DGVTour #9- Sap Bucket Open XXIII
August 23-24,2025
Big Rock @ Murray Hill DGC
Waterbury Center, VT
PDGA C-tier

2 Rounds of 18 holes, 1 round per day tee times
TD: Chris Young & Will Cleland

Practice rounds: 1 free practice round for registered players is offered on Thurs 8/21 or Friday 8/22. If you are a non-member of Big Rock and would like to practice another day or time you can text or call Rob to schedule a time. Big Rock is a pay to play facility.Rob can be reached at (802)274-4449.

Friday NIght Doubles: $5 random draw. 5pm draw cards. Playing white tees.

Glow Golf: Saturday night glow round and bbq at Claytons/Stabby Meadows ( 5 min. walk across the street). 4pm food. Glow at dusk.

Camping: Will be offered onsite. Players can register for camping on the registration page.

CTP: We will have CTP's on Saturday for the amateur divisions! Make sure to check the list at the check in table outside the DGVT trailer.

Players Meeting: Week of emails will be sent out with event info. and updates. The DGVT mobile Pro Shop will serve as Tournament Central and can be found at the Clubhouse outside Pauls house.

Awards: As divisions finish we will give out trophies to division champs once all scores in that divisions have been finalized and received.

Trophies: 1st place in divisions with 3 or more players signed up before Saturday,August 8th.

Pro Payouts: We will payout 40% of the Pro divisions. Payouts will be issued via Paypal within 48 hours of completion of the event.

Amateur Payouts: We will payout 45% of the Amateur divisions. Payouts will be posted and a DGVT merchandise voucher will be filed in our system for those players. All amateur divisions play for merchandise credit to the DGVT Pro Shop. Credit must be redeemed by Dec. 31,2025. Pro shop will be onsite. Credit cannot be used online and we do not ship, so plan to use your credit onsite or at a 2025 DGVTour event you attend. Payouts will be posted here on the event dgscene page within 48 hours of completion of the tournament ( look in the Results section).

DGVTour Acepot: $1 from each players registration goes to the acepot. If there are no aces then the acepot will roll over to DGVTour #10. No rollover from Calais.

GO BIG Acepot: $5/per player optional acepot. If you put in you have a chance to win. Players will have the option to include this at registration. If no one in the GO BIG acepot gets an ace then the money will roll over to the GO BIG acepot at DGVTour #10. No carryover from Calais.

EDGE: $2 from each players registration goes to the Vermont EDGE Program. This program will enable DGVT to work with local schools and communities to build new courses and get discs in the hands of our youth.

DGVTour fee: $4 from each players registration goes to the Tour to help us with an array of items such as end of the season trophies, end of the season payouts, sanctioning fees, park fees, supplies, staff and much more.

PDGA Fee: C-tier fee is $3/player.

Greens/Facilities Fee: $10 per player.

Playoffs: In the event of a playoff for 1st place, the format will be sudden death and playing the course in order beginning at hole 1.

Juniors must be accompanied by an adult per PDGA guidelines:
https://www.pdga.com/rules/competition-manual/113

Tee Assignments:
( both rounds)
Gold tees: MPO
Blue tees: MP40,MP50,MA1,MA40,MA50,MA2,FPO
White tees: MA3,MA60,FA40,FA50,MA70,FA2,FA3,FA1,MA70.,FA50.

Out of Bounds: All Out of Bounds will be listed on the PDGA Live digital scorecard. They also will be emailed week of to registered players.

Hole 1: Fence line is Out of Bounds along the left side of the fairway. White pin flags mark the OB line on the right side of the fairway.
Hole 2: Shared OB line with hole 1. White pin flags mark the Out of Bounds line.
Hole 4: Out of Bounds along the right side of the fairway marked by white pin flags. Out of Bounds pond near the basket marked by white pin flags. Fence line on the left side of the fairway approaching the green is OB.
Hole 6: Small pond is OB marked by white pin flags.
Hole 8: OB line along the right side of the fairway marked by white pin flags.
Hole 9: Pond is Out of Bounds. Disc must be completely surrounded by water.
Hole 18: River and beyond is Out of Bounds. If you are completely surrounded by water or on the other side of the river you are OB. The small "pond" near the basket is OB, white pin flags mark the OB line.

PDGA Live Scoring: This is how each group will keep score. All players need to click on the link below to become familiar with PDGA Live Scoring. Download the ap " PDGA Live" on your personal device and be prepared ahead of time.
https://www.pdga.com/help/tournament-management/official-hole-scoring . ALL PLAYERS MUST KEEP SCORE. We will have paper cards available but we recommend using PDGA Live scoring. Each player is responsible for submitting a scorecard or they will be penalized. If you submit your scorecard and your score is incorrect you will be penalized - so make sure your score is correct. Please refer to rule 808 for the updated 2024 Scoring policy here...
https://www.pdga.com/rules/official-rules-disc-golf/808

PDGA Live Scoring Code: will be given at check-in.

PDGA Live Scoring is the OFFICIAL scorecard of the event and each player needs to check in after the round to make sure that all players scorecards have been received by the TD's. If you are keeping a paper card you must write your full name on the top of the card so that we know you have submitted your scorecard.

NO 2 meter rule.

NO Division changes or Refunds after registration closes.

DGVT merchandise: If you would like to purchase something from DGVT you can do so at the event. Member discs can be picked up at the event and you can cash in your Am payout at the event. We will have your payout on file if you have won any amateur payouts at a Tour event we will have that for you. Must redeem am payouts by the end of the calendar year. We do not ship payouts, so make sure to use your credit onsite at one of our events.

We want to Thank the North Calais DG Club and any volunteers,for all the hard work getting the course ready for the event. We also want to thank our DGVTour sponsors...
Innova Champion Discs, Upper Park Disc Golf, Vermont Federal Credit Union, Lawsons Finest Liquids, Stowe Cider, Mad Taco, Smuggler Notch Disc Golf Center, Pine Grove Organics, Haute & Heady, Discmania,Martells at the Red Fox and Smugglers Notch RV Village.

Questions?....You can email us at [email redacted] and we will get back to you! We are not able to entertain special requests unfortunately.

Disc Golf Vermont is responsible for all refunds and cancellations. Early registration $20 is non-refundable. PDGA refund policy will be followed. A fee of $10 will be applied to all refund requests as specified in the PDGA Policy.

Summary:
100% refund if withdrawn at least 30 days before the event date.
50% refund if withdrawn at least 15 days prior to the event date.
25% refund if withdrawn before 48 hours prior to the event date.
No refunds for withdrawals within 48 hours of the event start.
Exception: A full refund will be given if a player's spot is filled from the waitlist.
Refunds will not be issued after registration closes.

Two ways to withdraw: There is a "Cancel / Request Refund" link in your email confirmation from DiscGolfScene.com. You can also click the "Registered Players" link in the event, where you will find an "Edit" and "Withdraw" button.