Amesbury Pines Open

Sunday and I have to be crazy to be playing two tournaments in two days. I was stiff and tired and not really looking forward to another full day of discgolf. Amesbury is a tight wooded course in a town park. I arrived about an hour early to try to warm my body up. I walked the holes and thought about what discs worked on what holes in practice. Stretched and then found out where the free water was. I spent some more time practicing my tomohawk thumber on the two water holes because the wind was going to be blowing and I though it could be an accurate shot. Then we were called in for the players meeting.
Play moved quickly on this course even though every now and again you had to watch for flying discs from other holes. I started on hole one and was hoping to be around 58, I had a 54 here but seldom do you throw your personal bests in tournaments where you tend to be a bit tighter. I started with 3 threes and then took a four on the fourth hole, it was not unexpected. On hole 8 I had a duece and finished the first half even. The second nine was much the same with a four on 13, then a duece on 16. That thumber placed me ten feet from the basket, but AI pulled a muscle on the inside of my wrist doing it. For the rest of the day I was in considerable paqin when I threw.

round 1: 3-3-3-4-3-3-3-2-3-3-3-3-3-3-4-2-3-3-54

Tied my personal best! and waqs the leader in the Advanced Masters division. WoW! I was not expecting that at all. What was even better was we finish on 18 so we were right next to the hotdog stand and the first group to finish. Got food and sat with Deb and Steve Guiliotis, I really like them. Nice people.

Top card in the second round and things did not go as well I I wished. The pain in my arm was annoying although I could still throw, but no excuses. Bill (Stew) Stewart put together a great round of 54 while I threw 59. So I ended with a 3 way tie for second. We had a playoff hole which I was able to win and so I got to take home the second place trophy. Made sure the funny money was split three ways, combining the 2nd, 3rd, 4th prizes and then splitting since both Tex and Chris Gagne had the same scores.

round 2: 3-3-3-3-3-3-4-4-3-3-3-3-3-4-3-4-3-3-59

The awards were nearby at the house of Dan-O who was running it and he had food the Celtics on the TV in game seven against Cleveland. Two throwoffs for $90 and then $250 from the upper porch of his house over the yard to the field behind it. Nothing for me there.

I still got home by 7pm and had dinner with my wife Elisa. Feel pretty good about the weekend and enjoyed meeting Stew who I got to play with on both days. Next Year!

Final Scores for Amesbury Pines
2008 APO
Place Player 1st round 2nd round Total Payout
Pro Open
1st Pete Johnson 47 50 97 $296.00 Trophy USDGC
2nd Jason Gordon 49 49 98 $166.00 Trophy
3rd Tim Walsh 50 50 100 $106.00 Trophy USDGC
4th Mike Dussault 47 54 101 $74
4th Matt Stroika 52 49 101 $70
6th Norm Fitzgerald 54 50 104
6th Jason Southwick 52 52 104
8th Jim Wills 53 52 105
8th Joe Yaskis 54 51 105
10th Gary Cyr 54 53 107
11th James Lane 55 54 109
12th Matt DeAngelis 52 59 111
13th Mitch Harden 55 59 114
Pro Masters
1st Daniel Marcus 49 49 98 $134 Trophy
2nd Jim O'Hara 52 50 102 $79 Trophy
3rd Rick Belhumer 50 57 107 $54.00 Trophy
4th John Hart 56 53 109 $44
5th Doug Bechtel 58 54 112
5th John Dickison 57 55 112
7th Matt Jackson 57 56 113
Pro Grand Master
1st Rich Fenton 55 57 112 $116 Trophy
2nd Rich Reilly 55 58 113 $70 Trophy
3rd Bradley Arnell 58 58 116 $47 Trophy
3rd Dan Griffith 53 63 116
5th Rick Williams 58 62 120
6th Roy Doar 57 65 122
Mens Advanced
1st Steve Slobo 51 52 103 $96 Trophy Won Playoff
2nd Shawn Laforce 51 52 103 $77 Trophy
3rd Rob Tatro 50 54 104 $66 Trophy
4th Mike D. Andrews 53 53 106 $57
5th Brian Thompson 54 53 107 $49
6th Clayton Davidson 53 54 107 $42
7th Chris Piaseczny 54 53 107 $37
8th Matt Arminio 55 52 107 $33
9th Josh Barden 53 55 108 $29
10th Jasin Bayer 55 54 109 $25
11th John Tserpes 54 56 110 $25
12th Justin White 56 54 110 $24
13th Chris Byrne 55 55 110 $22
14th Matt Heenan 60 51 111 $20
14th Kyle Sauerbrunn 58 53 111
16th John Borelli 56 56 112
16th Chuck Gerbands 54 58 112
16th Ben Kirby 54 58 112
19th Chad Hershman 53 60 113
20th Aaron Ala 56 58 114
20th John Mucciarone 55 59 114
20th Sandy Redd 58 56 114
23rd Jason Powers 55 60 115
23rd Shawn Mullen 58 57 115
23rd Robert Direnzo 56 59 115
26th Tushar Patel 59 59 118
26th Andrew Streeter 58 60 118
26th Mark Valis 59 59 118
29th Keith Burtt 59 60 119
30th Eric Kaplan 56 64 120
31st Steve Bigelow 63 62 125
32nd Marco Iannello 64 73 137
Woman Advanced
1st Michelle Ala 66 72 138 $26 Trophy
2nd Kristi Bayer 71 77 148 $16 Trophy
Advanced Masters
1st Bill Stewart 55 54 109 $81 Trophy
2nd Ed Hovestadt 54 59 113 $58 Trophy
2nd Chris Long 55 58 113 $44 Trophy
2nd Chris Gagne 57 56 113 $34
5th John Vermynck 61 57 118 $27
6th Ted Liszewski 56 63 119 $21
6th John Fissel 62 57 119
8th Alex Keyes 62 58 120
9th Mike Saimond 62 59 121
10th Steve Guiliotis 59 63 122
11th Gary Stansfield 60 63 123
12th James Beaulieu 60 66 126
13th Greg Jackson 63 66 129
Intermediate
1st Mike Mason 57 55 112 $56 Trophy
2nd Corey Cramer 55 58 113 $50 Trophy
3rd Greg Aucoin 54 61 115 $41 Trophy
4th Andrew McManus 56 61 117 $34
4th Luke Adolph 53 64 117 $27
6th Brandon Doster 64 55 119 $18
7th Jon Gerry 67 55 122
8th PJ Gruen 59 66 125
8th J Soxs Viggers 63 62 125
10th Justin Anderson 59 67 126
11th Pete Nevius 67 68 135
12th Tyler Doar 70 67 137
Recreational
1st Ryan DiPrizio 64 66 130 $20 Trophy
2nd Chris Carr 68 68 136 $14 Trophy
3rd Coleman Marcus 70 67 137 $10 Trophy
4th Paul Rashaw 70 72 142
5th Paul Benoit 75 69 144

We raised $165.75 at the after party
Marshall Street 20% Kickback $236
Thats $401.75 raised for our course this weekend. Looks like another Chainstar in the near future.

$250.00 Ace pot given away as a CTP for Mike Dussualt
$90.00 CTP for ANY registered players given to Rob Tatro