Washington Team Disc Golf?

[olydiscgolf]

After sitting around wishing and hoping....I've decided to get the ball rolling for a WA "Team" Disc Golf League. I've contacted a few key players already, and will work on making more contacts. Im looking to have a meeting with interested parties in early to mid November. Any interested parties should get in contact with me before then.


As far as I see, there's no need to re-invent the wheel. That being said, I want a league that is compatible with Oregon TDG. Our friends to the South have a good thing thats tried and established, we should follow the lead.

Also, there seems to be a lot of enthusiasm for a "super Bowl"/"North Beats South" WA vs. OR rivalry! This would be much easier to facilitate if we're on the same format.

I am looking for imput from interested parties in WA. Im also looking for imput from "players" in the OR TDG. I want to know what is working and why.

Thanks for the ideas!

Chris Gilberts
TEAM OLY
chrisgilberts@msn.com

[chanman]

I am an interested party.

[Sausage Fingers]

After sitting around wishing and hoping....I've decided to get the ball rolling for a WA "Team" Disc Golf League. I've contacted a few key players already, and will work on making more contacts. Im looking to have a meeting with interested parties in early to mid November. Any interested parties should get in contact with me before then.


As far as I see, there's no need to re-invent the wheel. That being said, I want a league that is compatible with Oregon TDG. Our friends to the South have a good thing thats tried and established, we should follow the lead.

Also, there seems to be a lot of enthusiasm for a "super Bowl"/"North Beats South" WA vs. OR rivalry! This would be much easier to facilitate if we're on the same format.

I am looking for imput from interested parties in WA. Im also looking for imput from "players" in the OR TDG. I want to know what is working and why.

Thanks for the ideas!

Chris Gilberts
TEAM OLY
chrisgilberts@msn.com

Chris,

If you go to teamdiscgolf.com it will redirect you to our Yahoo group. Sign up for that and you'll have access to all of our files and can use and/or modify them for your league. I'll have to approve you so it won't be instantaneous, but hopefully it will save you some time.

Jordan

[REDFIVE]

I am an interested party.

As am I. Do we pick our own teams? How many per team? Chandler? Chandler?

[DoubleDees]

i think your allowed so many players in a certain rating category

["Over the Hill" Bob]

As far as I see, there's no need to re-invent the wheel. That being said, I want a league that is compatible with Oregon TDG. Our friends to the South have a good thing thats tried and established, we should follow the lead.

Also, there seems to be a lot of enthusiasm for a "super Bowl"/"North Beats South" WA vs. OR rivalry! This would be much easier to facilitate if we're on the same format.

I am looking for imput from interested parties in WA. Im also looking for imput from "players" in the OR TDG. I want to know what is working and why.

Thanks for the ideas!

Chris Gilberts
TEAM OLY
chrisgilberts@msn.com

The number one reason it works here is that there is ONE leader, Jordan. Everybody has input but he is the ultimate decision maker and we follow his lead. What Jordan does, is always in the best interest of Team Golf and EVERYBODY involved, no personal agenda's. Trust in your leader and things will work well.

Number two, is that it is meant to be a fun time and when everybody buys into, "it's just for fun" idea, that's what you have, FUN.

Chris, I'm really glad to see you step up to get this started up there. From what I saw in my visit to the North, for Chandlers fund raiser, you folks have the right guy taking the lead.

Pick you own teams....
7 players per team.......
handicapped.......(even I would have a shot at taking down a 1004 rated player:wink2:)

Fun, fun, fun!

Bob

[REDFIVE]

I read the oregon rules and it sounds like a good time. I could see finding 7 people for a team being a little tricky. I thought maybe make the teams 4 man teams 2 pros and 2 ams. First round the ams play against the ams and the pros playagainst the pros. 2nd round the home team picks the doubles teams, either am am and pro pro or pro am teams but still handicapped. The first round one am and one pro from each team playin the same group with an am and a pro from the other group so the ams get to play with the pros. However it works I amwillingto participate if possible. Thanks for doing this chris!

