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Post by catcherman22 on Oct 31, 2020 18:58:45 GMT -5
Acadia by SluggieLoucks Welcome to Canada! A breezy week awaits you. Just how breezy? I guess we will find out together as there is a nice use of the default winds. Greens stay firm through out the week until the end, and speed up until hitting 187 during round 3... but that is countered by a move up a tee. Should be a nice week! Have fun and play well!
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DP
Weekend Golfer
Posts: 149
Tour: Kinetic
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Post by DP on Oct 31, 2020 21:28:14 GMT -5
Played horribly but I thought the conditions and course were great. Very challenging but a lot of fun.
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stubby3596
Amateur Golfer
Posts: 263
TGCT Name: stubby3596
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Post by stubby3596 on Oct 31, 2020 22:57:25 GMT -5
This course is visually very appealing and presents a lot of challenges on every hole so you can never let your guard down. There are a few holes I wish didn't have trees in the middle of the fairways but I realize that is my personal preference. I think its going to be an interesting week scoring wise. Lots of very subtle breaks on the greens, there are a few holes with some crazy tiers but its mostly just subtle breaks.
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SluggieLoucks
Amateur Golfer
Posts: 151
TGCT Name: Doug Loucks
Tour: Elite
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Post by SluggieLoucks on Oct 31, 2020 23:48:41 GMT -5
Goodluck everyone!
Very excited to have my course featured and I’m looking forward to see how everyone plays. Definitely will be more of a challenge this week especially with the wind.
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Post by timh on Nov 1, 2020 0:41:53 GMT -5
Goodluck everyone! Very excited to have my course featured and I’m looking forward to see how everyone plays. Definitely will be more of a challenge this week especially with the wind. Well Doug, interesting use of OB on a few holes. I believe I discovered them all on a few practice rounds. Yes the wind does make this course more deceptively challenging. Should be enjoyable when the real rounds start. Good job on the course design!
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Post by Celtic Wolf on Nov 1, 2020 7:20:51 GMT -5
I started off round 1 with 2 bogies on the first two holes and managed to get back to evens with birdies on the 4th and 5th. Another couple of bogies on the 6th and 8th had me back to +2 after 9 holes. I got one back thanks to a birdie on the 10th then had a run of pars before having a birdie sandwiched between two bogies on 15 through to 17 to finish +2.
Nice looking course and I had no complaints about how it played, the wind made a few of the longer holes harder to score on.
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Post by twofor22 on Nov 1, 2020 7:57:02 GMT -5
Well I played horrible golf in my real round this morning, but better here for a -4 on the first round. I had 7 birdies but mucked it up with 3 bogeys, and lost a couple of pretty easy birdies due to crappy putting.
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Post by robn on Nov 1, 2020 8:30:26 GMT -5
Goodluck everyone! Very excited to have my course featured and I’m looking forward to see how everyone plays. Definitely will be more of a challenge this week especially with the wind. Nice work. Normally if I shoot -5, as I did in R1 here, my feelings would be "meh, not bad but not great". In this case I was happy with it as I'm really struggling to find a consistent tempo at the moment. Visited water once, which resulted in a DB. Other than that played mostly OK.
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Post by ABU_Bear on Nov 1, 2020 9:12:16 GMT -5
In my opinion this course is by far CC's toughest challenge of the season to date. I don't even know what to think of my scores as I struggled early but found my game late in the tournament. If 10 under makes the cut in CC-A (which I doubt) I could settle into a top 25 because of my final round of -10 68/66/67/62
-25 totalConsolation prize: I did match my personal best on the course over the 4 rounds of -25 that I hit my Society's practice tournament beautiful course SluggieLoucksChallenging yet rewarding if you play the correct shots
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Post by knothead85 on Nov 1, 2020 14:07:30 GMT -5
Through the first round I was totally in love with this course. Beautiful scenery and definitely the toughest one we've come across. Halfway through the second round I felt the same way.
Then I ran into some poor OB placement that I let irritate me more than it should and then I played on tilt and certainly fell below the cut line in the process.
In my practice round I hit a poor shot into heavy shrubs that were markered OB, it marked it in-play and I stupidly played it and couldn't get out...that was on me for the bad decision but I also thought it was poor OB brush work.
