ATTENTION GOLFERS

ATTENTION GOLFERS Sunday March 25 Pershing Drive and Florida Canyon Dr. will be closed from 7 AM till 11 AM for the HOT Chocolate 15 K run.

You will not be allowed to exit on to Pershing Dr from I-5 north or south during this time. You can only access the course from Redwood Street to the east of Morley field; police will motion cars to our lot one at a time.

It is suggested that you approach the course from the 94 or 805 and take 30th or 32nd street to Redwood St.

Police will also be metering cars into Morley field via Texas St. at Upas St.

All other recreational activities at Morley field will be utilizing this entrance therefore it is recommended that you approach the course from Redwood Street.

Sorry for the inconvenience

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February Morley Monthly

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OPEN-5 1st-Luke C. -14 $45

2nd-Quinn -11 $25

ADVANCED-12

1st-Matt H.  -11 shop credit

2nd- Carlos -8 $37 “ “

3rd-Philly Pete  -6 $30 “ “

4th-Jesse  M._5 $26 shop credit

INTERMEDIATE-21

1st-Matt T. -7 $40 shop credit

2nd-Hans D. -6 $34 “ “

3rd-Eric H. -4 $29 “ “

4th-Sean M. -1 $26 “ “

5th-Tony H. 0  $23 “ “

6th-Chris W. +1 $20 “ “

7th-Daniel V. +2 $17 “ “

Ace pool $130-Philly Pete

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January Morley Monthly

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The January monthly was the first monthly since October 2011. What with the Course Championship in November and the Team Tournament in December we’re finally getting back to normal .We ran our first “Mondo” ( CTP contest at the practice basket) of the new year during the lunch break. We had 20 players vying for hooded sweatshirts from Discraft and monthly passes for daily play at Morley.  The first round was won by Garrett L (month pass) who sank the putt as did Chris (Switch). They then played off and both made it again. Played off again and Garrett made it while Switch splashed through. Wow! Round 2 was won by Puc K. (XL sweat). The third round was won by Switch (M sweat).  Congratulations to all for a job well done. Advanced-10

1st- Dustin S-11 $48 shop credit

2nd-Mike T.-4 $37 “ “

3rd-David LL -3 $30 “ “

Intermediate-13

1st-Garrett L. -4 $37 shop credit

2nd-Josh H. +2 $31 “ “

3rdT-Hans D. +4 $24.5 “ “

3rdT-Brent +4 $24.5 “ “

Novice-25

1st-Drew S. $28 shop credit

2nd-Joey C. $25 “

3rdT-John D. $21”

3rdT-Joey R. $21”

3rdT-Damien N. $21”

6thT-Juan T. $16”

6thT-Chris B. $16”

8th-Cody $14.5”

Ace pool $92 not won.

Team Tournament Individual Scores

Div. San Diego (SD) Wins Loss Ties1 MPO1 Micah Dorius 4 3 0 2 MPO2 Carlo Pelg 3 4 0 3 MPO3 Luke Christensen 3 3 1 4 MPO4 Max Nichols 6 0 1 5 MPO5 Alex Nichols 1 4 2 6 MPM1 David Devine 4 2 1 7 MPM2 Mike Westerman 2 4 1 8 MPM3 John Heaton 0 5 2 9 MPM4 Randy Wylot 3 1 3 10 MPG Jeff Nichols 5 2 0 11 MPS Glenn Triemstra 3 4 0 12 FPO Emily Costanza 2 3 2 36 35 13

Div. Sylmar (SM) Wins Loss Ties 1 MPO1 Steve Rico 5 2 0 2 MPO2 Gabe Cota 3 3 1 3 MPO3 Chris Horn 2 3 2 4 MPO4 Bamba Rico 2 4 1 5 MPO5 John Tompkins 2 3 2 6 MPM1 Ken McKelvey 1 5 1 7 MPM2 Gary Sandoval 2 4 1 8 MPM3 Mike Byrne 6 1 0 9 MPM4 Jerry Goff 5 1 1 10 MPG Mike Roberts 4 3 0 11 MPS Mark Horn 4 3 0 12 FPO Emily Lawrence 2 4 1 38 36 10

Div. Huntington Beach (HB) Wins Loss Ties 1 MPO1 Paul McBeth 4 3 0 2 MPO2 Bobby Musick 4 1 2 3 MPO3 Robert McIntee 1 3 3 4 MPO4 Mike Raley 4 1 2 5 MPO5 Chris Kunde 4 2 1 6 MPM1 Mark Collicott 2 4 1 7 MPM2 Dan Duran 5 1 1 8 MPM3 Chris Brophy 4 1 2 9 MPM4 Marcus Cisneros 3 3 1 10 MPG Steve Killian 6 1 0 11 MPS Tom Clickner 3 4 0 12 FPO Emina Weaver 4 3 0 44 27 13

