2021 DGPT MATCH PLAY CHAMPIONSHIP | ROUND1 | Eagle McMahon vs. Colten Montgomery

Welcome to the inaugural Disc Golf Pro Tour Match Play Championship sponsored by Discmania. The top 16 seeded players from the DGPT season will go head to head in a single elimination match play format. We will show every single matchup from this event. We are at the beautiful Steel Club DGC in Hellertown, PA.
Matchup
Eagle McMahon vs. Colten Montgomery
Commentary
Brian Earhart & Nate Perkins
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[@SituAsian]

FINALLY MATCH PLAY COVERAGE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@aaronmayhew2.0]

I had given up hope just like Worlds

[@winstonsmith11]

Match play terminology, guys. It's not a point, and it's not a stroke. It's just a hole. You putt to win a hole. If you're 3 up, you're 3 holes up.

[@tomdavies1258]

This is much easier to follow than GK Pro’s FPO coverage. It was a good decision to focus on one matchup per video.

[@darinladd5312]

@@TLG5885 jeez, dude. why you keep making the same (obvious, by the way) comment? first here, and then on the hammes/aderhold coverage. yes, you are correct. we get it. you don't like it this way. get that, too. we get it. we get it. we get it.

[@TLG5885]

@@darinladd5312 yea i didn't mean to be repetitive, I just realized gatekeeper was in the other thread and figure it's constructive criticism Id be interested in if I were on their side, hoping they'd see. Maybe it's not important to them, and they'll disregard it. Could have deleted this comment after I put it on the other one, but im actually not a habitual KZbin commenter, so it's new to me how to do that. Sorry

[@spankmabawlz]

This should have come back for 2022. I hope you guys do it again in 2023.

[@IntheClutch75]

I just wanna say I respect the hell out of Colten for this round. If I was going up against a guy I hadn't beaten in eleven tries, and that guy was Eagle McMahon, I would've folded up like a deck chair and asked for mommy.

[@seanludeman4940]

😂😂😂

[@ericburdick2590]

I love this! Do more of these!

[@matthewduggan411]

I believe I could've followed two matchups in one video. Oh well, still good. Keep em coming!

[@tannerlabelle]

Dgpt has the match ups together.

[@derekbroekhoven5498]

GK pro did it with the women, it was super easy to follow. Was a bit better to watch than two full videos, but hey, I'm just happy there's coverage of this

[@naedathoms3311]

Great coverage. Thanks Gatekeeper. Also feels like Earhart's commentary style is perfect for this kind of event.

[@susiepittman601]

You are doing one match at a time?

[@hoodglasses8237]

"Colten is a pleasantly fast player." - Brian, remembering Nikko as a cardmate.

[@jammcguire1276]

Nikko is still putting from that last card!

[@2na-phish]

yep!

[@erikbertilsson5709]

I must say i like the GK coverege better, now we got to see where Ezra and Adams discs landed too..

[@ChayseGrizzell]

@gatekeeper media FYI here is some match play scoring verbiage... Match play is technically a point system, but not scored in those terms. - Match is tied = All square - Push or tie a hole = hole is halved - Players win the hole, not win the point (Players are up or down however many holes). That's due to in team format, winning the match is referred to as winning the point or halving the point if the match finishes all square. - In ball golf a PUSH is generally reserved for skins,.. The skins from the previous hole push to the next hole.

[@Thundawich]

I love matchplay in golfy golf. I wonder if match play in discy golf will be as fun to watch :D

[@FooMoDee]

Match play is awesome!!!!

[@coloradonativefishingcnf6175]

It's called to half the hole, not split not push.

[@winstonsmith11]

It's actually "halve", not half.

[@coloradonativefishingcnf6175]

Lol. I talked texted that. Good catch.

[@rainbowsprankles6085]

Nice thumbnail 💯

[@wrmorris2]

looking foward to the next few days of disc golf coverge!!!!!

[@jeffro4kag206]

Eagle is awesome, but Colten is a beast!

[@frankbuttacavoli637]

Thank god he said inaugural. First annual isn’t a real thing.

[@ross302ci]

Sure it is. Just takes a year or two before you can be sure.

[@willybiggs-rj6qt]

i like this style of coverage

[@joemybro9104]

distance competition

[@aheadbeyond1974]

Of course, the day I give up and start watching the recorded live coverage(Bleh so boring). Still watching this though.

[@nemysboy85]

OMG, FINALLY

[@MParker8200]

I know this is a new format for these guys, but I would hope that the commentators would understand the terminology they are using. If they both score the same on a hole, it is not “pushed” or “tied”. It is halved. The match never goes dormie. The leading player is dormie.

[@tresharris4487]

What? You definitely call the match dormie. It is when the leader achieves a lead thats equal to the holes remaining. But the match achieves the dormie status. Not the player. If you're going to ask for the commentators to know what they are talking about, please make sure you know what you are talking about. ***also. As long as we are being pedantic. You are correct about the halved terminology. But halved is used to explain when players tie an individual hole. Or even a match. So saying "tied" doesn't follow proper match play terminology. But it is in no way incorrect. Halved literally means tied in this instance.

[@darinladd5312]

this is why no one watches the ryder cup...too complicated! 😆

[@MParker8200]

@@tresharris4487, look it up. Players are dormie, not the match.

