Tonight is the night! Meet Val and Nate!

Tonight is the night! Don't forget to come meet Val Jenkins and Nate Doss at the store at 7 PM.

Both Val and Nate kicked butt at this weekend's PDGA Championships. Val took home first and Nate came in a close second. Nice!

Be sure to bring your camera and questions about what it's like being one of the best disc golfers on the planet!

Come meet World Champs Val & Nate next Monday!

We are happy to announce the Killer B Meet & Greet series featuring the best of the best in disc golf.

Since we don't mess around here at the Hive, we are starting it off with not one, but two World Champions - Valarie Jenkins and Nate Doss! So come down to the store next Monday, Sept. 26 at 7:00 PM for our first Meet & Greet!

Val and Nate will be signing autographs, taking pictures, and chatting disc golf until 8:00. They'll also be giving a brief talk about life on the road and answer any questions you may have.

Share this blog with your friends and let's give Val and Nate a great Augusta welcome!

Come watch the pros at Wildwood this weekend

The country's top pros have started to roll into town for the PDGA Championships at Wildwood Park in Appling, GA. This event crowns the United States National Champion and it's right in your backyard (assuming that you live in the Augusta area of course!)

Who's going to be playing? Do these names ring a bell? Climo, Doss, Jenkins, Schusterick, Locastro, Feldberg, McCabe, Anthon, Schultz, Todd, Ulibarri, Pierce, Stanhope, Hokom, ...

The event is free except for a $3 park admission fee and runs Friday through Sunday. Go check it out and let me know how our tee sponsorship signs look because I'll be stuck at the store! :-)

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Disc golf and NASCAR meet next week!

Killer B Disc Golf has been asked to help with an interesting road race next week in Augusta.

The Augusta Convention & Visitors Bureau (ACVB) is hosting the Chevrolet Fireball Run Adventurally at Enterprise Mill Tuesday, Sept. 27 from approximately 12-2. Forty teams including NASCAR driver Geoff Bodine, NASA shuttle astronaut Winston Scott, and actor/activist Kevyn Major Howard (Full Metal Jacket) are competing in a 2500 mile, 8-day adventure to raise awareness about missing children.

Each team will arrive and depart Enterprise Mill at its own pace between 12:30-2:30. While at the Mill, they will compete in a disc golf challenge in the courtyard. The details aren't set yet, but I'll most likely set up a short 3-5 hole course and throw in a putting game at the end. The team with the lowest score wins a mock Green Jacket.

This event is free and open to the public and is supposed to be broadcast live on the Internet. Sounds like fun! I of course will be rooting for Team Bumblebee.

The Fireball Run’s Race to Recover America’s Missing Children is the largest active recovery effort for missing and exploited children in the country. Each team is assigned a child from their home region along with thousands of posters to distribute along the route. A decal featuring the child is affixed to the vehicle, creating a rolling milk carton. To date, the effort has assisted in the recovery of 36 missing children.

Show us your Hive: Colorado

Mark Holt is traveling again. This time he checks in from hole 8 somewhere in Colorado!

Send me your Hive shots and I'll post them!

Thanks for the festival, Augusta!

Wow, what a great opening weekend in Augusta! I'd like to thank the city for holding the Arts in the Heart Festival just for us this weekend and getting so many people downtown to check us out. ;-)

The store was pretty busy from Friday night all the way through Sunday afternoon and it was great! Both experienced players and people who had never heard of disc golf were coming through the doors.

I had some good recruiters - a couple of kids from the neighboring stores seemed to always be out front either putting or spinning around the basket rattling the chains.

I also have to give a huge thank you to the newest Friend of the Hive, Taylor McK, who hung out we us Friday and Saturday folding shirts, moving stuff around, and talking with customers out front. Every time someone asked me about a local course, Taylor was there with an answer (I've only played each course once so far!)

We had a number of local downtown residents and shop owners stop in and thank us for helping revitalize downtown and even more golfers in general tell us how awesome it is to have a disc golf shop in the area again. We are glad to help and look forward to many years down here!

Overheard
One of my favorite comments of the weekend was from an older woman who had never heard of disc golf who said, "Is that where you throw a Frisbee and pretend you're playing golf?" I dunno, it just made me chuckle.

Here are some other favorites I heard:

• "There's actually a disc golf store!"
• "This is fun!"
• "My girlfriend made a mistake when she showed me this store."
• "This is the first disc golf store I've ever been in!"
• "I don't remember seeing this store. When did you open?" Three days ago. "Ahh, that explains it!"
   
• "A disc golf store? Oh. My. God."
• "Is it okay to bring beer in here?"
• "I like to touch them all." 
• "Look! It's a puppy!"

Killer B Dog was pooped by the end of Sunday

Captain America plays disc golf!

Adam picked out a 150 Leopard for his very first disc last night.

Have fun, Adam!