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

[stpitner]

there are only 6 holes that have a long tee - holes 1,2,4,5,16, and 17.  Those longs will be played in the morning round.  The shorts on those holes are 2nd round.  All other holes are the same tee both rounds.

I was out there today - thanks to Frank and Mike for helping with the flags.  I had to move hole 21's basket position because of the water levels.  It's closer to the baseball field.  It was very windy out there today - hopefully it will not be like that tomorrow.  The new hole 21 will be brutal.  The water on this hole will be casual OB, so no penalty, but there is OB 30' beyond the basket, the baseball field is OB, and it's just going to be one of those holes that rewards the player that plays smart golf.  The hole plays 263' now.

Hole 19 measured out to 466', and hole 20 is 308' with OB 15' beyond the basket.

[can't putt]

6, 9, and 12 also have long tees.  6 is grass while 9 and 12 are gravel.

[Fox Metro Discer]

That is true, however, we are only playing the long tees with concrete pads for the tourney.

[stpitner]

yes, frank pulled the flags from those non-concrete longs so that there would not be confusion.  PLEASE follow your handbook when playing!  THERE ARE ONLY SIX LONG TEES.  I will make certain to repeat this over and over at the player meeting.

[CEValkyrie]

Any updates?

[Jon Brakel]

Any updates?

Bruce said it was cold and there were 110 players. Adam Olson won in Open. An Am Master took the money in Pro Master.

[Sr.]

Thanks for the real good time Scott and crew!  Your work is appreciated.

[Fox Metro Discer]

Adam Olson won Open
Scott  Klatt won Pro Masters
Taylor Cimala beat Marcos finally in ADV
Ron Miller won Rec
I cannot remember the rest

[OvEr HaNd AsSaSiN]

great tourney. Pay outs were very good. I want to say that 20 people got turned away and couldnt play hate to see that, But there was no way to add more holes, so i think everyone understud. 

[Fox Metro Discer]

Scott said that with the turnout, he will be trying a 2 day for this event next year. I think there were actually only 20 names he took for the waiting list and still over 20 people in line he had to turn away.

[hj70ft]

I also wanted to let Scott know how good the event was. Even with the wicked cold it was a blast and well done. The player pack and payout was generous. The efforts put in to get sponsorship were very noticeable and very appreciated.

I also really enjoyed being able to select discs from such a large stock. Anything I wanted was in the boxes and was even able to pickup a very well priced Am Worlds 2008 Super Roc that I'd had my eyes on at some web sites and they wanted $5 or $10 more than Scott.

On a side note, I won a split of the Ace Pool money in the throw off using a Wizard Putter purchased from Scott at the Bloomington Normal Open last year. Double thanks.

[stpitner]

I also wanted to let Scott know how good the event was. Even with the wicked cold it was a blast and well done. The player pack and payout was generous. The efforts put in to get sponsorship were very noticeable and very appreciated.

I also really enjoyed being able to select discs from such a large stock. Anything I wanted was in the boxes and was even able to pickup a very well priced Am Worlds 2008 Super Roc that I'd had my eyes on at some web sites and they wanted $5 or $10 more than Scott.

On a side note, I won a split of the Ace Pool money in the throw off using a Wizard Putter purchased from Scott at the Bloomington Normal Open last year. Double thanks.

did you get one of the CFR sponsorship forms for purchasing the 2008 Super Roc?  If not, pm me your address (I'm sorry, I don't know your name or else I would look for your registration card), and I will mail you one of the forms.

The same for anyone else that purchased a 2008 Super Roc.

I'll post more information about the tournament in a bit - I just woke up from taking a nice 12-hour night's sleep!  I'm still tired lol.

Scott

[bigeric]

I had a great time out there, ended up winning Novice. 

[stpitner]

No aces were hit (kinda surprised, but understandable with the wind).  $231 and a free pizza were split between the two closest people on a throw off that took place after the ceremony.

We added one hole using the practice basket to make 22 total holes.  We could not add any additional holes because of how much time was consumed due to registration (registration opened at 7:58AM - two minutes early! lol).  Sure you could just make up a basket and tee, but considering we didn't get the first round going until 10:07am, adding more than 22 holes would have made the end of the 2nd round even later than it already was, and the end of the second round was around 6:20-6:30, when it was already fairly dark.  Thank goodness for van headlights  Thanks to everyone else who turned on their headlights as well to assist with lighting.  This is one of the main reasons why I wished the event was today!  The daylight savings would have permitted the round to finish under daylight.

There was a grand total of 127 players that wanted to play, there was one messup on my registration side that should have been caught with the guys doing the cards.  However, there was one messup on their side and we wound up with only 109 players for the day.  I had the same name written down twice, and they included the registration card for a pre-reg player that it appeared had checked in but was a no show at the start of the event.  Officially 3 pre-registered players did not show - and their entry fees went directly into the payouts for their respected divisions.  With officially had to turn away 15 players that were on the waiting list, but I know that the true amount of players that did not stick around was closer to 40 because they didn't even want to bother with putting their name on the waiting list.