[SPIDER-DAN]

I would definitely love to get in on something like this. Please keep this thread going with updates and all. Very interested!!!

[Tim]

Right on, Chris. Interested here as well.

[Sausage Fingers]

I read the oregon rules and it sounds like a good time. I could see finding 7 people for a team being a little tricky. I thought maybe make the teams 4 man teams 2 pros and 2 ams. First round the ams play against the ams and the pros playagainst the pros. 2nd round the home team picks the doubles teams, either am am and pro pro or pro am teams but still handicapped. The first round one am and one pro from each team playin the same group with an am and a pro from the other group so the ams get to play with the pros. However it works I amwillingto participate if possible. Thanks for doing this chris!

When you figure out how to handicap the doubles matches I'd love to know what you come up with...:pirate:

[Pizzel]

Washington TDG......awesome. Looks like Oregon TDG may be getting a farm league soon!!!:nahnah:

[REDFIVE]

When you figure out how to handicap the doubles matches I'd love to know what you come up with...:pirate:

Each player would have a rating or a handycap and you could average the two giving a team handycap.

[killa]

I bet there's enough interest around here for TDG to catch on pretty quickly. However for the inaugural year, Redfive may be right that smaller teams would be preferable. On the other hand, Olydiscgolf's point regarding compatibility with our Dixie-whistlin' adversaries is valid as well... but again, how significant is that during this inaugural season?

And just for reference, in case we do go through with this and (foolishly?) stray from Oregon's proven system: When I've played handicapped doubles before (at a private course back east, where the clubhouse updated handicaps continually based on everyone's most recent 20 scorecards turned in) they took the two players' handicaps, added them and divided by 3. So it's not a true average -- it's meant to minimize the impact of unusually large handicaps, and slightly favor better players... effects for which there's a lot to be said. It seemed to work out very well.

[Yardbird]

Sounds like a lot of fun. Great format.

I'll start to round up a West Sound team with NAD park being our home course.

Keep us posted with all the details about WA team golf.

[Toby Puttzinski]

I would be very interested.... I agree with Chris in that it'd be easier to form teams for each course by having teams of 4... some courses/clubs could have multiple teams representing them if there was enough interest. It seems that you could still borrow the Oregon TDG format and just modify it.
Whatever you decide, it sounds like a ton of fun!

[TYVEK]

im totally in! it will be much easier than you all think to get 7 people together to form a team. think about it, there are enough serious golfers out at stilly that you could form 2-3 teams imediately.

["Over the Hill" Bob]

im totally in! it will be much easier than you all think to get 7 people together to form a team. think about it, there are enough serious golfers out at stilly that you could form 2-3 teams imediately.

I have to agree with TYVEK, I think you'll be amazed at how easy it will be.

Bob

[GettinBetter]

Im up for some team golf, I have all the time in the world to play. I live in Puyallup.

[Lund]

Yes, Bob, Chris is a doer. One of those people that turns a conversation in a car ride into something real….

Having talked to a number of OR Team Disc participants here are what I think are the main considerations:

1)TDG can be a pretty significant commitment for all players involved. In OR this equals a full day every other weekend for 9 weeks (1 home and 1 away event versus every other team!), and fielding a full team for each event during the winter, whatever the size of the teams during an inaugural season, is key. Assuming you want to have this home-away format for picking lineups, etc I would say that the more interested people there are, the bigger the teams should be, not the more teams there should be.

2)It’s all about the handicaps. A team can be all Pros, all Ams, all geezers, or a mix (shoot there’s even a place for Pinkal) because that handicap system, as Bob pointed out, means that it is definitely not about simply amassing what you think are the best players. That is largely what makes TDG in Oregon the big draw that it is, right?

Count me in! I would help with the scorekeeping and handicapping.

[sillybizz]

I am so there guys, please keep us updated on this.

[GettinBetter]

Please keep me updated as well, and if there is anything I can help out with just let me know.

[Sausage Fingers]

When I've played handicapped doubles before (at a private course back east, where the clubhouse updated handicaps continually based on everyone's most recent 20 scorecards turned in) they took the two players' handicaps, added them and divided by 3. So it's not a true average -- it's meant to minimize the impact of unusually large handicaps, and slightly favor better players... effects for which there's a lot to be said. It seemed to work out very well.

