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2020 PDGA National Tour Canceled...
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InDaWoodsDiscN419
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NT's cancelled 2020...
PDGA Staff:
Due to several factors related to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made the difficult decision to cancel the entire 2020 PDGA National Tour. All six tournaments -- the Texas State Disc Golf Championships, Dynamic Discs Glass Blown Open, Santa Cruz Masters Cup, Beaver State Fling, Delaware Disc Golf Challenge, and Music City Open -- will return to the circuit in 2021.
Prior to this announcement, four of six PDGA National Tour events had already been postponed or canceled due to the pandemic. Amid continued uncertainty regarding sanctioning, volunteer staffing, and tournament sponsorship, the Delaware Disc Golf Club and Music City Disc Golf Club expressed concerns about the ability to run their events to their full potential. With the PDGA also reducing staff, including key event and media support, all parties mutually decided it was best to delay the National Tour until 2021.
The Music City Open's concurrent A-Tier is still set to run as scheduled and will absorb the MPO and FPO divisions. The Delaware Disc Golf Championship, a Pro/Am event, will take the place of the Delaware NT.
While we are disappointed that the PDGA National Tour will not take place this year, we are grateful to our event hosts, who worked diligently to build courses, assemble rock star staff, raise payouts, and create a memorable experience to showcase elite-level professional disc golf. We can't wait for them to put on a show in 2021.
The Disc Golf Pro Tour, which has currently only seen two of its 11 tournaments postponed, still intends to complete its season and will provide a valuable platform for professional disc golfers and fans alike. The PDGA will support the tour by assisting with publicity and media initiatives, coordination of necessary rescheduling, and other event management needs. We would like to thank majority owner Todd Rainwater and DGPT CEO and Tour Director Jeff Spring for their continued commitment to professional disc golf and look forward to strengthening this collaborative partnership moving forward.
The previously released 2021 PDGA National Tour bid packages will now apply to the 2022 season. Bids are welcome until July 1, 2021.
PDGA Staff:
Due to several factors related to the COVID-19 pandemic, we have made the difficult decision to cancel the entire 2020 PDGA National Tour. All six tournaments -- the Texas State Disc Golf Championships, Dynamic Discs Glass Blown Open, Santa Cruz Masters Cup, Beaver State Fling, Delaware Disc Golf Challenge, and Music City Open -- will return to the circuit in 2021.
Prior to this announcement, four of six PDGA National Tour events had already been postponed or canceled due to the pandemic. Amid continued uncertainty regarding sanctioning, volunteer staffing, and tournament sponsorship, the Delaware Disc Golf Club and Music City Disc Golf Club expressed concerns about the ability to run their events to their full potential. With the PDGA also reducing staff, including key event and media support, all parties mutually decided it was best to delay the National Tour until 2021.
The Music City Open's concurrent A-Tier is still set to run as scheduled and will absorb the MPO and FPO divisions. The Delaware Disc Golf Championship, a Pro/Am event, will take the place of the Delaware NT.
While we are disappointed that the PDGA National Tour will not take place this year, we are grateful to our event hosts, who worked diligently to build courses, assemble rock star staff, raise payouts, and create a memorable experience to showcase elite-level professional disc golf. We can't wait for them to put on a show in 2021.
The Disc Golf Pro Tour, which has currently only seen two of its 11 tournaments postponed, still intends to complete its season and will provide a valuable platform for professional disc golfers and fans alike. The PDGA will support the tour by assisting with publicity and media initiatives, coordination of necessary rescheduling, and other event management needs. We would like to thank majority owner Todd Rainwater and DGPT CEO and Tour Director Jeff Spring for their continued commitment to professional disc golf and look forward to strengthening this collaborative partnership moving forward.
The previously released 2021 PDGA National Tour bid packages will now apply to the 2022 season. Bids are welcome until July 1, 2021.
There were only two events left. Delaware couldn't do it logistically, and preferred absorbing into a later event. That left Music City and it's hardly a "tour" even if they could have done it, with only one event.
