Although the tournament is complete our work is still not over. This week we will be sending all of our all prize and payouts to players that have won something at the BC Open. In addition to all the volunteers that have been on the course during out event helping out Thank You so much! Your Volunteer thank you Packs are currently being put together and we will get them to you as soon as we can.
We will be putting a more detailed letter / post together with details about the finances and the event later this week.
If anyone has any questions please send them to john@acerunners.ca and I will respond as soon as I can. Any messages sent via social media and other methods will also be responded to but they may take longer.
Also Mikee Kiesz was out again on Sunday to take some more photos for us and has graciously provided the link for free downloads. Thank you so much Mikee.
Yours Truly,
John Gould-Thorpe
1. Will I be playing from the same tee pads all 3 days?
Yes each Division will be playing from the same tee pads Friday, Saturday and Sunday.
2. Will the Basket locations be changed during the tournament?
No the Baskets will remain in the same position for the whole weekend.
3. If I can't make check in on Thursday how do I check in.
If you can't make Thursday please show up at least 30 min before your posted tee time to Check in.
4. Where is check in ?
You can check in at Raptors knoll Disc Golf park at tournament central near the Ace Runners Tents.
5. When is the players meeting?
We have created a digital players meeting that can be watched at https://youtu.be/eAiMhkeYvdQ
6. Can you step on the front of the Tee Pads?
You must release your throw before stepping on the painted front 2 feet of the tee pad.
7. Where will our score cards be.
There will be a starter at your starting hole that will provide you with your scorecards.
Happy Canada Day to Everyone.
With only a few more days to go until the first players tee off at the BC Open 2019 Driven by Innova, we wanted to reach out with a few reminders and the following information:
We would again like to Thank Our sponsors for the BC Open 2019
Innova Disc Golf
Ace Runners
Raptors Knoll Disc Golf Park
US Disc Golf Championship
Fulton & Co.
PDGA Canada
On Top Roofing
B.C. Disc Sports
Eagles Wings
ARMDGA
USN
Masters Mafia
Hislop Family
The Cook Boyz
Robert Andres
Trevor Andrews
We have uploaded a very rough site map that gives you an overview of where things will be located during the event to the Caddy book section of the web page.
Thank you for registering for the 2019 BC Open. We apologize for taking so long to send out an update about BC Open but we have been busy finishing the new Raptors Knoll Disc Golf Park. With just over 2 weeks to go the course is looking wonderful with all our major projects now complete and we are just finishing up some final tasks including the tee signs. The signs are being printed now and should be installed just in time for BC Open.
Many registrants have asked for information regarding which tee pads and pin placements they will be playing. To keep it fair for all participants, we will not be releasing the official tournament map until June 28, one week prior to the tournament. At this time the course will be adjusted to the tournament layout.
When we release the official tournament map, we will also do an online course review going over the details of the course – Out of Bounds, Hazards, Mandos, drop zones, etc.
A reminder that 7:00 a.m. on June 21, 2019 is the cancellation deadline for a full refund and 7:00 a.m. on June 28 is the cancellation deadline for a 50% refund.
There is currently only one permanent washroom facility on site at Raptors Knoll (pit toilet style) located close to hole 6’s teepads. For the BC Open, porta potties will be available at various locations on site.
There is no running water on site so please bring lots of water with you. We will be providing limited water to help keep our players hydrated during the tournament rounds.
For our out of town players, most amenities (lodging, restaurants, and groceries) are located within 5 minutes of the course in Aldergrove.
This is no onsite camping and the Park Gates open at dawn and close at dusk.
We look forward to seeing you all in July.
Yours Truly,
John Gould-Thorpe
BC Open Early Registration - 12PM Tomorrow
Reminder that tomorrow the early bird registration for amenity sponsors opens high noon. Historically, we have opened registration for hole sponsors early, however, this year's event is being held at Raptors Knoll Disc Golf Park and many community members, clubs, and individuals invested $1000 in the project for that recognition. We do not want to mitigate their investment by selling additional hole sponsors at this event.
As such, your $100 Amenity Sponsorship will be put towards Free Water, Snacks, Washroom Facilities, and Tents. Ultimately, the money is going to help support the BC Open in the same manner and will make this year's event even stronger. There are only 20 sponsorship spots available. The contribution will be recognized at the event, in the caddy-book, on the social media channels and on our website.
General Registration without the mandatory sponsorship will open Feb 4th at high noon - exactly 1 week later.
It is amazing how fast the 2019 BC Open is approaching. There are however a few exciting announcements to mention.
It may still be 8 months away but the planing has begun and as always we will need help to make this event a success. If you are able to help please let us know.
Hi everyone,
Just a quick note as we are getting a steady stream of bookings for the practice round. If you book for 2 players make sure to mention the name of the other player in your email.
