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Home News Membership How to Join Members Officers Constitution Events Courses DGCNV Forum Resources Laurel Hill	News Archives April 2006 Virginia Team Invitational March 2006 DGCNV Membership March25 new and returning members met at the 2^nd annual Membership March event at Bluemont. Participants competed for the new Club tags and CTPs during the 3 rounds of nine holes from Red, White and Blue tees. Ian grabbed a one-stroke lead in the first round and held it thru the 2^nd nine. When it was over, returning member Pat Mullins had the #1 tag to start the year. February 2006 Burke Lake Ice Bowl 2006 19 teams competed in the 2^nd annual Burke Lake Ice Bowl to raise food donations for the Capital Area Food Bank. The weather wasn’t wintry but there was a touch of freezing precipitation and temps in the mid 30’s. As in 2005 the format was best disc, BYOP doubles. 6 baskets were set up in the field to make a 24-hole layout. Tommy D and Erik won in the pro division, The Rice Brothers led the advanced group January 2006 The Club will choose the 2005 Club Stamp from among entries submitted by the membership. The stamp will be used on this year’s discs and tags. Voting will be online and conclude at the Burke Lake Ice Bowl. Winning artist will be compensated with a selection of discs. December 2005 Members gathered at Rob G’s house to have a spaghetti dinner and celebrate a very successful year of Club activities. Joe was singled out as the most valuable member November 2005 Ian wins the 2005 Tag Challenge at South Run Park. He took out Dennis in the round of 8, Joe in the Semis and finished the day with a 1 shot victory over Erik. Ian adds to his trophy collection with an engraved trophy commemorating the win. November 2005 Ian Wins the 2005 Fall Singles and takes home the Ragnar Overby Trophy. October 2005 Members will be participating in a tag challenge tournament. The top 16 tag holders will face off in a single elimination ladder tournament. The 1^st round will be when and where the two players choose. The final 8 will meet for 3 rounds at South Run Park, where a temporary course will be set up for the day. September 2005 The Club held a local tournament at Burke Lake Park on September 11. 24 players enjoyed the wonderful weather and extra holes in the field. Jeremy L won the open division, John M beat the Master filed and Ron S won the Advanced division. Complete results. The Club ordered many new Pro-line discs with 2004 Club stamps on them for the payout. August 2005 Club members held the first annual tournament at Bob Havle’s land in Bedford, PA August 20^th & 21^st. Pictures and write up here July 2005 The members have been bringing extra baskets to set up in the fields at Burke Lake Wednesdays. As many as nine extra holes have been used to add much needed interest to the course. With the extra holes, turnout has been up from last year. Scores for the weekly Burke Doubles will be posted at DGCNV.org June 2005 Ronnie Turner is the first winner of the Ragnar Overby Trophy by winning the 2005 Spring Singles Series. He will hold the engraved trophy until the end of the Fall Singles June 2005 The Club held the 100 Hole Huck-a-Thon Saturday, June 11. Five courses, 100 holes, one day. Play started early at Pohick Bay, then to Burke Lake, Bull Run, McLean, and finishing at Bluemont. The Club Provided a pizza lunch after the round at Bull Run. 23 participants received a player’s package from the Disc Golfers for Cancer, including full color disc, baseball cap and mini. May 2005 Virginia Open Sponsorship Tournamnet Members of DGCNV played two at the Grange to determine who would represent the Club at this year’s Virginia Open. The event drew 4 new members and a handful of friends for two rounds and a nice lunch. The members also made a $35 donation to the Virginia Open. May 2005 The Club institutes changes to the long running Tuesday League Nites. Players will receive point for each player they beat over the 10-week singles series and the player who accumulates the most points will be awarded the Ragnar Overby Trophy. Recreational players will play for free with a Club disc going to the winner of the division. April 2005 Thanks to the efforts of Ben Sligar, DGCNV has a new message board to replace the Yahoo discussion site. This will be a much more user-friendly vehicle to communicate with the area golfing community. Yahoo site will be maintained for a period of time to ensure all interested parties remain informed. To maximize the new forum’s value, you will need to log in and establish an identity. It would also be useful to browse around the various links to find out what features you find useful. March 2005 The club kicked off its membership drive with a successful event at Bluemont park on Saturday, March 12. The efforts of the officers to increase membership have already resulted in a 100% increase in the membership over last year. February 2005 Mark Derosa contributed his time and talent to create a striking design for the 2005 DGCNV Club disc. The stamped discs will go out to all Club members and will be available on a limited basis in both DX and Champion models at a reasonable price January 05 Burke Lake Ice Bowl 2005 48 players, 24 teams, competed at the first Ice Bowl at Burke Lake and contributed 270 LBS of food to the Capital Area Food Bank. The Club thanks all who contributed prizes and the use of baskets. Results can be viewed here. November 25, 2004 Burke Lake player statistics (sign-in box) for Nov. 2004 (Oct. 18-Nov.21) totaled 1,071 (weekend: 54/day; overall: 32/day). This is about the same as last November’s total. November 1, 2004 Nominations for Club Officers for 2005 are now open through Nov. 17; elections will follow from Nov. 19 through Nov. 30. October 26, 2004 Results of the Bluemont Fall Pro-Am (VII) are available. October 18, 2004 An additional survey for the