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Post by dgforelife on Jul 12, 2020 15:16:01 GMT -5
I've personally finally started finding my swing after a horrible year. Didn't even bother practicing the course as I didn't want any hopes or expectations coming into this with only making about 10% of the cuts all season.
Shot fairly decent in round 1 (-4) lots of lipouts but it was solid overall
Round 2- the wheels started falling off and with the wind down I knew I needed to pull it together. Found a nice stretch of birdies and then hit it in the water on 17. Finished -2..... Doubting -6 makes the cut but it may be close..
Cutline prediction is -8
Good luck everyone!
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Post by xvshitanvx on Jul 12, 2020 20:46:41 GMT -5
Quite close to the least fun I’ve had on a course in this game. VH/VF greens on courses not designed to have greens that quick is tough going.
I had two flop shots in R1 come back to my feet despite hitting it to ~3’. 2 approaches above the hole on the front 9 in R2, both inside 15’, that were impossible to keep on the green.
+2 R1, -7 R2. Likely another major MC, seems to be the only cuts I miss.
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Post by catcherman22 on Jul 12, 2020 22:40:12 GMT -5
Quite close to the least fun I’ve had on a course in this game. VH/VF greens on courses not designed to have greens that quick is tough going. I had two flop shots in R1 come back to my feet despite hitting it to ~3’. 2 approaches above the hole on the front 9 in R2, both inside 15’, that were impossible to keep on the green. +2 R1, -7 R2. Likely another major MC, seems to be the only cuts I miss. Considering the designer gave the conditions... I'm pretty sure these were designed with these conditions in mind....
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Post by b101 on Jul 13, 2020 1:25:27 GMT -5
Quite close to the least fun I’ve had on a course in this game. VH/VF greens on courses not designed to have greens that quick is tough going. I had two flop shots in R1 come back to my feet despite hitting it to ~3’. 2 approaches above the hole on the front 9 in R2, both inside 15’, that were impossible to keep on the green. +2 R1, -7 R2. Likely another major MC, seems to be the only cuts I miss. If you’re upset that a flop shot on a links course playing firm and fast isn’t always the play, I don’t think you’ve understood what the Open championship is all about. And as Dan says, conditions were exactly as Joe and I specified. If I’m CC-A and can regularly shoot -3/-4 on them when playtesting, I think you guys should be fine. You’ll get good bounces, you’ll get bad bounces, easy putts and tough putts. Lines off the tee matter hugely in setting up your approaches so don’t just hit the easy drive every time. Some holes, you play for an easy par. It’s as much about patience as execution.
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Post by Cecil Harvey on Jul 13, 2020 2:01:54 GMT -5
This was a grind through two rounds. I say that as a good thing! Tough challenge so far, but nothing out of the realm of reality, IMO.
Only one bogey so far and I am annoyed by that as I was just 5 or 6 yards away in the rough from the pin and I didn't give the slope proper caution. This was on the shortest of all the holes.. the postage stamp homage hole (#14 I think) on the back nine.
-5 and -5 so far. Thinking that should make the cut, but who knows around here. Y'all are pretty good!
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Post by donkeypuncherben on Jul 13, 2020 2:08:25 GMT -5
Regarding the course, I cannot remember playing an event on this tour where I had so much anxiety on the tee shots. You really cannot be out of position and have any chance at recovery most holes, and I often needed to take on risky lines and plan how my ball would bounce to get in the right position depending on wha the wind was doing. The course does not play much different on the very firm / very fast as it does on default so I don't think settings are an issue.
In terms of playability, I wish there are a few more holes where bouncing onto the green was a viable strategy but otherwise it is a good test and take a few practice rounds to learn what not to do.
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Post by rob4590 on Jul 13, 2020 2:33:18 GMT -5
Clearly I played a different first couple of rounds than the rest of you then - shot -7 and -5, and I'd suggest that comfortably misses the cut, since I felt I played pretty awful. Utterly shocked not to have received a push/pull API email overnight as well, as I don't actually recall a single shot that I hit in the cone (was swinging it that badly).
As far as enjoyment - decent enjoyment in R1, it started to feel a bit tricked up and silly in R2, and went downhill (in terms of being tricked up rather than a good challenge) very rapidly after the cut with the VFirm greens bouncing every single shot away from each pin position......trickling slowly into a hollow, off the green and down a 15 yard slope. And that's before the VH wind kicked in!
Think my start to R3 will take some beating for inconsistency - bogey-bogey-bogey-par(with a long putt to do so)-birdie-eagle(from 190)-birdie-bogey-birdie. A simple -1 at the turn!
Don't recall making any further progress against par for the remaining (speed golfed) holes - so finished around -12, not giving a ****.
