Gray Duck Amateur Championship

Hi everyone, thanks for coming out for the Gray Duck Amateur Championship. Below is everything that you should need to know for tomorrow's event. I will be set up in the parking lot across from ho ... show more ›

Hi everyone, thanks for coming out for the Gray Duck Amateur Championship. Below is everything that you should need to know for tomorrow's event.

I will be set up in the parking lot across from hole 1 from 8-8:40 for check-in. You must check in to grab your players pack before round 1.

Hole assignments will be posted in the morning on the event page (https://www.pdga.com/tour/event/80920).

Every player will be required to keep score for everyone on their card this year according to the PDGA rules. Please take a few minutes to read this short PDGA article on scorekeeping: https://www.pdga.com/news/how-score-2024-player-td-guidance?fbclid=IwAR2w9q5YQbytBKoJblOjw2JlhyxtIqEYsv-AwXDTgiNS_xkckvxf9JTLBQU
Players must either use the PDGA digital scoring at pdga.com/score (or on the PDGA app) or use a paper scorecard. All digital scorecards need to be submitted and all paper scorecards will need to be turned in within 30 minutes from when you finish your round. Please review all scorecards within your group before submitting or turning in your scorecard. If you are keeping a paper scorecard you must mark it as yours by putting a mark by your name on the card or adding your name on the back of the card. Any invalid scores or late scorecards will be given a 2 stroke penalty for the scorekeeper. It is much preferred that players use the digital scoring rather than a paper scorecard (but paper cards will be available) as it will make the second round start faster and the end of day payouts will be ready much faster. The digital access code is champ.

The second round will start one hour from when the last card to finish is complete with their first round. The second round start time and your starting holes will be posted on the PDGA results page https://www.pdga.com/tour/event/80920 shortly after everyone has finished their first round. If you are ready to tee off one hour from when you finished, you won't be late. There will not be players meeting before the second round. You can also follow the Facebook event page for updates: https://www.facebook.com/events/797159671811926

Layout:
Everyone is playing the same layout. We are playing all the long tees to blue baskets except for holes 10 and 16 which will be played to the yellow baskets. We will also be using the tee on top of the hill for hole 18.

OBs:
On or across any road or parking lot (short of the road on 18 is safe). Water on 5, 7,11,12. Over the fence (or past the white stakes) on 11, 12 and 13, 15, 16. Long grass on the left side of hole 7 and 10. The first patch of long grass with water in the center on hole 15 is also OB. Please decide as a group if your disc is fully into the long grass. Unfortunately with the weather we weren't able to get the OB lines painted.

Ace Pool:
We are switching to an Optional $2 Ace Pool this season. If no one that pays into the ace pool for the event gets an ace, then the ace pool will carry over to the next event. There is one combined ace pool regardless if there are multiple layouts being used. If you are not sure if you signed up for the ace pool you should be able to check the email you received when you registered. If there are no aces in the final event of the season the ace pool will be added into the Gray Duck Tour Series payouts. There is $132 carrying over in the ace pool from the last event.

Gray Duck Tour Series
This year we are trying something new. We are adding a season points series for the Amateur divisions. Here is the structure:

$1 of every MA1, MA2, MA3, and MA4 entry goes to season payouts for the division that the player played in.

Event Points Calculation:
1st = 100 + (0.1 x players in division)
Everyone Else = 100 - ((place-1) * 30) / players in division

Total Season Points will be equal to the Top 7 events for each player in a division.

After the final event of the year the Prize pool value for each division will be equal to the total number of players that played in that division for each event combined.
The top 5% of each division's season points leaders (up to 10 players total) will be paid out in merchandise credit after the last event of the season.

Payouts for the Open division will be available in cash at the end of the day or via PayPal or Venmo. If you choose PayPal or Venmo, please make sure to provide any necessary information of where you would like the payout sent. If you want to get cash after the event you may cut to the front of the checkout line as I will have envelopes ready to go.

Payouts will be available at the end of the day. Once everyone is finished with the second round, payouts will be posted on the disc golf scene event page https://www.discgolfscene.com/tournaments/Gray_Duck_Amateur_Championship_2024. After payouts are posted you can redeem your credit immediately or at the store within the next year. All merchandise credit earned will expire one year after it is earned.

Please let me know if you have any questions.