The 2011 SBC Pittsburgh Flying Disc Open is a National Tour event for the pros and an A-tier event for the ams.

Registration just opened up today and the website was launched also. More info will be added to the site as it becomes available.

www.wix.com/deitzel/pfdo

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Thanks for the pictures. I'm PUMPED to get back to the PFDO. Can't wait to see Deer Lakes.

I'm trying to figure out how to get there, but the van is not rolling this time.

What's up with the PDGA page? I can't see who is registered.

I'm trying to figure out how to get there, but the van is not rolling this time.

Perhaps this is incentive to find a buddy and travel north to Pittsburgh.

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trust me, I know! Working on it.

Nice Jerry!!!! Wish I would have had some of those for the website.

Look for PDGA live scoring this weekend at the 2011 Scholls Bicycle Centers Pittsburgh Flying Disc Open, which is the penultimate event of the PDGA 2011 National Tour Elite Series � �The Drive for the Championship� presented by Vibram.

The plan is to do at least one lead card on Saturday afternoon out at Deer Lakes, and then more live scoring on Sunday morning at Moraine State Park, and then the finals on Sunday afternoon at Knob Hill! :cool:

From Avery Jenkins' Twitter account (http://twitter.com/#!/Aviar7495):

just ACED Hole #7 at Deer Lakes Disc Golf Course in Tarentum, PA!!! It's my 1st Ace over 400 ft!!! http://yfrog.com/kjuo3thj (http://t.co/hjejjIT)


:eek:

The 400 ft. thing is a little deceptive because the hole plays severely downhill and effectively plays much shorter. However, as one can see from Avery's picture, the basket is in the C position and less than 20 feet behind the basket is a huge dropoff with deep schul which runs down to the parking lot. Unless your disc is hyzering off hard at the end of its flight, an ace run which missed chains would likely end up in big trouble. Congrats on one heck of a shot, Avery!!! :cool:

Here's a picture from the white tee; the blue tee is about 50 feet longer. The basket is pretty much straight ahead where it has been thinned out.

http://www.dgcoursereview.com/course_pics/125/a71a73e5.jpg

We're doing live scoring of lead card Josh Anthon, Will Schusterick, Steve Brinster, and Ricky Wysocki playing their 2nd round at Deer Lakes. Once the PDGA Tour Manager gets the red button up, click and follow along! :cool:

Live scoring link: http://www.pdga.com/tournament/live.php?TournID=11029&Div=MPO

Will Schusterick is visibly frustrated and not having the round he did this morning, but it could have been worse - has made some HUGE par saving and long putts, including a 75+ footer on hole#14 for a birdie 4! :eek:

Go Ricky, he is on fire!

It was a total treat watching Ricky and the rest of the lead card absolutely demolish the Deer Lakes course this afternoon.

I can't wait to see what they do at Moraine tomorrow morning.

Follow the action here at PDGA.com (http://www.pdga.com/tournament/live.php?TournID=11029)!!! :cool:

I had the pleasure of watching Phill Arthur score an eagle 3 from the gold tee on hole 16 at Moraine State Park. He powered a RHBH roller (Destroyer) up the sloped fairway and onto the hilltop beyond the row of mature pine trees. His lie was on the left side of the fairway and he threw a forehand roller which ended up in "Gary's Gully" just behind the basket. Easy put = eagle 3.

Very cool to see in person. :)

Nice playing yourself Jerry!

Page's two throw lead has evaporated over the first two holes. Sarah nearly took the lead outright but her birdie bid on the signature pro four 15th hole clanged off the top.

There's still a ton of golf to be played...follow along with the live scoring! :cool:

Page just nearly made one of the most incredible plays I've ever witnessed. On the uphill pro par five 16th hole, she crushed her drive from the blue tee all the way up through the gap and over the hill. Then, from over 300 feet out her "approach shot" skipped up and clanged the top of the basket! :eek:

Unfortunately it ricocheted down into Gary's Gully and she was unable to convert the uphill 35 foot comebacker. But nearly seeing a double eagle albatross was quite thrilling!

Feldberg's unofficial 1079 yesterday at Deer Lakes should come in around 6th best all time for courses in the 60-66 SSA range.

The FPO looks like a heavyweight fight out there! Some great action. http://www.pdga.com/tournament/live.php?TournID=11029&Div=FPO

The FPO looks like a heavyweight fight out there! Some great action. http://www.pdga.com/tournament/live.php?TournID=11029&Div=FPO

May not be the best analogy for the women's division :) but this is EXACTLY why I wanted to follow their card today...I knew the battle between Page and Sarah was goin to be fierce! Sarah actually did lead by 1, and then she was down by 3, and now she has fought back to within 1 of Page.

Sarah Hokom is throwing some sick forehand rollers...I don't see women throw rollers very often (if ever, actually) and so I can honestly say that she is the best female roller I've ever seen. :cool:

From the Gold tee, Paul Ulibarri just eagle 2'd the pro par four 2nd hole with a long flick approach! :eek:

It's all tied up between Page and Sarah heading into the finals at Knob Hill! :eek:

Who made the finals in the MPO?

