Winter Series #3: Irish You the Best of Luck - B-Tier Channahon, March 8th, 2008

[stpitner]

Is there a trophy only option for this tourney?

Unfortunately there is no trophy only at the tournament.  Perhaps once I have run more tournaments and get more into a routine I can start working on handling all of the various types of entry fees, but it will not be at this event.  The other big reason why I didn't offer it for this tournament was because since it was part of the Winter Series, the first two events did not offer it and so I'm staying consistent.

[Bruce Brakel]

Trophy-only is harder to deal with than we make it look.   

[pickax]

That's because they still don't put trophy only on all of the divisions on the spreadsheet. My tourney modeler makes it a little bit simpler to work around the PDGAs stubborn laziness.

[stpitner]

Pre-Registration Bonus for AM's!

As an added incentive to pre-register for the event, any AM that pre-registers (including the ones that already have), will receive a extra $5 Rob 'em Rewards in their player pack.  That's right, it will now be $20 instead of just $15!

Pre-register here: www.pdgasignup.com

Save yourself a lot of time on the day of the tournament, PRE-REGISTER.

[kcunning]

That's a pretty sweet deal Scott.  I wasn't going to pre-reg, but just found out today that I definitely have the day off and with an extra 5 bucks it makes it worthwhile.  Now I have to play no matter what the weather.

[bigeric]

I pre-registered this evening, couldn't resist the players pack deal. 

[stpitner]

Thanks guys... I'll send you a note when I receive an email confirmation of a pre-registration.  The pre-registration list is current to all of the pre-registrations that I have received so far (6 of them).  It typically takes about an hour for me to receive the notification after you pre-reg, so bigeric, if you did pre-reg last night I don't have a notification about it.  Send me a PM if you did go through pdgasignup.com and I'll send a note off to the web administrator to see if the pre-registration note was not sent to me.

Thanks,
Scott

[Sr.]

Scott, Can I send you a check to pre-register?  If yes tell me where.   Will you have that t-shirt I ordered?     Sr.

[stpitner]

Scott, Can I send you a check to pre-register?  If yes tell me where.   Will you have that t-shirt I ordered?     Sr.

Yes, you can sent a check or money order to pre-register.  I will PM you with the information.  If anyone else wants to use that method instead of a credit card to pre-register (or would rather not pay the $3 service fee), please PM me and I will send you the information.

As far as the shirts, I would highly recommend ordering direct from cafepress' website because at the moment I do not have enough leftover budget room to place a decent order for shirts.  I have over $3k worth of new inventory an apparel that will be at the tournament, but tacking on $1000 in car repairs last month has prevented me from getting the shirts (for now).  If I get a few more sales before the end of the week in my store I'll try my best to have shirts.  But for now, I highly recommend ordering through cafepress.

Scott.

[bigeric]

I definitely pre-registered, I sent you an e-mail Scott, let me know what the outcome is.

[stpitner]

I received 3 emails all at the same time with 3 more pre-registrations, and yours was in there.  You're all set.  It also tells me what registration # you are, so I haven't lost any registrations either.

I'm anticipating this event to max, be sure to pre-register!  60 people went to the Ice Bowl, 73 to Abominable Snowman, I can handle up to 105!

[stpitner]

Pre-registration is now at 11.  I'm surprised that no Advanced players have signed up yet!  Just had the first intermediate registration come in this evening.  Bring it on advanced players

Thanks to a new sponsor: Randy Moore Sr., for his generous sponsorship for the AM's!

[tacimala]

I'm interested in hearing more about this generation sponsorship! 

Hey Scott, what tees do you think we will be playing? I'm going to head out there on Saturday and would like to get some appropriate practice in.

[stpitner]

he's donating his next of kin j/k

obviously we'll play the shorts.  I've been trying to talk to Frank to get his best opinion on if we should play the longs or not.  I haven't been out there in about a month so I don't know what the course conditions are like right now.  A good number of the holes also only have 1 tee.

I will say this: I would really like to play the longs, and I'm going to try to set things up to play the longs.  However, should there be a lot of snow or something happens where it would be difficult to maintain both sets of tees, it will only be from the shorts.  If we do play the longs it will ONLY be on the tees that have a cement long tee.  I know that there's one hole (I want to say 12 but I'm not sure), that if you walk 30' back there's a grass tee marked with flags.  We will NOT play that tee.  With the exception of the temp holes, all of the tees will be on cement.  1 of the temp holes will tee from the path, so hopefully footing will be decent from all of the tees.

[tacimala]

OK there's still a bit of confusion after that post, so just to clarify. On holes that only have one cement tee pad, we will be playing that both rounds. On holes that have long and short cement tee pads, we will play one round from each or both rounds from the longer cement tee? Thanks!

[stpitner]

because it's a single day event with all divisions, the default is both rounds short tees. 

IF weather conditions are decent, then we'll play longs for one round.  Any hole with a single cement tee will be played from that tee for both rounds.  I don't have my course notes here with me at work to tell you which holes only have 1 tee.  I can post that info tonight.

[skipache]

i went out to play channy on monday and although it was still cold, there is alot ice/water out there, when it melts it will be VERY wet

[stpitner]

hopefully we'll be able to work around anything that is unplayable.  I just have to hope for not a lot of precipitation over the next two weeks.  Just be ready I guess.  I wonder if some sort of cleats would help - would be tricky with cement tees.

[jack]

Here's a rundown of the tees from memory.

Hole 1: 2 tees, both are cement
Hole 2: 2 tees, both are cement
Hole 3: one tee, cement
Hole 4: 2 tees, both are cement
Hole 5: 2 tees, both are cement
Hole 6: 2 tees, short tee is cement, long tee is grass
Hole 7: one tee, cement
Hole 8: one tee, cement
Hole 9: 2 tees, short tee is cement, long tee is grass
Hole 10: one tee, cement
Hole 11: one tee, cement
Hole 12: 2 tees, short tee is cement, long tee is grass (apparently will not be played?)
Hole 13: one tee, cement
Hole 14: one tee, cement
Hole 15: one tee, cement
Hole 16: 2 tees, both are cement
Hole 17: 2 tees, both are cement
Hole 18: one tee, cement

Here are some spots where flooding may cause problems:
Hole 1: Crossing from the tee to the basket. I've never seen the tee or green flood.
Hole 2: Possibly around the new pin placement. On the walk from 2 to 3.
Hole 3: On the green.
Hole 4: In the woods left of the basket.
Hole 5: On the fairway.
Hole 6: On the fairway and green and behind the basket.
Holes 7--9 should be unaffected.
Hole 10: Possibly on the fairway.
Hole 11: Possibly on the fairway and green. Definately in the woods to the left.
Holes 12--18 should be relatively unaffected.

I think things will be fine, especially if it stays cold the next 2 weeks. The course is typically messy in March, but I've only seen it unplayable once (back in '95).

[stpitner]

Thanks Jack for that information!  The grass long tees (6,9,12) will not be played at all.  All shorts will be played minimum one round, all cement longs will HOPEFULLY be played one round.  Since it seems like the tee areas are not quite as affected by the water there's a much better chance of playing from them.  I just have to make sure that it doesn't keep snowing and covering the tees.  We need to get them clear and keep them clear and let the sun do some help and prevent icing.

From some other people that discussed the course with me, they agreed with your memory, Jack, in saying that 6 and 11 are the area that gets hit the hardest with flooding (6's and 11's baskets are really close to one another).  Those are the two that Frank told me that if necessary we would need to close off.  That's why I have 3 alternates, but I'm also expecting a big field, so it might be tricky!