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The Sad Dog Team
Patrick Belding
PDGA# 150080
Age: 29
From: Nashville, TN
Career: Glencliff HS Music Director
Rating: 963
Division: MA1
Started Playing: 2020
Team Member Since: 2021
Favorite Disc: Innova Leopard3
Favorite Course: Sugar Hollow, VA
Favorite Pro: Isaac Robinson
Favorite Disc Golf Memory
The first tournament that my dad and I played in Kentucky. It was great to experience the sport of disc golf as father in son in competition.
Ryan Dugar
PDGA# 149109
Age: 12
From: Franklin, TN
Career: Student
Rating: 832
Division: MA4
Started Playing: 2020
Team Member Since: 2023
Favorite Disc: Discraft Hades
Favorite Course: Woodland Park
Favorite Pro: Simon Lizotte
Favorite Disc Golf Memory
Junior Worlds. I had so much fun with my brother and my dad going around to different courses.
Nina Guerrero
PDGA# 140947
Age: 23
From: Bowling Green, KY
Career: Pro Disc Golfer and Student
Rating: 893
Division: FPO
Started Playing: 2020
Team Member Since: 2023
Favorite Disc: D2 Spectrum Air/M2 750
Favorite Course: Harmony Bends
Favorite Pro: Ohn Scoggins
Favorite Disc Golf Memory
My first tournament ever, played in MA4 and tied 3rd. I had only been playing for 2 months and got my first forehand tournament ace. I didn't know if the throw was good or bad, plus I couldn't see it go in.
Leslie King
PDGA# 181559
Age: 24
From: Nashville, TN
Career: Environmental Science Student
Rating: 817
Division: FA2/FPO
Started Playing: 2021
Team Member Since: 2022
Favorite Disc: Kastaplast Berg
Favorite Course: Lions Wilderness
Favorite Pro: Kristin Tattar
Favorite Disc Golf Memory
I don't have a specific memory but my favorite part about disc golf is the amazing community. Everyone is so supportive and helpful. It's amazing to see a community of people that are competing against each other but still regularly build each other up.
Luke Wallace
PDGA# 192064
Age: 27
From: North Little Rock, AR
Career: Lead Tech Trainer
Rating: 864
Division: Intermediate/MA2
Started Playing: 2021
Team Member Since: 2022
Favorite Disc: Clash Popcorn
Favorite Course: The Claytons
Favorite Pro: Calvin Heimburg
Favorite Disc Golf Memory
Getting my first ace. I was late getting to a round with Brendan and Patrick at Cedar. Met up with them when they were halfway down Inner 3. They told me to throw while they were on the fairway, and I aced with my first throw of the day.
Jack Dugar
PDGA# 149108
Age: 15
From: Franklin, TN
Career: Student
Rating: 919
Division: MA2
Started Playing: 2020
Team Member Since: 2022
Favorite Disc: Discraft Anax
Favorite Course: Woodland Park
Favorite Pro: Ezra Anderhold
Favorite Disc Golf Memory
My favorite memory was going to Junior Worlds with my brother and dad. Though I didn't play well, we had so much fun off the course!
Jono Smith
PDGA# 142170
Age: 31
From: Old Hickory, TN
Career: Nursing Student
Rating: Unknown
Division: Intermediate/MA2
Started Playing: 2020
Team Member Since: 2022
Favorite Disc: Innova Pig
Favorite Course: Wintersun Longs
Favorite Pro: Paul Ulibarri
Favorite Disc Golf Memory
Playing the 2021 Ambassador's Cup and one of the neighbors to the course started cursing at the top of his lungs at his neighbor's dog. His voice carried across the course and everyone was dying laughing listening to these two men bicker about a dog that had been barking for the last 25 years.
Bruce Atkins Jr.
PDGA# 204542
Age: 19
From: Portland, TN
Career: Granite Install and Fabrication
Rating: 903
Division: MA1
Started Playing: 2021
Team Member Since: 2023
Favorite Disc: Discraft ESP Buzzz
Favorite Course: Mahr Park
Favorite Pro: Ricky Wysocki
Favorite Disc Golf Memory
My favorite would be my first ever ace on hole 18 in my first ever tournament. I had my dad as a caddie and great card mates. The feeling of watching the disc go in the chains and the cheer of the card mates felt so surreal.
Chuck Bennett
PDGA# 140946
Age: 44
From: Bowling Green, KY
Career: Territory Manager
Rating: 922
Division: MP40
Started Playing: 2020
Team Member Since: 2023
Favorite Disc: Star Caiman
Favorite Course: Eureka Pro Course
Favorite Pro: Andy Ritter
Favorite Disc Golf Memory
One of my most memorable moments playing disc golf would have to be hitting the coozie under the basket on hole 9 (the bridge hole) at Eureka Temp Pro at Master Worlds.
Cameron Merrill
PDGA# 217807
Age: 25
From: Clarksville, TN
Career: Bible Teacher/Soccer Coach -Clarksville Christian School
Rating: 904
Division: MA1
Started Playing: 2018
Team Member Since: 2023
Favorite Disc: Discmania Mindbender
Favorite Course: The Highlands
Favorite Pro: Simon Lizotte
Favorite Disc Golf Memory
When I played in my first ever tournament and was super nervous, the guys on my card, who I didn't know, cheered me on and encouraged me. I made the podium, but what keeps me coming back is the culture of the sport. Those guys represented disc golf so well that day.
