Announcing the Piney Woods Pro-Am, December 12-13, 2009 Benefitting the CMN!

[Alacrity]

NOW USDGC AND USADGC QUALIFIERS!!!!!



Announcing the Piney Woods Pro-Am VI! This is to be held December 12-13, 2009 and will be an A Tier for Pro/Advanced divisions and B Tier for Rec/Int/Jr. This year we will be benefitting the Children's Miracle Network, with money earmarked for juvenile diabetics.

As in the past years, the tournament will be held at Lindsey Park. This year a new Gold standard course will be played, along with our Blue and Red standards for the A Tier groups. Count it, three courses in one park!!! The Gold course is called Dogwood and includes a variety of different types of holes. You will be using just about every trick you have in your bag to be able to shoot well on Dogwood. The Rose City Disc Club is working hard to get the course complete before the event. We have the baskets cemented in, with alternate pins for 9 out of the 18 holes and will be working with the city to get the cement pads in before the tournament. The course is playable today, should you want to get some practice in, but will play very hard until the pads are in and the fairway grooming is completed. This is opposed to just being hard when we do J. The Dogwood course will only be played by the Pro and Advanced divisions. I am sorry if you want to play intermediate, but this course is simply too hard for intermediate and recreation play. From my experience, and others, this course is the hardest course in Texas. It is not just because of the trees, this course is technically challenging, requires strength and planning. Quite a few of the holes require well placed shots just to assure par and par is not necessarily a 3.
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Registration will be open within the next 2 weeks on www.TitleDisc.com, via e-mail, snail mail or before the tournament. Last year we were full and I had to turn a couple of players away. As I have stated in the past, I will NOT allow the tournament to overfill. Due to the shortness of daylight and the difficulty of the Dogwood course, I cannot allow 5 man cards. I would strongly suggest you pre-register to assure your place. Fortunately I only had to turn away some local players, so that they did not have far to drive to get home. Keep your eyes open for the day registration starts. I will randomly select one player from the first five players to register, and will gift that person with a tournament CFR disc. As in the past, all pro players to pre-register will receive a full color mini for the tournament. Also, do not call or e-mail and ask for a place to be held unless you are family, a sponsor or a previous winner. I cannot hold spaces since I had to turn away people last year.

Over the next couple of weeks I will post additional info, such as hotels, etc. So keep checking back. I will see everyone in three months.

[Alacrity]

As in the past, I am requesting sponsorship for the Piney Woods Pro Am. Sponsorship can be in the form of money, materials, assistance, etc. This tournament has been a benefit every year, except for the second, and even that year proceeds were donated to a Hurricane Katrina fund. This is a not for profit event and I can use your help. This event will be benefitting the Children's Miracle Network with money going to assist Juvenile Diabetics. The money will be used to help educate young diabetics in what diabetes is and how to take care of themselves. It will do this by helping them get to camps, where they can meet other diabetics and find that they are not alone in a disease that can be both physically and mentally debilitating.

So how can you help? There are several ways and I ask that you consider one of them. The first is to sponsor the tournament with money. All money will be divided up between the Children's Miracle Network, added funds to the professional payout and sponsoring the costs of player packages and tournament costs. Another way you can help is by donating materials. Last year we had enough materials donated that we gave a CTP to every card (36 CTP packages total). At an average value of $35 this was over $1000 worth of prizes spread out to 36 different players. So if you have any discs collecting dust in your garage, this is a great way to help the tournament be successful. Another way you can help is by donating items for our silent auction. Last year we raised about $500 that went directly to the charity from the silent auction. This, with sponsorship money collected, PDGA donations and player donations put our tournament at $3000 donated in the name of disc golf. Just for your peace of mind, with the exception of silent auction items, all donated materials are given away. No money from donated materials, including silent auction items, came back to payout or the tournament fees. It either was given away on CTPs or went into the silent auction where all money was donated to the charity. Please contact me at jerrypower@sbcglobal.net if you are interested in helping. This year I will be putting an autographed disc by "Steady" Ed Hedrick up for auction, if you cannot make the tournament, but are still interested in the autographed disc, drop me a line and I can work out a method of call ins so that you can also bid on the disc. I would like to keep the disc, but I believe Steady Ed would approve of the use of this disc to help raise money.

I look forward to seeing everyone in December.


Jerry Power

[Alacrity]

The Rose City Disc Club worked hard this past weekend to prepare the new course at Lindsey Park, Dogwood, for tournament play. We cleaned up multiple fairways and defined a few new ones as well. This course is kick *****! Within the next month the city promises to get the cement tee pads in and we will be working hard to finish out signs and a little bit more course tweaking. If you want to see this course before the tournament, come join the club mini's Saturday morning at 9. I would strongly suggest you play through the course once before the tournament. This course will require strategy to play well.

