Forsyth County Open
On September 24-26th outside of Atlanta, GA you could see a gathering of World Champions from 1990 through 2010 with 1999's Ron Russell and 2005 & 2007's Nate Doss the only two Open champions not currently scheduled to appear. 12 time Champion Ken Climo will be joined by Cam Todd, Barry Schultz, David Feldberg, Avery Jenkins, and current Open Champion Eric McCabe, along with Masters Champions Brad Hammock and Phil Arthur and touring sensations Nikko Locastro, Paul Ulibarri and Matt Orum for a star studded field of top pros all shooting for a guaranteed 1st place prize of $2000 cash.
The Event is being held on the "Supersized Max" Central Park Par 60 layout. This layout uses the entire 27 hole original course layout which has multiple tee and pin placements and plays around the entire park. It combines some of the shorter holes into 1 longer hole making the risk/reward stakes higher after bringing shot selection to avoid OB areas into the players thought process as they navigate the course. By using the optimal tee and basket locations it makes it the most challenging and fair 18 hole course the property has to offer.
Players will play one round a day with scheduled tee times. The Pro and Advanced divisions will be in the same mid-morning / afternoon tee time blocks all 3 days. The Intermediate and Recreational divisions will be playing in the concurrent B-Tier and have the same morning tee times both Saturday and Sunday.
The players will be able to take advantage of all the local area amenities as well as the Friday night FlyMart and Saturday night players party being held at the host hotel - the Hilton Garden Inn / Alpharetta.
The Alpharetta Visitor and Convention Bureau has been a huge help in securing the outstanding hotel deals offered to the players with choices of:
- $59.00 Single, including breakfast coupons
- $69.00 Double, including breakfast coupons or
- $89.00 Team Suite - which sleeps up to 8 people enjoys the use of two adjoining rooms with one king, king sofa bed and two doubles, including breakfast coupons which includes deluxe full hot buffet breakfast with cooked to order eggs, Belgian waffles, pancakes and waffles plus much more!
The Hotel can be booked here: http://hiltongardeninn.hilton.com/en/gi/groups/personalized/ATLALGI-GS2748-20100923/index.jhtml
The Alpharetta Visitor and Convention Bureau has also supported disc golf locally by purchasing 18 New Innova Discatcher Baskets for the redesigned Wills Park Disc Golf Course (the starting home course to a few of the World Champs listed above) to give them another venue to experience when travelling to the area for future Events.
Spectators are welcome and encouraged to come and watch the top players battle it out for the title while walking along the nice trail that loops inside the course that allows you to watch multiples holes from many key vantage points.
Tournament Director Keith Johnson is looking forward to hosting the top players again as he used to do yearly when he ran the Kendall Indian Hammocks A-Tiers in the late 1990's/early 2000's in Miami, FL.
Registration for the Event can be found here: http://www.pdgasignup.com/Qstore/Qstore.cgi?CMD=011&PROD=1256866840
The list of currently registered players is here: http://www.pdga.com/tournament-results?TournID=9704
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