I would also like to thank everyone for helping with the equipment transport, assembly, design of holes, and tear down each night.
There were some new designs this year including the Basket Mask brought by Joe Tascione and the large net obstacle set up by Vinnie Frederico.
Flying Disc Pro Shop Chip Draw Disc Winners. Week 1: John Kelly won the chip draw and chose a red Discraft Surge SS.
Week 2: Mike Roth won the chip draw and chose a yellow Innova Tern.
Week 3: Joe Tascione won the chip draw and chose a blue Prodigy F5 Air.
Week 4: Martin Kohlmeier received the chip draw prize and chose the Lone Star Dos X. (Stephanie Denman won the chip draw and gave it to Martin.)
Week 5: Andrew Wollschleger received the chip draw prize and chose the Chupacabra disc.
Flying Disc Pro Shop Prizes For League Top Points
Kyle Lieberman
Chad Krohn
Elijah Richards
Putting Challenge Prizes I want to thank Vinnie Frederico and John Kelly who donated discs for the Putting Challenges this season. The Week 5 Putting Challenge winners:
Martin Kohlmeier
Brett Chipman
Thank You For Bringing The Equipment Additional equipment was brought by: * Heather Schlegel (a high-quality basket)
* Vinnie Frederico (large net obstacle) * Chad T. Krohn (a high-quality basket) * Kyle Lieberman (a backstop net) * Jeff Hermenet (a high-quality basket) * Dan Pavlina (a high-quality basket)
Elijah Richards, Martin Kohlmeier, Kyle Lieberman, Andrew Wollschleger, Brett Chipman.
New Obstacles Brought By Joe Tascione And Vinnie Frederico Joe Tascione brought the basket mask in week #3, and in week #4, Vinnie Frederico brought the large net obstacle for his design for hole #5 (see pictures below). Thanks to both of you for the custom obstacles for your hole designs!
Flying Disc Pro Shop Chip Draw Disc Winners. Week 1: John Kelly won the chip draw and chose a red Discraft Surge SS.
Week 2: Mike Roth won the chip draw and chose a yellow Innova Tern.
Week 3: Joe Tascione won the chip draw and chose a blue Prodigy F5 Air.
Week 4: Martin Kohlmeier received the chip draw prize and chose the Lone Star Dos X. (Stephanie Denman won the chip draw and gave it to Martin.)
Jeff Hermenet Putting Challenge winner.
Putting Challenge Winners
Andrew Wollschleger Putting Challenge winner.
Vinnie Frederico and John Kelly donated discs for the Putting Challenge. The Target Backboard Putting Challenge prize winners were Jeff Hermenet and Andrew Wollschleger.
Thank You For Bringing The Equipment Additional equipment was brought by: * Heather Schlegel (a high-quality basket) * Vinnie Frederico (large net obstacle) * Chad T. Krohn (a high-quality basket) * Kyle Lieberman (a backstop net) * Jeff Hermenet (a high-quality basket) * Dan Pavlina (a high-quality basket)
League Total Points: Top 12 Rounds (4 weeks). The points for a player’s top 12 rounds (from any 4 weeks) are used for the point totals on the leaderboard. If a player attended all 5 weeks the lowest 3 round totals will be dropped. If a player attended 4 weeks or less, all of their round points will be used for the leaderboard.
On week 3, Joe Tascione brought the Basket Mask obstacle.Nate Callard week 4 going over the net obstacle brought by Vinnie Frederico.Jesse Inzana week 4 at the Little Basket Of Hate.Elijah Richards week 4 takes a knee to attack the under obstacle.Heather Schlegel, week 4, fires a disc up to the basket on the stage.
Flying Disc Pro Shop Chip Draw Disc Winners. Week 1: John Kelly won the chip draw and chose a red Discraft Surge SS.
Week 2: Mike Roth won the chip draw and chose a yellow Innova Tern.
Week 3: MJoe Tascione won the chip draw and chose a blue Prodigy F5 Air.
Erika Apple Putting Challenge winner.
Putting Challenge Winners.
Vinnie Frederico and John Kelly donated discs for the Putting Challenge. The Putting Challenge prize winners were Erika Apple and Tom Carpenter.
Thank You For Bringing The Equipment Additional equipment was brought by: * Kyle Lieberman (a backstop net) * Jeff Hermenet (a high-quality basket) * Dan Pavlina (a high-quality basket) * Jeff Hermenet (a high-quality basket)
Tom Carpenter Putting Challenge winner.
League Total Points: Top 12 Rounds (4 weeks). The points for a player’s top 12 rounds (from any 4 weeks) are used for the point totals on the leaderboard. If a player attended all 5 weeks the lowest 3 round totals will be dropped. If a player attended 4 weeks or less, all of their round points will be used for the leaderboard.
