2013 Pro Worlds at Lemon Lake

[kingjames1014]

 

[Streets]

:clap:

 

[davetherocketguy]

Gotta say I was totally blown away from the final nine showing yesterday. Seeing that in person was amazing. I will not forget that amazing drive on #3. I cannot freaking believe you cleared the trees. Great show and you are a classy guy McBeast - at least from what I saw on the course . Congrats!

 

[Phollower]

I would like to thank all the volunteers that showed up to help. Everybody had a great attitude and accepted all the jobs I gave them even if some of the jobs sucked. We had a great team that worked really hard to make things run smooth this week.

I wish we had better accommodations for you guys, you deserved it. I felt pretty bad that many of my volunteers had to buy their own food late in the week because they were tired of eating the same crap all week dispite our significant budget for volunteer food($1000/day for ~40 people). Our only variance from the bugers and hotdogs was when they tried to feed us day old leftovers from food that Vibram and Innova had generously bought for player events.

I'm sorry to the person that won the basket in the volunteer raffle only to have it taken away when the Svitkos reneged on a promise they had made. The basket had been promised long before the tourney started and was even awarded to the lucky(everyone thought at the time) volunteer at the awards ceremony only to be taken away before he could leave the park.

A slew of volunteers worked their butts off to run at great worlds and were disrespected and mistreated behind the scenes. What a shame, good luck finding volunteers in the future.

-2013 pro worlds volunteer coordinator

I was one of those volunteers. I drove over an hour each way for five consecutive days, crawled around in thorns and poison ivy finding discs for players, did my best to provide some crowd control for the MPO lead card on Friday, and even helped the PDGA with live scoring and update while carrying around the big current score sign for the lead women's card on Saturday. Was it a lot of work? Absolutely. Was it a lot of fun? You bet. But if the information I was given about how the people in charge of volunteer benefits (food, raffles, etc) is correct, those people did everything in their power to profit financially from the donations made to reward the volunteers. My understanding is Innova donated $6000 to feed and benefit the volunteers. We got hot dogs and hamburgers everyday and had to wait in long lines to get them. We were offered leftover pizza (pizza that Vibram provided for a putting contest the day before) one day and two day old leftover chicken another day. Seriously? But the basket being pulled from the winner's hands really took the cake. Probably leftover cake. The volunteer coordinators did a great job trying to provide the players with all the support they could with nowhere near enough volunteers to do it. But whoever was in charge of thanking the volunteers should be ashamed of themselves.

 

[knave]

Need more details to know for sure, but pulling that basket after it was awarded sure stinks.... That's pretty low.

 

[MrGlass01]

volunteers should be taken care of, they are the ost important aspect of this tourney. without the volunteers none of this would have happened, and to sh!t on them is a travesty. Some greedy folks out there.

My hats off to all the volunteers, you are what makes this game what it it. tons of people supporting the cause. I really hope some heads roll for the lack of respect to the volunteers. Id venture to guess there will be less people willing to volunteer next year what will they do then?

 

[Dwiggy444]

That article is in the local Indiana paper:
http://www.nwitimes.com/sports/recreation/paul-mcbeth-the-best-disc-golfer-in-the-world/article_67adada1-b7e4-54e7-b30a-17a0d5e2a56d.html

 

[Aim For The Chains]

Should have just given each volunteer $35/day to do what they wanted with for food, etc..

What a shame.

 

[jcrab66]

source req'd crab bro.

Paul is the source, someone made the comment about being bogey free on his Facebook page and he said that wasn't right, he had one

 

[tbird888]

volunteers should be taken care of, they are the ost important aspect of this tourney. without the volunteers none of this would have happened, and to sh!t on them is a travesty. Some greedy folks out there.

My hats off to all the volunteers, you are what makes this game what it it. tons of people supporting the cause. I really hope some heads roll for the lack of respect to the volunteers. Id venture to guess there will be less people willing to volunteer next year what will they do then?

What's sad about that is next year won't be at Lemon Lake so the next venue suffers as a result.

 

[jcrab66]

Makes you wonder where the rest of the money went. reallocated?

Reallocated to the Svitkos bank account is the likely scenario

 

[Streets]

What's sad about that is next year won't be at Lemon Lake so the next venue suffers as a result.

Hopefully people realize that the volunteers/coordinators and the big companies did their parts, while the failure seems to be on the local club or organization.

 

[tbird888]

Hopefully people realize that the volunteers/coordinators and the big companies did their parts, while the failure seems to be on the local club or organization.

If you remember a thread earlier that tip-toed around this topic, it's not the club. It's the owners/operators of Lemon Lake.

 

[PMcBeth]

Paul is the source, someone made the comment about being bogey free on his Facebook page and he said that wasn't right, he had one

hole 15 gold was during my best round of the event. missed birdie putt roll away 35 feet down a hill straddle back up off the band. 4

 

[zeusjus]

hole 15 gold was during my best round of the event. missed birdie putt roll away 35 feet down a hill straddle back up off the band. 4

Paul you need to change the description under your name, it only says 2012 world champion! And congratulations what a week!

 

[Halcón]

^^ There ya have it folks...straight from the horse's mouth.

Edit: I'm sure Tim will change his banner accordingly.

 

[Streets]

If you remember a thread earlier that tip-toed around this topic, it's not the club. It's the owners/operators of Lemon Lake.

Must have missed that earlier thread, so I'm guessing these owners/operators are not disc golfers?

 

[jcrab66]

hole 15 gold was during my best round of the event. missed birdie putt roll away 35 feet down a hill straddle back up off the band. 4

Thanks for confirming that Paul, amazing week of golf for you no less!

 

[jcrab66]

Must have missed that earlier thread, so I'm guessing these owners/operators are not disc golfers?

Not sure if they still play but the whole family are pdga members, Jay has a 4 digit number

 

[Ocelotl]

What's sad about that is next year won't be at Lemon Lake so the next venue suffers as a result.

Next year is in portland, which means Murray the Brit will probably be running the volunteers, or at least heavily involved. he does a great job a beaver state fling, can't imagine it being any different for worlds.