Hello everybody, and thank you for registering for the Fifth Annual Showboat Showdown sponsored by Evolution Disc Golf. We’re looking forward to an awesome day and some awesome scores from some awesome people! The weather looks decent enough, there is a little rain in the early hours, but it won’t last. Bring an umbrella and some extra towels. At 83 degrees you’re gonna need to stay hydrated. Bring water. We will have some coolers out with waters, but we always run out.
First of all, thank you to all of our sponsors, Evolution Disc Golf, High Life Farms, Moses Roses, Rootnote Landscape Solutions, SMI, McIntyre Cabinets, and Garber Chevrolet Buick. Their help makes this event successful. Through them we were able to make some amazing amateur players packs worth approximately $35 in value. You will be getting an event tshirt, a custom pair of socks from tee box sox, and a dry bag.
We have many berths to the Michigan Amateur State Championships to hand out. For those, we will be taking the winner of each amateur division and they will be throwing off in a ctp to determine who gets them. In the event that a division winner has already won their berth, then the opportunity will fall to the next placed person in their division. Two of them are earmarked for specific divisions. One is saved for a women’s division, and another for a men’s age protected division.
Make sure your phone is charged, because we are doing live scoring. As per PDGA rules, each player on each card needs to keep score. That way all scoring mistakes are caught on the spot. You can access like scoring by using the app or
www.pdga.com/score and the password is “showboat”. We’ll have some paper copies of scorecards, but would appreciate if you kept everything done on the pdga app or the link above.
Let’s go over boundaries
First of all, in Hazard, you play from your lie with a stroke penalty. With OB, you go to the place you were last in bounds and play with a stroke penalty.
1 - Road and across in any direction is OB
2 - Must land on the island. If you miss, you are OB, move to the drop zone with a stroke penalty.
3 - Path and across is hazard, River is OB
4 - Road and across is OB, cement pad is OB, any OB shots move to the drop zone at the front of the cement pad with a stroke penalty
5 - Path and across is hazard, water is OB
6 - Water is OB, blacktop path is in bounds
7 - Path and across is Hazard, water is OB
8 - Road and across is OB, ball field is OB
9 - Water is OB, Across the road on right is OB (Grass and Woods), There will be a painted line to mark a boundary between the grass areas where the road goes to the back campgrounds to mark OB along there, Open and AM1 play long tee
10 - Road is OB, Across road to grass on right is OB, Ball Field is OB
11 - Road is OB (Driveway to pump house is NOT the road), Swamp is OB
12 - No OB
13 - River is OB, Road and across is OB
14 - River is OB
15 - River is OB, path and across is Hazard
16 - Path is Hazard, River is OB
17 - Path and across is Hazard, River is OB
18 - Path is Hazard, Water is OB, baseball field is OB
CTPS
There are divisional and non divisional ctps and long putts thanks to our sponsors. Please READ THE CARD before you move something. Make sure it either is for everyone, or is for your division. Please bring in any flags for the holes you finish on AFTER the second round. It would be a big help to us if you also brought in any other signage as well from your finishing hole, but certainly not necessary.
Hole 1 - Everybody Long Putt - Tee Box Socks
Hole 2 - Female Only - Buzzz
Hole 3 - MA2 Only - Zone
Hole 5 - Everybody - 50/50
Hole 6 - Open Fields Only - Zone
Hole 7 - MA1 Only - Zone
Hole 8 - Everybody Long Putt - Tee Box Socks
Hole 10 - Everybody - ACE Pool CTP
Hole 12 - MA4 - Buzzz SS
Hole 17 - MA3 Only - ZLite Raptor
The weeds are really dense right now. To remedy this we will have some spotters. They will be posted up at holes 6 and 7 where the biggest problem areas are. Leslie and Justin have been helping us out by doing this for a few years, and they do a great job. We will have a tip jar for cash or plastic for them at HQ. Please consider dropping a few dollars or a disc for them in that box.
Discs lost in the river: Unless you can get it quickly, I recommend moving on and coming back to get it at the break. We have recently gotten rain, so the river is higher and cloudy. If you don’t get something back, post it on the Chesaning Disc Golf page on Facebook.
Trash. Pack it in, pack it out. Please help keep our course clean.
Pictures. If you take any photos, we’d love to see them. Please post them on the Chesaning Disc Golf page on Facebook.
Riverfront is going to be helping us out for lunch. If you would like to order a pizza for lunch, you NEED to do it at check in. It will be $9 for a personal 1-topping pizza. We will have approximately 45 minutes to an hour between rounds for lunch. Should you want to go elsewhere, there is a Subway, McDonalds, a chicken place at the gas station, and Taco Bell in Chesaning that you can drive to. During the break, hole assignments and cards will be posted on the live scoring page.
Payouts will be handled through an online code at Evolution Disc Golf, pros will receive payouts through PayPal.
We are really looking forward to Saturday. It is going to be an amazing time. Can’t wait to see you all!
Mike Schiller
Jun 10