Thank you
Eric
Hello everyone,
I wanted to wait until Sunday evening to give the opportunity to those that were competing over the past weekend to see this at the same time.
PRACTICE ROUND BOOKING PROCEDURE AND FEES
The course will open for practice at 10 AM on Thursday and around 6 PM on Friday. The green fees include the practice of both courses (Golf Cart & Green Fees). The cost will be 50$ per pair (so 25$/person) if you chose to go alone you must pay the full amount, fees will be paid to 18 Pastures when they take your secured credit card imprint for the cart rental. You will likely be able to sale your other half onsite if you are traveling alone. Once or if the cart is all rented (40-45 carts), 18 Pastures will start allowing on foot tee times. To book your tee time for Practice Rounds please email stu.mcisack@gmail.com Use Subject: BC Open - Practice Round Booking "your name".
In the text specified a one hour block for each course " Please book me between 10:15 AM and 11:15 AM on the Keen Course, Between 14:00 PM and 15 PM on the East Course."
Please allow 2.5hrs between courses to 3hrs. We may have to switch your courses around to ensure both flows, and that you are given a tee time close to your preference. Once completed your practice we ask that you kindly return the carts in a timely manner and don't use them as a personal shuttle. You will receive a confirmation of your tee time from Stewart.
DOUBLES
Info regarding doubles will be available at check-in, we want to gauge the interest before we start making plans on fees associated with it.
CADDY BOOK
The Caddy Book will be available electronically only Please download your copy at https://bcopen.ca/caddy-book Pool A, B, C will play Long Tees Pool D will Play Short Tees
POOL A: MPO
POOL B: FPO, MP40-50-60
POOL C:MA1, MA40-50
POOL D: MA2,FA1,FA40,FA 2
LUNCH
Since we are doing tee times, lunch for Pro's on Friday/Saturday and AM's on Saturday will be a lunch bunch that you can pick up at any time during the day.
Again, if you have any questions please contact me at eric.acerunners@gmail.com
Cheers and looking forward to seeing you all
Eric Vachon
Tournament Director
Hello everyone,
First off, excuse my English...I am not completely illiterate, just ESL...
Here is some info for the round schedule on the weekend. We will be sending more details later today or early tomorrow. It will be regarding a number of items such as the procedure to book your practice time, lunch, caddy book and map etc... We are still going back and forth with the venue due to an unforeseen situation. Hopefully, we have this sorted by the end of the day.
We can tell you that the course will be Open for practice early on Thursday and after the Pro Rounds are fully completed on Friday. 18 Pastures will be handling tee time booking, carts and green fees for the practice rounds, which we will have more info to share later.
So please do not start calling 18 Pastures before we have this all sorted.
There is a limited amount of carts available, make sure you have a companion on the cart with you. You will likely be able to sell your half of the cart cost on location, to someone.
Note that Check IN for
Pro/AM will start at 9AM until 7PM on Thursday June 14th.
AM will also be able to check in From 1PM to 6PM on Friday June 15th.
CHECK IN IS MANDATORY!!!
If you cannot physically check in please email me at eric.acerunners@gmail.com by the cut-off time. Do not sent me a check in email before Thursday. The email should have as Subject "your name/PDGA # - BCO CHECK IN" If you check in electronically, you will still need to sign the waiver at least 1 hour before your tee time.
There will be an optional player meeting Thursday at 5:30PM before random doubles (6PM).
We will run a mandatory meeting at your staging area 20 minutes before your posted 1st Round Tee Times.
Official Tee Times will be posted by 6PM Thursday for Pro's and 6PM on Friday for AM at https://www.pdga.com/tour/event/34216.
Also, here is a breakdown of your registration cost for transparency purpose
For Pro's
Gross Entry Fee
$175 - $4 A-Tier PDGA Fee
$171 - $10/day Green Fee paid to 18 Pastures
$141 - $10/day (Friday & Saturday) lunch
$121 Net Entry going into Payouts + added Cash 5000$ split proportionally by Div size. Added Cash works out to roughly 80$/player in the Pro field. Adding the Keen Voucher and Division Trophy's this equates to 190% payout against the Net entry.
For Am's
$130 or $100 - $4 A-Tier PDGA Fee
$126 or $96 - $10/day Green Fee
$106 or $76 - $10/day (saturday) Lunch
$96 or $66 - $55 Players Pack Cost (Valued at over $130)
$41 or $11 - Net Entry going into Payouts + Trophies + Added Prize, including the Players pack value 225% Payout against Net Entry
Payout Tables will be posted at Tournament Central
Please feel free to reach out to me if you have any questions! Cheers
BCO 2018 Tee Times (pdf)
DownloadHi all,
Might have set some confusion with the wording in travel section. Here is the revised version.