Div. Redwood Empire (RE) Wins Loss Ties 1 MPO1 Derrick Billings 3 4 0 2 MPO2 Gregg Barsby 5 0 2 3 MPO3 Roger Cansler 4 3 0 4 MPO4 Josh Sappenfield 4 2 1 5 MPO5 John Child 5 1 1 6 MPM1 Jeff Fiedler 3 0 4 7 MPM2 Pete Sontag 5 1 1 8 MPM3 Harold Hampton 1 5 1 9 MPM4 Kevin Parkhurst 2 5 0 10 MPG Scott Riley 4 3 0 11 MPS Michael Barry 7 0 0 12 FPO Anni Kreml 4 2 1 47 26 11

Div. Santa Cruz (SC) Wins Loss Ties 1 MPO1 Nate Doss 4 3 0 2 MPO2 Avery Jenkins 4 2 1 3 MPO3 Don Smith 4 1 2 4 MPO4 Tony Tran 1 6 0 5 MPO5 Jim Hagen 1 5 1 6 MPM1 Jon Baldwin 4 2 1 7 MPM2 Doug Werner 4 1 2 8 MPM3 Steve Lonhart 4 2 1 9 MPM4 Tim Messer 3 1 3 10 MPG Marty Hapner 2 4 1 11 MPS Hunt Hyde 5 2 0 12 FPO Carrie Berlogar 6 1 0 42 30 12

Div. Oak Grove (OG) Wins Loss Ties 1 MPO1 Philo Braithwaite 6 1 0 2 MPO2 Bryan Vagi 1 4 2 3 MPO3 Randy Saab 0 4 3 4 MPO4 Gabriel Gonzales 3 2 2 5 MPO5 Wally Moore 4 1 2 6 MPM1 Dago Bribiesca 3 2 2 7 MPM2 Jeff Toland 1 6 0 8 MPM3 Gabriel Valera 1 3 3 9 MPM4 Osha Mishan 0 5 2 10 MPG Robert Valenzuela 1 5 1 11 MPS Derek Stockhausen 1 6 0 12 FPO Erin White 1 5 1 22 44 18

Div. Arizona (AZ) Wins Loss Ties 1 MPO1 Paul Ullibari 1 6 0 2 MPO2 Mike Downs 2 4 1 3 MPO3 Mike Lassuy 3 1 3 4 MPO4 Jeff Wilson 3 4 0 5 MPO5 Jesse Au 2 4 1 6 MPM1 Dan Ginnelly 4 3 0 7 MPM2 Steve Wisecup 5 2 0 8 MPM3 Rory Self 2 2 3 9 MPM4 Mike Milne 5 1 1 10 MPG Russel Shelton 4 3 0 11 MPS John Kirkland 5 2 0 12 FPO Catrina Allen 6 0 1 42 32 10

Div. Rocky Mountain (RM) Wins Loss Ties 1 MPO1 Angel Garcia 1 6 0 2 MPO2 Big Josh Damron 0 4 3 3 MPO3 Dave Roper 3 2 2 4 MPO4 Carl Renda 1 5 1 5 MPO5 Nick Newton 4 3 0 6 MPM1 Deano Porter 2 5 0 7 MPM2 Bill Campbell 1 6 0 8 MPM3 Paul Morgavo 3 2 2 9 MPM4 Allen Risley 1 5 1 10 MPG Greg Olsen 1 6 0 11 MPS Bill Richards 0 7 0 12 FPO Allison Wylot 0 7 0 17 58 9

