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Post by transversealho on Apr 10, 2020 13:02:52 GMT -5
-12 MC API PULL Last week. Same number this week and same results. Been trying like he'll the last 6 weeks to get that pull at the very end in the blue. 50/50 is what it seems like for me. Really struggling with it.Making no exCuses. Got enough on my plate with health issues and chronic pain from auto immune disorder. Good luck to all, stay safe, and be nice and grateful for each day
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Post by AFCTUJacko on Apr 10, 2020 13:26:04 GMT -5
what were the scores of all the people who got pulled? seems to be some interesting results Irrelevant
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Post by GW_Hope on Apr 10, 2020 14:20:57 GMT -5
-12 MC API PULL Last week. Same number this week and same results. Been trying like he'll the last 6 weeks to get that pull at the very end in the blue. 50/50 is what it seems like for me. Really struggling with it.Making no exCuses. Got enough on my plate with health issues and chronic pain from auto immune disorder. Good luck to all, stay safe, and be nice and grateful for each day Stay safe! It’s just a game, as long as your trying it will become natural eventually. If you’re a thumb only swinger the act naturally will pull it at the end. I have to look at my controller and I usually look at at spot above the stick I in my mind push through it. All while seeing the screen peripherally
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Post by mrohde4 on Apr 10, 2020 14:21:02 GMT -5
Its been hard to swing straight for me for 3 years. Ditto.
What Adam is going through is trying to hit the ball straight and failing more often than he would like.
That makes him no different to 95% of the players here, and certainly not particularly worthy of sympathy, whatever his hordes of followers might claim.
While it’s disappointing we don’t hear from him more directly on these forums, he deserves props for streaming his rounds and being transparent. Plus we wouldn’t have the new left/right slap API metric without him! And while I’m sure his response would be “I just don’t care,” his swingline consistency (the most impressive I’ve ever seen) leads me to believe an API-passing adjustment might be closer than he thinks. I know PCs are incredibly different than PS4s in many ways, but seems like a small adjustment in attack angle could do the trick. All that being said, his “me vs. the world” attitude and name calling all while staying silent on here doesn’t help his cause.
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Post by fadgewacker on Apr 10, 2020 15:14:07 GMT -5
Ditto.
What Adam is going through is trying to hit the ball straight and failing more often than he would like.
That makes him no different to 95% of the players here, and certainly not particularly worthy of sympathy, whatever his hordes of followers might claim.
... seems like a small adjustment in attack angle could do the trick. Yeah it’s not rocket science for even us dumb asses...
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Post by theduke21 on Apr 10, 2020 16:18:13 GMT -5
I hope Adam gets it figured out and works at it.
I watched a little bit of his rounds live and he’s not into it at all anymore, which is a shame because his streams were doing quite well and it’s always nice to have TGCT streams bring more eyes to it, especially with players. While some designers get good viewership, we don’t really have many top players that consistently stream and have much of a following.
Looked like he hadn’t played at all, and he was still playing for a bit of a push but it was his short game really that caused the bad score, that’s usually the first thing to go with the rust.
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Post by transversealho on Apr 10, 2020 16:27:06 GMT -5
-12 MC API PULL Last week. Same number this week and same results. Been trying like he'll the last 6 weeks to get that pull at the very end in the blue. 50/50 is what it seems like for me. Really struggling with it.Making no exCuses. Got enough on my plate with health issues and chronic pain from auto immune disorder. Good luck to all, stay safe, and be nice and grateful for each day Stay safe! It’s just a game, as long as your trying it will become natural eventually. If you’re a thumb only swinger the act naturally will pull it at the end. I have to look at my controller and I usually look at at spot above the stick I in my mind push through it. All while seeing the screen peripherally
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Post by transversealho on Apr 10, 2020 16:34:08 GMT -5
Was replying to GW HOPE. I use the chess piece style. Always have since started playing Tiger years ago. Pull back with left index finger and push through with left thumb. I've moved my index finger more to the left of top of joystick. Seems to help with top of swing line on the bubble. Now it's causing more issues with bottom of bubble staying in the blue. Oh boy. Keep trying I guess. 😠. It's Friday. All is GOOD!!!
