RED LION, Pa. — Nick Hanson ground through 17 holes of mounting pressure before finally cracking the code on a 25-foot uphill putt, walking away with $8,500 from the inaugural Springwood Skins on a course that spent the better part of an afternoon making five professional disc golfers look very human.
The field — Hansen, Greg Barsby, Matty O, Casey White, and Gavin Rathbun — played the newly designed 18-hole layout at $500 a hole, with every unresolved skin carrying forward into the next. By the time Hansen drained his putt on hole 17, the pot had been building since the opening tee shot.
It kept building through all nine holes of the front nine. Then through eight straight on the back. A total of 16 consecutive pushes.
“We did it,” an announcer called out as Hansen’s disc found the chains. “Finally saw someone take it.”
Hanson said afterward he’d second-guessed his line off the tee — he went right while the rest of the field drifted left — but trusted the 390-foot uphill par three to reward the aggressive play.
“That tester distance for us professionals, 25 feet, you should make it every time,” Hanson said. “A little uphill, a little close to that basket, but we’ll take it.”
The final skin, hole 18’s $500, was never decided in regulation play. All five players traded discs on the 563-foot finisher without separating, sending the group to a closest-to-the-pin playoff from a hillside campsite above the basket. White landed his disc nearest the pin to collect the last envelope of the day.
The course itself was the story as much as the outcome. Designed by Gatekeeper Media co-hosts Derek and Chris over roughly a year, Springwood put a premium on low-ceiling drives, precise mandatories, and unforgiving greens that punished anything short or long. Hole 6, a 325-foot downhole with out-of-bounds beginning just three to five feet off the pin, drew particular notice from the players.
“Probably my favorite looking green on the entire course,” one of the designers said. “This is one that Chris and I are really proud of.”
Josh, a groundskeeper credited with much of the course clearing, drew a shoutout from the broadcast team as the group navigated his handbuilt bridge on hole 12.
Barsby, a sponsored pro with Innova and Millennium, spent much of the round as the field’s most reliable pusher — keeping holes alive with clutch putts on multiple occasions when a make would have triggered a payout. White, who slept in a tent on site the night before the event and arrived without a warmup, turned in several highlight drives including a standout turn on hole 9.
Rathbun’s wife Destiny was on the grounds watching. Hanson’s girlfriend Harriet flew in from Denver for the occasion. Matty O, who hails from Red Lion — which he described with unambiguous civic pride as “the most badass town nobody’s ever heard of” — drew the loudest local cheers.
The ace pot went unclaimed.
This match was played on September 30th, 2025 and broadcast April 2026.