2013 Ledgestone Insurance Open A Tier 9/6 & 9/7 $10,000+ Added

[Ledgestone]

2013 Ledgestone Insurance Open
sponsored by ABC Discs

Ledgestone Insurance and Plastic Addicts are happy to present the 2013 Ledgestone Insurance Open sponsored by ABC Discs! This will once again be a PDGA Super Tour event and this year will benefit St. Jude. Ledgestone Insurance is happy to announce that they will make a $5000 donation to St. Jude in conjunction with this tournament and will donate all of the proceeds from the raffle to St. Jude.  No money from entry fees will go towards St. Jude.

When: Friday and Saturday, September 6th and 7th
Where: Peoria, Pekin, and Morton (Bradley Park, McNaughton Park and Northwoods Park, depending on your division)
Sanctioning: A PDGA SuperTour Event (You must be a PDGA member to play in this event)
Field Size: Limited to 270 players

Added Cash to Pro Divisions: $10,000+
Donated Amateur Players Pack value: $5,000+
(see the results from last year's event to get an idea of the how the payouts will look: http://www.pdga.com/tournament_results/79707)

This year's event will be a 2014 Amateur Nationals qualifier!

Entry costs:
Pro Divisions: $100
All Advanced Divisions: $65
All Other Divisions: $60
Ace Fund: $5
50/50 & CTP: $5

Don't wait to get signed up - this event will fill!

Pre-registration is strongly encouraged! - http://plasticaddicts.storenvy.com/
PDGA Pre-Registration List: http://www.pdga.com/tournament_results/102539

The payout will be huge, the trophies are sick, the player's pack is enormous, and more...

Amateur Player's Pack:
Towel, Water bottle, Shirt, Dinner, and four discs...

- A custom stamped Roc 3 (for the first 100 AM's that register)
- A custom stamped MF Champion Gator (all others)
- A custom stamped Crystal Buzz, Comet or Done
- A driver and a putter from ABC Discs

You must pre-register by August 30th to be guaranteed a player's pack. 

In addition, Box4discs will be donating 40 deluxe boxes for a win-your-card prize during Saturday's Round 3!

Raffle:
We will be selling raffle tickets throughout the weekend and at the player's party. The raffle will be huge! Here's a small sample of what will be in the raffle:

Baskets, Bags, Discs, Autographed materials, Gift Certificates, hotel giveaways, shirts, and more! All of the raffle proceeds will go towards St. Jude.

TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE:

Thursday, September 5 - Check-in:
Check-in will take place on September 5th at the office of Ledgestone Insurance in Washington, IL at 1142 Peoria Street.
Check-in will start at 3PM and will go to 9PM Thursday night.
We will also have a putting competition on Thursday night at check-in, with the finals taking place Friday night at the player's party.

Friday, September 6 - Rounds 1 & 2:
Round 1 will begin Friday at 9:30 AM for all divisions.  Round 2  will start approximately 1 hour after the last card is in from the first round, with ample time provided for travel between courses.

Friday evening, September 6 - Player's Party:
Amateurs and Pros alike are invited to the Player's Party on Friday night, September 6th at EP's in East Peoria. The Player's Party will start at 7PM. Everyone will get an awesome free dinner!

Saturday, September 7 - Round 3 and Finals:
Round 3 will start at 9:30 AM for all divisions.
The following divisions will have a final 9 at Northwoods Park in Morton on Saturday afternoon: MPO, MA1, MPM, FPO

Course schedule:
Group 1: All Pros - McNaughton Shorts, McNaughton Longs, Morton Mixed (FPO will play McNaughton shorts both rounds)
Group 2: MAI, FW1, MM1, MG1, MA3 - Bradley, Morton Short, McNaughton (MA1 will play McNaughton from the Longs - all other divisions in this group will play the shorts)
Group 3: MA2, FW2, FW3, MA4, MS1 - Morton Short, Bradley, Bradley

Sponsors:
Ledgestone Insurance, Plastic Addicts, ABC Discs, Erie Insurance, PACVB, Peoria Frisbee Club, Village of Morton, Pekin Visitor's Bureau, Paragon, McDonald's, EP's, Morton Community Bank, Concorde Inn & Suites, All Things Disc Golf, Smoke N More, Lindy's Grocery Store, Joan's Trophy, Don Heinold CPA, Just Kidz Dentistry, Bloomington Normal Disc Golf Club, Box4disc, Midstate College, Mangold Ford, Savvy Graphics, Innova, Discraft, Gracies, huk lab, Soul Flight, Advanced Energy Diagnostics, DGNomad.com

Host hotel:
Concorde Inn & Suites in Pekin, Illinois http://www.concordeinn.net or call 309-347-5533. 
Mention the disc golf tournament and you can get a $50 per night rate for a single or $58 for a double.

Please check back regularly as this thread will be updated frequently with the latest tournament news!

[Ledgestone]

Picked up a couple more sponsors for the event and registrations are already starting to roll in. We hope to eclipse everything about last year's tournament. Thanks to Lindy's Grocery Store and Joan's Trophy for coming on as sponsors.

