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Comment by Ken Long on January 19, 2009 at 9:59pm

To all tournament playing Geezers.
I am 61 and just started playing disc golf about 1 1/2 years ago. I want to compete in tournaments, but with my experience..I find myself in recreational. Not good. I would greatly like to play with individuals close to my age. So that means Senior Grand Masters. Should I go ahead and do it or continue to play Recreational. I know I am accepted in Rec. but would I be accepted in Senior Grand Masters with only 1.5 years of experience? Any positive responses would be appreciated. Thanks.
K.

Comment by eric beich on January 15, 2009 at 11:53pm

am i too young at 41 to be a geezer? been playing for 20+ years ?
but you would never know it from my scores :)

Comment by larry mann on January 12, 2009 at 6:18pm

Senior Grand Master is a great division. Smart enough to know better, and dumb enough to keep trying. Welcome to the club.

Comment by joe on January 12, 2009 at 4:31pm

Geezers - you know who you are - maybe. When you are around 50 you are not sure, and when you get to be 65 you are not sure - but for other reasons.
joe

Comment by Hi, I'm Todd Lewis on January 10, 2009 at 5:49pm

2009 Northern Waters Disc Golf Series
“Celebrating its 10th Year of Northern Michigan Disc Golf Events”

2009 Tourney Schedule
“10 Years/10 Events"
1. NWS #1 - Flip City – Shelby, MI Saturday, April 4th
2. NWS#2 – Kenwood Heritage Park - Cadillac, MI Saturday, April 25th
3. NWS#3 – “Quinvitational” Leviathan - Ludington, MI Sunday, April 26th
4. NWS#4 – Avalanche Park – Boyne City, MI Saturday, May 16th
5. NWS#5 - Hickory Hills Open - Traverse City, MI Sat. & Sun., June 20th-21st
6. NWS#6 – Myles Kimmerly – Maple City, MI Saturday, July 18th
7. NWS#7 – Northend Riverside Park - Big Rapids, MI Saturday, Aug. 8th
8. NWS#8 – Kingsley Civic Center South – Kingsley, MI Saturday, Aug. 22nd
9. NWS#9 - River Road Sports Complex - Petoskey, MI Saturday, Sept. 12th
10. NWS Finals - Whitehall Township - Whitehall, MI & Flip City - Shelby, MI
Sat. & Sun. October 10th-11th

Comment by larry mann on January 9, 2009 at 1:15pm

I've emailed Peter and get his messages. The travel is not worth it to me. I'm going to be pretty content to play at my own course and soon there will be enough small towns with courses inside of 100 miles of me. Then we can have a heart of texas tour. Back in '89 I won over 3000 in masters and some open tournaments and declared a loss for irs purposes. I got into cycling and racing because there were races for older guys and lots of good local competition. It was much better organized and run than pdga tournaments. Then I played lots of local ball golf tournaments. In my opinion the pdga has too many divisions. Old guys used to have only one option-pro masters. All the guys that used to have fun losing to me would be playing am masters now. I have to travel hundreds of miles to find anybody my age that can give me a run.

Comment by mark ellis on January 9, 2009 at 9:08am

For any interested Geezers,

Peter Shive is organizing an old guys network to identify good tournaments and recruit divisions. The idea is to figure out which events give the oldsters the most benefits and to encourage us to attend those events. You can request inclusion to the group and the email chain by contacting Peter.

Shive@uwyo.edu

Comment by larry mann on January 9, 2009 at 7:23am

You know I haven't played a tournament in 15 yrs. I thought by now there would be a tour that followed some sort of sensible route around the country. Is there one? There doesn't seem to be much in the way of tournaments for old guys my age anyway. I haven't renewed my pdga membership and don't see much reason to do so. I think we should start a Texas tour separate from the pdga.

Comment by Bill Burns on January 8, 2009 at 10:24pm

Hey Larry, no problem. After all, driving to Brady is almost 15 miles closer than driving to TULSA! I can't see me ever again going to a tournament I can't commute to, other than a World's. I made an exception in 2007 to go to the HOF event because it was also the opening of the IDGC.

Maybe someday though ya never know

Comment by larry mann on January 8, 2009 at 6:25pm

Hey Bill, Sneak out to Brady sometime. I've finished putting in the course here. We've got a nice 18 hole layout for "seniors". I've been meeting the local kids and turning them on to the game, but I'm lonely without anyone to push me.

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