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Post by Cecil Harvey on Jul 13, 2020 2:56:59 GMT -5
Clearly I played a different first couple of rounds than the rest of you then - shot -7 and -5, and I'd suggest that comfortably misses the cut, since I felt I played pretty awful. I made my comments with the knowledge (albeit a bit early) of the PS4 scores so far.
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Post by xvshitanvx on Jul 13, 2020 3:05:45 GMT -5
Quite close to the least fun I’ve had on a course in this game. VH/VF greens on courses not designed to have greens that quick is tough going. I had two flop shots in R1 come back to my feet despite hitting it to ~3’. 2 approaches above the hole on the front 9 in R2, both inside 15’, that were impossible to keep on the green. +2 R1, -7 R2. Likely another major MC, seems to be the only cuts I miss. Considering the designer gave the conditions... I'm pretty sure these were designed with these conditions in mind.... It wasn’t a knock on you or the designer’s recommendations, I just know links courses greens always play relatively slow compared to PGA courses (10 on the stimp compared to 12+ on the PGA). This is why I thought the course didn’t play how it probably should - but could also just be upset that I shot +2 😂
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Post by AFCTUJacko on Jul 13, 2020 3:31:00 GMT -5
I haven't started yet but from my 3/4 practice rounds this course strikes me as a bog standard links but with every element of it taken to extremes (if it's very firm/187)
I use the chip rather than the flop around the greens pretty much as often as possible, but doing so playing up a 5 foot bank onto a very firm/very fast surface to a pin that runs away on the other side would just be a stupid thing to do.
Make the bank less steep or slow down the greens and it then becomes a choice
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Tuffguts
Amateur Golfer
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Post by Tuffguts on Jul 13, 2020 5:40:23 GMT -5
Course chewed me up and spat me out....apart from a stretch of birdies in Rd2. Sitting at -10 after 35 holes, then the wind (and a fast swing I think??) shot me into the left rough and my ball rolling toward the white OB markers...it looked to have stopped inside the "imaginary line" between 2 of the markers by a foot or 2 and my immediate reaction was "phew, that was close"...only to be given out of bounds!?!?! I should've done a replay and taken a screen shot but I was thinking I'm not making the cut so didn't bother. A triple bogey ensued and dropped to -7 at the halfway mark and an assured missed cut. So yeah, watch out for that sucker. Anyway, it's the sort of course I'd like to come back to and try and get the better of seeing as it beat me up the first 4 times around. Cheers
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LFCallum
Weekend Golfer
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Post by LFCallum on Jul 13, 2020 8:51:26 GMT -5
Personally really enjoyed the challenge of R1. Very strategic coursed with difficult, but not impossible, conditions. Shot a solid bogey-free -7.
Thought the very fast greens in R2 were a step too far though. There were a couple shots that were impossible to keep on the green. Bogeys on 5 and 7 ruined my momentum. A poor -2 to put me at -9 at the cut - unsure whether that makes it or not.
Felt my putting really let me down again this week, especially in R2 - lost about 6 or 7 shots on the green I reckon.
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Post by stoneysooner on Jul 13, 2020 9:54:20 GMT -5
I came, I saw, and I was conquered. Really enjoyed the challenge of the varied setups. Well done by the designers and the scheduler. Sure, I hit great shots that weren't rewarded and I had chips run off and away, but that is how Major Championship golf should be. I will finish near the bottom if my -10 holds for a cut made.
-5 -5 -8 -1
-19
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Post by B.Smooth13 on Jul 13, 2020 10:19:45 GMT -5
I've always cried a little on the inside when we get to the Open here because we don't replicate the meaningful drop-off in green speeds that makes Open courses so unique to regular events IRL. That said, I understand why we don't do that, and am not standing on my soap box declaring it a travesty or anything, it's just one of the most unique elements to an IRL Open that I love watching and wish there was a better way to implement in this game - though I do think it's possible to do by increasing severity of slope along with slower default speed, allowing for use of 144, default (somewhere between 144-163), and 163 for a "fast/burnt out" round...but we don't see many designs like that, which is something I understand, but would love to see more of instead of 90% of courses designed to play 175+ speeds. OK, stepping down now... Played 10 or 11 holes of practice yesterday halfway paying attention, and it's definitely going to be a challenge, but I really love links golf so I'm looking forward to the 1-off course style we get to play this week, not to mention this course itself seems to be a really well thought-out design (note: reserve the right to completely reverse that opinion after my forthcoming over-par front 9 in round 1 lol). GL to all, here's to me not ejecting at some point in the first 2 rounds so I can make it to the weekend.
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Post by Mark (Kram) on Jul 13, 2020 11:53:54 GMT -5
I bought a PS4 Pro recently and am back in Q School. The game is still broken, but I'm more consistent with Masters clubs. I played this for fun and am -12 after 36h - with 4 bogeys! Regarding approaches to the greens, it's tough, it's hard to know what your shot is going to do at times.
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