Jeff is frequenting the PDGA DISCu ssion board - look for updates here and there. Currently we are planning on several course changes - Course will be changed EACH DAY.

Another great tournament was just hosted by the Las Vegas Disc Golf Club. The 2007 Halloween Classic, ran by Scott Buff and Charles Matheson, was one of the smoothest tournaments ever. Weather was great, players had fun, and payout was amazing. Thanks to Innova 's candy fund raiser program and Mark Molnar and DiscGolfValues.com selling tournament discs for the club, over $7,000 was collected for this tournament.

Amateurs weekend payout, including player packages and trophy costs, was 162% of the entries. (Not bad for a little B-Tier Event.) We had 90 total players, with the Intermediate field being the largest (33 players). Winds were strong all weekend, and on Sunday morning players found Hole 18 buried by a fallen, 50', tree. Dave Brownlow beat out our TD, Scott Buff, in a three-hole sudden deat h play-off for first place for the MA1 division. Kristara Lee, all the way from Colorado, won the FW1 division. Ken Swafford won M M1 and Dave Johnson won MG1. The MA2 division was won by Tom Bennett. And wrapping up the Ams, our new local woman, Dolores Ricker , won the FW3 while Randy Pendleton won MA3.

Pro weekend payout, not including player packages and trophy costs, was 203% of the entries. (Holy crap!!! And this is just a B-Ti er Event?) Including packages and trophy costs, the payback was 231%!!! We had 58 players, with the Open field being the largest ( 34 players). Weather was perfect!!! Steve Rico shot an amazing second round (55, or 17 under and most of the pins were in the long position...and 4 putts fell out), to win the MPO division. First place MPO was $1,000. Sheila Kirkham, our New Mexico friend, won $280 in the FPO division. The MPM was won by Mike Milne, and he took home $480. Our long-time local club member, Jeff Kennedy, wo n $325 by winning the MGM division.

Next year, the event will be combined into one three-day weekend, with assigned tee times, one round a day. Reserve October 31, Nov ember 1, and November 2, 2008 on your schedules. This format reduces staff's workload (only a handful of us actually run the events ), and can accommodate the same, if not more, players.

Speaking of three-day events, the 2008 Gentlemen's Club Challenge has been set for February 29th, March 1st, and March 2nd. Amateur spots are limited, so sign up ASAP. The entry form and other information will be continuously update at lvdiscgolf.com and lvbagta g.com.

The InnColor Gentlemen's Club Discs are finally in. Jeff Jacquart is usually out at Sunset Park around 7:30 on Sunday's if you'd li ke to stop by and pick up your preordered disc. A few preorders have cancelled, so a handful of discs are available for purchase fr om $25 to $30. You can also call Jeff at home at 458-5025 to work out another method to pick up your disc.

The course layout has changed from 24 holes to 20 holes, hole average will be around 400ft. The entry form has been updated to reflect this change.

"The course has been revised. Only playing 20 holes now. Combining the following holes: 1 to 2, 4 to 5, 13 to 14, 16 to 17, and 22 to 23. Also adding hole A near tournament central. Average hole length should be around 400 feet. Kept some short holes, many righty and lefy holes, and now have TRUE par 3 and par 4 placement holes. (No more just throw as long as you can!!!!)" - TD Jeff Jacquart

It's official, we are on the PDGA schedule now. The entry form has been posted! Get your entries and sponsorships in now! :)
Seriously though, we expect to fill this year, so get your entries in.
We've already gotten several entries and sponsorships just over the last 2weeks!
Happy Turkey Day.

The PDGA approved the 2007 GCC tourney to he held the weekend prior to the Memorial, February 23, 24 & 25, 2007. Look for more info and entry forms here over the next couple of weeks. You don't want to miss this tourney!

I was just reminiscing about Big D, so I checked out Mark's discgolfvalues.com - BIG D is here again! It's at stateline, only 40 min from Vegas! If you haven't been there before and I think only a handful of guys from Vegas have, it's an international event! Chris Max Voight flys in from Europe every time! Several others have come over in the past, including Christian Sandstrom (current world record holder (2002 - 250M/820FT)).
This an event you can't pass up. Get out there and see how you measure up against the big guns!
Big D VII info | All official throws of 170+ meters | Additional distance info
Get out there and check it out or better yet, participate!

