Peoria Frisbee Club's Greater Peoria Open- May 30-31 A-tier

[dana]

Brett-

First temp hole is 285 ft uphill shot, not the 165 one.  Tee signs are marked, pads out.  First temp is #20- if you are driving into the park towards #1, #20 will be on your left before you get to 1.  Hope that helps.  Call if you have any problems (this goes for anyone)
815.575.1917

[dana]

I'll be leaving after I get my mail (11ish), so please do not email or post questions for me on here.

Also, there is a temp hole out sandwiched between 17 and 18 on the permanent course.  You play 17 and then hang a right (there are signs) and will play a temp hole, which is being called 18.  Original 18 has been changed to 19.  I hope that is not too confusing.

Also at Eureka, # 16s basket is going to be extended to 400+.  It will not be the wide open field 300 hole.

Thanks and again, I hope that is not too confusing.

Keep an eye out for poison ivy at all of the courses, its out there.

[pdga#7648]

I recommend pants out at Eureka. When you go off the fairway, you get into these weeds that burns and itches up to 2-3 next holes you play, Uncomfortable as hell. Yea it may be 80 degrees, but I will have pants on. Hard to golf with itchy and burning legs. JUST A HEADS UP!

[tjdub26936]

Day 1 results are posted:

OPEN
1 Barry Schultz     101   -7
2 Nikko Locastro     103   -5
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5 Brett Comicioli     108   E
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9 Todd Fanning     110   +2

ADVANCED
1 Dave Nelson     99   -9 (!) leads by 5
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8 Taylor Cimala     106   -2

http://www.pdga.com/tournament-results?TournID=8621&year=2009&include_ratings=1#Open

Dana, when will the top card tee off tomorrow?

[pdga#7648]

Day 1 results are posted:

OPEN
1 Barry Schultz     101   -7
2 Nikko Locastro     103   -5
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5 Brett Comicioli     108   E
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9 Todd Fanning     110   +2

ADVANCED
1 Dave Nelson     99   -9 (!) leads by 5
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8 Taylor Cimala     106   -2

http://www.pdga.com/tournament-results?TournID=8621&year=2009&include_ratings=1#Open

Dana, when will the top card tee off tomorrow?

Barry held off Nikko.


And Dave Nelson CRUISED to his Victory!!!!


Great Job Dave!!!!

[duain]

what a great weekend. all three courses were nice. i personally liked lake eureka the most. i wanna give thanks to everyone involved. the staff was excellent. sweet chairs also for the players pack. great job to Dana for pulling off an awesome weekend. this was my second a-tier and I've gotten 8th in both(one rec & this one int). thanks again GPO crew.

[Bruce Brakel]

Congrats to Brett for three solid 1000+ rounds. 

[stpitner]

WoW I'm exhausted and I didn't even play in this thing!  My brother and I rolled back in to town at about 12:15am... we were wiped out.  Thanks to everyone from around here that spent their fun bucks on products that I had for sale.  That went a long way in helping me have a successful weekend.

Mad props to the PFC for really pulling together to put on an excellent tournament.  I think DISContinuum should see it as a challenge to really step up and get more club members involved in pulling together some excellent tournaments.

Thanks Dana for allowing me the opportunity to merch at your event.

Thanks to my brother Keith and everybody that helped me out throughout the weekend.

[SERG]

So had Chris Sprague already qualified for USDGC? Did Brett earn the spot?

[Bruce Brakel]

Sprague is not on the list of qualified players and his stats do not suggest that he has played a qualifier. 

[discinfool23]

I could be incorrect, but shouldn't Rob Strasser be the player that got the USDGC Invite? He was the highest scoring Pro from Illinois. He dominated the Masters field and would have taken 3rd in Open.

[Dan Michler]

The post from February 2nd states that the invite will go to the highest placing resident of Illinois in the MPO division.  So I don't believe Strasser is eligible since he competed in MPM.

[CEValkyrie]

Here is the information about the USDGC spot. Congrats to Chris Sprague! $205 was raised with the efforts of the 50/50 CTP at the event. If Chris qualifies at another event his spot will be bumped down to Ben Douglas.
http://discontinuum.org/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=26&topic=4396.0

Fantastic event with a fun format. I liked the tee times at Eureka and love the courses. Thanks to Dana and the PFC for all their efforts!!

DISContinuum had a strong showing most notably Diabetic Dave "Double D" Nelson winning Advanced. Hopefully the 6 fly pads and 4 of the temp baskets treated you well at Eureka. Thanks DISContinuum! A big thanks to Tom McManus for hauling them back.

[dana]

Huge thanks to Discontinuum for 4 baskets and 6 fly pads!  Special thanks to Tom and Brett for hauling these items down to Peoria.  I think things ran well this year, but I definitely see some things that could be improved. 

