Ezzino Milonga career

[ezzinomilonga]

First tournament of the season archived with a third place (-41. -10, -10, -9, -12) on a course that really required a lot of study and focusing to score well.
Those are the occasions in which I realize that if I should decide to "simply" play a tournament's round, I could never score so good.
Between practice rounds and clubs changed in my bag, probably only in the last season's event at royal birkdale I worked so much before every round. And all this although I played only the fourth round feeling really comfortable with my swing, scoring well in the first three rounds only cause I was good and lucky enough to birdie what I can..wasting something but not so much and saving all the rest. With 95 putts, just 2 bogeys (and 4 long approaches holed out..3 in the last round with 2 aces..absurd), really I could never complain about something.
Now my only two wishes are to can compete on this week's course and to maintain this level of focus. With a bit of luck, scores will comes too.

Will follow this week's musical choice.

[hoosierhoops24]

Sept 22, 2019 12:48:05 GMT -5 ezzinomilonga said:

First tournament of the season archived with a third place (-41. -10, -10, -9, -12) on a course that really required a lot of study and focusing to score well.
Those are the occasions in which I realize that if I should decide to "simply" play a tournament's round, I could never score so good.
Between practice rounds and clubs changed in my bag, probably only in the last season's event at royal birkdale I worked so much before every round. And all this although I played only the fourth round feeling really comfortable with my swing, scoring well in the first three rounds only cause I was good and lucky enough to birdie what I can..wasting something but not so much and saving all the rest. With 95 putts, just 2 bogeys (and 4 long approaches holed out..3 in the last round with 2 aces..absurd), really I could never complain about something.
Now my only two wishes are to can compete on this week's course and to maintain this level of focus. With a bit of luck, scores will comes too.

Will follow this week's musical choice.

Great tournament, ezzino. Looking forward to this week. By the way I did read your music post but I keep forgetting to tell you that I enjoyed it. Keep it up!

[ezzinomilonga]

Sept 22, 2019 19:17:45 GMT -5 hoosierhoops24 said:

Sept 22, 2019 12:48:05 GMT -5 ezzinomilonga said:

First tournament of the season archived with a third place (-41. -10, -10, -9, -12) on a course that really required a lot of study and focusing to score well.
Those are the occasions in which I realize that if I should decide to "simply" play a tournament's round, I could never score so good.
Between practice rounds and clubs changed in my bag, probably only in the last season's event at royal birkdale I worked so much before every round. And all this although I played only the fourth round feeling really comfortable with my swing, scoring well in the first three rounds only cause I was good and lucky enough to birdie what I can..wasting something but not so much and saving all the rest. With 95 putts, just 2 bogeys (and 4 long approaches holed out..3 in the last round with 2 aces..absurd), really I could never complain about something.
Now my only two wishes are to can compete on this week's course and to maintain this level of focus. With a bit of luck, scores will comes too.

Will follow this week's musical choice.

Great tournament, ezzino. Looking forward to this week. By the way I did read your music post but I keep forgetting to tell you that I enjoyed it. Keep it up!

Again..thank you mate
I have to admit that this thing of the rivalry is the second main reason why i'll play this week's tournament. Between the fact that I dislike the course and a pair of trees really too near a pair of my tees that will make everything a lot more complicated, my first thought has been honestly to say "f**k off, I'll spend this week to rangering and checking real courses for the list, cause it will be probably just a nightmare".
But (and this is my first reason why to play) I think that I must be "professional"..and learn how to play in the same way, with the same amount of work, study, patience etc..even those courses I dislike.
But is also true that I feel still guilty cause I was forced to quit our first event. Considering your score, that was a great chance to have fun in the competition. And to be 1-1, with every probability.
I hope will have this kind of fun this week. Fighting until the last hole.
I was also caressing the idea to use our ghost while we play, sometimes..is something I never did, cause i'm actually not an online player..i always played alone every game..but it could be fun to try this sometimes.
If you want, we could even organize to play some round together..even If, before, I should adjust definitively my internet connection..cause often my PC disconnect itself..it happens 3/4 times for day and I can't understand why it happens..everything seems to work properly, simply it stops to work. But when it happens, I have simply unconnect and reconnect the jack and it restart to work immediately.

Anyway..so do you like the style of Ritchie? Do you already knew him?
And what is your preferred music style (I mean..both to ear and to play..is not necessarily the same, as I already learned years ago ) and guitarists?

[Theopen]

Just wanted to ask ... what axe are you holding in your photo?

[ezzinomilonga]

Sept 28, 2019 13:54:16 GMT -5 Theopen said:

Just wanted to ask ... what axe are you holding in your photo?