Christian Hortert
PDGA# 85432
Started Playing: 2014
Team Member Since: 2022
Favorite Disc: Clash Popcorn
Favorite Course: Idlewild
Favorite Pro: Calvin Heimburg
Age: 26
From: Murfreesboro, TN
Career: Landscaper
Rating: 935
Division: MA1
Favorite Disc Golf Memory
I met the Sad Dog Crew shortly after coming back into disc golf in early 2021 and bought a Galactic Nexus Aviar driver from that quickly became one of my go to throwing putters. A couple days later after finding and returning a disc to a friend of mine I aced hole 12 at Seven Oaks with that Aviar driver at Wednesday Night Tags.
Jesse Todd
PDGA# 190690
Age: 35
From: Cottontown, TN
Career: Sumner County HWY Dept.
Rating: 864
Division: MA3
Started Playing: 2022
Team Member Since: 2023
Favorite Disc: Discmania DDX
Favorite Course: Cedar Hill
Favorite Pro: Simon Lizotte
Favorite Disc Golf Memory
When my son made a 100' throw in for his first birdie.
Sam Warren
PDGA# 173568
Age: 30
From: Nashville, TN
Career: Facility Maintenance Supervisor
Rating: 970
Division: MA2
Started Playing: 2020
Team Member Since: 2021
Favorite Disc: Kastaplast Berg
Favorite Course: Seven Oaks
Favorite Pro: Simon Lizotte
Favorite Disc Golf Memory
My first ace. Hole 5 on Baby Cane in 5 inches of snow. I had my brother and two of my best friends with me and it was the first time I had ever thrown that disc.
Jason Pauli
PDGA# 145721
Age: 26
From: Nashville, TN
Career: Video Editor/History Factory
Rating: 957
Division: MA1
Started Playing: 2015
Team Member Since: 2023
Favorite Disc: MVP Atom
Favorite Course: Black Lotus Green
Favorite Pro: Calvin Heimburg
Favorite Disc Golf Memory
I hit a 340' ace to win a C-Tier.
Will Gannon
PDGA# 150418
Started Playing: 2016
Team Member Since: 2022
Favorite Disc: Lat64 Pure
Favorite Course: Wondervu
Favorite Pro: Simon Lizotte
Age: 28
From: Nashville, TN
Career: Customer Service Manager
Rating: Non-Current
Division: MA2
Favorite Disc Golf Memory
When I won the Summer Solstice a few years back. I was behind going in to hole 18 at Seven Oaks and managed to tie it up with a tough putt from the creek. On the third playoff hole I sank a long putt for the win.
Blake Burgess
PDGA# 143535
Age: 30
From: Heath, TX
Career: Sale Rep. (Uber Eats)
Rating: 926
Division: MPO
Started Playing: 2020
Team Member Since: 2023
Favorite Disc: Zone/Firebird/Destoryer
Favorite Course: Seven Oaks
Favorite Pro: Harper Thompson and Philo
Favorite Disc Golf Memory
When I got my first ace at baby cane hole 8 within 5 days of playing disc golf and when I moved to Texas and my 1st week I hit a $1,200 ace.
Robert "Big Z" Zavala
PDGA# 86916
Age: 59
From: Brentwood, TN
Career: Construction Manager
Rating: 902
Division: MA50
Started Playing: Early 90's
Team Member Since: 2023
Favorite Disc: Air Sheriff
Favorite Course: Cane Ridge
Favorite Pro: Paige Pierce
Favorite Disc Golf Memory
A lady came up to me a few months after taking a beginner putting clinic from me and told me how much it helped her putting. That and seeing kids that I have taught, playing the game and enjoying it are my favorite memories. Growing the sport is better than any Ace!
Jonah Cavalier
PDGA# 170320
Age: 27
From: Nashville, TN
Career: Special Ed. Teacher at Glencliff HS
Rating: 881
Division: MA2
Started Playing: 2020
Team Member Since: 2022
Favorite Disc: Prodigy A2
Favorite Course: Westside DG Course
Favorite Pro: Kevin Jones
Favorite Disc Golf Memory
My favorite disc golf memory is the overall process of installing a 9-hole disc golf course at my school. From beginning to end, being able to plan and visualize how the course will look and how many people the course will impact in a positive way.
Brendan Anderson
PDGA# 151017
Started Playing: 2020
Team Member Since: 2021
Favorite Disc: Innova Roc
Favorite Course: Cedar Hill
Favorite Pro: Simon Lizotte
Age: 28
From: Nashville, TN
Career: Data Engineer
Rating: 905
Division: MA1
Favorite Disc Golf Memory
My first ace! Labor Day Ams with an envy of hole 9 at Cane Ridge advanced. I had hit chains, basket, and band several times leading up to the event. I was waiting for it to fall out but thankfully it never did.
Mitch Baker
PDGA# 125825
Age: 43
From: Hermitage, TX
Career: Auto Body
Rating: Fairly high, normally
Division: MA40
Started Playing: 1995
Team Member Since: 2022
Favorite Disc: Innova Pig/Whippet
Favorite Course: Seven Oaks
Favorite Pro: Calvin Heimburg
Favorite Disc Golf Memory
The first time I took Lucian to Seven Oaks to play I thought he had a pretty good time. The next day when I got home from work, he had pulled my practice basket into the backyard and was throwing towards it. He saw me pull in and ran to the truck to see if we could go play again. Of course we went. He was hooked.
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