Ledgestone Insurance Open Presented by ABC Discs $12,000+ Added Cash

[JohtoVillage]

2014 Ledgestone Insurance Open presented by ABC Discs​

Ledgestone Insurance and ABC Discs are proud to present the 2014 Ledgestone Insurance Open! This will once again be a PDGA Super Tour event with a huge Pro purse ($12,000 added cash) and a giant Amateur player pack (including five discs, a hat and a dri-fit shirt) and another generous donation to St. Jude's Children's Hospital will be made after the tournament.

For all of the latest details about the event,
please visit the Ledgestone Insurance Open tournament website
or see our Facebook event page.​

Here are some of the most important details about the event:

When: Friday - Sunday, September 12-14, 2014

- Men and Women's Open and Men's Masters will play FOUR rounds, Friday through Sunday.
- All other division will play THREE rounds, Saturday-Sunday.

Where: Peoria, Pekin, and Morton (Bradley Park, McNaughton Park, Northwood Park and Megiddo at Westwood, depending on your division)

Sanctioning: A PDGA Super Tour Event (You must be a PDGA member to play in this event)

Field Size: Limited to 288 players

Entry Fees:

All Pro Men Divisions: $105
All Pro Women Divisions: $100
All Advanced Divisions: $75
All Intermediate Divisions: $70
All Recreational Divisions: $65

(see the results from last year's event to get an idea of the how the payouts will look: 2013 Results

Don't wait to get signed up - this event will fill!

Pre-registration is strongly encouraged! - http://lisopen.com/players/register/

PDGA Pre-Registration List: http://www.pdga.com/tour/event/17103


TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE:

* Friday, September 12 *

12:00 PM - Check in at McNaughton Park for Men and Women's Open and Men's Masters

1:30 PM - Round 1 Tee Off for Men and Women's Open and Men's Masters

4:00 – 9:00 PM – Check-in for All Other Divisions, Ice Cream Social, Putting Competition, Fly Mart (all of these opening night events will be held at the offices of Ledgestone Insurance, 1142 Peoria Street in Washington)

* Saturday, September 13 *

9:30 AM –

Round 2 Tee off for Men and Women's Open and Men's Masters
Round 1 Tee off for All Other Divisions

2:00 PM –

Round 3 Tee off for Men and Women's Open and Men's Masters
Round 2 Tee off for All Other Divisions

6:30 PM – Players Party for All Divisions at Firehouse Pizza in East Peoria

* Sunday, September 14 *

9:00 AM –

Round 4 Tee off for Men and Women's Open and Men's Masters
Round 3 Tee off for All Other Divisions

1:30 PM – Final 9 for Men and Women's Open, Men's Masters and Advanced Men Divisions (Safari course at Northwood Park)

4:30 PM – Awards and Payout

COURSE SCHEDULE:

Men and Women's Open and Men's Masters - McNaughton Longs, McNaughton Shorts, Northwood Longs, Northwood Shorts (Women's Open will play short tees for all rounds)

Men's Pro Grandmasters, Advanced, Advanced Masters and Advanced Grandmasters – Westwood, McNaughton Longs, Bradley

Women's Advanced and Intermediate, Men's and Women's Rec, Men's Advanced Senior Grandmasters - Northwood Shorts, Bradley, Westwood

Men's Intermediate and Novice - Bradley, Westwood, McNaughton Shorts

SPONSORS:

ABC Discs, Ledgestone Insurance, Erie Insurance, Pekin Visitors Bureau, Peoria Frisbee Club, Peoria Area Convention and Visitors Bureau, Village of Morton, Plastic Addicts, Advanced Energy Diagnostics, McDonald's, Washington Community Bank, Innova, Discraft, Legacy Discs, Vibram Disc Golf, Gateway Disc Sports, Paragon Disc Golf, Joans Trophy, Firehouse Pizza, Disc:30, All Things Disc Golf, Falling Putt, Stephen's Auto Glass, Next Innovations, Don Heinold CPA Eureka, Illinois, ServiceMaster of Central Illinois

For information about becoming a sponsor or participating in the FlyMart, contact the Tournament Director, Nate Heinold (contact info below). Space is limited! We also have packages available to combine the FlyMart with a sponsorship opportunity or to combine a FlyMart with a free entry.

Tournament Director: Nate Heinold
[email protected]
​

Phone: 309-657-9971

Please check back regularly as this thread will be updated frequently with the latest tournament news!​

 

[JohtoVillage]

PDGA list has been updated for this event:

http://www.pdga.com/tour/event/17103

We have also added the following as sponsors: Just Kidz Dentistry, BN Disc Golf Club and Springfield Electric.

We also have a few more vendors confirmed for the FlyMart:

http://lisopen.com/flymart/

This is the premier event in the fall for the Midwest for disc golf! Don't wait to get signed up!

 

[JohtoVillage]

Here is the link to our host hotels:

http://lisopen.com/event/hotels/default.aspx

More registrations continue to come in so get signed up!

 

[kingjames1014]

how fast does this fill up?

 

[JohtoVillage]

how fast does this fill up?

We got a couple more regs in this morning but we expect there to be spots available until sometime in August. Since we are using four courses we have a lot of spots available. However, with the insane amount of added cash this year and the monster player's pack we do expect this one to fill.

