December Meeting Minutes

December 9 @ Jarvis Street Bottle Shop

Attendance: Max, Mike K, Brubaker, Adam W, Vee, Adam D, Jarrett, Whitney, Vince and Tate, Pat, Sloan listened remotely. 

1-Finances: $5862.75 in bank with nothing outstanding. 

2-2021 Calendar: 

January 1 - Jarrett is working on setting up a New Years PDGA flex start C tier. 

January 15 - GVDG Kids clinic at the Oakwood School. 

January 16 - GVDG Scholarship PDGA C tier @ Ayden.

February 27 - GVDG IceBowl. Still working on location. 

April 10 - Mando Madness presented by Basket Bashers @ the Meadow. 

May-July - Working on date for Mystery Tour and membership appreciation. 

July 17 - FireBowl summer charity event. Brubaker is contacting Ronald McDonald House as possible charity. 

August 1 - Contentnea Creek Classic at Farmville. 

October 22-24 Down East Players Cup

December - Club Championship still need a date. 

3-Down East Players Cup: 

Sponsorship - Vince has created a sponsorship letter for this years DEPC. If you would like to be a sponsor or have a lead on a sponsor please contact Vince, Max or Adam. Max is contacting last years title sponsor to give them first option at being the 2021 title sponsor. 2020 we raised $14k, we have set a goal of $20k for this years event. 

4-Course Changes: We are looking at making some changes to the course in the winter and spring of 2021. There is a thread of GVDG FB account for sharing of ideas, if you have an idea you would like to see considered for the course please post there or contact a club officer. We will have a course walkthrough January 10th after Sunday Taggers (rain or shine) and vote on final changes at January club meeting. We have already decided to upgrade the All Star teepads to 12x6 concrete. Rob Gerard is working on a course map for Meadow and Ayden, course maps would be near hole 1 at both courses as well as a 2nd course map on hole 7 at Meadow. 

5-Online Meeting: We used FB Messenger to do a live broadcast of the club meeting for members that wanted to remotely attend. Tate is researching better options for future meetings. 

6-Basket Auction: We want to update the course baskets at the Meadow, to do so we will auction off all the current course baskets. The basket auctions will start in January, starting bid will be $150. Baskets will not be immediately available to the winner but after all auctions are completed we will make the change. Baskets will be auctioned in order of hole number. 

November Meeting Minutes

 November 11 @ Angus Grill

Attendance: Max, PJ, Mike K, Whitney, Vince, Adam W, Ryland, Jarrett, Daniel B

1-Finances: Club has $3851 in bank with no outstanding debts. Of that $475 is for GVDGKids, $475 for Scholarship Fund, $130 for Monthlies, rest is general maintenance/misc. 

2-Club Election: 36 people voted. New board is: Max Crotts, Vince Tricarico, Jarrett Wallace, and Daniel Brubaker. Treasurer: Adam Walter. 

3-2021 Sponsorship: We voted and approved sponsorship of the 2021 ECO tour. Max and Vince will contact local clubs about mutual sponsorship and provide a full list at December meeting for approval. 

4-2021 Calendar: We have 4 PDGA events scheduled for next year and dates have been sent to state coordinator for final approval. Tentative dates are: Jan 16 GVDG Scholarship Shootout in Ayden, April 10 Mando Madness @ The Meadow, August 1 Contentnea Creek Classic @ Farmville. Down East Players Cup is confirmed a PDGA A tier for October 22-24. We will also schedule some non PDGA events, no exact dates are set yet. IceBowl will be in February, FireBowl fundraiser will be in the summer. Club Championship will be at the end of the year. Membership appreciation will around May or June. 

5-GVDG Kids: First order of discs for clinics should be delivered this week. Daniel is still working on format and contacting groups for clinics. 

6-Course walkthrough: We plan to do a walkthrough at the Meadow to discuss potential upgrades on Nov 29 either before or after Sunday Taggers. If you have ideas for potential changes please share them with us. 

7-Course work: Officers are still working on getting pricing of replacing All Star teepads with 12x6 concrete pads. Ryland plans to talk with Farmville P&R to see what assistance can be offered to get teepads upgraded sooner. 

8-Club championship: The inaugural club championship will be December 20. Playing the Meadow All Star layout, 1 round. Vince is working on handicap ratings for all players. All players will receive a custom patch, winner will receive the green jacket. 

9-Sunday Taggers: The first event was last week. If you have any suggestions for changes you'd like to see please let us know. 

10-Initial format plans are 240 total players. 3 rounds over 3 days with teetimes each day for all competitors. Still need to finalize exact courses being used, entry fees, player pack items, and sponsorship .

Officer Elections

 GVDG Officer elections, nominations start now and run through October 31st. Voting will be November 5th through the 11th.

There are 5 officer positions: 4 board members and 1 treasurer.

Current board members are

Vince Tricarico

,

PJ Evans

,

Jarrett Wallace

, and Max Crotts. Current treasurer is

Adam Walter

.

