League Results 8/14

Same old story - Incredible weather, huge turnout, fun times! It's becoming redundant and I am loving it!

We got a visit from Timmay Walsh which was really nice! He almost got away with the win as well =)

We really appreciate everyone showing up early for the presentation by Neil Angus of the DEC. Neil formally APPROVED our plans to create a SECOND course on the hill! It will be a completely separate and unique course. Ken Gary has been busting his ass and everyone should thank him. Good job getting it done Ken and thank you to our core group of players who keep the course clean and in good shape!  If there were any issues at all with the current course the result would have likely been different. I am sure Ken will be posting all of the details very soon pertaining to hole sponsorships, layout evaluation,etc. Can't wait to see how this unfolds.

Only 7 tags left so grab yours before they are gone. You don't want to miss the end of the league tournament (and any end of the year payouts) because you didn't buy a tag, do ya?

We are selling Devens Tshirts for $20 and Hill Yeah Spring Classic Tournament Buzzzes for $15. Please support Devens Disc Golf & the sport in general. We are working on some great ways to make this additional fundraising money help to grow the sport. We have started our contributions by purchasing a basket for the NEW Otter Brook DGC in Keene, NH.

Thank you to all of you who have contributed to the new donation pipe, everyone has been very generous so far and each donation brings us closer to our future goals!

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Top 3 A Pool:
T1 - Luke Adolph - 52 - tag 2 - 4 points
T1 - Mat Ladroga - 52 - tag 3 - 4 points
3 -Timmy Walsh - 53 - no tag - 2 points


Top 3 B Pool:
T1 -  Moe Ryan - 57 - tag 14 - 4 points
T1 - Art Blanchard - 57 - tag 18 - 4 points
3 -Joel Vautour - 57 - no tag - 2 points


Top 3 C Pool -
1 - Scott Wilson - 63 - tag 48 - 4 points
2 - Avery Sartell - 66 - tag 57 - 3 points
3 - Ric Hamel - 68 - tag 66 - 2 points


TOP 3 Women -
1 - Ashley Jollimore - 70 - no tag - 4 points (personal best!)
2 - Fallon Enman- 77 - tag 88 - 3 points
3 - Stacy Cohen - 79 - no tag - 2 points

CTPS Hole 4 (worth additional point in standings & $$):
A - Frank Strauss
B/C/W - Joel Vautour

ACES (worth additional point in standings):
None - Pot at $28

Skills Challenge (worth an additional point in standings) -
Ring of Fire: A - Bradley Arnall , B/C/W - Aaron Stewart

Full Results:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ovnwyop4nhlvuhs/08_14.pdf

Standings:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/d41uot3z8im3pmd/08_14AVG.pdf

Team Challenge Tryouts:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/x70pyatsuvjloyg/Qualifying%20%281%29.pdf

Registration for Thrill on the Hill Opens this Saturday!

Grab a partner and get signed up this Saturday! 

Devens Thrill on the Hill 2 

Doubles Tournament


Devens Thrill on the Hill 2
Doubles Tournament

Sunday Oct 13th, 2013
Devens DGC - Devens, MA
TD: Luke Adolph

- Two rounds of best disc doubles.
- 36 teams
- Cash payout to Pro division & HOPEFULLY an event t-shirts for all! 
- I’m working out the tshirt stuff now. Will update ASAP.
- No trophies

Schedule
8:00am - Sign in
9:10am - Players meeting
9:30am – Round 1 shotgun start
Lunch 
Round 2 will begin 30 – 45 minutes after last round 1 card is turned in.

Cost:
Pro Division: $42/team (includes $2.00 paypal fees)
All other divisions: $22/team (includes $2.00 paypal fees)

Divisions:
Pro, AM1, AM2, Rec, Mixed (male/female, parent/kid, century, female/female)
If enough entries for Century & Female/Female I can create a separate division for them

Lunch:
Devens Pizza or another local sub/pizza shop will be taking orders during registration and will deliver during lunch. Cash only for lunch sales

Ace Pot:
$5 bucks! Hoping to make a huge pot. Self serve on day of event. If no aces half will go towards a throw off with a few winners. The other half goes towards 2014 Hill Yeah Spring Classic ace pot.

