HOD 09/18/12: Pickard Park in Indianola, IA

[pspunch]

In 2004 Worlds, Round 2 Pool A (top pros before re-shuffle), they played it:
16% birdies
69% pars
12% bogey
3% double (Nate Doss and Devin Brown, you suck!)

In the semi-finals, it was:
38% birdies
47% pars
14% bogey
1% double (Kevin Babbit, you suck!)

11 of the top 20 finishers at Worlds got a birdie on this hole in the semis.
Only 2 of the 53rd-72nd finishers at Worlds got a birdie on this hole in the semis.

what are they using for par, 4 or 5? there's no way anybody got a 2 on it, a 3 is also pretty hard to imagine.

this is a great hole, it plays up a big hill, downhill slightly, uphill again, down a big slope and then the basket is about 15 ft off the water. Pickard is one of those courses you should play if you come to Iowa. top 3 for sure

 

[HybridZombiw]

Wraith, river, buzzz pure on all three

 

[grodney]

what are they using for par, 4 or 5? there's no way anybody got a 2 on it, a 3 is also pretty hard to imagine.

It's a 3-shot hole = a Par 5. There were no 3's in the A Pool during competition.

 

[MNcyclone]

If the grass is cut then a roller. Otherwise blizz boss.

Pickard is rated so high but I was disappointed. Ewing is where it's at!

 

[Kevlar7861]

sword eagle/XL then wizard

 

[VictorB]

The one time I played this it was windy and raining a little...

But if I could throw it in 'normal' conditions I'd hopefully go Pd, Pd, Roc, Challenger and try to card a 4 but more realistically a 5. This hole is super tough from the pro tees since you have to play up a hill for about 500', and the fairway narrows toward the green with woods and water protecting the pin.

 

[jkdisc]

katana until im close enough to use a mid/putter

 

[SteezeOG]

Sword, then some kind of fairway driver maybe saint or teebird. Opto Pure for upshot if needed. Wizard when I'm close.

 

[aPfaff]

I'd throw long off the tee with a boss probably and then finish eventually with a Classic Aviar.

 

[DanJon]

if windy: wraith, wraith, eagle, roc, putt.

if not windy: roadrunner, roadrunner, eagle, roc, putt.

a 4 would be nice on this one, but i think most people will be taking a 5 for par.

 

[BogeyNoMore]

Looks long an open so...
R-Pro Boss until I'm close enough for a something else like a Buzzz or Challenger.
If it gets woodsy, somwhere far from the basket, Champ Beast or Champ Archon.

Friends don't let friends throw R-Pro in the woods. :|

 

[ZDotHalbach]

Nuke

 

[prhodes]

saint or nuke

 

[kingjames1014]

River from all tee if theres a tailwind, Destroyer if not
River again from the fairway
Axis or Ion to get up there
Anode to finish.

 

[ashmgee]

surge or sidewinder twice, then roc.

 

[Lurp Nuts]

mmm... tasty!
either an AJ destroyer or pro depending on wind.
another destroyer or maybe a roc or pd depending on first throw.
finish with wizard.
make comment on how relatively quickly i got there.

 

[bettsjc]

Long tee; Probably a Champ Wraith twice, thumber with Champ Wraith if outside 200, if not RPro Rhyno on third shot.

Middle tee; RHBH CHamp Wraith twice, then putt with my Rhyno

Short tee; RHBH Champ Wraith, upshot with Rhyno

 

[dudiablo]

That hole is KNARLY!! Especially from the blue tees. Played it over the summer and that course is definitely in my top 5. On to pressing business.

I had the pleasure of taking a 3 on the hole with the following:

Big backhand roller that I got to land about at the crest of the hill then roll about halfway down the other side. (Westside King)

Sky flex anny from about 400 with a gateway spirit, landed about 50 short of the pin in the brush well short of the lake.

Jump put gateway wizard managed to stay in the basket.

I was tempted to quit disc golf all together after that. Haven't put together a hole quite like that one in the 5 months following. :wall: Of course we don't have any courses as demanding as Pickard here in stl either...

 

[scarpfish]

I've played this hole once from the blue tee and took a 7 on it. Can't remember what I threw but it obviously didn't work.

 

[hendersondayton]

RHFH Wraith (x2), Upshot, Putt