Flyingsquad23
Caddy
Posts: 53 
TGCT Name: Flyingsquad23
Tour: Challenge Circuit
|
Post by Flyingsquad23 on Feb 8, 2015 13:38:14 GMT -5
That on the top of the leader board for the top two tours the players are shooting and posting scores within a couple strokes of their scoring average and on the WEB Tour the posted scores are 10-12 strokes better than scoring averages. Either the courses are too easy or the tour is full of sandbaggers and others that shouldn't be there. I get it easy course everyone should shoot low but 10-12 better than avg is suspect. Every week I see dozens of new players get thrown in the WEB and finish at the top, I love playing and being a part of this but it is getting frustrating posting 4 rounds of low 60's to finish 25 stokes off the lead. The leader of the web tour this week hasn't played a tourney yet but posts 4 rounds in the mid 50's. Hopefully time will give balance to all the tours.
|
|
|
|
Post by Pubknight on Feb 8, 2015 14:15:17 GMT -5
Flights are coming.
Loch Lorne was also a very easy course if you were lucky enough to get it with low winds.
Coyote Canyon is also fairly easy (think the rating is only 63)
There just aren't enough events so far to look at scoring average as any indicator unless you also look at the courses on which the scores were shot and take the score in relation to rating into account.
By their very nature, the PGA/Euro guys are more consistent, and the top of the leaderboard folks are basically shooting the lowest scores possible.
One of the things keeping web.com folks from PGA/Euro is that consistency isn't quite there yet.
That doesn't mean they don't have the ability to catch fire for four rounds.
*And* the best people coming out of Q-School can only go into web.com initially, even if they earned sponsors exemptions out of Q-School.
Makes sense to me that people might want to check out a web.com tournament or two before they put they Q-School sponsors exemptions on the line.
In short, people shouldn't be so quick to toss out the 'sandbagger' label.
|
|
|
|
Post by BMann1976 on Feb 9, 2015 10:22:47 GMT -5
I personally struggled early on. The courses were more difficult. The last 2 courses Loch Lorne and Coyote Canyon played faily easy for "most" people, including myself, thus the low scores.
|
|
|
|
Post by Pubknight on Feb 9, 2015 10:24:56 GMT -5
People are also improving.
I know I'm scoring much lower now, and more consistently, than I did a month ago.
|
|
JoeOP
Weekend Golfer
Posts: 128
|
Post by JoeOP on Feb 9, 2015 14:30:05 GMT -5
I bought TGC and signed up for TGCT the next day about 5 weeks ago. I literally learned how to play the game at q school and sneaked into web.com on sheer will and desire. Snagged a pga tourney exemption last week, planning on at least a dozen practice rounds at Bavaro in an effort to move up and keep improving.
All about gameplay and practice.
|
|
rustymike12
Caddy
Posts: 63
TGCT Name: Michael D Chaney
|
Post by rustymike12 on Feb 12, 2015 9:08:30 GMT -5
That on the top of the leader board for the top two tours the players are shooting and posting scores within a couple strokes of their scoring average and on the WEB Tour the posted scores are 10-12 strokes better than scoring averages. Either the courses are too easy or the tour is full of sandbaggers and others that shouldn't be there. I get it easy course everyone should shoot low but 10-12 better than avg is suspect. Every week I see dozens of new players get thrown in the WEB and finish at the top, I love playing and being a part of this but it is getting frustrating posting 4 rounds of low 60's to finish 25 stokes off the lead. The leader of the web tour this week hasn't played a tourney yet but posts 4 rounds in the mid 50's. Hopefully time will give balance to all the tours. This is what I've brought up in the past so they have come up with the idea of "flights", so we'll see what happens with that. Glad to see someone else speaking up about it.  |
|
