Sugar Land Showdown - Jan 28, 2012 - Imperial Park

[ERicJ]

The City of Sugar Land presents:
The Sugar Land Showdown

January 28, 2012
Imperial Park in Sugar Land
PDGA C-Tier event
No surcharge for non-PDGA members*

Two rounds of 18 holes
9 temporary holes to expand the course for the day
72-player limit

Check-in 7:00-8:00am
Player meeting 8:30am
First round tee off 9:00am

Event run by Birdshot
Amateur "pick-your-own-plastic" payout by DGProShop

A free Discraft disc to all entrants
Free pizza lunch from Russo's New York Pizzeria, courtesy of City of Sugar Land
( that's right... a player pack at a C-Tier )

100%+ Payout
Guaranteed minimum added payout to Pro and Am divisions:
MPO $325, MPM $50, MPG $50, MA1 $300, MG1 $50, FA1 $50, MA2 $225, MA3 $150, MA4 $50, MJ3 $50
Pro payout top ⅓ of the field -- Amateur payout top ½ of the field

Thanks to DGProShop for Pro cash sponsorship and the City of Sugar Land for the Am sponsorship!

Following divisions only:

• $50 Pro (MPO) **
• $40 Pro 40+ (MPM) or Pro 50+ (MPG)***
• $30 Advanced (MA1)
• $30 Advanced 50+ (MG1)***
• $20 Women (FA1)
• $25 Intermediate (MA2)
• $15 Recreational (MA3)
• $10 Novice (MA4)
• $10 Junior (MJ3, i.e. 13yrs and under during entire 2012 calendar year)
• $2 optional Ace Pot
  

Update Jan 23: Registration is FULL. Call Billy Gilbert if you want to be put on the wait list.

Registration list at: http://www.pdga.com/tournament_results/78757

P.S. you can feel very, very confident that neither the Texans nor the Cowboys will be playing football on Jan 28.

* Limited to the first 30 non-PDGA members
** Sliding scale entry fee based on PDGA rating:
$50 - 980+
$40 - 950-979
$30 - 920-949
$20 - 919 & under
*** Requires at least four players in the division

[derek]

Originally Posted by ERicJ

Details are still being worked out... but save the date for this one.

quail valley links?

[bmugwump]

It's going to be at Imperial Park but modified with extra holes....

[ERicJ]

Event details in the first post have been updated!

This event is gonna require nine quality temp baskets... if you plan on attending and have one available please let me know.

[griff]

i likey

[ChrisMacG]

Registration is up on HoustonBirdshot.com

[ChingLizard]

What is the rationale behind the lack of age-protected divisions?

I think that this might be the first Birdshot tourney I've seen that didn't offer age-protected divisions. The sliding scale entry fees for the Pro divisions seem a little wierd to me too. - If someone jumps into MPO and pay $22 entry fee due to their rating, would that have some affect on the pay-out level if they finished in the cash?

Anyone else have any thoughts about this? It seems like some experimentation is being done here, and I'm not too sure that I want to be a "lab rat" for it.

[griff]

Originally Posted by ChingLizard

What is the rationale behind the lack of age-protected divisions?

I think that this might be the first Birdshot tourney I've seen that didn't offer age-protected divisions. The sliding scale entry fees for the Pro divisions seem a little wierd to me too. - If someone jumps into MPO and pay $22 entry fee due to their rating, would that have some affect on the pay-out level if they finished in the cash?

Anyone else have any thoughts about this? It seems like some experimentation is being done here, and I'm not too sure that I want to be a "lab rat" for it.

Been goin on for a year, with good results

[ChrisMacG]

Originally Posted by ChingLizard

I think that this might be the first Birdshot tourney I've seen that didn't offer age-protected divisions.

This isn't part of the Birdshot series, we're just running the event. ERic and the City of Sugar Land are the ones making those calls.

Originally Posted by ChingLizard

The sliding scale entry fees for the Pro divisions seem a little weird to me too.

It's been working very well for us so far. We've tweaked it a bit for BCS events but overall the sliding scale has been received positively.

[ChingLizard]

Thanks for the clarification Chris.

I suspect that the lack of age-protected divisions will keep a lot of us "aged" guys from playing. I know of at least 3 of us old guys that will be skipping this one because of it, but all of us would play in it if we had a GM division. I'd be interested in knowing if this changes because all 3 of us would play otherwise.

Larry