**Further clarrification of Pool A&B Sunday's round**
Yesterday during the 5-minute prior to each group teeing off, I went over various scenarios of playing a 13 or 9 hole configuration. I stated ...
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Further clarrification of Pool A&B Sunday's round
Yesterday during the 5-minute prior to each group teeing off, I went over various scenarios of playing a 13 or 9 hole configuration. I stated that if we played a 9 hole configuration we would tighten the tee times from 12 minutes to 10 minutes. Yesterday after the last card had already begun play, a suggestion was made to move from tee times which would have been from 8am to 2:36 pm to two shotgun starts one at 8:15 and one at 12 noon. This would provide the greatest opportunity to get all 18 holes in for all groups. Tee times were never posted for Saturday. Communication via email and posting on dgscene explained the format change in an attempt to get the most golf completed prior to the storms hitting Sunday afternoon.
This morning, Sunday, two hours before the scheduled 8:15 start, while reviewing the weather provided by NOAA, it became clear that storms would likely hit us around 1:30 or 2. It took me about 30 minutes to actually pull the trigger, but about 6:45 I finally made the decision to make a cut in all pools, shorten the layouts to 13 holes and move up the second shotgun event to 11am in an attempt to get it finished as soon as possible.
The first cuts were made for divisions where the lead was very significant. (MP40 and MA4). The second cuts were made for divisions of 1 competitor (FA1, FA2 and FA3). The third cuts were made for players at the bottom of the divisions where I didn't think they would be in contention for the win or even cashing. Of all of these, the only division that the logic above didn't pertain to was FA50. I made a presumption that they would rather not play in the rain so I cut them as well. I really try to keep women together and they would have to play with MA3 if I kept them in.
Prior to 7:50 am there were a couple of errors regarding hole assignments for the 8:15 start. Those were rectified by 7:50 am providing enough time to get to the correct hole.
The 11 am start with hole assignments was completed by 8:45 am. Pool A & B - pay attention to what the PDGA app says regarding which tee and which hole to play. If there is a discrepancy anywhere, the PDGA app is the official layout.
Please be mindful that while you may believe a decision was made incorrectly, I need to be concerned with 134 people. I've had MPO players tell me I should cut all of Pool C and I've literally had the LAST person in TWO different divisions in Pool C complain that they were not allowed to play. With over 120 PDGA tournaments under my belt since 2014, this is the most drastic scenario I've had to deal with and the only second scenario where we were not able to fully finish the last round of play. Thank you for your understanding. If you wish to file an Evaluation Form with the PDGA, here is the link to do so.
https://www.pdga.com/tour/event/feedback/?tid=98364&event=Maverick%20DG%3A%20Black%20Hoof%20Shootout%203%20presented%20by%20Innova&date=2026-06-06&email=robmartin51540%40gmail.com
https://www.pdga.com/tour/event/98364