Register:
Online via Paypal link at www.devensdg.blogspot.com
Paypal Registration opens THIS Saturday at 9am
I will also take CASH registrations at league (starting tonight), tournaments, etc.

Questions?
Contact Luke Adolph at 617-905-6574 (text or call) or email me at devensdiscgolf@gmail.com 

If you have a truck please help drive golfers down the road to holes 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, & 17

Registration List – 

PRO:

AM1:

AM2:

REC:

Mixed:


Tournament Discussion here:
http://forums.nefa.com/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=11474&p=325670#p325670

Sunday - Aug 18 - Potential New Course Walk Through

Anyone up for a walk in the woods this Sunday?

We are looking at adding a second 18 hole course at Devens, potentially beginning work this fall.  This new course will be adjacent to the current course.  We have a preliminary layout sketched out.  We will be walking the new layout this Sunday, Aug. 18th in case anyone would like to see the land and course layout.  Input on design is welcome.  We will meet in the parking lot at 9:30am.  Singles or doubles may follow.

Devens Makes the Cut!

        A bunch of our guys made the cut and play today on the very difficult Maple Hill Gold course.

Congrats to:

Dave Richardson 17th

Ken Marshall 17th

Ned Eisenberg 38th

Alex Gula 46th

John Buonsanto 49th

Peter Bean 54th

Bob Kulchuk 56th

Ira Divoll 63rd

Micah Franzman 63rd

Best of luck today!

League 8/14 Cooperation

On Wednesday 8/14, please arrive before 5:15 if at all possible. We will be having a quick presentation at that time and it would be great if everyone was there for it.

I know we like to have a little fun and drinks some beers responsibly and stuff but if that can be held off during this time that would be fantastic as well.

If you sign in early and head out to play a few holes please do come back to the parking lot at that time.

Thanks for your cooperation.

The VibrAM Open

The VibrAM Open is going down this weekend in Central Massachusetts. Lots of our course locals or regular league players are participating so wish them luck!

They will play Maple Hill - white course on Friday then Webster Fish & Game and Hyland on Saturday. Those that make the cut after Saturday will get to play in the final round on the GOLD layout at Maple Hill.

Make the cut, guys!

Taylor Maslowski

Travis Milem

Peter Bean

Gator Holmes

Micah Franzman

Dave Richardson

Aaron Kaczowka

Ned Eisenberg

Bob Kulchuk

Ken Marshall

Aaron Stewart

Adam Stearns

Alex Gula

John Buonsanto

Ira Divoll

August 7th League Results

Another perfect night for league and we finally got back up to the high 50's for players, 57 to be exact! All sorts of excitement too!

To add to the excitement. Most of the people came within the last 10 minutes and what a puzzle everything turned out to be. I was short a tag but had some to substitute so I think it turned out OK. Let me know if you have 2 tags or some other oddity.

5 new players came out.

2 ACES! John Buonsanto hit hole 17 and Ned Eisenberg hit hole 9. Nice shots! They split $124 bucks.

A couple of personal best scores too. Marc Duci (moving to A pool) shot a smoking 51 and Aaron Stewart shot a steady 55!

Only 8 tags left so grab yours before they are gone. You don't want to miss the end of the league tournament (and any end of the year payouts) because you didn't buy a tag, do ya?

We are selling Devens Tshirts for $20 and Hill Yeah Spring Classic Tournament Buzzzes for $15. Please support Devens Disc Golf & the sport in general. We are working on some great ways to make this additional fundraising money help to grow the sport. We have started our contributions by purchasing a basket for the NEW Otter Brook DGC in Keene, NH.