To nominate a person for a position post in this thread, message a current officer, or email greenvillediscgolf@gmail.com.

October Meeting Minutes

 October 14 @ Local Oak Brewery

Attendance: Max, PJ, Mike K, Whitney, Daniel B, Jarrett, Kory H, Vince, Daniel G, Ryland, Nate Evans

1-Finances: Club has $3906 in bank after all bills are paid. Adam is working on new accounting software for the club. 

2-Fuse Church: Kory Hussey works for a church at ECU and is planning to run a fundraiser disc golf event. He asked for permission to use club account to order plastic for the event. All approved. 

3-2021 Event Calendar: Club plan is to move away from "monthly" events and focus on core popular tournaments, PDGAs, and Fundraisers. Daniel Garrett is running Halloween Glow doubles that will be a club event, Vince is working on a Members Only Championship possibly for December with a green jacket for the winner. 2021 calendar will focus on IceBowl, Mando Madness, Membership Appreciation, CCC, SuRE event, women's only PDGA with Brown Girl Disc Golf, FireBowl - a summer fundraiser from Daniel. 

4-GVDG Kids: Custom discs have been ordered for clinics, not yet shipped. Daniel is working on getting clinics on 2021 calendar for Greenville Parks, Farmville Parks, and Oakwood School. 

5-Remote Broadcast Meetings & Members Only Page: We discussed pros and cons of having meetings broadcast and decided if anyone with the ability wants to attend and broadcast the meetings there is no issue from the club. We are starting a Members Only FB page with set rules on a 1 year test, group admins will be the club officers. 

6-Club elections: Club has 5 officers - 1 treasurer and 4 board members. Current officers are PJ Evans, Vince Tricarico, Jarrett Wallace, Max Crotts, and Adam Walter (treasurer). We are accepting nominations for officer positions now through October 31 either by posting on FB page or contacting a current officer. Voting will start Nov 5 at Glow doubles and conclude at the November 11 club meeting. After nominations are finalized we will have a designated person collect votes by secret ballot. You must be a current club member to vote. 

7-2020 DEPC Recap: We discussed feedback received from players and how to use it for next years event. Common complaints were the teepads, course assignments, some areas on debris on the course. 

8-2021 DEPC Plans: We have applied to be an A tier again for 2021. Requests dates being October 22-24, September 17-19, and August 20-22. We are looking at a variety of formats including everyone play 3 rounds, 1 round a day. Pros play 3 days 3 rounds, Ams play 2 days 3 rounds. 

9-Course work: We will have dates soon to meet at the Meadow, Farmville, and Ayden to walk through and discuss changes at each course. If you have an idea you'd like to see keep an eye out for those posts or share ideas in the comments. We are committed to upgrade the All Star teepads at Meadow to 12x6 concrete pads before next years DEPC. We are getting pricing now. 

10-Monthly Putting: Vince is working on getting permission to do a monthly putting league outside at Local Oak Brewery, more to come soon.

11-GVDG Baggers: With Sunday Baggers not being restarted we discussed doing a variety of Baggers using the club bag tags and some basic rules so anyone that attends can organize that weeks event. 

12-Social Media: Nate Evans is going to take over the club social media accounts to help us get more consistent content out. Thanks Nate. 

July Meeting Minutes

July club meeting @ Local Oak Brewery
Attendance: Max Crotts, Jarrett Wallace, PJ Evans, Whitney Graham, Adam Walter, Stew Goodson, Vince Tricarico

1-Money: In bank $26,438. $1750 waiting on GVDG scholarship recipient to get us school information. $2740 for Contentnea Creek Classic. $16,500+ is for DEPC. Adam is looking into financial tracking software solutions to help with record keeping.
2-Contentnea Creek Classic - Tournament is this Saturday, we have a full field of 72 with a waitlist. Vince is contacting snow cone places to try and get one onsite for Saturday. Max and Vince marked OB earlier today. Max is emailing participants Thursday with final tournament information.
3-GVDG Kids - Daniel Brubaker is working on ordering fundraiser shirts. Next we'll be looking into custom stamped discs for use in clinics and fundraising.
4-Monthlies: August 16th we will run a fundraiser event at the Meadow for a local family in need, it will be a 1 round flex start event with $20 entry fee. Daniel Garrett is planning to run glow zombie golf around Halloween again this year. In December we will run backwards golf monthly. After DEPC we will work on plan for monthlies and/or charity events calendar for 2021.
5-Women's League: Whitney plans to start an ENC focused womens only FB group and monthly womans only event. She would like members of GVDG to assist is sharing her group to other ENC clubs and disc golfers.
6-DEPC: TD's are collecting last bit of artwork for players pack items and getting quotes for items. Schedule and course layouts will be finalized in the next few weeks. We will be scheduling workdays soon for cleaning up courses and a few changes at the Meadow.
7-DEPC 2021: Yes it's already time to start planning next years events. Thoughts for next year, A tier again. 3 day event. Get sponsorship letter and artwork early.
8-USDGC Doubles qualifier: Event is July 19, Am teams must be registered by July 12. After July 12 we will open up to Pro teams competing for day of payout only, they cannot qualify for USDGC Doubles invite. Entry is $40 for all teams.

