J-Town Forum

Thanks for clearing that up even though I have no idea what most of that means. Will there be something posted with all the players scores or highlights?

Complete results can be found here.

Preregistration closes today (6/28) at 4 pm.

J-Town Disc Golf Club Meeting 23
05/13/13 5:00 PM
Community Park, Channahon, IL

Meeting called to order at 5:00

Members in attendance:
Rob Gibson
Frank Grimes
Ray Hill
Jason Poole
Aaron Studer

1) Financials (see attached)

2) Discontinuum Club Challenge (Recap)

Club		Pro		Am		Total
J-Town		17		22		39
Union		14		8		22
FVM		7		24		31
GRABM		11		11		22
Discontinuum		2		6		8
Total		51		71		122

• Club covered $2 per J-Town Player $78 from Club Challenge fund.

3) Handicap Singles League
• Avg 26 per week (21 Sanctioned) (39 max, 19 min)
• Ace is at $138
• Second session has been sanctioned to run from 6/4-7/30 (9 weeks)
• Motion to add a rule closing registration 15 min before start time. Vote passes 5-0
• Motion to restrict courses to Highland, Lockport, and Channahon. Vote passes 4-1

4) Bag Tags
• Avg 16 per week since 1/5/13 (20 max, 11 min)

5) J-Town Invitational
• 5/27/13 Lockport
• Sanctioning paid, course reserved, flyer and spreadsheet created.
• Ray working on paintings for trophies.

6) Course Projects
• Frank Grimes is working on a proposal for Highland #15

7) Member Reward Program
• To maximize the opportunity for members to earn points in the program, the
following changes were made:
o Now it’s only necessary to post a request for help for course cleanup 24 hours
in advance; changed from 1 week.
o An increase in points has been made for helping with running leagues.
o A decrease in points has been made for tracking of points in the Reward
Program.

8 ) Election Results
• President-Ray Hill
• Vice-President-Frank Grimes
• Secretary- Dean Bingham
• Treasurer- Jason Poole
• Member Advocate- Aaron Studer
• One member is leaving the board after 3 years of service to J-Town. Thank you to Dave Kociuba for lending his expertise and talents to the J-Town board!

9) Open Q&A

Have you ever wanted to play the USDGC but couldn’t get an invite?  Have you ever wanted to play Winthrop Gold or at least a similarly set up course but don’t want to travel all the way to SC?  Here’s your chance.  We’ve re-designed Mokena’s 27 hole course into 18 holes, added 2 temporary holes and laid out over 6800 feet of rope.  The result, a 20 hole, 8792 foot, par 69 challenge.  In addition, we are going to determine who will represent IL in this year’s USDGC Performance Flight.

What:  Ropes at the Oaks (PDGA C-Tier)
Where:  The Oaks, Mokena, IL
When:  Saturday, June 29th, 2013

Division		Entry		PDGA Member Discount Fee		# Trophies
Open (MPO)		$60.00		$50.00		3
Pro Women (FPO)		$60.00		$50.00		1
Pro Master (MPM)		$60.00		$50.00		1
Advanced (MA1)		$50.00		$40.00		3
Advanced Women (FA1)		$50.00		$40.00		1
Advanced Master (MM1)		$50.00		$40.00		1
Intermediate (MA2)		$50.00		$40.00		3
Recreational (MA3)		$50.00		$40.00		3

Eagle/Ace Fund: $5 (Optional) *Ace Fund pays out for all aces plus any 2s on 1,3,4,8,12,16,or 18
50/50 CTP: $5  (Optional) * 50% of the CTP fund will go towards the USDGC spot winner’s entry and travel expenses.

All AM players will receive an Innova disc as a players pack.

Registration: 7:30 - 8:30   
Players Meeting: 8:45
First Round Tee Time:  9:00

2 Rounds, 20 Hole USDGC Style Rope Course (Course Booklet)

Field limited to 100 players.
Pre-registration options include online registration, in person at J-Town Handicap Singles League, or mail to:
J-Town Disc Golf Club
P.O. Box 311
Elwood, IL  60421


Rules for USDGC Qualifying:

1)	Must meet all USDGC Performance Flight requirements.
	a.    Current PDGA member. b.    Pass PDGA Official’s Exam. c.    PDGA player ratings must be at least 875 and comprised by a minimum of 12 PDGA rated rounds between January 1st 2013 and Oct. 1st 2013.
2)	1 spot is available and will be given to the eligible competitor who shoots the best vs their individual projected score.
	a.    Projected scores will be generated after the round based on the course SSA using an improvement factor of 7.5%. b.    We will use player rating as a tie breaker with the preference going to the higher rated player.  A sudden death playoff will be used as a final tie breaker.
3)	In the event no competitors meet the eligibility requirements or sign-up deadline, the spot will go to the TD.