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Post by SweetTeeBag on Apr 10, 2020 16:37:42 GMT -5
I hope Adam gets it figured out and works at it. I watched a little bit of his rounds live and he’s not into it at all anymore, which is a shame because his streams were doing quite well and it’s always nice to have TGCT streams bring more eyes to it, especially with players. While some designers get good viewership, we don’t really have many top players that consistently stream and have much of a following. Looked like he hadn’t played at all, and he was still playing for a bit of a push but it was his short game really that caused the bad score, that’s usually the first thing to go with the rust. You can't be one of the top players while taking advantage of the swing though. Probably not into it as he isn't dominating the tour for the stretch he had (join the club!) If he gets things in order kudos to him!
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Post by cseanny on Apr 10, 2020 17:45:06 GMT -5
Apparently I'm a big cheater too! I just failed API during Q-School =/. I'm quite surprised! I've never had any problems passing API in my previous Q-School round or in my previous TST or BCT tournaments. I'm all about full disclosure, so I thought I'd throw it out there for everyone to see!
I will calmly chalk it up to a controller issue (I hope!!) and move forward as necessary. For anyone out there who has ever failed API, all I can say is, it sucks =/.
Cheers and good golfing to everyone!
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Post by booze2407 on Apr 10, 2020 18:39:08 GMT -5
Finished up with an amazing -2 in the final round! I just lost focus as all I could think about was my swing line. I even had to quit after hole 7 and come back later to finish. Had a ton of slow downswings as a result. Honestly, I would not be surprised if I am pulled. Just one of those days where I couldn’t find it. When I’m off, I get a lot that are right on the edges (both left and right, equal opportunity misser).. They seem just barely in to me, but the paranoid side of me tells me over and over, that they are out of the cone. I think I had very few in rounds 3 and 4 that were just obviously out, but so many iffy ones where I had to put my face up to the tv to try and see if it was still in lol. I guess I’ll find out soon enough. I fully support the new metric no matter what happens though. Funny how things go with this game, it was just yesterday that I had probably my most consistently good swing ever. Today, probably the worst!
On a side note, it would be nice if I could stop getting fast/slow on every single flop. And why do I keep getting the thing now where the golfer partially pulls the club back and it resets, even though I pulled the stick back all the way. I went months with this never happening, now it’s back with a vengeance.
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Post by theduke21 on Apr 10, 2020 19:06:59 GMT -5
Finished up with an amazing -2 in the final round! I just lost focus as all I could think about was my swing line. I even had to quit after hole 7 and come back later to finish. Had a ton of slow downswings as a result. Honestly, I would not be surprised if I am pulled. Just one of those days where I couldn’t find it. When I’m off, I get a lot that are right on the edges (both left and right, equal opportunity misser).. They seem just barely in to me, but the paranoid side of me tells me over and over, that they are out of the cone. I think I had very few in rounds 3 and 4 that were just obviously out, but so many iffy ones where I had to put my face up to the tv to try and see if it was still in lol. I guess I’ll find out soon enough. I fully support the new metric no matter what happens though. Funny how things go with this game, it was just yesterday that I had probably my most consistently good swing ever. Today, probably the worst! On a side note, it would be nice if I could stop getting fast/slow on every single flop. And why do I keep getting the thing now where the golfer partially pulls the club back and it resets, even though I pulled the stick back all the way. I went months with this never happening, now it’s back with a vengeance. On the swing back thing, it's something with the controller. I had this terribly last year. It would happen 4-5 times before every single swing which obviously made my tempo a disaster. That's around when I just WD'd or DNP'd like 8 straight weeks. Eventually caved in and got a new controller and I haven't had the issue since. No clue what causes it bit I can imagine your unsurety on if your swing actually works is probably hurting your tempo a lot.
