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Post by Doyley on Apr 26, 2015 22:48:03 GMT -5
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Post by nevadaballin on Apr 27, 2015 0:49:24 GMT -5
Got off to a good start and then .... crap.
Rd 1 - 60 Rd 2 - 65 Rd 3 - 65 Rd 4 - 63
In the clubhouse after 4 rounds at -35 The winds were really strange. Some holes I'd have 10-12mph and the next hole would be 2-4mph.
Encouraged by my improved play of late but really need to start being consistent for 4 rounds.
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Post by justamush on Apr 27, 2015 7:16:08 GMT -5
Started off strong, had a bad 2nd round, but then had really good 3rd and 4th rounds. I hope -17 is enough to make the cut.
Rd 1: 62 Rd 2: 65 Rd 3: 60 Rd 4: 60
Overall I shot -41.
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Post by mlhartzell on Apr 27, 2015 13:22:50 GMT -5
Coming off 2nd place last week in the Zurich Classic, I was feeling confident. Unfortunately that lead to me playing as soon as the course was available which happened to be in very strong winds of 16mph+ my first two rounds. Nonetheless, resisted the urge to "wait the wind out". Recovered a little in rounds 3 and 4 but overall hopeful I can at least get a decent placing. 64, 62, 61, 58, total of -43
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Post by Deleted on Apr 27, 2015 13:53:01 GMT -5
Coming off 2nd place last week in the Zurich Classic, I was feeling confident. Unfortunately that lead to me playing as soon as the course was available which happened to be in very strong winds of 16mph+ my first two rounds. Nonetheless, resisted the urge to "wait the wind out". Recovered a little in rounds 3 and 4 but overall hopeful I can at least get a decent placing. 64, 62, 61, 58, total of -43 My god 16mph+ winds and you still managed to hit a 64 & 62 for your first two rounds!?! Well where do I start? This was my first tournament in TGCT after completing April Q-School. Played 4 practice rounds on Killigrew Folly beforehand and went 63, 63, 62, 57 if I recall correctly thinking 'right I'm ready to start my PGA career - lets do this!'. So off I went to start the tournament and straight away, like you, I had 16mph+ winds. Well unfortunately I had never experienced such ferocious winds before and just didn't know how to play in them. They never eased at all and I finished the first round in a rather embarrassing 71
On to round two. The exact same winds throughout and I started off with a double bogey on the first hole. Naturally after such a torrid start I thought this was going to be even worse than the first round but I some how managed to compose myself and finish with a 64 so that's -9 for me after two rounds.
Never bothered with rounds 3 and 4 as there's not a chance of -9 making the cut so not the best start to my PGA career but it was a valuable lesson nevertheless and one which will hopefully put me in good next for the next tournament (hopefully being the operative word!).
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mlhartzell
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Post by mlhartzell on Apr 27, 2015 15:01:14 GMT -5
My god 16mph+ winds and you still managed to hit a 64 & 62 for your first two rounds!?! Well where do I start? This was my first tournament in TGCT after completing April Q-School. Played 4 practice rounds on Killigrew Folly beforehand and went 63, 63, 62, 57 if I recall correctly thinking 'right I'm ready to start my PGA career - lets do this!'. So off I went to start the tournament and straight away, like you, I had 16mph+ winds. Well unfortunately I had never experienced such ferocious winds before and just didn't know how to play in them. They never eased at all and I finished the first round in a rather embarrassing 71 On to round two. The exact same winds throughout and I started off with a double bogey on the first hole. Naturally after such a torrid start I thought this was going to be even worse than the first round but I some how managed to compose myself and finish with a 64 so that's -9 for me after two rounds.Never bothered with rounds 3 and 4 as there's not a chance of -9 making the cut so not the best start to my PGA career but it was a valuable lesson nevertheless and one which will hopefully put me in good next for the next tournament (hopefully being the operative word!). It's OK man, that happens. It takes a while to adjust to the wind and still at the end of the day, It is less "predictable" as the math behind calculating yardage and how much wind effects the ball is tied into the club, its loft (if you add or lower the loft) and the elevation. First see, Doyley's Lessons which are very good regarding wind calculations tgctours.com/Home/News/1005Couple additional rules of thumb I use that you could try out: -Lower Lofted Clubs are less affected by headwind overall than higher lofted clubs BUT: -If downhill, they are in the air longer and so may be blow more right/left than at level ground -if you add loft to a particular club expect it to be blown more off line than standard loft -In high winds I tried to add draw/hook spin to get more reliable start lines and right/left shot accuracy but that alone seems to work best with winds no more than 5-7 mph -For winds greater than 5-7 mph, I generally will adjust my aiming and then add the difference in draw/ fade spin as it seems to be more reliable Example: 158 Yard 7 Iron Flat ground 12 mph blowing 90 degrees to the right: Estimate yards you think ball would be blown to the right if hit squarely. Estimate Distance it would be blown by a 5-6 mph wind. Aim the difference of the two to your left, and then add "5-6mph worth" of hook spin I do this in a combo as I have found that combining the two in high winds seems to have more reliable results than just adjusting aiming or just adjusting spin alone. Hope this helps, and wasn't too confusing
