Croydon Disc Golf Club are proud to announce that the Croydon Cyclone 2011 has a new sponsor from the USA.

Disc manufacturer DGA ( www.discgolf.com ) have produced 3 discs for us which, for the first time ever, have a CDGC Cyclone logo enblazened on them. Each player will have a DGA disc (Hurricane, Squall or Reef) as part of their entry fee; even more reason to register for this years event, you can do here:

tinyurl.com/6a7v2ds

Not only do we have DGA Plastic but we also have a DGA Machlite portable basket which we will be raffleing over the weekend, with the draw on Saturday night at the Bar B Q.

We have 39 already signed up so come on, get involved, sign up today and help make this years Cyclone the best yet.

The Croydon Cyclone 2011 will see CDGC install a new course layout.

Here are the individual hole videos... enjoy.

Quarry Park Open 2011

What a fantastic weekend for CDGC.

38 players pitched up for this summers QP Open run by Jessy Denny up at the Leamington Spa course.
There was a strong turnout by the CDGC; Jester, Bruce Dan, Oz Friere and Rich W in the Open. Ali, Ozzy Dan, Terry in the AD Am. In the Int Ams Sam and  Neil M were joined by Tour newbies, Ben Cairns, Liam Fisk and James Burton. Rich O was unfortunately taken ill on the Friday and was unable to play.

 The weather held out for us. The rain on Friday only really hampered the erection of the Taj Mahal and in the event a record breaking time of 27 minutes was recorded (nearly 20 minutes faster than previously achieved).  Saturday was hot, steamy and had some wind to play with plastic. Sunday was very warm, 29 degrees evidently.  It made for a tough time for the more rotund but both Dans were in their element.

Mark Salling (Puck) and Corey Monteith (Finn), cast members of the TV Show, Glee visited Lloyd Park to play disc golf as part of their Glee/Disc Golf Tour.

Mark tweeted that they had played there on Friday but seemed surprised that no one was around! A lot of the Croydon players were making the journey up to Quarry Park for the QP Open and being a school day, I guess its not surprising that no one was around.

They both seemed to have enjoyed themselves and used "gorgeous" as the term to describe the park. We at the club are delighted that they had a good time.

Mark posted a short video from which a couple of screen shots have been used below. The shot is around the basket of 5 and looks as if an OB was taken!!!

Mike Toomes, visiting CGDC from Rayleigh, North Carolina smashed in an ace on hole 8 on Saturday morning. Mike borrowed some plastic off a number of the club players Saturday morning and was on his first round at the course. The ace was struck with a Yellow Roc that had just been found at the basket of 7 that belongs to Charlie. Mike then tonked the Roc at a basket he hadnt seen and took a massive mac off high off the tree on the left of the basket. It crashed into the basket for the 3rd ace in the last 3 weeks. The disc has been signed before being reyurned to its owner!

The Royal Wedding day of Friday 29th April 2011saw the rather late 2010 Croydon Cup.

It was a fantastic days golf in nice golfing conditions. The weather was dry, warm and a litte windy. We tried new holes that were a great success, we used a new handicap system and we crowned a new champion.

Ali Findlay is The 2010 CDGC Croydon Cup Champion.

Croydon Cup - by Ali Findlay

The final scoring grid is as follows. Thanks to all of the 19 strong field for making the day a great success.

Saturday 23rd March 2011. 2 Aces!

 

Dave Allaker and his team hosted the fourth stop on the BDGA tour on the weekend of 16th and 17th April, at the relatively local University of Essex course, in Colchester. Dave, TD Of The Year 2010, always puts on a fantastic event at the Uni and the added benefit of sponsorship from Gateway Discs meant players’ packs included a disc for everybody and a further 30 prizes up for grabs over the weekend. CDGC were determined to get their hands on these prizes and in total 12 Croydonites headed up the A12 to sample some of Essex’s finest.

After his victory in the Adv Ams at last year’s Essex event, CDGC’s Chairman was our lone representative in the Open division; tour stalwarts Jester Wilson and Bruce Webber unable to make it this year and recent winner Dan Ryan off celebrating his birthday. The Adv Ams formed the largest part of the field and CDGC were well-represented by “Ozzy” Dan Pommer, Ali Findley, Terry Tenger, Stew Gudgeon, Phil Wood and 2010 Int Am champ Tom Lowes. Vying for competition in the Int Ams was Mr and Master Bates – Paul and James, Neil Martin, Sam Stevens and “Hippy” Dan Hawkins.

Burnlaw Snowbow – California Dreaming for Croydon Flat Caps! (Or, Not Enough Caddies (Again!)) by Phil Wood (marked and edited by our red pen owning teacher, Tom Lowes!)
 
BDGA Tour event three saw the players of CDGC head North to Burnlaw, in the hills of Northumbria. Six hardy souls headed the 300+ miles in the pursuit of the Burnlaw Dove. Sam Stevens, Tom Lowes and Dan Ryan were making their first visits to Garry Villiers-Stuart’s farm though Jester Wilson, Bruce Webber and Phil Wood were more familiar with the surroundings.
 
