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Post by peterpan on Jan 25, 2016 13:43:16 GMT -5
Last week, I registered for the Grantland Invitational (CC-D) tournament for the week of Jan. 25th. Saturday, Jan 23rd, I went to check if the tournament was online, and it was!
Since I'm fairly new to those tournaments, I told myself, "Great, I'll be able to practice before Monday." After all, isn't what the big guys are doing in "real life" on the PGA. Players come in a few days before the official Thursday launch, and they practice the course.
So I did... and didn't have a very good total score (+13). But, hey, I will improve that next Monday, when I'll play the "real" game, I said to myself.
Lo and behold, this morning, Monday, I go back to the tour, and I noticed that I can't play, it's not open for me! Checking on the leaderboard, I saw my Saturday's score printed on the board.
What's going on? Did I click on something I shouldn't have?
Questions:
1. Is there a way for organizers to erase all previous scores before the "official" tournament day? 2. Is there a way to practice the courses that we will "officially" play without being "officially" recorded as if we played the 4 rounds?
I'm not complaining, just asking... so I wouldn't repeat the same mistake. You, the organizers, are doing a fantastic job at maintaining this Website, and planning the tournaments!
Thanks!
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Post by hmammoth on Jan 25, 2016 14:08:43 GMT -5
When practicing, make sure it is not the official tour as that can only be played once. The safest way is just to find name of course and play a round there. If want to play a tour, keep eye on forums as people do publish practice tours. What you did, and its a easy mistake to make,is played your tour round, so those rounds are the scores you will have to input on tgctours.com. Everything is a learning experience so just mark this down as one as well, before you know it, you will be giving other new comers advice.
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Post by mikenym84 on Jan 25, 2016 14:52:18 GMT -5
Last week, I registered for the Grantland Invitational (CC-D) tournament for the week of Jan. 25th. Saturday, Jan 23rd, I went to check if the tournament was online, and it was! Since I'm fairly new to those tournaments, I told myself, "Great, I'll be able to practice before Monday." After all, isn't what the big guys are doing in "real life" on the PGA. Players come in a few days before the official Thursday launch, and they practice the course. So I did... and didn't have a very good total score (+13). But, hey, I will improve that next Monday, when I'll play the "real" game, I said to myself. Lo and behold, this morning, Monday, I go back to the tour, and I noticed that I can't play, it's not open for me! Checking on the leaderboard, I saw my Saturday's score printed on the board. What's going on? Did I click on something I shouldn't have?Questions: 1. Is there a way for organizers to erase all previous scores before the "official" tournament day? 2. Is there a way to practice the courses that we will "officially" play without being "officially" recorded as if we played the 4 rounds? I'm not complaining, just asking... so I wouldn't repeat the same mistake. You, the organizers, are doing a fantastic job at maintaining this Website, and planning the tournaments! Thanks! Ouch, you may be S O L my friend. When I first started I accidently posted my 2nd round score twice. Emailed commish and he told me there wasn't anything that could be done. Got a DQ and demotion strike. It sucks but chalk it up as a learning experience!
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Post by TimB on Jan 25, 2016 14:55:57 GMT -5
Watch for threads by Jim, Pablo, and myself, mostly those guys though, they usually set up a practice tournament. For next week "Course of St George" we have 3 going. You can find them in this thread. tgctours.proboards.com/thread/6492/course-st-georgeIf I set one up I like to name it very easy, I hate typing it out in the game. So mine will be something like CC17-Practice. You can just type cc17 and it comes right up.
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Post by peterpan on Jan 25, 2016 15:11:01 GMT -5
Great answers! I'll certainly be more careful next time, though my suggestion to the organizers still stand, that "no score should be able to register BEFORE the actual tournament." I don't even know if it's possible, but thank you all for your comments!
See you on the "virtual" grass!
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Post by TimB on Jan 25, 2016 15:22:37 GMT -5
I think the logic of the tournament starting early is to accommodate people who have work and family to contend with during the week. Sometimes it's hard for them to get the time in the week to play their rounds. People like me, retired, happily divorced and kids gone away to school I have nothing but time on my hands, play my rounds Saturday morning then am left with the rest of the week waiting for the next one lol
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Post by ErixonStone on Jan 26, 2016 7:32:58 GMT -5
Although the Tours officially open on Mondays, they are posted early to allow folks who can only play on weekends to get their rounds in. You just can't submit any scores until Monday. Looks like this week, you inadvertently played the tournament early.
Practice tours are regularly set up but they should never contain "tgctours.com". Instead they'll say something like "week 16 practice" or "Canuck club practice".
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2016 8:33:05 GMT -5
I would advice not to practice at all as this was my procedure when i constantly got top 10's lately I have been over practising and ending in 40's this week I will even miss the cut I can't agree with this at all. I'm not saying practice the course to death but a couple of run throughs is absolutely necessary in order to discover those one or two holes that need to be played a certain way. Practice is why I finished T7 in the last tournament. I could have never done that without practice. Naturally, everybody is different. But I would say that most people benefit from practice and not the other way around.
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Post by TimB on Jan 26, 2016 9:12:16 GMT -5
My practice is a routine of sorts. I'll play the course 1'st 3-4 times just trying to get a good feel for the course and learn it a bit. Here is where if you are following one of my ghosts you may say "what the hell is he thinking" EG; if I see a hole in trees and fairway past them, I see if I can make it, to shorten distance. Or other crazy shots. Willows setup three 1'st hole I restarted multiple times just trying to get a good bounce off that little bridge to the right since you can't make the 2'nd fairway off the tee unless you have good wind at your back. I got to where I was able to nail that shot 3 out of 5 times.
