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Post by xEB50x on Jun 14, 2018 16:12:41 GMT -5
Any CC players on xbox, we are looking for more players for the Pro-Am division of the XB1 Match Play Society. If interested, please sign up in the society section. Thanks. My hijacking of this thread is over
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Post by cephyn on Jun 14, 2018 20:41:46 GMT -5
Finished my CC-D play with a 70 and a 66. Nightmare greens. I may have made 1 putt outside 9 feet in both rounds combined. Thoroughly unpleasant to play for me. Finishing at -17 is probably going to put me in strike territory.
Cannot figure out how to read a break in this game.
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Post by jacobkessler on Jun 14, 2018 22:47:50 GMT -5
Right, so here's what I mean by angles. The following two putts are both 8-footers on Hole 5, pin 2: Would you rather have the first putt or the second putt? 99.9% of people would choose the first. So essentially, from the same distance out, where would you place your ball?
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Post by lions67 on Jun 16, 2018 8:30:44 GMT -5
Inconsistent golf strikes again!! After pulling myself out of a real bad hole following my opening round 74, I end the tourny with a disappointing final round of 73. Missed three easy birdies and even had one hole covered by Saran Wrap!! 74 64 67 73 -10 finish. Just when I thought I was gonna wipe away my strike, I may have gotten an extra two. Disgusted. Oh well.... new week... new chance!
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Post by cephyn on Jun 16, 2018 12:58:05 GMT -5
Right, so here's what I mean by angles. The following two putts are both 8-footers on Hole 5, pin 2: Would you rather have the first putt or the second putt? 99.9% of people would choose the first. So essentially, from the same distance out, where would you place your ball? I mean, that's not anything about angles. That's just called "land your ball on a flat part of the green" - was definitely trying to do that. The flat spots were pretty small (nonexistent in some pin positions). I get it. I'm not good enough. That's fair. But that's not really 'choosing your angles', in my experience.
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Post by echomike2 on Jun 16, 2018 13:10:03 GMT -5
Scores are not very low this week. Stay under par next round and it looks like you will avoid any strikes. It's another challenging course. I hit it into the water on #1 AND #2 to start my third round. Managed to get back to -1 for the round and -8 after three rounds. I went back to player clubs for the time being and had some bad swings in this one too. I lose my tempo because I forget to watch certain things in my swing, like backswing. Sometimes I start pushing shots to the right. One of my big problems STILL is loft and wind adjustments, player clubs take a little of the sting out of a bad swing. Good job Matt looks like a trip to D!! . Looks like I'll lose my (s) and get stay a bit in E.
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Post by echomike2 on Jun 16, 2018 13:14:53 GMT -5
Bad to worse for me this week, a thoroughly deserved double strike looms. R1: 74(+2) R2: 72(E) R3: 72(E) R4: 73: (+1) Total: +3. My first over-par tournament for quite some time, on a course that baffled me with its pin positions and green slopes, tee shot landing areas and long par 4s and 5s. We were promised by the designer that if we chose the correct angles to attack the greens there'd be chances to score, yet in reality almost every hole has only one fairway landing area, which makes every approach shpt from the same angle. There's no variation to be had. I could be wrong but it seems to me to be a course built for Tour Clubs only, which makes its choice for CC-Am beyond my ken. A course, I'm afraid to say, I'll never willingly play again. Sorry Jacob. Give the xx back on the next one Kevin!!
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Post by lajvol20 on Jun 16, 2018 13:16:26 GMT -5
Regarding "choosing your angles", there was a good feature of this on US Open this morning discussing hole 6. If you're in the left side of the fairway, your approach shot into the green is over a trap with a high edge that blocks your view of the green and makes the landing area very small. If, however, you play to the right side of the fairway, you avoid that trap and have a better view and a much better "angle" into the landing area. You are still trying to hit to the same basic area from either spot, but one "angle" makes that an extremely difficult area to hit, whereas the other "angle" makes it a much simpler area to hit. You might only hit a good shot 10% of the time from the left, but 90% of the time from the right. That's choosing your angles, not just where you want to land your ball, but what angle of approach gives you the best chance of doing that.
