I thought I would start a thread about Michigan tournaments and post about the tournaments, courses and TDs that I have anything to say about. For a complete list of Michigan tournaments, check out www.mdgo.org. Mostly this will be about sanctioned tournaments, and I will try to preview the upcoming tournaments, unless I lose interest in doing this.
29-Jan
Frosty's Revenge II
Vienna Park/Parmalee Park Temperance
C-tier
Mark Kruse
(419) 509-4028
stu.kruse@frontier.com
www.discgolfscene.com
Vienna Park offers a flat, challenging course with about half of the holes playing through thick woods and half of the holes more open but longer. It has long and short tees. Usually Pros and Advanced will play longs and lower divisions will play shorts. It is best played when frozen or dry. There are two holes where you might lose a disc to the river, especially in winter and spring.
Parmalee is very short, flat and mostly in the woods. Parmalee is so short, it falls very close to not generating ratings, like White at Lemon Lake. Both courses are in small town rural Michigan in city or county parks.
Mark Kruse runs tournaments with a German efficiency, like my brother. He will usually have a jumbo toss on the lunch hour for donated items and might have some CTPs one round or the other. His payouts don't seem all that great, but his Innova prices are on the low side. So it is always hard to do the math in my head. You will get a voucher for your player pack, if there is one, and a voucher for your payout. He will have an adequate spread of merch and it will be well organized. The main thing I like about his tournaments is knowing that he'll run things right and move things along.
This is a long drive from Illinois, much closer to me than to you, and closer to Toledo than to Detroit. I would have played the tournament if I were in better health, but I would not necessarily make the drive to play something like this in Chicago.
7 12-Feb Cracked Plastic Classic - MPM, MA2, MA3, M1M, Juniors
13-Feb Cracked Plastic Classic - MPO, FPO, M1G, MA1, Am Women
Cold Brook
Climax
PDGA B-tier
Larry LaBond
(269) 217-7356
kaces6903@gmail.com
www.kacesdiscgolf.com
This used to be the kick-off event for sanctioned disc golf in Michigan and the only tournament this weekend for 100s of miles around.
Coldbrook Park was one of the courses that was used for 2008 Pro-Am Worlds. If you have not played it since it was redesigned for Worlds, it will have a lot of familiar holes but several new holes. The redesign eliminated one of the two absolutely horrible course routing conflicts. Coldbrook is heavily wooded and somewhat hilly. I think it is a pretty good course. It is a 24-hole course with a few wide open holes. Time and Worlds have worked together to open up routes on some of the pinball holes. Overall, the course is much better than its lingering reputation.
Generally, Larry will run two rounds of 24 for the Cracked Plastic and limit attendance to foursomes. He will start very early so you will get done before night. Make sure you read the website info and are on time. Usually, the park district will open up the park road only as far as the first parking lot. Larry will put up tarps or visqueen and turn the big pavillion there into a big tent. The night before and the morning of the tournament Larry's volunteers will shovel and salt the tees.
Larry has a decent reputation for running generous B-tiers for the amateurs. The player pack is likely to be your choice of one of the custom stamped discs, or two custom stamped discs, or a Discraft custom stamped disc and something Innova gave him a great deal on. Unlike me, he gets deals from Innova. The payout will be a voucher. He has a fine, well-organized spread of merch. He usually does home-made trophy plaques of some kind, because he has modest trophy making skills. The Cracked Plastic is run to MDGO Featured Event standards, but it is not a featured event because Larry wants to offer Innova and other non-Discraft stuff. All of this is a summary of past practice. No guarantee of future results, but it is what I would expect.
Coldbrook is almost exactly half way between the average Chicago area player and me, closer for the southsiders and farther for the northsiders. The PDGA directions are useful. It is easy to find if you drive with your eyes open. It is well marked by road signs when you get close, including an exit sign on I-94. One Discontinuum player is already pre-reged, I think.
