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    Monday Recreational Handicap Singles

    Handicap-format recreational-level singles league with $2 minimum buy-in ($1 to club/park, $1 to prize fund), plus $1 ace fund and 2 $1 CTPs ($5 all in). Handicaps based on player performance in league rounds relative to course averages. League runs annually during Daylight Savings Time (first...
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    Latest DiscGolfer magazine

    Yeah, you couldn't ask for a nicer guy to work with on this stuff. But after a major event, he's often got thousands of his own shots to sort through and select, plus whatever submissions they get, on a deadline, with a lot of constraints and space in the mag for only a very few of the best...
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    Latest DiscGolfer magazine

    It can be done, but it's best done when the "action" is staged, the location, lighting, etc., are controlled or at least carefully selected, etc., and when you have the opportunity to keep working until you get what you're after. Otherwise, it's a bit of a crap shoot. During an event...
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    Latest DiscGolfer magazine

    DiscGolfer is pretty specific in what they look for in the way of tournament shots. Generally, they're interested in the winners in MPO and FPO, maybe a couple of shots of other significant competitors in those divisions, and other divisions generally only at Worlds or other events that are...
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    Club prez getting burned out...

    There's a fine balance you have to strike between making sure the essential things happen and making sure others know how much their efforts are needed. You have to be willing to ask yourself if you're willing to let something go undone if no one else steps up, and then let it happen...
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    Hole #6 Long Tee

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    How do you feel about "Island Holes"?

    My best tournament ever was Hotlanta at Mosley a couple of years ago -- made the island with no problem the first three rounds, and was only a stroke back of second when we hit 11 during the final round (with only hole 12 to play after it). Weakest drive of the weekend (fourth round, 95 degree...
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    How do you feel about "Island Holes"?

    12 at East Roswell isn't an island, it's a "fake lake". OB area of rocks in front of the basket area with the perimeter marked by logs (and paint/string for tourneys). Lots of places to lay up or opportunities go around it, but at only about 200 ft (and only what, 170 to the far side of the...
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    Best Town/Small City for Disc Golf

    For high-quality courses in a definite small-town environment, Russellville, Arkansas has to get a mention. Pleasant View (4.05 rating) would be one of the better courses in most major metro areas, and it's only the second best course in town -- Old Post is just a gem (4.46). 14 more courses...
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    Atlanta/Norcross area courses recommended this Sunday/Monday?

    Well, a lot of people hated the trailers -- thought they looked junky, etc. -- so they're happy they're gone, but I don't think anyone's really happy about losing the basket position. The new position is a decent hole, but doesn't have the distance or the challenge of the old layout. We may have...
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    Atlanta/Norcross area courses recommended this Sunday/Monday?

    The trailers got demolished and hauled off a couple of months ago -- the one closest to the basket was in the line of a new sewer line trench that was going in to provide a connection to the library going in on the corner of Holcomb Bridge Rd and Fouts Rd. And a little over a week ago, clearing...
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    Most hated plant in your area for disc golf?

    I was the same way for 45 years. Could practically roll naked in the stuff and never have the least hint of irritation. My mother-in-law would always ask me to pull up the stuff from her landscaped areas where she didn't want to spray Brush-b-gone because it would kill the good plants. Did that...
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    Am Worlds 2013: Only 2 slots in FJx divisions?

    Interested to hear more about that, as the parent of a 16-year-old who's participated in two Worlds, one in MJ3 and one in MJ2. We're talking about 17, 18, and 19 year olds: old enough to drive, old enough to vote (or at least roughly half are), old enough to move out of the house and start...
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    Am Worlds 2013: Only 2 slots in FJx divisions?

    Pools expanded as of early this morning; definitely for MM1, MG1, and FA1. Also, the notes about FJ2/3 being full are no longer on the registration page, and the dropdown menu for division no longer shows those as being waitlisted, so I'm guessing they increased those as well.
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    Am Worlds 2013: Only 2 slots in FJx divisions?

    I think a strong argument could be made for eliminating M/FJ1 -- the strongest players in each of those divisions have shown a tendency, in recent years, to play MA1/FW1 or even Open. I'm not sure there's enough inherent difference between reasonably good 17 year olds and reasonably good 22 year...
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