My usual axe with 4 strings. The best possible axe in the world

[ezzinomilonga]

2nd tournament played at Geiranger, ended with a -40 after a week full of problems..with both my swing and some tree popped out with no reason (stupid glitch) to make complicated a course already enough complicated, even fo r the crazy conditions we were forced to face, related to this course.
For the first time, after 3 rounds I was simply exhausted to play this course, so I played my 4th simply with the desire to end this torture at some point, ruining a bit my tournament but who cares..i was not in contention for the win in every case and my second promo mark was in any case already sure. 6th final place and..most important thing, I discovered that for this season is needed to reach just three promo marks to be promoted. This means that my plan to reach the CC-A could requires less than the 10 rounds I was thinking.

[ezzinomilonga]

My 3rd tournament of the season has been at Pacific Spirit, a great course, really tough and interesting. I struggled for all the week with my swing, it kicks to the left at the very start and I can't exactly understand why it happens. I do something wrong..but I can't see what, exactly. It afflicts my game so much that I'm looking for a new change in my grab position..cause if I can't solve this thing, I already know I have no chance to be competitive with master clubs, in the future.

Again, the conditions were totally and unnecessarily exaggerated, on a course already tough..and although this thing has very little to do with my final score, has a lot to do with the enjoyment while I play. I can't see the point having three consecutive weeks of super tough conditions on already pretty tough courses..at least in this flight.
Now that the rules for the demotion are tougher, I bet lot of guys have been (and will be) demoted simply cause they had/have not a single week to recover some eventual demo mark.
CC should be more inclusive, not for the elite of players. I have no great issues in any condition (and my scores prove it, more or less), but I think for the majority of the field has been (and still it will be this week, probably) an unnecessary grind.

Anyway..i scored -28, 1 stroke short to gain my third promo mark, closing in 20th place.
But to be fully honest..i know it could sound silly, but i'm in the end really happy to be not promoted with this result. I played awfully all the week. I don't want to be promoted in this way. I can do better. And I want. I want to win another tournament before to leave CC-B..cause I know that after the switch to master clubs I could need weeks..if not months..to fully manage those club enough to be competitive as I want to be.

The worst part is that now I'll be probably forced to miss this week's tournament, cause tomorrow I'll go to my daughter for my birthday and I'm not sure if I'll come back before Saturday..and between yesterday and today I had not the time or any desire to force myself to play full of rush 4 rounds..especially cause I already played the course (Blackflag) and considering the conditions used in these first tournaments, it will be surely not a course that can be played with not the proper time to spend.
If I should come back before Friday, probably I'll try.

I'm a bit pissed to be forced to quit another tournament..2 on 5 are a lot. I hope I can play the next course with no issues, at least.
Well..will see.

[ezzinomilonga]

So..i gained my second promotion after less than 20 tournaments at Blackflag, with 4 rounds played in just a day, in the end. Maybe i could play a bit better, having more time available, but well..the course was tough and my game not perfect at all, so I can be just happy.

Then, now that i'm a CC-A player, finally time is coming to switch to master clubs, as planned. After three day practicing with master clubs, trying to learn how to swing correctly, I played first round on Thursday, then my Friday has been just too busy to play, so again I has been forced to play three rounds in less than 15 hours..and things has been not good for me. At all. After a -7, -1, -13, -8, i scored a -29 for my first master clubs tourney. Is not an awful score, but i can say simply that I have a lot..a LOT of work to do.

Trying to analyze a bit what i feel about this change, i can say that the bright sides are these :

1) The increased distance covered with every club, allows me to have really often a short/mid iron for my approach, if not a wedge. And this is great.
2) The increased spin allows me to attack some green and/or pin in situation that with pro clubs were simply unreachable or barely reacheable (if not with a good amount of luck).
3) The tighter cone forces me to be more focused and this will pay dividends, when I'll solve the issues i have.
4) The tighter cone on putts is not so dramatically worst for my putt as i feared.
5) The fact that the effect of the downswing on putt seems to be more important than with pro clubs, in some way fits better with my mechanic of swing. It will help also to control better the speed of my ball, when I'll forget my "bad" habits after months of pro clubs.
6) After months to practice to have a slight fast backswing with pro clubs, now is really easy to obtain it with master clubs..and is a very useful thing.