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Post by runicstarfish on Jun 17, 2018 8:46:30 GMT -5
Any CC players on xbox, we are looking for more players for the Pro-Am division of the XB1 Match Play Society. If interested, please sign up in the society section. Thanks. My hijacking of this thread is over It's a great society to join ... lot's of good people ... great camaraderie amongst everyone. I have certainly improved my game in playing with these golfers. From Z to D !!! Hope some of you can take a look and join ... you won't be disappointed. Here is the main thread - tgctours.proboards.com/thread/14643/xb1-match-play-society-seasonAnd this is the sign up thread - tgctours.proboards.com/thread/15153/season-signups-match-play-societyYou can find both under, Societies & Community Run Events
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Post by cephyn on Jun 17, 2018 8:53:05 GMT -5
Regarding "choosing your angles", there was a good feature of this on US Open this morning discussing hole 6. If you're in the left side of the fairway, your approach shot into the green is over a trap with a high edge that blocks your view of the green and makes the landing area very small. If, however, you play to the right side of the fairway, you avoid that trap and have a better view and a much better "angle" into the landing area. You are still trying to hit to the same basic area from either spot, but one "angle" makes that an extremely difficult area to hit, whereas the other "angle" makes it a much simpler area to hit. You might only hit a good shot 10% of the time from the left, but 90% of the time from the right. That's choosing your angles, not just where you want to land your ball, but what angle of approach gives you the best chance of doing that. Agreed, this is typically what I think when I hear "choose your angles" - its especially apparent in great course designs. Holes that have sucker pins or punish anything but a perfect drive, but a 3W will have the better angle. Or a risky, tight, or over the trees drive to get close, or a safe, easy 3W (or Driver) to a safer spot on the fairway that is a longer approach. I like having these choices, I like choosing. Trying to hit a tiny spot on the green isn't a choice. I'm already trying to get it close to the hole. Missing that tiny flat spot isn't a choice, it's a mistake.
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Post by jacobkessler on Jun 17, 2018 15:53:56 GMT -5
Well, just saying, that’s how I look at it. Not saying that’s how everybody thinks.
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Post by echomike2 on Jun 18, 2018 8:59:02 GMT -5
Well (70) R1 at DA ZIKA the 180 speed and winds were tough, ave first putt 20', putt ave 1.78. R2 tomorrow.
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Post by aje14 on Jun 18, 2018 11:06:52 GMT -5
Good Opening ROund,
7 straight pars, and I was inches away on a couple putts from being -3, bogey at 8 left me +1 and a little frustrated I wasn't under. Sunk a 30 footer for birdie on 11 and then everything started going in. -5 on the back nine leaving my well placed on -4 for R1.
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Post by JosiaDB on Jun 18, 2018 20:12:14 GMT -5
what an awful, but typical first round. I'm CC-Z, pretty much bottom of the class. (average around +6 to +15 a round.) So last night I did some practicing with my new controller to get used to it, and ended with a practice round at Chestnut Log. I hit a -1. Probably the best game I've had since starting here! I was excited, and looking forward to my real round when I got home from work tonight. Hit every single hole in the worst possible way, and ended with a +12. Then, decided to try to redeem myself, went and played Mahamba just for fun, from the blacks, and hit even. was it nerves, or bad luck? LOL
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Post by Celtic Wolf on Jun 19, 2018 0:17:58 GMT -5
Sometimes it's just bad luck. What I normally do when I'm playing in a tournament is play a practice round just before I play each round of the tournament. Doing that means you can get your tempo right and a feel for the elevations and winds. I never play a round on the course I'm just about to play because you'd be annoyed if your practice round was better than your tournament round. Try and find a course with the same green speeds and firmness as the round you're about to play as that will help fine tune your putting. I would play a practice round for the next tournament course on the last round of the previous week, just so you're not going in cold in next week's tournament.
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