Blooming Hills is a tournament that will be played on May 20 and 21, 2023 in Sveti Martin Spa as the 2nd round of the Triple Bogey Tour 2023. The competition will take place through three rounds of 18 holes, two rounds on Saturday and one round on Sunday.
This year's tournament will be the third edition of Blooming Hills, which was played for the first time in 2021 during the Covid19 pandemic with the participation of 21 competitors from Croatia, and the second time as part of the Triple Bogey Tour in 2022 with the participation of 60 competitors from Austria, Croatia, Hungary and of Slovenia.
All three rounds of the Triple Bogey Tour 2023 are played in the PDGA color categories that are open to both sexes, namely Purple (rating up to 800), Green (rating up to 850), Red (rating up to 900) and the Gold category (for all other players) .
For more information about the tour and the overall standings, see the Triple Bogey Tour page. You can also download the table with the current standings in PDF form from this page. A player who had the right to participate in a certain category in the first round of the tour (for example, someone with a rating of 846 sufficient for Green) can participate in that same category in all three rounds of the tour, even and if his rating goes over the category limit in the meantime.
At the same time, each player can play in a higher rating category if he so chooses (for example, someone with a rating of 730 can play Purple, but also any other category, but a player with a rating of, for example, 870, cannot play Purple or Green).
Players who are not PDGA members and do not have a rating can play the Purple category only if they have not played PDGA tournaments so far, or have played PDGA tournaments and the last 6 rounds played are not worth more than 800 rating points on average. If those rounds are worth more than 800 then they can play the Green, Red or MPO / FPO category. A player who does not have a rating and has more than 850 rating points in the last 6 rounds cannot play the Green category, but can play Red or MPO / FPO.
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The tournament program is as follows
| Saturday, May 20th | |
|---|---|
| 9:00 | meet up at the course, practice |
| 9:50 | Players meeting (Golf house, by the basket 18) |
| 10:30 | start of Round 1 |
| 13:30 | lunch, option to pre-order meal |
| 15:00 | start of Round 2 |
| 19:30 | evening socializing |
| Sunday, May 21st | |
| 9:00 | meet up at the course, practice |
| 9:00 - 9:30 | mandatory check-in (Golf house) |
| 10:00 | start of Round 3 |
| 13:30 | Winner ceremony |
| 13:45 | lunch, option to pre-order meal |
Registration
To sign up for the competition, open a separate registration page.
The results of the competition will be published on the PDGA website.
The registration fee for the tournament for the Green, Red and Gold categories is €25, and the registration fee for the Purple category is €15 and is paid to the account of Lagoda j.d.o.o. before the event. The fee includes the organization of the tournament, fee for use of the course, fee for the prize fund of the entire tour, a small trophy for the best players in each category and raffle prizes.
The participation fee must be paid to the bank account before or after the tournament: Lagoda j.d.o.o., Varaždin, HR6323400091110550349
If you do not pay the registration fee in advance, it will be possible to pay in cash at the tournament itself. For the categories Green, Red and Gold, 5€ is allocated from each registration fee paid into the category prize fund, and after the last round, the best placed 25% of players for each category will receive cash prizes (or the equivalent value in goods) according to the distribution table. In the Purple category (where a lower registration fee is paid), there will be no distribution of prizes for the best 25% of players, but only the top 5 participants in the overall standings will receive prizes.
Concept of play
The competition will take place in the following format:
Round 1 - groups will be formed with mixed categories and strength groups determined according to PDGA rating. We will try not to put players from the same clubs / countries in the same groups in the first round, so that through the game they can socialize with players they do not see regularly.
Round 2 and Round 3 - groups formed by result, without mixing categories
Course
The course on which the tournament is played is arranged on the Sveti Martin golf course and the surrounding forests and meadows. The layout of the course for this tournament will be somewhat modified compared to previous tournaments, and some standard holes will be shortened so that on more holes even players with a lower rating have a chance for birdies, etc.
The baskets that will be used are Lagoda baskets on the permanent part of the course and additionally Disc golf park baskets on several holes.
The tee pads will be arranged with artificial grass turf.
The course map in PDF format will be available on this page at the beginning of May.
Accommodation
Within the Terme Sveti Martin resort, there is a Terme 4* hotel and 3* apartments, and we will inform players about the accommodation prices later.
Food
Tournament participants will be offered the option to pre-order lunch on Saturday, dinner on Saturday and lunch on Sunday. The exact list of dishes and prices will be available later.
Parking
If you come by car, you can park near the Golf House (google maps location). Keep in mind that there is a basket on hole 18 nearby and that there is a danger that players will hit the vehicles parked right next to the stairs to the Golf House.
Toilet
There is a toilet within the Golf House. In addition, you can also use the toilet within the hotel (side entrance on the forest side of the building).
Photos
All the photos we take at the tournament will be added to the Google Photos Album at the end of each day and you can download them and use them for social networks.
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Ace Pool
All players who wish to do so can pay €1 in cash, which is placed in a special piggy bank. From past Lagoda tournaments in the Ace Pool 120€ is already there.
The player who hits an ace in the tournament becomes the winner of the entire prize fund of the Ace pool. If two or more players hit an ace in the same tournament, they share the ace pool. If no player hits an ace, the ace pool is carried over to the next Lagoda tournament, and so on until the ace pool is paid out in one tournament. Ace pool will not transfer to Euro Tour Pro Forester.
A player who wants to participate in the Ace pool must pay €1 before the start of the first round. If the player hits an ace and has not paid the ace pool before the start of the first round, he is not entitled to the prize.
CTP – Closest to the pin
On one track, we will organize an additional competition in who threw the disc closest to the basket, and it will take place during the game in the 1st, 2nd and 3rd rounds. There will be a meter next to the basket post, and the player whose disc comes to rest near the basket can measure the distance from the post to the disc. The player whose disc has the shortest distance from the basket after the completion of the second round of the competition wins the prize. For the result to be valid, the disc must be 5m or less from the basket, and you should send a photo from the distance shown on the meter to the official tournament WhatsApp group.
Overachiever
The award is given to the player who played the tournament on average above his rating (according to the current ratings on the PDGA website). All tournament participants who have a PDGA number and an active membership and who have at least 20 rounds played in their rating participate in this competition.
Prizes and Tournament respect raffle
At the tournaments we organize, trophies and smaller prizes are awarded to the best three players in the MPO, FPO, Red and Green categories who pay the full amount of the registration fee, as well as a prize to the winner of the Purple category (who pay a reduced registration fee), while in addition to that, we reward all players who earned by respecting the event and rules of the tournament through a raffle. The raffle is held at the end of the tournament, after the announcement of the winners in all categories. The usual top raffle prize is a disc golf backpack.
In order for a player to be able to claim a raffle prize, he/she must:
1. Be present at the players meeting (when we read your name at the beginning of the meeting you should be present)
2. Pay the registration fee for the tournament in advance or during the tournament (no later than the beginning of the Winners ceremony)
3. Play all rounds of the tournament
4. Register on time (mandatory check-in) if this is stated in the tournament schedule
5. To be present at the Winners ceremony.
If a player is drawn in the raffle, but has not met all four criteria, he cannot claim the prize, so the next player will be drawn. The same player cannot win a raffle prize in two consecutive tournaments - for Blooming Hills those players are Florian Maurer, Gregor Žlebnik, Gerald Wölbl, Andreja Bernjak and Tim Jeršič.