Discraft Michigan Amateur State Championships Presented By Dunegrass Co.
PDGA B-tier · Fri-Sun, Sep 1-3, 2023Sep 2023 · Ludington, MI
Registered Players and Last Chance Qualifiers,
Thank you for registering for the 2023 Discraft Michigan Amateur Disc Golf State Championships Presented by Dunegrass Co.
If playing the ...
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Registered Players and Last Chance Qualifiers,
Thank you for registering for the 2023 Discraft Michigan Amateur Disc Golf State Championships Presented by Dunegrass Co.
If playing the LCQ on Thursday in efforts to play into the event. You will need to bring cash with you, without cash you cannot register as there is no interwebs at Mason County. Entry Fee is $85 with optional adds of a $5 50/50 and $5 Ace Pool. The money will be due following the round. Tee time is 11am on Thursday at Mason County (Beauty or Beast, division dependent). All other LCQ divisions have until Tuesday night at 10pm to register online.
Tee Times: Our goal is to have the Tee Times posted no later than 5pm on Thursday. We need to have the LCQ completed, and its people registered for the main event so that I can create them. I am anticipating this to be a deadline we can meet. We will post a link to the tee times both on DiscGolfScene and the Facebook Group Page once they have been posted.
Event Check In: Please check in no later than 10 minutes before your tee time at your Course HQ on Friday.
If you ordered an optional tournament shirt or a UV Z Buzzz, those will be waiting for you to pick up at Mason County Friday through Sunday. Extras will be available at the Fly Mart,
Player Package: You will be picking up your player package FOLLOWING Round 1 at your course. After completing the round, please go to your Course HQ location to pick up your player package.
$163 Value. $15 Payout Pool Deduct.
Custom Mitten Bag (Random)($12 Value) Tote Bag ($3 Value)
Super Color Buzzz ($25 Value) McBeth/Fierce Towel (Random)($15 Value)
States Z Buzzz ($18 Value) Great Lakes Hat ($20 Value)
MDGO Umbrella ($27 Value) ERG Bar ($3 Value)
Biker Water Bottle ($12 Value) States Zing Mini ($5 Value)
Coupon for BBQ ($5 Value) Water For Weekend ($3 Value)
Xanfel ($10 value) Grip6 Coupons ($0 Value)
Mini Golf Coupon ($0 Value) Merrell Coupon ($0 Value)
There are 2 Flex Start Warm Up Events Scheduled. See DiscGolfScene for more details.
Wednesday Beauty 1:00-4:00pm
Thursday West Shore 9:00am –3:00pm
Social Activities: We have 2 nights of social activities planned.
Thursday night we are joining the City of Ludington at their Bonfire at the Beach from 8-10pm. They will have a bonfire, a live band, and we will have a bunch of Ultra Stars for you to toss around. We hope that you can come and relax the night before the competition. The location of the bonfire is Sterns Beach in downtown Ludington.
Friday night from 6-9pm we are bringing back our Street Party Fly Mart to downtown Ludington at the corners of Melendy & James Streets. No cost to attend. The event will have any extra player packages for sale (whole or parts), the Z UV Buzzz, and a limited supply of extra tournament shirts.
Friday Play: There will be CTPs, the Ace Pool tie breaker (used only if there are no aces in your pool), and 50/50 for your pool out on the course. The merchandise CTPs will be at your Saturday course to be picked up by the winners following your round. Ace Pool and 50/50 will be paid 48 hours after the completion of the event via PayPal.
Saturday Night: We will be drawing the winners of the Basket Raffles live on Facebook. The baskets will be delivered to the winner’s course of play on Sunday.
We will be using PDGA Live Scoring where possible, where it is not possible, we will be using hard scorecards. The event staff will enter your scores into the PDGA website. The scoring password will be available at check in.
Bruce’s Bad Ass BBQ. There is a coupon in your player package for a free sandwich and a chip. This can be redeemed Friday – Sunday at Mason County Park.
This is the first year that I have been the Tournament Director of this event. Here are some of the things that I wanted to improve upon for this year’s event. Better course signage. Bigger player package. Larger player payouts. Increased social activities. Bring Whiskey Creek back into the rotation with improvements. Bring in another course to eliminate the less popular Scottville.
The staff of this event worked 100s of hours to bring you the best tournament experience possible. This is an EXCEPTIONALLY large disc golf event. We will have more players than at the Amateur World Championships this summer. I can guarantee before we start that everything will not be perfect. We strive to run a bigger and better tournament every year. However, please remember that we are all volunteers trying to make your weekend the best that it can be! Our enjoyment from the event, is the amount of enjoyment that you get.