 

[JohtoVillage]

PDGA list has been updated. Johnnie McCray will be playing! We expect a lot more top pros to get registered. We have had 4 people sign up in the last 24 hours so registration is starting to picking up. We do expect this one to fill up because of the monster player's pack and $12,000 of added cash!

http://www.pdga.com/tour/event/17103

 

[JohtoVillage]

PDGA list has been updated again:

http://www.pdga.com/tour/event/17103

Keep in mind that we only have 72 spots available between FPO and MPO and we do expect that portion to fill up. At this point in time we have 58 spots available between these two divisions.

As a reminder, if you recruit a hole sponsor for our tournament you will get a free entry into the event! So if your company or a company you know wants to be a sponsor let me know! The sponsor does need to be a new sponsor to our event. We have many different packages available.

Also, we do still have a few spots left for the FlyMart. We also have special FlyMart packages that include hole sponsorship and free entry into the tournament. Here are the current vendors that will be at our FlyMart: Faith Caddie, Plastic Addicts, Paragon, Peoria Frisbee Club and LS Discs.

For information on any of the above please email me at [email protected]

 

[JohtoVillage]

We'd like to thank Aces and Chains and Culvers of Morton for coming on board as sponsors. We have sponsorships still available so email [email protected] if you are interested. We also have sponsorships available that you can combine with a FlyMart package or free entry package.

The pre-registration list has been updated again and we are approaching 60 registrations:

http://www.pdga.com/tour/event/17103

More sponsors come in everyday and more players sign up! With $12,000 added cash and one of the biggest players packs of the year (with no money coming out of the entry fee to pay for the player's pack) this is going to fill up.

 

[JohtoVillage]

Brienzo's Wood Fired Pizza has come on board as a hole sponsor for the event and they will also be serving food and drinks at Northwoods Park in Morton as our Food Vendor on Saturday and Sunday.

Also, I wanted to post our potential MPO payout assuming 50 players in that division. This is only a preliminary idea of the payout but should give everyone an idea of what we are looking at:

1 $3,000
2 $2,000
3 $1,300
4 $1,150
5 $1,000
6 $800
7 $650
8 $600
9 $550
10 $510
11 $470
12 $430
13 $400
14 $370
15 $340
16 $310
17 $270
18 $230
19 $200
20 $170
21 $145
22 $140
23 $135

As you can see, this tournament will continue to offer one of the highest first place prizes in the entire country. The stakes are high! Get signed up! We are approaching 70 registrations and only have 45 spots left in Group 1, which includes MPO, FPO and MPM.

 

[JohtoVillage]

We are approaching 90 pre-registrations. We expect this year's event to be our biggest yet so get signed up! Our list of sponsors continues to grow:

http://lisopen.com/sponsors/

 

[JohtoVillage]

Pre-registration is really picking up. We are nearing 100.

http://www.pdga.com/tour/event/17103

As a reminder, no money comes out of the AM entry fee to pay for the player's pack. All of that money goes straight to payout.

 

[Dana]

This is gonna be a good one, folks! Great courses and huge bang for your buck!

 

[JohtoVillage]

Thanks Dana - just to clarify on the added cash: all of that goes straight to payout. We have raised more than $25,000 for this event so the added cash is straight up added cash. The rest of the money we raised pays for the tournament expenses, live broadcast, the monster player's pack, player's party, ice cream social, etc. $12,000 straight to the pro purse and no money will come out of entry fees except for the PDGA fee. We are covering all expenses (sanctioning, insurance, food, etc etc etc) with no money coming out of anyone's entry fees.

 

[Dana]

Sounds pretty awesome. I always enjoy coming into an event knowing what to expect from the added cash and if it is really added cash to the purse or just "added cash" that goes into running the event.

 

[JohtoVillage]

Sounds pretty awesome. I always enjoy coming into an event knowing what to expect from the added cash and if it is really added cash to the purse or just "added cash" that goes into running the event.

Ledgestone Insurance has also committed to having at least a $20,000 purse this year if we get at least 72 pro players to sign up. Ledgestone Insurance will make up the difference if we get to at least that amount. This could mean another $1000 of added cash to the pro field as we really want to see a big purse this year!

We are currently at 109 registrations and counting. We have also added the following sponsors since our original post: Springfield Electric, BN Disc Golf Club, Just Kidz Dentistry, Aces and Chains Disc Golf, Culver's of Morton and Brienzo's Wood Fired Pizza.

We do have a few more spots left in the FlyMart. Terry Miller aka The Disc Golf Guy will also be at the FlyMart and he will be doing live broadcast coverage of our event all weekend.

Don't miss one of the premier events in the Midwest!

 

[JohtoVillage]

124 registrations and counting - thanks to CGN Global Consulting for coming on as a sponsor at all four courses as well.

Thanks to Deuce Squad for joining in on the FlyMart! Paul Ulibarri will be at the Deuce Squad table as well.

 

[JohtoVillage]

This event is officially a US AM Nats qualifier! We are at 134 registrations and counting.

 

[JohtoVillage]

We are up to 154 registrations and counting. There are only 16 spots left in Group 1, which includes MPM, FPO and MPO. Do not wait to get signed up!

 

[JohtoVillage]

173 people registered! We still have plenty of spots left so get signed up! We expect to be well over 200.

Nikko Locastro is confirmed for this year's event!

 

[JohtoVillage]

Here is the big announcement regarding the A Tier! We will be doing an Exhibition battle with Nikko Locastro, Paul Ulibarri and Devan Owens. These top pros will be paired together with three local pros for a doubles match. It will take place Thursday afternoon at 4:30PM.


https://www.youtube.com./watch?v=BQYEBH2SKGU&list=PLltJ701OM_xS-oGuJQzMzPemlUHsmQL7o