Thank you to all of you who have contributed to the new donation pipe, everyone has been very generous so far and each donation brings us closer to our future goals!


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Top 3 A Pool:
1 - Dave Richardson- 51 - tag 1 - 4 points
2 - John Buonsanto - 52 - tag 4 - 3 points
3 - Dean Onners - 53 - tag 6 - 2 points

Top 3 B Pool:
1 - Marc Duci 51 - tag 3 - 4 points (moving up to A POOL!)
2 - Aaron Stewart - 55 - tag 15 - 3 points
T3 - Moe Ryan - 57 - tag 18 - 2 points
T3 - Mike Dalio - 57 - no tag - 2 points

Top 3 C Pool -
1 - Timmy Kendall - 60 - tag 51 - 4 points
T2 - Tom Burrell - 61 - tag 55 - 3 points
T2 - Scott Wilson - 61 - tag 57 - 3 points

TOP 3 Women -
1 - Fallon Enman - 72 - no tag - 4 points
2 - Jackie Bogan - 78 - tag 90 - 3 points
3 - Stacy Cohen - 83 - no tag - 2 points

CTPS Hole 4 (worth additional point in standings & $$):
A - Micah Franzman
B/C/W - Scott Wilson

ACES (worth additional point in standings):
John Buonsanto hit hole 17
Ned Eisenberg hit HOLE 9
They split $124 bucks!

Skills Challenge (worth an additional point in standings) -
Ring of Fire: A - Ken Gary, B/C/W - Dylan Osgood

Full Results:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/c2lhifoqq9j7bz8/08_07.pdf

Standings:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/ibj9u750wsafkub/08_07AVG.pdf

Team Challenge Tryouts:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/83p2yg6zdncicny/Qualifying.xls

The Nines Festival - This Weekend

There is a big music/arts/comedy festival just down the street from the course this weekend. 

Check it out if you are into that kind of stuff!

Click here for all the details

Local Player Spotlight: Scott Wilson

Watch out for Scott Wilson everyone!  He has been playing for only 3 months and has been steadily improving. 

I played a round with Ken Gary and Scott tonight and Scott shot a 58 to beat his personal best by 3 strokes! 

Keep it up!

Devens Tip Line

Just got a hot tip on the idiots who rolled our nice tables down the hill.

Someone was waiting in the parking lot for a buddy when 2 guys in their early 20s driving a late model gray pontiac grand am arrived and headed out onto the course to play. The friend arrived and they went out onto the course and they were about 3-4 holes behind the 2 young guys. They heard a loud crash and when they finished hole 9 they noticed what had happened. The people who rolled the tables were nowhere to be found and they think they played through 9 then rolled the tables on 10 and 13 on their way out.

Anyone know a disc golfer that fits this description? If so, maybe you can encourage them to come to a future workday so they can understand the amount of work that goes into a course for their enjoyment...

Luke

7/31 League Results

7/31 League Results

Thrill on the Hill Doubles Tournament

New and Improved Blog!

How do you like our snazzy new blog? Hope to merge the main web site to here to keep things simple.

Let me know if you have any suggestions

Random Stuff For This Week

A couple of items for this week:

A second Team Devens is currently forming. Tryouts are at league over the next 6 weeks. If you want on this team please come to league and make sure I know you want your rounds considered..  We will count 4 rounds out of the 6 so come to league often and play well!

A new course in Keene, NH needs our help. Courses don't build themselves and we should show some course pride by stepping up to help get this one off the ground. We will hopefully have plenty of course work of our own to do so join me this Saturday for some gratifying coursework at Otter Brook State Park.   devensdiscgolf@gmail.com if you have any questions

Mark your calendars for a few Devens Events -

Sunday October 13th..  Format TBD

Saturday November 9th... Annual Bag Tag Bonanza (for tag holders only, come to league and get your  tag now as there are only a handful left)

Workday - Otter Brook DGC in Keene, NH

What are you doing Saturday July 27th?

