Ypsi Dubs 2011 Summer League -={Church}=- Sundays   August 12, 2011 at 1:52am

Church is closed for the season

Well the Ypsi Dubs 2011 Summer -={Church}=- League has come to an end.

Congratulations Ben Calhoun on his win this season with 317 points. Ben I have your 1st place Ypsi Dubs 2011 Summer -={Church}=- League commemorative etched trophy for you when I see you next and as soon as I get the Holy Grail trophy back I will be adding your name for the Winter league and the Summer Church league wins, along with Andy Steiner name for his win of our Tuesday league.

Congratulation to the top three finishers and your achievement will be immortalized on the Ypsi Dubs plague hanging in the Rolling Hills lodge for all to see for years to come.

1 Ben Calhoun 317
2 Ben Ciccarelli 248
3 Marcos Aguilera 218

No matter where you ended up on the leaderboard I hope everyone enjoyed a great summer season. We tried adding a few new things to make the season more fun and enjoyable. The optional 100% and 50%/50% cash CTPs seemed to be a hit and it enabled the league to do some of these new things. When it got hot Chris and his wife helped to make sure we had Ypsi Pops to cool down with and then we started bring out the big YD Water cooler. With several suggestions and some donations it was possible for us to experiment with placing brooms and broom holders at every tee pad. Hope the casuals respect the effort by the players to make our course more enjoyable for all who play it. Thanks again for all the great feedback and cooperation. Several have expressed thanks to Matt, Chris and I for keeping this going and with the help of others like Bob Smart, Mike Raley, Dan Whitlock and Sheldon Bowen we are able to do more and keep things pretty much on schedule. The overall success is really due to the group as a whole. The welcoming smiles and attitude help make new players immediately feel a part of the family. The cooperation during registration and payout makes it all that much more enjoyable to come out whether your out for the competition or just to learn or blow off steam during a fun round on a great course. Thanks to everyone.

I'd also like to thanks our sponsors like Brad at OG (Original Gravity in Milan) who has been very generous in providing great merch to us and local tournaments and some really great beer. He even let us experiment with putting games inside OG during the winter last year and so we may be able to explore some more opportunities like that in the future. The whole gang at OGs is great - Stop in and taste a great small batches or grab one of the great house brews. The Throw Shop helped us out with some gift certificates. Dying2Throw.com - Jesse Cahill provided some cool swag. Cassidy Mayne - Wicked Dyes – donated a free custom disc dye and "Mr. Wolf" with the Corner Brewery Growler and glasses setup. DiscGolfPlanet.tv enabled us to pass on a free pair of Keen shoes – Membership has it’s benefits. Mike Raley and Discraft provided some discs and apparel. White Mike and Andy Steiner also throw in some great discs. Several other have donated discs and other goodies which enable us to add more CTPs on the course and helped make our MiCPS HLW this year very fun with a CTP on every hole.

One last big THANK YOU to MDGO. MDGO made it possible for us to award several berths to the 2011 Michigan State Disc Golf Championship this season so Ypsi Dubs will be represented again this year at this amazing event. Bigger than ever before with a new course in play. Making history in so many ways Michigan Disc Golf Baby!! Berth winners don’t forget to register by Aug 26th!!!! Hope to see a bunch of you up in Ludington Sept 3rd & 4th.

So you helped make Ypsi Dubs what it is and we look forward to continuing to grow the league and the fun with you. So although this summer league is over we will continue playing, competing and having as much fun as possible on a public coarse. Tuesday league will continue until we run out of light and the park closes early. Sundays will continue all year long. I need all the Church service I can get. We will start a Fall Folly league to collect and post scores until the Winter league begins in November and it will run through March. We will continue to be a part of the Ann Arbor and Michigan Cooperative Point Series so we are a part of the Michigan Disc Golf Scene as it encourage other players to join us and adds a little more incentives to travel to other courses and play other leagues. Thanks DiscGolfScene for making all this fun possible and so much easier - Pete - Woot - Woot

Here are some quick stats for the 2011 Ypsi Dubs Church league:

April 17 - Aug 7th 2011

17 League Rounds
100 Unique players

195 rounds of golf played

Number of players per round:
Min 12
Avg 23
Max 42

Layout Played
4 Longs
13 Shorts

4 Aces paid out $937.00

Hole Payout
Nate Wheeling 8 $372.00
Ben Calhoun 17 $172.00
Jay Adamski 13 $243.00
The Force 8 $150.00

$1,949.00 Payout based on scores for the 17 rounds – Average $114 per round

Over $1000.00 paid out for 100% and 50/50 payout CTPs & Regular CTPs

Almost $4000 paid out in cash and a few prizes, plus some additional donated items.

On Average more than $235 per round awarded.

Average snow fall per round, ZERO inches
Number of rounds below 15 degrees F, Zero (barely ;-) it was a cold start of the season)

Ok – we may have broken the record for the number of mosquitoes encountered on the last round of the season but no player was carried off by mosquitoes and most players survived. Not sure who got buried out near 11 ‘s tee pad – god rest his sole.

How ever you look at it the fun meter was begged…… Thanks and we look forward to see yeah at Church soon.