Okay, here are some results. We had 67 players for THE first ever DG Tourney in Lamesa! Wow! Yes, we do have some plans/talks to already look into having some overflow holes for future events. Players traveled from Clovis, Amarillo, Plainview (via Omaha), Abilene, Big Spring, Midland, Littlefield, Levelland, Brownfield, and Lubbock. THANKS for supporting guys! I had five divisions for this event. Rec and women threw red’s both rounds while all others threw red then white. Rec was the biggest division with 24 players. Cody (Brownfield birthday boy) took the win with a 113 (after some minor confusion). Lisa traveled from Clovis to take the win with a 125 in the four person women’s division. Trey (Lubbock) won with a 110 in advanced in a field of 18. In the old guy division we had 10 players where Greg (Big Spring) and Eric (Lubbock) tied for first with a 111. Marcace (Lubbock) won open with a smokin’ 98. We can’t really declare course records just yet as there were three portable baskets used (14, 16, & 17) and we’re not quite yet in a defined format yet. BUT, Bo threw a very hot 44 from the red tees. Marcace threw a 50 from the white tees. The red tee round front and back played fairly similarly with generally a stroke more on the back. The white tee round front was usually around two strokes or so lower than the back. Hole 11 misc. – highest score from red was 7, lowest were several 3’s, highest score from white was 8, lowest was a 3 (Bryan Davis). CTB’s for Round 1 were questionable as 23.3” does not equal 23.3’ (and decimals are not used in English system….so I lost out on the CTB that really was mine). CTB in second round went to Dwayne Collins. No aces hit, so throw off, and I think Isaac, Oliver, and Jordan win some cash. The course is still being installed with OB lines, better mando markers, OB lines (cables, fence, paint, etc), a course sign, tee marker signs, among other things. If OB was circled as requested on the cards, there were only 58 total OB’s out of 2,412 holes played (or apx 8440 throws). So, there is only a 2.4% chance of OB per hole and only 0.7% chance per throw. The very high majority of OB was on holes 11 and 15 as expected. There were a few OB’s on 1,2,3, and a very odd OB on 18. Robert Seal and Jose’ Barron (and Kristie and family) really, really made this event happen in a very short crunch time week of prep. Come back to Lamesa again…the course will be even better in the next few weeks. Go rate the area courses at PDGA.com and DGCourseReview.com (I think it will be good for us regionally). Also, in late April each year, Lamesa holds a 'chicken fry festival'.....hmmm, might be a good time to hold another tourney......
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