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Post by matthew_titots on Jul 9, 2020 20:17:54 GMT -5
I agree, if you are trying to play straight up you will pass. I never or very rarely have short shot but I have an occasional wild swing out of the channel. All good. There are definitely some wild ones coming from my thumb, too. Especially when I speed golf - probably a bad habit
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Post by cseanny on Jul 9, 2020 20:28:15 GMT -5
I'm sure there's plenty of guys who are making honest attempts to pass the API, yet to their disappointment, are still failing. Some people simply lack the skill to meet the PGA requirements. Imo people need to keep this in mind before forum shaming and making deliberate attempts to disparage those who fail.
Hopefully 2K21 will have better coding, at least compared to the problems arising from TGC2 > TGC 2019.
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Post by GW_Hope on Jul 9, 2020 23:09:26 GMT -5
I'm sure there's plenty of guys who are making honest attempts to pass the API, yet to their disappointment, are still failing. Some people simply lack the skill to meet the PGA requirements. Imo people need to keep this in mind before forum shaming and making deliberate attempts to disparage those who fail. Hopefully 2K21 will have better coding, at least compared to the problems arising from TGC2 > TGC 2019. Those guys probably wouldn’t make the cut let alone be at the top of the leaderboard. But I hear you!
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Post by booze2407 on Jul 10, 2020 20:43:26 GMT -5
So, it's now looked like a duck and quacked like a duck twice, therefore, is it a duck? I hope not... I'm quite sure he'll not be a fan of this. Jason Nicholls, after hard and fast multiple fails after the API change for push pull, managed to finish 3 events recently, but has set off the alarms again this week 4 up. My fresh pick for a DQ this week is yet to tee it up. Did someone bop till he dropped from the leaderboard? 🤔 I can laugh about it now since I somehow made par, but I bounced down the hill on the approach and almost in the water on my first hole. Nothing like a nice, relaxing start to the event.
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Post by fadgewacker on Jul 11, 2020 0:57:05 GMT -5
So, it's now looked like a duck and quacked like a duck twice, therefore, is it a duck? I hope not... I'm quite sure he'll not be a fan of this. Jason Nicholls, after hard and fast multiple fails after the API change for push pull, managed to finish 3 events recently, but has set off the alarms again this week 4 up. My fresh pick for a DQ this week is yet to tee it up. Did someone bop till he dropped from the leaderboard? 🤔 I can laugh about it now since I somehow made par, but I bounced down the hill on the approach and almost in the water on my first hole. Nothing like a nice, relaxing start to the event. No, he quite bizarrely didn’t even bop onto the leaderboard after his promotion, but then a guy who’s failed at every attempt to pass the API over 2 seasons (4 last and 1 this) that hasn’t even struck bat barring the one DQ at the beginning of this season, decides to tee it up and plays really well... not getting DQ’d. Coincidence? Who knows. Crazy world we live in 😂
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Post by booze2407 on Jul 11, 2020 1:36:04 GMT -5
Did someone bop till he dropped from the leaderboard? 🤔 I can laugh about it now since I somehow made par, but I bounced down the hill on the approach and almost in the water on my first hole. Nothing like a nice, relaxing start to the event. No, he quite bizarrely didn’t even bop onto the leaderboard after his promotion, but then a guy who’s failed at every attempt to pass the API over 2 seasons (4 last and 1 this) that hasn’t even struck bat barring the one DQ at the beginning of this season, decides to tee it up and plays really well... not getting DQ’d. Coincidence? Who knows. Crazy world we live in 😂 Very interesting! I’ll have to research this fellow! Sounds like an interesting storyline 😂 Hmmm wait do you mean the bopper never played? I could’ve sworn I didn’t see his name on yet to tee off. Maybe he just went off the hill like I did but quit lol, not sure at what point someone’s name gets removed from still to tee off...like if it’s literally when they tee off. His stats says he played the event, but he’s nowhere to be seen. I guess that could just mean he didn’t complete a round.
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Post by SMIFFYLFC79 on Jul 11, 2020 3:26:54 GMT -5
2 positives, made cut and won't finish last, hooray 1 bogey -8 rd3, 1 bogey -11 rd4 equates to a -40 finish Well played all.
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Post by blueorfe on Jul 11, 2020 14:26:24 GMT -5
Finished like a steam train...one that had run out of coal!
My poorest finish for a while, I actually hit it fairly well over the weekend for the most part. I had some very funky swings but the swing was mostly in control.
As for the putting? Probably my worst putting performance all season over the weekend. The 163's just felt wrong on this course and I never had a consistent miss. I missed high as often as I missed low. I had a very fast on my tee shot on the last, and a very fast with my approach. Thanks for that HB 👍
Nice playing to whoever played well this week, I really can't be arsed to look at the leaderboard.
