Umm, we do offer them chances to compete. Thousands of them. The majority of PDGA members are NON-pros. You can see many of these events listed on the schedules below. Probably at about 99% of the events listed said NON-pros are perfectly welcome to sign up and play.Listen I have nothing against Pro's, in fact it'd be an honor to compete as one, one day, if my skil level ever get's to that point. Truthfully though, the advancement of the game depends on the interest of the "not so skilled". Whether or not you offer a REC or INT. division you should offer opportunities for the NON-pros to compete.
http://www.pdga.com/tour_schedule
http://www.dgcoursereview.com/tournaments.php?mode=cal
You seem to have an idealistic concept of our so-called "pros" lives, that is a stark contrast from the reality of things. If the clicked the link above, you might have noticed that disc golf tournaments with rare exception are 1 or 2 day events and almost exclusively on Saturdays and Sundays. Why is this? Because for the vast majority of us, including the vast majority of our "pros" we need to work Monday through Friday so we can afford to play tournaments. Many events have Friday doubles the night before, but there is no day or two leading up to facilitate a pro/am like you see at ball golf events.In (ball) Golf tournaments in the day or 2 leading up to an event they offer Pro/Am scrambles. Stuff like that. Chances for the non-pros to complete and even play with the Pro's.
Not in our sport.If you are a professional at anything you are in it for the money.
Umm, no, not necessarily. The bulk of it goes to the people who run the tournament, some of which goes back to the disc manufacturers the TD or club bought the discs from, some of the monetary markup may pay a portion of the pro purse.Like others have said before, the am. players entry fees goes more for course renovations and to the PDGA.
I don't know about that. Seems a lot of our Ams are kind of addicted to the plastic payout like its an entitlement.We receive plastic, which is cool, but more amatuers seem to play for the love of the game than do the pro's. IMHO.
So does the PDGA and most TD's I know. That's why its never going to happen.Either way completely banishing these divisions would hurt the game, i feel.
Highly unlikely because as was stated above this day before in most instances is Friday, a day that most tourney entrants (whether pros or ams) may have to be at work their day jobs, or have to spend driving to the tournament. By the time, they pull into town where the tournament is held, it may be dark. Some players in fact don't check in until Saturday morning. Even ones who are there on time would rather practice.But say if the day before you had a random drawing from the people coming to watch to play a scramble with a pro against another Amatuer and a Pro or even in Foursomes.
No it wouldn't. Most disc golf "galleries" are simply players who are done for the day. We are not ball golf and do not have the spectator appeal that they do.I bet this would bring out bigger galleries and promote more interest.
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