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Post by mcbogga on Jun 5, 2015 9:46:13 GMT -5
Round 3 done. Quite happy with results even if I fell for the temptation to go for the pin on 5 and paid for it and missed the easy birdie on 18. Sitting in a respectable position with one round left. Seems it helps playing you home course.... Just hope I won't get dizzy this high up the leader-board. Some stats from first two rounds: Average score Rd 1: 65.6 (-4.4) Average score Rd 2: 69.7 (-0.3) *More than four shots difference Lowest score Rd 1: 59 (Bradely Garcia) Lowest score Rd 2: 60 (Brionne Beaumont-Thomas) Most improved Rd1-Rd2: Brionne Beaumont-Thomas (6 shots) Most lost ground Rd2 that still made cut: Jules Powell (14 shots) Number of players with one round over par that made cut: 13
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Post by blueorfe on Jun 5, 2015 16:07:38 GMT -5
An absolute abomination of a fourth round for me. I was 1 yard out with my approaches on nearly every hole and found every slope on the greens to take me away from the hole. The wind switched on me on 90% of my shots as I was on my downswing, which really hurts you when the landing areas are so small on the sunday pin setup. Plus I didn't hole a thing on the greens. Without doubt, the most frustrating round of golf that I have ever played. To shoot -5 with no bogies is about the worst that I could have shot. Even with all the bad rolls that I got, with a bit of luck I still could have shot -10, But nothing would go in the hole? It was as though I wasn't allowed, I had a lipout on a straightish putt from 6 feet, a ball that stuck on the lip after hitting a beautiful putt from 14 feet with 6 feet of break on it on the short par three on the back nine. I started off well, almost holing my second on the first hole and was -3 through 5. But then it just went strange, everything that could go wrong, did. I guess that's golf, one minute you're flying, the next you just can't make anything. Normally it's the first round where I get problems, at least then there's time to get it back, which I've done in the past. This was certainly one that got away from me. Well played Scott Wildman. Great, consistent shooting. Congrats on the win if your score holds out. A fantastic course by Robert Karlsson, which tests every part of your game. Even though I fell foul to the extreme slopes this time, I think it's a great design and a fair test of golf.
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Post by anquila1978 on Jun 6, 2015 3:24:59 GMT -5
Unfortunatly due to tinming this set-up would have been best served after the dlc release, playing in double digit winds is tough enough to compete at most tournaments but the pins here make a run at a good finish impossible. Was fighting like crazy to stay just under par -2 on the 14th tee and 13mph = 8 Can't play a chip, flop ends further away due to spin, try to put it beyond the pin with less loft and back again bacause of the wind. Even can't hit putts hard enough to get up the slope. Missed cut, poor Yeah - I'm disapointed that the DLC did not come in time as it should have. You are right that the wind effect can be rather large the way its set and the pins were indeed set for everyone playing the same conditions. Well +10 on three holes pretty much put paid to this, wind plus pin position made it practically impossible for an up and down and the two bad rounds are a slog from those points. Glad everyone is now under the same conditions and I probably won't be visiting here for a while sorry McBogga
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Post by mcbogga on Jun 6, 2015 3:50:33 GMT -5
It's though in high winds - have to switch from going for pins to hitting center green and relying on putting.
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Post by anquila1978 on Jun 6, 2015 4:21:27 GMT -5
It's though in high winds - have to switch from going for pins to hitting center green and relying on putting. Sorry not the case, one hole par 4 on the last round into 15mph Driver 3wood on front center and the ball rolls back off the front, flop of 24yds into the wind Went the full 30yd shot because backspin and back off the front Repeat untill in rough so less spin equals a 7, didn't stand a chance
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Post by mcbogga on Jun 6, 2015 4:32:28 GMT -5
This Tobo set up is specifically designed to punish the flop shot. There are more short game options.
If you are talking about 9 I came back off the front there last round and hit a so so shot that still stayed up.... It's a tricky shot though - going long may put the ball in an even worse place and too much spin brings it back to your feet.
If 8 it's similar in principle but you have plenty of room to the right and long. If 18 it usually doesn't come back all the way - but yeah - don't flop that one.
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Post by AFCTUJacko on Jun 6, 2015 4:42:18 GMT -5
It's though in high winds - have to switch from going for pins to hitting center green and relying on putting. Sorry not the case, one hole par 4 on the last round into 15mph Driver 3wood on front center and the ball rolls back off the front, flop of 24yds into the wind Went the full 30yd shot because backspin and back off the front Repeat untill in rough so less spin equals a 7, didn't stand a chance Easy. Chip it instead
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Post by anquila1978 on Jun 6, 2015 4:46:09 GMT -5
It's not a shot at the whole course, didn't work out this time, 3 hole cost me a posdible top ten but there you go.
The flop shot was over punished but fine that's what happens sometimes but the real annoyance was hitting the two biggest clubs possible and not getting to a par 4
The set-up is what it us, the combination made the hole a unfair task, can't change it now.
