@Patrick,
I feel like each club has its own established weekend tourneys, and that's how they help promote their area courses. Example, when you think AM Nats, you think the Tabbagan course: The Mi ...
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@Patrick,
I feel like each club has its own established weekend tourneys, and that's how they help promote their area courses. Example, when you think AM Nats, you think the Tabbagan course: The Mich AM Open, you think Hollywoods and the FTF: CCR Open, Grand Woods and surrounding courses. To change that might be a real head turner for all these tourneys and could potentially turn people away. (I know there are more supporters in these tourneys, this was just to make a simple point)
Here is a completely seperate thought. If you would like a different venue for states, maybe you should coordinate it amongst the clubs you are looking to involve. For example, lets say you want Lansing Area Courses to host states, then have CCR run their tournament(CCR Open) at Ludington, and in return the State tournament hosted by Mason County could be run in Lansing Course Area. I'M NOT SAYING ITS A PERFECT IDEA BUT IF ITS SOMETHING YOU ARE REALLY INTERESTED IN DOING I'M SURE YOU WILL FIND A WAY. I'm sure there is A LOT MORE RED TAPE ISSUES that I'm not aware about when it comes to running a tourney, but I know the TD's do know about the red tape and most the TD's that I know also help run the local clubs and probably could get the ball rolling.
In my mind, if you did manage to coordinate a "swapping" in venue for one of the big tourney's, it would give LOCAL TD's a chance to play in a tourney at their respective home courses(because the other club would be running the tourney) and would probably shed a little bit of light as to what they can do to improve their own courses, local tourneys, clubs etc. and could possibly bring a good change to a course/tourney or two. Being that they could play at it with more then just local players they see all the time and know what to expect from.
On another side note, I WOULD LOVE TO SEE HOW PASSIONATE SCHWASS CAN BE ABOUT PLAYING DISC GOLF AT HIS OWN COURSE KNOWING ALREADY HOW PASSIONATE HE IS AT TD-ING HIS COURSES.
