2011 Wednesday Weeklies - Fall Session - New Berlin, WI
Singles league
Oct 19, 2011 · Top scoresValley View Park Short tees, 18 holes | |||
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Open | |||
-10 44 | Scotty TOO HOTTY | $13 | |
-8 46 | Terry Miller | $6 | |
-8 46 | Scott Slauson | $6 | |
Semi Pro | |||
-5 49 | Drew Retherford | $12 | |
-3 51 | Drew Griswold | $8 | |
-1 53 | Shane Ferguson | ||
Advanced Amateur | |||
E 54 | Chris Levandoski | $8 | |
+3 57 | Gary Obernberger | $8 | |
+4 58 | Zach Walczak | ||
+4 58 | Matt Walczak |
Overall standings | ||
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Player | Points | |
Open | ||
1 | Terry Miller | 64.5 |
2 | Jon Van Deurzen | 55 |
3 | Scott Slauson | 52.5 |
Semi Pro | ||
1 | Drew Griswold | 56.5 |
2 | Shane Ferguson | 53 |
3 | Drew Retherford | 48 |
Advanced Amateur | ||
1 | Chris Levandoski | 41 |
2 | Gary Obernberger | 35 |
3 | Zach Walczak | 32.5 |
3 | Derek Sadler | 32.5 |
Junior | ||
1 | James Finley | 10.5 |
1 | Shayla Finley | 10.5 |
3 | Colvin Naas | 7 |
Women | ||
1 | Loretta Ellery | 2 |
1 | Danielle Kossow | 2 |
3 | Michele Shoplas | 1 |
3 | Nikki Feilen | 1 |
Tonight we played almost half our round after the sun went down so it is probably a good thing we only have 1 more week left . . . maybe we could do a Late Fall Glow league out there????? Just planting the seed!
This week we saw a pretty poor showing by the pro division . . . I know on my card we saw Terry Miller take a mulligan on a 15' missed putt that actually hit a tree, and then he doinked the mulligan off the right side chains ended up taking a 3 after being virtually parked on one ...
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Congratulations to Scott Slauson (who shot better than his average) (-13) to win the Open division with Jonny V missing a critical putt on the last hole to avoid a playoff. Congratulations to Drew Griswold (AGAIN) for taking down the Semi Pro division with a (-9) beating out Scott Smogeleski by 1. In the Advanced division Zach Walczak took down the win with a (-3) that tied Gary Obernberger who lost on the first playoff hole.
All in all I personally enjoyed the 1 disc night, I just think I wa ...
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Ben Lynch has coordinated with Terry to get the merchandise and to bring it to league tomorrow. If you have been trying to purchase some merchandise now is your chance!!!
Oh and another awesome week of disc golf action can be had at the same time. Will we actually move forward with 1 disc night or something else? Come and make your vote heard because it is up for public debate!
We gave away the basket and some more prizes from last season's finale and the big winner was Kyle Dolezar winning the traveller basket . . . what a lucky guy after only playing a couple of weeks. We saw Loretta Ellery win another Women's division and from the sounds of it, she and Mike Ellery are retiring from the VV league . . . they were staples in this league for a long time. We also saw Andy Walker take down Advanced division and move up to Semi Pro along with the two guys who wer ... more
Mike Harrington October 20, 2011 at 9:30am
The end of the 2011 Valley View League Season
Before I wrap up the seasonal notes, I just wanted to thank everyone who showed up on Week 10 . . . it was maybe 45-50 degrees, winds of about 20-30 MPH and was drizzling the entire round. If you played through that, then having fun must be a high priority in your life! It was nice to have 16 people out there for sure, to share in the misery. Oh I almost forgot ., . . it was dark by our 6th hole and I had my LED lights on.
It's been another great year of leagues at Valley View. I attende ... more
Before I wrap up the seasonal notes, I just wanted to thank everyone who showed up on Week 10 . . . it was maybe 45-50 degrees, winds of about 20-30 MPH and was drizzling the entire round. If you played through that, then having fun must be a high priority in your life! It was nice to have 16 people out there for sure, to share in the misery. Oh I almost forgot ., . . it was dark by our 6th hole and I had my LED lights on.
It's been another great year of leagues at Valley View. I attended all 30 of the weekly sessions and enjoyed every single one of them, even the one where I took only my 5th double bogey at VV. Valley View may not be the most challenging of courses in the world (it is no Estabrook) but it sure is fun and it has been a pretty good crowd of people looking for some disc golf fun out there. After 3 seasons of seeing people come to leagues at Valley View is a fun thing to watch. A lot of people have improved their games by coming to this fun league. Being able to throw those controlled shorter shots is a monumental part of the game of disc golf and that is what Valley View presents for us all. I know one person in particular (initials S.F.) who was so upset at his scores at VV that he nearly stopped coming to league. He ended up finishing in second in the Semi Pro Division (Secrets out . . . its Shane Ferguson) averaging better than (-7). That was a whole lot better than when he first started coming to leagues at "The View". Congratulations Shane on toughing it out . . . if only everyone else pushed through their struggles on the course and made it into a learning experience, the world would be a better place.
I will highlight some of the better seasonal improvements in a later update after I update the spreadsheets. I will also let everyone know who is getting automatically bumped up in the spring to the next division, and who I think should be in a higher division despite their scoring averages.
As always in disc golf there is a lot of talk about sandbagging and because of this we instituted a general guideline for your averages and where you should be shooting to try and maintain the integrity of the divisions (so noone can simply dominate season after season taking home more and more funny money every week). I think the averages helped to keep people honest because if they were shooting the scores that puts them in a higher division that is where they will play. I do hope this doesn't force people away who feel like they cannot contend in a higher division, but at the same time if you are coming to league simply to win funny money you clearly have your priorities out of whack. My advice to those people who feel they have hit a plateau or are unable to improve is that you can still improve, you just need to try new shots, or learn a new throwing technique. What's the best way to do this? Play with people better than you for a season and learn from them! I personally learned a lot in my first season in Open . . . I learned that a sidearm is a good throw to have in the bag . . (thanks in part to Avery Jenkins for discussing the technique, and to Brad Weber for showing me it can be a really valuable throw on 4 or 5 holes on the course) It has allowed me to make a handful of holes more regular birdies than throwing the normal turnover. I learned that Terry Miller does not like Skip Aces even if they were called out in advance.
All in all it was a great year. Congratulations to our divisional winners, Terry Miller (Open), Drew Griswold (Semi-Pro), and Chris Levandoski (Advanced). We will see you in 2012 and look forward to bumping you all up a division (yes Terry that means you too)!
After all was said and done . . . we drew for the three people winning prizes with their mulligan purchases (why does it seem the basket is going to people who barely show up???)
These prizes are completely provided to you by the purchase of your mulligans . . . so thank yourself for buying mulligans!
The winner of $10 off any Lifetime Disc Sports tournament or league entry is. . . . . . . . . . Dave Olson (We missed you the last few weeks Dave!) The winner of a Lifetime Drifit or Tshirt is . . . . . . Matt Walczak . . ..and the winner of the basket (either an Innova Treveler or an Innova Mini Disc Basket (I am jealous) is dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun dun Ben Lynch. Congratulations to all the winners of the raffle and the divisions, but all of you need to keep in mind . . . YOU ARE ALL WINNERS!