2011 Southwestern Team Disc Golf Invitational

This year we celebrated the 30th anniversary of the Team Tourney here in SD. It’s really our 31st as we didn’t have a perpetual trophy the first year (1981) but there are now 30 names of winners on the perpetual trophy so we’ll call it the 30th. Not playing this year due to shoulder surgery last summer allowed me to focus on just being tourney director. As such it was maybe the most fun Team Tourney I can remember. We made a big deal out of the “Spirit of the Event” award this year . Shane Dehner of Voodoo Golf Discs donated 12 high end custom golf bags to the team winning the spirit award. To that we added a 4 pack of Green Flash Brewery’s finest, and $100 worth of donated plastic from the disc sponsors Innova Champion, DGA, Discraft and Legacy Discs. Retail value over $250 per player.Considering 1st place is $250 cash per player plus some plastic the Spirit Award was a huge bonus. Rocky Mountain was invited this year and the team collapsed the final week before arriving here so for the 3rd year in the last 4 a second San Diego team was cobbled together at the last minute. All the team’s names are displayed on different color poster boards. Since Rocky Mountains names were displayed on a pink board they adopted the color to show their team spirit. All the team players either wore pink hats, pink socks or had pink tassles hanging from their hair. It was hilarious. They also howled whenever they won a point (not much howling). It made for a difficult decision for the staff to pick a clear winner for the Spirit Award. But Santa Cruz eventually prevailed. They were led by the reigning world champion Nate Doss and former world champion Avery Jenkins. They do such a good job corralling their team mates for pre tourney calisthenics and team cheers, all done in a group circle.  Also they all have matching team shirts they supply themselves. They do everything as a team unit.  We ran a new event this year right after lunch on Saturday. Our new logo is a picture of an ace occurring on the mound hole at 15. All the #1 players from each team were invited to throw 2 throws for a $100 prize if they could hit the ace. Nate’s team all roared and cheered when he was introduced as the Great Nate. And Nate didn’t disappoint. He threw a perfect line drive with a putter right at the basket only to dip below at the last second just as it got there.  But his team howled and roared their support for his awesome effort. For the first time in several years we had a great lunch for the players. . My son Alex co-owns California Kebab Restaurant and catered the event.  The response from the players was overwhelmingly positive. There was plenty of chicken, lamb, pita bread, hummus, several salads and several kinds of sauce to put on it. It made for a delicious feast.

Another first at this event, San Diego’s disc golf team was nearly out of contention by the end of day 1.  There were 3 teams ahead of San Diego with 4-1 records when the dust settled Saturday night.. San Diego was tied with Arizona at 3-2. Sunday morning pits all the top seeded teams against each other. So at that point San Diego still had control of their own fate. Arizona stepped up to the plate and won both of their matches Sunday giving them a 5-2 record.  Having beaten head to head the other 2 teams finishing at 5-2 they moved onto the finals against 6-1 Huntington Beach.  San Diego went out with a whimper losing both Sunday matches to end in a (3-4) tie with Sylmar who beat them head to head so they fell to an inglorious 6th place.  So much for home court advantage. Truth be told most of the teams playing have many repeat players and the teams have finally reached parity having played here so much. Many matches come down to just 1 or two putts between a team winning or losing. I think the positive influence of team camaraderie makes the team stronger  than the some of the individual parts.  I didn’t see or hear much swagger or trash talk this year. There were no fights or any other altercations as everyone wanted to win the Spirit Award. There seemed to be more smiles on faces and laughter in the air. It seemed like everyone was on their warm and fuzzy best behavior this weekend and it seemed their positive attitudes paid them dividends.

I can’t remember ever in the past so many players coming up afterward and thanking staff and telling us this is their very favorite tourney of the year. Even a number of tour guys stopped by to encourage us to never stop running this event as they always look forward to coming to Morley Field every December.

I’ve always felt the good karma this event creates in the Disc World makes losing a weekend’s revenues seem like a minor inconvenience. This year that was especially true.

Finally, I’d like to thank our new sponsors this year; Voodoo Disc Golf (Shane and Niki Dehner), Legacy Discs(Steve and Bamba Rico), Green Flash Brewery(Chuck Silva), and California Kebab Restaurant(Alex Pierson). Also thanks to our continuing sponsors Hamiliton’s Tavern, North Park Trophy, Innova Champion Discs, DGA,  and Discraft Discs.

Staff was awesome as always. Mac on scorecards, Eric and EJ Simmons doing all the heavy lifting, Daniel Vega and Oscar Garcia, and Chris Cullen were spotters. All my guys in the shop had a hand in tourney prep work…big thanks to all of you.

Till next year…

Z ya

2011 Team Tournament Results

Team Arizona won 7-5 over Team Huntington Beach. It's Arizona's first ever win and they went from last place in 2010 to first place in 2011.
In the putting contest held Friday afternoon for the players at the course the following players won money;
1st Bobby Musick-$100
2nd Luke Christensen-$75
3rd Mike Raley-$50
4th Max Nichols-$40
5th Dan Duron-$35
Check back soon for the complete tourney team and individual scores.

