2005 Southwestern Team Disc Golf Invitational

This year’s event was the smoothest running event in years. The weather although threatening on Friday to ruin our weekend turned out to be beautiful. Light to moderate Santa Anna winds kept the storm from ever reaching San Diego and the weather was warm and Sunny all weekend. Perfect weather for the players to wear their custom embroidered dry fit collared shirts from Port Authority and their matching Sueded cool max embroidered hats with team names on each one. All players also received a custom stamped Pro Wriath and a U2 putter along with a couple of mini’s, weekend playing pass, lunch on Saturday and entrance to the free drawing. With entry fees going up to $70 this year due to the city’s $500 usage fee to use Snyder Hill for our extended 6 holes we still wanted the players to have a player package with an estimated $70 value.

The putting contest on Friday night had the most amazing finish ever. This year we designed one of the most difficult course ever with the many new plants the motel had available. It required the players to utilized a number of different throwing styles and foot stances. It required a player to have true disc control not just a one style fits all kind of putting stroke. To that end during the entire prelims only 3 players got out as far as station 7 and hit the putt. But during the finals after a double playoff to get into the finals John Childs putting third went all the way out to station 8 and hit the putt. The 4^th player Dennis Bohanan (alias the mouth) went all the way to the finish and hit #9. The final player to putt in the finals Mike Raley amazingly did the exact same thing going all the way to Bambaland forcing a playoff between himself and Denny. Denny having recently discovered Budda credited his new found inner peace for his victory earning him the $100 first prize .

1 Dennis Bohanan $100

2 Mike Raley $75

3 John Childs $50

4 Gabe Cota $40

5 Ken McKelvey $35

Several teams were in the early hunt for the “ Spirit of the Event” award. Travis Reynolds made up stickers for all the players with the team names and a basket for your car window. Very cool. Dave LeVan captain for team Santa Cruz made up “Morley Field survival kits”. A very tongue in cheek container full of condoms, lollipops, advil, rubber gloves and several other comical items and distributed them to each of the captains. Team La Mirada looked very smart in their team colors of red and white and seemed to enjoy themselves the most despite their less than expected competitive results. In the end Team Huntington Beach won this year’s” Spirit of the event” award and will keep the perpetual trophy for one year. Each HB player received several discs donated by Discraft and Innova (Pro Avenger, DX Roc, and Pro Challenger).

This year saw some fierce competition and a major shake up in the competition hierarchy after the first days 5 matches. The second and third seeded teams of La Mirada and Sylmar already had 3 losses each after day one and were out of the running before Sunday’s matches even began. San Diego with several rookies on their team unexpectedly went 5 and 0 and Redwwod Empire and Santa Cruz each had one loss. Redwood and Santa Cruz faced off in match 7 to determine who the second seeded team would be to face San Diego in the finals. Santa Cruz prevailed 7-5 and went on to face a determined San Diego in the 19 hole finals. San Diego’s home advantage saw them dominate a talented and determined Santa Cruz team 10-2 in the finals. One of Santa Cruz’s victories came on the final hole as Rob Harding slammed home a 70’ side arm shot over bushes to defeat San Diego’s #1 master Glenn Triemstra.

Of note although carding 2 ties Carlo Pelg was the only San Diego player to go undefeated this year. Rookie Dave Vincent playing in the number 6 open slot had only 1 defeat and quieted his message board nemesis Mike Ruzicka captain of the Redwood Empire team with a 7-0 drubbing that went a long way towards helping San Diego win that match. Redwood Empire and San Diego tied 6-6 in match play but when we went to the first tie breaker of total points scored San Diego prevailed 47-29. For their efforts each San Diego player received $120 and a plaque and I’ll be keeping the perpetual trophy another year. Second place Santa Cruz received $70 each and 3 discs donated by Discraft and Innova ( Z-Breeze, DX Valkyrie, DX Aviar).

Order of finish this year

1 San Diego 7-1

2 Santa Cruz 6-2

3 Redwood Empire 5-2

4 Huntington Beach 3-4

5 Sylmar 3-4

6 T La Mirada 2-4-1 tied their head to head match (6-6) and individual points were also a tie (38-38). The second tie breaker is a sudden death playoff between the captains but only if the outcome is meaningful to the finals.

6 T Arizona 2-4-1

8 Santa Barbara 0-7

Next year will see a new team coming from Oregon and captained by Dave Feldberg. Santa Barbara finishing last 2 years running will be rotated out but will return as central California the first opening we have. Thanks to all the staff, Donny, Mac, Kent ,Ken, Chef Aaron, and Joanne for all their hard work as well as all the guys in the shop. And a big thank you to Lefties Chicago Pizzeria we had the best pizza ever in our 24 (or 5) years of doing this event. This was I believe our second year having the 24^th annual so next year we anticipate a blowout celebration for our official 25^th anniversary. To that end we will be exploring any number of sponsorship opportunities. Anyone wishing to get involved as either a sponsor or volunteer staff contact Snapper at the pro shop. Thanks and Z ya.

1 Micah Dorius 7-1-0   41-13 (points scored vs. points lost)
2 Carlo Pelg 6-0-2  34-14
3 Mike Slonim 6-1-1  41-26
4 George Spracklen 4-4-0  29-28
5 Ed Speakman  3-2-3  28-23
6 Dave Vincent 7-1-0  36-14
7 Adam Nash 3-4-1 30-20
8 Glenn Triemstra 5-2-1  26-20
9 Don Olow 5-3-0  32-20
10 Jeff Nichols 5-2-1  35-22
11 Snapper Pierson 5-2-1  33-16
12 Emily Hardy 2-6-0  11-25

Round 1
SD 8 v SB 4
LM 4 v HB 8
SC 8.5 v SM 3.5
RE 8 v AZ 4

Round 2
SD 10 v HB 2
LM 8 v SB 4
RE 8 v SM 4
SC 7 v AZ 5

Rnd 3
SD 9.5 v SC 2.5
LM 4.5 v RE 7.5
HB 4 v AZ 8
SM 8.5 v SB 3.5

Rnd 4
SD 6(47) v RE 6 (29)
LM 3.5 v SC 8.5
HB 6.5 v SM 5.5
AZ 7 v SB 5

Rnd 5
SD 7 v AZ 5
LM 7.5 v SM 4.5
HB 4.5 v SC 7.5
RE 8.5 v SB 3.5

Rnd 6
SD 5.5 v SM 6.5
LM 6(38) v AZ 6 (38)
RE 9.5 v HB 2.5
SC 8.5 v SB 3.5

Rnd 7
SD 7 v LM 5
RE 5 v SC 7
SM 7 v AZ 5
HB 9 v SB 3

Finals
SD 10 v SC 2

The Southwestern Team Disc Golf Invitational (Team Tournament) is held on the first weekend of December every year. Eight teams from California and Arizona compete for the perpetual trophy and bragging rights for a year. There are 12 players on each team comprised of 7 open, 3 masters, 1 grandmasters, and 1 woman.

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