*adjusts headset* Welcome back to the booth. Week 3 of the Thursday league is here, and the Clearcut Map has three disputed routes, one clipboard, and a narrator who has asked for a better contract four times.
The Season, Briefly
Thursday @ Cedarock Park is a six-week flex-start league held at Cedarock Park in Burlington, North Carolina. Choose your own card and pick a tee time between 3:00 PM and 5:20 PM. The first event was 10/15/2026, and we are now in Week 3, Clearcut Map.
Players are sorted into two pools that use the same course layout, Odd Blue, Even White, with A pins. The sponsors want me to remind you this is fun. The sponsors have never had a tag on the line.
Schedule
Week 1
Oct 15 - Survey Week
Week 2
Oct 22 - Creek Rising
Week 3
Oct 29 - Clearcut Map (current)
Week 4
Nov 5 - Fossil Round
Week 5
Nov 12 - Shadow Index
Week 6
Nov 19 - Archive Close
Pools and Divisions
- Canopy Cultivators: RPA, RAH, RAD. The sun-drenched caretakers of the longleaf pines and kudzu corridors who cultivate and map the park's botanical features.
- Shale Shadows: RAE, RAF, RAG. The twilight-dwellers who trace the fossilized creek beds and quartzite outcroppings and chronicle the history under the undergrowth.
Both pools play Odd Blue, Even White with A pins. Pick your pool, pick your divisions, and get to the first tee before the mystery of Hole 11 becomes a rumor.
Fees and Buy-Ins
Prize money buy-in (optional)
$2.50
Super ace (optional)
$2.00
The optional buy-ins are yours to choose. The booth does not judge your wallet, though the booth does note that a dollar in the ace pot is a dollar spent on dreaming.
Ace Pot Guarantee
Why the pot looks stuck
The displayed ace pot is $50.00. Only $7.00 has been contributed so far. The $50.00 minimum is guaranteed by FL!PT Leagues, the league platform. The guarantee is not from the disc shop.
Because of the guarantee, the displayed pot can look stuck at $50.00 until contributions exceed that amount. This is expected behavior, not a glitch and not a plot twist.
If a guarantee top-up is needed, it is credited to the winner's Bonus Account. Bonus Account funds are registration-only and are not withdrawable to PayPal or to disc shops.
Last Week: Creek Rising
Creek Rising had 3 players and an average score of -5. The seasonal creek on Hole 14 was doing its best impression of a hazard, and the field still posted a respectable number. No aces were recorded, so the pot stays put and the tension stays high.
Credit where it is due: an average of -5 with a flooded fairway is real work. Those who finished under par on wet ground earned their tags the honest way.
Important: The Field Needs You
Low participation
Only 3 players showed up last week. The narrator is required to say this dramatically: the league is one stunning ace away from becoming a legend and one bad weather report away from becoming a group chat. Come throw. Bring a friend. Bring the friend who says they don't play anymore.
The Course: Cedarock Park
Cedarock is a 20-hole open, rolling course that plays more like ball golf than most wooded tracks in the state. It has been played since 1984, and it is the power-friendly counterpart to the technical Wellspring course next door.
- Two tee placements and two pin placements on every hole. Red tees suit newer players and Gold tees stretch the course for advanced players.
- Moderately hilly and lightly wooded. Cart friendly.
- Cedarock Shop near Shelter 4 is a local partner that stocks a small selection of discs, offers rentals, and runs a lost and found.
- Arrive early on weekends. Spring and fall give the best conditions, and summer mornings are kinder.
Facilitating Club
This league is run with the Burlington Area Disc Golf Club, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that promotes and develops disc golf in the Burlington area. The club handles course design, maintenance and improvement, events, education, community volunteering, and service projects.
The baskets you are cursing at were installed, maintained, and improved by volunteers who care about this place. The narrator is contractually obligated to say thank you, and genuinely means it.
From the booth, this is Flippy, signing off until next Thursday. Bring a disc. Bring a clipboard if you have one. Bring your appeal forms, because I am still waiting on mine.