Laurel Hill course was made (Tim Beron and Tom Usselman). We spent almost 3 hours hacking through thorns to get a better feel for possible course flow patterns. Tim wrote the following: Even though I have been working on this for several months, I really had no idea of how HUGE Laurel Hill is until we found a vantage point near the old prison power station. We looked along the electric wires and by counting the number of poles we could approximate where the other end of the property was. We had a clear uninterrupted view of 2,433 feet or 0.46 Miles across the Giles Run Valley. September 13, 2004 An additional survey for the Laurel Hill course was made (Tim Beron, Tommy Donelson, Duane Ludwig, Dave Lulchuk, Joe Pelchat, and Tom Usselman). Our visit revealed some constraints that were not anticipated by working with aerial photos and topo maps; we are modifying specific details. This included some areas that were steeper than anticipated and other issues with multiple “crossings” of Giles Run and its floodplain. September 6, 2004 We will have an additional site visit to the area of the new Laurel Hill Park on Monday, September 13 to refine our preliminary course layouts. Access to the area is still controlled by the Fairfax County Park Authority; August 14, 2004 The Laurel Hill Park Master Plan was approved by the Fairfax County Park Authority on July 28, 2004, and INCLUDED DISC GOLF. August 13, 2004 The nine new baskets at Burke Lake were installed and are now ready for play. The DGCNV work crew that installed them were Tim Beron, Ragnar Overby, Joe Pelchat, Kirk Stell, and Tom Usselman. Reactions have been very positive and your putts will not bounce out as they often did with the 25-old dilapidated baskets that were replaced. The remaining baskets are scheduled to be replaced next July (2005). July 26, 2004 Burke Lake officials notified us that they have RECEIVED 9 new baskets for the Disc Golf Course. These are the Pro Disc Catchers (from Innova). After discussion, they have ordered lockable sleeves and anchors, which will allow us to have several pin placements on many of the holes. These should be received by early August and the DGCNV will do the installation; many of the initial placements will be moved by 10 or so feet to allow play during installation and reduce the wear and tear on the highly compacted pin areas. July 26, 2004 A DGCNV contingent (Tim Beron, Tommy Donelson, Dave Lulchuk, and Tom Usselman along with Fairfax County Park Authority planners) surveyed the designated disc golf area at the new Laurel Hill Park. The land is still off-limits. There is an existing 80-car parking lot and is close to a proposed park visitor center. The land has open fields and woods, varied topography, streams, and a pond. It is currently rugged and overgrown but less than what Seneca Creek was when it was initially being developed. We will not have full access to the land for several more months. We have a preliminary plan for the layout of the first 18 holes, but this cannot be formalized until we get further access. One thing is clear, we will need to work our tails off to develop a disc golf facility but it will be worth it! July 18, 2004 Results of the 22^nd Duck Golf tournament posted. July 5, 2004 A small DGCNV work crew performed needed maintenance at Burke Lake in preparation for the July 10-11 22^nd Duck Golf tournament. Long tees re-leveled, baskets fixed (to the extent possible), debris removed from fairways, and litter collected. July 3, 2004 Player statistics at Burke Lake for the period May 17 to June 30 showed 3,692 players (daily average of 82; weekend daily average of 132). Totals for the Fairfax County Fiscal Year (July 1, 2003, to June 30, 2004) were 19,765 players. June 29, 2004 Fairfax County officials at Burke Lake Park “promised” to purchase at least 6 news baskets for the course in mid-July. We are trying to convince them to buy more; the DGCNV will finance at least one additional basket on the purchase. Individuals who wish to personally contribute to a basket fund are welcomed to contact us (The DGCNV will organized a work crew for installation. June 29, 2004 The DGCNV was the feature on PDGA Radio (www.pdga.com/pdgaradio/index.php); Tom Usselman discussed the DGCNV statistics for player use of Burke Lake Park and the sign-in box. May 5, 2004 DGCNV presented testimony to the Fairfax County Park Authority in support of establishing a disc golf facility at the new Laurel Hill Park March 23, 2004 Burke Lake had 1,966 players (who signed in) between February 16 and March 16. Nice weekend weather started to bring the disc golfers out after questionable winter weather. January 6, 2004 The Burke Lake’s course had 1,037 players who signed in during the time period Oct. 20 to Nov. 16 (about 18 % used ZIP Codes outside of Fairfax County; 11 other states were represented). During the period Nov. 17 to Dec. 21, only 850 players signed in (18% outside of Fairfax County and 7 states represented). Colder weather and early darkness has taken its toll. For the first 10 days of the current fiscal month we had beautiful weather and Holiday breaks and the counts exceeded the totals for each of the previous months. We still estimate that only about half the players bother to sign in based on random checks on the course. November 9, 2003 Washington Post article on Disc Golf in the Sunday Source section. (Cannot reproduce article without a significant $$fee. October 13, 2003 The Fox 5 Morning News feature on disc golf this morning came off well. It was a great opportunity for us to promote the sport and we may have reached 10s of thousands of viewers. Thanks to all that participated – Timber, Tony Ellis, Becky, Dan, Tommy D., Ted Z, Ragnar, all performed well; my forehand flick roller even worked and ended up 4 ft from the basket. See News-Archives for earlier postings of DGCNV news
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