Ask Chuck Kennedy

[jeffash]

Chuck,
Before the KC Wide Open I had a 938 player rating.
My average for the 5 rounds at the KCWO was 938.8.
Is there a chance my rating will jump to 939 now?
Am I in the running for some sort of prize- booby, or otherwise?

[ck34]

KCWO won't be in this update and we round down, let alone those are unofficial ratings. Sounds like you're consistent though...

[Parkntwoputt]

I guess they got the results but not al the $$$ to the PDGA. Well there goes a 1023 rated event.

Welcome to the Southern Nationals.

[Parkntwoputt]

KCWO won't be in this update and we round down, let alone those are unofficial ratings. Sounds like you're consistent though...

3 out of my 5 rounds were 30+ points over my rating, and my "avg" was something close to 30 points over.

Do I get a prize for the PDGA's most inconsistent golfer?

[keithjohnson]

Plug your ratings into the personal ratings calculator that Sandalman posted on the Ask CK thread. You can try a variety of "what ifs" with that.

www.pdga.com/msgboard/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=556248&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=2&fpart=2&vc=1

thanks...i was just curious if i would be dropping to am eligilble....i think you should automatically be am eliglible if you have 100 point swings in every event you play (which i pretty much do )

i wish the 100 point swings were 995 to 1095...

maybe with the new outlook they will be....

[paerley]

3 out of my 5 rounds were 30+ points over my rating, and my "avg" was something close to 30 points over.

Do I get a prize for the PDGA's most inconsistent golfer?

I think I'm way ahead of you there. I can shoot 980 average golf one weekend and 900 average golf the next. Fortunately, I shot 900 rated golf this weekend with DGLO next...

[keithjohnson]

Plug your ratings into the personal ratings calculator that Sandalman posted on the Ask CK thread. You can try a variety of "what ifs" with that.

www.pdga.com/msgboard/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=556248&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=2&fpart=2&vc=1

also, the other problem with that thought about sandal's thingy is that i don't have the round ratings from augusta since they are already processed....which was the REAL reason i asked YOU in the first place....

i'll just wait until next week i guess,get the ratings from augusta off my stats and then plug things in...

thanks again for all your hard work chuck and i'll see you in august!

keith

[ck34]

If unofficial results and ratings are gone from the site, they aren't saved anywhere for me or anyone else to find them. The good news is that retaining unofficial ratings online until the official ones are calculated is on the list of technical enhancements for our website staff & volunteers. I've never checked to see if those online website archive sites might have a snapshot of our PDGA site from a few weeks or months ago to bring up the unofficial ratings. Another option is to look at other SSA values online for that course and estimate your ratings from that ( www.pdga.com/tournament/course_ratings_by_course.php )

[michaeljo]

hey chuck i dont know who to direct this too but i didnt realize that i had traveled to Berlin to play in a tournament there as well as playing i the Points Bonanza's in Charlotte at the same time. Well to get to the point they have my Pdga # in as the person who won the Berlin Open, who just happens to have the same name as me, i just need that fixed please
mj 23000

[esalazar]

congrats!!!lol

[dave_marchant]

....who just happens to have the same name as me, i just need that fixed please
mj 23000

No...this other MJ is 23000 and you are not him.

[michaeljo]

you're right Dave i am 20300

[dave_marchant]

twentythree hundred, twenty threehundred, twentythreehundred.....its all good. Just felt like busting your chops since I have your BagTag.

[michaeljo]

i didnt realize the #1 tag was officially mine

[adogg187420]

Im not sure if im supposed to ask Chuck about this but oh well...

I placed well enough in the Michiana tournament last weekend to receive a USADGC invitation. I played pro last year before i got hurt and cashed and accepted (a very small amount), and i was told that I cannot play in Majors as an AM if ive already accepted cash, no matter what. Someone told me this weekend at the tournament that if it has been a year, then I can play majors (USADGC, Am Worlds) again. I dont plan on going, so can i give the invitation to someone else?

[CB2]

Im not sure if im supposed to ask Chuck about this but oh well...

