2010 IOS #1 @ CHANNAHON, IL May 1st & 2nd - Dave Pitner Memorial

[stpitner]

IOS #1 @ Channahon, IL--5/1 & 5/2 2010

Pro B-Tier / Am B-Tier

[Barcas420]

are the ams shooting both days or just on sunday at channy and for the rest of the IOS series

[stpitner]

The official information will be coming out soon, but expect to have these division splits:

Open (Pro), Intermediate (AM), Novice (AM) -> Saturday
All other divisions -> Sunday

[stpitner]

Pre-Registration for IOS #1 is now online!
http://www.paperorplasticsports.com/tournaments.html

The divisions splits as shown above are correct.  Full tournament details can be found by going to the tournament information and registration link at the above page.

[stpitner]

The Dave Pitner Memorial - May 1st-2nd, 2010 B-TIER

This event was formerly the Irish You the Best of Luck tournament held in March.  3 years ago, while running the first "Irish" tournament (held in Elk Grove Village), I received a phone call to immediately go to the hospital because my dad (Dave Pitner) had suffered a heart attack.  I arrived at the hospital and found out that he was dead upon arrival.  The following year the event was moved to Channahon - a larger venue for a larger tournament.  Now the event has moved to the month of May for the warmer weather and his birthday was in May.  He was a Christian, a disc golfer, a former volunteer fireman, a computer systems programmer, and a great dad.

David Scott Pitner - May 11, 1959 - March 3, 2007, died at the age of 47.

[Barcas420]

tryed to register today the web site to regu=ister at  keeps telling me there is an error that i have entered the wrong  postal code i know where  i live and i know my postal code  fix this problem please

[stpitner]

That's part of the google checkout system that I don't have access to - it's asking you for the billing address zip code, so if you get your statements mailed elsewhere (or if you are paperless and you moved and you haven't updated your address with the credit card) try a previous zip code.  I doubt that it would complain about a 5 digit versus a 9-digit zip code.  If not, you can either pay via PayPal, send me a check/money order in the mail, or if you want I can arrange for a phone call to take the cc over the phone and run it through my own system.

[Barcas420]

I sent you a money order, with my PDGA #  and DIV.  I made it payable to paper or plastic

[airspuds]

registered on line
10569

thx scott cant wait

[pdga#7648]

mailed the check today.
Takes care of IOS#1 and #2. Will be signing up for #3 and #5 next month.  Will be in Canada for IOS #4  sorry. The smallmouth bass are calling. Didn't get to go last year. And have had that week off work since Jan 1st.

[Barcas420]

Scott i only see one pereson pre reg for this tourny on the PDGA website,  are you gonna update that or not?

[airspuds]

only time in my life i would be considered a  favorite

if only 1 player shows, is it  really a  tournament

or are they at the wrong course

or is it the wrong date

[stpitner]

I have a handful of registrations that I hope to put up soon.  I've been trying to concentrate on taxes to get all of that out of the way!

[Bruce Brakel]

What is the pre-reg deal this year? I'm sure I could go look it up, and I probably will, but this way I can bump the thread!    

[stpitner]

thanks for the bump, Bruce   Players save $5 when they pre-register!  So it's $30 for AM's, $50 for Pro's when you mail in your pre-reg.  $33/$53 online, but $35/$55 at the tournament.  Pre-registration is definitely the way to go!

Minimum $500 added cash to the pro purse.  Frank always puts a lot of time and effort into this course, and the park district has been awesome to work with.  This is going to be a great day!

[tacimala]

It's showing "IOS #1 The Dave Pitner Memorial - MPO, MA2, MA4" as a 2 day event on Saturday and Sunday. I'm guessing that is supposed to only be a one day thing and should be changed on the PDGA site?

[pickax]

Yes, it should be two single day events.

[stpitner]

I did send an email to Karolyn about this as soon as I saw the post - hopefully it will be corrected early next week.  That can get confusing!

Should be a fun day!  Frank always does a fantastic job with the course.  We'll probably do the same 3 temp holes - the one long shoot down the treeline after 18 (does the backup on this temp hole ever get super bad?), and then one with nasty OB near the basket followed by another playing back towards the baseball field.  I'll have to confirm that no baseball will be going on from that field as well!

[pdga#7648]

last year we got to the 1st temp after 18 and 2 other 4 somes were still waiting to drive.they were waiting till others completed the hole, when clearly it's safe to drive after others throw their 2nd shots.

[tacimala]

Could always help the flow by having the group ahead take their upshots and then "spot" for the group behind to drive before finishing up the hole. That way the flow stays a bit more consistent since there's always someone in every group that at one point, on their best drive ever, with a huge tailwind threw it that far and so the group ahead has to hole out completely before they throw it in the woods.