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Post by Giraffe72 on Mar 16, 2020 20:16:50 GMT -5
I'm with some of you, I did not find that first round easy. I played pretty decent on the whole but just couldn't quite stick my approaches and didn't hole anything to begin with, opened with 5 pars before finally getting close for a birdie at 6. Lost it at 8 after a VF followed by a poor flop and par at 9 took me round the turn at level par, alarm bells ringing! I didn't feel like I played the back 9 any better but I holed a few putts and made a couple of good saves to go with 6 birdies to finish on -6. Birdies on the last 3 certainly made a big difference! I feel like I earned every one of those, not great shape on the leaderboard but at least not completely out of touch. Bring on thewind!
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Post by rfitzgerald11 on Mar 16, 2020 22:44:20 GMT -5
That second round flat did me in. -10 in round 1 feeling good. Second round it just felt like nothing went in. Had to have 4-5 lip outs then 2 more that hit the middle of the hole but too hard I guess so popped out. -3 in the wind and my week here is done. So is my promo mark. Good luck everyone.
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Post by Friz on Mar 17, 2020 7:48:06 GMT -5
Returning for my first TGCTours rounds in almost a year. Suggested quarantines and being told to work from home put a little bit more time on my hands. Took some practice time to get my swing back before teeing off for round 1. Slow start saw me even after 6 before I found my groove again, closed -8 through the last 12 holes, pretty happy with my first official round back on Tour. Hopefully can keep it up in round 2 to stick around for the weekend Got it to -7 in round 2 before disaster hit. Thought I was hitting a flop shot out of the bunker and instead did a full swing. Just not paying enough attention but cost me 2 strokes...finished -5 for round 2. -13 overall. Not sure whether that will be enough but felt good to be playing again.
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Post by Crazy Croc on Mar 17, 2020 12:12:01 GMT -5
Played out last 2 rounds Round 3, made 1 birdie in 1st 10 holes, rallied to get to -6 Round 4, hit a 7 hole birdie train from 12-18 to finish up on -9 for the round. (-32) Winter is coming in the southern hemisphere, can feel in in my putter!
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Post by ksmith851 on Mar 17, 2020 13:17:28 GMT -5
Played rounds 3 and 4 even though I really didn’t want to lol.
-14 for the week.
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Post by hmammoth on Mar 17, 2020 17:36:54 GMT -5
I was really looking forward to round two, I enjoy windy rounds and for the most part, I play the wind well. It took me a couple of holes to warm up but after that I started to find my range. I did misjudge the wind a couple of times but never put myself in danger. My putting was good, had a couple of long range putts that just missed by inches, had they dropped, it could have been an amazing round. Outside of that though, played well to finish at -9. -15 for the cut I think will be enough.
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Post by Giraffe72 on Mar 17, 2020 20:28:17 GMT -5
Not such a happy story for me in round 2. Made a great start with a birdie at 1 but had tempo problems on 2 and idiot problems on 4 to drop a couple, needing to make something happen now. To be fair I did, birdied 4 of the next 5 to reach the turn at -3, -9 for the tournament. I then had a run that had me tearing my hair out. Tempo was good and I judged the wind well, I just couldn't hole a putt. So many chances, so many pars, 7 in a row in fact. I did give myself a faint glimmer of hope with an eagle at 17 and birdie at 18 to finish on a second successive -6, but it should have been so much better. Realistically I'm one or two shots short. Disappointing to play that well and not take my chances.
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Post by grovey31 on Mar 18, 2020 7:40:37 GMT -5
A non write up week this week, with colleges closed it means a lot of extra work at home, in some ways, I have to teach myself so I have become both teacher and student. Anyway, this week we play West Forest Club by grovey31 . A completely different type of course from last week. Adam has supplied us with a challenging course with some interesting green complexes. Approach shots are key here, mistakes on approach and you will be making life pretty hard for yourself. Like I said yesterday, we do see the rare appearance of very high winds in round two. This is the round that decides if you make the cut or not. Good luck and have fun. Great to see everyone playing my course this week and thank you to hmammoth for selecting my course for the event. I was curious if anyone in the field has streamed their playthroughs as it would be cool to see how people are getting along with things. Feel free to PM me with a link if so.
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Post by fransslabak on Mar 18, 2020 11:03:32 GMT -5
Disappointing third round: -6
There just wasn’t enough wind!!! 😂😂😂
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Post by Giraffe72 on Mar 18, 2020 14:34:55 GMT -5
In other news, Riotous we're playing Klopp's Pocket on our Friday night Xbox stream this week. Yours is up first so should be 11pm GMT, whatever that is Aus time! Perfect morning entertainment if you're self isolating, we'll show you parts of the course you haven't even seen!
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Post by Riotous on Mar 18, 2020 15:45:41 GMT -5
In other news, Riotous we're playing Klopp's Pocket on our Friday night Xbox stream this week. Yours is up first so should be 11pm GMT, whatever that is Aus time! Perfect morning entertainment if you're self isolating, we'll show you parts of the course you haven't even seen! Fantastic, I’d love to lurk in the background. Is that on twitch or how can I watch?
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Post by rfitzgerald11 on Mar 18, 2020 15:47:33 GMT -5
So I was 100% convinced that -13 was not going to make the cut. Now I'm only about 75% sure. The high wind really caused havoc in round 2 and most players seem to be about 3 strokes worse. Also it seems about 150 players get in each week so with this week already having 138, and 5 players only having played 1 round and at -8 or better I'm starting to think there is a chance -13 gets in. -14 seems pretty safe but with -13 at 49th still I'm getting a little more hope.
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Post by Giraffe72 on Mar 18, 2020 16:03:17 GMT -5
So I was 100% convinced that -13 was not going to make the cut. Now I'm only about 75% sure. The high wind really caused havoc in round 2 and most players seem to be about 3 strokes worse. Also it seems about 150 players get in each week so with this week already having 138, and 5 players only having played 1 round and at -8 or better I'm starting to think there is a chance -13 gets in. -14 seems pretty safe but with -13 at 49th still I'm getting a little more hope. I'd say you're more like 95% in! Even more frustrating for me having missed so many decent chances, I'm going to miss by one.
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Post by Giraffe72 on Mar 18, 2020 16:07:16 GMT -5
In other news, Riotous we're playing Klopp's Pocket on our Friday night Xbox stream this week. Yours is up first so should be 11pm GMT, whatever that is Aus time! Perfect morning entertainment if you're self isolating, we'll show you parts of the course you haven't even seen! Fantastic, I’d love to lurk in the background. Is that on twitch or how can I watch? Will be a multi-stream on Twitch (two 4-balls at once playing alt shot) so you'll be better on a laptop than your phone so you can see both streams. There will be a link in the shoutbox just before tee off. I'll likely be one of them (but not definitely, depends who I'm with and against first up), I'm
Look out for us at 10am Sydney time Saturday morning
And no need to lurk, we would like to hear from you!
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Post by Giraffe72 on Mar 19, 2020 5:43:51 GMT -5
Riotous My mistake we're teeing off an hour earlier than I thought. 8am Brisbane time. Get the kettle on!
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