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Post by theduke21 on Apr 27, 2015 22:07:38 GMT -5
Much like what you guys were saying above, I went ahead and began the tournament right when it became available and faced some extremely high winds around 15 mph. I gutted out a 64-61 in the first two rounds. Surprisingly, it wasn't the winds that killed me, but it was giving myself some extremely tough putts to make in bad situations. These pin locations are very accessible, but often on some pretty tough slopes that don't allow for many easy putts. I took a couple days off and started my third round this morning and found the winds down to around 10-12 mph but still couldn't get the putter rolling and shot 63. That put me at -28 going into the 4th and in need of a good round. I decided to take a few hours off and the winds were around 8-11 mph mostly just a few minutes ago. I got in a great rhythm with my stroke and my swing confidence early and fired my best career round in my short TGCTours career with a 56. I had 2 eagles, 12 birdies, and 4 pars. That shot me up to -44 for the tournament and should put me in position for a top-20 and my best finish yet on tour since I've made all three cuts but been hanging around in the 30's. I'm second right now on the ps4 for people that have finished - was 8th going into 4th round. This was a cool course, but it didn't have too much fear in it. The only difficulty provided was some strong winds and really tough sloping hole locations.
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Post by theduke21 on Apr 27, 2015 22:11:48 GMT -5
Coming off 2nd place last week in the Zurich Classic, I was feeling confident. Unfortunately that lead to me playing as soon as the course was available which happened to be in very strong winds of 16mph+ my first two rounds. Nonetheless, resisted the urge to "wait the wind out". Recovered a little in rounds 3 and 4 but overall hopeful I can at least get a decent placing. 64, 62, 61, 58, total of -43 Seems like we had a similar week. We would've had a shot at the title had we waited a bit and let that Sunday magic be available in the first couple of rounds.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 28, 2015 11:59:46 GMT -5
It's OK man, that happens. It takes a while to adjust to the wind and still at the end of the day, It is less "predictable" as the math behind calculating yardage and how much wind effects the ball is tied into the club, its loft (if you add or lower the loft) and the elevation. First see, Doyley's Lessons which are very good regarding wind calculations tgctours.com/Home/News/1005Couple additional rules of thumb I use that you could try out: -Lower Lofted Clubs are less affected by headwind overall than higher lofted clubs BUT: -If downhill, they are in the air longer and so may be blow more right/left than at level ground -if you add loft to a particular club expect it to be blown more off line than standard loft -In high winds I tried to add draw/hook spin to get more reliable start lines and right/left shot accuracy but that alone seems to work best with winds no more than 5-7 mph -For winds greater than 5-7 mph, I generally will adjust my aiming and then add the difference in draw/ fade spin as it seems to be more reliable Example: 158 Yard 7 Iron Flat ground 12 mph blowing 90 degrees to the right: Estimate yards you think ball would be blown to the right if hit squarely. Estimate Distance it would be blown by a 5-6 mph wind. Aim the difference of the two to your left, and then add "5-6mph worth" of hook spin I do this in a combo as I have found that combining the two in high winds seems to have more reliable results than just adjusting aiming or just adjusting spin alone. Hope this helps, and wasn't too confusing Cheers for the advice kind sir, which is very much appreciated.
I have actually had a look at Doyley's lessons but not as thoroughly as I probably should have so I shall certainly be revisiting it.
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Post by Nemecyst on Apr 28, 2015 14:30:12 GMT -5
64, 65, 64, 61 for a -34 total. A little underwhelming for myself this week. The wind was wrecking having on my aim every round. A few pockets here and there of 7-9mph but mostly 10-14 the rest of the way. I don't usually mind playing in the wind and feel like I have it down for the most part but this week it was a guessing game if the ball was going to come off the clubhead straight and then tail to whichever way the wind was blowing or if the ball was just going to shoot off the club straight right of left(if that makes any sense). I'd have some shots come off the club at like a 15 degree angle left/right and I could tell instantly if my shot was going to land where I aimed it, or 10 yards left/right. Anyways, putting saved me big time this week as I nailed quite a few 20+ footers and was able to lag close a handful of 50-70ft putts. I was hoping to place better this week with the big guys over in the WGC but oh well. Time to gear up for The Players!
