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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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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.

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...

On the fly, as I'm late for something, but I know there was a waitlist for MJ2 for Charlotte last year -- my son was on it for a week or two, but did get in. I'm not sure how they handled it -- if it was a cap per division or was based on the overall pool size. I've been a non-playing parent of...

I could definitely support the ideas in that last sentence -- make invitations for all divisions points-based, reduce the number of invitations in the smallest divisions to ensure that more of the "top" players have a fair shot at registering, and hold a slot for the defending champion if...

Note that this year and for the last several, at least, any players who are eligible for the Junior 3 or Junior 4 divisions (13 and under and 10 and under), who are members in good standing on 12/31 and who completed at least one sanctioned event during the year automatically receive invitations...

So, what would be the appropriate venue for addressing the topic with the PDGA? E-mail Andrew Sweeton? Competition Commitee? Youth and Education Committee? How much is PDGA and how much is the local hosting organization? I raised the issue here mainly for discussion purposes, as I wasn't...

Points have their problems as a mechanism for qualifying, but so would any other system. And right now they're irrelevant for <=13 divisions; the PDGA recognizes that it's difficult for players in those divisions to collect any points at regular events, since they're either in a division with...