Ledgestone Open 2023

[porkturtle]

Much kudos to Biff from Back to the Future finishing a solid 4th. Did I say Biff?- er, I mean Ezra Robinson. Good to see him on lead card coverage for two rounds. Those Robinson bros. are gooooooood.

 

[Monkeypaws]

Koling nailed it on commentary: Redalen has amazing form, driving, approach, putting, follow through, etc.

Hard to recall someone winning a tournament and making it look so easy, except Tattar.

 

[txmxer]

Philo said Calvin's weak spot was putting. I LOL'd. IMO, there are two people putting consistently above the crowd—Gavin and Calvin. They make it look automatic.

Beyond that, there are clutch putters like
Wysocki and Paul, and plenty of great putters in the upper leagues.

Cole played at a buttery high level throughout. I'm surprised his 4th round didn't top 1100, but that falls under the +/- error bubble IMO.

We've seen several players reach the upper levels only to slide back down the mountain to the second tier. Cole really seems to have the "it" factor to be a top tier player.

 

[Jolt]

So two DGA players in the top 5 but no Discraft.
It was kind of a good tournament for Discraft but if seems hard to get a Team Discraft player to win Ledgestone in MPO
I think Paige and Paul won in 2019 but was Paige with Discraft in 2019?. .maybe, i have short memory

 

[BuiltTooLong]

Philo said Calvin's weak spot was putting. I LOL'd. IMO, there are two people putting consistently above the crowd—Gavin and Calvin. They make it look automatic.

Relative to all of his other skills, that is correct. He has a tendency to go in spurts where he continually misses low.

 

[Snaques]

@txmxer
Just go and check the European Open final round and you'll see what he meant. Calvin seems to be a bit streaky when it comes to his putting. When it's on it's on and he indeed is one of the best putters on tour, but unfortunately that isn't always the case.

In terms of driving or approaches, he doesn't really have similar fluctuation.

Calvin is my favorite pro so I'm not bashing him, just confirming what Philo is saying.

EDIT: How do you use the quote function ffs.

 

[porkturtle]

Apologies if this was already covered, but what happened to Corey Ellis? I saw that he got a DNF.

 

[@CD-]

Philo said Calvin's weak spot was putting. I LOL'd. IMO, there are two people putting consistently above the crowd—Gavin and Calvin. They make it look automatic.

Beyond that, there are clutch putters like
Wysocki and Paul, and plenty of great putters in the upper leagues.

Cole played at a buttery high level throughout. I'm surprised his 4th round didn't top 1100, but that falls under the +/- error bubble IMO.

We've seen several players reach the upper levels only to slide back down the mountain to the second tier. Cole really seems to have the "it" factor to be a top tier player.

Gannon? Haven't seen a Gavin in contention for a while...

I narrowed down to just DGPT UDisc stats to filter out the ET/EPT/PDPT ranked players a bit. #1 for putting C1x % on tour is Marwede but his C1/C2 % in regulation are ranked >100. Heimburg is in the middle for putting ranks but it largely doesn't matter with his strength in getting to the greens. He has many more opportunities for shorter putts when a lot of players are putting from further out. If Heimburg is able to putt 90%+ in C1x he is usually winning.

2023 UDisc DGPT stats (as of Ledgestone)	GIR C1 rank (%)	GIR C2 rank (%)	% C1x Putting Rank (%)	% C2 Putting Rank (%)
Heimburg	1 (49.7%)	1 (73.79%)	29 (85.66%)	16 (32.99%)
Proctor	35 (41.5%)	38 (62.96%)	2 (91.28%)	8 (34.41%)
Buhr	14 (44.66%)	16 (65.44%)	18 (86.8%)	1 (42.27%)
Ellis	26	31	36	13
Redalen	12 (44.76%)	10 (67.14%)	57 (83.4%)	82 (26.14%)
McBeth	13 (44.68%)	2 (69.95%)	11 (87.55%)	41 (30.26%)
Wysocki	3	6	51	4
Dickerson	27	7	14	57
I. Robinson	24 (42.69%)	26 (64.91%)	62 (83.27%)	6 (35.69%)
Klein	17	22	12	29
McMahon	2 (48.61%)	8	5	87
Lizzotte	15	4	34	89 (25.53%)
Barela	19	9	77 (82.36%)	9

 

[txmxer]

Gannon? Haven't seen a Gavin in contention for a while...

I narrowed down to just DGPT UDisc stats to filter out the ET/EPT/PDPT ranked players a bit. #1 for putting C1x % on tour is Marwede but his C1/C2 % in regulation are ranked >100. Heimburg is in the middle for putting ranks but it largely doesn't matter with his strength in getting to the greens. He has many more opportunities for shorter putts when a lot of players are putting from further out. If Heimburg is able to putt 90%+ in C1x he is usually winning.

2023 UDisc DGPT stats (as of Ledgestone)	GIR C1 rank (%)	GIR C2 rank (%)	% C1x Putting Rank (%)	% C2 Putting Rank (%)
Heimburg	1 (49.7%)	1 (73.79%)	29 (85.66%)	16 (32.99%)
Proctor	35 (41.5%)	38 (62.96%)	2 (91.28%)	8 (34.41%)
Buhr	14 (44.66%)	16 (65.44%)	18 (86.8%)	1 (42.27%)
Ellis	26	31	36	13
Redalen	12 (44.76%)	10 (67.14%)	57 (83.4%)	82 (26.14%)
McBeth	13 (44.68%)	2 (69.95%)	11 (87.55%)	41 (30.26%)
Wysocki	3	6	51	4
Dickerson	27	7	14	57
I. Robinson	24 (42.69%)	26 (64.91%)	62 (83.27%)	6 (35.69%)
Klein	17	22	12	29
McMahon	2 (48.61%)	8	5	87
Lizzotte	15	4	34	89 (25.53%)
Barela	19	9	77 (82.36%)	9

Yes, meant Gannon. thanks for the correction.

 

[biscoe]

Apologies if this was already covered, but what happened to Corey Ellis? I saw that he got a DNF.

wrist issue

 

[Hashish]

Saw McBeast on the bag for Alexis Mandujano.

I'm not sure I'd want Paul on my bag after his worst caddying ever with Barela at EO.

So two DGA players in the top 5 but no Discraft.
It was kind of a good tournament for Discraft but if seems hard to get a Team Discraft player to win Ledgestone in MPO
I think Paige and Paul won in 2019 but was Paige with Discraft in 2019?. .maybe, i have short memory

Paige signed with Discraft in November 2019.

 

[DanJon]

There are currently no members of the 1050 club. It seems like the parity we are seeing at the top has flattened out the ratings, or at least prevented a small group from dominating like they used to. Calvin has been the most consistent, and his rating shows this.

Heimburg is now 1051.