than once, it was a long weekend to say the least. The 90+ degree weather certainly didn’t make the weekend any less demanding for the competitors and staff, but we all made it out alive and well.
Exhausting. Amazing. Intense. Beautiful. There are so many ways to describe the second round of the 32nd Kansas City Wide Open depending on who you’re talking to, and they’re all correct. Blue Valley Park is only 18 holes yet it measures in at a ridiculous 10,541 feet. And it’s not just the distance that makes Blue Valley Park the true test of mental and physical strength that it is, it’s the elevation changes. Almost every hole somehow plays downhill, uphill, and left or right. Walking the course without throwing a single disc is tiring on its own. High-pressure competition on the course requires an entirely different level of focus and endurance.
The long awaited start of the 32nd Kansas City Wide Open came to fruition this morning at Wyandotte County Park on the Kansas side of Kansas City. Thanks to a ton of prep work by the tournament staff, the course was primed and ready to go for championship caliber disc golf. The air horns sounded off right on time for the shotgun start, and the 84 players were lucky enough to tee off and play all day in nearly perfect weather conditions.
The words “Kansas City” mean a lot of different things to a lot of different people. Kansas City is renowned for its slow-smoked style of barbeque and the delicious craft beer brewers like Boulevard Brewing Company and Flying Monkey. It’s home to the Kansas City Royals (MLB), the Kansas City Chiefs (NFL), and Sporting Kansas City (MLS). It’s even spawned its own genre of blues and jazz music. KC has a lot to offer for the nearly half a million people that live here, and if you happen to be a disc golfer that lives here, you’re in for a treat.
Another National Tour Elite Series tournament concluded today as the last putt hit the chains at the Kansas City Wide Open presented by GripEQ. The final round was played at Swope Park DGC on the Missouri side of Kansas City. Swope Park itself is a true treasure of the Midwest. Amazing disc golf course, check. Zoo, check. Beautiful ball golf course, check. Outdoor concert venue, check. The park has it all, and today a gallery of 400+ gathered to watch some of the best disc golfers in the world take on the course in pristine condition.
The 2013 Kansas City Wide Open presented by Grip EQ kicked off today at the beautiful and infamous Waterworks Park disc golf course in Kansas City, MO. The holes at Waterworks DGC are a unique blend of carved and manicured fairways, difficult elevation changes, awe inspiring views of the Kansas City skyline, and pin positions that can shake even the best of the best.
We had an exciting day here at the 30th Annual Kansas City Wide Open, round three of the event got underway early this morning at the 6,907 foot, par 58 Rosedale Disc Golf Course. Our leader in Men’s Open, Will Schusterick, and second place Paul McBeth, were trading shots back and forth all round. On the last hole, Mcbeth tied it up to go into round three.
The 30th Kansas City Wide Open, teed off this morning under overcast skies and with unusually cool temperatures for this time of year in the Midwest.
Hosted by the inveterate Kansas City Flying Disc Club, this edition features an unprecedented five different and unique courses being played in the three day competition for the first time ever, making it arguably the most challenging test of mettle on the 2012 PDGA National Tour Elite Series, presented by Vibram Disc Golf.
DiscGolfPlanet.tv Back on the Air This Weekend at Kansas City Wide Open
Live Internet broadcasting of disc golf’s biggest and best events resumes this weekend, as DiscGolfPlanet.tv again takes to the Internet with coverage of the Kansas City Wide Open from Blue Valley Park on Saturday and Swope Disc Golf Course on Sunday.
