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Post by sandbagger on May 22, 2021 19:21:17 GMT -5
I’m at the very last spot to get a promo point this weeks.It’s 730pm central time on a Saturday.The event is currently over.One guy behind us with one round to play who could bump me out.Not hoping him any bad luck.But I think it is too late for him to play that last round
Fingers crossed 🤞 getting that point on a rough track with all the patch issues
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Post by williamwes626 on May 22, 2021 22:16:28 GMT -5
Your notes are entertaining and I was looking at them today while playing. I'd tried to take notes for my first 2 rounds but it's hard to do, and I can't remember when it's over so this is my only time doing this. In the first round, I birdied the opener routinely though I landed in the center bunker, bogey on 2 after I pulled it and it almost went off the cliff into water left. 3rd- putted a 20 footer for birdie. 5th- bogey on a lipped out 5 foot I pushed. 6th the par 4, I knocked in a 13 footer for birdie. On the tough 9th 500-yd par 4 I hit 2 red fasts and left myself- between clubs for a splash so I put low loft on and tapped in for par. Birdied 10 from a 47 yard pitch 25 feet uphill after a troubled 2nd shot. On 11, hit the fairway and a short wedge to 3 feet for another birdie. 14 I played well, at 250, this par-3 is rough so I did a low lofted hybrid with top spin and it hit the fairway, bounced right towards the bunker on the fringe and then reached the edge of the green and rode downhill to 13 feet. Sunk the easy putt. On 18, hit a slow but aimed left so it didn’t get wet. Had 79 yards to go and a wedge and pulled it left but luckily hit a 20-footer for birdie to close out with a 64 (-6) on 8 birdies, 2 bogeys. 2nd round I birdied then a followup bogey on 2 again. I second guessing clubbing down 2 with a tailwind and hit a red slow. Then birdied 3, the short par-4 with the heavily tilted fairway. 3 wood and iron both times. Tried to set up a full wedge with a hybrid tee shot on the drivable 4th but had 64 yards left. I put full high loft and back spin with a 90% lob wedge and it spun off the backboard for a 5-foot birdie putt I made sure to capitalize on. 7, the long par-5 was playing short and I mistimed the approach so it landed in that pit area on the right – couldn’t get out on the first try but luckily my pitch uphill 30 feet got to 7 feet away and I holed it for par- totally lucky to get away with it. On 8 knocked in a double breaker 18 foot putt for birdie. I usually suck at short severe breaking putts but on 11, I made a 9 footer aiming 3 cups left to make up for a par on the 10th hole par-5. Very quiet with no par-5’s left but birdied the short par-4 16th with hybrid and a wedge to 6 feet. 18 was strange because after a 3-wood tee into the fairway I only had 58 yards left which is the distance of my lowest pitch. I red fasted it over the water but I didn’t get penalized maybe cause I just barely red fasted it so it got over the water and left me a 18 foot perfectly straight for a final birdie. I finished with another 64 (-6) with 7 birdies and a bogey on 2. I feel like I got too lucky twice in a round so now it will even out later and I’ll get screwed by something – I’m not this lucky! LOL Also, last week I started hot at Steamshovel Banks with a 62 and 60 and then couldn’t hold onto the hotness and dropped 40 spots by the time the tourney was over. I don’t think I can pull off scores like these for all rounds on such a tough course. So stay away from me, I’m about to have some bad luck and it may rub off. LOL Hopefully everyone knows about the Promotion Event #5 this week so if it doesn't work out on this course, that course has a handicap of around 70 so it's a lot easier. Well, the last 2 rounds, I tried to drive 4 and had some success. After going -3 in R2, I was cruising until finishing R3 bogey/triple... with the tailwind I pulled a 3W and chunked it short. I picked R4 this morning and the tempo was all over the place. The game froze when I was on the the 17th tee box and I had a full Xbox reboot. When I got back in... tempo was on point. Laced a hybrid to 2 feet for bird, followed that by a perfect 310 drive on 18, pitch to 3 feet, where I promptly missed the tap in by 8 feet. No joke, this course was hard and you couldn't scramble well. Most of my misses left 30-50 yard pitches as opposed to 10-15 yard chips. I had a couple slows off the tee that went 275, but still left a 250 yard approach. Tempo in the bunker is a must... you can luck out with an 11 oclock fast or 1 oclock slow, but anything beyond that will flub 5 feet. My lesson learned is gotta get the practice round in before starting to make sure that tempo is playable. If not, shut it down/reboot and try again. Controller/Xbox seem to have a finicky relationship. Now time to go real golf. I tried to respect it since it had fangs but I got caught here and there with a few bogeys and a double on 18 when I red fasted a 3-wood into water. I didn't do as well my final rounds with 66 and 67, Finished 31st.. I did finally get my first hole-in-one on the 5th in the final round. Used a 6-iron into 7 mph headwind - only about 150 yards but uphill - I never got an ace except once one of the mini golf courses - same as in real life for my golf game. LOL I had tried to drive 4 in practice twice and I landed on the green, rolled left and landed on the ledge below and the second time it hung up on the high ground right of the green. Only got one birdie out of four on #4. #18 was weird - I had a 2bog and 3 birdies. I enjoyed the course and the challenge for sure but it must have been tough on XBox but getting a 67 in one of the rounds is real good on this tough course- I liked that it felt like a PGA Championship.
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