2016 Memorial Championship presented by Discraft

[Pbmercil]

it makes me wanna puke anytime someone writes something so idiotic.

Jussi isn't hating on woods courses, just that they are terrible to use for major tournaments. To change disc golf into a sport where we play for other peoples(sponsors, spectators) money instead of our own, we need spectators.

The real question here is that is it worth butchering the degree of difficulty of our marquee events in the name of chasing spectators (and therefor sponsorship dollars) that may not even show up anyway? Keep in mind that the Ledgestone Open last year raised the largest disc golf purse in history without any real draw for the "big dollar sponsors" everyone assumes are needed for big payouts.

It is possible to have spectator friendly courses that aren't wide open hyzer fests. WR jackson (mostly, there are a small number of problem holes), the courses used at the Scandinavian Open and European Open last year, Milo McIver (and really the whole 2014 Worlds set up) just off the top of my head.

The combining thread between all those courses is they are wooded with big trees and wide fairways. Plenty of room for spectators but enough trees to force players to hit a specific line. They're really the best of all worlds.

/end rant. Sorry for the thread drift.

 

[Streets]

What a pitiful post.

Your going to have to unpack this one for me chief.

 

[Streets]

The real question here is that is it worth butchering the degree of difficulty of our marquee events in the name of chasing spectators (and therefor sponsorship dollars) that may not even show up anyway? Keep in mind that the Ledgestone Open last year raised the largest disc golf purse in history without any real draw for the "big dollar sponsors" everyone assumes are needed for big payouts.

It is possible to have spectator friendly courses that aren't wide open hyzer fests. WR jackson (mostly, there are a small number of problem holes), the courses used at the Scandinavian Open and European Open last year, Milo McIver (and really the whole 2014 Worlds set up) just off the top of my head.

The combining thread between all those courses is they are wooded with big trees and wide fairways. Plenty of room for spectators but enough trees to force players to hit a specific line. They're really the best of all worlds.

/end rant. Sorry for the thread drift.

Well said :hfive:

 

[SonicGuy]

Sorry if this has been covered, but is there a live feed?

 

[Pbmercil]

And then for those who want a direct link to the live stream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ECS8A9ZFVgg

SonicGuy

 

[SonicGuy]

^^^ Knew it was in here, TY!

 

[jjtwinnova]

Where is the guys scoring? I only see open women

 

[JC17393]

Where is the guys scoring? I only see open women

Can't have scores for holes that haven't been played yet. Half the men's field has yet to tee off yet, and the marquee groups likely to get live scoring are among the ones that aren't yet on the course.

 

[mfcastillo17]

all FPO scores in. Cat leads at -5

 

[Jashwa]

Can't have scores for holes that haven't been played yet. Half the men's field has yet to tee off yet, and the marquee groups likely to get live scoring are among the ones that aren't yet on the course.

Kind of a snarky response to a good question... did you even look to see what the asker was talking about? At the time of this post, only four women's cards have any kind of scoring on pdgalive despite all women's cards being well under way and over half the men's field being under way as well.

 

[Streets]

all FPO scores in. Cat leads at -5

Is PPierce not even playing?

 

[Pbmercil]

At the time of this post, only four women's cards have any kind of scoring on pdgalive despite all women's cards being well under way and over half the men's field being under way as well.

There are only 5 cards of FPO total. And they're all done and posted on the PDGA results page.

 

[NOStheBOSS]

Is PPierce not even playing?

she shot a 55, 2nd place

 

[Streets]

she shot a 55, 2nd place

The refresh button is a beautiful thing. :doh:

 

[walde]

I wonder what happened to Jessica Weese on that round. Seems like an interesting card coming up on the coverage and wow has Paul hit a 1055 rating?

I'll join the choir and say the bigger events early in the season are not very interesting due to the courses, GCC, Memorial and Texas State Championship (at least the past couple of years). Lots of open field, lots of hyzer shots... Well, it's always interesting to see the competition but the courses aren't really doing it for me.

 

[dorseymatt]

Has there been any update about what's in Paige Pierce's bag, or who her disc sponsor is, if anyone?

 

[DinosaurThunder]

Has there been any update about what's in Paige Pierce's bag, or who her disc sponsor is, if anyone?

The only sponsor she keeps calling out on social media is Keen.

 

[ThrowBot]

...wow has Paul hit a 1055 rating?

Yes indeed. You didn't see the stamp?!

 

[oddjob]

apparently only doing live scoring for the last MPO card.

Zach melton the early leader in the clubhouse (and a helluva nice guy). -9 47

http://www.pdga.com/tour/event/22242

 

[cjman]

Has there been any update about what's in Paige Pierce's bag, or who her disc sponsor is, if anyone?

Mixed bag