This is a tournament I can recommend to an Ilinois player without any reservations. I have not yet decided whether I will play either or both days. These days my desire to play tournament golf exceeds my physical limitations.
Wow, I have a stupid ACT test that day Feb. 12th
Hmm. I am supposed to be in Kalamazoo that Saturday. We are driving up to see on of my daughter's friends singing in a show at Western Michiigan. I don't know if I could get away for the day. How far is Coldbrook from Zoo? Realistically, what time would things wrap up on Saturday?
You're about 15-20 away from Coldbrook then depending on where you are in Kzoo Dave. Realistically, it's a full day of golf, which is why he starts really early. You won't finish playing until about 30-45 minutes before dusk. After awards and stuff it's normally dark from what I remember of the many times I've played the tourney. I agree with everything else Bruce had to say except about the trophies. As far as custom trophies are concerned, they are pretty slick. Oh and he also has a keg of beer each day donated from Bell's, which is a benefit to some people that like beer.
Tayler, I like beer and I like Bells. The show is at 8pm. Its doable but will mean convicning my better half to leave Illinois at 5 am sharp and for me to blow off the social aspect of a visit to some good friends in Zoo. That may not be realistic. We'll see. In any case, the vocal show at WMU looks great.
My opinion is that you would be OK to make the 8pm show, but you'd have to hustle and miss the awards. I accept no responsibility though! :)
edit: oh and you'd probably have to leave earlier than 5am considering you lose an hour on the way there. Evanston to Coldbrook with a stop to drop your wife off I'd plan for 3 hours travel time, 4 with the hour lost.
I have to pace myself, Taylor. If I say that Larry Labond's homemade trophies are pretty slick, I won't have enough room left on the scale of coolness to properly describe Tod More's DGLO trophies. ;D And besides, I have one of Larry's Cracked Plastic trophies on display in my office right next to one of my own Full Color Flashback trophies. My trophy gets all the compliments without the visitor knowing that I made it before I won it. I would never describe my own trophy making skills as more than modest.
Congrats to Tom McManus for his 2nd place finish in AM2 and Jonathan Dobberstein for 3rd in AM1 at Cracked Plastic. Both took home some unique non-Bruce approved trophies.
I did not play the Cracked Plastic because of my feet.
I did not post about the Lumberjack because the course has issues, and I did not know what Larry's plan was for all of the missing baskets and extra holes. Larry had minions bring in 9 full weight temp baskets and the tournament was just fine. The feet, not so fine.
March Mush at Sleepy Hollow is this weekend. Kelsey and I plan on playing Intermediate on Sunday. It is an MDGO featured event so the payouts should be about like an IOS. :) Also, there'll be chances to win a berth to the State Championships. It is a CCR event, so maybe there will be trophies or maybe not. :'( It is a Jaybird Players Series event, so there will be Jaybird dyed stuff, which i suppose is not the attraction it used to be.
The course is delightful and it has at least one hole you've never played before, a basket on a narrow isthmus between two ponds. A tricky downhill tunnel shot sets up a dangerous approach to the basket for a 3. A 3 is a very good score on the hole. I play for "4 and no lost discs" but some long throwers play for "4 and sacrifice a driver to the lake" by going over the top. The rest of the course is a mix of wooded and more open holes with gentle up and down elevation changes. It is a better course than any IOS course. For a new course the design lacks length, but it is still a good course.
Sleepy Hollow is a state park, so there is some small gate fee if the ranger is there.
Sleepy Hollow was only a little muddy, and the rain in the second round was light and intermittant. The TDs did a pretty good job of running the tournament except for a complete misstatement of the casual relief rule. I argued in my group that we should play it by PDGA rules, unless someone wanted to take a provisional and find out afterwards whether the TDs really had PDGA permission for lateral relief.
Kelsey played well for a girl who never gets to play, and beat the local pros in FPO. She worked something out with the other women and turned down the cash. I played poorly in in MA2 and finished out of the prizes. Kira played great and finished 1 throw behind me, in MA2.