Bag Tag Rules

Greenville Bag Tag Rules

Challenges
Top 10 tags can challenge each other and the better tag has to play with in a week.
The 11 through 20 tags can challenge any tag they want to, but only 10 spots down have to accept the challenge. ( So the 15 tag can challenge the 1 but the 1 doesn’t have to accept the challenge. But if the 15 challenges the 6 it has to accept.)
21-30
31-40 and so on and so on.
If someone calls out a tag and they set time for one match, another person can jump into that match if not just wait a week.

Call Outs
Call outs (challenges) have to be done face to face. See them on the course, ask them to play. (No PM’s)
If you have a bunch of friends in a group text and yall want to play that is ok.
If someone posts online (FaceBook) and says they are out with a particular tag and you want to meet up that's fine.

Tournaments
Tags will be put up on tournament rounds and will be collected at the beginning of the day, and will go for the last round of the event. (Someone in the club will have to collect and disperse tags)
So if it is a 2 day event they will be collected on the 2nd day before the first round.
If you DNF you will get the highest tag number that was collected.

Buying Tags
Tags will be $10/ $7 for current club members
Ladies will have their own tags as well as normal tags (2 for the price of one.)
If you lose your tag well buy a new one or wait for the next year of tags.

Elusive 40 Tag
The Elusive 40 tag can challenge any tag holder at any time and that tag holder has to accept

Tags are not a Ranking and other things
Bag Tags are meant to be fun. ( Don’t Cry because someone has played a bunch for their tag and doesn’t want to play again right away.
Don't sit on a tag because its a low number (don't be a dick). Bag Tags are meant to be displayed on a bag, so don’t hide them in your bag so someone doesn’t know what you have.

June Meeting Minutes

Attendance: Max Crotts, PJ Evans, Josh Lee, Whitney Graham & her daughter, Vince Tricarico, Stewart Goodson, Jon Upchurch, Charles Thompson

1-Finances: We have selected our first GVDG Scholarship winner and will be providing $1700 for books and tuition once he confirms Fall school information, more info coming soon. Adam Walter could not make the meeting so we dont have an exact bank balance but we do not have any outstanding bills. We are getting ready to place a custom stamp order with Discraft, hats for DEPC match play, club member shirts, and DEPC fundraiser shirts.

2-Contentnea Creek Classic: Event rescheduled for July 11, registration is live at dgscene.com/2020CCC. We need 1 big workday to get the course ready, will make separate post with details. Format: Pro and MA1 will play 2 rounds from the blue pads, all other divisions will play 1 round blue pads 1 round red pads.

3-Mystery Tour: Still looking for people to design a hole around Uptown Greenville and ECU's main campus. Submit holes to Max by June 14. We will not have a preround meeting, start playing when you want, your round needs to be completed by 3:30PM. At 3:30 we'll have food at Max's house with awards and prizes.

4-Bag tags: We now have 2020/21 club year bag tags, they will first be distributed at the Mystery Tour. Tags are $7 for GVDG members, $10 for non-members. PJ is posting basic rules for how challenging tags.

5-2020/21 Membership: GVDG membership runs July 2020 through June 2021. This year we are introducing additional tiers of membership for those interested.
Tier 1 - $20 - Club membership. Comes with $1 off club non sanctioned events and premium plastic from the club store, as well as a 2020/21 club teeshirt.
Tier 2 - $50 - Membership and DEPC supporter. $45 if you join at Mystery Tour, includes all of Tier 1 as well as a DEPC fundraiser shirt and premium disc.
Tier 3 - $100 - Membership and DEPC hole sponsorship. Includes Tiers 1 and 2 as well as your name or company on a hole for DEPC.
Tier 4 - $165 - Membership, DEPC, Mando Madness, and Contentnea Creek Classic hole sponsorship as well as tiers 1-3.
Lifetime membership is also available for $250 you would be a GVDG member including all benefits of Tier 1.

6-Down East Players Cup:  Registration opens June 17th, 8PM @ dgscene.com/2020DEPC. We will be doing a media blast on Thursday to start announcing the event. We have an agreement with a national disc golf media outlet to record all 3 rounds, we will post the full information after the contract is signed. We are working on making additions to holes 8 and 12, adding gold teepads.

7-Hernandez Family Fundraiser:  The family that helped Charles Thompson in May is in need of help in these tough times, Charles has approached GVDG for assistance in running a fundraiser tournament for them. He is finalizing a date and we will have additional information coming soon.

8-GVDG Mini tour fundraiser:  Daniel Brubaker is working on confirming dates and locations for the 2nd annual mini tour fundraiser. More info coming soon.

9-Local school outreach: Vince and Daniel are working on projects to work with local schools and introducing disc golf to the students.