IOS #1 @ Kenosha, WI--04/19 & 04/20 2008

[CEValkyrie]

IOS #1 @ Kenosha, WI--04/19 & 04/20 2008

Check for course information->
http://discontinuum.org/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=26&topic=3844.0


Current list of preregistered competitors.

Saturday
http://www.pdga.com/tournament/tournament_results.php?TournID=7844

Sunday
http://www.pdga.com/tournament/tournament_results.php?TournID=7876

[kyle]

Has registration started yet? Just want to make sure before I send a check off to Mirth.

[mirth]

Send in your check. I hope to get prereg up for IOS#1 tonight.

[SERG]

WET! WET! WET!

With just about three weeks to tourney time it's not looking very promising to be a dry course. I think it will be safe to assume some deep water between holes 5 and 6.

Keeping baskets away from tournament positions until the week before will probably be best to preserve the course layout.

Looking forward to my first tourney of the year.

[kyle]

I hope it dries up a bit more, but if it keeps raining like it did today we're going to need canoes to get around.

This is very likely the last time we'll see a few of the holes in sanctioned play, so I may actually play both days.

[Bruce Brakel]

Just a reminder, on Saturday three divisions play: Open Pro, Am 2 (Intermediate, Under 935) and Am 4 (Novice, Under 850).  On Sunday ALL other divisions play, including all the gender and age restricted divisions.  Let me see if i can find a trophy disc to show y'all:

[shawn]

Thanks in advance for answers to my questions... 

Placements of baskets?

Safari  holes? 

Is Advance is playing long or short tees.... both??

Why am I missing so many 12ft putts?

[pickax]

IOS #1 course routing is here:
http://discontinuum.org/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=26&topic=3844.0

[bigeric]

Is the course even playable as it sits now with the wetness?  I'd really like to play this tourny but I've never played there (about 2hrs from me), and I want to go up there to practice at least once before it.  Or I guess what I should ask is, is this course playable in a tournament your first time there?  I don't want to do that but it might just be the case.

[Bruce Brakel]

Thanks in advance for answers to my questions... 

Placements of baskets?

Safari  holes? 

Is Advance is playing long or short tees.... both??

Why am I missing so many 12ft putts?

1.  Brett and Serge work that out. 
2.  Probably some temp holes but see #1.
3.  Probably long/long for advanced and pros, long/short for intermediate and recs, short/short for novice, amateur women, juniors, but see #1. 
4.  You're an amateur.  You play casual rounds but you don't practice.  Me too. 

[CEValkyrie]

IOS #1 course routing is here:
http://discontinuum.org/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=26&topic=3844.0

Here you go Bruce.

[damonshort]

Is the course even playable as it sits now with the wetness?  I'd really like to play this tourny but I've never played there (about 2hrs from me), and I want to go up there to practice at least once before it.  Or I guess what I should ask is, is this course playable in a tournament your first time there?  I don't want to do that but it might just be the case.

The 'locals' (Serg, Shawn, etc.) can speak to the current conditions, but it's wet everywhere right now. Beyond that, I'd say Parkside is easily the best course within 90 mi of Chicago. (You can argue for Rockford [is that within 90 mi?], but I like Parkside better. Maybe because I usually play Parkside better. But I digress....)

Parkside is fun to play in any of its several pin positions; relatively easy from the short pads (although IOS will have many of the longer baskets, so it's not all that easy), but very challenging from the longs. But always fair and ultimately rewarding to play. Even if you play the course 'cold' you won't regret it.

[Bruce Brakel]

I play all the IOS courses cold.  If I'm lucky, I get in a round on Friday.  If you play disc golf, there is nothing on an IOS course that you've never seen before, with one or two exceptions.  Maybe you have not seen the elevated basket hole.  Lay up, o.k.?  Or take nine putts if you are playing in my division. 

When I want to practice for an IOS, I just practice.  I putt.  I go to Holly to throw tight lines.  I go to Firefighters to practice throwing 200 to 300 at baskets with obstacles in between.  You don't have to go out to Kenosha to learn how to play disc golf.

Every year our April, May, and June venues are flooded out on the message board.  Every year they are just fine when we actually play them.  Not sure how that works.   

[Mukey]

Every year our April, May, and June venues are flooded out on the message board.  Every year they are just fine when we actually play them.  Not sure how that works.   

It's gotta be the beard   

BTW, if anyone wants to Carpool from the Downers Grove area for Sunday I'm down to pay $ towards gas & food, just PM me

[pickax]

I think I will be up there both days and stay some place local Saturday night.

[Jon Brakel]

Like pretty much any course in the flat part of the world this time of the year, Parkside is one rainstorm away from being flooded and two sunny, breezy days from being dry. From what I here right now it is a little mushy all around with a few large puddles between some of the holes. Probably a lot like most everyone's back yard right now. But after this dry sunny weekend it will probably be a lot dryer. Hard to say what it will be like in a few weeks.

[pickax]

I highly recommend getting a pair of waterproof boots if you are disc golfing regularly. They are great for soggy springs, morning dews in the summer, etc. Dry feet are happy feet.

[bigeric]

Thanks for the info guys, I will probably end up being there.  I'm hoping there is going to be a sweet players handbook for this course like there was at the Irish tourny. 

[CEValkyrie]

Thanks for the info guys, I will probably end up being there.  I'm hoping there is going to be a sweet players handbook for this course like there was at the Irish tourny. 

Here is the course info link. The attached document to the first post will be the only information avaliable.
http://discontinuum.org/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=26&topic=3844.0

Player books are sweet. They are not easy to make and time consuming to get accurate measurements. #1 reason is cost. If there was free printing this might be an option.

[Mukey]

Thanks for the info guys, I will probably end up being there.  I'm hoping there is going to be a sweet players handbook for this course like there was at the Irish tourny. 

OBs & the like will usually be given to us at the players meeting, just make sure you're not next to the idiot talking who wants OB strokes so you can listen & you should be all good!