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Post by waggy on Dec 18, 2023 9:09:50 GMT -5
Round 1 - 80
Round 2 - 85
This should clinch my demotion back to Q-School
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Post by waggy on Dec 18, 2023 9:11:57 GMT -5
OMG, you have to be kidding me. After that miserable week I actually LOST a strike? So even if I miss the cut this week I'll still have to play one more week? Is there any way I can get 2 strikes in one week?
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Post by boffo on Dec 18, 2023 12:51:52 GMT -5
I already told you before that you instantly lose a strike if you make the cut and can not earn one back.
Not sure of the exact percentages that are used but a missed cut can result in either 0, 1, or 2 demotion marks. A small clump at the bottom of the leaderboard get two strikes. The next small clump get one strike. Then those that finish between the cut line and the one strike line get 0 strikes.
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Post by boffo on Dec 18, 2023 12:54:43 GMT -5
Looking at your scores and the small sample size of people who have posted a round 1 score I’ll say you should be very comfortably in the two strike clump.
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Post by waggy on Dec 18, 2023 12:57:56 GMT -5
Looking at your scores and the small sample size of people who have posted a round 1 score I’ll say you should be very comfortably in the two strike clump. 15 over par will do that to you. I just tested an Elite Level course under brutal conditions and shot 5 over par. I wish I video taped the round. I made some amazing approach shots. Have no idea how. And even at 186 speed, the greens were not that difficult. This is a strange game.
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Post by boffo on Dec 18, 2023 15:21:32 GMT -5
Played my first two rounds and went +2 and +1. Looks like that should get me somewhere right around the cut line. One of those weird courses where it looks kind of easy and you can get a good run of birdies going but then you make one mistake on a hole and it becomes a double or triple bogey and all your positive progress is gone just like that.
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Post by boffo on Dec 20, 2023 18:24:13 GMT -5
Looks like I’ll be making the cut by a stroke or two. Played round 3 and finally got under par for a round with a -1. An early double bogey took most of the round to recover from but I didn’t make any serious mistakes the rest of the way and scraped by at the very end. Won’t make me a threat but should help pull me up the standings a little bit.
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Post by waggy on Dec 20, 2023 22:15:10 GMT -5
I just looked at the leaderboard and I am almost at the very bottom. Surely this has to be good enough for 2 strikes.
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Post by boffo on Dec 21, 2023 17:16:58 GMT -5
It does show projected promotion/demotion marks on the leaderboard, but as I said you’re very safely in the two demotion strike range.
Finished out my event with a nice solid +11 in round four. One of those no consistency in anything rounds. Mostly fast but some would go straight, some would go hard left, some would start left and keep going further left. If there was a hazard in the way and I played the ball to go fast off the tee, then it would go slow or perfect and right into the hazard. Another annoying round where it felt like I was constantly fighting the game instead of the course.
It’s been getting to be more and more of a drag to play my rounds each week so if you’re not playing Tour events anymore I don’t think I will either. At least not full time. If I suddenly get the urge to play a week then I’ll jump in and probably almost immediately regret it.
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Post by waggy on Dec 21, 2023 18:24:04 GMT -5
It does show projected promotion/demotion marks on the leaderboard, but as I said you’re very safely in the two demotion strike range. Finished out my event with a nice solid +11 in round four. One of those no consistency in anything rounds. Mostly fast but some would go straight, some would go hard left, some would start left and keep going further left. If there was a hazard in the way and I played the ball to go fast off the tee, then it would go slow or perfect and right into the hazard. Another annoying round where it felt like I was constantly fighting the game instead of the course. It’s been getting to be more and more of a drag to play my rounds each week so if you’re not playing Tour events anymore I don’t think I will either. At least not full time. If I suddenly get the urge to play a week then I’ll jump in and probably almost immediately regret it. You know what's funny? You should see my tee shots. They're really good at least 75% of the time. That's not the problem with my game anymore. My problem is my approach shots. I simply don't know how to manage a course. Wherever I put the ball, it's wrong. Then I either end up with a chip out of the rough or sand or a putt that's 50 ft or more. Combine that with some of these greens that are sloped all over the place and by the time I make it to a 4 foot putt, I'm putting for bogie. On a good day, I'll shoot 5 or 6 over. On a bad day, 13 to 15 over. Until I learn to play my approach shots properly, I'm never going to be any good at this game.
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Post by boffo on Dec 21, 2023 18:33:53 GMT -5
I usually just aim for the big part of the green and trust that I’ll be able to two putt for par. At CC-K or L level that’s usually good enough. More often than not if I’m aiming for the big part of the green fast or slow doesn’t matter as much since you get such a big margin of error for your shot to still land on the green. Sometimes I get lucky and it ends up a lot closer to the hole than I was aiming which is where the birdies show up. Sometimes I get unlucky and it lands further away than expected and rolls off the green. I’m still fairly confident in my ability to sink most two putts/short chip and putt. It’s when my approach shot leaves me in a bunker around the green or 20-30 yards from the hole where I’m in trouble and most of my bogeys come from.
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Post by waggy on Dec 25, 2023 12:23:49 GMT -5
Merry Christmas. I see I'm officially in Q-School. Well, I got MY Christmas present. Thank God.
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