If you have the time (and feel this way), call the Park Districts and let them know that their parks were in great shape and you really enjoyed spending some time in them this weekend!
Pekin- 309.347.PARK
Morton- (309) 263-7429
Eureka- 309-467-2113

Special thanks to Dan Nagel, Dustin Fee, Tom Austin, Wilken Family, Brian Lucas and Cory Hill, Mark Hariston, Tim Wright Dave Owens, Ashley (my GF who was spotting on 18 at Eureka) and all of our other spotters, helpers and volunteers.  I sincerely appreciate all of your support and your strong effort in putting on such a quality event.

I hope those that attended the player party at Goodfellas enjoyed your free drink and $6 dinner.  I apologize for being late getting the scores there, it took a little longer than expected to get them entered and to figure out the tee times.

Sandwiches on Saturday were AWESOME.  I know they were a tad on the pricey side, but I think it was worth it.  These were made at Eaman Patricks, the same place that catered for us Sunday at Eureka.  I think it is safe to say that everyone LOVED the food on Sunday.

I'm sure I missed thanking a few people and for that I am sorry.  After we had ate pizza and entered scores in Eureka last night my car was dead in the parking lot.  We jumped it and I was on my way down the road when it died.  Thankfully, Todd was still in town and was able to give me a ride to Pontiac- Thanks, Todd!  Well, we get to Pontiac and sure enough, I left my apartment keys in my car.  Not surprisingly, since it was after 11pm, my landlord's phone was off.  So I ended up ripping a screen window off and got in that way.  I'm just glad that the worse thing to happen all weekend happened after the tournament was over.

Here is the information about the USDGC spot. Congrats to Chris Sprague! $205 was raised with the efforts of the 50/50 CTP at the event. If Chris qualifies at another event his spot will be bumped down to Ben Douglas.
http://discontinuum.org/index.php?option=com_smf&Itemid=26&topic=4396.0

Brett, are you sure that is how things work regarding USDGC spots?  Now, since Sprague is already qualified, he can't qualify at any other events...right? 

[Bruce Brakel]

Since it is a State Coordinator's invitation, Sprague is not qualified until Brett says he is.  So Brett can wait until a little bit before the August 30, 2009, State Coordinators' deadline to determine who gets it.  So long as Brett does not officially inform the USDGC that Sprague is the Illinois State Coordinator's USDGC player, Sprague has not qualified and can qualify at a qualifier. 

Here is a list of the remaining regional qualifying tournaments:

8. High Plains Challenge Fort Morgan, CO June 13 & 14, 2009
9. Minnesota Majestic Minneapolis, MN June 19 – 21, 2009
10. Lower Peninsula Open Kalamazoo, MI June 26 – 28, 2009
11. Brent Hambrick Memorial Columbus, OH July 10 – 12, 2009
12. First Class Challenge Des Moines, IA July 17 – 19, 2009
13. Pittsburgh Flying Disc Open Pittsburgh, PA August 8 & 9, 2009
14. The Vibram Open at Maple Hill Leicester, MA August 14 – 16, 2009
15. Southern National Pro Champs North Little Rock, AR September 5 & 6, 2009

These are the remaining Global Qualifiers:

Stockholm Open Stockholm, Sweden June 25 & 26, 2009
PDGA World Championships Kansas City, Missouri July 27 – August 1, 2009
European Open Tampere, Finland August 27 – 30, 2009

If Sprague were to play one of these and finish in the Top 5 excluding players who have qualified previously, then his spot at the Peoria Open would bump down. 

[dana]

Since it is a State Coordinator's invitation, Sprague is not qualified until Brett says he is

Was it advertised that the top finishing IL resident in the MPO division would win the IL Rep spot at USDGC? 



I think he (Sprague) should either accept the spot or decline it and take his chances of qualifying at a later time.   

[SERG]

Since it is a State Coordinator's invitation, Sprague is not qualified until Brett says he is

Was it advertised that the top finishing IL resident in the MPO division would win the IL Rep spot at USDGC? 
I think he (Sprague) should either accept the spot or decline it and take his chances of qualifying at a later time.   

Look above a few posts and follow the link that Brett has in his post. It explains that it is to the top finishing IL player playing in the MPO division.

[dana]

Serg- I knew the answer to that question.

All I am saying is that we/Brett advertised that it would go to the top finisher, then shouldn't it? 

If Sprague now plays a USDGC qualifier and finishes in the top 5 not yet qualified he is going to accept that spot and then turn down the already accepted IL spot?  What about that next person in line that would have qualified if Sprague was already qualified?  If I finished right behind him at the qualifier tourney and that happened to me, I would be pissed. 

[CEValkyrie]

I am going to pay and secure the spot tonight.

Although I did not envision this scenario I think it is a good one. The more Illinois players that get down to the USDGC the better. I am rooting for Chris Sprague to qualify at another event opening the door for Ben Douglas. As much as i'd like to go I cannot. If Chris doesn't qualify elsewhere he's guranteed a spot. That has to feel good.

[Tom McManus]

Congratulations to Eric Fite of Joliet.  Eric won a Discontinuum grab bag CTP at the GPO.