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Post by catcherman22 on Apr 10, 2021 22:36:29 GMT -5
Welcome to week 30 at Orion Ranch by our favorite cc designer mattf27Started you off easy again this week with moderate and up a tee... things firm up and speed up as the rounds go on. Should be a fairly straight forward week after last week
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Post by williamwes626 on Apr 11, 2021 10:32:38 GMT -5
Yes Catcherman, last week for me personally was anything but straightforward. Hope everyone was happy with their TGC major performance. I had a fun week. I started off good with a 65, then the next day, I got really hot with a 60 to get me to 4th place. I pick up the controller for the next round right away to take advantage, but I cooled off to a 69 with a double on 11. The last round I knew would be a challenge and I found water on the 4th. That 6th hole was a great design - it played 2nd toughest with the most double bogies but it was a drivable par-4 -the steep downhill one with the creek left. I played wood and stayed dry there - that hole was a sneaky one. Got a 69. Finished 20th.
The notes for this week:
ORION RANCH
Par 72- 7335, 74.0 handicap
Architect Matthew Fritsch with Thomas Petrocelli:
Designed in collaboration with Thomas Petrocelli, this rustic resort course should offer a relaxing, scenic round for golfers of all skill levels.
Welcome to Orion Ranch! Originally intended to be my Dream Team contest idea, I eventually got stuck with this one and it stalled out. Tried a couple different ideas to change it up, but none of them stuck until Petro pushed it back into the Rock Creek Cattle Company idea it started on. Since it was my first DT idea, Orion Ranch is packed with all the required elements I was hoping to fit into the course. But, hopefully the long delayed final product is enjoyable for a casual round. Thanks again to Petro for saving this project and for all of his help with finishing it.
So yeah congrats to the Green Jacket winners last week. Now we can go pet the horses at Orion Ranch. It's been a fun season so far and last week was probably the toughest test of the year so far so this course will play easier in comparison. Orion Ranch has 5 par 3’s and par 5’s, some tricky greens, some heavily sloped fairway cambers, and a whole load of large bunkers. This is the third Matt F. course we played so we know the bunkers can be a little deeper sometimes and that the greens can be tough to lag putt on. Petro is great with strategy too so between the two architects, you'll find a lot of brain challenges like avoiding blind shots, severe cambered fairway sections or finding the best angles of approach.
1-4-419. After petting the horses, it’s time to tee off. The first hole curves left with numerous bunkers including one in the fairway. Aim to the right of it or power over it since going left doesn’t present an advantage. Laying up leaves a short iron or wedge. The first green is an indicator of the putting surfaces to come. Two-tiered, back-left and front right, we can use the ridge as a backboard for front pins.
2-3-178. #3 handicap Shooting it uphill to left pins will mean we have to deal with a false front. The right pins behind the greenside bunker can be reached by using the green’s middle ridge.
3-5-568. While it’s tempting to go with driver on par-5’s, this one has 3 huge bunkers at the 300 yard mark. The severely cambered fairway could bounce the ball into the left bunker, or keep the ball on the fairway but with a blind shot. With the right wind, we can clear the bunkers with driver, for a more even camber and a great chance for eagle considering the mild green.
4-3-169. Watch out for that mean bully bunker on the left which be difficult to recover from on this downhill straightaway par-3. The green is complicated – a triplex (3 sections you know…) so use the ridges wisely. Stay below the hole for the front and middle pins.
5-5-536. A drastic dogleg #5 changes the scenery and features an enormous lake along the left. Leaving yourself near the bunkers to the right leaves a shorter, but blind approach, going near the lake leaves a longer shot but we can see where we’re aiming. The green is manageable.
6-4-367. A short hole with a variety of dangers: a rock left of the fairway, tree in the middle of the fairway and big-time bunkers right. The bunkers are so steep, try to avoid them and deal with the other challenges instead.
7-4-433. A climb uphill will have us second guessing club selection on this straight par-4 with threatening bunkers everywhere. The green complex is heavily tilted left so anything left leaves a steep uphill splash. Anything right will need a chip or light splash shot downhill. A hole where we can’t short-side ourselves.
8-3-228. #1 handicap Get those long irons, hybrids, and woods out for this long par-3 affair, the third par-3 so far. Front pins are easier with a backboard across the green’s middle. Any pin at the back of the green needs pinpoint accuracy.
9-4-432. A dogleg right where you can challenge the bunkers and water with driver for an easier wedge approach to the tiny 2-tiered green or play it safe with 3-wood to avoid water and then deal with an iron approach that may be tough to keep on the putting surface. Get your backspin going here.
