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Post by jwtexan on Apr 26, 2020 9:07:17 GMT -5
Boys, this is a week to go LOW. Oh my. -14 -16 -11 -12 Total -53 I had a few bogies and couldn’t birdie #2 a single round even though it is a pretty straightforward hole. I predict the winner will be in the -60s smart bastard right here, winner went -61. Oh well. I’ll take a promo mark and first place for master clubs. Two more greenies to go and I’m outta here! As for this week... Weird week. I couldn’t make any putts and I really let the frustration get to me. Felt like I could have averaged -12 every round, but didn’t even come close to that. R1 -9 R2 -9 R3 -13 R4 -5 Total -36 Hoping I don’t lose my precious green tick I worked so hard for last week. good luck boys, I’m thinking the winning score will be -50 or better. There are plenty of birdies to be found and every par 5 is eagle able from the 2nd tees.
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Post by Bearforlife73 on Apr 27, 2020 11:05:11 GMT -5
I have an honest question for you guys that play pro clubs on cc-a what do you guys get to gain out of playing on pro clubs
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Post by grantcrichter on Apr 27, 2020 11:40:52 GMT -5
I have an honest question for you guys that play pro clubs on cc-a what do you guys get to gain out of playing on pro clubs Get to have more fun playing than if I get tempo issues and throw my controller. So I guess I gain not breaking controllers and I maximize my FPR (fun per round). What do you gain from masters clubs?
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Post by jwtexan on Apr 27, 2020 13:12:38 GMT -5
I have an honest question for you guys that play pro clubs on cc-a what do you guys get to gain out of playing on pro clubs Get to have more fun playing than if I get tempo issues and throw my controller. So I guess I gain not breaking controllers and I maximize my FPR (fun per round). What do you gain from masters clubs? -A chance to move out of CC-A with a win. I understand if that isn't your goal, but since the next level up requires master clubs anyway I have used them from the beginning of being in CC-A. -Top 15 master club finishes get promotion marks vs top 5 pro club users -Distance -More realistic golf -Xbox tempo issues galore -More BCPRDTF (Beer consumed per round due to frustration) Out of 200 players or so that have been competing lately, we are pretty much split down the middle between master and pro club users. So to each their own. I think the 15/5 promo mark split was a useful way to reward master club users at this level and don't mind that the pro clubbers have to fight over less spots since they have the gameplay advantage.
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Post by grantcrichter on Apr 27, 2020 13:39:35 GMT -5
Get to have more fun playing than if I get tempo issues and throw my controller. So I guess I gain not breaking controllers and I maximize my FPR (fun per round). What do you gain from masters clubs? -A chance to move out of CC-A with a win. I understand if that isn't your goal, but since the next level up requires master clubs anyway I have used them from the beginning of being in CC-A. -Top 15 master club finishes get promotion marks vs top 5 pro club users -Distance -More realistic golf -Xbox tempo issues galore -More BCPRDTF (Beer consumed per round due to frustration) Out of 200 players or so that have been competing lately, we are pretty much split down the middle between master and pro club users. So to each their own. I think the 15/5 promo mark split was a useful way to reward master club users at this level and don't mind that the pro clubbers have to fight over less spots since they have the gameplay advantage. Very good point about BCPRDTF vs FPR
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Post by Bearforlife73 on Apr 27, 2020 14:45:24 GMT -5
I have an honest question for you guys that play pro clubs on cc-a what do you guys get to gain out of playing on pro clubs Get to have more fun playing than if I get tempo issues and throw my controller. So I guess I gain not breaking controllers and I maximize my FPR (fun per round). What do you gain from masters clubs? Just exactly what Texan said for me personally I don’t understand why on cc-a if you can’t advance up then why play I totally understand the guys on cc-b and below playing with them just not here in cc-a and I think there should be 2 different brackets of play for cc-a master and cc-a pro or the highest master club guy gets auto promoted but something needs to change
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Post by ezzinomilonga on Apr 27, 2020 16:32:26 GMT -5
Probably the best possible solution could be to create some kind of PGA Tour for Pro clubs only, but we can't, cause we have not enough "special" societies from HB. As things are, we have a good setup, in my opinion. So said, in CC-A there is an "elite" of very strong pro clubs players that just don't want to use Master Clubs, don't want to be promoted etc etc. and when it happens to be promoted, they immediately looks for a way to be demoted again and so go on. It would be unfair to force these guys to play with Master Clubs, but is also unfair (and against the logic behind the Tour or every kind of competition) to allow a group of people to block the career of other players who actually wants to be promoted. And the actual rule is not perfect (me, as a Master Club player, i already know that is actually almost impossible for me to win an event in this flight, i should to play a godblessed golf), but it helps a lot to have a promo mark if you play good enough. Things are not so bad. It was a lot worst before.