The No Foolin' is this weekend.
The Hudson Mills is a great disc golf facility. Brett can attest to this as can many other Discontinuum members. The park has two 24-hole courses with long and short concrete tees on every hole. The courses offer every challenge except extreme elevation, but there is enough elevation that you would not call these flat courses. There are no other park uses that seriously interfere with the disc golf courses. The rollerbabe track comes close on one or two holes as does a nature trail.
For the No Foolin' they might set up a whacky basket up in the trees or various man-made obstacles, but it's still disc golf. Skills will win, and with two rounds of 24, the luck and tree love will even out most of the time.
Unfortunately, you just don't know what you're going to get on the tournament side in Ann Arbor. The A3Disc guys used to run the No Foolin' as an unmitigated am-scam, like that guy that Jon does not like me to mention by name. One year 8 intermediate women paid $30 each to play. They got a Discraft D-disc for their $10 player pack and the winner was paid 8 Funny. In more recent years the tournament has been run by people who either refuse to or are incaple of learning anything about how to run a tournament. Sometimes I've waited two hours or more from the conclusion of the tournament until the start of awards. Doing payouts in the dark with no plan for illumination seems to be a tradition. The last two times I played this tournament, from start to finish the tournament process was totally FUBAR.
This year I have a conflict. If they've finally figured out how to run a fair value tournament in a competent manner, I won't know it.
I'll say one nice thing: back when they were running the No Foolin' as an am-scam, they always put on a really nice show for the Great Lakes Open.
Hudson Mills is in a MetroPark. There is both a park entry fee and a disc golf fee. Bohica.
Quote from: Bruce Brakel on March 21, 2011, 01:04:18 PM
The No Foolin' is this weekend.
The Hudson Mills is a great disc golf facility. Brett can attest to this as can many other Discontinuum members. The park has two 24-hole courses with long and short concrete tees on every hole. The courses offer every challenge except extreme elevation, but there is enough elevation that you would not call these flat courses. There are no other park uses that seriously interfere with the disc golf courses. The rollerbabe track comes close on one or two holes as does a nature trail.
For the No Foolin' they might set up a whacky basket up in the trees or various man-made obstacles, but it's still disc golf. Skills will win, and with two rounds of 24, the luck and tree love will even out most of the time.
Unfortunately, you just don't know what you're going to get on the tournament side in Ann Arbor. The A3Disc guys used to run the No Foolin' as an unmitigated am-scam, like that guy that Jon does not like me to mention by name. One year 8 intermediate women paid $30 each to play. They got a Discraft D-disc for their $10 player pack and the winner was paid 8 Funny. In more recent years the tournament has been run by people who either refuse to or are incaple of learning anything about how to run a tournament. Sometimes I've waited two hours or more from the conclusion of the tournament until the start of awards. Doing payouts in the dark with no plan for illumination seems to be a tradition. The last two times I played this tournament, from start to finish the tournament process was totally FUBAR.
This year I have a conflict. If they've finally figured out how to run a fair value tournament in a competent manner, I won't know it.
I'll say one nice thing: back when they were running the No Foolin' as an am-scam, they always put on a really nice show for the Great Lakes Open.
Hudson Mills is in a MetroPark. There is both a park entry fee and a disc golf fee. Bohica.
I am pretty sure BOHICA is all caps.
I agree with Bruce, Hudson Mills is sweet, but most tournaments run there are not (outside of DGLO). For those looking to do a road trip disc golf weekend in MI, I'm sure Bruce and I both can help you pick far better tournament experiences. If you are looking for tournament competition at a sweet course and aren't worried about the $$ side, this is a great event.
Last I checked, Dayton was not in Michigan, but I would like to give two thumbs up to Holly Williams and the Dayton Disc Golf Club. Some time ago I was talking to Holly at some tournament and he mentioned that his amateurs got pretty much the same deal as the IOS amateurs.