Bigger Selection For Prizes! Royce told me to visit John Alloco to get some more discs for the Putting League. John hooked me up with a bunch more drivers and fairway drivers – which filled the disc selection box! Thank You!
Mike Roth selected an Innova Tern after winning the chip draw.
Flying Disc Pro Shop Chip Draw Disc Winners. Week 1: John Kelly won the chip draw and chose a red Discraft Surge SS.
Week 2: Mike Roth won the chip draw and chose a yellow Innova Tern.
Thank You For Bringing The Equipment Additional equipment was brought by: * Kyle Lieberman (a backstop net) * Jeff Hermenet (a high-quality basket) * Dan Pavlina (a high-quality basket) * Jeff Hermenet (a high-quality basket)
League Total Points: Top 12 Rounds (4 weeks). The points for a player’s top 12 rounds (from any 4 weeks) are used for the point totals on the leaderboard. If a player attended all 5 weeks the lowest 3 round totals will be dropped. If a player attended 4 weeks or less, all of their round points will be used for the leaderboard.
Martin Kohlmeier splits the trees.Andrew Wollschleger with the classic, reach-to-the-basket follow-through, adding 2 more points.Pat Inclema taking the hyzer route.
I want to thank everyone for helping with the setup, tear down, and transport of the equipment. I would not be able to run the putting league without your assistance.
Week 1: John Kelly won the chip draw and chose a red Discraft Surge SS.
Thank You For Bringing The Equipment
I have 2 lightweight baskets that are easy for me to transport but do not catch well. Some better equipment was brought by folks for the putting league. Additional equipment was brought by: * Kyle Lieberman (a backstop net) * Jeff Hermenet (a high-quality basket) * Dan Pavlina (a high-quality basket … I think it was Dan ??? Please correct me if I am in error)
Scoring Errors Found
Each putt made from the 1st tee spot is worth 1 point, each putt from the 2nd tee spot is worth 2 points and each putt from the 3rd tee spot is worth 3 points. Because we throw 2 putts from each of the 6 tee spots for each round, there are 12 putts thrown from each tee spot for each round.
On one scorecard, I saw a 17 for the points total for tee pad #1. It is an 18-hole course (3 tee spots at 6 baskets = 18 holes), but there are only 12 putts thrown at each of the tees. So, when only 1 putt is missed from all of the first tee spots, it is not 1 putt missed from 18 holes, it is 1 putt missed from 12 putts. So, when only 1 putt is missed from the first tee spots, the total is 12-1=11, not 18-1=17.
When I saw that misunderstanding error, I checked all the score sheets and found 6 or 7 math addition errors on various score sheets in various rounds. It took me about an hour to total all of the scores – which I will not be able to do in future weeks. So … please feel free to double-check scores as I am unlikely to catch scoring errors in the future (because I will not have time to add scores on every score sheet).
New “Putts Made” Record: 34 out of 36
Because the layouts change every week and some layouts are more difficult than others, it is not possible to do a true points-to-points comparison from week to week or from year to year. I have been running the league since 2014 and in that time, no one has made every putt to score a perfect round. This includes the years from 2014 to 2019 – before the appearance of the Little Basket Of Hate in 2020. There have been a few rounds where only 4 putts were missed, and 1 round where only 3 putts were missed. That was until last Tuesday.
Kyle Lieberman missed only 2 putts from the 3rd tee spots in the 3rd round. He had a score of 66 out of a maximum of 72 points. And yes, one of the missed putts was at the Little Basket Of Hate.
Kyle Lieberman, only 2 missed putts for a 66-point score.
League Total Points: Top 12 Rounds (4 weeks). The points for a player’s top 12 rounds (from any 4 weeks) are used for the point totals on the leaderboard. If a player attended all 5 weeks the lowest 3 round totals will be dropped. If a player attended 4 weeks or less, all of their round points will be used for the leaderboard.
And donations for the Putting Challenge by John Kelly, Jim Palmeri, Nick Stewart, DemoGrid
… Allowed us to give away 17 prizes including 7 on Holiday Putting, week 5.
Royce kicked in 14 more discs! In addition to the initial sponsorship of a box of discs, for the last day of the league, Royce Racinowskiadded 14 more discs on Tuesday afternoon so the prize selection was top shelf for the final night.
Week 5 prize winners.
The prize recipients for Holiday Putting were:
Chad Krohn (League points): DemoGrid UV light
John Kelly (League points): Blue Wraith
Taylor Clark (League points): Red Cicada
Stephanie Denman (Putting Challenge): Red Cicada.
