Week 6 · Tuesday @ Springwood Players' Course
Tue, Nov 17 · 9:00 AM – 4:40 PM · $5 buy-in
Weather
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Closer to tee time
Ace Pot
$50.00*
Super Ace $500
Registration opens soon · Opens Sun, Nov 15
Flippy says
First Lines premiere! Tuesdays at Springwood Players' Course, Whitsett. Make sure to park by Hole 5's basket to ensure you don't get locked in.You'll begin your round on Hole 6 in…
Week 6 · Last Light
The final evening arrives with autumn color and early dark. Players compete not only for standing but for the season's last word—who will hold the narrative of how this year concluded. The worn paths are now permanent features, the flagged alternatives either adopted or abandoned, the lost-and-found archive complete. As light fails, remaining groups play by memory and sound, finishing rounds they cannot fully see. The season's map is fixed until spring, carried in players' bodies and stories.
Episode 1: First Lines. The archive is empty, the paths are unworn, and every player arrives as a potential author of the course's Tuesday identity. Six weeks of community-sculpted competitive cartography begin now.
Welcome to the season opener, where nothing has happened yet and everything is possible. Tuesday @ Springwood Players' Course is a six-week limited series running October 13 through November 17, and the theme this season treats every round as a chapter in a living archive. You're not just playing disc golf — you're inscribing memory onto a landscape. Or, as I'm contractually required to frame it: you're throwing plastic at chains, but the LORE says it's more than that.
This is a flex-start league, which means you pick your card and your tee time between 9:00 AM and 4:40 PM. Choose your adventure. Choose your companions. Choose your fate. The Burlington Area Disc Golf Club — a 501(c)(3) nonprofit that builds, maintains, and improves the courses we play on — makes all of this possible. They're the foundation. We're just the people walking on it.
This league splits into two pools, each with a different relationship to the course. Think of it as two schools of philosophy that happen to share the same fairways.
Both pools play the same layout: Springwood Players' Course front 10 with Longs on holes 1, 2, 5, 6, and 9. The difference is in how they read the land. One preserves; the other charts. Both throw discs.
Springwood Players' Course in Whitsett, North Carolina, is a 19-hole layout wrapping around a community sports complex. Yes, 19 holes. Someone committed to the bit and we respect that. The course holds a 4.0 rating from nearly 1,400 reviews — that's not hype, that's a consensus.
The terrain is mostly flat and open, which means wind becomes your co-pilot whether you invited it or not. The course shares space with baseball diamonds, soccer fields, and a greenway trail. Pedestrians and cyclists always have right-of-way. You will at some point wait politely for a jogger while your disc slowly betrays you. This is the social contract of multi-use parks.
Entry is $6.50 per week — that's your base ticket into the archive. From there, the optional add-ons let you itemize your hope:
A la carte dreaming. The base gets you playing; the extras get you a shot at glory in specific, labeled denominations.
The ace pot currently sits at $50.00, and here's the important part: FL!PT Leagues (the league platform) guarantees a $50 minimum. This guarantee is from the platform, not the disc shop. What that means in practice:
Six weeks. Six episodes. All at Springwood Players' Course. The season runs October 13 through November 17, and each week has its own chapter title because apparently we're doing this.
This week is First Lines: the season opens with players tracing new paths through the course. Fairways that will become familiar still surprise. Veterans share provisional lines while newcomers discover the deceptive simplicity. By evening, a shared vocabulary begins — 'the oak on fourteen,' 'the false flat on seven' — and the first worn patches appear where feet converge on optimal approaches. The paths chosen now will harden into habit.
The Burlington Area Disc Golf Club is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit centered on promoting and developing disc golf in the Burlington area. They handle course design, maintenance and improvement, organizing events, education, community volunteering, and service projects. They build the infrastructure. They maintain the baskets. They make sure the grass is mowed and the fairways are fair. Every round you play on a course they steward is a round made possible by their work. That's not dramatic framing — that's just how it works.
From the booth, I'm Flippy. The archive is open. First lines await. Let's see what you write.
The $3.00 platform fee is the only amount here set by FL!PT Leagues. Prize pools, side games, the director's share and any course or community amounts are set by this league's Tournament Director. The PDGA fee is the PDGA's own per-player fee.
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Tuesday @ Springwood Players' Course