As some of you know, Floyd Lamb State Park (near Durango and 95 in northwest Vegas) will be turned over to the City of Las Vegas along with some BLM land. It's part of the Las Vegas Open Space Project.
There was a survey available online last week and we've been encouraging people to be vocal about integrating a disc golf course just as we did with the Craig Ranch Regional Park project/survey. There is contact info on the site, feel free to express your interest in a disc golf course at Floyd Lamb State Park.
Floyd Lamb State Park hosted the 1999 Halloween Classic Pro Weekend .

I have to admit, I haven't had a lot of time to play lately, I probably haven't played a full round at Sunset in 6 months... I drove by Sunset the other day and was pleasantly suprised at how green the course is at this time of year! As many of the loyal Halloween Classic participants know, over the last couple of years, Sunset Park has been *very* dry and dusty. For Vegas, it's a lush green!
I understand the course layouts will be short for the Am weekend and *long* for the Pro weekend. The artwork is complete and we should have fund-raiser discs shortly!

I heard today that Mtn Crest will be changing once again. Holes 14, 15 & 16 will be shortened this week. You ask why? Golfers are still hopping the adjacent private community's walls to retrieve their discs and too many cars are being hit on the street. Please everyone - if your disc ends up in someone's yard - don't hop the wall! Let it go, it's a $10 disc, you can afford another one.

John “Papa” Austin, PDGA #15359, passed away Tuesday afternoon while jogging. His son and best friend, Scott, was by his side during the incident. He seemed to be in great shape (played disc golf on Sunday and Monday), and the news comes as a shock to all.

He won last year’s Las Vegas Halloween Classic, Pro Grand Master’s Division, with literally no sleep. (Worked from 7 PM to 7 AM, and then played in the tournament during the day.) John was always there to help prepare the disc golf course for events (found many missing sleeve placements and relocated baskets), consistently beating many of us out on the course (using either his left or right arm), and will be sorely missed.

Papa's son, Scott, will be hosting an informal get-together at his house this Friday, June 9th, from 4 PM to 7 PM. The address is 397 Award Ct., in Henderson. Directions are as follows:

• Southeast of Green Valley Pwky. and Warm Springs Rd.
• East on Warm Springs
• Right on Success Way
• First left on Waverly Circle
• Third cul-de-sac on left is Award Ct.

Cary Trotter is collecting funds for a tree/plaque at Sunset Park. Anyone wishing to contribute should contact Cary.

Send pictures you may have of John "Papa" Austin enjoying the sport of disc golf to the lvbagtag webmaster.

As anyone who has tried to access lvdiscgolf over the last week or so has noticed, we haven't been around. Mail is still down at this time, but I expect to have it back up later tonight. We had a drive failure on our server and ended up losing some data - coupled with the fact that I'm a dad again (we had a baby girl 2 weeks ago) - it has been very slow getting lvdiscgolf back into production. I'll post updates as they are available.
Thanks.
-casey

Big thanks to all of our sponsors, TD Jeff Jacquart and all the tournament staff (Jose, Jon, Dean, Dewey, Big-E, Pat and the countless other locals who contributed) - this was one of the smoothest tournaments we've had in a while. All the players I spoke with really liked the 3-day format and commented on how smooth everything was... I didn't even hear anyone complaining about the tee-pads, the new OBs (curbing) or how dry the course was... it was great. Good job all!

2006 GCC Friday Tee-times

More tournament info - check it out!

There have been updates for the 2006 GCC, please review at the link below. We currently have 132 entrants! We still have hole sponsorships available!

2006 GCC - check it out!

I've heard over the last couple of days that several tee pads had either been moved or re-poured. I got an email from Jeff Jacquart today confirmed which holes have new tee pads.

Holes 2, 7, 15, 17 & 18 have new tee pads!

I received another email from Rob regarding the Peccole Basket Fund:

Rob and Lanny would like to thank the following people for their help and donations:

• $10 from J Bo
• $20 from Lanny, Rob, Tim, Greg Kent, Jim Halverson, Pickle, Casey, Dewey, and Pat.
• $40 Jeff Jacquart
• $60 LV Disc Golf Club
• $45 S&H paid by Mark Molnar at discgolfvalues.com
• $300 Innova sold the basket to us at the club rate.$50 +/- savings

That's a great hole, it will get harder as that new tree grows.

Thanks to everyone who contributed.

