Sand Springs man ties River City course record
/Dwight Griffis throws an up-shot on Hole 15 at the River City disc golf course.
Local Sand Springs disc golfer Dwight Griffis tied the U-Disc course record at River City this Tuesday. Griffis shot a 39 on the Par 54 course located inside Case Community Park, tying the previous record set on July 29, 2018.
It is possible that others have shot better rounds on the course, but this article is only referencing rounds recorded in U-Disc, the official app of the Professional Disc Golf Association (PDGA).
Griffis’s previous personal best on the course was ten under par, and he improved on it by five strokes. He played three consecutive rounds on the day of the record, and was a cumulative 33 strokes under par, with no bogeys.
In the record-tying round, Griffis had two long birdie streaks. He birdied eight holes in a row before shooting par on Hole 12, then birdied six more holes to close out the round. He then birdied the first two holes of round three to complete a second eight-birdie run.
Because River City has never hosted a tournament, there are no “official” rounds or course records. The only scores logged on the course are “casual” rounds, which may or may not have witnesses, and the scores in U-Disc have to be trusted through an honor system. In Griffis’s case, he had three witnesses to verify his round, including the author of this article, and an official within the Sand Springs Parks Department.
Sand Springs disc golfer Mitchell Martin threw a hole-in-one on Hole 5 at River City Tuesday.
One of Griffis’s witnesses, Mitchell Martin, threw a hole-in-one, also known as an “ace,” on Hole 5 that same day. Aces are more common than hitting a hole-in-one on the ball golf course, but they’re still rare, and many players go years without throwing one.
River City is currently the only disc golf course in Sand Springs, and its current layout was installed in 2017 as part of a $6 million park renovation. Three years later, the course is about to be completely redesigned.
SEE RELATED: Sand Springs Parks Department unveils latest plans for new disc golf course.
Modern disc golf emerged in the 1960s following the invention of the Frisbee. The first official disc golf course was installed in Pasadena, California in 1975. 45 years later and there are now more than 8,400 disc golf courses worldwide with more than 53,000 active dues-paying members of the PDGA.
River City U-Disc Leaderboard (as of 5/29/2020)
39 Dwight Griffis (5/26/2020)
39 “scookie” (7/29/2018)
40 Nathaniel Radtke (4/16/2020)
40 Chuck Lee (4/8/2020)
41 Virgil Noah (5/29/2020)
41 Virgil Noah (5/22/2020)
41 Eddie McClain (5/19/2020)
41 Nathaniel Radtke (4/28/2019)
41 Mark Tipton (2/9/2019)
