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I'm in the process of planning a non-pdga event that requires current pdga membership to play, has more ratings capped divisions (but no gender or age protected divisions), requires urated players to play open, and pays cash to all divisions. There are a lot of players rated under 900 whom I have talked to and, so far, they all love this idea. It may happen as early as this fall.
I kind of like this idea....but it is self-limiting in its adoption. If players who play a limited number of tournaments chose this format over PDGA events, how will they get ratings?
I ran a similar sort of event in what I call a "Seeded Skins" format - read about it here. It was a 1 day PDGA event followed by a non-sanctioned skins event.
It was a ton of fun and players could play either event or both. Seeding for Skins was done primarily by PDGA ratings (sorta like you are doing) if players only came for Skins - where the "big money" added cash was paid out.
Sorry for contributing to thread drift.