Rick Saffeels
Oregon, USA • Righty - Backhand and forehand
Rick's aces
Hole 2 at Pioneer Park · Stayton, OR
October 15, 2022 with a Glow C-Line MD3
Legit Ace #28
Straight at it and rang it up for the second Ace of the year!
Hole 9 at Church Park · Sublimity, OR
January 9, 2022 with a Vapor Tactic
1 witness
Legit Ace #27 Quick 9 holes with my daughter. Threw my Vapor Tactic on a gentle heizer and put it right in! My daughter loved it!
Hole 9 at Pioneer Park · Stayton, OR
October 28, 2021
Legit Ace #26 First throw with the Glow Buzzz and sunk it! I had just finished 18 holes at Camp Taloali so I wanted a cool down round at Pioneer. I had four metal hits including a chain out during this round of 18.
Hole 5 at Dallas City Park · Dallas, OR
October 10, 2020 with a S-Line P2
2 witnesses
Legit Ace #25 Only played disc golf 5 times this year and it’s been great :) haha Got my first ace at Dallas City Park and my 3 kids got to see it and the group in front of us!
Hole 2 at Corban College · Salem, OR
April 13, 2018 with a C-Line MD4
12 witnesses
Thrower’s ace #6 - First throw in with Discmania MD4 (and the whole garden club saw it haha)
Windy day at Corban! Dude putting challenge for 100 putts a day. Wanted to play a quick round and had an MD4 and a P2 in my hand. It was a new S-line P2 to try out and threw it but it didn’t stand the wind. So I threw the MD4 and of course it goes in. Should have picked it first! 🙄
Hole 2 at Pioneer Park · Stayton, OR
April 7, 2018 with a Glow C-Line MD3
3 witnesses
Legit Ace #24 - First ace with my Glow MD3: I started on hole 3 and finished with the walk off on hole 2! Pure hyzer and felt it might go in right out of my hands but I haven’t had a real as in a year and a half.
Hole 18 at Cascades Gateway · Salem, OR
October 12, 2017 with a First Run Star Destroyer
1 witness
Throwers Ace #5 (4th of the year) Raining with a tail wind. First throw was my Glow Thunderbird and parked it about 8 feet to the left of the basket, and then said I was going to go for the big hyzer shot and skipped it straight in. Good playing with you Gary!
Hole 4 at Woodmansee Park · Salem, OR
July 29, 2017 with a Yeti Pro Aviar
Throwers Ace #4 - bummed that I threw a random disc before the ace. I had just found a 157g Gateway Element from awhile ago in my storage and threw it up the hill to see how it flew, then threw my real shot with my putter and aced it going straight up and over the middle little tree no hyzer.
Hole 15 at Cascades Gateway · Salem, OR
May 6, 2017 with a C-Line PDx
3 witnesses
Throwers Ace #3 Playing a Singles/Cali/doubles round with a few random people and my daughter and was doing pretty bad (lack of sleep + cortisone shot I just got to help my torn rotators cuff from having my MRI results back this week). I threw my C-line PDx over the trees to avoid the leaves and came in hard from the right straight center chains.
Hole 6 at Jefferson School District · Jefferson, OR
February 18, 2017 with a Yeti Pro Aviar
1 witness
#2 Throwers Ace (on my second throw during a practice round) Flip up Hyzer and anhyzer straight in. Dustin called it right out of my hand and it was dead center all the way.
Hole 8 at Cascades Gateway · Salem, OR
July 10, 2016 with a Paul McBeth Champion Roc3
$89 cash
3 witnesses
Legit Ace #23 Perfect amount of head wind and just glided like a laser beam off the teepad. Striaght in the whole time. Fun league ace and my first time getting hole 8!
Hole 11 at Camp Tadmor · Lebanon, OR
January 30, 2016 with a First Run Champion Boss
3 witnesses
Ace #22
Champion Glow Boss -First throw tomahawk Tournament skip ace uphill over a log. Three guys on the card and none had ever seen an ace and one guy it was his very first round.
