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[adoni]

(huddles the crew together and mentions ... "Hey, Isn't this the Lumber Cup Thread?") B - U - M - P !

Scores are up .. they ARE unofficial ... The tournament went GREAT!

Many volunteers on hand to help Gary.  My thanks to all that helped.  Gary's being my mentor on this and what I saw today ... clockwork.  Scores came in for the first round and ... well... I just had to watch.  They were checked and double checked and added to the leaderboard in minutes.  They gave them to me, if I had an Internet connect the scores would have been up.  It was amazing to witness.  Steve, Paul and Jason did the bulk of the checking etc and poof done.  We had 30 minutes to spare before the second round started.  Same thing took place second round and even after cleaning up we were out of the park by 5:50pm.  Many hands do make light work.

Quite a lot of work done on the course too, mostly in the area of cleanup and making the course better accessed .. ie: stairs cut in on Hole 16 going from tee to basket ... some felled trees cut and removed (wooded courses do tend to grow over).  Many improvements.

Total field:  98 ... non-PDGA, 58. 

Weather P E R F E C T !   (I think that the NHRA has some agreement with the weather.  They are running Nationals or something at Rt 66 Racetrack and the weather is always gorgeous.  I know I live 500 yards from the track)  It was cool watching people putt and then you'd hear a top fuel dragster take off ... Tomorrow is finals .. The big boys come out then.

Both rounds were about 2 1/2 hours, first card on second round came in at 4:18. Only backup I saw or heard of was Hole A, between 8 and 9.  B and C were NOT played today but Gary is on the fence about adding B, C on Sunday.

That's it ... see you tomorrow.

adoni

[Abelardo Arenas]

Good to see Jesse Esquivel take 1st Place in "19 and Under," with 8 down. Jesse's game has really improved over the last year.

Markie Esquivel took 3rd in Intermediate with 12 down. Michael took 3rd in Rec.

[damonshort]

Scores are up .. they ARE unofficial ... The tournament went GREAT!


adoni

great job on getting the scores up!!

'Rating deflation' didn't seem quite so drastic today as I've experienced in other 'Int & below' tournaments. I figured my +1 1st round was around 870 and it came out as 875. I was shocked to see the ratings for the 2nd rd though; there's no way my -6 should've been rated 948, but I'll take it. 

I managed to back into the 'Amateur Master' trophy too, apparently since all the other old guys shot worse than I did. Again, I'll take it. (They're great-looking wood plaques.) Payout was really generous too, at least what I got.

[Mukey]

Great work Gary, Adoni, and everyone else involved. One of the smoothest & quickest I've ever seen.
Awesome weather, great guys, good laughs, decent throws. What more could you ask?

Good to see Damon come on down, surprised more of you guys didn't come out (hope you're at DGLO if you didn't play)but that's your loss.

One thing to wonder, is Gary going to bother rating some of the non-PDGA players to prevent sandbaggers like the IOS does? I know it was an honor system with his tournaments in the past, but it seems there ain't much honor anymore.

[pickax]

One thing to wonder, is Gary going to bother rating some of the non-PDGA players to prevent sandbaggers like the IOS does? I know it was an honor system with his tournaments in the past, but it seems there ain't much honor anymore.

Lower Day at IOS #2 19 0f 78(24%) were non-PDGA. Joliet 58 of 98 (59%) Not sure what it means, but it is significant.

[Bruce Brakel]

Well, one more post and I'm done hijacking this thread.     The pro master for whom Kira caddied two rounds at the Toboggan won by one throw! 

I played great today but so did most of my opponents.  I moved up to third and won a trophy.  Kelsey continued to improve, moved up to third and won a trophy. 

Amateur payouts were incredible.  They gave us a player pack with a SuperColor Surge, ESP Meteor, hat, a supercolor mini and a $5 lunch coupon for the park sandwich shop.  On top of that they did a 150% payout and a jumbo toss with plenty of discs.  There was bottled water and Vitamin Water on the course and fruit at tournament central.   

They did some stupid, senseless things, like design the tournament so the women mostly won't get ratings, but overall it was great.  The thing with the women they can fix if they want.  They probably won't.  Oh, well.

[can't putt]

Lumber Cup Saturday results made the Herald (bottom of the page):
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/sports/421745,4_2_JO10_ROUNDUP_S1.article

[damonshort]

...oh, is this the Lumber Cup thread??

I imagine Adoni will be as efficient as yesterday and post the results before bedtime, but Brett tied for 2nd in open, McManus won a fairly tight battle for advanced GM and I managed to hang onto 3rd and win some more stuff I don't really need.

27 holes, about 100 played. Stickier and buggier than yesterday but still a good time.

I played both rounds with Tom; he consistently recovered from the few mistakes he made with big drives and/or putts.  Me, less often, but at least there were no complete meltdowns this weekend.

[adoni]

I imagine Adoni will be as efficient as yesterday and post the results before bedtime,

Thanks Damon!  Scores are posted.  I do hope I got everyone in the right divisions.  My wife helped and I was told at the break that there was some shuffling of Grandmasters players.  I did compare the spreadsheet to the leader board and things jived.  I even got the tie breakers.  My game went south.  Sheesh .. My mind was everywhere ... my second shot on hole 19 was proof.  I lined up to make this 75 foot approach .. wound up and tossed ... the disc stuck to my hand and ended up 9 feet to my RIGHT ... it did NOT have forward motion, IT WENT RIGHT.  Brad Dow .. the look on your face was priceless.  I just stood there ... mouth agape.  Oh well ... c'est la vie!

I do plan on being at Crystal Lake ... I GOTTA get my game back.

ciao all
adoni

ps .. please post any and all corrections and I'll fix them.

[CEValkyrie]

Adoni,
 
Nice work!!


This is all I found.
Justin Celmer  #22772

[adoni]

Adoni,
 
Nice work!!


This is all I found.
Justin Celmer  #22772

FIXED

[CEValkyrie]

Adoni,
 
Nice work!!


This is all I found.
Justin Celmer  #22772

FIXED

I also noticed Bob Ryan's PDGA # is wrong. #2609.
Thanks again Adoni!

[Dan Michler]

the disc stuck to my hand and ended up 9 feet to my RIGHT

i've done that more than once.................nice work getting the scores up so fast.  today i was just trying to make sure i would be due to play well at am nationals next week   its all about Theory Of Dueness baby!

[J.R.]

Lumber Cup Saturday results made the Herald (bottom of the page):
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/heraldnews/sports/421745,4_2_JO10_ROUNDUP_S1.article

Is that article correct?  There were 5 aces on Sat?!?  That's insane

[Mukey]

Yeah, it's completely true. I actually got to see 2 of them. I was waiting to throw #22 & saw an Ace on #21. Then in the 2nd round someone in my group Aced #2. (Deja Vu!)

They all got like $30. Ouch!

[adoni]

I also noticed Bob Ryan's PDGA # is wrong. #2609.
Thanks again Adoni!
[/quote]

FIXED

Yes, 5 aces on Saturday, each got $28.  Still not a bad return on a $2 investment.