2022 PDGA Professional Disc Golf World Championships

Andrew Sweeton

Sorry, and no-show money is rolled back into the payout.

Dynamic Discs

Each player will receive a caddy badge. You can caddy for another player as long as you have that caddy badge.

Dynamic Discs

There are two airports approximately 1.5 hours away from Emporia.

Dynamic Discs

Unfortunately, no.

Andrew Sweeton

Sent!

Danielle weigandt

Hi Andrew! Any idea what the email title is? I can't find it anywhere in my spam or inbox folder.

Andrew Sweeton

A caddie badge will allow the wearer to spectate, but only in spectator areas. A caddy badge may accompany a group inside the ropes only when performing caddie duties for a player in the group.

Dynamic Discs

Yes, there will be a Support Badge and a Caddy Badge. The Support Badge allows access to spectator areas as Andrew stated. Caddy Badges allows access inside ropes, following the card more closely.

Andrew Sweeton

Only as drops occur, we are full at 224/80 with waitlists.

Andrew Sweeton

Great question! As the sport evolves, so do things like invite criteria and registration tiers. For example, over the past years we still were not filling Pro Worlds by invitees and non-invited players were still getting in to fill the event, but this may be the first year where that doesn't h ... more

Great question! As the sport evolves, so do things like invite criteria and registration tiers. For example, over the past years we still were not filling Pro Worlds by invitees and non-invited players were still getting in to fill the event, but this may be the first year where that doesn't happen. We have already ratcheted up the ratings for an invite next year and by the year after we may not need to have the safety valve of an open registration.

Jason Brown

So what you're saying is, if you're not over 1000 rated you won't be able to play worlds

Andrew Sweeton

No, that's not what I'm saying. I was pointing out that eventually there may not functionally be a need for an open registration period, as it would fill prior to that, but we will have to wait and see. Last year in Utah we didn't fill MPO and 87 MPO players (42% of the field) were r ... more

No, that's not what I'm saying. I was pointing out that eventually there may not functionally be a need for an open registration period, as it would fill prior to that, but we will have to wait and see. Last year in Utah we didn't fill MPO and 87 MPO players (42% of the field) were rated under a 1000. This year in Emporia we have filled and currently there are 62 MPO players (28% of the field), that are rated below 1000. Whether that percentage is higher or lower next year, will depend on the interest level in the event in Vermont. The last time it was in Vermont it didn't fill, so an even larger percentage of players were under a 1000. When a Worlds doesn't fill, it allows more lower rated players to register.

Jason Brown

So then regional pros are still left out. Instead of being able to drive 2 hours to play in Emporia, I would either fly out or drive 20+ hours to Vermont or not play. So either way regional pros lose out because for most of us the only chance we have to play is when it's relatively close to home.

Peter Gossell

This is the World Championships, not the Kansas Championships. Priority should be given to top pros over locals. The more local event is the DDO, where 22% of MPO is rated below 1000.

Jason Brown

I agree with you, but even DDO had tiered registration and had an even more limited field than worlds. All I'm saying is the PDGA is neglecting a large portion of their pros, who can no longer play AM Worlds because of accepting cash but don't have a chance to register for Pro worlds because it fills before tier 3 or 4 can even attempt to register.

Noah P

Choosing to accept cash is on you. DDO is an elite series, not the world championships. People local to the Olympics on any given year don’t get to hop on the track just because they’re pretty good.

Andrew Sweeton

Although the space is generally allocated based on PDGA Membership numbers and the number of invitees, we did provide extra space for the FPO division. Although FPO is only 6.8% of all open-age Pros and accounted for 21.5% of the total invitees, we still gave 26.3% of the space to FPO.

Roy Lyons

Very generous!

Andrew Sweeton

Saturday - See https://www.pdga.com/files/2022_pdga_pro_worlds_course_schedule_v3.pdf

Mike Sullivan

Callie, thank you for pointing this out. The error has been fixed and they should be able to sign up now.