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Post by booze2407 on Apr 10, 2020 19:18:21 GMT -5
Finished up with an amazing -2 in the final round! I just lost focus as all I could think about was my swing line. I even had to quit after hole 7 and come back later to finish. Had a ton of slow downswings as a result. Honestly, I would not be surprised if I am pulled. Just one of those days where I couldn’t find it. When I’m off, I get a lot that are right on the edges (both left and right, equal opportunity misser).. They seem just barely in to me, but the paranoid side of me tells me over and over, that they are out of the cone. I think I had very few in rounds 3 and 4 that were just obviously out, but so many iffy ones where I had to put my face up to the tv to try and see if it was still in lol. I guess I’ll find out soon enough. I fully support the new metric no matter what happens though. Funny how things go with this game, it was just yesterday that I had probably my most consistently good swing ever. Today, probably the worst! On a side note, it would be nice if I could stop getting fast/slow on every single flop. And why do I keep getting the thing now where the golfer partially pulls the club back and it resets, even though I pulled the stick back all the way. I went months with this never happening, now it’s back with a vengeance. On the swing back thing, it's something with the controller. I had this terribly last year. It would happen 4-5 times before every single swing which obviously made my tempo a disaster. That's around when I just WD'd or DNP'd like 8 straight weeks. Eventually caved in and got a new controller and I haven't had the issue since. No clue what causes it bit I can imagine your unsurety on if your swing actually works is probably hurting your tempo a lot. It used to happen a lot with my original controller, the one I have now though is only a few months old. I also had one prior that it rarely did it to. My theory has been something server related, but just a wild guess. I don’t know what it means exactly to have the stupid blinking wifi icon showing up at the bottom of the screen during play, but that coincidentally has been starting to happen now also quite a bit. It tells me there might be something going on with the connection, which might screw with the swing too? I don’t know.
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Post by Brighttail on Apr 10, 2020 19:44:48 GMT -5
Round 3 was pretty solid with a -10. Made a silly bogey and missed a couple of easy putts, so I felt i should have been 3 or 4 shots better but at this point I'm just happy to be playing the weekend.
I did a quick practice round for round 4 to just get a feel for the very high winds. I tried a variety of shots and felt pretty comfortable with the round. I even had an albatross on #15 which was sheer perfection and so I jumped right into my round. A mistake apparently.
I wouldn't say I was hitting the ball poorly but I had zero feeling for the putting. I started by missing a couple really easy 6-8 footers by simply under-reading the break. I apparently decided the best way to compensate for this was to treat each putt like I was on 144 speed greens because I putted my ball off the green no fewer than 3 times. I struggled with it all and gave up after I hit a VF downswing on #13 and went into the water. I played a nice super hook to get it on the green in 3 but then proceeded to putt it off the green, again and took a bogey. I think I finished +1 for the round.
Looking back I think I just over played this course. I wanted to make the cut so badly I practised the snot out of the course and in the end it felt more like a unwanted job than a fun time.
Anyway, no need to dwell on the horrible round four. I'm sure i'll end up 45th or worse but hey, I made the cut. Here is a video of my albatross. It says it is a 5 mph wind but it was actually 16mph. I delofted and added a little bit of hook on it to just get it over the mound at the front of the green, it checked up and rolled perfectly into the hole. All in all I have made about a half dozen albatrosses and this is one of my favourite because it did exactly what I wanted and hoped. It was planned and executed perfectly.
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Post by GW_Hope on Apr 10, 2020 20:04:07 GMT -5
On the swing back thing, it's something with the controller. I had this terribly last year. It would happen 4-5 times before every single swing which obviously made my tempo a disaster. That's around when I just WD'd or DNP'd like 8 straight weeks. Eventually caved in and got a new controller and I haven't had the issue since. No clue what causes it bit I can imagine your unsurety on if your swing actually works is probably hurting your tempo a lot. It used to happen a lot with my original controller, the one I have now though is only a few months old. I also had one prior that it rarely did it to. My theory has been something server related, but just a wild guess. I don’t know what it means exactly to have the stupid blinking wifi icon showing up at the bottom of the screen during play, but that coincidentally has been starting to happen now also quite a bit. It tells me there might be something going on with the connection, which might screw with the swing too? I don’t know. There is a bunch of odd things happening lately. I really think HB servers could be overloaded with everybody at home playing golf lately. I had a solid week of constant fast swings. It has been better for last couple days. But loading times and leaderboards don’t load.
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