2006 Greater Des Moines Challenge

[damonshort]

I have yet to play Iowa St & Waterworks. I would take anyone of these courses in our area in a trade for every course in Lake County.

Those are terrific courses out there, but I wouldn't worry about not playing Waterworks. Long but completely flat and pretty much uninteresting, the only non-mind-boggling course we played at Worlds a couple years ago.

I'm envious of those who made the trip. There really is no comparison of anything in this area - even Peoria - to what they've got out there. Maybe next year....

...looks like jr's going to be moving up to Juniors pretty soon instead of playing Int on Sunday  That was some terrific shooting!

[DougEDawg]

It looks like there was an anomoly regarding ratings for Adv. Masters rounds 2 thru 4.  My guess is the score keepers entered the wrong course.  No way Sr. shoots a sub 800 round!

[Cannon Boy]

ADV masters shot from the longs and got their rating figured in with the Ints who shot the shorts at the same time.  And the shorts are not even comparable to the longs.

[SERG]

Looks like DISContinuum represented very well.

Is this Adrian Jr's first Advanced win?
If Kenny doesn't be careful he just may end up in the Advanced field after the ratings come out  Keep up the good work.

[Cannon Boy]

Adrian shot some great golf and really won that tournament with his putting.  Their was huge winds and he could not miss.  I was in third and on top card going in to last round but got my ass kicked at pickard with all the wind.  How often does a +15 get 930 rated?  That course was brutal and add the gale force winds that were out their that day.

[Adrian]

Great tournament i had alot of fun. First A-tier and first advance win. Won a sweet basket DGA Mach 5. Really nice trophy, i saw discgolftv out there so there should be nice footage. Hopefully ill be on there.

[mamaclark]

It's nice to see so many of you had so much fun at our courses.  It's good to know that "challenging" courses can still be fun.  Congrats Adrian Jr. on your win.  I'd have to say you are just being modest though because you had some tough competition for the Adv title.

As for the player's ratings, they would have been changed when I turn in the TD's report this weekend but John Chapman has already updated them for us so that you all don't miss the PDGA June 6 cutoff to update the player's ratings.  If you go take a look at them now, they should reflect the accurate player's rating for the course and the tees.

As some of you may already know, this was my first tournament as the TD.  If you have constructive thoughts as to how we could improve for next year, I'm interested in hearing it.  I realize I can't please everyone all of the time but I already made slight changes during the tournament based on logical feedback I got that wasn't all about one particular player's game.  If you have ideas, e-mail me at arcintina@msn.com. 

Those of you who came, thanks for making the trip and I hope it was a good one for you.  Those that didn't and wanted to, I'll see you next year.

Tina Clark
TD
Greater Des Moines Challenge

[CEValkyrie]

Discgolf TV has some coverage of Des  Moines & Jr is on there. You look good in red!