The Amateur Championships at Bowling Green

[NINFanInTN]

Open challenge to anyone: Play the tournament with only the discs from your players pack.

I'm in. Can't really play any worse than how I do now anyway....

 

[Darth Anovin]

Tough question.....you can be as frugal as you want to. It seems most disc golfers take the cheap route but for me the tournament is treated as a vacation and we get a nice hotel room and eat good meals. If you wanted to camp and eat cheaply and do nothing else it could be very cheap. I figure that when I factor in gas lodging tourney entry fees food and flymart we spent easily $700 for double occupancy (prob more).

Yikes!!! Damn these tough economic times!!!

 

[NINFanInTN]

I've yet to play this tournament, but I've wanted to the past 3 years. Think I'm gonna try to make it this coming up year. But I do have a question. Realistically speaking, how much cash should I plan on setting aside for the entire event minus registration? I'm talking for everything such as lodging, food, etc... How much has this journey cost some of you guys in the past?

We ALWAYS priceline the rooms. There are three of us who tag team it going up a dollar or two each bid until we get three rooms (usually at the Holiday Inn). Usually runs $50-$60 a room a night. We stay two to a room, so it's not making someone sleep on the floor. We stayed at the Ramada this year because nothing else was working when bidding. That was near $35 a night, and we could tell the difference just by the riff-raff that was there. I'd rather spend a little more for a better place... There are usually other conventions in town on the same weekend as Ams, so just be prepared..

Always have some cash for the flymart. There is usually something there that you can't find anywhere else...

 

[Horsman]

I've yet to play this tournament, but I've wanted to the past 3 years. Think I'm gonna try to make it this coming up year. But I do have a question. Realistically speaking, how much cash should I plan on setting aside for the entire event minus registration? I'm talking for everything such as lodging, food, etc... How much has this journey cost some of you guys in the past?

Yea in the couple hundred dollar range. Hotel for a couple nights should be 200-300 maybe depending where you stay. Gas depends on vehicle, food can be cheap if you know what to do and if you dont spend any money at the fly mart you will save a ton of money.

 

[jcrab66]

Always a good time at Bowling Green, excellent value for your tourney dollar

 

[jcrab66]

Always a good time at Bowling Green, excellent value for your tourney dollar

Just noticed the entry fee has gone up this year, still good value though!

 

[ScottyLove]

No conflict with the Glass Blown Open this year.... so yeah.... It's a definite maybe!

 

[Three Putt]

No conflict with the Glass Blown Open this year.... so yeah.... It's a definite maybe!

You should go. You are the exact demographic that this tournament is aimed at. It's a good time.

 

[Deuces]

I've yet to play this tournament, but I've wanted to the past 3 years. Think I'm gonna try to make it this coming up year. But I do have a question. Realistically speaking, how much cash should I plan on setting aside for the entire event minus registration? I'm talking for everything such as lodging, food, etc... How much has this journey cost some of you guys in the past?

Tough question.....you can be as frugal as you want to. It seems most disc golfers take the cheap route but for me the tournament is treated as a vacation and we get a nice hotel room and eat good meals. If you wanted to camp and eat cheaply and do nothing else it could be very cheap. I figure that when I factor in gas lodging tourney entry fees food and flymart we spent easily $700 for double occupancy (prob more).

We ALWAYS priceline the rooms. There are three of us who tag team it going up a dollar or two each bid until we get three rooms (usually at the Holiday Inn). Usually runs $50-$60 a room a night. We stay two to a room, so it's not making someone sleep on the floor. We stayed at the Ramada this year because nothing else was working when bidding. That was near $35 a night, and we could tell the difference just by the riff-raff that was there. I'd rather spend a little more for a better place... There are usually other conventions in town on the same weekend as Ams, so just be prepared..

Always have some cash for the flymart. There is usually something there that you can't find anywhere else...

Good cheap rooms can be found. You just have to know where and how to look. Here are several places you can stay for under $70 a night.

 

[ScottyLove]

You should go. You are the exact demographic that this tournament is aimed at. It's a good time.

Hmmm... pondering what Three Putt thinks my demographic is...

He's probably spot on!

 

[wake911]

I got the microtel for like $45 a night last year. I wasn't there but to sleep, so worked perfectly. It was fine. No frills, but i don't care about frills.

 

[mashnut]

The Super 8 on the north side of town was pretty cheap as well, and has a hot tub and free breakfast.

