Greater Peoria Open "B-tier"- June 28,29

[Jon Brakel]

If you've never been down to Peoria or haven't in a long time this is a great time to do it! Great courses and relatively close.

http://www.pdga.com/tournament/tournament_results.php?TournID=7941

[stpitner]

I really want to go - need to see if I can afford expenses for the weekend!  I've never seen the courses, sounds tough yet exciting

[Dan Michler]

Morton and Pekin are both very fun courses.  Among the most fun in the midwest in my opinion.  Wish it was any other weekend so I could go down to Peoria and hack around.  Moving into a townhome in Round Lake Beach this weekend though.  I wish Dana the best of luck with the event.

[KenGmoney1]

For anyone who is going to Peoria this weekend this will help you out a lot.

I went to all the courses and put them in the gps.

Here are the locations to put in the GPS for the weekend

McNaughton Park
2075 Edgewater Dr.
North Pekin, IL 61554
The location is PLanet X Skate rink which is a few miles down the road.

Laura Bradley Park
W farmington Rd
Peoria, IL 61604

Illinois Central College
1 college Dr.
East Peoria, IL 61611

Oakwood Park
Morton, IL 61550

These places are either the park or right next to it. 

[Bruce Brakel]

I wish I could make it down for this one.  I have to pick up Diana and the girls at the airport at 7:00 so I gotta keep it local.  I'm going to play the Holly tournament Saturday and the Temperance tournament Sunday. 

[Bruce Brakel]

For anyone who is going to Peoria this weekend this will help you out a lot.

I went to all the courses and put them in the gps.

Here are the locations to put in the GPS for the weekend

McNaughton Park
2075 Edgewater Dr.
North Pekin, IL 61554
The location is PLanet X Skate rink which is a few miles down the road.

Laura Bradley Park
W farmington Rd
Peoria, IL 61604

Illinois Central College
1 college Dr.
East Peoria, IL 61611

Oakwood Park
Morton, IL 61550

These places are either the park or right next to it. 

For Bradley use 1321 North Park Road, West Peoria, Illinois 61604.  This is the Sky Harbor Steak House and it is right across from the park entrance.  If the GPS doesn't recognize West Peoria, drop the West. 

[discpro99]

Morton and Pekin are both very fun courses.  Among the most fun in the midwest in my opinion.  Wish it was any other weekend so I could go down to Peoria and hack around.  Moving into a townhome in Round Lake Beach this weekend though.  I wish Dana the best of luck with the event.

Dan where are u moving to in RL? I just got a townhouse myself in RL in Medrona Village. We might be nieghbors.

[discpro99]

I wish I could make it down for this one.  I have to pick up Diana and the girls at the airport at 7:00 so I gotta keep it local.  I'm going to play the Holly tournament Saturday and the Temperance tournament Sunday. 

Is the Temprece tourny worth the trip from northern IL. I dont think i can make the 2 day Peoria tourny but would like to play a tourny on Sunday. Im guessing 3 hour drive from Great America like all Michigan tournies.

[Dan Michler]

Morton and Pekin are both very fun courses.  Among the most fun in the midwest in my opinion.  Wish it was any other weekend so I could go down to Peoria and hack around.  Moving into a townhome in Round Lake Beach this weekend though.  I wish Dana the best of luck with the event.

Dan where are u moving to in RL? I just got a townhouse myself in RL in Medrona Village. We might be nieghbors.

Just north of Rollins off of Cedar Lake.

[tacimala]

I wish I could make it down for this one.  I have to pick up Diana and the girls at the airport at 7:00 so I gotta keep it local.  I'm going to play the Holly tournament Saturday and the Temperance tournament Sunday. 

Is the Temprece tourny worth the trip from northern IL. I dont think i can make the 2 day Peoria tourny but would like to play a tourny on Sunday. Im guessing 3 hour drive from Great America like all Michigan tournies.

You're going to be looking closer to 5 hours for Temperance.

[Bruce Brakel]

I wish I could make it down for this one.  I have to pick up Diana and the girls at the airport at 7:00 so I gotta keep it local.  I'm going to play the Holly tournament Saturday and the Temperance tournament Sunday. 

Is the Temprece tourny worth the trip from northern IL. I dont think i can make the 2 day Peoria tourny but would like to play a tourny on Sunday. Im guessing 3 hour drive from Great America like all Michigan tournies.

It's a three hour drive from Gurnee if you average 96 miles per hour.  2 hour drive if you keep it right on 145 mph.  If I thought the tournament was worth the drive, I'd have started a thread.  I'm not sure if it is worth the hour fifteen minute drive from Waterford. 

[GPO8]

Online registration closes tonight. 

If you need to register after that, please contact me.

[dana]

I had a nice wakeup call at 6'something this morning asking about registering.

Dont forget doubles- Bradley, 6pm

[Jon Brakel]

I had a nice wakeup call at 6'something this morning asking about registering.

Dont forget doubles- Bradley, 6pm

That happened to me for Crystal Lake. The only day of the week that I could sleep in a little was Friday. I was going to sleep until 7:30am instead of 5:45am. Butt Head calls me at 6:40am! It woke me up but I didn't answer. Lucky for him Becky listened to the call and called him back before I could notate his name...if I had known it he would have been starting on hole 14 all weekend! 

[Bruce Brakel]

Back when I used to run tournaments there was always a 2 a.m. caller, "Izhair a toornamint tamorrow?  Wherezhit?  How ya get there?" 

[stpitner]

I had a nice wakeup call at 6'something this morning asking about registering.

Dont forget doubles- Bradley, 6pm

That happened to me for Crystal Lake. The only day of the week that I could sleep in a little was Friday. I was going to sleep until 7:30am instead of 5:45am. Butt Head calls me at 6:40am! It woke me up but I didn't answer. Lucky for him Becky listened to the call and called him back before I could notate his name...if I had known it he would have been starting on hole 14 all weekend! 

you'd think that it was me that made the phone call - I started at 21 both rounds on Saturday... I think that walk is worse than going to 14!

[Bruce Brakel]

Looks like it was well attended and successful.  So who won?  How did the message board posters fare?  We'll probably see scores on PDGA.com tonight. 

[Tom McManus]

Looks like it was well attended and successful.  So who won?  How did the message board posters fare?  We'll probably see scores on PDGA.com tonight. 

Chris Sprague won. I think Brett and Todd tied for fourth. Dave Nelson came in second in advanced. Brett shot solid all weekend long. Long tees at McNaughton make for a long day.

I came in 11 in Intermediate.

Dan Pastore won Pro Masters
Barrett won Open Women's.

It was a good time and well run. Peoria has a large number of volunteers. Dana did a great job with the event.

Brian Wagler won the ace fund by sinking the CTP, as no aces were hit during the event.  Four fun very different courses.

Again a great job by Dana. Looking forward to going back to this event. Brett got the word out for Rockford.

[stpitner]

wish I could have been there - I hope the Paper or Plastic Sports discs turned out ok   I didn't even see them - they went straight to Dana!

Thanks for the report Tom

[dana]

What a long weekend.  And to think, I was considering playing.  Glad I didn't make that mistake.

Scores will be up later today/tonight.  (I left my laptop at Dustin's house- whoops.)  I'll get it done at work sometime

Thanks everyone for coming down.  I think things went ok for the most part.  There is definately room for improvement. 

Scott- The discs came out great.  I'll get you a PM later this weekend.

1st place open was 505.  Not bad for having a large sum of the added cash not show up.