I placed well enough in the Michiana tournament last weekend to receive a USADGC invitation. I played pro last year before i got hurt and cashed and accepted (a very small amount), and i was told that I cannot play in Majors as an AM if ive already accepted cash, no matter what. Someone told me this weekend at the tournament that if it has been a year, then I can play majors (USADGC, Am Worlds) again. I dont plan on going, so can i give the invitation to someone else?

Yea you shouldn't have been allowed to play in the Roctober Double's and the Homie Memorial because you accepted cash in OPEN in the 21st Waterloo Open before those 2 ADVANCED tournament's.... At least that's what I have heard.

[adogg187420]

Who told you that? I played Open in the Waterloo and cashed (like $50 or something) and my rating was still under 955. So I played Homie's in AM1 after i cashed but was still under 955.

[CB2]

That's just what I have heard thru the grapevine. But I remember reading somewhere that, if you play open and cash, you have to wait 1 year and in that year you can't accept cash and your rating has to be below a 955 to play AM again after that year is up.

[quickdisc]

Are there or is there specific regulations on Basket heights or some standardization of them at A tier and NT tournaments ?

[ck34]

Are there or is there specific regulations on Basket heights or some standardization of them at A tier and NT tournaments ?

Not really. The standard applies to the manufacture but not necessarily the installation of the baskets. Based on the current tech standards, the TD could remove the chain assembly and the basket would still be PDGA legal. I doubt a TD would pull that move though.

[ck34]

I placed well enough in the Michiana tournament last weekend to receive a USADGC invitation. I played pro last year before i got hurt and cashed and accepted (a very small amount), and i was told that I cannot play in Majors as an AM if ive already accepted cash, no matter what. Someone told me this weekend at the tournament that if it has been a year, then I can play majors (USADGC, Am Worlds) again. I dont plan on going, so can i give the invitation to someone else?

Contact Dave Gentry at PDGA office.

[MTL21676]

Are there or is there specific regulations on Basket heights or some standardization of them at A tier and NT tournaments ?

I believe that all NT's have to have the same type of basket on every hole at a course. If there are multiple courses being played, then the courses can have different baskets as a long as they are consistent within each course.

[xterramatt]

I wonder if Pendleton King will swap all of the baskets before Worlds. I played there this weekend and it had an assortment of Mach 2s and Mach 5 with number plate on top? Not sure which model. Does it matter if they are different baskets from the same manufacturer? What about proto-Discatchers (top hat) and regular Discatchers? Renny has both.

[briangraham]

Matt,

All of the baskets at Pendleton King Park are DGA Mach-3. Seventeen of the baskets are the original ones installed in 1989 and the new one on hole 2 was recently installed to replace a broken basket. They will not be changed out before Worlds.

Pat Farrell, of DISConcepts, will be back in town this week to finish backfilling around the new concrete tee pads at Lake Olmstead.

BG

[snap]

Hey, i hope this isn't another stupid question... Do stats for rounds get updated upon submission or not until the next ratings update? My question relates to the BC Open two weeks ago.
Thanks.

[quickdisc]

I believe that all NT's have to have the same type of basket on every hole at a course. If there are multiple courses being played, then the courses can have different baskets as a long as they are consistent within each course.

That's what I thought. Thanks.

[dfee]

That's just what I have heard thru the grapevine. But I remember reading somewhere that, if you play open and cash, you have to wait 1 year and in that year you can't accept cash and your rating has to be below a 955 to play AM again after that year is up.

I know I read something similar, but I can't find it on the PDGA site. I don't remember it saying anything about a year after accepting cash, it just said that if you are a pro and under 955 you can play am in all events except majors. If you look at the Divisions table you can see on the bottom right that pros are eligible to play am as long as their rating (and/or age depending on division) allows them to.

[adogg187420]

But I remember reading somewhere that, if you play open and cash, you have to wait 1 year and in that year you can't accept cash

I just reread this....does this make sense?

[dfee]

I just reread this....does this make sense?

no

[klemrock]

Chuck, is there any way I can view scores on individual holes from the Majestic (or any other tourney)?
Thanks.