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phone number

GoldJerry — Fri, 20 Nov 2009 20:14:44 GMT

anyone know bevin payne's number?....gunna be in ontario for the boxing day doubles....and lookin for a partner

Forum: General Disc Golf Talk

lost surge

spinner — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 01:15:56 GMT

Lost my Orange Flex Surge, Not excactly sure where either....bummer
>> Bernie...

Forum: Lost & Found

Lost (Found?) Blue XL

Albertadiscgolf — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 17:31:03 GMT

I lost a blue beat XL high in a tree last week on #10 at P96.

Rumour has it that Luke has it.

Come out to play today at P96 if you can Luke

cheers

Al

Forum: Lost & Found

Sharpie or gonzo

Chainmusician — Thur, 12 Nov 2009 23:04:15 GMT

Found a 'new' (aged for flavour) Elite XS buried under a tree on hole 7 in Wetaskiwin, halfway up the left side of the hole. The $20 sticker was still on it.

No name on it, so the guy who found it was thrilled as it's now his 1st driver. (Otherwise it would of course have made its way back to it's original owner.) He found it while looking for his own disc, which we found just after that.

Keep a sharpie in your golf bag, in your vehicle, etc jto label your discs, otherwise they ain't likely to come back.

Forum: Lost & Found

Looks Like the work has begun..

djacklethbridge — Thur, 12 Nov 2009 18:58:44 GMT

Was at NS the other day and noticed holes dug where the painted black tee markers were, looks like they are going in for good now.

Forum: General Disc Golf Talk

Lethbridge Slideshow

Albertadiscgolf — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 09:39:50 GMT

all pics by Will Ketchum

Forum: Bridge City Gunners

Brothers In Arms Round

GoldJerry — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 20:46:26 GMT

To Anyone That Has Wednesday Off.

Just to let everyone know Dave and I will be off on wednesday and have decided that it would be a great idea to have a round starting at 11:15 following a moment of silence. For anyone interested...we will most likely be showing up at around 10:30 to warm-up and stuff. As far as money is concerned it will most likely be $10...$5 for each nine and then flip...i would like to turn this into an annual event as i'm sure as men (and or women) we can all appreciate the sacrifices that are constantly made by our armed forces past and present. I just feel it's a good opportunity for brothers to come together and appreciate each other even if for just a round.

If you have any questions feel free to contact me at 919-2213

Jerry

Forum: Casual Disc

The Ice Man Cometh!

Rattler — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 03:15:59 GMT

Great colors for a 175 Buzz

Forum: Tournaments

Blue and Purple Pro Wraith

CoolHandDiscs — Mon, 09 Nov 2009 01:31:00 GMT

Left it behind on hole 1 - right next to the rock along the ridge. It is the rock closest to the hole.

If anybody finds this disc I have a 10 dollar reward!!! It has become my favorite disc and would hate to not get it back!

Thanks Everyone

Forum: Lost & Found

Hole 10 Parkland White BC OPEN Classic Rock Champion Plastic

bigbadalibaba — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 18:23:39 GMT

Hi all. I lost a white champion plastic Classic Rock on hole 10 at Parkland. It was coming in high and is either high up in a tree or buried underneath the foot high leaves on the ground. This is one of my favorite discs so if anybody finds it please hook me up.

It has my name AL and phone number on it.

Forum: Lost & Found

3 Sisters / Nordic Centre

Rattler — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 05:15:28 GMT

Played the Canmore courses today (31 holes) and both are in excellent condition!

Forum: Bow Valley Disc Golf Association - BVDGA

It's time for a new FAD

Chainmusician — Thur, 05 Nov 2009 23:26:48 GMT

Public Discussion

If you enjoy Disc Golf and primarily play in Alberta, you are a stakeholder and have every right to participate in this discussion. All comments welcome!

The need for a Provincial Disc Golf Association in Alberta

** The Foundation for Alberta Discgolf (whatever it ends up being called, FAD works for now)

We need to get a provincial association started and 2010 is a nice round number.

The ATC (Alberta Tour Committee) is an informal group of TD's. It has proven to be very loose and ineffective, holding the tour together by a slim margin at times.

Not trying to sound negative at all here, but I think everyone would agree that with enough courses and clubs in place, the Alberta Disc Golf scene as a whole deserves
a united effort to bring Alberta Disc Golfers together under one banner finally.

Tour Committee

A new organization's 1st act should likely be to form a 'tour committee' to replace the ATC.

