12StonesScott
Eagle Member
- Joined
- Sep 16, 2007
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the td should put the guy in int..10 years experience?...you can't play rec!!
Oh? How much experience would you say I have? I started playing object courses I laid out myself in 1978, but only played a handful of rounds on courses with regulation targets (a few of Ted Smethers' tourneys in Arkansas in the early '80s) before moving to Atlanta in 1986 and basically going on hiatus (one round every couple of years at most) until 2006, when I moved in across from a park with a course. I've played 3 PDGA-sanctioned tournaments in my life -- one in 1986, one in 2007, and last weekend. My rating is a lowly 828, and I played 50 points below that (based on preliminary round ratings) this weekend (on some fairly long layouts, to be fair). So having turned in three sub-800-rated rounds this weekend, would you say I do or don't belong in Rec or Novice? Even though by some measures I've been playing for 30 years?
I think the point isn't so much the amount of experience but the level at which the player has played in the past. But if you're not basing the division eligibility on some "objective" factor like rating or age or playing experience, you end up with a lot of arguments and disputes. Just saying "the TD should know better", though it seems reasonable at first, isn't really viable as a way to manage things.