May also have something to do with the states they are in. I dunno
TX States, GBO, and Masters Cup have already come and gone. Beaver State was preemptively canceled a while ago. That left two NTs on the tour.
Then Music City had to back out last week due to financial and logistics issues. That left one NT on the tour.
No reason to call it a tour with one event. It's really a product of bad luck with 4 of the tournaments being at the beginning of the season when the shutdown was in full swing. (Well, maybe it's also a product of only having 6 tournaments total, but that's a different argument.)
DGPT had to cancel Jonesboro and San Francisco (technically just "postponed"). More of their events are summer and fall, so they didn't have to cancel too many. Hopefully their home states will reopen in time to run their tournaments when scheduled.
Then Music City had to back out last week due to financial and logistics issues. That left one NT on the tour.
No reason to call it a tour with one event. It's really a product of bad luck with 4 of the tournaments being at the beginning of the season when the shutdown was in full swing. (Well, maybe it's also a product of only having 6 tournaments total, but that's a different argument.)
DGPT had to cancel Jonesboro and San Francisco (technically just "postponed"). More of their events are summer and fall, so they didn't have to cancel too many. Hopefully their home states will reopen in time to run their tournaments when scheduled.
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Until the next wave comes in the fall and everything cancels again.
See y'all in 2021.
See y'all in 2021.
Casey 1988
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Yes and no in that there could be a Vaccine by late 2020, but more then likely not in time to finish a season or get the workers willing to help. According to what I have seen on the shows both sides conservative and liberal in USA talking to The company in the USA closest to the promise and also willing to have patent be open.
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Yeah....I don't see much sense in even trying to put on these events. As a player, I just pulled out of Ledgestone in August. Going would just be a colossal effort. I would have no interest in going to bars or restaurants. Most tourist type activities would be off my list. They have cancelled all the player and tournament activities, save the actual competition. I have lost interest in staying a week in a hotel. Honestly, the crowd of the tournament itself holds little enticement for me. Honestly, I don't think I could tolerate the number of covidiots, I would have to endure.
It kind of boiled down to driving to Peoria to play three rounds of disc golf or simply staying home and getting in a few early morning rounds with friends.
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With ball golf slowly starting up again now with no spectators, it would be interesting if there was a similar model that could be applied to disc golf. People are starved for ANY sport content right now, and a no spectator but professionally filmed tournament of the top level pros might get on ESPN at this point, lol.
I just saw marble racing on ESPN.
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This is what I'm saying.
You could have 36 pros dueling it out (2 per tee for social distance measures) every week on literally any course, anywhere, and it'd be top billing on EPSN right now. Another few dozen humans for volunteers and camerawork, and you're talking a hundred people total spread out over the course, most not even golfing.
Missed opportunity.
Plenty of places closer to play, assuming someone wants to run a sanctioned tournament.
(Scroll down for USA states.)
https://www.pdga.com/tdinfo/resources/covid-19-approved-regions
Probably a lot more to come. We have word in South Carolina that 6-15-20 is our start date.
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Wanna bet? Doesn't anyone else remember there has been a new "Gonna kill us all!" disease emerge every year for quite a while now?
Hampstead
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I hear you. Seems like it's every year that a global pandemic shuts the planet down for months at a time.
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When you say 2 pros per tee I assume you mean 2 per card. You can't enforce rules that way since there is no one to second a call.
Also, disc golf being on ESPN right now would certainly give the sport more attention, but probably not a lot. I doubt as many people tuned in to watch the marble races as would normally watch the featured MLB game of the night. There would probably be a lot of people who saw disc golf was on, and decided to watch something else.
It would have been cool to get disc golf on ESPN, but I don't think it was a large opportunity missed.
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Each player can confirm a call on themselves, and is required to if it is clear. However, you still need three for other things.
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I just don't see that working. I would have no idea if I foot faulted or not if I have picked up my plant foot before looking at it. I've also been in multiple situations where I have disagreed with someone else on OB status.
That being said, I think it's easy enough to have 4 per card and follow the social distancing guidelines.
