Chris Leo › March Mudfest March 11, 2013 at 6:34am
Wow!!! I don't even know where to begin here. What an absolute amazing turn out we had for the first sanctioned Motor City Chain Gang event of the year! We were hoping we might get 60 people, instead we had to open two more holes accommodating 87 players!!! Which is the largest turnout the club has ever had in the 11 years this tournament has been run. Way to go guys, that is seriously impressive.
I know we tried a new form of CTP this time by having each card win a prize, and like you we were knocking some rust off as most of you were as well. What were the thoughts on them whether it be good or bad. I think most of the players learned a valuable lesson today that PayPal is your friend, or paying in person, or mailing in your money so you are GUARANTEED a spot! With that being said, registration is live for next month's tournament which will again be a split day tournament.So I implore you to take advantage and register now as to avoid being on the cusp, and not being able to get in.
I would like to thank a few people that stepped up and made this tournament a success and to make it smooth to run. Big shout out to Mat Stivers, Brandon Redmond, Jay Benienda, Mike Moreno, Jason Riberas, Kevin Egnatoski and Jon for again doing a fabulous job on making the tee pads sparkle for us today! I would also like to thank Ken Mango, Brandon Redmond, Brent Moreno, Nick Cooke, B Man for helping with scorecards and of course Krystal for again being awesome and helping collect raffle tickets for the club, thanks again Krystal. If I am forgetting your name I do apologize, it is such a welcome help when people come up and step in or ask what need to be done. I want to thank all the players for not getting to upset about the shortened lunch break for some players, but because of that we were able to finish before dark which is impressive!
Scores are posted on here and on the PDGA website as well. I think we did pretty good as we were leaving Stony Creek just a little after 8pm. If there is something I missed, or didn't get a name right, or your score isn't linked send me a PM, with either your PDGA number, or your email address you use for your scene account.I hope you all had a great time out there, I know I did.
Big shout out to you Chris Leo and John Minicuci for figuring out how to get us bums in the tournament without screwing everything up!! Also to Abbie Stoecker and her group who stayed classy
Lol...it was funny. I felt like I was at home, watching my kids fight. Made the tourney interesting....john to the rescue.
She was one special woman.
We told the clown to keep walking but he just wanted to start some **** while he was playing in tennis shoe , fool
Chris, we all agreed that next time we absoultly need signs saying there is a tourney going on. Im not sure if we could close the course, but that would help. I think most of the problems we ran into were a result of people not knowing it was a tourney. I think a general sign explaining to casuals w ... more
Chris, we all agreed that next time we absoultly need signs saying there is a tourney going on. Im not sure if we could close the course, but that would help. I think most of the problems we ran into were a result of people not knowing it was a tourney. I think a general sign explaining to casuals what a tourney is, might help too. I dont think people mean to be rude, well except for the lovely group we ran into, but in general I think we would have less problems with casuals if there was information for them.
Abbie, I agree with you and I know the club does have a sign that says a tournament is in progress. I know John talked to a few casuals that were very nice and had no problem playing the back 9 while the tournament was going on. As far as closing the park, there is a pretty steep fee in doing so. I did hear that there was some unique individuals out there.