Hole 9 at Church Park · Sublimity, OR
December 26, 2015 with a XT Colt
3 witnesses
Ace #21 - 9 hole round after Taloali Dubs. Yeti Putter versus my new XT Colt. The Colt smashed center chains on a straight beamer line for its first ace after only having it for 1 week.
Hole 1 at The Grove · Cottage Grove, OR
September 26, 2015 with a S-Line PD2
25 witnesses
First Throwers Ace (not-on-my-first-throw) raining on hole one right before the tournament and threw my whole bag, and got to my last disc and skip aced it around the trees. 10 seconds later they called "Bring it in" haha
The guy from MiniPro from Colorado gave me a $15 wooden engraved mini so that was cool :)
Hole 11 at Buxton Woods · Buxton, OR
June 17, 2015 with a First Run Lucid Trespass
$1 cash
2 witnesses
Legit Ace #20 - Trespass Forehand up the hill in the long position doing the 2 Disc Dynamic Challenge and the shadow was telling us that is looked in and then straight chains! Crazy and Zoe AnDyke was nice enough to give me a dollar for it two holes later even though she didn't see it she just heard it :) haha
Hole 11 at Timber Park · Estacada, OR
June 13, 2015 with a Champion Starfire
1 witness
Legit Ace #19 - Glow Starfire - Threw a huge hyzerbomb and hit one or two leaves and then straight chains! Sweet all air ace with my father in law...and all the other spectators (Avery Jenkins, Simon Lizzotte and Eagle M were on hole 1 so just heard it and said hi on the way by) haha
Hole 2 at Woodmansee Park · Salem, OR
April 19, 2015 with a C-Line PD2
6 witnesses
Legit Ace #18 Glow Orange PD2 (actual hole 11 in the long) League skip ace through the forehand tree route. Hit chains and we already thought it was on the ground but it was in! Crazy
Hole 1 at Woodmansee Park · Salem, OR
April 14, 2015 with a Elite Z Stalker
$20 cash
9 witnesses
Legit Ace #17 Backhand Stalker from Brian Gray - Play off for 3rd place after a pretty average round and skipped/slid it off the top of the big limb flat in front of the basket. It looked like it was going in without the tree help but it stuck anyways. Pretty crazy playoff win :)
Hole 5 at Corban College · Salem, OR
March 3, 2015 with a First Run Champion Boss
$39 cash
6 witnesses
Legit Ace #16 Thumber Skip Ace with the same Glow Boss and barely hit the chains so didn't know if it stuck because it was already sunset and still a blind Ace being behind the tree. Card in front of me were walking up the trail and said it stuck. :) First ace for me at Corban and first one on the new course!
Hole 5 at Timber Park · Estacada, OR
January 31, 2015 with a First Run Champion Boss
7 witnesses
Legit Ace #15 First Thumber ace! And it was in a tournament! Glow Boss skip ace with a perfect strongside middle stick. No Ace pot or it might have been over $100 since there were about 156 participants. Fun team got 2nd place in Open by one stroke, tied for second but we won the play off against Chris Wilcox, Mike, Luke T, and Sam? Great day and amazing weather. God's glory
Hole 6 at Cascades Gateway · Salem, OR
January 21, 2015 with a Champion Starfire
7 witnesses
#14 Legit Ace: All air Heizer ace on the outside right of the tree line. Didn't think it would even be close with the skip.
Hole 2 at Cascades Gateway · Salem, OR
November 25, 2014 with a Trespass
$20 cash
8 witnesses
#13 Legit Ace: First Glow Ace! Threw my glow Trespass with as little effort as possible to not over throw the hole in the short position. Perfect hyzer and landed right in the center chains!
Hole 5 at Woodmansee Park · Salem, OR
November 19, 2014 with a Opto Stiletto
#12 Ace: First flick ace it was actually from hole 14 with and ani-flick route high and straight in the middle of the chains. Perfect shot :) All Him
Hole 6 at Hyzer Pines at S.O.A.R. · Sisters, OR
September 14, 2014 with a Verdict
#11 Ace. Lone round day two in Sisters. Just got the verdict in the mail on Friday, threw it once on hole 6 yesterday and almost aced it. Today I readjusted in my mind the throw from yesterday and Swished it center bucket!