Just a major thank you to everyone that came out.  For those of you who were at the player meeting, you heard me share about last year's Irish You the Best of Luck tournament on March 3rd in Elk Grove Village.  I was helping run that tournament, and I received a phone call that my dad had a heart attack and was in the hospital.  I was told to go to the hospital immediately, and when I arrived there I found out that my dad had died.  He was never revived from the heart attack.  He was only 47.  So for the number of people that came out I was extremely touched - even though nobody knew the true significance it was for coming out.  Because of the response and the turnout and just the unbelievable amount of support I received from people today, I fully intend to bring another tournament to Channahon on an annual basis.  It will DEFINITELY be a two-day event without question, and I intend to move the day to be a weekend in May and run it as The David S Pitner Memorial - as May 11th was his birthday.  He had only played disc golf for about 6 months before he died, but he absolutely LOVED it - mostly because the whole family enjoys it, and we were all able to share in this fantastic sport.  He loved his family more than words could ever say.

Winners:
Open - Adam Olsen - $423 cash - rounds of 56, 60 totalling 116 (-16)
Pro Master - Scott Klatt - $196 cash (I think) - rounds of 65, 57 totalling 122 (-10)
Advanced - Taylor Cimala - rounds of 65, 58 totalling 123 (-9)
Advanced Master - Roy Bazam - rounds of 72, 73 totalling 145 (+13)
Advanced Grandmaster - Kurt Krasinski - rounds of 69, 72 totalling 141 (+9)
Intermediate - Matt Travis - rounds of 69, 60 totalling 129 (-3)
Recreational - Ron Miller - rounds of 67, 66 totalling 133 (+1)
Novice - Eric Ritchie - rounds of 73, 72 totalling 145 (+13)
Jr < 19 - Jason Herath - rounds of 84, 78 totalling 162 (+30)

[chaos]

Scott,
            Thats right I won $196   CASH MONEY BABY!!!! Not bad for the newest pro master on the scene thanks again to you and your team for putting on one hell of an event .It was nice to see you finally got some people to shgow up but that as we know can be a two edged sword good luck with the rest of the season.

[stpitner]

haha, cool, I was just going by memory when I typed up the $196.  I have it written down elsewhere - and the notebook is still loaded in the van.

It was lonely after all you guys left - my wife and I loaded up everything, we got out of there at 9:15pm.  LONG day.  That was quite the interesting baptism by fire of going from about the most 25-27 players in one day to 109 and many more that wished they could have played!

The one thing that I would have liked to see - no DNF's.  There was 1 in Rec, but considering the size of the entire field that's not bad at all!

[Disc Golf Live]

I'm glad the weather held out.  Cold is not a problem.  Being in Ohio would have been a problem.  I'm glad that storm missed you guys.

Thanks for the back story, Scott.  Its good to hear the event went well.  Anyone out there with a video camera?

Get some rest.

Joe

[stpitner]

Scores are posted.

http://www.pdga.com/tournament/tournament_results.php?TournID=7612&year=2008&includeRatings=1

Adam Olsen shot a 1046 rated round first round.  That's just sick!

Joe- in fact there was an independant video camera crew that came out to film some video to create a documentary on the evolution of disc golf - the documentary is part of the 5-day International Documentary Challenge http://www.documentarychallenge.org/.  I will receive a copy of this video when it is complete (the requirements are for the video to be 4-7 minutes long), and I'll see if I can perhaps send you a copy of this video.  I just feel weird because they asked me to take off my glasses during my interview to remove the glare. felt weird

[stpitner]

HUGE props to Jason Poole.  He was originally signed up to play but could not due to injury.  He still came out to help, and he just completely took control of taking care of the incoming scores and sorting the leaderboard.  We never would have been able to get everything done if it wasn't for his help!

Some other thanks include: my wife Sara - without her taking sales we would have been lost, Eric McCluskey, Jim Fischer, Matt Stachura, Tony Pajot, John Cleaveland, Mike Krupicka, Frank Grimes, and Aaron Scott.  I'm sure that I'm forgetting someone!  Thanks for help!

[Disc Golf Live]

Wow, glare-free must be important.  I let my Host wear his mirrored sunglasses just to give folks something to look at (a tiny mini me, in fact).  Reminds me of when I was a kid and it was school-pic day.  They'd tilt my glasses so as to not reflect the flash, always looked kinda schoolmarmish.  I'm sure they won't show your face (or any face) for too long, better to have some B-pool footage rolling.  If you have contact info, feel free to forward my name to them.  I'm happy to help out with footage from my archives. 

Any of the show DVDs move?  I noticed you had a great crop of newer players.  That's always nice to see.

Joe