In the actual event I hit one right of the fairway but it still landed in the normal rough and was well on the safe side of the OB markers in game. Sure enough the game informed me I was OB and I had to tee off again.
The issue is not unique to this course...designers put so much effort and detail in these courses and sometimes I feel like they're careless with the 0B brush. I know its not the easiest feature to use as a designer but I still think more caution and precision could be used. I know, I know, hit better shots and I'd be fine...but for a CC event getting thousands of plays I think my argument is valid...especially in one where scoring is difficult and bad OBs will be especially punishing
That critique aside, really loved the course. Unique vibe, great scenery, fun greens, lots of water in play....I hope we see more courses like this on the Challenge Circuit.
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Post by robn on Nov 1, 2020 18:05:36 GMT -5
Well, I'm having an absolute shocker here. Dont know what it is about the 6th hole but in both rounds I've played I've hit a red slow off the the tee and ended up wet (lefty). They're the only red slows I've hit off the tee. Lost 5 strokes in total on that hole alone. A DB and a TB. Then I had some OB troubles later on and took a quad!
I've been consistently knocking around the top of the leaderboards so far this season, but sitting on just -4 now and I'm assuming I'm in grave danger of missing the cut this time round.
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Post by timh on Nov 1, 2020 19:55:18 GMT -5
Well, I'm having an absolute shocker here. Dont know what it is about the 6th hole but in both rounds I've played I've hit a red slow off the the tee and ended up wet (lefty). They're the only red slows I've hit off the tee. Lost 5 strokes in total on that hole alone. A DB and a TB. Then I had some OB troubles later on and took a quad! I've been consistently knocking around the top of the leaderboards so far this season, but sitting on just -4 now and I'm assuming I'm in grave danger of missing the cut this time round. Is that the par 3? Every round I play I consistently hit red slow despite my attempts to do otherwise. Wind up in the water. Have not started the event yet but plan some strategy to off set...way left of the green or bunker it...I'll see how that goes, but never the less I'm seeing the same as you.
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Post by PicnicGuy / BobalooNOLA on Nov 1, 2020 20:19:44 GMT -5
Dunked one long on 17 (hit but didnt hold with that tailwind)for double and a +2 finish in Rd 1 (K-flight). Nice course, found myself in head-high pink flowers once, but I survived.
All this talk of potential o.b. has me worried for the next 3 rounds.
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Post by Koop on Nov 1, 2020 20:36:15 GMT -5
Through the first round I was totally in love with this course. Beautiful scenery and definitely the toughest one we've come across. Halfway through the second round I felt the same way. Then I ran into some poor OB placement that I let irritate me more than it should and then I played on tilt and certainly fell below the cut line in the process. In my practice round I hit a poor shot into heavy shrubs that were markered OB, it marked it in-play and I stupidly played it and couldn't get out...that was on me for the bad decision but I also thought it was poor OB brush work. In the actual event I hit one right of the fairway but it still landed in the normal rough and was well on the safe side of the OB markers in game. Sure enough the game informed me I was OB and I had to tee off again. The issue is not unique to this course...designers put so much effort and detail in these courses and sometimes I feel like they're careless with the 0B brush. I know its not the easiest feature to use as a designer but I still think more caution and precision could be used. I know, I know, hit better shots and I'd be fine...but for a CC event getting thousands of plays I think my argument is valid...especially in one where scoring is difficult and bad OBs will be especially punishing That critique aside, really loved the course. Unique vibe, great scenery, fun greens, lots of water in play....I hope we see more courses like this on the Challenge Circuit. Agreed the OB is difficult to work with on good days, but the OB on 11 and 12 seemed out of place with the water hazard already there. I didn't make it in the water and was not past the red stakes but received OB on 11 and 12. Good thing this was practice rounds. I decided not to play in this tourney and enjoy a week off drinking! :-) It is a great looking course to be certain! Just wish OB was handled differently. My two cents.
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bex
Caddy
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Post by bex on Nov 2, 2020 1:18:58 GMT -5
not a huge fan of the greens this week seemed very wavy, with small sharp breaks broken up by large flat sections (especially around the pins) quite often i would find putts being almost dead straight most of the way and 2+ cups of break in the last few feet as the pin was cut on a wavy bit
other than that i liked the layout and planting and similar comments as above with regard to the OB
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