Also, we are happy to announce that one of the four discs in the player's packs will be a tournament hot stamped Prodigy disc!

[Ledgestone]

We are excited to announce that the Peoria Frisbee Club has come on board as a major sponsor and will be helping run Bradley Park for the tournament. They will also be selling discs at the tournament.

In addition we are excited to announce that the Pekin Visitor's Bureau has come on as a major sponsor. We are really grateful for both of these organizations stepping up.

In conjunction with this announcement we are happy to announce that we will add at least $7,000 to the pro purse. This number is climbing every day.

In addition, we are excited to announce that the first 100 AM's to register will get a custom stamped Roc 3 in their player's packs. More and more registrations are coming in so get signed up today!

[Ledgestone]

Happy to announce that we have picked up a couple more sponsors...McDonald's, Don Heinold CPA and Just Kidz Dentistry!

We hope to keep adding more and more to the payouts and this year's tournament is on pace to be as good as last years. The registrations keep coming in so get signed up today!

[Ledgestone]

Quick update:

-Added cash to pro divisions will be at least $7500
-We couldn't get Prodigy to respond to our request for a custom stamped tournament disc and so we went with Discraft for one of the four discs and the choices will be of the following: Cryztal Buzz, Comet, Drone (we will still have Prodigy discs for sale)
-Box4discs will be donating 40 deluxe boxes for a win your card Saturday prize
-We are happy to announce that the Bloomington Normal Disc Golf Club has come on board as a sponsor
-We are also happy to announce that this tournament will be an AM Nats qualifier!

[Ledgestone]

Picked up a couple more sponsors for the tournament...Midstate College and Mangold Ford. The amount of added cash will continue to grow. The AM player's pack is looking awesome. Get signed up today to reserve your spot!

[Ledgestone]

Picked up some more sponsors and we can now say that we will have at least $9000 added to the pro purse. Also, the AM player's pack is four discs and more! Thanks to the following for coming on board as sponsors: Savvy Graphics, Innova, Discraft, and Gracies.

On Saturday Gracies Chicago Grille will be serving food, drinks, etc at Morton. Be prepared to get some of their awesome food as he will be serving barbecue, burgers, pulled pork, hot dogs, homemade chips, etc.

We are approaching 50 registrations and we are hoping to pass last year's total of 192. We talked with a lot of top pros last weekend at Worlds and its looking like a lot of top pros will show up again. Get signed up now to help us out with the players packs and food!

[Ledgestone]

We are excited to announce the addition of two more sponsors: huk lab and Soul Flight. In addition, I have personally added another $1000 to the event and have guaranteed that our added cash will be at least $10,000 for the event. We are getting more and more registrations every day so please sign up!!

[Ledgestone]

Happy to announce that Will Schusterick will be attending our event again this year! Also we wanted to give a quick update on the raffle: we should have a ton of stuff in the raffle, including huk lab items, discraft items, innova goodies, hotel giveaways, bags, baskets, shirts, visors, discs, restaurant gift certificates, collector items, and more! Also, Johnnie Harrison is planning on running a flex start doubles tournament at Washington Park on Thursday that will be bring your own partner. Also, we have updated the reg list and continue to get more and more registrations in so get signed up today!

[Ledgestone]

Quick updates on the tournament:

-Registrations continue to come in. We have updated the PDGA list as well.
-Catrina Allen and Cameron Colglazier will be playing in our event so we are excited about having an awesome field.
-We are happy to announce that DGNomad.com and Advanced Energy Diagnostics/Seth Friedrich have come on board as a sponsor. We definitely have to thank all of our sponsors!
-We want to remind everyone that this event is an AM Nats qualifier.
-Some people have been asking about the Doubles Tournament: that will take place from Noon to 6PM on Thursday and you can check in at my office, where the tournament check in is located. The cost will be $20 per player and will be best shot doubles. You will get to bring your own partner and you will just need to play with someone else. Payout will be in plastic addict bucks.
-For a quick update on the FPO added cash: As of this point in time we will be adding $750 to the FPO purse. If we get at least 6 players we will push that to $1000. At this point in time we would payout 4 players in FPO if only 5 sign up. If 6 sign up we would still only pay out 4 players. If it moves to 7 players we would pay out five. The payout would look flat at the bottom with more of the money at the top spots.

Get signed up!

[Ledgestone]

We are over 100 registrations and counting....make sure to get pre-registered because registration will close Wednesday night.

Here is a link to our awesome trophies: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10101487599091520&set=gm.497585090325707&type=1&theater

Here is a link to some awesome Vibram Open Laces and Ridges we will have for sale for $22: https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10101487627205180&set=gm.497587526992130&type=1&theater

Also, if anyone is looking for a place to stay in Peoria please call the Sheraton hotel in Peoria and say you are with the disc golf tournament. Their number is as follows: 309 674 2500

Also, just so everyone knows, the AM players pack will include a clipboard instead of a water bottle.

Also, we are officially adding $1000 to the FPO purse because we do have 6 players signed up in that division.

