June Ratings

[CEValkyrie]

Ratings have been updated for June.

[Mike S]

13 point increase to 895...  could be worse- my rounds from this weekend could have been included 

[damonshort]

Ratings have been updated for June.

and as what seems to happen every update, the subsequent web traffic knocks out the PDGA site. 

[CEValkyrie]

Welcome to Advanced. There are quite a few guys bumping up.

[Bruce Brakel]

Guys and gals.  Diana went up to Advanced Women and Kiralyn went up to Intermediate women.  The All Bagger Waterford Brakel Team has been broken up!  A lot of our players moved up to Intermediate men too. 

I went up an entire point.   

[tree]

I hit the 700's for the first time

I'm sorry to see Kira move up to intermediate

[Schwinn2]

Guys and gals.  Diana went up to Advanced Women and Kiralyn went up to Intermediate women.  The All Bagger Waterford Brakel Team has been broken up!  A lot of our players moved up to Intermediate men too. 

I went up an entire point.   

Now I get to play against TWO Brakel women in the rec men's division.    The ratings crack me up.  My rating is 6 pts higher than Kelsey, but I have yet to beat her this year.  Actually, when I think about it, out of 6 tournaments, I've only beat Kelsey once.

[stpitner]

Newbie question: what are the cutoff ratings for the different levels?  My rating from IOS #2 came in at 842, so I know that's not close to anything decent for moving up.  I heard the number 915 being tossed around for advanced maybe?

Still not up to snuff on all of my PDGA info yet.

On the positive side, just received my PDGA intro package on Saturday, yay

[pickax]

The cutoffs are recreational men < 875, intermediate men < 915
http://www.pdga.com/documents/td/06PlayerDivisionsGridFinal.pdf

[stpitner]

thanks Mike

I still can't get the stupid pdga.com site to load, but I'm sure that I'll be able to view link later on today!

[Bruce Brakel]

Newbie question: what are the cutoff ratings for the different levels?  My rating from IOS #2 came in at 842, so I know that's not close to anything decent for moving up.  I heard the number 915 being tossed around for advanced maybe?

842 is a wonderful place to start.  There are probably 16 different things you can do to improve without even having to practice!     842 is about when you should think about playing in the Pro Women's division to test the waters, actually.  Don't wait until you are 928 or 929 to sneak into their division like I did.  I might play pro women again this weekend, by the way. 

[Chainmeister]

Newbie question: what are the cutoff ratings for the different levels?  My rating from IOS #2 came in at 842, so I know that's not close to anything decent for moving up.  I heard the number 915 being tossed around for advanced maybe?

842 is a wonderful place to start.  There are probably 16 different things you can do to improve without even having to practice!     842 is about when you should think about playing in the Pro Women's division to test the waters, actually.  Don't wait until you are 928 or 929 to sneak into their division like I did.  I might play pro women again this weekend, by the way. 

A Polish citizen living in America, STELLA WALSH won the women's 100-meter dash at the 1932 Olympics. At the 1936 Berlin Olympics she took silver, beaten by her American rival Helen Stephenson. Walsh's supporters demanded that Stephenson be examined by a doctor, suggesting that she was so fast that she must be a man competing as a woman. German doctors did check Stephenson and announced that she was, in fact, female. The matter was forgotten for four decades until 1980, when Walsh was shot and killed in a Cleveland parking lot, the innocent bystander to a botched shopping center robbery. An autopsy revealed a startling fact: Walsh was a male. She had a man's XY chromosomes and genitals, along with some female chromosomes and traits -- a condition known as mosaicism. With the surprise discovery coming so long after the fact, no effort was made to delete Walsh from the record books.

[mirth]

David, that's almost deserving a revival of the 'too funky for words' thread.

[Chainmeister]

Yeah, it was serious thread drift.  I had visions of the Wayans brothers in a bad movie they made a couple years ago, White Chicks  ( or a better movie- Some like it Hot) when I read Bruce's post.  This is the second time he brought up the idea of him playing pro women.  Diana, are you reading this board?  Ok, I'll drop it now.

[Bruce Brakel]

It's a Bobby Riggs thing:  Fat old man with multiple broken down parts going against the best chicks on the course.  Bobby wasn't fat but he did have the multiple broken down parts thing going.  Given that I DNF on the last hole, there's no harm done.  Bobby would have kept the money!