A strong field turned out for the event with well over 30 competitors there to chance their arms. The usually frosty and windy Burnlaw gave way to early spring warmth and almost zero wind. In these clement conditions the players thrived. Burnlaw local Chris O’Brien shot an incredible 10 under par 47 to set the early pace in the open division, QP’s Jon Tweed hit a 54 to lead the Adv Ams (forcing Del Robins back onto the third card for the afternoon’s round, much to the amusement of all except Del) and Edinburgh’s  Chris Gill hit a 61 to head up the Int Am.
 

By Phil Wood

BDGA tour event number 2, saw the disc golfers of England, joined by a few Yanks, descend upon the Quarry Park for the Spring Fling. CDGC were again well represented at the weekend with Bruce Webber, Dan ‘LankyYankee’ Ryan join the chairman – Rich Wood in the Open division. In the Ad Am division Phil Wood was joined by Terry Tenger. In the Int Ams CDGC were represented by summer league champ Francis Wilson, Dan ’Hippy’ Hawkins and Neil Martin. Neil was making his first appearance at an event outside of Croydon.

QP has undergone a lot of changes in recent months and TD Jesse Denny was keen to test all players to the max. The competition was to be played over 4 rounds, with no final and split over the “new” course – including extended holes and two new holes deep in the woods, familiar to CDGC from the Hyzer cup,  and the “old” course on its original layout.  

They think it's all over; well, it really is now. The BDGA touring season drew to a chilly close over the weekend of October 24th and 25th with the Top 16 match-play event alongside the Not the Nationals competition hostedby Quarry Park.

Jester Wilson and Bruce Webber qualified by right for the event but with attendance levels being poor Am Champion Rich Wood as well as CDGC's Dan Ryan and Phil Wood were present and hoping to not just make up the numbers.

The Not the Nationals this year was made up of a one day stroke-playcompetition on the Saturday, which then created the seedings for a day of match-play on the Sunday. Croydon Cyclone Ad Am Champ Tom Lowes was joined by Stew Gudgeon representing CDGC in this format. 
 

Newly in from our West Coast Correspondent, Tim Emmott regales us with his first SF DG outing.

The elder of the wood bros asked me to write a few words once in a while about the Californian disc golf scene.

So first up to bat is San Francisco Golden Gate Park Disc Gol Course or SFGGPDGC:-) for the texters.

As the squeaking of the my bike pedals ceased to be drowned out by the plethora of trucks, sedans and low riders I know I have made it to the famous goldengate park.  A few squeeks more and the gentle clink of chains begins to dust the air, my hairs begin to stand on end excitement akin to that of a kid at christmas.

 I had made it. Legs like jelly. Arms like noodles, the first tee awaits.

Further to previous advice, the bdga main site has now been taken down. The forum is still up and running, it seems to be safe and can be accessed here.

www.bdga.org.uk/forum/ 

Croydon Disc Golf Club and Tournament Director Jester Wilson hosted the final BDGA tour event of the season over the weekend of 25th/26th September. With a total of 63registered players travelling in from as far afield as Canada, Finland and Crinklewood, and a total of 25 CDCG players in total in the field, the locals were determined to show the tourists how it was done.

CDGC has always used the Cyclone as a chance to blood new players into competition golf and this event was no different; Louie Webber, Ola Johansson and Simon Willmore all entering into their first tour event. The Cyclone was shaping up to match the successes of previous years.

If there is one tournament eagerly anticipated on the BDGA tour, its the Burnlaw Autumn Equinox. The course is a challenging par 57 with a good mix of wooded, open, lefty, righty, up and down holes, with plenty of OB’s to bump up the scores. But, the golf is really an excuse to explore one of the most beautiful parts of our little green Isle.

To help us at CDGC understand where players have come from to play our course, please leave your marker on our Guest map

http://www.mapservices.org/myguestmap/map/cdgc

This is the video that we made in November 08. A number of us took a mini basket and a bunch of mini flashflights.

Great fun had by all.

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If you're looking for something different to do as a group, whether it be for a Birthday Party, Stag Do, Team Building Event, Scouts, Cubs, brownies or Ventures/Explorers Event, Office Picnic or just a bunch of good friends getting out for the afternoon;

How about trying Disc Golf?

All the details are here http://www.croydondiscgolf.com/your-disc-golf-event-at-cdgc.html We look forward to seeing you at the course soon.

 

Croydon Disc Golf Club is very close to central London, this makes us very easy to get to from nearly anywhere. There is a tram link from the park to East Croydon station (10 mins. to London Victoria), therefore we hope that the development of the course will progress the sport in London and the UK. Disc golf in London looks set to grow!

Any one is welcome to play disc golf at Lloyd park and if you contact us we can arrange to show you around and lend you some discs. Anyone can play disc golf and all are welcome. The main weekly games are usually Wednesday and Sunday mornings in the winter and Wednesday evenings in the summer. but you may play whenever you like.

So if you've played disc golf before or if you haven't but you're curious and you're in or around London, get in touch, We are the only basketed disc golf club in London and we have already generated a lot of interest from people who have played disc golf before and some who haven't. They all share one thing in common..... They're all still playing!! It seems every one who plays disc golf is instantly addicted.