The 7th Annual Dragon Ridge Open brought us a three way MPO playoff, multiple Ace Hits, and challenging rocky terrain that made for steep competition!

First and foremost, a big thank you to the title sponsors of this tournament: Discmania and The City of Camdenton Parks & Rec! We also appreciate the efforts of Travis Brock, Parks Director, who keeps
this event flying! To our first time tournament sponsor Bergmanis Law Firm, we appreciate your support!

Also, we want to give a big shout out to our tour sponsors who continue to make the DGM Tour a success each year:
Patriots Gold & Silver, Elephant & Castle Fine Arms, Kinney Amusement, Dynamic Discs, Innova Champion Discs, Fossa Disc Golf, Prodigy Discs, Creator Designs, MVP/Axiom Discs, Millennium Golf Discs, Discmania, 8Up, Greazy Dyes, Discs Unlimited, Swing Right Golf, Intuitive Body Works & Massage and Sticky Dyes.

A special thank you to Triston Stark for putting up the canopy, getting ice, making sure water jugs were full, and for weed eating. Thanks River Flagg as well for helping with weed eating and other course prep work. I speak for all the winners when I say great job Kenny Hunt, for the amazing wooden mini trophies!

Last, but never least, Thank you to Team Monkey: Michael Cory, Jonathon Chambless, Ian Boyer, Justin Hare, and Ashley Lucas for all your help. I appreciate all the support!

There were 90 players signed up to try and slay the Dragon Ridge course. There were 11 divisions were represented.

First place results in each division are listed below:

MPO- Andrew Presnell -8
FPO- Alexis Kerman +15
MP50- Dylan Giltrap -2
MA1- Tyler Zustiak -1
FA1- Meredith Bushatz +19
MA40- Todd Bishatz E
MA50- Jason McEwen +9
MA60- Scott Conner +5
MA2- Michael Cory +5
FA2- Tina Giltrap +37
MA3- TJ Krueger +9

Full results can be found at the link below:
https://www.pdga.com/tour/event/78328

In MPO:
First place in MPO had to be decided with a three way playoff between Andrew Presnell, Derek DG Green, and Benjamin Lemon! The battle for victory ended with Andrew Presnell taking the first place win after two playoff holes!

Hot rounds of the day go to MPO players who shot 1007 rated rounds which is definitely no easy feat on this course! Shout out to Micah Noble, Benjamin Lemon, Derek DG Green, and Nevada McAplin! Great job guys!

In FPO:
Congratulations to Alexis Kerman who held the lead for both Rounds and shot an 884 and 873 for the win!

In MP50:
Dylan Giltrap had the lead at the end of Round 1, and smashed it with a great Round 2 by shooting a 987!

In MA2:
There was a tight field in MA2 the whole day. Multiple players were within one or two strokes from victory. Michael Cory was tied for 6th place at the end of Round 1, and battled his way all the way to first place from chase card!

In MA3:
There was a playoff for first place between TJ Krueger and Makai Matthews! TJ Krueger took the victory after just one hole!

Congratulations to all players who cashed in the tournament!

Congratulations to our CTP winners:
Unbranded CTP Hole 16 - Justin Hare
MVP Only Hole 11 - Ashton Pullis
Full Turn CTP Hole 16 - Michael Cory
Prodigy Only Hole 17 - Triston Stark

Also, Congratulations to the big raffle winner Brady Doss who chose to take home the Mach II basket!

Congratulations to our multiple Ace Pot winners for the tournament:
Dallas Whittle MPO got an Ace on Hole 11, Round 1
Derek DG Green MPO got an Ace on Hole 11, Round 2
Dan Newlin MP50 got an Ace on Hole 15, Round 2

Honorable mention to Colby Robbins MPO who did hit an Ace on Hole 9, but wasn't in on the Ace Pot.

I hope to see you all at The 10th Annual Jared Hilton Memorial coming up on June 15th!
You may register at the following link:
https://www.discgolfscene.com/tournaments/Missouri_Eagle_and_Elephant_and_Castle_presents_The_10th_Annual_Jared_Hilton_Memorial_sp_by_Innova_2024/register


LOST AND FOUND ITEMS:
Lone Star Mini
Gateway Spear
Discraft Passion
Innova Pro World’s stamp 2014
MVP Reaper stamp Tesla

If you played this event: be the first person to make a comment posting a picture from the tournament and win a 1 Hour massage from Intuitive Body Works (a $95 value), courtesy of Ashley Wright, owner.