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Post by birddog1980 on Apr 29, 2015 14:09:13 GMT -5
Hello everyone,
Great to be a part of this tour. Really looking forward to it. I just got my tour card last Friday night and was a late entry to the tournament. After playing a few practice rounds over the weekend and the early part of the week, I wasn't sure how I would do in this tournament. I was shooting around -8, -9 or so, and even that was a struggle. So I finally got around to playing the first 2 rounds, and I found the course to be playing in very favorable scoring conditions today. But, for me, I got off to a slow start. Parring the first 3 holes, and the approach shots were not really getting close. Also experienced the "power/swing glitch" a couple times on the front 9 that made a couple holes a lot longer than what they shouldve been. On the back 9, the putter finally came to life. Hitting a couple 20+ footers and lagging a couple close for tap in pars. I finished my first round as a PGA pro with a 63 that included 2 bogeys. Pretty happy with the round, but I definitely felt I left a few shots out there, but that's golf.
I immediately played round 2 and I got off to a great start. I was -7 through 9 holes. Things continued going my way on the back 9 until the 13th I think it was. I made a disappointing bogey after missing a very makeable par putt. I rebounded nicely with a birdie on the next and got the momentum back. Finished strongly down the stretch, but I completely blew the approach shot on 18 and it caught the back slope and ran away from the hole about 35 ft. Really hate parring Par 5's lol. Finished with a -12, 60 for the 2nd round, that included 2 pin seekers and a near ace! Im -21 at the halfway point.
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Post by justamush on Apr 29, 2015 14:37:38 GMT -5
Hello everyone, Great to be a part of this tour. Really looking forward to it. I just got my tour card last Friday night and was a late entry to the tournament. After playing a few practice rounds over the weekend and the early part of the week, I wasn't sure how I would do in this tournament. I was shooting around -8, -9 or so, and even that was a struggle. So I finally got around to playing the first 2 rounds, and I found the course to be playing in very favorable scoring conditions today. But, for me, I got off to a slow start. Parring the first 3 holes, and the approach shots were not really getting close. Also experienced the "power/swing glitch" a couple times on the front 9 that made a couple holes a lot longer than what they shouldve been. On the back 9, the putter finally came to life. Hitting a couple 20+ footers and lagging a couple close for tap in pars. I finished my first round as a PGA pro with a 63 that included 2 bogeys. Pretty happy with the round, but I definitely felt I left a few shots out there, but that's golf. I immediately played round 2 and I got off to a great start. I was -7 through 9 holes. Things continued going my way on the back 9 until the 13th I think it was. I made a disappointing bogey after missing a very makeable par putt. I rebounded nicely with a birdie on the next and got the momentum back. Finished strongly down the stretch, but I completely blew the approach shot on 18 and it caught the back slope and ran away from the hole about 35 ft. Really hate parring Par 5's lol. Finished with a -12, 60 for the 2nd round, that included 2 pin seekers and a near ace! Im -21 at the halfway point. Great shooting, welcome to the tour. Just what I needed, somebody else who is probably better than me on the PGA tour.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2015 14:58:47 GMT -5
Given the cut is 70 and I'm in 70th place as I write this, if the RD1/2 score deadlines could be declared this very second it would be very much appreciated!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 29, 2015 16:46:28 GMT -5
Given the cut is 70 and I'm in 70th place as I write this, if the RD1/2 score deadlines could be declared this very second it would be very much appreciated! Alternatively, whilst I'm on the subject of cuts, a 48 hour worldwide power cut wouldn't go amiss either
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Post by birddog1980 on Apr 29, 2015 19:22:33 GMT -5
Well I just finished the last 2 rounds and it was pretty lackluster really, by my standards. The start of the 3rd round was a complete disaster.. bogeyed 3 of the first 4 holes. (Friendly tip: Dont try to play video game golf when you have distractions all around you. Throws your math & concentration off. Dog barking, phone ringing off the hook, ect. lol). Anyways I rallied back, but was still only -1 after 9 holes and it took any chance that I had of a Top 10 out the window. Scored a few birdies on the backside, but finished round 3 with a somewhat respectable, but still disappointing -6, 66.
The final round was more of the same, but without the bogeys. Just couldnt score on the front 9. The back 9 was by far the better and easier side for me this week. Finished with a -8, 64 and -35 for the tournament. Being a noob to the tour, Im not qualified for The Players next week, so I'll be crossing the pond and making a debut on the Euro tour. See you at Elmsley Island!
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