Swapp, Christophersen, Gordon and Roark share Beehive Classic lead
Swapp, Christophersen, Gordon and Roark all opened at 8-under in Ogden, where one round was enough to turn the Beehive lead into a four-way pileup.
A one-round sprint at Miles Goodyear Park did exactly what sprint formats do best: it flattened the field. Shawn Swapp, Colby Christophersen, David Flash Gordon and Kaden Roark each shot 46, finished at 8-under, and left Monday night sharing the lead in the MA1 division instead of sorting out a single front-runner.
That was the real story in Ogden, Utah. With only one round on the card, every clean stretch mattered more than any long weekend recovery run. Alan Barker, Shawn Christophersen and David Turner sat just one stroke back at 7-under, which meant the board stayed crowded from the top down. Tanner Roark and Jason Cosby were tied at 6-under, while Chaz Critchfield and James McBee sat at 5-under. In a full multi-round event, an 8-under opening round can still be the first chapter. Here, it was the whole book.
The format left little room for separation. The PDGA C-tier was a shotgun-start event with a players meeting at 5:30 p.m. and tee time at 6:00 p.m., and it offered only MA1 and FA1. No division carried a cash payout. Instead, every player received a disc in the player pack, CTP prizes replaced placement money, and a portion of the registration funds was directed toward the main Beehive Classic. The TD fee also included $3 going to the Beehive main event, along with PDGA and park-use fees.
The results snapshot showed 37 competitors, well short of the 72-player cap, but the layout helped explain why the leaderboard bunched up so tightly. Miles Goodyear is a 9-hole course that plays through thickly wooded trees, and PDGA’s course listing describes it as the original course installed near the fort. On a compact, technical track like that, one hot round can move you to the top fast, but it also means the margin for error is almost nonexistent.
Ciara Woodard made the women’s side more straightforward, winning FA1 at 6-over with a 60. That gave the event at least one clean division winner even as MA1 turned into a four-way logjam. The contrast was sharp: one division settled quickly, the other stayed packed inside a stroke or two all night.
The pre-Bee-C has long served as a warmup to the larger Beehive week, and this version fit that role perfectly. The 2026 Infinite Discs Beehive Classic, a PDGA A-tier, is scheduled in Ogden from June 11 to June 13, and the lead-in C-tier delivered a reminder that in short-form disc golf, fast starts are worth more than patience.
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