Flex Awards Ceremony. Some people want to wait around for an awards ceremony and some people do not. In efforts to satisfy both sets of people, we are planning on doing both of these things. We will have a smaller awards ceremony at your final course of play on Sunday. If you would like to get your trophy and leave the event, you are most welcome to do so. However, if you would like to be a part of the Champions Award Ceremony which will be held at Mason County Park following the completion of all the divisions play on Sunday, we would love for you to be a part of it! However, if you choose to not take part in this Champions Awards Ceremony, you will still be recognized as one of the new 2023 State Disc Golf Champions. Your Course Directors will remind you about this and ask if you plan to attend.
Link to Player Guide. The link will be posted online on Monday. I would STRONGLY recommend downloading this to your device due to its size.
Other Notes:
If we need to suspend play due to dangerous weather (lightning within 12 miles of the course), there will be 3 horn blasts. If the horn is sounded 3 times, please immediately mark your lie, and seek shelter in your car as fast as possible. Play will resume after there has been no lightning within 12 miles for 30 minutes. There will be a warmup period, followed by a 2-minute warning horn and then a horn to resume play. Being a tee time start, there will not be any other horns used.
Course Names. Some courses do not have a consistent naming throughout all the listings on the internet. Here are some of the alternatives you may find:
Beauty/Beast <---> Mason County
West Shore Community College <---> Labyrinth
Whiskey Creek <---> Whiskey Hills
Lake Michigan Camp <---> Fairway to Heaven
Payouts for all divisions will be posted on Friday. A Huge thanks to Discraft as the payouts are large even with the upgraded player packages due to their partnership with this event.
UDisc has all the layouts for all the courses that we are using. Please feel free to use this to assist you.
Mason County Courses will be open for practice rounds on Thursday during the Last Chance Qualifier.
Lake Michigan Camp Course has 4-5 holes that are not at all cart friendly. I would personally suggest not using a cart on this course. If possible, I would recommend switching to a carry bag.
We will have water at all the courses. This should not be your only source of drinking water while you are competing. You should bring plenty of water to keep yourself properly hydrated.
Michigan is home to many “poisonous” plant species. You should become aware of them.
There may or may not be mosquitos at your courses of play. Plan accordingly.
Please report any course issues (bees/fallen trees/hole) to your Course HQ as soon as possible. We want to address them as soon as possible and have staff available to do so.
Lastly, constructive feedback left in a direct manner is a fantastic way to help an event see where it can improve. Please feel free to see me at the event as my plan is to be available to the players all throughout the weekend or drop me an email at [email redacted]. Vitriolic online bashing is not a terrific way to help an event see where it can improve, and the staff of this event will not be participating in it. I am not saying you cannot post what you want to post and where you want to post it. You totally can! We, however, will not be addressing that.
I cannot wait to award all these 2023 State Champions!
Straight Drives,
Mark Stephens
Lead Tournament Director
Michigan Amateur Disc Golf Championships
Aug 28, 2023
Thank you for registering for the 2023 Discraft Michigan Amateur Disc Golf State Championships Presented by Dunegrass Co.
If playing the LCQ on Thursday in efforts to play into the event. You will need to bring cash with you, without cash you cannot register as there is no interwebs at Mason County. Entry Fee is $85 with optional adds of a $5 50/50 and $5 Ace Pool. The money will be due following the round. Tee time is 11am on Thursday at Mason County (Beauty or Beast, division dependent). All other LCQ divisions have until Tuesday night at 10pm to register online.
Tee Times: Our goal is to have the Tee Times posted no later than 5pm on Thursday. We need to have the LCQ completed, and its people registered for the main event so that I can create them. I am anticipating this to be a deadline we can meet. We will post a link to the tee times both on DiscGolfScene and the Facebook Group Page once they have been posted.
Event Check In: Please check in no later than 10 minutes before your tee time at your Course HQ on Friday.
If you ordered an optional tournament shirt or a UV Z Buzzz, those will be waiting for you to pick up at Mason County Friday through Sunday. Extras will be available at the Fly Mart,
Player Package: You will be picking up your player package FOLLOWING Round 1 at your course. After completing the round, please go to your Course HQ location to pick up your player package.
$163 Value. $15 Payout Pool Deduct.
Custom Mitten Bag (Random)($12 Value) Tote Bag ($3 Value)
Super Color Buzzz ($25 Value) McBeth/Fierce Towel (Random)($15 Value)
States Z Buzzz ($18 Value) Great Lakes Hat ($20 Value)
MDGO Umbrella ($27 Value) ERG Bar ($3 Value)
Biker Water Bottle ($12 Value) States Zing Mini ($5 Value)
Coupon for BBQ ($5 Value) Water For Weekend ($3 Value)
Xanfel ($10 value) Grip6 Coupons ($0 Value)
Mini Golf Coupon ($0 Value) Merrell Coupon ($0 Value)
There are 2 Flex Start Warm Up Events Scheduled. See DiscGolfScene for more details.
Wednesday Beauty 1:00-4:00pm
Thursday West Shore 9:00am –3:00pm
Social Activities: We have 2 nights of social activities planned.
