2023 The Open At Austin | R1, B9 FEATURE | Lizotte, McBeth, Heimburg, Meza | Gatekeeper Media

[@GatekeeperMedia]

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[@EliteProductions3129]

Man, hats off to Fredy. Playing a recorded round with three of the biggest names in the game and still played some smooth disc golf. Well done

[@natekeeley1706]

He's got a lot of talent throwing and seems to keep a real even keel. Hope we keep seeing more of him this year.

[@DougieDolf]

He needs to hit the 15-25 fitter for bird

[@NoblePaladin]

I was thinking the same, Freddy holding his own that's awesome

[@grahmthrush4924]

Yeah if he made is in the circle putts yesterday he would have been lead card probably. Loving his game!

[@StuffedBearSus]

@@DougieDolf bro lol you couldn’t

[@Zoomscoping]

LETS GO FREDY! Super proud of him! Seriously a great dude and super happy he got this opportunity.

[@matthewmarshall5730]

This was awesome. Simon and Paul are my two favorite pros and I like Calvin too. But on top of that Fredy Meza was really cool to watch too because his skill set is just a bit different and he played so smart!

[@bulldawgirwin8384]

I've always thought of disc as a post work sport. Nice to see Fredy out there representing the construction boys. Its my favorite thing; playing disc after a hard day of work.

[@holt3042]

Same. I do construction and last year I became addicted to disc golf.

[@michaelhoogendoorn3179]

He even looks like a construction worker still 😄. I'd definitely rather play disc golf after a day of HVAC than go to the gym.

[@mikeschroeder7042]

I think Gatekeeper might want to reevaluate their policy of no rewinds inside C1. Especially with all the crazy greens we're seeing these days making some of those putts super difficult. I know I certainly wouldn't have minded seeing some of the ones on this card again.

[@AaronGarza-ko6nf]

Paul sending his mini flying to hole 18 after his par putt on 17 got me dead 💀 🤣

[@PlayOutdoors]

13:47 "levels, Jerry" 🤣😆

[@raulvega9919]

Paul, Simon, and Calvin are my faves and a great card, but Fredy balled out. I hope to see more of him.

[@sparkynate91]

Hearing Paul's post round interview yesterday a lot of people said he was whining. He was some BUT, I do agree with his comments on hole 17. He arguably had the best shot of the day maybe the tournament off the tee leaving him a little over 100ft out and he was left with absolutely nothing. And I agree that if you throw the perfect shot, you should be rewarded not punished. Hell even Northwoods black rewards great throws and that's the hardest course on tour. But hole 18 that was all his fault. He should have either laid up on his 2nd with a comfortable lead or he should have turned his shot over more so that was on him.

[@bobbybobman3073]

Fredy is a menace of consistency, sure he doesn't have a huge arm compared to some of these guy, but he did show that playing smart golf, on a course like this in the wind can really help when some people play a little too risky. Admittedly, safe golf when the winds calm will probably not be as competitive but even still amazing work for someone who basically just started touring.

[@itsneight1260]

GREAT lead card coverage! 3 of my favorite players and Freddy Meza was super fun to watch play as well. Hope we get many more cards like this one!

[@bobbyshizz2138]

Freddy with the bogey free round. Let's go!

[@jebwatson]

Commentary was on point for this round. Good balance of information, education, humor, and banter.

[@willybiggs-rj6qt]

calvin missed the short birdie putt cuz you keep trying to call it a “diamond frame” 😬

[@derekhathcock4906]

Levels Jerry, Fish best quote ever,.

[@mikiah530]

Fredy Suave with a clean round, you love to see it.

[@crabbyjimmy1]

Freddy has great confidence in his put and playing with the very best didn’t seem to bother him at all. I love Paul’s bag very American independence look.

[@DadBigE]

Nathan Queen, king of commentary.

[@samhowl1152]

Except you never know it cause his voice sounds like Philo. Half the time he's narrating I mistake him for philo.

[@TheoreticalMediaInc]

Nathan Sexton*

[@playdiscgolf1546]

I was a big fan of Ken Climo, too bad he doesn’t do commentary much anymore. He sounds like he could be on the Masters lpl

[@BinaryBard64]

I love Fredy's putt. Point and shoot, nice and smooth. Very cool!

[@tpuryear5408]

Nice coverage Gatekeeper. Jomez keeps making changes, and I understand, but they are changing all the things I liked. (In particular...I like the 4 scorecards posted during the round)

[@cici2O]

This!

[@Mr.Heinous]

"Levels, Jerry". Seinfeld reference ftw!