 

[wake911]

I've yet to play this tournament, but I've wanted to the past 3 years. Think I'm gonna try to make it this coming up year. But I do have a question. Realistically speaking, how much cash should I plan on setting aside for the entire event minus registration? I'm talking for everything such as lodging, food, etc... How much has this journey cost some of you guys in the past?

Registration = $75
Days Inn wed-sun = $200
Gas dayton to BG to all courses and back to dayton = $75 (assuming 30mpg and $3.25/gal)
Food = $100 (assuming you grab some groceries in town and keep in a cooler for snacks and lunch and breakfast and eat a $10-15 dinner)
So you are looking at about $450 on the super cheap.

This assumes no purchases at flymart, no alcohol consumed and no extra purchases of any kind.

I'd suggest $600 to be able to "do what you want, without much thought"

 

[NINFanInTN]

Registration = $75
Days Inn wed-sun = $200
Gas dayton to BG to all courses and back to dayton = $75 (assuming 30mpg and $3.25/gal)
Food = $100 (assuming you grab some groceries in town and keep in a cooler for snacks and lunch and breakfast and eat a $10-15 dinner)
So you are looking at about $450 on the super cheap.

This assumes no purchases at flymart, no alcohol consumed and no extra purchases of any kind.

I'd suggest $600 to be able to "do what you want, without much thought"

I'd agree. There are usually at least 6 of us who come together, so gas is cheaper, but we always spend decent money on dinner (we don't partake in the free meal just so we stay away from the madhouse that place is like with 700 people in there)...

 

[iacas]

So what is this - just a big DG tournament? I'm relatively new (I've played one tournament) and yet this tournament seems to offer Rec and Intermediate divisions (though I'm a bit confused as to why the site lists "G - RECREATIONAL WOMEN / RECREATIONAL MEN" and "H - RECREATIONAL" as separate things).

Might want to make the trip for it, but not entirely sure what it is exactly.

 

[mashnut]

So what is this - just a big DG tournament? I'm relatively new (I've played one tournament) and yet this tournament seems to offer Rec and Intermediate divisions (though I'm a bit confused as to why the site lists "G - RECREATIONAL WOMEN / RECREATIONAL MEN" and "H - RECREATIONAL" as separate things).

Might want to make the trip for it, but not entirely sure what it is exactly.

Where are you seeing that? The DGU page shows men's and women's advanced, int and rec along with the am age protected divisions.

It's one of the biggest am tournaments every year, often getting 600+ players all in one place with a big flymart and usually a cool players' party.

 

[iacas]

Where are you seeing that? The DGU page shows men's and women's advanced, int and rec along with the am age protected divisions.

http://www.bluegrassdiscgolf.org/BGamRegister.html

It's one of the biggest am tournaments every year, often getting 600+ players all in one place with a big flymart and usually a cool players' party.

Thanks. I'll look for old threads and talk to some people about it I guess. Might be fun.

 

[mashnut]

There are multiple pools of players because there are more people in the larger divisions than fit on one course at one time. If you're in the same division as someone but a different pool, you'll play the same courses but not at the same times. The letters you're seeing (A-H) are those pools. I think you're missing the ones right above where you're looking that include the advanced divisions though, this is what I see on the site you linked:

PLAYER POOLS:
A - ADVANCED MEN
B - ADVANCED MEN
C - ADVANCED MASTERS & SrGM
D - ADVANCED WOMEN & ADVANCED GM

E - INTERMEDIATE WOMEN / INTERMEDIATE MEN
F - INTERMEDIATE
G - RECREATIONAL WOMEN / RECREATIONAL MEN
H - RECREATIONAL

 

[iacas]

There are multiple pools of players because there are more people in the larger divisions than fit on one course at one time. If you're in the same division as someone but a different pool, you'll play the same courses but not at the same times. The letters you're seeing (A-H) are those pools.

Thanks. That explains things I suppose. Registration goes for quite awhile so maybe I'll decide in February or something. Still much research to do.

I wasn't missing the Advanced pools - I just didn't see the need to quote more examples, particularly since I'm not going to be anywhere near "advanced" level.

 

[mashnut]

Gotcha, I misread your earlier post to say that you only saw int and rec. It's the most fun event I've had the pleasure of attending, met some really cool folks and had a blast competing against that big a field. The courses are good (not amazing), and they're all really close together there in Bowling Green. If it matters to you, the players' pack is usually huge for the entry fee.