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Wednesday, June 13, 2012
by mcmanus
Repainted park sign
In a land where beaches, fishing, seafood, and ball golf rule the day, there is a tiny slice of disc golf heaven on Cape Cod called Burgess Park. Long gone are the days of scattered litter, broken glass, rampant vandalism and inconsistent management. The Cape Cod Disc Golf Club has taken Burgess by the reigns and tamed this once unruly patch of woods located in the village of Marstons Mills.
Recognizing the need to create a legitimate and responsible stewardship presence for Cape Cod's only disc golf course, Greenleaf Garrison, Club President, has rallied the course regulars into forming the Cape Cod Disc Golf Club. Since the club's formation nearly two years ago, they have recruited several new members and are currently in the process of acquiring 501(C)(3) non profit status from the IRS. The club has reached out to the Barnstable Recreational Committee as well as the local Marston's MIlls Village Association in an effort to work with both entities for proper management and stewardship of this community park and its disc golf course. Future meetings are planned with the local Conservation Commission as well.
Burgess has undergone some significant improvements lately, from revamped tee pads and new basket locations to new signage and pathways. The Club has also started an "adopt a hole" program...a concept borrowed from Borderland DGC... and it has taken off with wild enthusiasm and success.
Hole 1 right tee pad
Hole 5 left tee pad
Rock framed garden off Hole 14's tee pad
New pathway from Hole 3 to Hole 4
With the sold out Sports Authority Cape Cod Disc Golf Open just around the corner on June 30th, the CCDGC members and volunteers have been working feverishly to get the course in prime shape for what is sure to be a memorable tourny. In keeping with the shameless promotion of my home course, I'd like to thank Greenleaf Garrison, Todd Lapham, Steve Solbo, John Tserpes, Josh Rogers, Erica Johnson, Chris Irvine, Doctah, Buja, Drew Austin, Eric Pleso, Brian Harrington and all the other Burgess regulars, volunteers, course freaks and any other random disc dudes who have asked what they can do to help.....you guys ROCK!
Hole 10 looking back
So be sure to pack your discs next to the fishing rods and beach towels for your next Cape Cod vacation...and if you run into Greenleaf at the course, ask him for a homebrew!
Peace!
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Wednesday, May 09, 2012
by mcmanus
With a near snow-less winter, a March that was warmer than April and borderline drought conditions during what is typically known as the wet season, 2012 has gotten off to a topsy turvy start...hmmm, maybe the Mayans were on to something. Perhaps Bill Murray put it best in the movie Ghostbusters when he stated: "dogs and cats living together...mass hysteria!!" Thankfully, one thing remains constant and that is tournament season in NEFA land! So, before you start your doomsday prepping, check out the NEFA and PDGA points tournies coming down the pike to a course near you:
May 12th, The Tully Tournament & Women's Global Event- NEFA Pts/ PDGA C-Tier
May 20th, 2012 Park City Charity Open- NEFA 2X Pts / PDGA C-Tier
May 20th, The Sap Bucket X- NEFA Pts
June 2nd, Dragan Disc Gofl Classic- NEFA Pts/ PDGA B-Tier
June 2nd, The 2012 Long Island Open- PDGA C-Tier/ NEFA pending
June 16th, Pokerpalooza Reloaded!- NEFA Points
June 23rd-24th 10 Annual Borderland Spring Fling- PDGA B-Tier
June 30th Sports Authority Presents the Cape Cod Open- NEFA Pts/ PDGA C-Tier
July 1rst, Pure Flight Presents The Crane Hill Open- NEFA Pts/ PDGA B-Tier
So don't despair because tournaments are popping up like dandelions in an unmowed field this year. I'll leave you with a final doomsday quote:
" Don't wake me for the end of the world unless it has very good special effects"
-Author unknown
Oh yeah, one more thing, I am stoked to see a disc golf course on Long Island...aka, my birthplace ...more to come on this new course in a future blog!
-Peace
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Thursday, April 05, 2012
by mcmanus
Hello Everyone,
We are happy to announce the 2012 NEFA preferred vendor, Community Disc Golf (www.communitydiscs.com). This is a new offering that we are providing to the NEFA tournament directors. NEFA has entered into a partnership iwth Community Disc Golf to provide more value from the tournament vendor. Our TD's work hard, so this is another way to make things easier for them! NEFA tournament directors will have the option of using the preferred vendor or to select a different option for the AM division payout.
When the TD decides to work with our preferred vendor for their NEFA tournament, they can enjoy the following benefits:
Tournament Discs: Community Disc Golf will coordinate the purchase of tournament stamped discs, with the TD only paying for the discs that are provided as player packages. Community Disc Golf will take on the additional inventory or the TD can purchase the remaining discs for the same low cost
Additional Tournament Prizes: Community Disc Golf will supply disc prizesfor your events competitions. Up to 2 each for Ring of Fire, Distance, CTP for AMs
Onsite Tournament Vending: Onsite vending is an option for the tournament (advanced scheduling required) with a minimum of 550 products and all brands carried by the vendor represented, set up by the start of registration. If Community cannot attend the event, then online vouchers can be purchased from Community Disc Golf.
Online Vouchers: Players can use their vouchers online to purchase form the entire stock. Shipping is always $1 flat rate shipping, so your players won't be charged a premium to get their merchandise. The vouchers will become active upon payment from the TD
Discount Rate: The tournament director will enjoy a 25% discount on the AM vouchers (20% retained by TD/ 5% sent to NEFA by TD). If the total AM payout will be $1,000, the TD will send Community DG, $750.00. In return, Community DG will provide $1,000 worth of vouchers to be used as the AM payout. The TD keeps the $200 and sends $50 back to NEFA.