Once that committee is set up, it would start formally 'governing' the tour by deciding on event dates, TD/club event responsibilities (event standards), setting up and keeping track of the tour points system, possibly starting up a 'regional series fee' system at each event to cover trophy and other costs, etc.

(CBJ and I were working together on a set of bylaws about 2 years ago. I think we were very much on the right track.)

The yet un-named new society (FAD for now) will need a board of directors. The bylaw draft specified equal representation - somewhat like below here - and had a solid set of bylaws, drawn up from standard Alberta NFP association bylaws.

Board of Directors, w/nominations by each club/course/city?? (pdga rep automatic)

1 pdga rep
Calgary - 2 reps
Canmore - 2 reps
Edmonton - 2 reps
Lethbridge - 2 reps
Wetaskiwin - 2 reps
Any Others?

We wouldn't have to get the new association registered with the province right away necessarily, though that'd certainly be a good thing to do when we're able.

It's time for full public discussion. How to make this new society happen quickly and without the endless debate that has prevented it from happening to this point?

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Tour Championship

In terms of tour points, it's effectively skippable for many players as many divisions are 'decided' prior to it happening.

I suggest that no matter what format is eventually decided on, the tour championship be 'mandatory', in the sense that points are awarded there no matter what. (It shouldn't be 'droppable')

Perhaps we should drop the 'drop' concept altogether?

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Series fees

Another item for FAD to possibly set up this year.

** Provinces and states that have local 'tours' generally charge a small 'series fee' at each event to cover series divisional cash prizes (for place of finish), trophies, newsletters, and whatever other expenses are incurred, etc etc.

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Tour Points system

It definitely needs an overhaul for better weighting. I think a happy medium between the current system (100 pts for a win) and the previous system (30 pts for a win) could work nicely.

How about this?

1st - 50 points
2nd - 42 pts
3rd - 35 pts
4th - 29 pts
5th - 24 pts
6th - 20 pts
7th - 17 pts
8th - 15 pts
9th - 14 pts
10th - 13 pts
11th - 12 pts
12th - 11 pts

(8 points separation, then 7, then 6 etc)

3 3rd place finishes = 105
3 2nd place finishes = 126
3 1st place finishes = 150

Middle of the pack fights it out between 20-29 points, winner has well-deserved advantage, poor finish (8th and lower) gets very little separation/advantage.

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PDGA

This is CBJ's department, but I sure he'd support the idea of the entire tour being sanctioned, with each event getting sanctioning at the highest level they possibly can. Options are:

A Tier
B Tier
C Tier
X-Tier (experimental event)

To my best knowledge, an event can't be sanctioned at a level higher than C Tier unless the course it's held at has a uniform set of 18 PDGA-approved targets. (correct me if I'm wrong there please, but I think that's right)

There's only 1 course in Alberta that fully meets that requirement at the moment, and that's Sundre.

CBJ is however one step from having his targets officially approved by the PDGA. When that happens, Parkland (and many others) can be added to the list!

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I did some research about a month ago - by my count we have 23 current PDGA members, likely our best total to date. (According to another thread here, we have 23 courses in Alberta as well.

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Possible 2010 Tour Event Locations (minimum 18 hole course required in past ATC discussions):

Canmore (Nordic Centre)

Calgary (Park 96)

Drumheller/Wayne (course name?)

Edmonton (Rundle Park) *30th Anniversary of the Rundle Park Disc Golf Course

Lethbridge (Nicolas Sheran Park)

River Springs Ranch (possible? still up and running? It's not listed in the directory on this site so wanted to throw it out there... pun intended)

Sundre (Aspen Meadows)

Wetaskiwin (Peace Hills Park)
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Cheers, and looking forward to any and all comments anyone may have.

Steve Mallett
#13450
Course Pro, Wetaskiwin Disc Golf Course

Forum: General Disc Golf Talk

Tuesday Round

Rattler — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 18:08:04 GMT

Park96 @ 1:30

Forum: Casual Disc

100,000 Visitors

Rattler — Thur, 29 Oct 2009 21:23:03 GMT

Albertadiscgolf.com hits milestone!

Congratulations!

Forum: Off Topic Discussions

Winter Golf equipment

djacklethbridge — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:44:02 GMT

What do you use for winter golf, is the cold weather bad for your "good" plastic? What other equipment do you suggest carrying, I have seen some guys put streamers on their discs......

Forum: General Disc Golf Talk