Kelsey and I played his tournament this past weekend. It was reasonably well run, but not quite an IOS. On the operations side, the thing started 15 minutes late for no discernable reason. In the afternoon, there were no names on the scorecard. Since he had no non-playing tournament staff, they had to make their stacks o' plastic after the tournament was over, which added some delay. These are all less than IOS standards. He did a "card CTP hole" both rounds where hole 6 was the CTP hole and you were only competing against the group on your card. It was the same value as an IOS CTP since both rounds it was a DX disc.
The PDGA value was the same as an IOS but the player pack was "anyone of these four tournament stamped discs" and the payout was "stacks o' plastic." Also, he was not selling discs for cash. He basically buys what he'll need for a full field and then gives it out as prizes. If he does not have a full field, leftovers become prizes for the unsanctioned series.
Still, he did a pretty good job. He was sufficiently fair to the amateurs and competent as a TD that I would recommend his tournaments to anyone who might be thinking of driving down to Dayton to play one.
What? Oh, this time of the year, it can be 15 degrees warmer in Dayton. It was on Saturday.
The Flip City Open is this coming weekend.
Many players regard Flip City as the best 24 hole course in Michigan. It may be. Par 72 is rated around 970, so it is the kind of course where par really means what par should mean. The course has a fair number of birdies but many hard par 3s. The course is very hilly and there are several uphill walks between holes making for many fun downhill drives. I think the course has three holes, maybe four, where elevation is not a factor. My only knock on the course is that there are only two or three lefty holes, but forehand thrower Mark Ellis loves the course, so it must be that there are only two or three righty holes too. I once met a player who came up from Texas for the Flip City summer tournament and he said it was totally worth the drive.
The Flip City Open is Northern Waters Series #1. The NWS is like the IOS in that the tournaments have good stand-alone value. There is not some huge cut going from the tournament to series overalls. In the past the NWS have treated amateurs generously with pick-your-own-prizes and a decent merchastravaganza (TM).
In the past the NWS has been a little funky on the tournament operations side of things. Sometimes they start late for no discernable reason. Frequently they have lacked a tournament volunteer to do the TD stuff and there has been a long wait at the end of the day. Back in the day they played by a different set of rules from the rest of us, but TD Jeff Kuehle seems to have a good grasp of PDGA rules and procedures. I think they have worked out a lot of the operational kinks. But i'll find out this weekend. Kira and I are pre-reged.
Flip City is closer to Krupika and other southsiders than it is to us, actually. It is only 90 miles or so from Manitowok, if you are a strong swimmer.
Flip City is on private property. There are no park police and disc golf heritage activities are common-place. The PDGA alcohol and substance rules are enforced on a group-by-group basis, and Michigan has a medical marijuana law, so you cannot assume anyone's consumption is illegal. I guess we need a medical beer rule too! ::)
You can pre-register and get more information at www.discgolfscene.com.
Just a little Flip City update. Saturday is 2/3rds full with about 30 players in MA3. Sunday is 1/2 full with about 20 players in MA1. There are enough MG1 and MM1s signed up that for sure there'll be a division for each.
I'm signed up for MA2 but I might switch to MG1 or MPG. I guess we'll sign up for Sunday on Saturday if Kira wants to play both days.
i thought the tournament at Flip was on May 29th? or am i think of a different tournament at the same course?
course is definitely! worth the drive for anyone thinking about it.
May 29th is the next one after this one. They do three or four sanctioned tournaments at flip City every year now.
Saturday at Flip City was drizzly in the morning but it turned partly sunny and nice in the afternoon. The field was nearly full to foursomes with a huge MA3 division.
Sunday started off with light wintry mix turning to heavy wintry mix turning to fierce wintry mix. I'd never seen rain freeze on an umbrella before. And we had thunder-everything: thunder sleet, thunder snow, thunder hail, thunder wind. The sideways snow turned to sideways hail and it was like being the target at a skeet shoot. The hills got so slick with new wet snow and other frozen precipitation that Bill had to call the tournament after the first round.