In addition to all of these benefits, our preferred vendor will also be supplying NEFA with 10% of all non-voucher purchases made at www.communitydiscs.com They will also be offering equipment for NEFA outreach events, making it easier for NEFA to gain exposure and grow the sport!
For any tournament director interested in working with our preferred NEFA vendor, please contact Justin Anderson at Community Disc Golf to work out the details
E-mail Justin@CommunityDiscs.com
Phone: 617-959-2647
http://facebook.com/CommunityDiscs
http://twitter.com/CommunityDG
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Tuesday, March 06, 2012
by mcmanus
What's so exciting about the month of March you ask?...well, for one, it signifies the beginning of the end for winter weather, though one really wouldn't notice that as much this year considering mother nature's hiatus from the typical winter weather doldrums. There's also March Madness for all you college basketball gambling freaks (yep, I'm one of em) and of course the grandest of Irish drinking holidays, St Patrick's Day!...and what better way to celebrate it by spending the weekend on Martha's Vineyard for a convivial gathering of disc golf enthusiasts at an annual event known as the Vineyard Social. One of the first NEFA points events of the season is on once again and your island friends have been working hard to make sure each year's tournament exceeds the previous year's experience. With 3 course layouts comprising 36 distinct holes, one can look forward to a day of challenging variety in a setting truly unique to the island.
Check out the tournament details here
Ferry info can be found here
Parking info here
Lodging info here (although there are a ton of websites for lodging on the vineyard, your best bet is to go on the discussion forum thread and ask a local for their recommendations, they won't steer you wrong!
So, pack up the supplies and head on over to the Vineyaaahd on March 17th for some disc chuckin, pub crawling, head pounding island excitement....don't forget to eat and bring your game face!
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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
by mcmanus
Saturday, February 25th 2012, produced some of the windiest disc golf Amesbury Pines has seen in a very long time. For NASA, winds are expected at their open, hilly, Topsfield home course of Pye Brook. However, both rounds for this match were held at one of their other home courses: Amesbury Pines, and the magnitude of the wind gusts was far beyond any sort of normal “Home-Team Advantage.” There were no holes that played like they normally play, so the only home advantages were course-familiarity and travel (lack there of).
NASA produced five more players than Cranbury, but with the commute from Cranbury Park at over three hours to Amesbury Pines it’s bound to turn out this way. Whether or not this gives the edge to the smaller team or larger team is up for debate, since it depends on the quality of the players and the necessity of qualifying team players for the end of the year Team Finals.
The story of the day was the wind. It was quickly established during the morning’s match play that the winner of a given hole was the one who could lay-up soonest. Fifteen foot putts were extremely hard to sink, especially with the handful of unique Amesbury baskets (with just single heavy-gauge chain). Many players were seen putting with a Hornet or Drone instead of a putter. When it came time for the doubles matches, the in-round strategy was interesting. Much like most doubles matches, if one player lays up it means the next player can “go for it.” In this weather however, it became a necessity to lay-up even at short distances; and when a player was “going for it,” it meant they were throwing an over-stable disc with the force of a driver, sometimes from just 25-30 feet. Accuracy was impossible without power, and the strong majority of birdies came off a team’s second attempt (after the safe lay-up).
The edge in the morning’s match play fell to NASA with a fairly heavy margin. Four of these singles matches were pushes (ties), with each team being awarded a half point. The strategy for each team then made a huge difference with doubles. With NASA needing only three teams to win their rounds to win the match, it was up to the captains (JD and Whit respectively) to pair off their teams and find a way to win. The approach of a team with a lead is more of a “we-must-win-X-number-of-match-ups” as opposed to “we-can’t-lose-any-match-ups.” This offers the leading team the chance to form stronger pairs than normal, with the mentality of “these guys should take it down.” History repeats itself apparently, because the familiar teams of “Chad Hall/Dan Oulette” and “Drew Smith/Matt Thomas” came away with key victories. Chad and Dan had a stellar comeback win against Tully Rock showing great team work, while Drew and Matt had set the doubles course record at Amesbury against Borderland. The third and final doubles victory for NASA came from Daniel Marcus and Marielle Mallar.
An interesting and evidently pivotal decision became the singles match up for the second round. With an odd number of players available for Team Cran, each team had to provide a player to play a round worth only a single point. The final score was a NASA victory at 15-11, with Cran winning the singles match. Hindsight is 20/20, and it really is a “6 of 1, half a dozen of another” argument; but essentially the only thing the singles match could do for Team Cran was force a playoff, or lose the match. It couldn’t “win” the match, since the doubles matches are worth 2-points a piece. In other words, at 15-11 (with Cran winning the singles match), they had needed another doubles team to win to force a tie. If the singles had lost in this hypothetical instance; Cran would have lost. If Cran was to win the whole match outright, it would have required TWO more doubles teams to win; in which case the singes match wouldn’t matter and would not have affected the result. The reason this became important was Cranbury played possibly their strongest player (Bobby Cowperthwait) in the singles match. In reality, this was a safer way to play, because if you have confidence in your strongest player to win a head to head match up; you then need fewer teams to win in doubles to force a comeback tie. Yet, at the same time, one might expect the strongest player to single-handedly take down a doubles match- which is worth 2 full points.
Team strategy, while interesting conversation fodder, takes a back seat to performance in the end. If a team plays better, and stronger, they win. In this case, Team NASA protected their home turf, played through the 50 mph wind gusts and found a way to win against a strong Cranbury Park team
-Article submitted by Jaxon Sheehy- Team VSVN (NASA)
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