[@discgolf449]

If you get casual relief from a puddle, you should get casual relief from bricks that could break your ankle and end your season 😂

[@sparkynate91]

Simon could have taken it but that would have put his disc inside the bricks pushing him up against the tree or he takes it to the backside of the bricks and now he's having to contend with the tree in his way. Remember per pdga rules, you can take your disc as far back away from the basket in a straight line as you want. So just remember that when you think as to why he stayed where he was. I'm sure he even considered moving back

[@discgolf449]

@@sparkynate91 gotcha. I thought commentators were saying he couldn’t take relief

[@sparkynate91]

@@discgolf449 as far as I know, you can take your disc as far back unless specifically stated in the regs. But I was also stating the possible reasons why he wouldn't take it because of what he'd be dealing with if he did move back

[@sparkynate91]

@@discgolf449 he definitely couldn't move a meter off since those bricks were not out of bounds I do know that

[@okgo44]

Let’s go! Gatekeeper bringing it!

[@brendonbennett7224]

This course is a breath of fresh air in the disc golf landscape. Love seeing the pros being challenged and looking uncomfortable out on the course.

[@jayp3570]

Love to see Paul's putt cleaned up from the f9

[@mijo5964]

Too bad he has to cry about how hard the course was after the round 😂😂

[@jayp3570]

@@mijo5964 what, an interview or something?

[@sneekie3]

Glad for Gatekeeper, this card is an awesome group. Usually watch Jomez coverage, but I just can't bring myself to watch anything with Locastro, unless it's final round lead card.

[@fountainofyouth5]

Same, saw he was on the Jomez card = immediate pass for me

[@tylertaterka7401]

You guys sound jealous 😂 the guy made a mistake and learned from it his attitude has changed drastically.

[@sneekie3]

@@tylertaterka7401 nah. I admit jealousy if i have it. He's good, but has always been a whiny baby prick. Acts like an 8 year old when things dont go his way.

[@fountainofyouth5]

He made "a mistake" that got him banned, but the guy's always been a hot head, cry baby. Jealousy has absolutely nothing to do with it, not sure why you'd even bring that into it 🤷‍♀

[@charlieorchid2970]

Nathan, you are probably the best announcer this year. Bull horns are real.

[@daveyfadess]

Thanks for the great video!

[@08-kris61]

Simon!

[@ResonantShift]

Smart golf from Meza.

[@captainxorro8553]

Lonestar shoulda put Fredy in the ads; he's the first LSD pro to make me want to buy their disc 😂

[@lanceb7556]

Gatekeeper is killing it!

[@jordanknudsen7870]

Fredy is kinda fun to watch. He doesn’t do anything flashy but man, he gets the job done. Gatekeeper is really doing a good job with their coverage. I’ve been watching them more this year due to jomez not uploading in a timely manner and I’m pretty impressed with them.

[@QactisX]

My first time watching Fredy. Dude can shred! Very calm and controlled game, good golfer! I noticed there's a peanut gallery on hole 12

[@paatrick90]

Yeah, congratz to Mr Meza 😋

[@underwheelergarage]

Card full of legends and this Fredy cat is right there in the mix. Good stuff

[@davycrocket4858]

Gatekeeper's great. Bringing quality coverage as usual. Always love Nate on commentary. Fish is obviously very intelligent and analyzes things well. I think they could up their game if they (fish especially) brought a little more excitement with the commentary. For example at 17:20 Paul's amazing drive and Simon's drive before that seemed pretty good, Calvin's great drive after Paul, not to mention Fredy's great drive and their putts.,, also their putts on the previous two holes I think.... Just how hot they all got towards the end, minus hole 17.... just a thought

[@ryanpurdy9951]

Purdy sure I can hear Fish or Nathan doing laundry in the background

[@davidduncan3439]

I accept the flight numbers, and I accept “star frame”, although my friends and I usually celebrate “par frames”.😊

[@DiscoMan328]

Let’s go Fredy! I just ordered two loneStar discs

[@GolfinKevin]

This was the card to watch yesterday! Lead card was 😴

[@paulader9007]

I am sure it was loaded up with Lone Star players. At least we won’t need to Nikko on coverage the rest of the weekend

[@sparkynate91]

Yeah and I called it at about hole 9 that good ol'e SLO MO NIKKO was gonna come back out. Pretty sure I counted 3 or 4 times he took WELL OVER 1 MINUTE from his lie. But at least he's keeping his anger in check this year.

[@sparkynate91]

​@@paulader9007 actually it was just Emerson and Nikko who are lone star sponsored that were on the card. You had klein with discmania and Dickerson with discraft

[@timmargo]

Hopefully these pros will have time to hit the Flying Armadillo courses in San Marcos. Such a fun place!