All these things are great, for me. Obviously there are also shadows and/or problems. The good thing is that i think are all solvable with practice but one, probably :

1) In these months of work on the nuances of pro clubs, i built a swing that was constantly a perfect/perfect, but with the downswing exactly between the perfect and a slight fast, so now my "natural" swing with master clubs is a slight fast and often, trying to adjust it, i suffer a lot of slight slow downswing, using irons. And a slight fast using wedges. With driver and woods I'm generally fine.
2) I ignore completely all the nuances of master clubs...like the exact amount of roll of the ball depending what club i use, firmness and inclination of surfaces etc..and if with mid/long irons and driver/woods i still can guess more or less what the ball will do, with short irons and wedges is really hard to guess how much the ball will bounce&roll, depending all the variables.
3) For the same reason (+ the different tempo + the tighter cone), my short game is really a nightmare. Right now, just to say, i prefer to approach with a 6 iron than with a flop shot..or a short chip. I need to practice really a lot, to rebuilt some knowledge on it. The best guys are good enough to hole out really often, with a short chip. I risk to score a bogey everytime. Is imperative to improve this side of my game if i want to be competitive.
4) By some week, my stupid attitude to lose my line on stick while i putt, for some reason i can't understand, started to cause a diagonal swing, always from left to right, that results in a series of slices really annoying. Obviously the tighter cone maximizes the effect, but it was something i already suffered with pro clubs, so i can't say is fault of master clubs. Is just me. If i can't solve this thing..honestly i can see how i could ever score well.
5) And this is the only thing I'm seriously worried about..more or less one time per round, i suffer a totally random super fast or super slow downswing. I say is random cause the result is often absolutely too different, if not just opposite, of what i actually do with my stick, with the arrow of my swing laying just on the with line at the start or at the end of the window..in such a way that i could never obtain if i wish it. The worst part is that i can't find a reason why it happens.
It happened also with pro clubs, sometimes, but just one time every 100 swings or more..
Now I'm trying to minimize the chance to obtain it, simulating an half swing everytime before every shot. I don't know if it actually works, but is a fact that this thing happened to me only when i forgot to do this thing. If this could be a solution, I'll share it, cause i know they are a lot, the guys who suffers for this issue. And this thing is really frustrating cause, depending when it happens, it could kill a round..if not a tournament.

Anyway..i'm really happy about this switch. This will be also the best possible way to understand what my limit is, on this game. And it forces me to improve a lot. In every side of my game.
My first target now it will be to have a medium score of -8 per round, staying constantly around a final -32. I'm not interested in green marks, right now, cause even being promoted, i see that I'm simply no good enough to be competitive always and everywhere as i was (more or less) with pro clubs.
Furthermore, CC-A is enormously competitive. I think I'll suffer for weeks. Maybe also a pair of months..but I'm really curious and enthusiast about this challenge. And to see what my limit is. And how much i can improve it.

Now I'm practicing this week course. It plays flawlessly on my PC and this is great. Also, i scored -14 in my practice round, but i see in these conditions is supposed to have a very good score, so i really should to repeat this kind of score when it counts. But i also suspect that things will be harder in other rounds. Will see.

[ezzinomilonga]

The second tournament with master clubs has been awful. And i mean that I, am awful 👀
On a course in which was quite easy to score really well (and I did it, in practice..) I scored a final -27 that means also i gained my first red mark ever. I have a LOT of problems to solve. And the worst part is that they are related only partially to the master clubs. The truth is that master clubs simply "amplifies" a series of issues that I experienced already with pro clubs, by weeks... and that are simply going worst round after round, now. This thing started more or less in the week of Geiranger and still is unsolved.
In detail..i'm talking about the slight kick to the left at the start of almost every swing..and the constant wild slice on almost every putt. These two things are destroying every chance to score well on every hole.

Of course..master clubs complicated everything, no counting that I still have not find the perfect tempo to use on every shot and with every club (I suffer slight slow downswings with wedges, mainly) and that, for some reason i still can't guess, at least almost one time per round I suffer a random super slow or fast that costs me almost always a bogey, if not worst.
This is the situation.

But today it happened something that makes me hope that things could change, if I don't quit.
In short, today the game decided to reset every setup I have in the game (avatar, clubs, graphic setting etc..), but leaving untouched the most important things as level, money and handicap.
I restored everything (quite pissed for the time wasted) and then, practicing this week's course, I noticed something incredible : The huge delay that I was convinced was "normal" on flop and, mainly, on chip shots, simply disappeared. Now the reaction's time is almost instantaneous and if this thing is true, it means that now I can try to improve this part of my game that has always been a nightmare, for me.

Furthermore, after a pair of practice rounds, I decided also to use the steam calibration of the controller, cause actually it was by almost three months I don't checked it.
Well..do you know what? After the calibration, the fu**ed kick to the left disappeared!
And I feel so stupid..cause I could think about this thing a pair of weeks ago...but well.

Now..i don't know how good or bad will be my tournament, but after a dozen of days really frustrating, this news sounds like a miracle for me. I'll must simply continue to practice and improve. If I find a way to understand the proper tempo and to avoid the random super slow sh!t, who knows..the road to be competitive again could be not so impossible!!

We'll see.