For those that have played Sunset Park recently, you may have noticed that the park is being improved. Xeriscaping is being added around the park perimeter and along some of the inner streets. Vince Gardner, Tom Robinson, and Jeff Jacquart met with the Parks Department to discuss how the improvements will impact the disc golf course and upcoming events.

The good news is that it really shouldn't! It will make the course a bit more challenging, but beyond that, the course shouldn't be impacted by that much. One tee pad (Hole #7) may be rebuilt and moved east, but beyond that everything else should remain the same. Tee pads which abut the new concrete border (tees #17 and #18) will include some extra protection to ensure that the Xeriscaping doesn't run off onto the tee pads. The border around the gully on hole #20 will be revised. Additionally, the tee-pads *may* be acid-washed by the Gentlemen's Club tournament (acid-washing will be completed by the Parks Department), and most, if not all, of the improvements near the disc golf course should be completed by the end of February (or before the big tournament).

We know some of the baskets are close to the Xeriscaping (which will now be O.B. and all tee-signs will need to be updated), but this just makes you play our once easy course with more accuracy!

I received an email from Lanny regarding the Peccole Basket Fund:

All this should be taking place next week, Friday, Dec 23rd and Saturday, Dec 24th. If you are interested in helping please contact Rob or Lanny OR just show up at 3PM on Friday or 9AM on Saturday.

In August of 2004, basket 14 was stolen from Peccole Ranch. The Peccole Ranch Community Association (PCRA) has not replaced the basket as of today.

I received an email from local disc golfer, Rob Toltzman, indicating that he and Lanny LaCroix are looking for donations to replace the basket. We are looking for players to donate what they can, $10, $20 - whatever you can afford. To date, Rob has collected $100 dollars towards the $300 new basket.

Rob, myself and a group of other golfers have been involved for years in the Peccole Ranch Disc Golf course. I re-did all the tee signs several years ago. And we've all worked on moving baskets and cleaning up the course.

If you are interested in donating to the basket fund, please contact Rob Toltzman and cc: me (caseyl@lvdiscgolf.com). Alternatively, you can catch Lanny or Rob while they're out playing.

Dave Feldberg takes first place in MPO, followed by Steve Rico, Gregg Barsby and local Cary Trotter. Rob Wilson (MPM) came out on top of the 5-way tie for first after the second round beating local Duane Kline and Steve Wisecup by 2 strokes.

Local John "Papa" Austin edged out Glenn Triemstra to take the win in MPG.

Vicky Wisecup beat out Roe Roblez and Kellee Marshall in FPM.

Kathy Manley won FPO

Aces for the weekend: Dave Vincent (#24099) hit hole 1 (327ft) in the 3rd round

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On a side note, I'm having trouble with our web server. As a result, lvdiscgolf.com is running very slow. I should have it sorted out later this week.

I've added some pics taken by Monica Lewis during the first round of the 2005 Halloween Classic - Pros. There are actually quite a few and it is slow to load...

Here are the complete results.

Here are the current results.

Kennedy sent me this link, it's a PGA Show doing a piece on the USDGC.
clip on USDGC - the hosts make 30 foot putts look so easy.

The CFRs are in, and look awesome. We have 50 Starfires ($30 each), 50 Glow Orcs ($30 each), 25 Glow Sidewinders ($30 each), and 25 Glow Firebirds ($30 each). We also have 150 InnColor minis ($8 each). If we sell everything, then Innova's sponsorship will total $4,000.

Contact Jeff Jacquart or myself if you are interested in purchasing a CFR disc. Image of the stamp is here.

There have been a core group of golfers keeping an eye on the development of the Craig Ranch Regional Park in North Las Vegas. Recently an Amenities Survey has been posted on the City of North Las Vegas website. Please take a minute to fill out the survey and make sure to fill in Other > Disc Golf under questions number 4, 5 & 7. We are all trying to get another good disc golf course in Las Vegas and this is a perfect opportunity. This new regional park will be located/replace the current Craig Ranch Golf Course. I will post more information about the park as I receive it.

Please fill out the survey and include Disc Golf on questions 4, 5 & 7.

