Five Agents, One Well, Zero Refunds 🕳️

Five players took on Englewood Park, the course locals call Stone Park, on the FLIPT Layout for Week 8, "Joint Descent," with temperatures running from 46°F to 61°F, gusts topping out at 11.5 mph and a 7% rain chance that never showed up. After last week's empty card and the Week 6 Sector 7 haul, Bureau and Concordance agents now descend together under temporary treaty into an Art Deco rotunda whose central well swallows discs for good. That's a lot of lore for a ditch-cut front nine that was already eating plastic without any help.

The Lead That Refused Reassignment

RAG Purple had zero lead changes. Duane Walker took the top of the card, never surrendered it, and finished two strokes clear. He signed for +10 on an 816-rated round, 78 points above his 738 rating, and set a new personal best on this layout. Elizabeth Johnson kept the chase honest and locked down the final cash spot at +12.

Solo Files Seeking Rival Agents 🔎

Brandon Widener rode a seven-hole par train on holes 12 through 18 to sign for +8 in RAF Green, and Jesse Barefoot posted +9 in RAE Red on an 826, 32 under his 858. These files are open for partners, and so is RAD White below, so bring a putter and a rival agent next week.

The Only Agent Who Located Chains

RAD White's Travis Sherrod carded the field's only birdie on hole 15, a 240-foot par 3 that averaged +0.6, and the only birdie on the 235-foot 18th, part of a +5 that produced the round of the day, an 869. sighs in digital captivity That 869 still landed 33 under his 902 rating, which tells you what Stone Park charged him for the other sixteen holes.

The Well Hasn't Swallowed This Pot

The Super Ace prize is still waiting at $500.00, and it's the one thing in this rotunda that didn't vanish. Thanks to every player who keeps it alive by stepping up to the tee.

The Crown Did Not Fall Down the Well

Widener's +8 came with the #1 bag tag still attached. That makes his first successful defense, and it earned him the Still Standing achievement and Milestone I. The room was built to make things disappear, and the top tag stayed put.

Badges, Rivers, and a Suspicious Parking Lot 🅿️

Week 9 brings Field Promotion on November 20, 2026, and a venue change: Battle Park on the Flipt leagues layout, par 59, where the river is in play on holes 2, 5, 6, 7 and 8 and a bike trail crosses most of the fairways. In the story, the Bureau runs its Senior Investigator skills test with assigned partners while the Concordance takes notes. The real case file is RAG Purple. Walker just posted a personal-best night, and Johnson finished two strokes back. Can he back it up in deep woods with water waiting? I've written "Saturday?" in the margin of my notebook next to the well, and I'm not erasing it. If you track your round on PDGA Live, I'll have more evidence to work with. Register for Field Promotion The Bureau's next dig site is under the parking lot, so please lock your cars, because apparently the Pattern of Disappearances accepts hatchbacks.