I will have the info up on www.titledisc.com for pre-registering and strongly suggest you take advantage of it. Last year we had 146 players. With three courses we should be able to fit a few more players in, however this is not a true statement for the Intermediate/Rec and Jr’s. The max will be 72 for these divisions. Please pre-register if you plan to drive any distance at all. For Pro and Adv divisions the max will be 144, but since this is an A Tier, expect this number to be close to filling as well.

I hope to see everyone in just over 2 months.

[Dstruchen]

We can't wait!! Thanks to the Rose City Disc Club for ALL your hard work - I'm so excited to see the new course
Deidre

[jamie]

Course is tougher than manor????

[Alacrity]

I have never played Manor, so I can not tell you if it is tougher or not. What is the best open score for Manor?

I can tell you that it is the toughest course I have ever played. Unlike some tough courses, it is also fun.

[Alacrity]

I am determining the entry fees for the PWO now. My preference would be to leave entry fees about the same as last year. There would be some modification to handle the mandatory $25 player package for Adv divisions, but not much. This would probably make my tournament the cheapest A Tier around. As players what would be your preferences?

[jamie]

I think its 57 singles and maybe 53 in dubs at manor with 9 legit par fours---off the fairway it its ROUGH and the fairways arent real wide for the most part

[Alacrity]

Originally Posted by jamie

I think its 57 singles and maybe 53 in dubs at manor with 9 legit par fours---off the fairway it its ROUGH and the fairways arent real wide for the most part

From these scores I would say they are about the same for the long pin position, with Dogwood maybe being slightly harder and a little easier for the short pin position. As for pars, we are trying to work that out now, but it is hard to figure. The fairways are "fair", but if you miss them you can quickly rack up points. I am a decent player and on the short pins my best score is 60. I would expect a top pro player to get 54 to 55. On the long pins my best score is 63 and I would expect a top pro to get around 56 to 58.

[jamie]

nice, hope I get to make it

[baldguy]

We are in for sure, and we should be able to sponsor again this year as well. I can't wait to see the dogwood course, I've heard so many good things (mostly from Jerry ).

It's ABOUT FREAKIN TIME this tournament became an A-Tier! Jerry puts on a great show and works his butt off for the players. The Rose City Disc Club is always there putting in extra hours and making sure this is a great tournament to attend. This is the event that I save up my free hotel nights for - just to be sure nothing gets in the way

Can't wait!

[Alacrity]

Just a reminder, this will be an A Tier event for Pro and Adv divisions. This means that you will need to be a current PDGA member to play. If you are not current you can sign up at the tournament to re-up or for a new membership. If you sign up at my event, you will be current for all of 2010, so if you are not current you get the benefit of playing the tournament, you get the remainder of the month as a PDGA member AND you will be current for all of 2010. If you do not want to sign up at the tournament you can re-up on line anytime in November and I believe you will be current for all of 2010 as well.

For Intermediate and Recreational players, you do not have to be a PDGA member to play.

[Alacrity]

I want to make this very clear. There will only by 72 players for the B-Tier Int/Rec/Jr portion of the Piney Woods Pro-Am. It will fill. I want to strongly encourage the B-Tier group to either step up your game and Play Adv or Open, or pre-register. I will have everyhting up on www.titledisc.com within the week.

[John Keith]

so can this be a qualifier for USDGC Please, it would help all us Texas boys that can travel to all the NTs fro qualifyng spots.
and I am totally willing and so is DynamicDisc boys to see this thing turn into Texas's NT premeir event. I think Tyler can support NT and especially Lindsay park. Anything I can do to help this vision....Im in. Texas needs and deserves an NT, and I would much rather see you guys do it over the Houston guys screwing it up........Way to go Tyler you guys rock

[John Keith]

Originally Posted by Alacrity

I am determining the entry fees for the PWO now. My preference would be to leave entry fees about the same as last year. There would be some modification to handle the mandatory $25 player package for Adv divisions, but not much. This would probably make my tournament the cheapest A Tier around. As players what would be your preferences?

Well as Open player Im willing to pay higher entry cause i like the higher payout, most Texas open boys are coming to bring home cash, so ill pay whatever i have to , to make purse better to fight for, USDGC qualifier would be great also

[Alacrity]

Thanks for the praise, but I don't think we compare to Houston in any way, shape or form. They do a great job at fund raising and in helping smaller events to raise money. I have been very pleased with their assistance in the past. They are very well coordinated and their club is one of the stongest in the state. With that said, I don't see a problem with running an NT event and have considered it in the past. My problem is the fund raising part. I need sponsorship in the form of merchandise, cash and good will. I cannot seem to find big sponsorship and the club is simply not big enough to be able to raise funds at the same level of expertise that HFDS does. But thanks for the good words.

Originally Posted by kvdiscpro

so can this be a qualifier for USDGC Please, it would help all us Texas boys that can travel to all the NTs fro qualifyng spots.
and I am totally willing and so is DynamicDisc boys to see this thing turn into Texas's NT premeir event. I think Tyler can support NT and especially Lindsay park. Anything I can do to help this vision....Im in. Texas needs and deserves an NT, and I would much rather see you guys do it over the Houston guys screwing it up........Way to go Tyler you guys rock

[suemac]

From the outside, it always looks like running the big events is a piece of cake. If players only realized how hard and for how long a club works to make events happen. And in reference to NT (not that big a deal) a situation arrises, after you've raised all your money, worked really hard to bring your event in.................big brother comes to tell you where to put the added cash you raised.