Pro Weekend - Bobby Musick was 3 strokes ahead of Steve Rico at the start of round 3. Stevie carded a -12 for the last round and Bobby shot -9. It went to a sudden death playoff. A temporary hole (hole #27 at the Gentlemen's Club Challenge) was the first hole of the playoff. Steve hit a tree not too far off the pad and Bobby ended the playoff on the first hole. Look for the complete results to be posted on the PDGA's site over the next couple of days (I will post a link to the results on lvdiscgolf.com when they become available on the PDGA's site).

As for the Am Tourney, I know there has been a lot of discussion on the PDGA DisCussion Board over the last couple of weeks in regards to lvdiscgolf.com availability, score postings, etc. lvdiscgolf.com had some technical issues in the weeks preceeding the tourney and it didn't help that I was out of town much of that time. As for the entrants updates, Jeff got them to me but I wasn't able to post them due to the issues with lvdiscgolf.com. Now for the scores, I believe that Jeff Jacquart (Am TD) submitted them to the PDGA on the Monday after the event.

This is the second stolen basket in the Valley over that last couple of months! What is going on! Basket 15 at Sunset Park was stolen. The Master locks that the club bought for the movable baskets had to but cut off because they failed. We weren't able to even get the keys in a couple of them let alone turn it once it was in. The locks were axed to move them and they didn't have locks for one night. One of the baskets walked away that night.

What really sucks about this whole thing is that the basket probably won't be replaced for quite some time. The Parks Dept doesn't have the funds to replace the basket, which means we will probably hold a fundraiser or something to gather money to replace the basket. Local golfers will probably scratch together the funds to pay for the replacement.

Baskethead Disc Gear is positioning itself to take over the Monthly events at Sunset Park. I understand the schedule will be presented to the County Parks and Rec department in the coming weeks. Tom Robinson is proposing events twice a month at Sunset Park. Look for an update here or at www.baskethead.com in the coming weeks.

I was informed yesterday by S.A. Utah that Saturday Singles have been moved from Sunset Park to Freedom Park. Sunset was getting too waterlogged from the morning sprinklers.

Also the Wednesday Night Doubles Ace Pool is reported to be over $400 as of next week! Get out there and play.

Big D in the Desert will be held at state line California/Nevada on Ivanpah dry lake next weekend. Spread the word! You can see all the information at: www.discgolfvalues.com

If you need a reason to come out and play in Chuck's Wednesday night Doubles, here it is. The ace pool is over $350! Come out and have some fun!

I got an email from Rob T. today saying that basket #14 - last basket before you make the walk down Charleston - has been stolen! He said it looked like a pipe cutter was used as it was pretty clean and was about 3 inches above the grass. That sux!

Why do people have to steal baskets and deprive other golfers of a great course just to have basket in their backyard! (That the thieves won't use as much as they think and even so it won't even improve their putting skills) I know Peccole may not be played as much as it used to - I haven't played up there in at least a year - but hell there are plenty of other golfers that play it regularly. I know at least one group that plays up there every week and also the locals (Peccole residents) play it pretty frequently. I'm not aware of too many money rounds up there lately, but that doesn't mean its not a great course.

Rob also pointed out that basket 8 at Freedom was stolen last year and the City replaced it with old basket 1 from Freedom (pre-parking lot days).

World's Biggest has come and gone...

The Las Vegas edition of World's Biggest Disc Golf was held Saturday, May 2nd at Sunset Park. We had a pretty good turn out (>45 people), donated a good amount of money and food to the Shade Tree Shelter (~$150 cash + food donations) and had a lot of fun doing it. Jeff ran several random-draw 5-7 hole doubles events that were very well received. I 'organized' a game of guts and paid dearly for that mistake, freestlyled a bit with some old friends and played some mini golf (Jimmy D aced hole one on the mini course over 7 times!).

Near the end of the event, there was a pick your partner doubles event that was played, in which Cary and Dewey shot a -15 to win the round. At -12, there was a two-way tie for second (Chuck/his partner and Jeff/me). Sadly this was a winner take all event...

Overall it was great fun for everyone, hope to see more people out there next year.

Updated Ultimate info
Tuesday night - Cannon Middle School - 8pm
Thursday night - Desert Breeze - 8pm

Unofficial First Day Results - GCC V
Thanks to Terry Calhoun and the PDGA for these results.

Pictures and results from Las Vegas' 1st Ice Bowl
Check out the Tournament Results section and our gallery for more.

2004 GCC - 1st West Coast A-Tier Event for the 2004 Season
Check out the events section or this entry form for more info.