Please consider taking a trip out to Keene, NH. Rob Breckenridge and Derek Decoste have been busy putting in a sweet new DG course up there but they need some help. I'll have more details later but please set this date aside to help get this course in the ground faster. Our course and local players have been making a name for itself with a meticulously maintenance record, rapidly improving players, a solid team challenge team & a great league. Let's turn some heads with our willingness to help grow the sport as well. Who is with me?

Time to Establish Some Alternate Basket Positions!

Info from Ken:

We would like to establish some alternate hole configurations to add some variety to the course.  These alternate positions are currently marked on the course (orange ribbon on a stake) and we would like to solicit your opinions of the proposed new positions.  Please do not move the stakes, just give any opinions or recommendations. 

After we complete the ten weeks of PDGA league we would like to test these new positions for a week or so.  They will not be permanent and we will go back to the original positions after a week or so.   Plenty of notice will be posted before the change.

Alt Hole Descriptions:

Hole 1:  Pin moved to left on the path to Hole 18

Hole 2:  Pin moved back and right in alcove to left of path from Hole 2 to Hole 3

Hole 3:  Pin moved to straight down road before road turns left

Hole 4:  Pin moved about 30 ft right and back slightly

Hole 5:  Pin moved back and right about 30 ft

Hole 6:  Hole moved back down the road past Hole 7 path

Hole 7:  Use right fairway

Hole 8:  Move pin back and right 30 ft

Hole 9:  Move pin right down the road to end of straight sight line

Hole 10:  Move pin down and left on side hill

Hole 11: Move pin in line with right fairway below 12 tee

Hole 12:  Move pin further down fairway across road

Hole 13:  Tee from right of road straight look to pin

Hole 14:  Move tee up hill right of big rock

Hole 15:  Move pin straight back 30 ft to trees

Hole 16:  Move pin left and back. Open fairway.

Hole 17:  Move pin to right of rocks on top of hill by path to 18

Hole 18:  Pro tee

Looking forward to feedback.

Keep up with all of the latest Devens news!

Devens League is Going PDGA!

Starting on Wednesday, May 15th we will be running a PDGA league along with our normal league. You don't have to do anything extra or pay anything extra. We will be taking the 50 cents per player fee out of the $ that typically goes to the course.

If you are a current PDGA member you will get a rated round for each league rounds played during the 10 week period that this will run (ends mid July)

If you are not a PDGA member, that's OK too. You still play as usual. If you decide to join the PDGA, please let me know so I can get you credit for your rounds. http://www.pdga.com/join

You can view the current registration list:
http://www.pdga.com/tournament_results/104521/279077206

If your division or PDGA # is reported incorrectly, please let me know. If your name is not on this list, and you plan on playing please let me know. I can also just add your name in after the round is completed as well.

Workday - Monday May 6th

**** Call for Volunteers ****

All the recent use at Devens has clearly begun to wear out the stairs on 9 and 16. They need replacement. We are looking for a few volunteers to help. Josh + 3 will be there this Monday (5/6) at 5pm. If we get some more hands we can bang this out quickly. I have arranged for Rob to have materials on hand ready to go. We need a few more bodies. Who is in?

Design is 4' landscape timber drilled to place rebar inside the timber (no exposed re-bar). Need people/tools to set stair (shovel) and sink re-bar (sledge). I also want to place flat stone in front of the timber like we had on 9, so we may need a wheelbarrow to move some stone to 16.

Thanks to all our volunteers. Sorry for the short notice, but what I saw this week is that this cannot wait any longer.

Midweek Tournament?

This photo was taken last night. Looks like a tournament but its just another league night on the hill!

I overheard some really cool things last night. My favorite being:

"It's like a huge party every Wednesday!" 

Come on out and join the fun like Moe! Just try to be a little classier =)