Here here to Super Tour events! Jerry, can't wait for this one.

BTW, I have to agree that Texas deserves a USDGC qualifier, and to infer that OK is close.......................those decision making gentlemen have never been to TEXAS!

[Alacrity]

I am currently checking into what it would take to be a USDGC qualifier. It may be too late this year, but as soon as I know, so will everyone else. I do want to point out that this event is first a benefit to the Children's Miracle Network. What this means is that while I can go to more companies to solicite money, I also will be donating part of it to the CMN. However, this has not stopped the event from having great payouts, but it kind of makes it difficult to divert money from one location to another. I will let everyone know.

[Xian Rocs]

Originally Posted by kvdiscpro

I would much rather see you guys do it over the Houston guys screwing it up........

Hey Keith,

Watch how you talk about us Houston guys...

until you're ready to get involved and help, don't dis our efforts.

If you'd care to support that claim, be sure to do it under Scott's "NT's a Crock" rant thread and don't hijack this one.


Jerry,

Great job getting this put together. I look forward to finally playing one of your events, regardless of Tier status. I've heard nothing but good things about any event you've been involved with.

[Alacrity]

I have submitted a request to have the Piney Woods Pro Am added as a USDGC qualifier. I am not sure that the decision can be made in the time frame we have left, but if not then maybe next year. If you guys and gals are interested in helping the PWO become a qualifier then please go to the USDGC site and let them know what you think and feel about it.

I would like to let everyone know that this will be put on by the Rose City Disc Club in conjunction with Twisted Flier! Twisted Flier has always been a sponsor and has also been of great assistance in making sure that this little east Texas event has been successful. Thanks Joe for coming on board!

[oceanjones]

Jerry, do you have a host hotel yet? Or at least any suggestions?

[Alacrity]

As of today, I cannot get any better discounts than the PDGA discounts. I do have a Motel 6 that has promised excellent rates and I will verify and post. As for entry fees, I believe I have set the fees and will be posting them very soon.

Originally Posted by oceanjones

Jerry, do you have a host hotel yet? Or at least any suggestions?

[AByrd]

The Dogwood course will only be played by the Pro and Advanced divisions.

Jerry, is this to include senior (MPS and MPL) divisions, if enough players come? Also, would Advanced Grandmasters play the Dogwood Course?

As soon as you come up with flyers, post a link here and I'll get some up on the courses in North Louisiana.

[oceanjones]

The PDGA LaQuinta rate is actually pretty good. One room two full beds three adults 39.10 a night plus tax. 3.8 miles from the course. Looks nicer than the motel 6 too. Book'em Danno!

Jerry, if i send you proof of my reservation can I get the prize for being the first to sign up ?

[John Keith]

me (keith) and Jeremy with Dynamic Disc are willing to help what ever it takes to Make PineyWoods Texas's NT premier event. Tyler would be a great Venue.
keith'kvdiscpro@hotmail.com
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[John Keith]

Is Piney a USDGC qualifier eevent and if not can it be.

[John Keith]

Originally Posted by Alacrity

Thanks for the praise, but I don't think we compare to Houston in any way, shape or form. They do a great job at fund raising and in helping smaller events to raise money. I have been very pleased with their assistance in the past. They are very well coordinated and their club is one of the stongest in the state. With that said, I don't see a problem with running an NT event and have considered it in the past. My problem is the fund raising part. I need sponsorship in the form of merchandise, cash and good will. I cannot seem to find big sponsorship and the club is simply not big enough to be able to raise funds at the same level of expertise that HFDS does. But thanks for the good words.

well again, I bring on board that I am well networked in Texas and can help to bring communication together to make an NT work. I think you guys In Tyler would do great for discgolf and Texas with an NT, great city, great club, great courses, great Location for NT. Me and Jeremy with Dynamic Disc will help to make an NT happen, what do you need for us to make this happen.???

[John Keith]

[QUOTE=Xian Rocs;1398117]Hey Keith,



until

[John Keith]

Originally Posted by Alacrity

I have submitted a request to have the Piney Woods Pro Am added as a USDGC qualifier. I am not sure that the decision can be made in the time frame we have left, but if not then maybe next year. If you guys and gals are interested in helping the PWO become a qualifier then please go to the USDGC site and let them know what you think and feel about it.

I would like to let everyone know that this will be put on by the Rose City Disc Club in conjunction with Twisted Flier! Twisted Flier has always been a sponsor and has also been of great assistance in making sure that this little east Texas event has been successful. Thanks Joe for coming on board!

yes I emailed USDGC and begged for Piney to be a qualifier...

[John Keith]

[QUOTE=Xian Rocs;13981