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Post by Harveydog500 on Aug 4, 2024 17:27:07 GMT -5
Art Vandelay Wutpa Tombanator Rest of the World (R3/R4) and OFTR. Glad to wrap up with decent effort on OFTR so as not to feel like a total loser. Go Brothers! R3 scorecard... R4 scorecard... and OFTR scorecard...
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Post by IGolfBad on Aug 4, 2024 20:29:33 GMT -5
S9 W6 Rd 1 at Sauron’s Hole - this week taking on fellow pill doc, Dr. Bing mbuengerHeard a lot of consternation about this course, especially the greens (“make them fast”, our admin rangers said, “they’ll appreciate the challenge”) and upon practicing and watching the early returns, I was scared for my very life, as I would be staring down an average round score of +15, if my normal self were to show up. Found the trick would be multifaceted, by targeting par on each hole, minimize any disaster holes, and incorporate a good amount of backspin on the longer approaches. Carded a pair of birds on the front nine to offset a single derp and my lone blown hole double-derp to make the turn at +1, well under my goal score of +5 (thank you, Ross! asyoudo64). Played the back nine very close to the vest, and managed only 2 more derps, aided by two chip in pars, and a miracle 45 foot putt, also for par, and actually floated to a very welcome card Fore the Gasms, Art Vandelay WutpaMurica Rd 1: +3 Foreward Gasms!
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Post by IGolfBad on Aug 4, 2024 22:00:27 GMT -5
Public service announcement: When playing round 2 of Americas, bypass the tax audit proctoscope that is the run of holes 4 through 6. Fcuk those. Especially 6: avoid the green frontside bunker. …at all costs.
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Post by Art Vandelay on Aug 4, 2024 22:14:13 GMT -5
Interrupting the doom and gloom of this weeks' Americas rounds to congratulate our own Paraic mrbump on his promotion from CC-C to CC-B. WTG mate! Now back to our moaning and groaning. PS - Don't forget Roll Call! Onward!
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Post by IGolfBad on Aug 4, 2024 22:25:16 GMT -5
S9 W5 Rd 2 @ Sour Eyehole Nothing more to say about this round, Art Vandelay Wutpa except… The bright side? I was even on the back nine, so… Murica Rd 2: +7, almost entirely on a single hole Actually, Hole 6, but who’s counting? Foreward Gasms?
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Post by Bova Kian on Aug 5, 2024 2:56:50 GMT -5
Art Vandelay WutpaPut my glad rags on and decided to play out this piece of .... thank goodness I'm not in Kinectic with this course being their season finale. My only good comment would be that it reminded me of another very good TGC designer whose courses I do not play as I do not enjoy them, but they are considered to be some of the best courses in the game.
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Post by inflames47 on Aug 5, 2024 4:55:02 GMT -5
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Post by crushtastic on Aug 5, 2024 6:07:23 GMT -5
Managed to go under par for the 2 rounds..... JUST!! Even par for the first, -1 for the 2nd.
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Post by OldManGaming606 on Aug 5, 2024 8:44:04 GMT -5
Art Vandelay Wutpa Coming to Americas TourGreens obviously playing tough. Shot out to deathstar for an exceptional round. I don't hate playing a tough course like this. Brings us back to reality, even though it can be a bit frustrating watching your ball roll within an inch or so only to then watch it stop 30 feet later or in the case of the 13th hole, watching the ball stop, then slowly start rolling back and down the hill and into the water. Ugh! ha ha. (You know what I am talking about asyoudo64)
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Post by Wutpa on Aug 5, 2024 11:09:34 GMT -5
S9W6: Pub Crawl Rounds 1 & 2 at Sore Hole. Well, I'm glad that's over. I'd had a few practice rounds there so I knew what to expect, but man, that's a tough track. And whilst I agree with those who have said they enjoy playing somewhere that's a good challenge, I feel this went beyond that sometimes. I'm all for courses that are designed to make you choose your shots carefully and intelligently, and not just load up the bazooka every time. Fairway bunkers, water, thick rough, crocodile pits, molten lava crevasses....sure, bring 'em on. As long as there are viable shot choices that don't involve taking a putter from the tee then it's all good, clean fun. I don't mind a little sweat on my brow, in fact I quite welcome it. But, sometimes the punishment for inaccuracy is just too penal. Miss your approach shot 20 yards wide of the pin? Good luck, soldier. Hook or slice off the tee to a narrow fairway? You will be remembered. But, put your approach two feet from the pin and watch it sloooowly slide off into the water? You are dead to me. Hit a solid drive to the middle of the fairway and have it careen off a bump into the coleslaw, lottery-style? Get out of my house. Place the pin on a mound with yellow slope running away on all directions? I never liked you in the first place, nor your silly haircut. All shots are a combination of skill and luck. But when the necessary luck component starts getting to 50% of the proportion, or more, then you've lost me. In my opinion, this is mostly a terrific course. But there are a few design choices that add too much vinegar to the milk for my taste, and I do stress this is just my opinion and based on the kind of things that have always bugged me about courses. I am not a course designer though, and quite frankly I have a good amount of respect for anyone that can put together any course at all. There, rant ends. Anyway, I wobbled round in -7 for the 36 holes and anywhere else I'd have been hugely disappointed. But at Sauriol I just felt relieved that it wasn't worse. My scorecards have lots of geometric shapes on them, with too many of them being quadrangles. Some of that was my poor play, some of that fits into my whining above, but it is what it is and I'm still glad to have had the experience. Kind of. Forward Gasms! (Minimally.) Art VandelayWutpa
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Post by trevormendez on Aug 5, 2024 13:58:50 GMT -5
Art Vandelay WutpaAmericas Getting this in early, as I don't want to upset lessangster ........ A lot of chat about this course. I really enjoyed it. Had to think about it a bit more. Not just point shoot, whack it at the pin. R1: -3 R2: -5 Screenshots at the end of the week. Good luck out there. Cheers.
