Red Dead

David Greenawalt Any chance anyone picked up a purple zone SS on the teepad of hole 5? Forgot to put my info on the disc Mar 7

Andy Hansen Huge thanks to everyone who came out to help!! The Red Dead (with a touch of yellow fever) layout is all set up! Happy practicing! Both layouts are in Udisc! See you all tomorrow! Mar 6

Kyle Kern Mar 6 Super excited!

Danny Murray Starting hole assignments, are they given out at check-in or should I keep an eye out for an email? Mar 6

Andy Hansen Mar 6 There will be an email with more details later today, but starting holes will be on the pdga event page (follow link from main page here) later today as well

Darwin Sensenig Looks like 27 is different from last year. Do we have an estimated distance to the first landing zone? Mar 4

Josiah Hansen Mar 4 About 340’ from the temporary tee pad just over 100’ from the regular tee pad.

jackson lozier Any chance the field expands if the waitlist shrinks? I assume not but just curit Mar 1

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Chip Rutan Mar 2 Andy, since it is going to be such a nice day, I assume there will be a ton of walkers too. How do we handle that if it seems like a constant stream of them on some holes?

Andy Hansen Mar 2

None of the holes cross any walking paths. It’s a shared space, and we have no more right to any o ... show more ›

Chip Rutan Mar 2 Thanks Andy, I wanted to know what protocol would be.

Avery White Just curious, how many days in advance will the temp holes and the OB lines be up at the course? No rush at all, just trying to figure out when I can get some practice in. Feb 28

Josiah Hansen Feb 28 We should have all temporary holes set up by noon on Friday the 6th

Avery White Feb 28 Awesome, thank you!

Jacob Hartzel Can I be on a card with Nicki letizel Feb 25

Andy Hansen Feb 26 I’m generally not accepting card requests for solo, competitive rounds - I will take this into consideration

Jacob Hartzel Feb 27 It’s okay if ya can’t thanks for considering though!!

Ed Zajac Any chance you could be persuaded to remove the mando on 18, Temp 1, to allow for people to foolishly try to throw a 340' all hyzer over OB the whole way to unrealistically park the pin on a narrow strip of IB for an eagle look? Feb 21

Andy Hansen Feb 21 No sir - the mando is to take the walking path out of play. I also think you would find it would be a pretty high percentage of eagles…

Derek Aggleton I went to register and discovered there's no MA40. There's every other division under the sun, but no amateur age-protected division. Was this an oversight? I'd certainly appreciate if you would add this division, and I know a couple of other guys who were planning to sign up for it to. Thanks! Feb 14

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Andy Hansen Feb 14

As I have in past years, we do not offer age protected amateur divisions for this tournament. Rating ... show more ›

Derek Aggleton Feb 15

I hope I can convince you otherwise! I don't see why larger divisions are the goal (a goal that seem ... show more ›

Christopher Burns Feb 15 https://www.discgolfscene.com/tournament/Battle_at_the_Hills_2026
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Andy Hansen Feb 15

Just to address a couple of your counterpoints directly Junior divisions are not at all the same s ... show more ›

Just to address a couple of your counterpoints directly
Junior divisions are not at all the same situation as age protected AM divisions - unless a ten year old is a savant, the rating cap of 849 in MA4 makes that division significantly above their skill level. So offering a division where they can compete against more similarly skilled players makes perfect sense. (Also, for any mixed division that is offered I must by pdga rule offer the female equivalent, hence 4 junior divisions)
Regarding age protected Pro divisions - again, a completely different scenario than Ams. There is zero rating protection in pro divisions, so asking 40 year olds and even more so 50, 60 and even older players to compete with the highest rated players in a tournament makes no sense. This is far from the case in AM divisions. If your game begins to decline due to age, so will your rating, and then you can move to the appropriate rating protected division for your skill level.
My personal goal as a TD of a competitive sanctioned tournament is to provide the most competitive divisions (by which I mean, as much as possible, a division where anyone in the division could theoretically compete for the win, not two or three people are fighting it out at the top, tournament after tournament, and the rest of the field has zero chance) NOT to provide the preferred social experience or vibes of one demographic.
This policy is far from targeting MA40 alone - the age protected divisions I could offer are in 5 year increments starting at 40 and going to at least 80 - and of course I then need to also offer the female equivalent of any divisions I do offer. In trying to pare down the total number of divisions, this has been my solution. I understand that ma40 would be by far the largest of these divisions if I did offer them. However as I believe that all age protected AM divisions are redundant when also offering rating protected divisions, I will not be offering them. I am sorry that this decision negatively affects your experience. We would love to still have you, and for whatever it’s worth “Battle at the Hills” is two weeks after this tournament, is at South Hills, and offers age protected AM divisions.
Thanks for your thoughts, this is certainly something I will continue to hear feedback on.

Derek Aggleton Feb 18

I still disagree with some of your reasoning (I'd say you are precisely offering a social experience ... show more ›

Andy Hansen MPO, MP40, MP50, and MA1 will be playing the long layout, while all other divisions will play the shorter layout. Feb 6

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