39th Annual Kansas City Wide Open

Welcome to the 39th Annual Kansas City Wide Open!

This year's Kansas City Wide Open is a PDGA B tier event In name only - the club and tournament staff treat the KCWO as a premier A tier event.
A minimum of $750 will be added to the Pro division payouts, but expect the added cash to be much more than that!

Kansas City Disc Golf and the tournament staff would like to thank our Parks Partners for helping us facilitate this event:

Kansas City, Missouri, Parks & Recreation (https://kcparks.org/)
Liberty Parks & Recreation (https://www.libertymissouri.gov/57/Parks-Recreation)
Johnson County (KS) Parks & Recreation (https://www.jcprd.com/)
Blue Springs Parks & Recreation (http://www.bluespringsgov.com/2164/Parks-Recreation)

We would also like to thank our core tournament sponsors:

F3 series
Discmania
DG Nomad
Dynamic Discs - Kansas City
DZ Discs
KCDG INC.
KC Parks & Recreation
Prodigy Discs
Truly Unique Disc Golf
West Plaza Tomato company
Blue Spring P&R
Joco P&R
Liberty P&R

We would also like to thank out event partners:

Eagle Products
Grip 6
KC Neighboorhood Tourism and Development Foundation
Jaquart Events
BKS Brewery
Grip eq
Bushnell
Kelly Davidson with Plastic and Chains
Crane Brewing Company

Players packs!
1 Prodigy Disc
1 Discmania Disc
1 West Plaza Tomato company hat
1 event dri fit shirt
1 Custom Grip6 belt and belt buckle

Player packs can be picked up starting Thursday at BKS Artisan Ale, Player Party.
After that they will be available on course.
A, B, E Pools Pick up at Water Works before your round at that course.
C and D pools at Wilbur Young before your round at that course.

Map of venues being used:

https://www.google.com/maps/d/u/0/edit?mid=1tehMCdvPbjpr7vdawHuSVv9bs6GYrSlO&usp=sharing

We would also like to thank our Course Directors for volunteering their free time for this event!

Michael Krueger at Cliff Drive
Josh "Kujo" Kujawa at Bad Rock Creek
Keith Glendenning at Wilbur Young Park
Tina Patterson at Water Works Park
Cade Garrelts at Heritage Park

About the tournament:

The 39th Annual Kansas City Wide Open is a three round tournament on tee times with five player pools.

If you plan on entering, you must be available all three days. Tee times may start as early as 7 AM and be as late at 2 PM. Once tee times are set, they cannot be changed. Tee times will be published to https://www.pdga.com/tour/event/47866

Pool assignments:

Pool A - MPO, MP40
Pool B - MA1, MA40, MP50, MP60
Pool C - MA2
Pool D - MA3, MA50, MA60, MJ18
Pool E - All Women's Divisions

Course assignments (Friday-Saturday-Sunday - subject to change - but we do not anticipate changes):

Pool A - Bad Rock Creek, Water Works, Kessler Park (Cliff Drive)
Pool B - Kessler Park (Cliff Drive), Heritage, Water Works
Pool C - Wilbur Young, Kessler Park (Cliff Drive), Heritage
Pool D - Heritage, Bad Rock Creek, Wilbur Young
Pool E - Water Works, Wilbur Young, Bad Rock Creek (Alternate Pool E Layout)

The Kansas City Wide Open will utilize PDGA live scoring, and live scoring will be your official scorecard (https://www.pdga.com/score)

As this is a PDGA sanctioned event (and disc golf is a self governed sport) please familiarize yourself with the rules:

https://www.pdga.com/rules/official-rules-disc-golf

If the card has a disagreement over the rules or the application of the rules, please do not engage in argument. Simply play a provisional, finish the hole from both positions, record both scores, and see your course tournament official after the round has concluded.

All players must sign the KCDG Covid-19 waiver. If you sign it for any event in 2021, it applies to this event as well. The Covid-19 waiver is at https://kcdiscgolf.org/waiver-form/

Kansas City Disc Golf is responsible for all refunds/cancellations. PDGA guidelines will be followed.