Known Outcomes

[meunier33]

I shot a +14 on the first round of the Olympic Quals because the course did not obey the known outcomes. I play this game like it is a paint by numbers drawing. Shot situation X plus conditions Y equals shot result z. When courses have very subtle fairway lies to throw off your shot or to direct your ball off the green, I can not see them and then can not play the course under par. 
For example hole six where the ball went over the back of the green. I did not plan for that possibility because it is not the known outcome of the ball going up a slope of that elevation. 

[sandgroper]

Bad ball! You know the ears are painted on and they don’t listen.

[Bear]

I vowed never to reply to you ever again, but your posts over the last few hours are so ridiculous that I have no choice.

Your ball flew into the upslope short of the green.  How do you think it was going to magically shoot forwards from there?  Pixies with a trampoline?  You miscalculated your approach.  It happens to the best.  That is where the story begins and ends.

Also, you continue to stubbornly use your own method.  People have told you a hundred times that you can't tell the game what to do and that your method does not work.

You now consider the Olympic course to be unfair.  I've played the course often enough to know that is certainly not the case.  Maybe you need to not shoot at certain pins.  Use your brain.  As for insulting the course designer, that's just loathsome.

You also talk about status.  The fact is that no one cares whether you shoot +20 other than you.  Get a grip, man.  Constantly whining over a video game and not listening to countless people trying to give you good advice has resulted in the way others see you, not your scores and not any "unfair" golf courses.

[b101]

I feel we go in circles with these threads. Golf is a game of randomness at its very core. I understand that you want the game to obey perfect laws, but that's not how golf works in real life, let alone a video game with imperfect software. Bad breaks happen, good breaks happen.

All that aside, as Bear says, you shot into an upslope which is also clearly always going to bounce the ball right. There is no way a ball landing there is ever getting on the green. So, I guess you could argue it was a known outcome.

[bubbadave]

You know, you can always play a practice round before starting your first CC round. Figure out how the layout goes and then go from there. IRL that's why every pro gets to the next venue early. No surprises then. I went in cold when I rangered this course and got my rear end handed to me by it. My first round in CC was much better. If you do that, then there won't be any "unknown" outcomes.