Also, the setup at Morton for anyone playing the longs will be slightly different this year. We will play the following holes from the longs: 2, 4, 7, 8, 10, 11, 14, 15 and 16. I believe all of these are concrete now except for 2, 8, 10, 11 and 15.

Finally - the final 9 will have the same setup as last year. The only difference is hole 3 in the setup (Hole 6 to Hole 7's basket) will be more fair because a large dead tree in the middle of the fairway has been taken down.

[Ledgestone]

Note to all of the pros: right now we have $10,000 of added cash split between 37 players. This is an awesome payout! As of this point in time we will be paying out 2/3 of the women's field and the top 3 will each take home at least $365 cash with first place over $700. On the Master's side we will be paying out approximately 60% of the field and at this point in time the top 3 will get at least $260 cash with first place nearly $600. On the MPO side we will probably payout at least 50% of the field (and probably 55%) and the top 8 players will each take home at least $500 cash. Don't miss out on all of this cash! This is just a snapshot look and will change as we get more players. We make the payouts slightly more flat as well.

P.S. Jay and Des Reading will be at the event and we are excited that they are coming! They will be selling some of their stuff at the putting competition on Thursday so come on out and check them out!

[Ledgestone]

Front page article on the PDGA site about our tournament! Registration has been extended until tomorrow at 2PM so get signed up! You can register at my office up until that point as well, which is the location of our check-in and putting competition. Give me a call at 309.657.2301 if you have any questions or want to register but can't quite make it by 2PM.

http://www.pdga.com/pekin-in-peoria

[Ledgestone]

Quick note: we are extending registration until 2PM tomorrow. If you want to get signed up at the last second please call my cell phone at 309.657.2301.

The putting competition will take place tomorrow at my office, which is right next to the Blend Coffee Shop in Washington, IL at 1142 Peoria Street. This competition will start at 3PM and we will have prizes! Also we will have some cupcakes for everyone at the Check-in/Putting Competition tomorrow night.

Our pro field is shaping up in an awesome way with 12 1000+ rated pros on the Men's side with Jay Reading a 13th on the Master's Side. Our pro field is led by Cale Leiviska, Devan Owens and Cameron Colglazier. On the female side our field is led by Catrina Allen, Sarah Hokom and Des Reading. It should be an awesome event so get signed up or come on out on Saturday to watch the semi-finals at 9:30AM at Morton and the finals starting around 1:30PM. Gracies will be serving some awesome food on Saturday and we will have all kinds of awesome merchandise available for sale and a huge raffle. See you there!

[Ledgestone]

We appreciate all the feedback we have received regarding our tournament and we appreciate everyone supporting our event. Thanks so much for coming out!

We do plan on making a few changes to the 2014 edition and here is a list of a few things we are looking at potentially changing:
-We will attempt to avoid playing any non concrete tees.
-In 2014 we hope to provide a player's book that will include course addresses, course maps, course distances, address to the player's party, address to the putting competition, etc.
-We will be doubling the amount of water we provide on the course.
-We will look to secure a sign to display scores during the final 9 instead of announcing the scores on the tee of every hole.
-We will look to provide the putting competition free of charge to all players and look to allow only one mulligan.
-We will be instituting a policy to address ties after 54 holes before the final 9 begins to have a throw-off. This will essentially make sure we only have 4 players in the final 9 per division.
-We will be looking to add more trophies next year.
-We will look to re-tool the raffle so we can pre-draw the winners and keep the items on a table instead of taking 15 to 20 minutes drawing all the numbers while everyone watches.
-We plan on adding more player's pack items!
-We plan on changing up the course order for 2014 (Intermediates will be happy!)
-We will continue to advertise that we will take down an address for any pro player and will be happy to mail pro payouts to anyone that has to leave before the award's ceremony.
-We will try to secure a stereo system to see if we can play some music at the course during the round!

This list is not comprehensive and is subject to change. We may or may not do all of this for the 2014 tournament but we will attempt to make every effort to make changes that our tournament staff agrees upon and that we feel is best for the event.

P.S. I did speak to Andrew today and I am submitting a proposal to grant our event NT status for next season. We hope to submit this proposal in the next few days. We can say that if the PDGA grants us this status we'd be able to offer $15,000 to the pro purse. If you want this to happen send the tour manager Andrew Sweeton a message using the contact link at pdga.com
Thanks for listening!

[mod edit: removed posting of email address for Andrew Sweeton]

[gratefuldad]

"We will try to secure a stereo system to see if we can play some music at the course during the round!"

Please no..

http://www.pdga.com/rules/competition-manual/section-3-player-code-conduct/31-general

Players are not permitted to have audible mobile phones or audible pagers on the course during any competitive round. In addition, personal music players and other devices must be used exclusively with personal headphones and the volume must be kept at a level so as not to be heard by other players, prevent the player from effectively interacting with his group during scorekeeping tasks, or provide a safety hazard for the player by not hearing "Fore!" calls from other players or warning blasts by the Tournament Director.

Appreciate making things better but keep it a competitive tournament please..