Cutting the tournament short was the right call given the conditions, but it was disappointing that the conditions got so bad. I wrenched my back slipping on one of the slopes and probably won't be playing for a couple of weeks. :'(
It's been awhile since I've previewed an upcoming tournament.
The Michigan tournament to play this weekend is the Gratiot County Open. This is a new tournament on a new course, but it is a Jaybird Player Series MDGO Featured Event, so I can anticipate what you might expect.
I have not seen the course. It is getting good, but not awesome, reviews, so it is probably about as good as Channahon. I think Channahon is worth the drive. Like Channahon it looks like traditional par 3 disc golf with some hard 3s. It is about an hour north of Lansing, so it is a long drive. For die-hard road warriors, this is a split-weekend tournament and there is another tournament this weekend in Michigan doing exactly opposite splits. So you could play both.
Keith Aten runs a pretty good tournament, and because it is an MDGO qualifier, amateurs can expect decent payouts. For pros, he'll put in the B-tier $500, unless he is advertising more. Top finishers in each division will receive an invitation to the MDGO Finals, and a few custom items you cannot get without qualifying. The field will be limited to foursomes, because that is an MDGO rule.
The Jaybird Player Series uses discgolfscene.com to advertise and communicate. If you have questions, you can go there. To boost pre-tournament buzz, they are taking cashless pre-reg. Please do not abuse the cashless pre-reg system.
I will probably drive over Friday after work to look at the course, and then commando camp somewhere nearby, if the course is not hideous. I would not expect hideous, but some people are not deathly allergic to Canadian blue grass and don't even notice the poison ivy, and thus have a different definition of hideous. If my eyes swell half-way shut or something, I would bail out and go look for an urgent care clinic. ;D
I'm up in Ithaca and I looked at the course this evening. I walked the 18 holes.
The positives: 18 Chainstars, 18 concrete tees, many tee benches, easy to follow course routing, the fairways are cut and the course drains well for flat. There are nice flush toilets, a large pavillion, a beach and a tot lot, all well removed from the course. There are no conflicts between the course and other park uses.
The course is flat and short, carved out of a young forest and some overgrown marginal farmland. The course is a recreational/intermediate level course. I think it compares to Channahon shorts or Lemon Lake White in the long positions. There are no par 4s and nothing particularly creative in the course design.
If Am Grand gets a berth, I'll play tomorrow's tournament. If not, I'll play some other course on the way home.
The Gratiot County Open was for me a very relaxing weekend. I had one opponent in Grandmaster who was more like a genial card mate than an opponent, and our foursome included two pleasant young women who comprised the advanced women's division. I now have my berth for the State Championships and a new discgolfscene friend.
This weekend is one of Michigan's best one-day tournaments, the AJ Open, followed by an unsanctioned thing at Flip City that might sell out. For that matter, the AJ might fill with 192 players. You never know. People will stay home if the weather report is calling for 15 foot waves!
The AJ will be contested on the Beauty and the Beast, or on the Beauty and the Goliath, depending on how many players there are in the intermediate division and what division you are playing in. Check out discgolfscene for that scenario if it matters. It does not matter to me. Either way, I'll play two great courses.
The Ludington courses are fantastic. Both have great elevation with views and a variety of shots and challenges. There is no serious water that comes into play except on one hole where there is a fenced off o.b. retention pond/swamp that has seasonal water. The Beauty is much improved since the redesign. All three courses have 24 baskets and I think they all have concrete tees now. It seems like all of the Raskets have been replaced with Chainstars but maybe there is one left just to piss off Jaybird and Ellis. These courses were entirely built and are entirely maintained by the local disc golf club in a three-way public-private arrangement involving the electric company which owns the land and the county park system which leases the land for recreational purposes.
