Saukville Open July 25th, 2009

[widye]

PDGA C Tier Event

July 25th, 2009 Saturday

Check in & Registration 8:00am-9:00am

Players meeting 9:30am*

2 Rounds of Disc Golf

Open men - $55
Pro Women - $55
Pro Master - $50
Pro Grand Master - $45

Advanced Amateur $40
Advanced Women $40
Advanced Master - $35
Advanced Grand Master - $35
Intermediate Men $30
Intermediate Women $30
Recreational - $25
Juniors - $25

Online registration - www.widye.com
Online Process fee $4*

Mail-In registration - Saukville Open Reg Form

PDGA Fee $10* for non-members or not current members.

Location: Tendick Nature Park, Saukville, Wisconsin
I-43 to Hwy 33 (exit 96) turn west on 33 then north on
Hwy O (Mill St.) 3 miles to park entrance on the left.

More information is coming soon!!  Hope to see you there!!

[widye]

More info:

Format: All Pro/Advanced players play 1 round from shorts and 1 round from long tees.

Intermediate, Rec, Juniors play both rounds from the short tees.

We will have a raffle with many prizes to give away. We will have CTP's for every division.

THERE IS NO LATE FEE FOR DAY OF REGISTRATION AS USUAL. 8am-9am Sharp for Registration/Check-in.

Players pack for every amatuer player!!!

Hope to see you there...!!

Josh

[Chainmeister]

Josh

I plan on playing tomorrow.  Novice or Rec or Int. whatever is the lowest division you offer.  I will register onsite in the morning.  See you there.

[Tom McManus]

This should be a fun event. Saukville is similar to Round Lake, the only difference is that Saukville is a well kept course with nice tee pads.

[Arok]

I may make this tourney....we'll see

[damonshort]

This should be a fun event. Saukville is similar to Round Lake, the only difference is that Saukville is a well kept course with nice tee pads.

'twas indeed a really fun day. A bit windy in the afternoon but overall gorgeous weather. A really nice course, challenging enough but not brutal. Really only a couple of Fairfield-type holes. Terrific trapezoidal teepads. I hadn't been up there for a couple of years and they're doing a great job with the course. I think all the teepads were still limestone back then and most if not all the holes have cement pads for the longs (all the shorts have them), and well over half the holes have nice benches and/or tree stump 'stools' installed.

Open and Adv shot the longs 1st rd, everybody shot the shorts the second. (God I love alliteration....) I shot like crap the first round, did OK the second, and it was a hollow victory in Rec as clearly 80% of the Int field didn't belong there and I wouldn't have cashed there... but I'll take it. 

Since there were so few propagators in Int and Rec, and there was an 869 (sic) player who shot a 49 1st round, our ratings for the 1st rd are a bit brutal...

Barish, in addition to heroic driving duties and outplaying me the 1st round, took home a pair of QuadShocks in a raffle.

Food vendor onsite between rounds and after; excellent organization. Thanks Josh, Johann and everyone else involved.

[stpitner]

A win is a win, congrats Damon.  Wish I could have gone - fine line with leaving my wife with 2 kids when one of them isn't even a week old yet!  Is there another course that would be a better comparison (maybe lombard?)

Alas, an awful mistake at alliteration.  Alliteration always aims at vowels, maybe most "misremember" this term, consonation

[damonshort]

A win is a win, congrats Damon.  Wish I could have gone - fine line with leaving my wife with 2 kids when one of them isn't even a week old yet!  Is there another course that would be a better comparison (maybe lombard?)

It's nothing like Lombard. (wouldn't think of making the trip if it were....) With all the wooded holes it's closer to Parkside, I suppose. Esp with the Parkside redesign.

Alas, an awful mistake at alliteration.  Alliteration always aims at vowels, maybe most "misremember" this term, consonation

um, no. not nice to be a nattering nabob of negativism here. I can't find any source for 'alliteration' that makes this distinction. Just one example...
 
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/alliteration

Begone, before someone drops a haiku on you.. 

[Chainmeister]

I could come up with a queer quadshock quip but I will quit.

I think Tendick is more like a Parkside junior.  If there was a course like this within 20 miles of my home I would be a significantly better player.  Alas, I run up to Fink to practice- drive, putt, drive, putt.  I now throw two drives off the tee at Fink.  One backhand and one forehand.  Its forcing me to learn how to throw a friggin' forehand and it gives me more upshot practice as the forehands don't go as far.  rant aside...

Thanks to Josh for a very fun and well run tournament. It was a very fun day. My only quarrel is that I wish there were more propagators in the lower divisions.  I think the ratings were a bit depressed and the compression was a bit weird with 13 points per stroke.

[Jon Brakel]

Different tees for the lower divisions, I assume? If you remember we used to have the same problem with the early IOS tournaments until we started running all the same tees for everyone. Doesn't always work on all courses but it doesn't hurt to let the TDs know that you'd rather play the same tees as everyone else for ratings purposes.

[Chainmeister]

I was going to say something as we figured Damon and I were the only propagators in Rec. However, there were 29 intermediates.  It turns out that enough of them were propagators to get a rated round but not enough to make the rating statistically strong.  I think there were only 9 propagators.  The ratings were derived from a very small sample and a couple lower rated players, including myself, had a good round and a higher rated player had a poor round. This depressed the ratings for that round.  We all played the same tees second round and the sample is richer.  That round was 30 points higher.  I think 10-15 points were due to increased wind. It was tougher. The rest was due to a better sample with advanced and pros included. 

I recall playing Mayhem a few years ago at Tendick and saw this problem and got them to have the lower divisions play the longs first round. If that did not happen the round would not have been rated. 

In the second round Damon and iI were the only ones in our group who didn't have kids following us.  One guy had his wife and two nieces.  The other guy had his wife and baby who is due in two months. The wife was a trooper. She marched around the course, carrying his bag all day.  I gave her my stool half way through the round as she was beginning to get tired. He is going to have the nighttime diaper duty after getting her to caddy while 7 months pregnant.