Live scoring is happening for the lead Open, Open Women, and Masters card!


Follow the action here at PDGA.com (http://www.pdga.com/tournament/live.php?TournID=11029)!!! :cool:

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About 1/3 of the way through the Finals, there's a tie for the lead in every Pro division! What an exciting finish to the 2011 Pittsburgh Flying Disc Open!!! :cool:

Tom Kim just sank a 100-foot "putt" on hole#3 with a Piranha! :eek:

Mike Moser just chained out on the 381-foot downhill 9th hole here at Knob Hill...just mere inches from the ace of a lifetime! :eek:

CONGRATZ to all the winners and to everyone else who competed in the event or helped out!!!

So I think when a pro wins money at an NT that they should stick around for the awards ceremony. If I was the TD and you wanted your money before the awards so you could leave early, I'd tell you to wait 30 minutes or I'll send you your check in the mail.

i agree...

Thirded.

Hate when players do that to me as a TD, so I don't do it to other TDs as a player. It's enough to get things settled and set-up for the awards as it is, taking time out to give special attention to a player in a rush doesn't really help matters.

Thanks for coming and helping Jeff LaGrassa. Was nice to see you again.

Chris, thanks for the kind words...it was my pleasure to be able to help out. I look forward to rapping some more with you and Lori at the Vibram, especially about the discussion on the Deer Lakes thread at dgcoursereview.com.

I'll be out in Pittsburgh again for the Seachickens vs. Steelers game on Sunday 9/18; hopefully we can get a LaGrassa Open going on Saturday the 17th and someone will step up to challenge you for your title! :cool:

Thirded.

Hate when players do that to me as a TD, so I don't do it to other TDs as a player. It's enough to get things settled and set-up for the awards as it is, taking time out to give special attention to a player in a rush doesn't really help matters.

If you have to leave early as a player and you have won some money, hand a S.A.S.E. to the TD and thank them for their time.

From: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11244/1171142-54.stm

187 send discs flying during Disc Open
Thursday, September 01, 2011
By Karen Kane, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

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Elaine King of Durham, N.C., throws her disc during the Flying Disc Open at Knob Hill Park in Marshall on Sunday afternoon.


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The North Hills attracted a national sports group for the three-day Scholl's Bicycle Centers Pittsburgh Flying Disc Open sponsored by the Professional Disc Golf Association.

The local event was one of eight on a national tour.

Starting Friday, men and women disc golfers began competing for the title of Pittsburgh Flying Disc Open champion and $15,000 in prize money.

The tournament was played on the Lakeview Course at Moraine State Park in Butler County, the Knob Hill Community Park at Marshall and Deer Lakes Park in Frazer. The final round was Sunday at Knob Hill.

The object of the game is for players (arranged in groups of four) to throw discs into buckets. There are 18 "holes" in each round.

Disc golf is played much like traditional golf. Instead of a ball and clubs, however, players use a flying disc, or Frisbee.
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According to the Professional Disc Golf Association website, the sport was formalized in the 1970s and shares with "ball golf" the object of completing each hole in the fewest number of throws.

A golf disc is thrown from a tee area to a target which is the hole. The hole can be one of a number of disc golf targets, the most common being an elevated metal basket. As a player progresses down the fairway, he or she must make each consecutive shot from the spot where the previous throw landed.

J. Gary Dropcho, who serves as course superintendant for the Pittsburgh Flying Disc Society, said 187 people competed.

Rounds were played at each of the three courses on Friday and Saturday. The top 72 players made the finals for the Sunday competition, Mr. Dropcho explained.

Mr. Dropcho said participants, who he said were some of the top players in the world, came from as far away as California, Arizona, Washington, Texas, Michigan, Iowa, New York and Florida.

There also were about 25 people from the Pittsburgh area.

Almost all the top winners were out-of-towners. But Mr. Dropcho of Pine placed third in the grand masters professional division for men over 50, and Tim Foley of Pittsburgh placed third in the men's intermediate amateur division.

Mr. Dropcho has been involved for each of the 23 years that the tournament has come to the Pittsburgh region but said this one was special.

"It was a lot of fun. This one went very well. We had the highest number of participants we've ever had in Pittsburgh," he said.

Results: www.pdga.com/tournament_results/61920 (http://www.pdga.com/tournament_results/61920) and www.pdga.com/tournament_results/65261 (http://www.pdga.com/tournament_results/65261).

Karen Kane: [email protected] ([email protected]) or 724-772-9180.


Read more: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11244/1171142-54.stm#ixzz1WiHTtV1c

R3 Ratings might be off. FPO played Blue Tees and MPO played Gold, yet they produced the same ratings.

R3 Ratings might be off. FPO played Blue Tees and MPO played Gold, yet they produced the same ratings.

The ratings layouts were correctly entered online when the unofficial results were up.

However, these must have been incorrectly processed for the official ratings results. The TD & PDGA Tour Manager will be contacted about the issue...thanks for the heads-up.