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Looks like Jacky will be competing in a tournament next weekend, the Taiwan National, his first since the breakout Asia Open win back in Feb.
https://www.pdga.com/tour/event/47381
And quite literally his 3rd PDGA event......ever. Has to be the quickest rise to 1040 in PDGA documented history. Ratings wise it certainly makes sense to hone in the skills before playing rated rounds. Maybe he has a master plan and everything is proceeding as planned. lol.. (get good, win a tournament, get high rating, get sponsored)
Looks like Jacky will be competing in a tournament next weekend, the Taiwan National, his first since the breakout Asia Open win back in Feb.
https://www.pdga.com/tour/event/47381
Ratings are gonna be a nightmare for that tournament. 1 propagator, 13 players who have a rating at all.
The ratings team uses a manual process to produce ratings when there are fewer than 5 or even no propagators.
Tournament got bumped to January. Local government group came in with about 500 people to camp out at the venue the TDGA was scheduled to use. Not much the TDGA or the owners of the camp ground could do. Rescheduled to January 9-10. TD has not updated the date on the PDGA website yet.
But yeah, ratings are going to be a bit weird. My friends and are are all really curious what's going to happen to Jacky's and our ratings. A few of the better players don't even have PDGA numbers or ratings either so that won't do him any favors. I'd love to have more PDGA sanctioned events here but the TDGA doesn't really see it as a huge priority at this point. Not sure if that would be better or worse for Jacky though. Covid really screwed him over, along with the rest of the pro tour, making it pretty unrealistic for him to hit up a few of the bigger tournaments.
There is footage of Avery and Manibu playing in the tournaments final 9 holes on a card of 4. I'll see if I can find it.
Where is the course? I plan to bring some discs for the next business trip to Taipei in 2021.
Do you know....Tournament got bumped to January. Local government group came in with about 500 people to camp out at the venue the TDGA was scheduled to use. Not much the TDGA or the owners of the camp ground could do. Rescheduled to January 9-10. TD has not updated the date on the PDGA website yet.
But yeah, ratings are going to be a bit weird. My friends and are are all really curious what's going to happen to Jacky's and our ratings. A few of the better players don't even have PDGA numbers or ratings either so that won't do him any favors. I'd love to have more PDGA sanctioned events here but the TDGA doesn't really see it as a huge priority at this point. Not sure if that would be better or worse for Jacky though. Covid really screwed him over, along with the rest of the pro tour, making it pretty unrealistic for him to hit up a few of the bigger tournaments.
There is footage of Avery and Manibu playing in the tournaments final 9 holes on a card of 4. I'll see if I can find it.
Do you know....
Is Jacky planning on making disc golf a priority in his life? A career? Or is he going to be more like David Wiggins with a focus on a more traditional job/training, and owning everyone at disc golf when its convenient?
https://www.pdga.com/player/128836/details
Jacky Chen, 1040 initial rating, Feb 2020
https://www.pdga.com/player/40214/history
Wes Mauney, 1041 initial rating, July 2009
https://www.pdga.com/player/128836/details
Jacky Chen, 1040 initial rating, Feb 2020
https://www.pdga.com/player/40214/history
Wes Mauney, 1041 initial rating, July 2009
There's already been some discussion of this earlier in the thread...Dig a little deeper and you'll see that Wes got his 1041 rating based on one round in intermediate. While yes, technically history will say he has a 1040+ initial rating, evidence suggests that it was a fluke of the ratings system and not legit.
Sounds like he shot super hot.Well I had a back and forth with him and his buddy on instagram. Apparently the 80 was the typo and he did shoot a hot round that day.
Based on the ratings pool, he's going to need to win by a decent margin to shoot his rating or better.
I really hope he gets the opportunity to come stateside and compete. It would be great to see another Elite player join the ranks!
event canceled per PDGA tour schedule page.