2004 ILLINOIS OPEN SERIES

[airspuds]

over all

fine by me

[SERG]

Take the tollway to route 120 (Belvidere) take Belvidere West. 120 eventually intersects with Fairfield Rd, turn right.
After about 3 miles, maybe more, the course will be on the left.

The tag challenge will likely work like how it was run @ Streamwood & CL - everybody has to turn in their tags before the first round starts then after all cards are turned in from the afternoon round lowest overall score gets the lowest tag and so forth.

Maybe I can finally get rid of #31 (preferrably with a lower #)

[airspuds]

last year Il open

spuds  (played advanced to get pdga pts)
59   55

will be played am this year

serg  
62  57

looking forward to getting up north

[airspuds]

what s the deal for lunch ?

best closest place to eat

[Eddie311]

what s the deal for lunch ?

best closest place to eat

notin  

[mirth]

Downtown Round Lake, which is a 5-10 minute drive from the course. Lots of your usual fast food type fare.

[airspuds]

fast food is fine

i dont remember what i ate last year
because my brother drove

i tend to go get the food (as soon as round is over) and eat at the car
during the break then putt a  little

hows the parking this year ?

[CEValkyrie]

The parking is fine. They added a new lot.  

[CEValkyrie]

Today started off looking terrible. I woke up & it looked like rain. Heck, the forecast was calling for rain all day. I got out to the park & expected no more than 20 players today.

The weather ended up holding off. 61 players showed & it did not start raining until the awards ceremony. The Ace Pool started off @ $170.00 & ended up being $338.00. Tom M. hit an Ace on #8 & took the cash. I guess he got kicked off a tree into the basket.

There were a ton of club members & bag tag holders. I will post the bag tag challenge from today later.

There was some sort of CTP, Longest Drive, & Longest Putt contest on every hole for the 2nd round. Over $300.00 worth of brass cash funny money was awarded for these.

Overall Series Champions
Intermediate-> Eric Doty
Recreational-> Jon Brakel
Pro2-> Brain Karnov
Intermediate Women-> Diana Brakel
Junior-> Adrian Gutierrez Jr.
Advanced Masters-> Adrian Gutierrez Sr.

[CEValkyrie]

2 Aces Sunday.
Nate B. #2
Brett C. #9

Mike Swieger 3'd #18


Sunday Overall Series Champions.
Open-> Kris Hutter
Pro Master-> Roy Carey
Pro Women-> Barrett White
Advanced-> Justin Schandelmeir
Advanced Women-> Jeannine Rice



(brett I edited this to change '2 Aces Saturday' to '2 Aces Sunday'

[CEValkyrie]

I'm very happy with how the IO Series went this summer.

All 3 parks that we ran tournaments have improved. The parks have spent time improving their parks for the events.  They would not if there was no event. Here is an attendance breakdown. Streamwood-> 78, Crystal Lake-> 80, & Round Lake->97.  We brought PDGA Events to an area that has not had PDGA Events. It seemed there were several players from each division that wanted a chance to compete for an overall series champion and attended all 3 events. Even though only the winner won a trophy disc, this series was designed for fun & bragging rights. It did not cost the players .01 cent to have points tracked or pay for prizes. I'm not sure the exact # but there was a ton of brass cash CTP's given out over the 6 days. Jon, can we get an exact #? Payouts were well over 100% for all divisions.  During all 3 tournaments we were able to talk to casuals about disc golf, the pdga, the club, & tournaments. There were many new faces. DISContinuum was publicized & sold merch, bag tags, & several memberships. We also sold casuals fair priced discs rather than getting ripped off at local stores.


Please help us. I always like to hear constructive criticism. We are planning on running the series again next year, possibly adding an event or two. What did you like or dislike. What would you like to see changed? Suggestions.

[airspuds]

had a great time sat

i knew the weather was going to hold up ( for play)

course played well

tees were in great shape


thanks to all who made it happen

[mirth]

What were yesterday's results? Not looking for the full breakdown cuz I know thats coming in the next week or so, more just interested in who took first in what divisions.

Judging by the bag tag results I'd guess Brett took first in advanced...

Only 30-odd players yesterday?

[tree]

Yeah, Mirth-it was a beautiful day but the players didn't show up as expected. The overall weekend total was 97 tho. We couldn't have done that in 1 day so the format worked. There is talk of another IOS next year   We got home late last night so details should be posted tonight, I think.

[SERG]

Congratulations and many thanks to the Brakel Bros. and Brett for running an awesome and fun tourney at Round Lake (I wasn't able to attend any of the other IOS events). Definitely one of the top tourneys I've played in this year. I threw -3 for the day...that was with 7 bogeys and 1 double bogey. Take that double away and a couple of the bogeys and Serg ends up #1    Either way I had a fun time. Played with some fun guys from Joliet both rounds. Seen alot of different styles of play.

I really enjoyed the CTP opportunities during the second round...even if I didn't get any of them. To be honest, there were so many opportunities I kind of stopped paying attention to them (I mean this in a good way)    

Prizes, payouts, merchandise: Awesome! I've been pusing the Blast to alot of guys around Parkside; hopefully they'll follow through and show up.

Carla had a great time playing with the women in her groups. She learned alot from them. She's only been playing since about May so this has definitely tipped her interest in continuing to practice and become better. Fairfield was a humbling experience for her, but I think "bogey" golf for a beginner is a pretty good score on this course.

I look forward to seeing everyone again at the Blast.
Thanks again.

[CEValkyrie]

What were yesterday's results? Not looking for the full breakdown cuz I know thats coming in the next week or so, more just interested in who took first in what divisions.

Judging by the bag tag results I'd guess Brett took first in advanced...

Only 30-odd players yesterday?

36 Players Yestarday

I think these are the correct breakdowns.
10 Open
3 Pro Master
0 Pro Women
21 Advanced
2 Advanced Women

Winners
Open-> Kris Hutter
Pro Master-> Rob Schoenhoft
Advanced-> Brett Comincioli
Pro Women-> -----------------
Advanced Women-> Jeannine Rice

[mirth]

I guess you could afford the chainstar and then some! Way to go dude. Got it assembled yet? I wanna throw some putts tonight....

[CEValkyrie]

I guess you could afford the chainstar and then some! Way to go dude. Got it assembled yet? I wanna throw some putts tonight....

I'll have it assembled by the time you get there .

[justin s.]

Could you change my last name i have  seen it spelled wrong about 10 times and tried to get it corrected, guess thats what i get for having a long name. correct spelling --- Schandelmeier

[Jon Brakel]

Could you change my last name i have  seen it spelled wrong about 10 times and tried to get it corrected, guess thats what i get for having a long name. correct spelling --- Schandelmeier

Sorry about that. I think it's all those "extra" letters at the end...you know after about 3 syllables our brains just turn off or something. I'll try to get it fixed on everything that we post or turn in to the PDGA.