ROCHESTER, NY – After months and months of exhausting travel and competition, we’ve arrived to the eighth and final tournament of the 2014 PDGA National Tour Elite Series. The NT Standings have now been updated to include all of the first seven events and everything comes down to the finale event here in Rochester, NY.
With each passing year, we see more and more signs that disc golf is growing in one of its most important demographics, women. More women are signing up for tournaments, playing in leagues, and getting out to disc golf courses in general. As with anything else, some places are making more of an effort to get women interested in the sport. And to no one’s surprise, in those places, it’s working.
Player of the Year (POY) and Rookie of the Year (ROY) point totals have been updated. Players outside North America earn points, but they are not included in the standings. Paul McBeth and Ricky Wysocki were tied for the lead at this update which includes events reported through July plus only the Pro Worlds results in August. Points from several big events remain. The 2013 POY winner, Catrina Allen, currently leads the women ahead of Paige Pierce and Valarie Jenkins.
The 2014 National Tour Elite Series Standings have been updated as of the Brent Hambrick Memorial Open which was the seventh and penultimate event of the series. Series points from a player’s top five National Tour finishes from the first seven events plus the points from the Rochester Flying Disc Open will determine the 2014 PDGA National Tour Elite Series Champion.
For the last month or so, we actually believed that the PDGA National Tour had hit its quota for bad weather. As it turns out, we were apparently a few inches of rain short. The rain began as soon as we arrived at the park in the early hours of the morning, and it would continue for the next 5 hours without a break. It was truly a continuous downpour for the final day of the 2014 Brent Hambrick Memorial Open, turning dry creek beds and fairways into rushing streams and pseudo-swamps.