The AJ will be an MDGO featured event, so the payouts should be good for pros and ams. However, MDGO featured events have Discraft-only payouts, so know that going in. Schwass, Todd White and whoever they get to help are experienced TDs so both tournaments should run very smoothly. I would not expect good payouts at the unsanctioned thing. For years Schwass has run fundraising tournaments to pay for the Ludington courses, fundraising tournaments that I have gladly supported with my entry fees, and I don't know if he is done paying for them yet! I heard another Ludington course was going in this summer. I would expect 100% payouts for pros and ams at the unsanctioned Flip City tournament.
I really hope to be at the AJ with Kiralyn. Then we might hustle home to do some gardening on Sunday and Monday. For the Chicago player, these tournaments and these courses make for a great disc golf destination weekend vacation. You can play the tournaments, or if you're travelling with a more relaxed or budget conscious crew, you can flip the days and play casually. While you are up there, you can also play the Leviathon in Ludington which is a killer course from the longs and a fun deuce or die from the shorts. Local players can tell you which of the other coastal courses are worth playing. I think the relatively new course in Saugatuck would make a nice stop on Monday on the way home.
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Three other things: 1) I heard a rumor that there might be strict enforcement of the PDGA beer and controlled substance rules at either or both tournaments. If you are familiar with the disc golf scene in Michigan, I don't know how much of that will be evident at these tournaments. I just don't know, but it seems worth mentioning, since things might be different or the same as what you might be expecting in this regard.
2) Although this thread reads like my secret agenda is to boost the MDGO series, I'm really just boosting the good tournaments here. Most clubs have taken their best tournament and have made it their MDGO Featured Event. When a tournament is not worth playing, I'll mostly just not say anything. Hint, hint. Say no more.
3) Ludington is as close to me is it is to you, give or take whether you live north of Chicago.
I saw a few Illinois players at the AJ Open, including Open winner Allen Hermosillo. It did not rain during the tournament but it was foggy, chilly and windy all day. At times you could throw farther than you could see on long holes.
Kiralyn won a berth to the Finals playing Men's Rec so we'll be signing up for that, and I won't be going to Worlds.
The Finals is the highest attended B-tier in the world. I'll just throw that out there and see if someone can find a higher attended B-tier. ;D Last year 342 players attended. It is an invitational and there are two ways to get in: win a berth at a tournament or win a berth somewhere else. If anyone wants to play this tournament and does not know how to get in, ask a question and I'll expound.
This year the Finals will be three rounds of 24 holes on three of six courses. Because two of the courses share the same real estate, that allows for only five pools. Registration will be capped at 466 this year. It might fill. You can find a little more information at www.mdgo.org, but again, you have to win a berth and pre-reg by August 26 to play the Finals.
Gayle Vaughn was an avid promoter of disc golf who died young of cancer. He invited me to play league in 1991 and invited me to the first tournament I ever went to. He was enthusiastic, optimistic and easy to like. He is missed by all who knew him.
The Gayle Vaughn Memorial will be played Sunday at Oakland University and Stony Creek. These are both very good courses that would compare to Channahon in many ways. Stony is longer than Canny and has quite a few opportunities to air it out. OU is more technical, with only one hole that i would think of as a par 4. Both have moderate elevation changes. OU has short, wood platform tees that are covered by flypads. That would be my only knock on either course. These courses will not disappoint anyone.
The tournament is advertising a minimum of $600 added to the pros and $1400 in sponsor added prizes. The entry fees are reasonable and the tournament staff has a lot of experience running tournaments. There are likely to be one or more cancer fund raising side games, which might add some delay on the end of the tournament.
They are running two pools and the pool plan is that there is no definite pool plan. Pros and Advanced will be in one pool, MA3 and 4 in the other pool. The other divisions will depend on what best fills the tournament. So if you are traveling with someone in a different division, you might be on opposite courses. Getting a ride should be no problem. Kelsey and I will give you a ride.
