If you haven't seen the schedule, we are less than a week away from the start of Deer Lakes League! I can't wait to get back out on the course and the weather this week looks to be amazing to get war ...
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If you haven't seen the schedule, we are less than a week away from the start of Deer Lakes League! I can't wait to get back out on the course and the weather this week looks to be amazing to get warmed up for the year. I just wanted to make a quick post of the changes for this year.
First off, with the growth of the league, we will now be offering a Recreational division! The Intermediate division was getting a little large and the rating gap between the best and worst players in the division was a little too spread out to give fair play among everyone, so this new division should keep it competitive across players. I also wanted to remind everyone that I do offer an Advanced Women's division. With the growth of the women's game in Pittsburgh, it would be awesome to get a competitive field of women out each week.
The other minor change that people probably won't even notice is a change in the birdie holes. I looked at the data from last year and have modified which holes are being picked from which division. In the end, it comes out to the birdie pot being hit about once every 100 rounds, so that seems to work for me.
The Int, Rec, and Adv. Women birdie holes will include two of holes 2, 6, 8, 13, and 17, and one of holes 1, 4, 7, 9, and 15. Advanced will then add one of the remaining eight holes and Open will add two more holes on to that. Basically, it means that the lower divisions will never need to birdie holes 3, 5, 10, 11, 12, 14, 16, or 18 to hit the birdie pot.
Last year's system for registration and league play seemed to work extremely well, so we will continue with having people sign up and pay online prior to play and payouts will be completed through PayPal and Venmo with a rolling credit sheet. This definitely took a lot of work off of my plate, so we'll continue with this method this year.
That's all I have. Can't wait to see everyone out at the course next Monday and to see some super hot scores!