Hole 2 at Cascades Gateway · Salem, OR
August 21, 2014 with a Yeti Pro Aviar
2 witnesses
#10 Casual round at 7:30am with Jason Bernard and Patrick. Not even a round we were going to keep score because just wanted to play for fun and be done, but just grabbed my Yeti putter from Hole 1's putt and hit Hole 2 with a gentle heizer. Had like 5 birds and some boggs so it was just a normal round after that :)
Hole 16 at Canyonview Camp · Silverton, OR
August 1, 2014 with a Champion Starfire
1 witness
#9 First All air tomahawk ace and first one to ace that hole on the course. Set course record with -15 for the round. Glow champion Starfire.
Hole 9 at Church Park · Sublimity, OR
June 29, 2014 with a Yeti Pro Aviar
4 witnesses
#8 Legit Ace. Back hand anhyzer straight chain. :)
Hole 2 at North Eco Park · Canby, OR
March 15, 2014 with a Elite Z Flick
$14 cash
3 witnesses
#7 Legit Ace (outside of Ace Run Tourneys or 'not first throws')
"The Bottleneck Hole" dubbed by locals. Lee gave me this disc (THANKS MAN!), the CV dyed 175g perfect backhand. Through and around the back trees to the right of the basket and dead center chains and sat. Silly.
Hole 7 at Pioneer Park · Stayton, OR
December 22, 2013 with a Elite Z Glo Buzzz
1 witness
Ace #6
Straight chains ace with my father in law :) same hole Lee aced :)
Hole 2 at Canyonview Camp · Silverton, OR
October 19, 2013 with a Ace Race 2013
4 witnesses
Discraft Ace Race: 130 foot Ace from first base to the basket in-between two trees. Not real course hole.
Hole 15 at Canyonview Camp · Silverton, OR
October 19, 2013 with a Ace Race 2013
4 witnesses
90+ foot downhill Ace during the Discraft Ace Race (so technically not a real ace)
Hole 5 at Pioneer Park · Stayton, OR
October 11, 2013 with a Crystal Z Buzzz
$35 cash
3 witnesses
Ace #5
Orange Crystal Buzzz Wheatland DGC fundraiser disc, and it flew straight in on the "longest hole" on the course :) sweet Split $70 with Lee Hartmen who aced hole 7 same round.
Hole 1 at Cascades Gateway · Salem, OR
October 7, 2013 with a First Run Star Destroyer
$100 cash
3 witnesses
Ace #4
Orange Star Destroyer that Jon Long had just "broken in" off a Rock at Corban College. Skip Ace with Dane calling it before I threw. Everyone heard it though...so 30 witnessed.
Hole 1 at Canyonview Camp · Silverton, OR
August 25, 2013 with a Champion Starfire
4 witnesses
Ace #3
Orange Starfire right in the bucket for -9 at Canyonview Camp tournament round of Scared Square
Hole 1 at Canyonview Camp · Silverton, OR
May 11, 2013 with a Champion Starfire
$35 cash
5 witnesses
Ace #2
Glow Champion Starfire- Maiden Voyage with the disc (FIRST TIME EVER THROWING IT!)
Aced on the 90th hole of the day, I threw my CFR Glow Starfire for the very first time ever, from the 300 ft exactly tee pad, and perfect-in-the air, no heizer, on a line, all chains, Ace. Super awesome explosion sound being that its a Bentley Basket and they are normally quieter.
Hole 4 at Woodmansee Park · Salem, OR
March 25, 2013 with a Champion Starfire
3 witnesses
FIRST ACE! Tomahawk skip ace up hill, dead center chains as hard as it could hit! Exploded into the chains and sat gently in the basket for the guys to grab it and sign it :)