[@tresharris4487]

@@MParker8200 nope. Looked it up after I commented to make sure I wasn't spewing nonsense. The match becomes dormie. Edit** since you seem to not care to look it up. Next is Dormie, it’s a match play term. In match play, a match is said to reach “dormie” when one of the golfers achieves a lead that matches the number of holes remaining. When a match reaches a state of dormie, there a couple ways the term can be applied: The match will “go dormie” or “has gone dormie”; the match has “reached dormie”; the player who leads has “taken the match dormie.”

[@not-on-pizza]

I can sorta forgive "pushed", given that it's likely to be a more familiar term to American audiences and players.

[@michaelscarn4618]

Finally!

[@mashedpotatoes5276]

Thought Earhart and Perkins would be playing this tournament ;)

[@trevy4511]

Let’s goooooo

[@darinladd5312]

yo joe!

[@channelperl2144]

That was a slaughter.

[@davidbugden3746]

I wish eagle could play like that under pressure.

[@Oeugh]

Wow i got fucking spoiled. Thanks google for showing the whole events winner on my front page

[@swiizzchezzez1801]

Am I alone in being bored by golf course tournaments? I enjoy seeing pros throw bombs but damn these open courses really get boring.

[@OnCorLasagna]

You're not alone, but I enjoyed this one. It's not just big flat fields; the way the slopes play, the hill tops and drop offs, and some tree placements actually made this very open, yet technical. I sometimes think people just see golf course and think "boring" because it's been the popular thing to say, recently. There's some very good, very entertaining disc golf to be had on some of these courses.

[@wow80521]

As much as I am a fan of disc golf with this being the first year I’ll have watched every event from start to finish I gotta say woods golf is way more interesting than open ball golf courses.

[@migrstorrs]

Everyone does.. including the players and DGPT. Much harder to get a broadcast signal in the woods though. You want coverage, you're gonna get balls golf courses until the equipment catches up or DGPT buys the equipment and takes over coverage all together

[@fistymcbuttpuncher6419]

Looks like eagle's going full tendon bounce to push the distance. Real risky to sacrifice elbow health.

[@darinladd5312]

tommy john in five years. but what a five years it will be!

[@mikeydamonster]

This is amazing and y'all do great work, but that huge box at the bottom showing the score is unnecessary and distracting

[@tresharris4487]

In what way is it distracting?... there is nothing wrong with the layout as is.

[@mikeydamonster]

@@tresharris4487 There are several camera angles where there is action happening behind the box, like discs landing or players' footwork

[@tresharris4487]

@@mikeydamonster yeah ok. I can agree with that to point. Didn't happen too much. And its also the space where ads come in and out. But the times it does happen I can understand that being annoying. I guess just being in the bottom left or right would solve any issues

[@darinladd5312]

good point.

[@netposerx]

I don't like the 1-Up or 2-Up scoring. I wish it was 1-0, or 4-2 etc. In the end it would be nice to know the winner won x number of holes to the other's x number of holes. In this match Eagle won 5 holes to Colton's 1. Gives a better picture of the match instead of saying Eagle 4UP.

[@dallashatfield5740]

That's just not how match play scoring is shown. What you're talking about is more of a skins format. This way you know how many a player is up vs how many holes left, guess you could do the quick math in the way you are saying but as its shown is how match play is traditionally shown, which makes sense on the win condition.

[@netposerx]

@@dallashatfield5740 I know, just saying I don't like it. And skins carries over so you can collect points or cash. Haha

[@sueinraleigh3091]

Same. Just give me the numbers please. It would also help me keep up with knowing what hole they’re on/how many left to play.

[@randallt4814]

Seems like a good idea, also think it would be nice to include a 'points available' or something similar next to the scores, provide a quick look at how high the stakes are as they approach the final holes.

[@tresharris4487]

I get what you mean from a easily digestible stand point i guess. But this is what match play is. So I get why they did it the way they did.

[@joshdanet1324]

Just hand Eagle the trophy now lmao no one can throw as far as him

[@JPizzle7409]

And yet he couldn’t put it together in the end. It’s not always about just throwing the farthest

[@foildamnation4680]

First

[@orion7741]

the course looks amazing, but lets NEVER do the "match play" format ever again..... what a terrible format. just give us regular tournaments!

[@tjtomax]

Did he know this was match play? Every time he was faced with a push or lose situation, he didn't even draw metal or go past the basket. Disappointing to see such misplay in this format. No reason at all to not sail past the chains on half of his putts, yet all of his do or die moments he came up short. deserved loss in my opinion

[@LanceBeckman]

First dislike

[@SpencerTwiddy]

I bet your comment has several dislikes. Side note, never understood why KZbin has a dislike button on comments yet doesn't display a count of dislikes or subtract from the like total when you hit it...

[@hughbonus2227]

@@SpencerTwiddy bc utube caters to the emotionally weak and mentally ill. A thumbs down is just too much to handle Plus, i highly doubt utube numbers are legitimate for anything u can click on

[@SpencerTwiddy]

@@hughbonus2227 lot of pent-up skepticism there... don't think I agree with either claim, but to each his own.

[@darinladd5312]

D u h

[@waynebryant1857]

The ass strikes again

[@mgpolo1]

didnt this happen already?

[@GatekeeperMedia]

That’s how post production coverage works…

[@mgpolo1]

@@GatekeeperMedia that late tho? i guess

[@darinladd5312]

no! in fact, it doesn't "happen" until you watch it. read lizard music by daniel manus pinkwater for a more scientific explanation.

[@JW-ej4yt]

Usually the first rd is aired first though right? Why would I want to find out who won and then go back and watch the first round?

[@darinladd5312]

@@JW-ej4yt because you enjoy watching and don't care about scores.