Nick Stewart (Putting Challenge): Blue “Vets” disc
Kirt Lapham (Putting Challenge): Hat and Chain of Events book
Heather Schlegel (Putting Challenge): Blue Cicada
As I mentioned previously, during the 5 weeks of the league, additional equipment was brought by * Elise and Kyle Lieberman (a backstop net) * Daniel Pavlina (a high-quality basket) * Dave and Jen Copp (a high-quality basket) * Nick Stewart (a high-quality basket)
Week 1: Ron Shamp won the chip draw and chose a yellow Innova Star Sidewinder.
Week 2: Kevin Schlegel won the chip draw and instead of choosing a disc, he chose a DemoGrid UV flashlight.
Week 3: Ken Crumpler won the chip draw and chose an orange Athena.
Week 4: Dan Palvina won the chip draw and chose a red Ape.
Besides the donations, everyone helped with the equipment transport, assembly, design of holes (with wonderfully creative layouts this year!), and tear down each night.
I could not have run this league without your help. Thank you!
I hope all of you had as much fun as I did.
League Total Points: Top 12 Rounds (Best rounds from any 4 weeks). The points for a player’s top 12 scores (from any 4 weeks) are used for the point totals on the leaderboard. If a player attended all 5 weeks the lowest 3 scores will be dropped. If a player attended 4 weeks (12 rounds or less), all of their round scores will be used for the leaderboard.
The scores have been posted. Click the following link to View League Totals.
Week 4, Stuck In Traffic Delay
Thank you all for rolling with the delay!
Snowfall on week 4 caused multiple accidents and greatly lengthened commute times. Some people were stuck in traffic for nearly an hour. I did not want anyone to miss putting, so I decided to delay the chip draw for the start of round 1.
I want to thank all of you for rolling with the delayed start time so that the late arrivals did not miss putting in round 1.
For Week 5 – Holiday Putting For week 5, I will be playing my Holiday Music playlist. Feel free to don some holiday garb if you are so inspired.
Players with the top 3 point totals get a prize (unless they already won a chip draw) NOTE: Players can win 2 prizes during the league. They can win 1 for a chip draw (or have one of the top 3 point totals) AND win 1 for a Putting Challenge. However, a player cannot win 2 chip draw prizes or win 2 Putting Challenge prizes.
The players with the top 3 point totals, that did not win a chip draw, get a prize. To spread out the prizes, a player can win a prize for the chip draw or league total points. If one of the top 3 point-getters already won a chip draw prize, the prize will be given to the next highest point-getter who did not win a chip draw prize.
The same will apply to the Putting Challenge – one player cannot receive 2 Putting Challenge prizes. If a player who won a previous Putting Challenge wins again, they get to pick another player to receive the Putting Challenge prize.
Prizes from Week 4 Putting Challenge are added to Week 5 Putting Challenge Since there was no Week 4 Putting Challenge, my solution is that I will add the Week 4 Putting Challenge prizes to the Week 5 Putting Challenge. … Oh, yeah – and since Week 5 is the Holiday putting night, giving away more prizes is perfect!
Ho, Ho, Ho! St. Nick! For those that already won a Putting Challenge, if you win the Putting Challenge on week 5, you get to play St. Nick and give away your Putting Challenge victory to a player you pick. Ho, Ho, Ho!
Adding Scores During Putting Challenge I will be adding up scores to determine point totals during the Putting Challenge. After the Putting Challenge, we will do the Chip Draw and then award prizes for the top 3 point totals. After the chip draw and the top 3 point total prizes, prizes will be awarded for the Putting Challenge.
Dan Palvina won the chip draw on week 4 and chose a red Ape.
Week 1: Ron Shamp won the chip draw and chose a yellow Innova Star Sidewinder.
Week 2: Kevin Schlegel won the chip draw and instead of choosing a disc, he chose a DemoGrid UV flashlight.
Week 3: Ken Crumpler won the chip draw and chose an orange Athena.
Week 4: Dan Palvina won the chip draw and chose a red Ape.
Thank You For Bringing The Good Equipment!
Dave and Jen Copp brought a high-quality basket, and so did Nick Stewart. With those baskets, we did not have to use two of my lower-quality, lightweight baskets that are easy for me to transport but don’t catch as well.
League Total Points: Top 12 Rounds (Best rounds from any 4 weeks). The points for a player’s top 12 scores (from any 4 weeks) are used for the point totals on the leaderboard. If a player attended all 5 weeks the lowest 3 scores will be dropped. If a player attended 4 weeks (12 rounds or less), all of their round scores will be used for the leaderboard.
The scores have been posted. Click the following link to View League Totals.
Ken Crumpler won the chip draw on week 3 and chose an Athena disc.
Week 3, Another Challenging Week
The hole designers for week 3 were creative.
The “double-fan-updraft” for station #2 blew otherwise good putts into bad putts if you thew a fluttering putt or did not account for the air bounce at the 1/2 way point of the disc flight.