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Post by lessangster on Aug 5, 2024 15:40:56 GMT -5
Art VandelayWeek 6 Americas Tour rounds 1&2 not a lot to say about that course I’m surprised the course selectors managed to find a course that was as frustrating to play as Augusta National. I putted off three greens in that first round. The Rest of the World Round 3 Round 4 OFTR Sorry to the dirty old men that first round knocked the stuffing out of me.
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Post by asyoudo64 on Aug 5, 2024 17:04:25 GMT -5
Art Vandelay Wutpa Coming to Americas TourGreens obviously playing tough. Shot out to deathstar for an exceptional round. I don't hate playing a tough course like this. Brings us back to reality, even though it can be a bit frustrating watching your ball roll within an inch or so only to then watch it stop 30 feet later or in the case of the 13th hole, watching the ball stop, then slowly start rolling back and down the hill and into the water. Ugh! ha ha. (You know what I am talking about asyoudo64)
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Post by asyoudo64 on Aug 5, 2024 17:06:20 GMT -5
S9W6: Pub Crawl Rounds 1 & 2 at Sore Hole. Well, I'm glad that's over. I'd had a few practice rounds there so I knew what to expect, but man, that's a tough track. And whilst I agree with those who have said they enjoy playing somewhere that's a good challenge, I feel this went beyond that sometimes. I'm all for courses that are designed to make you choose your shots carefully and intelligently, and not just load up the bazooka every time. Fairway bunkers, water, thick rough, crocodile pits, molten lava crevasses....sure, bring 'em on. As long as there are viable shot choices that don't involve taking a putter from the tee then it's all good, clean fun. I don't mind a little sweat on my brow, in fact I quite welcome it. But, sometimes the punishment for inaccuracy is just too penal. Miss your approach shot 20 yards wide of the pin? Good luck, soldier. Hook or slice off the tee to a narrow fairway? You will be remembered. But, put your approach two feet from the pin and watch it sloooowly slide off into the water? You are dead to me. Hit a solid drive to the middle of the fairway and have it careen off a bump into the coleslaw, lottery-style? Get out of my house. Place the pin on a mound with yellow slope running away on all directions? I never liked you in the first place, nor your silly haircut. All shots are a combination of skill and luck. But when the necessary luck component starts getting to 50% of the proportion, or more, then you've lost me. In my opinion, this is mostly a terrific course. But there are a few design choices that add too much vinegar to the milk for my taste, and I do stress this is just my opinion and based on the kind of things that have always bugged me about courses. I am not a course designer though, and quite frankly I have a good amount of respect for anyone that can put together any course at all. There, rant ends. Anyway, I wobbled round in -7 for the 36 holes and anywhere else I'd have been hugely disappointed. But at Sauriol I just felt relieved that it wasn't worse. My scorecards have lots of geometric shapes on them, with too many of them being quadrangles. Some of that was my poor play, some of that fits into my whining above, but it is what it is and I'm still glad to have had the experience. Kind of. Forward Gasms! (Minimally.) Art VandelayWutpa Great stuff Nigel 👏. Foreward Gasms 🍻
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Post by Wutpa on Aug 5, 2024 17:51:52 GMT -5
S9W8, Pub Crawl Rounds 3 & 4 @ Spectacle MenNice course, with supervillain greens. Sticking the approaches close was the key to a good round, and since I couldn't manage that a good round is not what I got. Mediocre golf from me again. If my playing level was a colour it would be one of these. Perhaps Moon Shadow: Art Vandelay #Wutpa
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