Despite the weather we had 54 players compete in this year Christmas Classic. We had people as far away as Bowling Green, Ky come down to play in the one day tournament. We thank them and all of the other out of towners that came over to play with us. Andrea Hallaman was our TD for the tournament. This was her first PDGA sanctioned tournament and we think she did a great job.

Now when you look at these scores remember these players had to endure rain and a lot of wind, so don't be too hard on them. Again we like to thank everyone who came to the tournament and would like to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

You can find full results at the PDGA web site.

Andrea checks 'em in

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Tha Gang

Andrea hams it up

Fred does too!

Chuck Whitten slams a putt!

Here's a group of us having fun - Fred, Andrea, Wrad, and Mark ham it up!

Here's Tammy showing good form with Mark trying not to look!

Andrea Hallaman tries to place her disc in the No. 18 basket during the Alabama Sports Festival's disc golf tournament. (Web Master's note: She made the putt).

Kathy and Kimberly toss a putt

Everybody played and had a blast!

This was a fairly casual tournament, so usual formalities like making sure to get last names was not followed. We had 25 players that played. We had 9 pro/am teams and 3 and 1/2 am/am teams. We played two rounds. 1st place in Pro/AM was Randy Fortenberry and Jason Judkin they took $100($50 each) Tie for 2nd and 3rd place Tom Monroe and Chuck Whitten and Mike Dames and Thomas ?, they split $80 among the four of them. In Am/Am Ron Pittman was the odd man so he took 1st place by himself and took home $50. 2nd place was won by Kathy Dammes and Mike G. and they shared $30. 12 ctp's (closet to the pole) prizes were given away, don't ask me who they were. Well I can tell you three of them were won by Chuck. The the ace pot was won by Andrea Hallaman in a play off.

As of 08/12/00 we now have almost every hole with 3 different pin positions. 13, 15 and 16 are the only holes that still only have two placements. The ground in those areas was not cooperative so we were unable to dig additional placements. Hopefully in the future we will be able to correct that problem. A basket rotation schedule has already begun as of this month, August 2000. A new rotation schedule will be posted at the beginning of each month showing where the baskets have been moved. All baskets will not be moved each month, only an average of 6 per month.

I think we have got the tee pad on #4 as good as it is going to get. We have extended it were it is now 8 feet long compared to the original 6 feet and we have set it lightly in cement which has made it a lot more sturdy. The cost of this tee pad was right at $50, but took several man hours to complete. If we decide this is what we want to use to place in the Amatuer Tee Pads then we are going to need a good crew of folks to have this done properly. I will keep you posted on the future plans of this project.

Congratulations to Tom Monroe for bringing home with him the title of World's Grand Master Champion for the second year in row. Good Job Tom!

We had 43 golfers attend our inaugural Alabama Sports Festival Disc Golf Tournament.

Many of those 43 golfers were novice tournament players. We cannot thank them enough for coming out and supporting this sport and we hope to see them in future tournaments. The medal winners are as follows:

Junior Men under age 16
Gold-Dayton Preston

Junior Men over age 16
Gold-Daniel May

Amateur Women:
Gold-Lee Howard
Silver-Debbie McEntire
Bronze-Kathy Jones

Amateur Men:
Gold-Tim Barker and Robin Cawyer (Tied)
Silver-Jeff Jones

Advanced Women:
Gold-Kathy Dammes
Silver-Kimberly Neuman
Bronze-Andrea Hallaman

Advanced Men:
Gold-Mike Dammes and Tyler Ledbetter(Tied)
Silver-Fred Hallaman
Bronze-Steve Cobb

Congratulations to all the winners.

Well, we did not quite fill up. We were 3 shy. I guess the rain early in the week scared a few off. Or, maybe it was the NASCAR race that did it. We had a good time anyway. The 6 holes in the woods added a nice twist to the weekend. The final 9 was spectacular. We had 100ft birdies, over the water parked drives and wet, in the water drives. It was everything I hoped it would be.

Round 1 was the longest course configuration. It got easier as the weekend went on. Happily, the scores reflect that.

Changes from round 1 to round 2:
5 short (from 719 to 508)
1 short (from 359 to 283)


Changes from round 2 to round 3:
3 short (336 to 315)
4 long (230 to 245)
7 short (346 to 324)
8 right (330 to 357)
9 short (353 to 253)
12 short (341 to 256)
16 long (333 to 353)


You can find full results at the PDGA web site.

Amatuer and Novice players played a shorter set of tees, were not reported to the PDGA and did not pay the extra $5 fee to the PDGA.

       AMATUER

 T1    Paul Gray            70  64  65      199 (won playof)

 T1    Brad Reeves          66  68  65      199

 T3    John Acker           74  69  65      208

 T3    Anthony Silvers      73  66  69      208

 5     Jon O'Barr           68  74  67      209

 T6    Mark Dammes          72  68  70      210

 T6    Aaron Overall        72  73  65      210

 8     Robin Cawyer         76  66  70      212

 T9    Mike Jameson         72  71  70      213

 T9    John Roberts         69  69  75      213

 T9    Matthew Orum         77  68  68      213

 12    Greg Liddle          78  72  64      214

 13    Adam Silvers         69  80  71      220

 14    Lee Isaacs           77  72  74      223

 15    Doug Walker          82  67  75      224

 16    Tyrel Reese          75  76  81      232

 17    Matt Allison         DNF             0

 18    Cleve Langston       DNF             0

 19    Dan Hicox            DNF             0

 

       NOVICE

 1     Roger Kirtley        73  67          140

 2     Brian Thigpen        78  68          146

 3     Coleman Baird        75  76          151

 4     James Buxton         80  74          154

 5     Bill Massey          82  80          162

 6     Gusti Sujana         DNF             0

 7     Putu Arsana          DNF             0

 

       NOVICE

 1     Jenny Joseph         94  93          187