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Theopen
Weekend Golfer
Posts: 143
TGCT Name: Brian Ayers
Tour: Beer League
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Post by Theopen on Jul 11, 2020 16:55:19 GMT -5
There’s a plethora of high quality courses being produced these days that easily can be used on tour with the “right” conditions. The problem is finding courses that play challenging enough for PGA in easy(ish) conditions because everyone complains about tough conditions. People aren't complaining about tough conditions ... people are complaining about tough conditions 75% of the time. That's just absurd. All it does is determine who's better (or luckier, in a lot of cases) on those specific conditions. Golf is about consistency and being able to adapt - well enough - to any conditions that your overall scores remain collectively lower than your opponents. There's a serious imbalance here at the moment ... and has been for a while (even before this latest obsession with high winds). We should be seeing, roughly, 30% low winds, 30% medium winds, and 30% high winds ... finished off with the infrequent use of "very high" and "none". We should be seeing more "soft" and "moderate" conditions as well. Again ... balance. You really also need to remember there's a very real imbalance between platforms. So, what's "right" for PS4, is often considerably more punishing for XB/PC. Let's all just hope that's resolved in 2k21 with the removal of club sets ... but, until then, it IS an issue. Doyley made the comment a few weeks back when Tyler decided to step down: "Hard to want to put time and effort when the first page of every week is a list of reasons why you made all the wrong choices". Most of the people that complained, didn't do so the very first time they saw 3 rounds of high winds in one event ... and a lot of them didn't even post the second time it happened. After 3 or 4 events like that, they complain ... and somehow it's their fault?? After nothing changed, and it's now the 8th or 9th event in a row like that ... how the @$#% do you expect them NOT to complain?? It really starts to feel like a deliberate kick in the nuts at that point.
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Post by catcherman22 on Jul 11, 2020 18:17:20 GMT -5
There’s a plethora of high quality courses being produced these days that easily can be used on tour with the “right” conditions. The problem is finding courses that play challenging enough for PGA in easy(ish) conditions because everyone complains about tough conditions. People aren't complaining about tough conditions ... people are complaining about tough conditions 75% of the time. That's just absurd. All it does is determine who's better (or luckier, in a lot of cases) on those specific conditions. Golf is about consistency and being able to adapt - well enough - to any conditions that your overall scores remain collectively lower than your opponents. There's a serious imbalance here at the moment ... and has been for a while (even before this latest obsession with high winds). We should be seeing, roughly, 30% low winds, 30% medium winds, and 30% high winds ... finished off with the infrequent use of "very high" and "none". We should be seeing more "soft" and "moderate" conditions as well. Again ... balance. You really also need to remember there's a very real imbalance between platforms. So, what's "right" for PS4, is often considerably more punishing for XB/PC. Let's all just hope that's resolved in 2k21 with the removal of club sets ... but, until then, it IS an issue. Doyley made the comment a few weeks back when Tyler decided to step down: "Hard to want to put time and effort when the first page of every week is a list of reasons why you made all the wrong choices". Most of the people that complained, didn't do so the very first time they saw 3 rounds of high winds in one event ... and a lot of them didn't even post the second time it happened. After 3 or 4 events like that, they complain ... and somehow it's their fault?? After nothing changed, and it's now the 8th or 9th event in a row like that ... how the @$#% do you expect them NOT to complain?? It really starts to feel like a deliberate kick in the nuts at that point. Not heard any complaints about this week...(only two high winds this week btw). Next week is a bit windy (obviously I hope one would understand)… but after that the wind dies down for a few events.
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Post by GW_Hope on Jul 11, 2020 18:37:09 GMT -5
It was a good selection and set up. Most of us just want to have fun. Must be tough though to set up a perfect tourney.
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Post by catcherman22 on Jul 11, 2020 18:57:11 GMT -5
I think there is a good mix of both that's possible... I think next week will play difficult at times.. but I think it's fair.
Otherwise my aim is to always set up a tournament that offers some variety and different challenges.
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Theopen
Weekend Golfer
Posts: 143
TGCT Name: Brian Ayers
Tour: Beer League
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Post by Theopen on Jul 11, 2020 20:51:22 GMT -5
Not heard any complaints about this week...(only two high winds this week btw). Next week is a bit windy (obviously I hope one would understand)… but after that the wind dies down for a few events. This week wasn't too bad. I think this was a well-balanced course. There were holes that were sufficiently challenging (without crossing too far over into "punishing" territory) and some sufficiently easy holes as well. As for the wind ... yes, two official "high" wind rounds; however, the last round was "default" - which just happened to default to high winds (or the top-end range of medium) on most every hole. Soooo And, yes, I didn't have much doubt next week would have mostly high winds. I have no problem with that at all as it would likely be the same in real life. I don't think many others would complain about it either. Regardless, a lot of things will be different a couple months from now ... so, I guess we'll wait and see! <fingers crossed>
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Post by fadgewacker on Jul 12, 2020 5:46:19 GMT -5
In the end, 7 for the week... not sure who was lucky 200 as I cocked up the formulas in my sheet by trying to update it on my mobile... schoolboy error.
My hot tip for the week did actually get the DQ, along with the other that came up from Euro also... Must be frustrating for those guys, as well as those guys that are swinging it properly and just missing out. Here's to August, and the hope that HB have listened.
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Post by titan30003 on Jul 12, 2020 5:59:01 GMT -5
Here are all my approach shots (except the first 4 holes from round 4, missed them) from the tournament, posting for obvious reasons. As previously mentioned, loved the course and thought the conditions were great. Definitely benefited from positive luck this week (two long range hole outs, including the final hole), putts were rolling true and dropping, and a few tempo mistakes worked in my favour.
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