2023 PDGA Champions Cup, April 20-23

[seedlings]

Ho hum, just a new course record for Kristin today, steady yet dominating. Love every bit of it.

How do 'course records' compare after hole changes? Kristin was playing lights out and she still missed a few shots and could play even cleaner.

Henna made some promising putts and didn't miss as many as badly.

 

[Flick Maniac]

Cool to hear "when Worlds were a gazillion rounds" stories but are we watching coverage too??

Robinson is throwing straight up sex of drives along this awesome looking course, if you havent noticed.

Pretty incredible shots by Anttila and Eagle too. I never thought Anttila would find this level of fire after the disappointing start. Great to see him on lead card today. Fellow Finn Joona Heinänen T5 also. I'll drink to that while I'm watching today.

Unrelated, but I may have saved a life today by giving CPR until the paramedics arrived. I think I will have a drink on that too.

 

[biscoe]

Unrelated, but I may have saved a life today by giving CPR until the paramedics arrived. I think I will have a drink on that too.

Cool to hear "I am a hero" stories but the women's coverage is on- what about that?

Just kidding- great for you to have been able to do it!!!!!!!!! The drink is well deserved.

 

[thatdirtykid]

Some larger Elite Series are also 2 courses 4 rounds.

 

[Spectacledbear]

The pros have outgrown this course, it plays soft.

 

[Shallows]

Evelina and Paige lucky that Eagle's gf is on the bag instead of beating them to the cut line.

 

[araytx]

I just started watching disc golf this year, so a noob question. All the events I've watched this year have been from Friday to Sunday with a round on each day.

Why is this event 4 days long? Do they play 4 rounds for a Major event?

Most are three rounds a few are four rounds.

Key differences:

What you've seen thus far are events run by the Disc Golf Pro Tour (DGPT). They primarily use the Friday-Saturday-Sunday format. The tournament this weekend is a PDGA Major and is run by the PDGA. They think the four-round event is optimal, though even they *may* have some three-rounders. Pay attention to who's event it is. Some events are owned by certain entities -- i.e. Ledgestone, USDGC (by Innova), etc.

 

[Steve West]

The pros have outgrown this course, it plays soft.

Not really. It's averaging about 63, which is a good-sized average. So it fits the field. No one is averaging 3 or less per hole.

Are you missing the schadenfreude that excessive penalty throws provide?

 

[txmxer]

Not really. It's averaging about 63, which is a good-sized average. So it fits the field. No one is averaging 3 or less per hole.

Are you missing the schadenfreude that excessive penalty throws provide?

you mean over 600 OB's per round for a 3 round tournament...

MPO at Blue Ridge, 1853 OB strokes for the event.

:thmbdown::thmbdown::thmbdown:

 

[Steve West]

you mean over 600 OB's per round for a 3 round tournament...

MPO at Blue Ridge, 1853 OB strokes for the event.

:thmbdown::thmbdown::thmbdown:

It's not nice to make fun of the way anyone over-compensates for having a short soft ... course.

 

[oddjob]

The game has passed paige 'I'll quit every contract early' peirce by

 

[Chucker60]

Kristin makes it look so easy.

 

[Three Putt]

The game has passed paige 'I'll quit every contract early' peirce by

Isn't she injured? I thought I heard she was told not to play but decided to anyway; she didn't practice at all and played the course blind round one.

 

[txmxer]

The game has passed paige 'I'll quit every contract early' peirce by

I wouldn't count her out just yet.

She's got the ability to compete, it's really about the want at this point and that can't be predicted. By want, I mean willing to do all the work between tournaments.

 

[txmxer]

It's not nice to make fun of the way anyone over-compensates for having a short soft ... course.

Lol.

It was short, but I don't think it was that soft. Of course scores would be much better with less OB, but just a few tweaks and I think it's an entertaining course.

Just reviewing the UD stats, OB was pretty much just extra strokes across the board.

Basically, 100 to 101 is no different than 1000-1010, just padding the numbers artificially.

 

[Twmccoy]

The game has passed paige 'I'll quit every contract early' peirce by

I was wondering about her. She is f'ing BURIED on that leader board. Is she just not that good anymore?

 

[BWchucker]

Paige did win just over a month ago.

She stated she has an injury and hasn't been practicing. On day one coverage she seemed to yell in pain on one of her drives.

UDisc doesn't show a cut line for this tournament. Should be given it is 4 rounds.

 

[biscoe]

I was wondering about her. She is f'ing BURIED on that leader board. Is she just not that good anymore?

She's the only woman not named Tattar to win a DGPT event this year with Tattar in attendance. The ceiling is still there, the floor has just dropped considerably. This week in particular she is injured as well.

 

[Jolt]

Nice to have >99% win probabiliy with 23 holes to go. . . Hope she can keep it going, starting to look good for 1000 rating for Tattar.

 

[mas30066]

Not necessarily a rhetorical question although it might end up there: has there ever been a bigger delta between 1 and the field than right now between Kristin and FPO? I don't know the history well enough and if there is a comp, maybe it's the first stretch of Climo's run. In the second half, you had strong 2s challenging and sometimes winning (Schultz, Doss, Feldberg). And to be clear, I'm not comparing KT's current performance to KC's sustained performance. Rather, if she's on right now, it really doesn't feel like there's a player that can keep up. So, the question is a sort of her best against the field's best and whether there's a comparable sense of separation anywhere in the game's history within a season.

Actual question. Looking forward to learning.