Saturday, March 6th First Rites of Spring; PDGA C tier; Oswego, IL

[Fox Metro Discer]

All the longs have crushed stone on them, except for hole 8 where I believe Aaron is planning on using the old long tee location (about 40 ft east of the stone long tee). Hole 12 will also be using a different long tee location as the required brush clearing for long 12 has not yet been done by the park district.

It is actually hole #14 that needs the clearing not #12. We will be using the concrete tee on that one for all rounds.

how often do you up date the pre reg. list,, i dont see me on there

I usually get an update once a day from PDGA on the registration about 4- 6 PM. I upload the registrations every night when I get home from school about 9 PM.

[pdga#7648]

I signed up on Saturday, and still don't see me?

[Fox Metro Discer]

For those who want to save a few bucks as well, you may mail in registration to me as well at:

AAron SCott
309 Mulhern Ct #8
Yorkville, IL 60560

Online registration closes on Thursday and there is a $5 fee for day of registration. Weather is supposed to be good, 40's and sunny. Don't be left out on this one, get your registration in.

[Fox Metro Discer]

I signed up on Saturday, and still don't see me?

Nope. I am betting my $ that it will be sent with the batch today. I have only received registrations up till an order time of 1 PM on Friday.

[discin311]

i bet the long tees with be a mess with the warm up. In that case with everyone play the shorts. because i know by the second round everything is going to be a mess

[pdga#7648]

thats exactly why you buy cleats,  for spring golf without concrete tee pads!

[Barcas420]

just make sure you buy golf cleats,  or if you have football cleats you cut them down,  or you can and will tear your ACL, and lat min.

[pdga#7648]

been using them for 16 years with no tears yet(fingers crossed)

[Fox Metro Discer]

OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT!!!

After hearing the weather report for the week, getting out to the course and seeing the conditions and knowinf how much the warmer weather will effect the course the format for the tournament will be as follows:

1st round everyone will play longs
2nd round everyone will play shorts.

The crushed limestone tees for the longs are below grade for the most part and with the thaw coming will be extremely sloppy, if not under water. Hopefully, by playing from the first round we can finish before the sun heats up the course too much. I believe that 2 rounds from those tees will do more damage than good when the PD has been nice enough to get those tees in before the freeze last winter. If you would like to see those limestone tees become concrete, there is a $5 50/50 CTP to help raise funds to make this happen!

[Barcas420]

how are the tees,  i was planning on playing 2 rounds tomorrow and was wondering how muddy it is out there.  and  if the tees where flooded

[stpitner]

the shorts are fine (concrete) - I guess the longs (limestone right now) are pretty sloppy - only time will tell I guess.

[discin311]

ill maybe be out there tomorrow but for sure on Thursday. i hope the longs are not that bad. already have knee problems dont want to mess anything up

[Fox Metro Discer]

Who ever said that there is no reason to join a disc golf club? Thanks to Discontinuum, The First Rites of Spring will have 6 rubber fly pads to help alleviate the effects of the spring thaw.
The holes that will be affected will be hole 1, 3, 4, 15, 16, and 17/18.
These will have the fly pads installed with the teepad for 17 and 18 becoming 1 tee pad for both holes.
This should help to make the tee areas not only much more playable, but safe as well.

Thanks again Discontinuum for once again helping to promote the sport!!!

[Fox Metro Discer]

So since so many things have changed about the layout, format and whatnot, here are a few more things to be aware of for this weekend:

OB

hole 1)  on/ over the tracks
hole 2) on/ over the tracks
hole 3) over the fence
hole 4) over the fence, where the fence ends, the curb is ob line (there are flags from fence line to curb denoting OB line)
hole 16) on/ over path
temp hole A (if needed) on over path to the right

MANDOS
hole 6) must throw to the right of the tree with the yellow ribbon (drop zone to the right of the tree marked by flags)
hole 17) must throw to the right of the tree (drop zone to the right of the tree marked by flags)

Hole 6 mando was added due to tree trimming creating a path that goes in a direct line with long tee for hole seven (safety issue)

[Tom McManus]

Who ever said that there is no reason to join a disc golf club? Thanks to Discontinuum, The First Rites of Spring will have 6 rubber fly pads to help alleviate the effects of the spring thaw.
The holes that will be affected will be hole 1, 3, 4, 15, 16, and 17/18.
These will have the fly pads installed with the teepad for 17 and 18 becoming 1 tee pad for both holes.
This should help to make the tee areas not only much more playable, but safe as well.

Thanks again Discontinuum for once again helping to promote the sport!!!

Along with the fly pads I will have bag tags if people are interested in signing up with DISContinuum.

[PHishHead]

  McManus u da man thx Ill be playn a couple of practice rounds today hopefully just after noon if anyone wants to join me in the fun

[Barcas420]

just shot the course to day,  tom me and one other cleared all the snow and water off most of the tees,    holes 1,3,4 should not need the rubber tee pads,   and with the thaw do you,  think it would be a good idea to use them rubber tees.  with as wet and muddy as it is, they might be slippery, more so then the limestone,   i had no problem at all with the tees as they are now.

[Fox Metro Discer]

Thank you, that is good to know. I will have the fly pads as a back up anyways even if they are not needed. It would be nice to be able to keep 17 and 18's tees seperate as well.

Hopefully the sun and wind will help to dry out the course a bit more before Saturday as well.
UPPER 40's to 50 on Saturday!!!!!!

[discin311]

ill be out there tomorrow in the am prolly about 10 if anyone wants to play a round

[PHishHead]

 O0ill be out there tomorrow too,  the cards didn't fall right for me today so thursday is the day.   hope'n for around 11