It looks like they are taking cashless pre-reg on the Disc Golf Scene at http://www.discgolfscene.com/tournaments/Gale_Vaughn_Memorial_2011
If you are coming out, take advantage of that, but don't abuse the privilege. You can also get complete tournament information there and ask questions.
I played the tournament in 09 tore my rotator cuff at river bends. But I will vouch that both of these courses are amazing and if you are coming out hit me up I might be able to set you up with a place to stay.
It just occured to me that the GVM is Sinnissippee, Day 2. Well, I'm just previewing Michigan tournaments. If I lived in Illinois, or pretty much any state that starts with the letter i, I'd play Sinnissippi.
Um, yes, I would fly in from Idaho. ;D
The Gayle Vaughn Memorial was well run with generous payouts. Apparently they had some sponsor added stuff. Kelsey played 930ish golf and won the crown by two throws. I stunk at Stony and outperformed at OU.
This weekend is the Discraft Great Lakes Open at Hudson Mills.
I cannot say much about this tournament except:
1) At least two of the three courses are great courses. They have redesigned the Campground course so it might be a fine course; I just don't know. The Campground used to be about as good as Streamwood without the swamp: a lot of open shots and cut grass.
2) They have a lot of pre-reg.
3) They are charging a fat entry fee and having a fat player pack.
4) This is the Great Lakes Open in the sense that the tournament Jon and I ran at Peoria several years ago was the Peoria Open. Same courses, same name; then maybe the similarity ends.
I have a conflict this weekend. Otherwise, I would think about playing it.
The biggest Pro-Am B-tier in the PDGA is the Michigan State Championships. If you have a "berth" or invitation you must pre-reg by 11:59 p.m. Friday, tomorrow, or else it expires. Without a berth you can get in by showing up Friday and playing the Qualifier. Based on how pre-reg is going, I would expect that everyone who plays the qualifier will get in this year. As I write there are only about 200 players pre-reged and the tournament won't fill until 464.
This tournament will be played on five great courses and a sixth course that is brand new. Each of the three large amateur divisions are in a separate pool and play a different set of courses. The pros are another pool. The age and gender limited divisions are the fifth pool. The tournament is about as far from me as it is from you, and I've been looking forward to it all year.
All of the tournament information is on Disc Golf Scene.
http://www.discgolfscene.com/tournaments/2011_Michigan_State_Championship
Just to clarify something, the Friday pre-reg deadline is today. The Friday qualifier is one week from today. There are now 237 players in the tournament, and 25 on the Friday Qualifier pre-reg list. Pre-reg closes at 11:59 EDST tonight.
There are currently 300 players in the tournament. There are 30 more pre-reged for the last chance qualifier. I think everyone who plays the last chance qualifier will get in, because the thought of 165 people showing up for the last chance qualifier boggles the imagination. If you like playing the well attended events, the PDGA has three events that are bigger?
I played this tournament when it was not filling two 18-hole courses, and I come back whenever I can. This tournament is pure disc golf, like what Jon likes. No soccer fields, baseball diamonds, tennis courts and clueless other park users wandering in your fairways. And the courses are great.
There were about 370 players in this tournament, 82 in the MA2 division alone. :o The tournament was well run. The weather was good. The new course at Scottville was totally lame. The pro final nine was entertaining. From the top of "Mount Discraft", also known as Beast Tee #1, you could watch all nine holes. The amateur payouts were awesome. And of course, the state championship in Intermediate was priceless. I understand that the little dance I did was priceless too. :rolleyes:
Next year, y'all come? :-*
Nice shooting Bruce. Sounds like a great tournament. I'd love to play it sometime.
I would love to play this event sometime but the weekend just doesn't work.
On a side note I read that someone stole the TD's bag out of his house and one of his baskets. Unreal! See the you are a D Bag thread.
It is a Michigan tradition. Every year Schwass [the TD] says this is the last year he's going to let people stay at his place because of the outrageous stuff they did last year. Every year he changes his mind. Every year they do something even more outrageous. ::)