For more information e-mail jtowndiscgolf@gmail.com.

Click here for the flyer.

Nominations for the current election have closed and since all positions are unopposed, there will be no need for voting. 

Officers for the period of 6/1/13-5/31/14 are:
President- Ray Hill
Vice-President- Frank Grimes
Secretary- Dean Bingham
Treasurer- Jason Poole
Member Advocate- Aaron Studer

New ratings are up at pdga.com.
The J-Town Disc Golf Club member list has also been updated.

J-Town Disc Golf Club Meeting 22
03/11/13 5:00 PM
McDonalds- 4280 W Jefferson St, Joliet, IL  60431

Meeting called to order at 5:00

Members in attendance:
Ryan Fancher
Rob Gibson
Mason Gibson (Bday boy!)
Aaron Studer
Jason Poole
Frank Grimes
Ray Hill

1) Financials (see attached)

2) IL Hall of Fame
•   No reply to emails from Ray Hill inquiring about requirements and information to move forward.  Ray will report back when more information is made available.  We will revisit this item at the May meeting.

3) Ice Bowl (recap)
•   Frank Grimes is reporting $9332 in cash and 225 pounds of food donated to the Morning Star Mission.  Once again outdoing the previous year.  We couldn’t be more proud of all his efforts. 
•   Things to improve on: setting out the tee signs, possibly the night before may help with logistics of a long walk in the AM. 
•   Things to improve on: Registration.  The idea to make more of an assembly line registration may improve the flow, wait times, and over all organization of the whole process.  (Stations for food collection, PDGA verification, entry fee, ace/ctp fund)

4) Discontinuum Club Challenge
•   Saturday the 16th at Mokena
•   Blue Tees
•   Sell J-Town merchandise and memberships
•   Jobs were assigned for Club Challenge
     o   Merchandise: Aaron
     o   Tag sorting and registration: Frank and Jason
     o   New Membership signups: Rob and Ray
•   Club will meet by the baseball fields for a mock Tourney Central

5) Handicap Singles League
•   Season begins 4/2/13
•   Broken up into 3 seasons for PDGA reporting purposes with Months as a designators (April/May, June/July, August/September)
•   Same entry fees and optional fees as previous season
•   Fliers will be made and displayed around local courses as well as neighboring out of town courses and disc golf related shops.

6) Bag Tags
•   Aaron Studer continues to see improvement in participation
•   Overall consensus from the players was to not Sanction Saturday Tags
•   Aaron will maintain Saturday tags throughout the near future.  No end date was decided but overall feedback was positive to offer this service.  Thanks Aaron for stepping up to run this.

7) Course Projects
•   Frank Grimes would like to build a retaining wall to help with the erosion behind hole 15s short tee at Highland.
•   The runoff from rain is causing the tee to be covered in mud and Frank would like to stop it before it gets too bad. 
•   Franks will have a bid put together and approved by the board before moving forward. 

8.) Election
  a) Deadlines
•   3/1/13- 4/11/13 Nomination Period
•   4/12/13-5/13/13 Voting Period
•   Ballets to be counted and made official at the 5/13/13 board meeting
  b) Nominations
•   Jason Poole Nominates Frank Grimes for Vice President
•   Ryan Fancher Nominates Dean Bingham for Secretary
•   Aaron Studer Nominates Ray Hill for President
•   Jason Poole Nominates Jesse Saenz for Vice President
•   Rob Gibson Nominates Aaron Studer for Member Advocate,  he accepts
•   Ray Hill Nominates Jason Poole for Treasurer, he accepts

9) Open Q&A
•   Rob Gibson is appointed a staff position in Public Relations and will take over the social networking on behalf of the club.  He will administer the Facebook page and use that platform to write up J-Town Disc Golf Club Member related stories and events.  Jason Poole will get the appropriate rights set up.
•   Jason Poole with set up an events page on jtowndiscgolf.com for J-Town Bag Tags to post schedules and results.  He will also modify the reporting spreadsheet to work with the new events page and give Aaron Studer the appropriate rights to manage the page.