J Town Championships
After a last minute-ish date swap of the J-Town Championships and Channahon Classic due to a conflict with a Cross Country Meet everything went as normal as ever!
This year J-Town Championships was two rounds at Highland Park, we wanted the last tournament of the year (originally) to be challenging and to create storylines for the Greater Joliet Tour Season Leaderboard. We also wanted to spread out our events across the Greater Joliet Area without repeating courses. We have tried every combination possible with courses for the J-Town Championships, we even tried making it a three day event, but this year everyone seemed pleased with two rounds at Highland.
On Saturday we had beautiful warm weather and Sunday brought rain and humidity. Even though it rained on everyone Sunday the vibes were incredibly high. While it was raining we had a chance to look at other PDGA tournaments that were happening globally that same weekend and we found some interesting stats. There were 9 A Tiers and 47 B Tiers, and out of all of those events J-Town Championships had the third largest attendance, this speaks so highly of our disc golf community and everyone that participates in the Greater Joliet Tour Season. We appreciate everyone that continues to support this series!
“Man, I love sweating underneath a raincoat.” - James Geiger.
Tim Kjeldsen (J-Town Disc Golf Club Secretary) found some sweet Adirondack chairs on the side of the road and created the most chill Hole 1 (hole 10) ever. Thanks to J-Town Disc Golf Club for sponsoring the event!
Highlights:
FPO - Samantha Bonacci drove 6.5 hours from Nebraska to join us and took the win on a course she’s never played before.
MPO - Danny Beauchamp swooped from chase card to win with a 1020 rated -9. Matching that weekend record was Zack Finwall in Round 1 and Nick Austin & Ryan Stilson in Round 2.
MP40 - Al Hermosillo and Dana Vicich go into a 7 hole playoff with Al coming out on top. On Saturday Dana gave a “live” in the bag and had everyone surrounding him that gave show and tell vibes.
MP50 - Doug Payne from Pekin wins but Scott Tramblay jumps up 5 spots into cash after shooting a -5 second round.
MA1 - Dayne Zimmerman also shoots the hot -9 second round to win averaging 41 points above his rating.
MA40 - Marc Post was the only one to shoot under par round two and moved up two spots to take the win.
MA50 - Tim Jones finishes birdie birdie birdie to beat legend Randy Moors Sr. by one stroke overall.
MA2 - Joe Rovano wins his B Tier averaging 53 points above his rating.
MA3 - Eric Decker shot a -6 bogey free second round to win his first B-Tier by four strokes and averaged 70 points above his rating. Ted Lancaster was the only MA3 player to go bogey free in round one (sorry for jinxing that)
MA4 - Adam Zolnierowicz wins his first tournament by jumping up four spots from the chase card and averaged 60 points above his rating.
FA3 - Gianna Losito wins anotha one averaging 94 points above her rating.
FA4 - Darlene Kossler proves she can disc golf as well as she can shoot arrows.
Thanks to:
Joliet Park District
Truckin’ Delicious for coming out Saturday and bringing free hot dogs on Sunday.
David Eberhardt ‘Ebz’ and Aaron Alinowski for helping to clean up trash and making Hole 6 look great.
Ryan Stilson and Auston Kap for holding down the shop.
Take a look at all the winners below!
J-Town Championships Winners
FA4 - 1st Darlene Kossler, 2nd Helen Handschuh
FA3 - 1st Gianna Losito, 2nd Jessica Matlock, 3rd Dawn Pina
MA4 - 1st Adam Zolnierowicz, 2nd Rob Mrazek, T3rd Barry Woodrow & Nickolas Holstein
MA3 - 1st Eric Decker, 2nd Steve Schuman, T3rd Mike Schuldt & Brandon Capshaw
MA2 - 1st Joe Rovano, 2nd Cam Jones, T3rd James Geiger & Sergio Estrada
MA1 - 1st Dayne Zimmerman, 2nd Caleb Hasselbring T3rd Corey Powers, Austin Esterly & Matt Dacanay
MA60 - 1st Jerome Harvey, 2nd Dan Lobbes, 3rd Edward Solger
MA50 - 1st Tim Jones, 2nd Randy Moore Sr., 3rd Ryan Olszewski
MA40 - 1st Marc Post, 2nd Jorge Pina Jr, T3rd Sean Schmeske & Shawn Story
MP50 - 1st Doug Payne, 2nd John Lakenan, T3rd Scott Tramblay & Chris Bianchi
MP40 - 1st Al Hermosillo, 2nd Dana Vicich, T3rd Phil Mulder & Jason Allen
FPO - 1st Samantha Bonacci, 2nd Lexi Marx
MPO - 1st Danny Beauchamp, T2nd Steve Rachan & Alberto Ochoa
Ace
Kevin Malone - Hole 14 - $745
CTPs
MA60 - Hole 16 - Kevin Daly $50
MA50 - Hole 5 - Ed Radakovitz $50
FA3 - Hole 16 - Dawn Pina $50
FA4- Hole 16 - Rima Jokubauskas $50
MA4- Hole 12 - Rich Wegner $100
MA3 - Hole 14 - Greg Guerra $100
MA2 - Hole 13- Sam Sumrow $100
MA40 - Hole 3 - Aaron Browning $100
MA1 - Hole 10 - Austin Esterly $100
Putting Game
Lowers
1st Greg Guerra (15) $35
2nd Greg Lauler (14) $29
3rd Dan Rebholz (13) $23
T4th Russ Smith & Bruce Churches (10) $15
Uppers
1st Kevin Malone (15) $36
2nd Jake Persenico (14) $30
T3 Al Hermosillo, Oscar Amaya, Dan McCachern, Ryan Mulder & Matt Dacanay (13) $11
Greater Joliet Tour Season Leaderboards can be found HERE.
Thanks to our sponsors:
Discmania for player pack Forge Function
Unstable Disc Golf Gear for player pack hoodies
Redemption Disposal and SunTeck TTS for sponsoring the entire season!
Cast & Crew
Sean Callahan - Tournament Director, Dellwood Disc Golf, dreamer.
Sheila Callahan - Assistant Tournament Director, Dellwood Disc Golf
Ryan Fancher - Assistant Tournament Director, Unstable Disc Golf Gear - All the merch!
Mike Apostolou - Assistant Tournament Director, player meetings, time clock.