Thursday night we are joining the City of Ludington at their Bonfire at the Beach from 8-10pm. They will have a bonfire, a live band, and we will have a bunch of Ultra Stars for you to toss around. We hope that you can come and relax the night before the competition. The location of the bonfire is Sterns Beach in downtown Ludington.
Friday night from 6-9pm we are bringing back our Street Party Fly Mart to downtown Ludington at the corners of Melendy & James Streets. No cost to attend. The event will have any extra player packages for sale (whole or parts), the Z UV Buzzz, and a limited supply of extra tournament shirts.
Friday Play: There will be CTPs, the Ace Pool tie breaker (used only if there are no aces in your pool), and 50/50 for your pool out on the course. The merchandise CTPs will be at your Saturday course to be picked up by the winners following your round. Ace Pool and 50/50 will be paid 48 hours after the completion of the event via PayPal.
Saturday Night: We will be drawing the winners of the Basket Raffles live on Facebook. The baskets will be delivered to the winner’s course of play on Sunday.
We will be using PDGA Live Scoring where possible, where it is not possible, we will be using hard scorecards. The event staff will enter your scores into the PDGA website. The scoring password will be available at check in.
Bruce’s Bad Ass BBQ. There is a coupon in your player package for a free sandwich and a chip. This can be redeemed Friday – Sunday at Mason County Park.
This is the first year that I have been the Tournament Director of this event. Here are some of the things that I wanted to improve upon for this year’s event. Better course signage. Bigger player package. Larger player payouts. Increased social activities. Bring Whiskey Creek back into the rotation with improvements. Bring in another course to eliminate the less popular Scottville.
The staff of this event worked 100s of hours to bring you the best tournament experience possible. This is an EXCEPTIONALLY large disc golf event. We will have more players than at the Amateur World Championships this summer. I can guarantee before we start that everything will not be perfect. We strive to run a bigger and better tournament every year. However, please remember that we are all volunteers trying to make your weekend the best that it can be! Our enjoyment from the event, is the amount of enjoyment that you get.
Flex Awards Ceremony. Some people want to wait around for an awards ceremony and some people do not. In efforts to satisfy both sets of people, we are planning on doing both of these things. We will have a smaller awards ceremony at your final course of play on Sunday. If you would like to get your trophy and leave the event, you are most welcome to do so. However, if you would like to be a part of the Champions Award Ceremony which will be held at Mason County Park following the completion of all the divisions play on Sunday, we would love for you to be a part of it! However, if you choose to not take part in this Champions Awards Ceremony, you will still be recognized as one of the new 2023 State Disc Golf Champions. Your Course Directors will remind you about this and ask if you plan to attend.
Link to Player Guide. The link will be posted online on Monday. I would STRONGLY recommend downloading this to your device due to its size.
Other Notes:
If we need to suspend play due to dangerous weather (lightning within 12 miles of the course), there will be 3 horn blasts. If the horn is sounded 3 times, please immediately mark your lie, and seek shelter in your car as fast as possible. Play will resume after there has been no lightning within 12 miles for 30 minutes. There will be a warmup period, followed by a 2-minute warning horn and then a horn to resume play. Being a tee time start, there will not be any other horns used.
Course Names. Some courses do not have a consistent naming throughout all the listings on the internet. Here are some of the alternatives you may find:
Beauty/Beast <---> Mason County
West Shore Community College <---> Labyrinth
Whiskey Creek <---> Whiskey Hills
Lake Michigan Camp <---> Fairway to Heaven
Payouts for all divisions will be posted on Friday. A Huge thanks to Discraft as the payouts are large even with the upgraded player packages due to their partnership with this event.
UDisc has all the layouts for all the courses that we are using. Please feel free to use this to assist you.
Mason County Courses will be open for practice rounds on Thursday during the Last Chance Qualifier.
Lake Michigan Camp Course has 4-5 holes that are not at all cart friendly. I would personally suggest not using a cart on this course. If possible, I would recommend switching to a carry bag.
We will have water at all the courses. This should not be your only source of drinking water while you are competing. You should bring plenty of water to keep yourself properly hydrated.
Michigan is home to many “poisonous” plant species. You should become aware of them.
There may or may not be mosquitos at your courses of play. Plan accordingly.
Please report any course issues (bees/fallen trees/hole) to your Course HQ as soon as possible. We want to address them as soon as possible and have staff available to do so.
Lastly, constructive feedback left in a direct manner is a fantastic way to help an event see where it can improve. Please feel free to see me at the event as my plan is to be available to the players all throughout the weekend or drop me an email at [email redacted]. Vitriolic online bashing is not a terrific way to help an event see where it can improve, and the staff of this event will not be participating in it. I am not saying you cannot post what you want to post and where you want to post it. You totally can! We, however, will not be addressing that.
I cannot wait to award all these 2023 State Champions!
Straight Drives,
Mark Stephens
Lead Tournament Director
Michigan Amateur Disc Golf Championships
