A friend of mine wants to join the PDGA, but when I told him that sometime between August and October, the membership includes the following calendar year also, he said he'd like to wait. I also explained that his membership is what will track his points towards next year's worlds. I have 3 questions related to this:

1. When is it that new members will enjoy the entire next year's worth? September 1? 15? October 1?
2. If he waits to join, but plays in a sanctioned tourney or two between now and upon joining, is there a way to include the rounds for ratings and points towards Worlds after the fact?
3. At what date will points cut-off for next year's Am World's in Tulsa?

I want to give him correct information and not get screwed, so please let me know anyone.

Thanks!

1. When is it that new members will enjoy the entire next year's worth? September 1? 15? October 1?
September 1

2. If he waits to join, but plays in a sanctioned tourney or two between now and upon joining, is there a way to include the rounds for ratings and points towards Worlds after the fact?
He must contact the TD with his new PDGA number so it gets in the event report before it's sent to the PDGA.

3. At what date will points cut-off for next year's Am World's in Tulsa?
All points for Worlds are based on the previous calendar year. Those wanting invites to Tulsa are accumulating points during 2005 until the end of this December.

Thanks Chuck.

As quick as you respond to posts, I'd imagine you have an alert set up for a response to EVERY thread on the entire board! Thanks for the info; I'll let him know to wait one more week.

I just asked the same thing here (http://www.pdga.com/msgboard/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=428709&page=0&view=collapsed&sb=5&o=&fpart=1) yesterday. I found out that it is Sept. 1st.

Sorry for the re-post! I thought I had seen a related topic, and I DO know how to use the search function, but like all search engines, if you don't know the keyword that's going to find your topic, it's kinda useless.

Thanks to Chuck for answering the same questions over and over again without getting annoyed (visibly anyway).

Sorry, if I sounded [I'm a potty-mouth] I was more just making people aware that both threads relate to the same thing.

Happy Posting

When September rolls around, we're going to engage on a major campaign to get new members in, using the "Get 16 months for the price of 12 approach.

Part of that will be to put up a PDF flyer and ask members and others to put it up at local courses and vendors.

Another part will be some mass emails to nonmembers. To that end, we've been working on a master list of disc golfers who are not members. At the moment, we are approaching 10,000 people on that list (some members mixed in).

But we know that there are many, many more. If you'd like to help, please share with me email addresses that you know of non-member disc golfers, please.

The Can Spam Act that was passed a couple of years ago makes it legal for us to send unsolicited email to people, so long as we identify the PDGA clearly, provide a snailmail address, and also provide a link to an 'opt out' mechanism - all of which we do when we send to that list.

So, please share disc golf emails with us by sending lists of them to me at [email protected] Thanks!

My friend Greg Kurtz joined last week and he's real p'd off that he only gets 4 months and 1 week out of a year's fee.

I think they should make membership good for 12 months from the date of joining, and you renew on that date every year, just like everything else on earth.

Prorated fees could work also.

Either that or prorate the fee to the end of the year...the current scenario does kind of stink.

Beat you to it. :D