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Post by ezzinomilonga on Apr 27, 2020 16:56:44 GMT -5
Anyway, i'm playing a practice round on this week's course, i miss just 4 holes to finish..and it seems to be one of those courses in which you think "yeah..i'm going to rip it off", but something always happens and finally you have issues to score better than -8 every round. I'm really curious to see how my first round will be. Conditions should be perfect to score really low, but in practice i had A LOT of crooked swings and 3 fast DS, one of them was a Very Fast random and (of course! ) it was on the first par 3 hole..for a good old double bogey after another slight fast DS (my fault) from the tee. I'm -6 right now..well..we'll see. Good luck and good week at all, guys
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Post by ezzinomilonga on Apr 28, 2020 23:11:09 GMT -5
-13 in the first round. After my first practice round, i was not enthusiast at all about this course (also considering my swing was going actually everywhere), then i decided to change my 3I for an hybrid a bit longer, to use it on the third par 3 of the course and, unusually, i also played a second practice round, mainly to learn somwthing about the course, to be honest, after that awful first round, but also to verify this club choice was not wrong. In this second practice round my swing started to work a bit better and i started to appreciate really a lot this course. And is definitely (for my tastes, of course) one of those courses that the most i play and the most i like it. You need to use slopes to reach a lot of pins and (for my habits) soft greens made the thing a bit more complicated than usual for me, then this second practice round has been really important to understand what was the best way to play the course. And i suppose the -13 is mainly a direct consequence of this study. I bet that without that second round, i couldn't score anything better than a -8 or something like this. So i'm quite happy. About the round, the swing worked well enough and i made really few serious mistakes. I just missed one green and 3 putts from long distance by inches, that could make this round really impressive. I played 2 of the 4 par 3 in a "defensive" way and attacked all the other holes. And i can be totally satisfied, i can confirm my initial opinion that on this course is really easy to score high, if something doesn't work or if you undervalue the challenge. Or if you are greedy on approaches aiming too many pins directly. Very curious to see how things will go. (congrats katana22 , you did a great work, the course is a really smart one, totally fair (i still must see a good shot penalized in some way..and this is a great thing, especially on links) and very interesting&funny to play, despite distances are never exaggerated. Thank you for your work!) As usual, good luck to anyone guys.
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Post by ezzinomilonga on Apr 30, 2020 13:46:32 GMT -5
-9 in the second round. I don't know if to feel myself deluded or satisfied. For sure, i feel A LOT lucky. Deluded, cause after a solid but not exceptional start, suddenly from hole 7 to hole 14 i simply was unable to make a single straight swing. Litterally. The ball started to go really everywhere, missing also fairways in a very stupid way. until i decided to stop some minute and to smoke a cigarette before to destroy my controller, with the last 5 holes remaining, being -5 on scorecard. And the little break worked, i scored -4 in the last holes, missing also a putt for eagle on 18 by inches. I'm deluded also cause in my practice round, with worst condition, i scored -12, despite 2 stupid bogeys.. So said, also considering my issues from tee to green, i'm of course super satisfied, cause i understood quite well almost every situation and did almost always the right choice, a great thing i'm slowly learning, it seems. Furthermore, it looks i'm finally recovering my putt. Despite the awful round from tee to green, i scored a good number of birdies and missed other 4 really by hairs, saving every single possible bogey only cause my putt is solid enough. But, probably, the best thing is that from my return to competition last week, i played six consecutive bogey free rounds. My short game is still honestly almost awful, but decisions and putt are really good. When my swing works, i know i can score well almost in every situation. So i feel a bit sad, now, cause i see this week could be good for some great achievement, without this second round, but -22 is a very good score, of course. And, after all, is after a round full of issues like this , that i can see how much and why i love this game so much. You can read correctly every situation, to have a great gameplan, be focused etcetera, but if you want to be competitive and to score well, you need that EVERY single part of your game works properly at the same time. Everytime, every shot is different and details changes everything and, in the end, the only thing that matters is how many shots you need to put the ball in every cup of every hole, no matter what. Or how. Theory and potentiality matters zero. And from zero you restart every time after every round, every hole, every shot. I really, really love this game.
