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Post by alexandre on Mar 20, 2019 7:41:07 GMT -5
I do not think I played much badly. Swings 95% pp (previously impossible on PC). I could not manage the landings and the wind. The very irregular green also ... It's a field that I did not enjoy playing. Interesting (and motivating) is to see the rises and falls of the players.
When Ian Sweeney (the machine) won everything, it was frustrating. Too bad I'm going to miss a mark (maybe). I hope, by the end of the season, to find a field with low winds and regular greens. Then perform the distance calculations (exhaustively cataloged) allied to the PP (now possible). The "balance" on PS4 is positive!
Round 1= -6 Round 2= -6 -12. I Lost the CUT. The field is very difficult. Until next week. I wouldn't count yourself out just yet. I think -12 makes the cut. It is amazing how we can play so well, get a win and play so poorly the next week.
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Post by Brighttail on Mar 20, 2019 10:30:41 GMT -5
Finding myself just flat out struggling again. This course will reward you with a good shot and then next thing you know you are on a run of 6 or 7 holes that you're just making par. So many random rolls. I have no idea what I'm going to score in round 2, just may play it without further practice.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 20, 2019 10:44:59 GMT -5
Finding myself just flat out struggling again. This course will reward you with a good shot and then next thing you know you are on a run of 6 or 7 holes that you're just making par. So many random rolls. I have no idea what I'm going to score in round 2, just may play it without further practice.
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Post by apearsa on Mar 20, 2019 11:56:07 GMT -5
Finding myself just flat out struggling again. This course will reward you with a good shot and then next thing you know you are on a run of 6 or 7 holes that you're just making par. So many random rolls. I have no idea what I'm going to score in round 2, just may play it without further practice. This tournament is the epitome of “better to be lucky than good”. I’d suspect that you’re not struggling, just that the puts and takes from this course are out of balance. Hoping you catch some of the good karma I did in round 2. I hit 16/18 greens in R1, ended up -6. Just did not end up with many makeable putts (except for the par putt on 18 that I blew past the hole from 4 feet after a poor birdie bid). Some of these drives are wild, in that you could have 160yds into a 500+ yard par 4, or if your drive that’s to a fairway 50ft downhill lands on the other side of a particular mogul 5 feet away, you could have 190yds from the heavy rough. After that round, thought I was missing the cut for sure. Came out in R2 yesterday after taking a day off, with comparatively poor ballstriking (12/18 greens), but happened to find the mildest putts I could and carded -10. If some of those approaches settled a couple feet one way or the other, they’d have been defensive putts instead of green lights. Round 3 was a nice combination of bounces and accuracy (this setup places a premium on accuracy from tee to green and knowing “where to leave it” more than any tournament I can recall this year) for -11. Sitting at -27, anxious to finish R4 this evening. Good luck to everyone finishing up.
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Post by mick0210 on Mar 20, 2019 14:57:37 GMT -5
Stone cold putter in rd 3 and a weak -4. Till next week...
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Post by Brighttail on Mar 20, 2019 16:32:17 GMT -5
Round 2 in the books. Talk about bounces, early on it seemed that I could do no wrong. Miss hit my spot, go long, ball turns around and rolls back towards the hole, make 12 foot putt for birdie. Speaking of putts I made at least 4 in excess of 20+ feet, one for eagle. I had a little blip on #8 with a bogey but even then, got to hole #16 sitting at -12 and made the cardinal sin of thinking, "Hey I can do no wrong so I'll go for this shot." Bogey. #17, tried another tempo shot and found the bunker and another bogey. #18 I hit a poor 2nd shot and the good rolls ran out as I was now in the heavy stuff. Barely made a par to finish -10. Not complaining as -10 put me back in contention but I feel I lost 3 shots on the last 3 holes for getting cocky. Safely inside cut. We'll see how the rolls go for round 3.
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Post by Brighttail on Mar 21, 2019 21:55:41 GMT -5
Still think -12 is the cut mark. All you there should survive.
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Post by frank70 on Mar 22, 2019 3:05:04 GMT -5
Still think -12 is the cut mark. All you there should survive. Yeah, made the cut on the number .... and have little time to play. Just have to squeeze in those two rounds somehow.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 22, 2019 9:23:16 GMT -5
Boom! Made another cut, hallelujah! Going to play my rounds Saturday morning early before the kids wake up around 8:30AM EST, feel free to stop by and watch the implosion.
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Post by Brighttail on Mar 22, 2019 14:07:00 GMT -5
Came into round three really just drained on this course. This course is just such a grind due to the randomness but still I had a good couple of rounds and wanted to try and do well and finish strong. I had a chance at a top ten I think but after struggling mightily on the front nine that possibility died on hole #15 when my second shot was 30 yards from the green and I proceeded to take 4 to get into the hole for a bogey. That pretty much did it for me. I finished the round at -6, with still an outside shot but at this point I really didn't have the drive or desire.
In the end I pretty much sped golfed through the final 18 holes, my will and desire crushed by this course. Don't get me wrong, it is a good course that is difficult but I felt it was just a little too much on the random side. I expect some bad rolls on good shots and some good rolls on bad shots, that is golf, but it really felt like every other hole was like this. I think the course as it stands is fine and the suggestion I would have would be to add just a yard light rough around the green. It is one thing to hit a good shot and have it just trickle off and roll off the green and down a hill and into the rough, it is another to realize you have now a 14 -16 yard shot from a 50-70% lie that is uphill 4 feet to the hole with the green rolling away from you. Pretty much every time I went off the green I was in a spot with that type of shot and after 3+ rounds of it, it became just too much. A small ring of light rough would give you a little better lie on shots that barely missed the green while still punishing you if you missed it enough to roll through that light rough.
Oh well it is what it is. -30 is the mark I put up and I'm ready to move on. GL all.
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Post by mick0210 on Mar 22, 2019 14:14:36 GMT -5
So when will we play a normal course?
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Post by mrvinegar206 on Mar 22, 2019 18:25:11 GMT -5
So when will we play a normal course? You get a normal links course next week. Then a semi-realistic tropical course. A very realistic Southeastern US course after that.
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Post by Brighttail on Mar 22, 2019 21:15:20 GMT -5
So when will we play a normal course? You get a normal links course next week. Then a semi-realistic tropical course. A very realistic Southeastern US course after that. Next week's course is a bit better when it comes to random bounces as the fairways are a lot wider and more manageable. The greens are about the same tho. Course management will be a big factor again.
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Post by mick0210 on Mar 23, 2019 3:25:49 GMT -5
So when will we play a normal course? You get a normal links course next week. Then a semi-realistic tropical course. A very realistic Southeastern US course after that. Thanks and sorry I was a bit angry when I wrote that 😔
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Post by Todd on Mar 23, 2019 16:05:39 GMT -5
Had my chances on the weekend, just couldn't get the breaks. A top 10 will have to do.
Tough course for sure, and I didn't mind the challenge, although the fairway bumps without light rough was a little punitive in my opinion. Hit some perfect drives exactly where I wanted only to have a deep rough shot. Good shots should be rewarded, not left to luck of the bounce.
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