[@dhyde7723]

Such a fun card! And great coverage. And I like the course.

[@jake_a_g]

really cool card. Excited for round 2 also

[@reptilez]

McBeast putt on 13, wow.

[@JoelBerghoff]

Great card.

[@ianwilson9325]

Fredy played great!

[@sfranklin9073]

First time seeing Freddy and I gotta say he's got game. Great round.

[@tpuryear5408]

Glad to see Freddy on the card. It's always the same few names on the cards. Where's everybody at? Where you at Aderhold? Where you at Barsby?

[@samhowl1152]

Apparently one of the things that separates a game of chance from a game of skill is if the same few people are at the top. Games of skill the people at the top are the same. Game is chance and the top players shift a lot and often. Poker was considered a game of chance until it had the same people winning at the top over and over and then was reclassified to a game of skill. Don't be mad at the same guys for dominating. Be mad that other people aren't skilled enough or working hard enough to match them.

[@leahv]

Levels, Jerry, levels!

[@ReluctantAardvark]

Damn, wish I’d waited for this rather than watching the free DGN coverage

[@johnlane3255]

For commentators, Simmons putt was not inside the circle on 11.

[@tonydombovy5207]

What happened that has never happened before? Did I miss it?

[@ironsebbs9848]

Why diamondframe and not starframe?

[@kimmomatikainen1843]

It looks like Gatekeeper want to separate them from the rest and started to call star frames as diamond frames. To me that is quite dumb, but that is the term they use.

[@ironsebbs9848]

@@kimmomatikainen1843 but its not like jomez came up with the word? Its been used here in Sweden for close to 15years

[@kimmomatikainen1843]

@@ironsebbs9848 No, it is not Jomez invention or registered trademark. It is older term than Jomez. I think Gatekeeper just want to differentiate from others and have their own "trademark" or term.

[@TANMoneyMillionaire]

Don’t care what the pros say. I like see how they deal with 17. Only so many times I can watch them throw a disc in a field.

[@DUBZslayZOMBIES]

fredy reminds me of drew gibson form wize

[@TheAeroRising]

I love McBeth and I agree Holes 17 and 18 are bad holes. BUT…it’s round 1 and you were up 2 strokes going into those holes. There was no reason to not just take the Pars on those holes and get out of there. Hopefully he cooled down a bit after the post interview and realized it was his fault he went bogey bogey and not the holes.

[@paulader9007]

Look at his scores on hole 18 at LVC and WACO. +7 his five previous rounds on 18.

[@sparkynate91]

Well, 17 I totally agree with him. He threw the perfect shot leaving him 100 or so feet out and was left with absolutely nothing and that's not right. A course shouldn't punish a player for a perfect shot it should reward them. I'd say he earned the birdie on 17. And 18 was all his fault though. I'm sure he was still frustrated from 17 but he was too far out in my opinion. He should have just laid up to the mouth and taken the easy 4. And maybe he would have had he gotten the birdie on 17 leaving him a 2 stroke lead. But hey that's the way it goes sometimes. 17 he was robbed but 18 that was all his fault

[@rosseckbold1125]

Looks like Pauls drive on 12 hit ther spectator, no?

[@jmavproductions]

Fish with the Seinfeld drop 😂

[@wyattcupp687]

That DGN commercial makes me laugh every time. A commercial about live coverage with absolutely no example of the coverage. I wonder why🤔

[@Taidaishar]

Did Paul's drive on 12 hit ANOTHER spotter? It looks like it did. I went and watched the coverage on DGPT to see it as well. Nothing conclusive, but it looks like it.

[@kimmomatikainen1843]

I don't think it hit anyone. Flight path looked like a skip from the ground. That person who was close probably was not a spotter. Most likely a spectator. There was another person behind the OB holes with flags. This guy who you mean had clothes on his arms and a bag pack on his bag and didn't see a flag in his hands. Spotter was in a right place for that hole. Actually might have been two spotters next to each other. That person was standing in a wrong place anyway. If he wasn't a spotter, they should have told him not to stand there.

[@Taidaishar]

@@kimmomatikainen1843 It looked like he had a range finder in his hand... the same as the guy at Las Vegas that got hit.

[@DadBigE]

Good morning! Crack that 2nd Natty Ice.

[@NickHockaday]

A real breakfast drink indeed

[@chrisrhome6638]

Birdie in the Fourth Dimension Fourth Dimensional Birdie 4D Birdie

[@Solami987]

Dryer in the background audio on a feature card. Thanks for the covg but please fix that.