That is a new one that we haven't tried. It would have to be better than taking the average. Maybe we'll try the divide by 3 method next year.

Taking the average made it a serious advantage to pair your 1000 rated Pro with your lowest rated player. Playing against 2 moderately rated players, the high/low team almost always won, and most of the time were even getting strokes! Even though the high/low team used almost every shot by the 1000 rated player.

Last year we went to just taking the highest player's rating and going with that. Now it favors using your 2 highest rated players in the dubs. This year we added a clause that your Dubs player must play in a Singles match in the other round or they can't compete for the dubs match point. We'll see if it has any effect.:pirate:

[olydiscgolf]

Thanks everybody for the input. I am in the process of writing up the guidelines for WA TDG. I will post the rules and format when I finish. There will be 6 teams, 6 courses. Ive got confirmation from 5 captains so far, Im waiting on response from one more. Those interested in joining a team should email me, chrisgilberts@msn.com. Let me know what your "home" course is, and I will put you in touch with a captain.

[sillybizz]

Email sent.

[Tim]

I'm the 6th Beatle in question here. I've talked to Chris, and I fully support the WA Team Golf idea and his efforts towards it, but I just can't say with 100% certainty that I'd be able to make all 6 events, and I think anybody that agrees to be a captain should be able to make that commitment. I'd still be interested in being part of the Seattle team, but if someone else is interesting in captaining, by all means, go ahead.

[olydiscgolf]

I'm the 6th Beatle in question here. I've talked to Chris, and I fully support the WA Team Golf idea and his efforts towards it, but I just can't say with 100% certainty that I'd be able to make all 6 events, and I think anybody that agrees to be a captain should be able to make that commitment. I'd still be interested in being part of the Seattle team, but if someone else is interesting in captaining, by all means, go ahead.

Thanks Tim for getting back with me. As Tim said, I'm looking for a "captain" to step up. Id like them to represent any combination of Lakewood, Seatac, or Terrace Creek. If your interested, let me know. chrisgilberts@msn.com


Chris Gilberts

[sillybizz]

I'm the 6th Beatle in question here. I've talked to Chris, and I fully support the WA Team Golf idea and his efforts towards it, but I just can't say with 100% certainty that I'd be able to make all 6 events, and I think anybody that agrees to be a captain should be able to make that commitment. I'd still be interested in being part of the Seattle team, but if someone else is interesting in captaining, by all means, go ahead.

Damn Tim I'm always having to take over for you for everything! :p:jumpspin:

[sillybizz]

Chris check your email.

[Tim]

Damn Tim I'm always having to take over for you for everything! :p:jumpspin:

Heh, just don't let yourself get burnt out. That's what I'm struggling to avoid.

[DMajor]

Is there any idea what dates this might be?

[olydiscgolf]

Is there any idea what dates this might be?

Its looking like the middle of Jan. to start. running through the middle of April.

[TREX]

Great Idea! Looking good for a Mason county team,, we have a lot of response from our local guys and I am stoked this is gonna happen,

GJ Gilby

[olydiscgolf]

The captains will pick the teams. Anybody interested in joining a team should let me know, and I will put you in contact with a captain. chrisgilberts@msn.com

["Over the Hill" Bob]

Oregon Team Golf begins this weekend. (actually the Sat. crew is playing now) Go to the Team Golf section and find our schedule, (I'm to lazy to look myself and link it) and if you can, come down when we are playing PDX area and check it out if you can. I believe we play Dabney in two weeks. There's always room on the course and you can join in for the day and experience the feeling first hand of what Team Golf is really like. I'm totally stoked that WA. is putting together teams. :cheers:

Bob

[TreeLove]

Go to the Team Golf section and find our schedule...

Or, just use the Calendar. Does anyone use the Calendar?

["Over the Hill" Bob]

Or, just use the Calendar. Does anyone use the Calendar?

There's a calendar? :slapface:

Bob:D