the Fourth Annual Showboat Showdown sponsored by Breaking Aces

Hello everybody, and thank you for registering for the Fourth Annual Showboat Showdown sponsored by Breaking Aces. We’re looking forward to an awesome day and some awesome scores from some awesome ... show more ›

Hello everybody, and thank you for registering for the Fourth Annual Showboat Showdown sponsored by Breaking Aces. We’re looking forward to an awesome day and some awesome scores from some awesome people! The weather looks great, but at 84 degrees you’re gonna need to stay hydrated. Bring water.

Thank you to all of our sponsors, Breaking Aces, High Life Farms, Evolution Disc Golf, Rootnote Landscape Solutions, the River Provisioning, Garber Chevrolet Buick of Chesaning, Mel Ervin Ford, McEntyre Cabinets, and Riverfont Grille for their help with lunch. Their help makes this event successful.

PLEASE TRY TO NOT PARK AT THE BOAT LAUNCH. Use the spots up top, and the spots to the left of the barns on the grass first. We want to leave that lot empty to help keep kayakers from parking on the course. I will put up a notice to the community online, but we can’t always control everything.

We have THREE berths to the Michigan Amateur State Championships to hand out. For those, we will be taking the winner of each amateur division and they will be throwing off in a ctp to determine who gets them. In the event that a division winner has already won their berth, then the opportunity will fall to the next placed person in their division.

Make sure your phone is charged, because we are doing live scoring. We encourage multiple people on each card to keep score. That way all scoring mistakes are caught on the spot. You can access like scoring by using www.pdga.com/score and the password is “Showdown”

Let’s go over boundaries
First of all, in Hazard, you play from your lie with a stroke penalty. With OB, you go to the place you were last in bounds and play with a stroke penalty.
1 - Road and across in any direction is OB.
2 - Must land on the island. If you miss, move to the drop zone with a stroke penalty. From there, outside of the island is played as normal OB.
3 - Path and across is hazard, Water is OB.
4 - Road and across is OB, cement pad is OB, any OB shots move to the drop zone at the front corner of the cement pad with a stroke penalty
5 - Path and across is hazard, water is OB
6 - Water is OB, blacktop path is hazard
7 - Path and across is Hazard, water is OB
8 - Road and across is OB, ball field is OB
9 - Water is OB, Across the road on right is OB (Grass and Woods), There will be a painted line to mark a boundary between the grass areas where the road goes to the back campgrounds to mark OB along there, Open and AM1 play long tee. THERE IS NO DROP ZONE, PLAY YOUR SHOT FROM WHERE IT WENT OB.
10 - Road is OB, Across road to grass on right is OB, Ball Field is OB
11 - Road is OB (Driveway to pump house is NOT the road), Swamp is OB
12 - No OB
13 - River is OB, Road and across is OB
14 - River is OB
15 - River is OB, walking path and across outside of woods is Hazard
16 - Path is Hazard, River is OB
17 - Path and across is Hazard, River is OB
18 - Path is Hazard, Water is OB, baseball field is OB



CTPS
There are divisional and non divisional ctps and long putts thanks to our sponsors. Please READ THE CARD before you move something. Make sure it either is for everyone, or is for your division. Please bring in any flags for the holes you finish on AFTER the second round. It would be a big help to us if you also brought in any other signage as well from your finishing hole, but certainly not necessary.

Here is a list of the CTPs
Hole 1 - All players - Long Putt for an Undertaker - Breaking Aces
Hole 3 - FA3 - CTP for an MD1 - Evolution
Hole 4 - All players - Long Putt for $25 gift cert to Mel Ervin Ford - McIntyre Cabinets
Hole 5 - MA3 - CTP for a Firebird - The River Provisioning
Hole 10 - MA2 - CTP for a Destiny - Garber Buick
Hole 11 - MP4O - CTP for a Trust - Evolution
Hole 12 - MA4 - CTP for a Stabilizer - Rootnote Landscaping Solutions
Hole 13 - All Players - Long Putt for $25 gift certificate to Mel Ervin Ford
Hole 16 - All Players - CTP for 50/50 - High Life Farms
Hole 17 - All Players - CTP for Ace Pool - High Life Farms
Hole 18 - MPO - CTP for a Reverb

We will have spotters at some of the holes that typically require some searching. We will have a tip/donation box for them up at Check In. Cash or Plastic goes a long way to help out those who are helping us out. Show them some love, please. In the case of a missing disc, please try to hold to the 3 minute rule to keep the flow going.

Discs lost in the river: Unless you can get it quickly, I recommend moving on and coming back to get it at the break. The water is low, it won’t take long to grab them at break.

Trash. Pack it in, pack it out. Please help keep our course clean.
Pictures. If you take any photos, we’d love to see them. Please post them on the Chesaning Disc Golf page on Facebook.

Riverfront Grille will be running personal pizzas down to us. If you would like to plan on ordering one for your lunch, please bring $8 to check-in, write down on the sheet what you would like on it, and they will bring them down for us at the break between rounds. This is super convenient for all of you and it saves you from driving around at the break.


We are really looking forward to Sunday. It is going to be an amazing time. Can’t wait to see you all!