2011 Team Tournament Rosters

Team Santa Cruz 1 Nate Doss

2 Avery Jenkins

3 Don Smith

4 Tony Tran

5 Jim Hagen

6 Jon Baldwin

7 Doug Werner

8 Steve Lonhart

9 Tim Messer

10 Marty Hapner

11 Hunt Hyde

12 Carrie Berlogar

Team Sylmar

1-Steve Rico

2-Gabe Cota

3-Chris Horn

4-Bamba Rico

5-John Tompkins

6-Ken McKelvey

7-Gary Sandoval

8-Mike Byrne

9-Jerry Goff

10-Mike Roberts

11-Mark Horn

12-Emily Lawrence

Team Rocky Mountain                

1 Angel Garcia

2 Josh Damron

3 Dave Roper

4 Carl Renda

5 Nick Newton

6 Dan Shorkey

7 Dean Porter

8 Bill Campbell

9 Paul Morgavo

10 Greg Olsen

11 Bill Richards

12 Allison Wylot

Team San Diego

1 Micah Dorius

2 Carlo Pelg

3 Luke Christensen

4 Max Nichols

5 AlexNichols

6 Dave Devine

7 Mike Westerman

8 John Heaton

9 Randy Wylot

10 Jeff Nichols

11 Glenn Triemstra

12 Emily Costanza

Team Oak Grove

1 Philo Braithwaite

2 Bryan Vagi

3 Randy Saab

4 Gabriel Gonzales

5 Wally Moore

6 Dago Bribiesca

7 Jeff Toland

8 Gabriel Valera

9 Osha Mishan

10 Robert Valenzuela

11 Derek Stockhausen

12 Erin White

Team Redwood Empire

1-Derrick Billings

2-Gregg Barsby

3-Roger Cansler

4-Josh Sappenfield

5-John Child

6-Jeff Fiedler

7-Pete Sontag

8-Harold Hampton

9-Kevin Parkhurst

10-Scott Riley

11-Michael Barry

12-Anni Kreml

Team Huntington Beach

1 Paul McBeth

2 Bobby Musick

3 Robert McIntee

4 Mike Raley

5 Chris Kunde

6 Mark Collicott

7 Dan Duran

8 Chris Brophy

9 Marcus Cisneros

10 Steve Killian

11 Tom Clickner

12 Emina Weaver

Team Arizona

1 Paul Ullibari

2 Mike Downs

3 Mike Lassuy

4 Jeff Wilson

5 Rex Rogers

6 Dan Ginnelly

7 Steve Wisecup

8 Rory Self

9 Mike Milne

10 Russel Shelton

11 John Kirkland

12 Catrina Allen

2011 Morley Field Disc Golf Course Championships

Micah Dorius won his 13th course championship in the last 14 years with  a very impressive -34 for 3 and a half rounds. Micah shot a -12 on the first course a -3 on the long rain soaked second course and a -13 on the short final course. The final nine saw some drama as the top 3 finishers automatically make the San Diego team for the upcoming team tourney.  2009 course champion Chris Villmorin (-23 4th place) made a run at Luke Christensen(-24,3rd) in the final 9 tying him with three holes to go only to have his putt on the final hole catch a tree blocking his route to the pin. After shooting a tourney low -14 in the 3rd round Chris had to settle for 4thplace.  Chris will be first seed in the match play grinder set for next Saturday November 19th at 9 a.m. at Morley Field. Carlo Pelg (-29) finished 2nd as he has nearly every year since Micah began his run as course king.

The amateur category saw a very talented young north county man Nick Newton (James) (-13) shoot 3 very solid under par rounds to win by a comfortable margin of 3 strokes over local Mike Tyberg(-10) who was the only other am to shoot under par each round. Mike also had the only hole in one in the tourney. He aced  hole 13 in the long position in round 2.

The conditions on Saturday started off  poor and got worse from there. The rain was torrential and unrelenting for the entire second round. This was the long private course that only competitors in the course championships ever get to see and play. Some groups were still straggling in at 4 p.m. having teed off at noon. Of the 21 open and 43 amateurs who started the event 10 were unable to complete the event for whatever reason. But Jesse Myers who understandably finished DFL played the entire 3 rounds on crutches. He often knelt down in the water for  tee offs. He was given a hat and shammy towel as an “Ironman” award for his efforts.

We had 5 women play this year and Emily Costanza (formerly Hardy) was the winner (+9) . Emily shot a very respectable -4 in the 3rd round. Second place went to up and coming Amber Ivy(+32) who fought her way back to second having fallen to 4th after the long second round in the rain. Amber also had marvelous third round shooting a +1.

I’d like to thank my great staff of Jim McDowell, Eric and EJ Simmons and all the guys in the shop who helped out. Big George created beautiful hand carved trophies for The Am’s and Open. Will Phillips helped with the certificates for the Women, Open Masters (Jeff Nichols -10), and Open Grandmasters (Glenn Triemstra -2).