10-4-466. Looks like a long yardage but going with driver should be enough to clear the fairway bunkers. The 2-tiered green has a backboard for shots that go a bit long due to the downhill nature of the hole.
11-5-591. While this is flatter with no blind shots, it’s still a hole that will result in birdies more than eagles. Even from the fairway it will be hard to reach the green in two.
12-4-449. A downhill straight hole with a centerline bunker at the 300-yard mark. The camber is severe so a fade in will keep tee balls left of the bunker from skidding into the rough. Go left or short of the bunker – the area right is too tiny to land a ball in. It’s not worth having the proper angle for the approach. The fairway camber and small green are the real challenges.
13-5-543. A fun par-5, it’s easy to birdie but really hard to eagle unless we can pull off a wide fade that parallels the sharp fairway turn right.
14-3-122. If we’ve been hot with our wedge game, this could be a birdie. Don’t run up shots using the apron, the green sits too high up.
15-4-512. #2 handicap The cat’s claws are out and the fangs are ready to pierce. A long but downhill winding par-4 dogleg right, whatever we do, don’t miss in the first bunker on the left or it’s a sure bogey. Any other wayward tee shot will leave it tough to salvage par but it’s possible. The most penal hole on the course, the tri-tiered green alone can lead to double bogeys and watch the greenside cavernous bunker on the left. Yowsa!
16-5-530. A straight hole with water along the entire right side, it’s the 5th par-5 and the easiest to eagle as long as we’re dry.
17-4-344. A second apology for #15, this forgiving hole is a walk-in-the-park drive and pitch. No need to layup, it’s best to go with driver since the green can be tricky to hold.
18-3-228. A final hole and fifth par-3, the shallow green is a horizontal 8 shape sloping to the front right. All 4 sections of the green will be very tough to land in especially with a hybrid.
Good luck this week and don't forget to stop by The Flamingo for the promotional event this week.
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Post by JosiaDB on Apr 11, 2021 16:22:59 GMT -5
Beautiful course, and very relaxing after the tough one last week!
Was cruising along flirting with my personal best round score, and hit #15 which promptly put an end to that thought.
Enjoying it!
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Post by deacondrake on Apr 11, 2021 18:45:29 GMT -5
Practice round made me think (after last week's debacle) "wow, there is going to be some low action here".... then with the tees up, there were a lot of approaches that were sitting 3-7 feet for birdie (missed the ace on 4 by 1'). My son was like "why don't you always get this many birdies?"... then the wife came home with the groceries and I settled into some pars, with my bunker shot on 15 foiling a potential bogey free round.
"Long and wrong" is only punished on a handful of holes and the par 3s are attackable in round 1... good confidence builder.
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Post by twofor22 on Apr 12, 2021 2:27:01 GMT -5
-10 first round for CCA. Had to have a break sitting at -9 after 13 holes for that pesky work thing and the tempo was a bit off on return, managed two more birdies and an annoying bogey on the 18th. About to start the second now.
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Post by twofor22 on Apr 12, 2021 4:15:59 GMT -5
-8 second round. Should be good enough to make the cut I think.
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Post by axelvonfersen on Apr 12, 2021 4:39:01 GMT -5
God I love this course. So good. This lefty approves this course 100%.
-17 after R2 in CCC. Shoooould be enough to make the cut but we'll see. Low scores will be had by most this week.
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wheelzgaming88
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TGCT Name: CC-K
Tour: Challenge Circuit
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Post by wheelzgaming88 on Apr 12, 2021 8:34:39 GMT -5
-9 after one round way down in CC-K. It’s my best round ever by far
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Post by illinoisgator on Apr 13, 2021 7:46:37 GMT -5
First time playing this course and instantly one of my favorites...possibly the most realistic feel to a course I’ve played in the game with its setting. Really felt like a mountain course without the typical fantasy aspect we see with mountain course and super exaggerated elevations. Well done!
-13, -8, -8, -10 = -39
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Post by Tombanator on Apr 14, 2021 17:04:21 GMT -5
Through 2, missed cut for the first time since week 8. Tempo was not my friend this week and it really should be when almost everyone's putting up scores. It happens, haven't felt this sort of disappointment in CC for a long while now so it's good to hit a low for a change so I can come back stronger. Been doing really well for a long time now so it was probably going to happen one of these weeks. Oh well, gonna take this outcome and hopefully make up for it next week! At least this course was super relaxing after the last couple weeks, my playing made it a bit more frustrating than it needed to be though. Cheers!
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