Discraft's Great Lakes Open presented by Gerrit J Verburg Co.

The second largest disc golf event in the world is back! The 43rd annual Discraft Great Lakes Open returns to Southeast Michigan. This year's event will once again welcome over 1000 disc golfers from all over the world. The tournament will take place at the Black Locust courses at Kensington Metropark, the West course at Independence Lake, Cass Benton and both courses at Hudson Mills. All AM players will play three rounds over three days of competition. Competition days will be September 5 through 7 with check-in on September 4. All divisions will play a different course each day with tee times. All players will receive a $350 players pack. Top AM players will also receive payout vouchers to be used at the Ledgestone Shop.

Here are several enhancements the event team is making for the 2025 event:
-We will be increasing the quantity of food at our player party events
-We are adding a Flymart on Saturday night to our event schedule
-We will be adding additional CTP's including women's only CTP's
-We will be doing enhanced trophies for the AM divisions this year
-We are adding women's spots in all divisions

Players Pack:

• GRIPeq Custom CS2 Bag (option to upgrade to an AX6 bag or special edition DGLO Compact Zuca Cart)
• 3 Discraft Limited Edition discs
• Sublimated DGLO Jersey
• Tube of Zanfel
• Merrell discount code coupon
• Sublimated towel
• Special Edition DGLO/Brixton Trading Card
• DGLO Disc Golf Pin
• DryV Bag
• Ability to purchase discounted spectator admission tickets
• Two free meals
• Coupons

Hotel: We have contracted with the Hilton Garden Inn in Novi as our host hotel for this event and they are offering a special, discounted rate. Players can book online at the following link: Link coming soon!

AM Note: AM players playing the A Tier event will have the ability to purchase a discounted pass to spectate at Toboggan as part of their player's pack.

Hudson Mills, Independence Lake and Kensington Metroparks do require a pass to enter the parks. No additional fees will need to be paid by the players (such as the $3 disc golf fee at Hudson Mills) as those fees are being covered by the event. Annual passes can be purchased at each of these three parks.

Event Schedule: https://dglo.net/schedule/

Course Schedule: https://dglo.net/course-schedule/

Check-in: Check-in is required Thursday September 4th at Holden's Party Store just outside of Kensington Metropark.

Ledgestone is responsible for all refunds/cancellations.

We will follow the PDGA's refund policy: https://www.pdga.com/rules/competition-manual/103

Players who did the early registration but have to withdraw will still receive their hole sponsorship or three pack of fundraiser discs. Those items are non refundable as they were a condition for early registration. Those players will receive a refund minus $10 of their entry fee only.

August 5 is the last day to receive a full refund for the refund, minus the $10 processing fee, unless the event spot is filled from the waitlist. Refund requests between August 6th and August 20th receive a 50% refund unless the spot is immediately filled from someone on the current waitlist.

Players requesting a refund between August 21st and September 2nd at 6PM eastern time will receive a 25% refund, unless the event spot is filled from the waitlist.

Players requesting a refund after September 2nd at 6PM eastern time, which is the published time for the close of registration, or players who do not check in, will not receive a refund or their players pack.

VIP passes and discounted spectator admission tickets are non refundable. Discs purchased through registration are non refundable and will be shipped after the event if a player drops.