For the international participant, please familiarize yourselves with
border regulation at *http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/menu-eng.html
<http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/menu-eng.html>*. Mission is located about 70 min
minute East of YVR (Vancouver International Airport) and 20 minutes North of
YXX (Abbotsford International Airport). Due to the incredible cost of real
estate in the area, the campgrounds are generally booked with permanent
residents in and around the city.The best option is to camp onsite at 18 Pastures
We would recommend looking into VRBO or AirBNB for larger groups. Hotels are abundant in Mission ,Abbotsford and Maple Ridge, which are all fairly close to the courses. It would be hard to rely on public transit, carpool with other participants or take a taxi. Please note that Uber is not available in the region. 18 Pastures is located at 29110 Matheson Ave, Mission, BC V2V 6H3
Cheers
Eric
Hello everyone,
First of all, we would like to thank you for registering into the 2018 BC Open Driven by Innova.
We are very excited about the event and hope to make it a weekend to remember for everyone involved. At this time we would like to share some pertinent information regarding the event.
COURSES
We will have 2 temporary 18 hole Courses set at 18 Pastures Golf Course in Mission, BC, These courses are on a private golf course and will be available for practice play around 10 AM on Thursday the 14th. You will be able to rent a powered golf cart for the day to save some energy, a cart for 2 persons for the day will be 20$, paid directly to 18 Pastures staff upon rental. During the practice round be aware of volunteers and golfers on the course as we will need to share the space.
For this year we will be doing tee times starting at 7 AM on Friday (Pro Divisions Only),Saturday & Sunday.
Friday Pool A and B 2 rounds
Saturday Pool A and B 1 round, Pool C & D 2 rounds
Sunday Pool A,B,C,D 1 round
TEE TIMES WILL BE POSTED BY THURSDAY JUNE 14TH AT 6 PM
ACTIVITIES
More info will be posted about extra activities, such as doubles (Thursday night), Field event (Saturday) and player party in the coming days. We intend to have a player party on Saturday night at 18 Pastures or another Mission venue,.
FOOD and BEVERAGES
The lunch will be provided on site on Friday (for competing Pro's) & Saturday (For all Players) only. You can save time by pre-ordering a lunch for Sunday from the kitchen at 18 Pastures.
CAMPING
Camping will be available onsite starting Thursday night. The camping is free with no hook ups. There will be portable toilet onsite and 1 shower in the clubhouse during business hours. If you require a place to camp on Wednesday contact us and we may be able to make arrangement.
TRAVEL
For the international participant, please familiarize yourselves with border regulation at http://www.cbsa-asfc.gc.ca/menu-eng.html. Langley is located about 40 minute East of YVR (Vancouver International Airport) and 20 minutes West of YXX (Abbotsford International Airport). Due to the incredible cost of real estate in the area, the campgrounds are generally booked with permanent residents in and around the city.The best option if available is https://www.fortcamping.com/.We would recommend looking into VRBO or AirBNB for larger groups. Hotels are abundant in Mission & Abbotsford, which are all fairly close to the courses. It would be hard to rely on public transit, carpool with other participants or take a taxi. Please note that Uber is not available in the region.
FUNDRAISER DISCS
There is still plenty available. We will soon connect with everyone (most have been messaged already) that pre-purchase to choose your mold.Once this process is completed we will sell the remaining discs at www.acerunners.ca or you can contact me directly to inquire or purchase. If you haven't done so, every dollar help and by purchasing a disc you are a sponsor of the event, this cannot happen without sponsors.
SPONSORSHIP
We still have lots of holes to sponsor, please if you are part of a club, have a business or know a friend that does. Please contact us and we can send you some details on available sponsorship opportunities.
USDGC Spots
The Top 5 unqualified lowest score (4 rounds/long tee) will be granted an invitation to the prestigious USDGC 2018.
PLAYERS PACK & ADDED CASH
When we first open the registration, no decision was made regarding the player's pack. To play it safe we asked for shirt sizes from all participants.Now we can inform you that in order to maximize payout in the Pro Purse, we have decided to give player's pack to the Amateur field only.
If you have any questions, want to help or know someone that would like to volunteer on that weekend please contact us by replying or at eric.acerunners@gmail.com
More info such as course maps and caddy book will be posted online at www.bcopen.ca in the coming days.
We are looking forward to seeing you all!!!
Regards
Hole Sponsorship registration will open February 27, 2018 at 7:00 pm pacific time (hole sponsors are eligible to register one player with each hole sponsorship).
BC Open (June 15-17) Update:
We are happy to finally announce that the 2018 BC Open will be held at 18 Pastures Golf Course. Registration is set to open at 7pm PST March 5th on discgolfscene.com
We are only opening 144 spots.
