TBT 2024 #3 - Blooming Hills

Blooming Hills is a tournament that will take place on Saturday August 10th in Toplice Sveti Martin as the final 3rd round of the Triple Bogey Tour 2024. The competition will consist of three rounds of 13 holes.

This year's tournament will be the fourth edition of Blooming Hills, which was first played in 2021 during the Covid19 pandemic with the participation of 21 competitors from Croatia, the second time as part of the Triple Bogey Tour in 2022 with the participation of 60 competitors from Austria, Croatia, Hungary, and Slovenia, and the third time as part of the Triple Bogey Tour in 2023 with the participation of 36 players from Croatia, Slovenia, and Austria.

All three rounds of the Triple Bogey Tour 2024 are played in PDGA color categories open to both genders: 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 scoring for the overall standings, visit the Triple Bogey Tour page. The current standings table can also be downloaded in PDF format from this page. A player who was eligible to participate in a specific category (e.g., someone with a rating of 846 sufficient for Green) in the first round of the tour can participate in the same category for all three tour rounds, even if their rating exceeds the category limit in the meantime.
Additionally, each player can play in a higher-rated category if they choose to do so (e.g., someone with a rating of 730 can play in Purple, but also in any other category, while a player with a rating of, for example, 870, cannot play in Purple or Green).
Players who are not PDGA members and do not have a rating can only play in the Purple category if they have not played PDGA tournaments before, or if they have played PDGA tournaments and the last 6 played rounds have an average rating of no more than 800 points. If their rounds are worth more than 800 points, they can play in the Green, Red, or MPO/FPO category. A player who has no rating, but whose last 6 rounds are worth more than 850 rating points, cannot play in the Green category but can play in the Red or MPO/FPO category.

Program

Saturday, August 10th
8:45	Players meeting, Golf House
9:15	Start of 1st round (expected duration until 11:00)
11:30	Start of 2nd round (expected duration until 13:15)
13:30	Lunch break (pre-order)
15:00	Start of 3rd round (expected duration until 16:30)
-	Tournament winners ceremony (around 16:45)
-	Triple Bogey Tour 2024 winners ceremony

Registration

To register for the competition, open the separate registration page.The event is limited to 65 players (the course has 13 holes)
The competition results will be posted on the PDGA website.

The tournament fee for the Green, Red, and Gold categories is 20 €, and the fee for the Purple category is 10 €, payable to Lagoda j.d.o.o. before the tournament. This includes tournament organization, a fee to the Croatian Flying Disc Federation, a fee for course use, a fee for the prize pool for the entire tour.
The participation fee should be paid to the bank account before the tournament:
Lagoda j.d.o.o., Varaždin, HR6323400091110550349
If you do not pay the fee in advance, it will be possible to pay in cash on site.

For the Green, Red, and Gold categories, 5€ from each paid fee is allocated to the category's prize pool, and after the last round, the top 25% of players in each category will receive the equivalent in goods according to the distribution table. In the Purple category, there will be no distribution of prizes for the top 25% of players, only the top 5 participants in the overall ranking will receive prizes.

Competition

Concept of play
The competition will be held in the following format:
Round 1 - groups will be formed with mixed categories and strength groups determined by PDGA rating. We will look not to place players from the same clubs/countries in the same groups in the first round, so they can socialize with players they do not see regularly.
Round 2 and Round 3 - groups formed by results, without mixing categories

Course
The tournament will be held on the golf course of Sveti Martin, and the surrounding woods and meadows. The layout of the course for this tournament will be slightly modified compared to previous tournaments, and some holes will be shortened to give lower-rated players a chance for birdies, etc.
The baskets to be used are Disc Golf Park baskets.
The tees will be set up with artificial turf carpets.
A PDF course plan will be available at a later date.



Weather
You can follow the weather forecast for Toplice Sveti Martin on the Yr.no website. In case of bad weather, you can also follow the lightning radar or the rainfall radar.
Since the course is partly located in an old forest, in case of strong winds (over 10 m/s) the competition may be postponed (or moved to another location) for the safety of the participants.

Accommodation and Food

Accommodation
Within the Terme Sveti Martin resort, there is a 4* hotel Terme and 3* apartments. Accommodation prices will be announced later.

Food
Participants will be offered the option to pre-order lunch on Saturday. The exact menu and prices will be available later.

Parking
If you are arriving by car, you can park near the Golf House (google maps location). Note that the basket of hole 18 is nearby and there is a risk that players may hit parked cars with discs near the stairs to the Golf House.

WC
There is a toilet in the Golf House. Additionally, the toilet in the hotel (side entrance from the forest) can be used.

Side Events

Ace Pool
All players who wish to participate can pay 1€ in cash, which is placed in a special pool. From previous Lagoda tournaments, there is already 150€ in the Ace Pool.
A player who hits an ace in the tournament wins the entire Ace Pool prize. 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 carries over to the next Lagoda tournament, and so on until an ace is hit.
A player who wants to participate in the Ace Pool must pay 1€ before the start of the first round. If a player hits an ace but did not pay for the Ace Pool before the start of the first round, they are not entitled to the prize.

CTP – Closest to the Pin
On one hole, we will organize an additional competition for who throws the disc closest to the basket, which will take place during play in the 1st, 2nd, and 3rd rounds. There will be a meter next to the basket, and the player whose disc comes to rest near the basket can measure the distance from the pole to the disc. The player whose disc has the shortest distance from the basket after the second round wins a prize.
To be valid, the disc must be within 3 meters of the basket, and you need to send a photo showing the distance on the meter to the official tournament WhatsApp group.

Overachiever
The award is given to the player who played the tournament the most above their rating (according to current ratings on the PDGA website). All tournament participants with a PDGA number and active membership, with at least 20 rounds included in their rating, are eligible.