[@SalamiSupreme]

That's a strange policy to not allow playback/rewinds of C1 putts. They can be tricky and fun to watch. Not sure why anyone would be opposed to playing it back if it was good putt

[@jDeste]

the levels jerry

[@ryanhaggerty]

Did I miss the F9?

[@mkmrtn952]

Yes😂

[@natekeeley1706]

It is definitely uploaded

[@ryanhaggerty]

@@natekeeley1706 I did find it eventually by going to their channel. But at the time of my comment it wasn’t in my subscriber feed, just the B9.

[@chrisrhome6638]

Diamonds can also be cut with only 3 sides, a Trillion cut.

[@nautilusshell940]

Calvin throwing overmold on hole 15?

[@kimmomatikainen1843]

No, he doesn't throw overmold. I think that was Millennium's Helio Vela. One of his Star Halo discs anyway.

[@21101993pedro]

Viva mexico

[@southtoe3607]

The TampaMan comment lmaooo

[@bass_squatch2780]

Freddy is the man!

[@corymcnair5295]

Levels Jerry…

[@CartersUniversee]

It's called a star frame and everyone knows it lol

[@chrisrhome6638]

Can we start calling it a Four Square Birdie? Lolololololololololololol, please don't. Or Birdie to the fourth power?

[@johnlockesmith]

Anyone else hate Lonestar discs and not really like most of their pros?

[@kurtt978]

Course is kinda boring to watch

[@mijo5964]

It’s the camera work..

[@wesubsist]

@@mijo5964 No it's the course. Why are they playing on a soccer golf course? Terrible design.

[@mijo5964]

@@wesubsist they play on golf courses all the time brah.. I find it interesting that most players are struggling to even reach par to n their round and the best players will win anyway. What’s boring is when players are shooting -10 -13 every round.. now that shyt is boring Hyver fest

[@wesubsist]

@@mijo5964 artificial OB spots littered all over the fairway is stupid. Using ball golf bunkers as “hazards” and charging players strokes on them is even worse. Playing on ball golf courses sucks. This is disc golf and there are dozens of better courses in Austin than this garbage.

[@mijo5964]

@@wesubsist can they not see the sand traps? Or do your favorite players just suck with accuracy? Probably a Paul McBeth fanboy sticking up for his dumb azz crying after round one… Keep the same energy when they play other golf courses and will always play golf courses.. get over it and play better

[@GorillaTactics]

Artificial OB using ball golf greens is the worst thing happening in pro disc golf course design right now.

[@paulader9007]

Man if only these courses were 17 holes. McBeth can’t finish a round without a bogey or double. I think he is 8 over par on hole 18 in his last 6 rounds.

[@sparkynate91]

Well honestly that was his fault all the way yesterday. He was too far out in my opinion. He should have laid up to the mouth and taken an easy 4 with a 1 stroke lead. Or he should have gotten that upshot turned over more. But I do agree with his comments on 17. He had arguably the best shot of the day possibly the tournament off the tee and landed 100 or so feet out and was left with absolutely nothing and that's not right. Players shouldn't be punished for perfect shots. Hell, even Northwoods black rewards great shots and that's the hardest course on tour probably

[@sparkynate91]

He definitely earned a birdie on 17 so I correct and say he should have gotten the birdie on 17 and maybe that would have made him lay-up on 18 with 2 strokes instead of going for it. I'm sure he was still frustrated from what happened on 17 and not getting the best tee shot on 18 as well.

[@chrisrhome6638]

Diamonds are a girls best friend

[@derpincorperated8644]

The frequency and nothing burger attributes of the Lone Star ad make it unbearable

[@chrisrhome6638]

We're not playing baseball, so it's not a Diamond frame.

[@jmavproductions]

I think it's more of a separation from Jo Mez and their Star Frame graphic. A 2d diamond has 4 points or sides. Diamonds are forever, the stars you see have been dead for billions of years 😂

[@JohtoJosh]

Thank you for not trying to make post coverage “live”

[@Devight]

Commentators need to call a nice shot when it happens ... many missed this round.... felt like you guys were overly critical at times when you could have just stuck to basics and described what you saw happening

[@winstonsmith11]

"Diamond frame" drives me nuts. It's a star frame. Star frame has nothing to do with 5 points. It's from bowling. When all players strike. You mark a strike with an X. I also hate "all star". It's nonsense. It's just a star frame.

[@limpsnips8876]

I personally love seeing bad scores

[@kylemckittrick609]

Love watching all the different coverage of the disc golf tournaments, but this channels commentary puts me to sleep