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Post by CTLegacy on May 1, 2020 10:13:56 GMT -5
I have an honest question for you guys that play pro clubs on cc-a what do you guys get to gain out of playing on pro clubs Hitting the ball straight every time. No random shanks because the controller isn't "perfect" or some random PC bug deciding to lag or skip frames and give you very slow for no reason at all. The extra 20 yards doesn't make up enough shots to consider switching. You might shave 2-3 shots of your score if you play perfectly, but it only takes one tiny variation off the center line and oops your ball is OB now or in the water/rough/sand and you lose 4-5 strokes a round that way.
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Post by ezzinomilonga on May 2, 2020 3:59:39 GMT -5
-16 in the third round. Is unusual for me to have a so good score in so easy conditions. Normally i never exploit this situations. And the medium/fast greens are always a weak spot for me. I simply can't read this speed properly. But this time i approached so near to the cup in almost every hole that was simply impossible to miss too many putts. Now i'm -38 after 3 rounds, i know i have the chance to gain another promo mark and i'll try to obtain it. I think everything will be decided by my swing. If i can keep it straight enough, i have chances. Otherwise..it will be a long round...we'll see. Good week-end, guys
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Post by ezzinomilonga on May 2, 2020 8:48:23 GMT -5
-10 in the last round for the final -48. And of course i'm super happy, cause i achieved my first top 10 (maybe top 5?) in CC-A, my second consecutive promo mark, but i can't avoid to notice that the winner will be at -52 and i know that i could never have another chance to be so near to the best scores..and i also know that in that second round i could score a lot better..no counting the fact that i was -6 after 7 holes in this 4th round, then i started to make little errors..approaches 3/4 feet too long or short to have a good putt..the usual 3/4 putts missed by inches..but well..the only really important thing is that i have the feeling to be in some way "in control", using Master Clubs, something that months ago, before to be forced to quit the game almost immediately after my switch from pro clubs, it was absolutely far away from me. Maybe, to stay so much time far from the game "helped" me to completely forget how i was used to play with pro clubs, then i restarted in some way totally "clean" to play with Master Clubs, if this make some sense..and this is making the difference. Of course, sometimes i suffer some randomic super fast/slow but i noticed that, if i move a bit the stick before to make the swing, it happens almost never. As a final thought, again i wish to say that this is a very interesting and well made smart course. Checking comments in our 4 CC threads, often it seems people is not talking about the same course. For someone resulted quite easy..but for someone else has been a nightmare. And i really appreciate this kind of courses, in which the border between a good score and an awful one is really thin and decided by details. A great work from the designer and a great pick from our schedulers. Next week...Bethpage Black!! One of the courses i love the most and, personally, one of the best championship courses in the world. Of course, usually it kicks my ass with no mercy, so i suppose that my streak of 8 bogeyless rounds is going to end in an awful, painful way but, well..is for this kind of challenge that we play
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Post by Bearforlife73 on May 2, 2020 19:05:30 GMT -5
It’s always fun to get your scores pulled when using a ps4 controller so dumb this sh%$ really takes the fun out of the society
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Post by catcherman22 on May 2, 2020 21:20:15 GMT -5
Greetings CC'ers… In the upcoming week you take on the PGA championship qualifier. This is similar to the Masters qualifier where some number of you (leave for Doyley to say the exact number) will get the chance to play in the PGA Championship. As such, this tournament is ment to be tough... You're playing this week at Bethpage Black.. which hosted last years PGA championship. It's set up to tackle all aspects of your game over the four rounds... It starts out firm and fast.. but then the storm rolls in and slows / softens the course but picks the wind up. Just a fair warning that this week is up there in difficulty. If that's not your cup of tea, or you are worried about getting a demotion strike or two.. this might not be the week for you You can always try your hand at cc am tournament (played on the same course, but slightly easier conditions) Good luck and have fun!
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