Bag Tag Shootout Tourney 3/1/09 at Highland Hills

Just a reminder:

Bag Tag Opening Day Shootout tomorrow morning at Highland Hills - signup by 9:00

Bag tags look great and will look great on your bag. What number you gonna have? The bag tags are nice to sport on your bag that you support the Blugrass Open tourney and the GCFDA even if you don't play in the weekly events. We have a lot of disc golfers who get them and just play for the low tag among their friends. We'll have them available at the weekly bag tag at Mt. Airy, at Disc 'n Dat or see Ben Shooner or Nick. Thanks again to these guys for doing so much with the bag tags the last several years. See you tomorrow.

2009 BAG TAG OPENING DAY SHOOTOUT SUNDAY, March 1st

HIGHLAND HILLS DISC GOLF COURSE

Sign up by 9am 3 rounds of 9 holes $20 entry fee $10 of your entry fee goes to the 2009 Disc ‘n Dat Bluegrass Open SuperTour

ALL PLAYERS WILL RECEIVE A BAG TAG

Players will draw numbers to determine groups for the first round. Second round groups will be determined by scores from the first round. Third round groupings will be according to cumulative scores from the first two rounds. Payout to the top two scores on each card, for each round. $2 of your entry fee will go to first round payout, $4 each to second and third round payout. Assuming foursomes, payout would be $5 to first, $3 to second on each card in the first round, $10 to first, $6 to second in both of the last two rounds. Tags will be distributed based on total score for the three rounds starting with tag #1 for the best score. The highest tag number given out will be equal to the total number of players that day.

ALL PROCEEDS WILL GO TO THE 2009 DISC ’N DAT BLUEGRASS OPEN SUPERTOUR About Bag Tags: Tags are numbered 1-?. The goal is to attain (and retain) the lowest tag number possible by competing against other players with tags. There will be a weekly tag round at Mt. Airy on Thursday evenings after the time change. All tags are automatically up for grabs at all organized events. At the end of the year there will be a tag finale. You do not have to compete in the shootout to get a tag. Tags will be available from Disc ‘n Dat, Ben Shooner, or Nick Engle after March 1st. Please help support the 2009 BGO by purchasing a bag tag.

2009 Discraft Memorial Open March 5-7

This is one of the first big events of the year and gets national participation because it is one of the first big ones and people like to go to the warm weather of Arizona after the long winter months in Ohio, Kentucky, Michigan, Maine or wherever. I know we've had several disc golfers from this area attend this one in the past. This year Jeff Eades is traveling out west to participate in his first PDGA Grandmasters tournament at the Memorial. Here's a link to the PDGA Message Board discussion about the tournament. It might give you a feel as to why people like it so much.

I'll be posting some updates next week about how Jeff's doing on here and maybe some other bits of news from the tournament.

What's the picture have to do with discs?

So, thusfar no ideas on what the car picture below has to do with the new discs being introduced by Innova next week. Hmmm...need a hint? One needs a driver, the other a putter - but both have the same name.

New Discs from Innova

Yep, you heard it right. Some new discs from Innova, well one new disc and one disc in a new plastic. The Pro Dart will be the newest disc from Innova, It's a putter made of new R-Pro (Rubber Pro). Very straight flyer. Like a slightly faster Aviar with less low speed fade. Built like a smaller Aero. Preliminary numbers are 3,4,0,0.

From Dave Dunipace on the PDGA Message Board: "We had been having difficulties molding the soft pro, soft. The softer it was, the more rejects we had. Recently, we developed a new R-Pro plastic that has solved this problem. We are going to be using it in JKs, Pro Rhynos, Pigs, Omega SS, and any other R-Pro type discs we make. This basically means these discs will be consistently softer. We are currently making two new additions with this plastic. Our newest disc, the Dart P&A and the R-Pro Aviar P&A are being made with this new plastic."

The Boss will now be released STAR plastic.

Both of these discs are due to be released by Innova on March 1st. We will have them some time next week.

So, does anyone know what the picture has to do with these discs?

Latitude 64 comes out swinging!

From Latitude 64's website:

A new year on the Disc Golf arena is here and Latitude 64° comes out swinging:
Effective immediately Jesper Lundmark is a team member of Latitude 64° and will be a part of our mission to make the best products on the market.Jesper has the highest PDGA-rating in the world at 1043 making him an ideal partner for our future plans to develop the sport of Disc Golf.
The high rating comes from several wins and top finishes both in Europe and USA, including winning the PDGA EuroTour and the PDGA Major - Scandinavian Open, facing many of the highest ranked players in the world.

Discs Co-designed by Jesper Lundmark
Signing with Jesper was a big step forward for us and our plans to be one of the big players on the disc golf arena. Jesper will from now on be involved in our disc development. We will release several discs with a special logo that verifies his participation in the development of that disc. We are proud and excited to work side by side with Jesper!

To celebrate our first ever Co-designed disc made with the knowledge of old and current pros we have issued this special stamped collector disc in a run of 100. These are personally signed by Jesper Lundmark "Jesper" with a sharpie. The packages are individually numbered 1-100.". Disc 'n Dat has some of these Collector Discs available - Jesper Lundmark signed Striker

Take 5 - $5 Discs that is!

Yes, we've got $5 discs for you. We get a bunch of discs that collect dust and are hard to move around all the time - I get tired of cleaning and moving them. How about you doing that job for me? So, check out our $5 discs here - these discs are available online or in-store. Quantities are limited so get them while you can. Also, other discounts do not apply to these $5 discs.

PDGA DiscGolfer magazine

Here's a link to information on the new PDGA DiscGolfer mag, the new PDGA-published magazine that will debut in April. I'm sure there may be a few of you out there who might want to write something for the new mag or have an idea to share with them. Contact info is included in the article and much more.