Not going to stop venting at it and this is the begining, wait till the US Open and everyone has 10-15mph on that course, will be hilarious
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Post by anquila1978 on Jun 6, 2015 4:47:19 GMT -5
Sorry not the case, one hole par 4 on the last round into 15mph Driver 3wood on front center and the ball rolls back off the front, flop of 24yds into the wind Went the full 30yd shot because backspin and back off the front Repeat untill in rough so less spin equals a 7, didn't stand a chance Easy. Chip it instead 24 yds 7ft uphill chip, having a laugh aye?
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Post by AFCTUJacko on Jun 6, 2015 4:50:33 GMT -5
24 yds 7ft uphill chip, having a laugh aye? Well no. Any pro would chip it in that scenario. And not one would hit a flop. The 7/8/9 iron chips release a LONG way, even up slopes. And critically don't have backspin.
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Post by poobley on Jun 6, 2015 4:54:21 GMT -5
Sorry not the case, one hole par 4 on the last round into 15mph Driver 3wood on front center and the ball rolls back off the front, flop of 24yds into the wind Went the full 30yd shot because backspin and back off the front Repeat untill in rough so less spin equals a 7, didn't stand a chance Easy. Chip it instead I would suggest the next time this happens and you want to flop, take the PW, de-loft it and try and hit about 50-60%. Will definately not have the backspin and may counteract the spin generated by the wind
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Post by anquila1978 on Jun 6, 2015 5:04:15 GMT -5
24 yds 7ft uphill chip, having a laugh aye? Well no. Any pro would chip it in that scenario. And not one would hit a flop. The 7/8/9 iron chips release a LONG way, even up slopes. And critically don't have backspin. The chip land point would have been in thd red/yellow part of the upslope and would stop the run out, perhaps stopping it and bringing it back to the feet Cheers for the advice, can't change it now Poobley, a PW is 35 yds flop and may have work but it would have been lucky, then a likely long putt for par, was losing a shot eithier way I think, C'est la vie
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Post by mcbogga on Jun 6, 2015 5:11:14 GMT -5
Can't figure out which hole this could be... 8? Pretty much bo way to reach in that 4th round wind.
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Post by bentfivewood on Jun 6, 2015 14:43:41 GMT -5
An absolute abomination of a fourth round for me. I was 1 yard out with my approaches on nearly every hole and found every slope on the greens to take me away from the hole. The wind switched on me on 90% of my shots as I was on my downswing, which really hurts you when the landing areas are so small on the sunday pin setup. Plus I didn't hole a thing on the greens. Without doubt, the most frustrating round of golf that I have ever played. To shoot -5 with no bogies is about the worst that I could have shot. Even with all the bad rolls that I got, with a bit of luck I still could have shot -10, But nothing would go in the hole? It was as though I wasn't allowed, I had a lipout on a straightish putt from 6 feet, a ball that stuck on the lip after hitting a beautiful putt from 14 feet with 6 feet of break on it on the short par three on the back nine. I started off well, almost holing my second on the first hole and was -3 through 5. But then it just went strange, everything that could go wrong, did. I guess that's golf, one minute you're flying, the next you just can't make anything. Normally it's the first round where I get problems, at least then there's time to get it back, which I've done in the past. This was certainly one that got away from me. Well played Scott Wildman. Great, consistent shooting. Congrats on the win if your score holds out. A fantastic course by Robert Karlsson, which tests every part of your game. Even though I fell foul to the extreme slopes this time, I think it's a great design and a fair test of golf. Hey thanks Bradley. I thought I was as good as done with every round you completed. Fitting that it came down to the last round though. Good show! Doesn't it figure that my likely first victory comes when Iesst expected it. There's been a few tournaments when my practice rounds suggested I could contend and didn't. Yet this week I thought I'd never be able to compete for a top 20, let alone to win it.
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Post by blueorfe on Jun 6, 2015 16:33:12 GMT -5
Hey thanks Bradley. I thought I was as good as done with every round you completed. Fitting that it came down to the last round though. Good show! Doesn't it figure that my likely first victory comes when Iesst expected it. There's been a few tournaments when my practice rounds suggested I could contend and didn't. Yet this week I thought I'd never be able to compete for a top 20, let alone to win it. It's like that sometimes isn't it? I start a tournament on some courses thinking that I've no chance of doing well as I think the course doesn't suit me. Yet I manage to climb my way up the leaderboard and put in a good showing when not expecting to. This week however, as soon as I played the course a couple of times, I thought I'm going to have a chance here, I really like it. Sure enough that was the case. I just wish that I'd have looked at the leaderboard before I started my fourth round, not after the ninth hole. If I'd have known that I only needed -8 to win I probably would have played more conservatively and not attacked so many pins early on. I'm not much of a leaderboard watcher, maybe that's a lesson learned there. Sometimes it's good to know what you need to shoot so that you can alter your game plan accordingly. Congrats again on your first victory now that it's official. Always the hardest win, the first one. Great playing Scott.
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