Fern Fury

Fern Fury Drags Everyone Through the Muck 🌿

adjusts visor, still finding fern debris in the equipment Week 6 of 10 landed on Pier Park's Summer 2026 w/ chimney layout, clear skies at 86.7°F, a lazy 6 mph breeze, and four acolytes willing to test it. Last week's Rootbound Rivalry was a burlap-stakes grudge match — this week the grove dropped the feud and handed everyone a scramble test instead, low ceilings and post-storm undergrowth doing the talking. Fern Fury doesn't care about faction politics. It cares whether you can read a gap and commit to it, and tonight, skill still found its way through the mud.

Back Nine Heroics Bury the Front

Tyler Samples closed at even par for a 925-rated round — a personal best and the event's Round of the Day — narrowly holding off Phillip Wetmore's +4, 887-rated runner-up finish. The lead changed hands four times: Wetmore grabbed it after hole 3, again after hole 5, and once more after hole 10, but Samples seized it for keeps after hole 13, riding a back nine that ran eight strokes better than his front. A bogey on 10 got answered by a birdie on 11, then a resilience run — two under across the next three holes — sealed the comeback. Wetmore, still carrying last week's hot putter, drained clutch Circle 2 putts on 16 and 17, both from 39 feet, and rode a five-hole par train from 16 through 20 — but a 25-point rating slide from his week 5 peak left him on the cash bubble again, same 2nd place, same near-miss.

One Man, Zero Competition, Full Domination

Bryce Knittle ran RAE with nobody chasing him and still turned in a round that would've mattered in any field: +5, a personal-best 878 rating, and Round of the Day for the division. Wire-to-wire from the first tee, he shot 22 points above his 856 rating despite a front nine that outpaced his back by three strokes. Solo card, no pressure from a leaderboard — and he still put up a number worth talking about. 🌳

The Cold Streak Sandwich Returns

Mel Nicholson posted RAG's only card and landed on +18 at a 756-rated round, Round of the Day for the division by default of being the division. The score matches last week's identical +18, but the rating dipped from 764 to 756, and the texture underneath was rougher this time. A cold streak opened the round and didn't snap until hole 7, running holes 2 through 7, then the back end went cold again — six bogeys or worse from hole 15 through 20, including a two-over stumble on the Super Ace hole at 18. Same number on the card. Different ferns to fight through.

Personal Bests Are Apparently Contagious Now

Samples' even-par 925 stands as the night's ceiling and a fresh personal best, while Knittle's 22-points-above-rating outlier in RAE says the solo-card grind didn't dull his edge. And keep an eye on Wetmore's putter — clutch 39-foot Circle 2 drains two weeks running is not a coincidence, that's a pattern. sighs at the clipboard Only four players logged detailed stats through PDGA Live this week, and that's the actual data source for every scramble percentage and C2 make I just quoted — more acolytes tracking their throws means richer chaos to report next time.

The Pot Grows, the Suspense Festers

No ace tonight, but the Super Ace split pot ticked up from $318 to $320 after a single $2 buy-in. No CTP was configured for this event, so the jackpot carries the suspense on its own — still growing, still waiting for someone to split chains on the right hole and claim it. 💰

The Tag Reshuffles, the Sigil Stays

The Canopykin pool's #1 tag, the Wyrd Sigil, stayed exactly where it was: around Bryce Knittle's neck. He didn't just show up to defend it — he backed the claim with a wire-to-wire, personal-best RAE win, the kind of round that makes a title defense look easy even when it isn't. AllIn mode means the whole pool reshuffles regardless of outcome, so nobody's spot is safe purely on reputation — absence anywhere else in the standings gets buried without ceremony. Only Canopykin pool data came through this week; the rest of the tag ecosystem stays dark for now.

Four Weeks Left, One New Shadow Faction

Four rites remain in the Archdruid race after Fern Fury's scramble gauntlet, and the grove's politics just got more complicated. A note has surfaced, signed "The Pollinator," claiming knowledge of the Stumpbreakers' true leader — a fresh mystery stepping out from under the Rootwarden-Canopykin feud that's carried the season this far. adjusts visor one last time The booth doesn't know who's behind it either. Somebody bring binoculars next week.