October Monthly Results

Advanced-9 1st-Nick E. -9 $43.5 shop credit

2nd-Tracey-7 $34 “ “

3rd-6 KC -6 $26 “ “

Intermediate-15

1st-Shane D. -6 $40 shop credit

2ndT Chet -4 $24 “ “

2ndT Ryan -4 $24 “ “

2ndT-Dirty -4 $24 “ “

2ndT-Josh H. -4 $24 “ “

Novice-20

1st-Daniel V. -3 $30 shop credit

2nd-Randy M -1 $26 “ “

3rd-Damon V +3 $ 23 “ “

4thT-Ryan +4 $18

4thT-John D. +4 $18

4thT-Dan D. +4 $18

Ace pool $44 not won

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September 2011 Monthly

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Open-11 1st-Jeff Nichols -20 $75

2nd-Bobby Digital -19 $50

3rd-Luke Christensen-16 $29

Advanced-11

1st-Philly Pete -8 $40 shop credit

2nd-Josh Marsh-7 $34 “ “

3rd-Mike Tyberg-6 $28 ‘ “

4th-Steve F. -5 $29.5 “ “

Intermediate-24

1st-Carlos -7 $38 shop credit

2nd-Jeremy A.-6  $35 “ “

3rd-Josh H.-5  $30 “ “

4th-Jesse +2 $28 “ “

5thT Grace +3 $23.5 “ “

5thT Chris D. +3 $23.5 “ “

7thT Joe Sanchez +4 $18 “ “

7thT Chris P. +4 $18 “ “

 

Ace Pool $138 Philly Pete

Qualifications for the San Diego Team for 2011

Qualifications for making the San Diego Team for 2011 Dec. 3 &4 Every year we establish a Mendoza line for team qualification.

This year is unique in that San Diego has an explosion of young talented open players for the first time in many years. Also, our traditional strength at Masters level has gentrified and we now have several outstanding Grandmasters. The team makeup is 5 Open players, 4 Masters, 1 GM, and 1 Woman.

-So, we will still automatically place on the team the top 3 finishers from the course championship in the Open division (Nov 12 & 13). The top finishing Masters and Grandmasters aged players will also automatically qualify if there are at least 5 players represented in that category.

-Win 2 Morley monthlies pro division shooting -20 for 2 rounds and minimum 10 players in division.

-Win 2 PDGA “B” tier events in any pro division for which we have a category on the team

-Win any 1 PDGA “A” tier event in a pro division for which we have a category on the team.

Automatic Grinder Qualification ( match play round robbin Nov. 19 and 20

-any Pro having won a B tier event at any Pro level.

-any open player with a 990 rating or better, Master player 975 or better and Gm 960 or better

-winner of any Morley monthly in Pro division

-top finishers from course championships not automatically qualified for team previously.

-the Amateur winner of the course championship

These qualifications may not be all inclusive as special situations always arise. If you don’t fit into any of these categories after the course championships see me with your situation for Grinder tryouts.

 

August Morley Monthly

August Monthly 8/20/11 Advanced-11

1st Patrick Paramore -13 $44.5 shop credit

2nd-Mike Tyberg -11 $35 “ “

3rd Garrett -9 $27 “ “

4th Hawk -8 $20 “ “

Intermediate-15

1st-Steve F. -8 $40 shop credit

2nd-Eric Simmons -5 $33 “ “

3rd Chris D -5 $26 “ “

4th Chet M. -2 $20 “ “

5th Marcus -1 $ $16 “ “

Novice-22

1st-Todd B. +1 $30 shop credit

2nd-Chris D. +2 $26 “ “

3rd-Damon +3 $23 “ “

4th-Shaun +4 $20 “ “

5th- Daniel +5 $18 “ “

6th –Matt H +7 $15 “ “

7th-Chris W. +8 $12 “ “

Ace pool $92 not won

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July Morley Monthly

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Open-7 1st-Max Nichols-8 $60

2nd-Luke C.-4 $38

Advanced-13

1st-Tyler T-2 $49.5 shop credit

2nd-Dale C-1 $40 “ “

3rdT-5$ Dustin $30” “

3rdT-Philly Pete $30 “ “

Intermediate-24

1st-Danny Z +4 $42 shop credit

2nd-Chris R. +5 $37 “ “

3rd-Steve F +8 $33

4th-Matt T +9 $28 “ “

5th-Donnie H +13 $24 “ “

6th-Josh H +14 $20 “ “

7th-Dirty Joe S. +16 $16 “ “

8th-Big Juan +17 $14 “ “

Ace pool $44 not won

This was a very difficult layout. One entire card DNF’d in the second round as well as 3 other individuals who just were too distraught with their game. Who says there’s no bogeys at Morley Field!?

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