turbosteve
Eagle Member
While I agree that currently players don't put nearly enough value on the TDs time and effort creating a great tournament experience, I don't think the answer is to follow golf's model. Making it prohibitively expensive to play in events would almost completely eliminate the current amateur competition, and that would make it almost impossible to run any events for the "pros" without completely changing the structure of those events too.
You say "why should disc golf care about these golfers?", and I think that's the wrong way to go. Encouraging people to understand what goes into running a tournament and accepting that they shouldn't expect their money back every time they play is one thing, pushing out everyone who's not wealthy enough to play $300 events is just not in the spirit of disc golf. Your background is in a sport that has always catered to wealthy, upper class folks and that's just not what most people want from disc golf in my experience.
Where did he say entry fees for disc golf tourneys should be $300? He is saying we shouldn't worry about people who complain about spending any money on disc golf. I also don't like how the PDGA sells our sport short. I think the PDGA should rethink its marketing strategy.