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DGVTour # 8 - North Calais Open

DGVTour #8 - North Calais Open August 10-11,2024 North Calais DGC 349 Bayne Comolli Rd North Calais, VT PDGA C-tier 2 Rounds of 18 holes, 1 round per day/tee times. TD: Chris Young & Will Cleland Players Guide and Camping Guide have been emailed to all players. MUST READ. Players Meeting: Week of emails will be sent out with event info. and updates. Awards: As divisions finish we will give out trophies to division champs once all scores in that divisions have been finalized and received. 1st Place custom Maple Syrup Trophies for Top 3 in each divsion. Pro Payouts: We will payout 40% of the Pro divisions. Payouts will be issued via Paypal within 48 hours of completion of the event. Amateur Payouts: We will payout 45% of the Amateur divisions. Payouts will be posted and a DGVT merchandise voucher will be filed in our system for those players. All amateur divisions play for merchandise credit to the DGVT Pro Shop. Credit must be redeemed by Dec.31.2024. Acepot: $1 from each players registration goes to the acepot. If there are no aces then the acepot will roll over to DGVTour #9. $132 rollover from DGVTour 6 + 7. EDGE: $2 from each players registration goes to the Vermont EDGE Program. This program will enable DGVT to work with local schools and communities to build new courses and get discs in the hands of our youth. DGVTour fee: $3 from each players registration goes to the Tour to help us with an array of items. PDGA Fee: C-tier fee is $2/player. Greens Fee: $5/per player. Playoffs: North Calais playoff loop will be used for all playoffs for 1st place. Juniors must be accompanied by an adult per PDGA guidelines: https://www.pdga.com/rules/competition-manual/113 Tee Times (both days): Tee times will be posted Thursday, Augus 8th for Saturdays round. After all players are off the course Saturday we will work as fast as we can to get tee times posted for Sundays round. Our hope is to have those posted before 8pm Saturday night. Again, visit pdga.com, go to events and find our event on the list and that is where you will find your tee time. ALL players are expected to arrive approx. 30 minutes before the posted tee time. When arriving for your tee time, please go to the DGVT trailer (which will be setup near the garage in the parking lot.) and check in. Players need to start at the listed tee time so that we do not create backups throughout the day, so PLEASE be prompt and tee at your EXACT tee time. We will be keeping an eye on this and assisting where needed. Tee Assignments: ( both rounds) Gold tees: MPO and MP40 Blue tees: FPO/MP50/MA1/MA40/MA50/MA60/MA2 White tees: FA1/FA40/MA3/FA3 Out of Bounds: All Out of Bounds will be listed on the PDGA Live digital scorecard. They also are listed here... Hole 1 – The lawn to the right is OB, defined by the yellow rope on the fairway side of the woodpiles, at the end of which it turns up behind the garden. The brook is OB, with yellow rope on both sides. Hole 3 – The stone wall behind the basket is OB, marked by yellow rope on top of the wall– throw from the “Drop Zone” (flagged sticks) to the left of the basket. Hole 4 – The wetland on the right side of the lower fairway and the brook at the green are OB, designated by the yellow rope. Play from where your disc was last in-bounds. Hole 5 – The fen wetland on the right side of the fairway is OB, designated by the yellow rope. Please be especially kind to fen vegetation. The road behind the green is OB, designated by the painted line at the edge of the road. Play from where your disc was last in-bounds. Hole 6 – The fen wetland in front and to the right of the fairway is OB, designated by the orange-flagged stakes and yellow rope. Play from where your disc was last in-bounds. Note the area between the OB line and the line of white flags is In Bounds and marks the edge of the fen. Please be especially kind to fen vegetation and DO NOT walk through this area unless to play a lie. Hole 7 – The paint line at the edge of the road (across #8 fairway) is OB. Play from where your disc was last in- bounds. Hole 8 – The paint line at the edge of the road and the yellow-roped property line below the green are OB. Play from where your disc was last in-bounds. Hole 9 - The paint line at the edge of the road is OB. The juniper bush is a Relief Area, as denoted by the white rope encircling it, and a free drop (no penalty stroke) must be taken from the marked “Drop Zone”. Hole 11 – The stone wall to the right of the fairway, designated by the yellow rope is OB. Play from where your disc was last in-bounds. Hole 16 - The paint line at the edge of the road is OB. Play from where your disc was last in-bounds. Hole 18 – The tarp-covered trash pile at the right of the green is a Relief Area. DO NOT ENTER THIS AREA. Play this as a free drop from the flagged drop zone at the back right of the green. PDGA Live Scoring: This is how each group will keep score. All players need to click on the link below to become familiar with PDGA Live Scoring. Download the ap " PDGA Live" on your personal device and be prepared ahead of time. https://www.pdga.com/help/tournament-management/official-hole-scoring . ALL PLAYERS MUST KEEP SCORE. We will have paper cards available but we recommend using PDGA Live scoring. Each player is responsible for submitting a scorecard or they will be penalized. If you submit your scorecard and your score is incorrect you will be penalized - so make sure your score is correct. Please refer to rule 808 for the updated 2024 Scoring policy here... https://www.pdga.com/rules/official-rules-disc-golf/808 PDGA Live Scoring Code: dgvt8. PDGA Live Scoring is the OFFICIAL scorecard of the event and each player needs to check in after the round to make sure that all players scorecards have been received by the TD's. If you are keeping a paper card you must write your full name on the top of the card so that we know you have submitted your scorecard. ALL PDGA rules apply. Note that the 2 meter rule IS in play for this event. If you are above 2 meters off the ground then you will take the next shot directly below your disc with a 1 stroke penalty. NO Division changes after registration closes. DGVT merchandise: If you would like to purchase something from DGVT you can do so at the event. Member discs can be picked up at the event and you can cash in your Am payout at the event. We will have your payout on file if you have won any amateur payouts at a Tour event we will have that for you. Must redeem am payouts by the end of the calendar year. We do not ship payouts, so make sure to use your credit onsite at one of our events. We would like to thank all our Tour partners: Innova Champion Discs, Smugglers Notch DG Center, Martell's at the Red Fox,Lawson's Finest Liquids,Upper Park Disc Golf, Discmania,Sunset Lake Cannabis,Vermont Federal Credit Union, Sunset Lake CBD, Shweebee. Questions?....You can email us at [email redacted] and we will get back to you! We are not able to entertain special requests for tee times unfortunately.

DGVTour # 8 - North Calais Open

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