lazarides
Caddy
Posts: 52
TGCT Name: Michael Lazarides
Tour: Challenge Circuit
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Post by lazarides on Jun 21, 2021 18:54:36 GMT -5
E/-1... right on the cut line again. My 6 year old son is my caddy on some Sundays here and as my score began to balloon toward +5, he complained that all my practice swings were perfect, but all my regular swings were "really awful". Gee, thanks kid. But then he told me to stop taking practice swings and just use the good swing for the ball, and then I played the next 27 holes -9. Still occasionally catch a red, but more like 90%+ perfect perfects, which really boosts the confidence. No water here to scream at, though. This game... Your son might be on to something. I often have 2-3 practice swings which are perfect/grey fast or slow - Then on the actual shot I do something stupid and end up with a fast/slow red. In the famous words of Phil Mickelson, "You can caddy for me anytime"
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Post by Giraffe72 on Jun 21, 2021 19:30:27 GMT -5
Is the same pin set being used the same on all platforms? No biggie for us players if so. Feel bad for the designer though, it's clearly just an honest mistake but I can understand his annoyance. Played the first round last night and really enjoyed it, very nice course. I think we need to get an answer on this and I hadn't thought of it. I'm on Playstation and we're getting the #1 pin for all four rounds (or at least the first three, so I assume four), we should probably know if that's true for all platforms. Not sure what the resolution would be though, so maybe it doesn't matter. Well I'm Xbox, so I think that answers the question!
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Post by Riotous on Jun 21, 2021 23:14:46 GMT -5
Great choice of course, only played Rd1 but I dare say the wind picks up at some point. Really strange last night that as I pulled the stick back the club wouldn’t move, I had to pull back quicker than normal. I can work around this on a full swing but Putting was tricky
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Post by weirsy2003 on Jun 22, 2021 20:16:22 GMT -5
Generally don’t like many links courses on this game but this was an exception! Nearly impossible to do proper pot bunkers but this was about as good as I’ve seen and they had me sweating all tournament. -33 in CC-A for the week and cautiously optimistic I finally pick up my promotion mark to go to Kinetic. God forbid another website glitch (been screwed over both times it happened this year). Too bad about the 1 pin set but the varied conditions for the week really still made the course play different.
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Post by sneakysnake on Jun 22, 2021 23:04:25 GMT -5
New to the tours, this my only my second tourney after the qualifiers, really feel like I'm starting to get the hand of the Master clubs now, but I'm stuck down in CC-J due to a particularly poor qualifier. I was honestly pretty on fire the first 2 rounds going 63/60. Unfortunately lost my tempo a bit in the next couple rounds and only managed 68/65 for -24 overall. Probably won't win but should be good enough for a promotion point or 2.
Overall I felt this a really fun course, it wasn't terribly challenging but positioning was important if you wanted to score low.
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Post by bubbsboy100. on Jun 23, 2021 2:37:15 GMT -5
Great choice of course, only played Rd1 but I dare say the wind picks up at some point. Really strange last night that as I pulled the stick back the club wouldn’t move, I had to pull back quicker than normal. I can work around this on a full swing but Putting was tricky May not help you but my putter was snapping back to start or not moving at all at times for weeks and weeks . Taking me ages to play and i was just waiting for my putter to move . Then i stuck hoover over thumbstick and the difference was amazing. So possibly dust mate.
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Post by illinoisgator on Jun 23, 2021 10:00:55 GMT -5
Overall I liked the choice of course and conditions minus the pin issues…would have been nice to see how this would have played normally. Other than a few OB that gave me some anxiety off the tee it really wasn’t very visually intimidating at all. Played nice and relaxed and probably played better than I scored unfortunately. Really consistent -8, -8, -8, -11 = -35
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Post by bubbsboy100. on Jun 23, 2021 14:42:42 GMT -5
Played 2 rounds and enjoyed it.
Par and -5 is fine for me and round 1 was tougher. Pain for me was I had a quad in with that - 5 which hurt as a -9 would have had me doing cartwheels:-). It was on that second and I just could not get out of that bunker left of pin. Ended up whacking a chip out of it as splash just would not work for me. Just hope I make the cut after all that effort:-)
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Post by illinoisgator on Jun 24, 2021 9:48:50 GMT -5
Played 2 rounds and enjoyed it. Par and -5 is fine for me and round 1 was tougher. Pain for me was I had a quad in with that - 5 which hurt as a -9 would have had me doing cartwheels:-). It was on that second and I just could not get out of that bunker left of pin. Ended up whacking a chip out of it as splash just would not work for me. Just hope I make the cut after all that effort:-) Did you try the full swing splash? I’ve found that moving the marker to anything short of full swing is a no go. But I keep the marker at full the try to half swing it still works normally 🤷♂️
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Post by bubbsboy100. on Jun 24, 2021 10:03:55 GMT -5
Played 2 rounds and enjoyed it. Par and -5 is fine for me and round 1 was tougher. Pain for me was I had a quad in with that - 5 which hurt as a -9 would have had me doing cartwheels:-). It was on that second and I just could not get out of that bunker left of pin. Ended up whacking a chip out of it as splash just would not work for me. Just hope I make the cut after all that effort:-) Did you try the full swing splash? I’ve found that moving the marker to anything short of full swing is a no go. But I keep the marker at full the try to half swing it still works normally 🤷♂️ Yeah Brandon. Ive been bitten before with using the loft so never again. This time even full shot would not get me out in 3 attempts . Its a deep one but also could have been a bit user error :-)
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Post by illinoisgator on Jun 24, 2021 11:08:50 GMT -5
Did you try the full swing splash? I’ve found that moving the marker to anything short of full swing is a no go. But I keep the marker at full the try to half swing it still works normally 🤷♂️ Yeah Brandon. Ive been bitten before with using the loft so never again. This time even full shot would not get me out in 3 attempts . Its a deep one but also could have been a bit user error :-) Yeah there’s no real fool proof way to do bunker shots anymore. For me deep bunkers is always a splash (maybe a flop if it’s really long) and if it’s shallow I’ve been doing chip shots that work pretty good unless the green is sloping hard away from the flag
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Post by bubbsboy100. on Jun 24, 2021 11:54:00 GMT -5
Apologies for earlier. When I wrote full shot I meant a full splash with no loft.
I did only use my 20 yard club but really dont think upping would have helped. I think I should have used flop after second fail as it was getting nowhere near top of bunker.
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