Camping is available on site with no hooks ups.
Format:
Open Categories will play 2 rounds Friday, 1 Saturday and Sunday.
Amateur Divisions will 2 rounds Saturday and 1 Sunday.
See you this summer. This will sell out fast.
Hi folks,
Time to wrap up the BC Open Presented by Innova.We have put countless hours into this event and we were all flattered by the amount of appreciation we have received. The 3 of us took a lot of pride in putting on the event and hope it was very enjoyable.
We would like to take a minute to thank all of our sponsors, Innova Champion discs and Mark Molnar, PDGA Canada, Anytime Fitness, LDGC, Mundy Park DGC, VCUDGC, Nanaimo DGC, Dean Vaughan, Adam Knight at Century 21 , The Disc Vellar for letting us use one of their baskets, Suavair for the drone flyover services, Eric Dusch, Salt Spring DGC, Pete Johnson,High Caliber Painting, FVDGC and Bradness for 10 baskets for the weekend, BDGC, Ace-Lion, Disc Golf Armory, Chippingham Financial Group, Dan Singla, Ranham Entertainment and of course AceRunners your host, event directors,prize provider and on location pro shop. A special thank you to the Lindberg family for their ongoing support of disc golf and letting us use their courses on numerous occasions. Another huge thank you to Jonathan Poole for granting us USDGC regional qualifier status, Ben Baker from Central Coast Disc Golf and Kingsley Ralling. All the volunteers that did maintenance work at Passive Park, Randy, KB, Jim, Ed, Jay, Chance, Brad and the rest of the crew. A major Thank you to Malcolm Stooke, the man, we cannot thank you enough for all the help and hard work you have done for us over and over again. Nancy, Danica, Jason, Jamie and Jim for spotting duties. Scott Lemay, Kris Klimko (and scoring), Sean McGillavary, John Silvester, John Gould-Thorpe, Josie Lockey for the courses and tournament central breakdown. Ted Moens for helping so much at both venue, Chris Hartman for also helping and making some awesome trophies. Stewart McIsack for taking the time to come with me and help me design the Tall Timber courses and always helping us between rounds. Thank you to all competitors and finally to my beautiful and awesome wife for tolerating all those hours away from the family and vacating our home for almost an entire week to host the Oregon crew. My sincere apology if I forget to mention anyone my brain is still a bit foggy.
We believe the 2017 BC Open Presented by Innova was a great success, hopefully, we can gather ourselves and make it bigger and better in 2018.
Peace
Eric
Hi folks,
Time to wrap up the BC Open Presented by Innova.We have put countless hours into this event and we were all flattered by the amount of appreciation we have received. The 3 of us took a lot of pride in putting on the event and hope it was very enjoyable.
We would like to take a minute to thank all of our sponsors, Innova Champion discs and Mark Molnar, PDGA Canada, Anytime Fitness, LDGC, Mundy Park DGC, VCUDGC, Nanaimo DGC, Dean Vaughan, Adam Knight at Century 21 , The Disc Vellar for letting us use one of their baskets, Suavair for the drone flyover services, Eric Dusch, Salt Spring DGC, Pete Johnson,High Caliber Painting, FVDGC and Bradness for 10 baskets for the weekend, BDGC, Ace-Lion, Disc Golf Armory, Chippingham Financial Group, Dan Singla, Ranham Entertainment and of course AceRunners your host, event directors,prize provider and on location pro shop. A special thank you to the Lindberg family for their ongoing support of disc golf and letting us use their courses on numerous occasions. Another huge thank you to Jonathan Poole for granting us USDGC regional qualifier status, Ben Baker from Central Coast Disc Golf and Kingsley Ralling. All the volunteers that did maintenance work at Passive Park, Randy, KB, Jim, Ed, Jay, Chance, Brad and the rest of the crew. A major Thank you to Malcolm Stooke, the man, we cannot thank you enough for all the help and hard work you have done for us over and over again. Nancy, Danica, Jason, Jamie and Jim for spotting duties. Scott Lemay, Kris Klimko (and scoring), Sean McGillavary, John Silvester, John Gould-Thorpe, Josie Lockey for the courses and tournament central breakdown. Ted Moens for helping so much at both venue, Chris Hartman for also helping and making some awesome trophies. Stewart McIsack for taking the time to come with me and help me design the Tall Timber courses and always helping us between rounds. Thank you to all competitors and finally to my beautiful and awesome wife for tolerating all those hours away from the family and vacating our home for almost an entire week to host the Oregon crew. My sincere apology if I forget to mention anyone my brain is still a bit foggy.
We believe the 2017 BC Open Presented by Innova was a great success, hopefully, we can gather ourselves and make it bigger and better in 2018.
Peace
Eric
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Regards
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