Peoria Open

[damonshort]

http://www.illinoisdiscgolf.com/peoriaopen.html



It's the same weekend as Widdershins, but it's a 2-day thing on 3 different courses, some big names will be there for the final 9, etc etc



(and for me, the adv masters is amazingly cheap for a 2-day event ;) )



I'm 95% sure I'm going - the other 5% will be determined on whether I survive Standing Rocks.



I'm going down that Friday morning. Anyone interested who'd want to share a room let me know in the next couple of weeks.

[jim]

wish i could . . .

[damonshort]

Barry Schultz won in the 2nd hole of a sudden-death playoff against Scott Martin. Scott was leading by one shot going into the final nine.



Barry missed a 15-foot deuce putt on the 4th or 5th hole (about 900 ft downhill, from the #18 tee to the #2 basket, if you're familiar w/ McNaughton). On the 1st playoff hole in sudden death he threw a big tomahawk over trees and vegetation (about a 280 ft completely blind shot) and missed an ace by about 3 feet. Scott (a lefty) hyzered around everything and missed by about 15.



Ron Russell was 3rd, Brian McRee 4th. Schweberger 6th or 7th. Tim Davis was also in open, finished near the top of the bottom 3rd, I think. Juliana beat Des Reading by 6 or 7; Bingman won master's over Billy Crump and Bob Kramer by one.



Ron Russell shot a 42 at the Bradley course Saturday morning. This borders on the incomprehensible....



All three courses are really challenging. I played McNaughton for the first time Friday morning amidst heavy showers and would have been happy to have that round count on Saturday, if you get my drift. The rain held off for the tournament itself; Saturday was gorgeous, although most of the tee pads at McNaughton were still slop (it's weird that a course that's otherwise incredible would have dirt teepads, but I suppose it's a park district issue) Sunday a bit windy (which ruined a few deuce chances at Northwoods, but at least the teepads were dry) but no rain until I hit the road to return.

[damonshort]

Damon (06-09-2003 12:17 p.m.):

Barry missed a 15-foot deuce putt on the 4th or 5th hole (about 900 ft downhill, from the #18 tee to the #2 basket, if you're familiar w/ McNaughton).

looking back on that, it kinda evened out a big break that Barry caught on the very first hole of the final 9. (I guess that hole was closer to 230 than 280, but it was still completely blind) His tomahawk landed about 15 ft out but about 7-8 feet *up* in a neighboring bush. Scott Martin had landed safe to the left but Russell and McRee were really buried in the right-hand bushes. It took a good 3-4 minutes for them to locate and throw out. The wind was really ripping, and eventually Barry's disc blew free of the bushes and landed on the ground for a non-penalty shot (and deuce putt) before it was his turn. The applause and laughter was tremendous.



McRee had a few problems on the safari holes but ripped one tremendous 300+ hyzer upshot on the last hole over/under/through some trees that was even more spectacular than Barry's drive on the long downhill one. The gallery (must've been at least 150 people) exploded and it was tailor-made for ESPN or at least ESPN2.