Waiting as you departed #2 was hole #3. #3 included a tee with a partial tunnel shot and other tee spots that encouraged a hyzer or anhyzer putt to be successful.
Well done to the hole designers (and you know who you are) to come up with unique and interesting challenges!
Week 1: Ron Shamp won the chip draw and chose a yellow Innova Star Sidewinder.
Week 2: Kevin Schlegel won the chip draw and instead of choosing a disc, he chose a DemoGrid UV flashlight.
Week 3: Ken Crumpler won the chip draw and chose an orange Athena.
Putting Challenge: “Twice Over The Top” had 4 prizes! There were 4 prizes given away for the putting challenge thanks to donations by:
Jim Palmeri: donated 2, “Chain Of Events” books.
John Kelly donated a disc.
Nick Stewart donated a discraft Luna disc.
The putting challenge was “Twice Over The Top”, requiring players to throw both putts over the top of the obstacles, followed by an additional round of traditional putting from a short tee and a longer tee.
There were 4 winners for the challenge thanks to donations noted above by Jim, John, and Nick. The winners were:
John Kelly (Luna Putter)
Jeff Hermenet (Chain of Events book)
Heather Schlegel (Orange Sidewinder)
Tyler Clark (Chain of Events book)
Week-03-Challenge Winners; John Kelly, Jeff Hermenet, Heather Schlegel, Taylor Clark.
Thank You For Bringing The Good Equipment!
Dave and Jen Copp brought a high-quality basket, and so did Nick Stewart. With those baskets, we did not have to use two of my lower-quality, lightweight baskets that are easy for me to transport but don’t catch as well. Kyle Lieberman brought a backstop net that stopped errant shots from invading the floor below the stage.
League Total Points: Top 12 Rounds (from any 4 weeks). The points for a player’s top 12 scores (from any 4 weeks) are used for the point totals on the leaderboard. If a player attended all 5 weeks the lowest 3 scores will be dropped. If a player attended 4 weeks (12 rounds or less), all of their round scores will be used for the leaderboard.
The scores have been posted. Click the following link to View League Totals.
Week 1: Ron Shamp won the chip draw and chose a yellow Innova Star Sidewinder.
Week 2: Kevin Schlegel won the chip draw and instead of choosing a disc, he chose a DemoGrid UV flashlight.
Putting Challenge: Lay up, Step Up The putting challenge was “Lay up, Step Up”. The challenge was won by Joe Tascione who chose a yellow Escape Air disc that was donated by John Kelly. (John, thank you for the disc donation.)
Joe Tascione prevailed in the putting challenge and chose a yellow Escape Air.
Thank You For Bringing The Good Equipment!
Daniel Pavlina brought a high-quality basket, and so did Dave and Jen Copp. With those baskets, we did not have to use two of my lower-quality, lightweight baskets that are easy for me to transport but don’t catch as well. Elise and Kyle Lieberman brought a backstop net that stopped errant shots from invading the floor below the stage.
League Total Points: Top 12 Rounds (4 weeks). The points for a player’s top 12 scores (from any 4 weeks) are used for the point totals on the leaderboard. If a player attended all 5 weeks the lowest 3 scores will be dropped. If a player attended 4 weeks or less, all of their round scores will be used for the leaderboard.
The scores have been posted. Click the following link to View League Totals.
Chip draw winner Ron Shamp picked a yellow Sidewinder.
Week 1, A Smooth Operation!
I want to thank everyone for helping with the setup, tear down, and transport of the equipment. I would not be able to run the putting league without your assistance. It went smoothly and allowed us the extra time we needed to have the “Ace Run” challenge after round #3 and give away a second disc.
GRDGC Putting Challenge for Week 1: Ace Run We had enough time after putting round #3 to do a challenge. The putting challenge was “Ace Run”. In the first round, no one aced. In the second round, Elise Liberman found the chains to claim a red Star Sidewinder donated by the Greater Rochester Disc Golf Club.
Challenge winner Elise Lieberman chose a red Sidewinder.
Thank You For Bringing The Good Equipment!
Nick Stewart brought a high-quality basket this week so that we did not have to use one of my lower-quality, lightweight baskets that are easy for me to transport but don’t catch as well. Elise and Kyle Lieberman brought a backstop net that stopped errant shots from invading the floor below the stage.
League Total Points: Top 12 Rounds (4 weeks). The points for a player’s top 12 scores (from any 4 weeks) are used for the point totals on the leaderboard. If a player attended all 5 weeks the lowest 3 scores will be dropped. If a player attended 4 weeks or less, all of their round scores will be used for the leaderboard.
The scores for week 1 have been posted. Click the following link to View League Totals.
