bogeyfreetilinfinity
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2019 PDGA Professional Disc Golf World Championships Aug 12-17
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meh....not really. I don't think he represents the typical weekend warrior player at all, because I think "that" player (especially when approaching the 4 year mark) would have played much better. I now look at him as a novelty maybe even as a comedian, seeing what he can get away with in return for an experience. I could be wrong, but I don't see him as someone "everyone" can cheer for at all. ie: Not the "Rudy" of disc golf by any means.
Flick Maniac
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What is it?
Is it that you want to be away from the uphill part to make the next shot easier? Unless youre on top of course
What is it?
Yeah, that's the impression I get. Starting from the premise that, for long tight fairways, the strategy is usually "get as far as you can safely make it while still coming to rest in the fairway." The uphill section in the later part of NW 12's fairway makes that not necessarily the case, because getting tucked close to the bottom of the hill (or on the lower section of the slope itself) is a dead zone for two reasons:
1.) You may not be able to see the basket.
2.) You are forced to throw a steeper uphill angle, which risks stalling and fading out of the fairway if you try to do much more than clear the knuckle.
So basically as soon as you're looking to clear the bridge, your calculus may change from "get it as far as I can while remaining in the fairway" to "how many throws will it take me to be up the hill and in the clear to start looking at approach options?" And the answer to that question is probably MINIMUM two throws, so the smart play that minimizes the risk involved in those 2 throws is to "cut in half" the distance to the top of the hill, which means laying up to somewhere across the bridge where you have a reasonable angle to get to the top of the hill, but aren't too tempted to push it much farther on the next shot and risk stalling/fading into the bumble.
Honestly that's part of what makes it so tough to get in 4. It's not just the distance plus tight fairway, but adding in the elevation in a way that makes it really hard to attack the last part of the fairway without making the pit stop at the top knuckle.
All that having been said: It's a terrible hole and I don't get all the hype
(Just kidding, in reality I'm just scared that I would take a double-digit, Weemaesque score on that monster of a hole.)Opinions are like...
Disagree. The NW course in its previous form was a well designed course. The one without the OB ropes, just the course itself. Is it better now? Sure.
I have only seen it with the ropes during Ledgestone to be fair. But I didn't think it was great for the MPO players. Clearly it is better now.
The old format was a product of its time. Even big A Tiers in the 90's needed Joe Lunchpail/weekend frolfer to sign up and fill the field, so you rarely saw events with more than play on Saturday/Sunday and you tended to see four round/two shotgun rounds per day events. Once you went to World's, playing two competitive rounds in a day wasn't unusual to anybody.
Now? The bigger events seem to have followed the USDGC format and are mostly one round per day with tee times. The top players don't play two competitive rounds in a day much anymore. To make World's more rounds than it is, you would have to either make it longer than five days (ugh!) or make players play two scored rounds in a day. It just really doesn't fit with how disc golf has evolved at the highest level.
7ontheline
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No one wants a sixth round more than Ricky. I'd love to see a final 9. Let's not be those uptight golfers.
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I'm surprised the PDGA hasn't changed their homepage to reflect the new world champions.
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New pics are up.
they saw your post and changed it immediately
for real though do you think the PDGA has updated their world rankings yet? I can only find a the 2018 year end ranking. Is there a way to see players ranked by rating?
brutalbrutus
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If you go to the player stats page under the membership tab, there are several categories you can sort by including ratings
Flick Maniac
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More than the number of rounds or a final 9 I really dig the DGPT Championship system. It is kinda like the tournament tree in a tennis major. I dont know if it would be applicable to Worlds tho. Maybe. Then youre much moreso playing against other players and AND the course.
JVD, what I meant is that Northwoods outside of ledgestone was a good course before the redesign. I never liked what was done with the roped OB's and the circus act, but playing the course casually was a lot of fun. I was kinda surprised that they took out the original hole 1 for the course, it was one of the best holes on the course. Northwoods now is even better then it was.
For Jomez, it would be hard to convince me that it was just coincidence that for 4 days in a row their next day mpo footage was released at the exact time the live coverage went up.
Why is that hard to believe? The rounds they were covering were ending at roughly the same time each day. It probably took them the same amount of time to cut it together each night. Jerm and Nate probably recorded their commentary at the same time each morning. Then they put it all together and set it to upload at roughly the same time each day. Stands to reason that if it came out right around the start of the lead card on day 2, it would continue to do so as long as the lead card tee time stayed the same all week.
The US Women's Disc Golf Championships (PDGA Major Event) played rounds at Northwood (No "s" on the end) every year it was hosted in Peoria from 2002 to 2007. It was a perfect course for the ladies to play. I was horrified to see the ropes and OB that first year at Ledgestone. I was glad to see many of my favorite holes were still in play (some with new target placements.) I will always have a place in my heart for this course as I shot the ladies course record at 2003 USDGC and beat Des and Juliana for at least one round!
...glory days.....
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