Lol I had a shot on St George the 1'st or 2'nd time I played it, that par 3, second or third hole, I totally misjudged my club and wind, came up real short, bounced off the retaining wall and nailed the pin, ball dropped about an inch from the hole. I would have loved that ace lol
After my initial experimental and learning phase I go into serious practice, this is where I start working on dialing in my approach shots, learning where best to land, etc.
But in the end its all just for fun. I enjoy playing the game, so may as well practice the upcoming courses. and I get a lot of enjoyment out of the week leading up to the tournament, the chatting with the others about the course, the light hearted atmosphere all that, I enjoy that more than the actual tournaments lol
I won't be practicing this course all that much though just because the colors in the theme don't suit my eye. I do agree that you can over do the practice though and get a sort of tunnel vision and have fallen into that trap, got too confident on a course only to blow it all to hell in the tournament.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2016 9:16:37 GMT -5
I can't agree with this at all. I'm not saying practice the course to death but a couple of run throughs is absolutely necessary in order to discover those one or two holes that need to be played a certain way. Practice is why I finished T7 in the last tournament. I could have never done that without practice. Naturally, everybody is different. But I would say that most people benefit from practice and not the other way around. of course no one is the same I only stated my own experience I mostly play the tours speed golf style and drunk I might add and it seems though when I practice them I do worse but hey thats just me I was in CC-A 7 weeks ago and if I still was there I would win there with no practice I guess it dont work for you but I am convinced it is what works for me Hey Marc, if it works for you, great. I'm jealous LOL. But I'd be lost without practicing. I'm lost with practicing. LOL.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2016 9:52:59 GMT -5
Hey Marc, if it works for you, great. I'm jealous LOL. But I'd be lost without practicing. I'm lost with practicing. LOL. you on steam? if you want I can do practice rounds on CC courses and give you some tips let me know I always try to help out where I can but I wont be able to use a mic because the cursing I spit out when I miss 30 foot puts will make me mental and you also Thanks. I'm good. I know what I need to work on. It's the math stuff. I just find it so tedious to have to take out a calculator to figure out the effect of wind, elevation, green firmness, etc. I estimate now and it gets me fairly close. Just not close enough to continuously get within 5 ft of the pin on every approach shot. And then of course reading the breaks on the green then becomes an issue because I'm anywhere from 7 to 15 feet away on most putts. That's my problem in a nut shell because I won't sit down and do the math. Until I do, I'm just going to be an average player.
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Post by Deleted on Jan 26, 2016 12:23:04 GMT -5
Thanks. I'm good. I know what I need to work on. It's the math stuff. I just find it so tedious to have to take out a calculator to figure out the effect of wind, elevation, green firmness, etc. I estimate now and it gets me fairly close. Just not close enough to continuously get within 5 ft of the pin on every approach shot. And then of course reading the breaks on the green then becomes an issue because I'm anywhere from 7 to 15 feet away on most putts. That's my problem in a nut shell because I won't sit down and do the math. Until I do, I'm just going to be an average player. I dont do it mathematicaly I do it strickly on feel Well that's something you can't teach. That's how I do it for the most part. Yeah, I do some basic addition and subtraction for wind and elevation to figure out what club I'm going to use and how much loft, but as far as aiming goes, accounting for all of that, I just kind of feel it. Right now, that only gets me, on long approach shots, about 15 to 20 ft from the pin. Sometimes maybe 10. But I can't keep relying on making those long putts if I'm going to start shooting low 60s regularly.
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Post by elguapo79 on Jan 31, 2016 12:06:37 GMT -5
I would advice not to practice at all as this was my procedure when i constantly got top 10's lately I have been over practising and ending in 40's this week I will even miss the cut I can't agree with this at all. I'm not saying practice the course to death but a couple of run throughs is absolutely necessary in order to discover those one or two holes that need to be played a certain way. Practice is why I finished T7 in the last tournament. I could have never done that without practice. Naturally, everybody is different. But I would say that most people benefit from practice and not the other way around. I never practice. I don't have the time, really, but even if I did, I have a habit of scoring the best on my 1st round. If I practiced, I'd probably really be stinking it up. Take it from me, a guy middling away in the lower part of CC-D. Practice is for goobers! (Where did that post from @marc come from / go?)
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Post by JV17 on Jan 31, 2016 12:27:51 GMT -5
elguapo79, I was trying to figure out the same thing abou marc's posts... They aren't there, but we see them in replies. Weird.
For the record about practicing... I practice a fair amount now, but only practice 1 round on the Tourney course before I start the Tourney. I used to play PhlyerPhanatic's practice tourneys, but it never made a bit of difference when compared to when I did not do any practice round. This probably says something about how the top guys practice vs a crappy player like me. I guess they really study the courses, winds and hole locations and take notes during the practice rounds???
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Post by TimB on Jan 31, 2016 12:57:52 GMT -5
Glad someone asked about this marc.
The other day I got home to see a notification of marc liking a post of mine (why lol) in this thread, up above it just says "likes this" no name. He must have deleted himself or got deleted for some transgression. I wasn't sure if he had said something to me and caused a ruckus while I was away. Few posts in this thread are missing from him. I just left it be but have been wondering what the hell.
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