dougl
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TGCT Name: Doug Logan
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Post by dougl on Aug 5, 2015 17:12:10 GMT -5
So I'm new around here. Found the site when looking for reviews before purchasing the game for PS4 last week but decided not to sign up straight away, rather I thought I would wait until I put some time into the game.
So a week later and I am decent enough I feel, got a handicap of 2 and I am getting round most of the courses I have played (and I have played a varied number) with decent enough scores.
So I come back here deciding it is a good time to sign up. I registered and launched myself right into Q School.
By got that was dreadful. Utterly dreadful.
A score of +54 over the 6 rounds.
I was having a nightmare but it was still fun at the same time.
But it has shown me I am nowhere near as decent at this game as I thought I was, a lot of work still to put in.
I must say though, despite such a humbling, this is quite possibly one of the best golf games (sims) I have played. I actually find myself sitting at work itching to get home and get a couple of rounds in.
Now... let the tour begin!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 5, 2015 17:14:20 GMT -5
Q school courses are very tough from what I remember. They are much above the difficulty of the courses on the tour card level you will be placed at.
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dougl
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TGCT Name: Doug Logan
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Post by dougl on Aug 5, 2015 17:16:01 GMT -5
I suppose that is reassuring then.
As difficult as they were though, still very fun, so much so I got round my 6 rounds in one sitting.
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Post by bogeyman on Aug 5, 2015 21:53:38 GMT -5
Q school courses are very tough from what I remember. They are much above the difficulty of the courses on the tour card level you will be placed at. Yeah right Bob!! His first tournament will probably be at Hau'oli Mino'aka in strong winds!!
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Post by yaters on Aug 6, 2015 2:11:03 GMT -5
Wow is right dougl - I thought I'd put enough time in to have a decent showing. Some of those courses just ate me alive! On the 3rd course I was actually under par at one point until I got myself into some ditch....hacked it into the side of a hill about 4 times...punched out backwards into the water...and then discovered there is an option to take unplayable lie. I went from -1 to +6 and left all my confidence in that ditch. I just finished up my last round and can't wait to try out a tournament. Love the game and this site/tour concept takes it to another level. See you on the CC ZZZZZ leaderboard!
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Post by Pubknight on Aug 6, 2015 9:18:35 GMT -5
Bought the game in December (around Christmas) I did January Q-School at +68 and was placed on the Champions Tour (the most casual tour at the time... the CC level now). Only broke 80 in two rounds at QSchool (and just barely for those two)
Over the course of the season, I progressed, making it to the European pro tour, and just last week I finally snuck inside the top 100 for WGR. And it hasn't been a sudden 'a-ha!' moment, it's been a slow steady progression.
You'll get better.
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Post by ABU_Bear on Aug 7, 2015 12:08:20 GMT -5
Q school courses are very tough from what I remember. They are much above the difficulty of the courses on the tour card level you will be placed at. Unless you fall in CC-C and below.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 17, 2015 23:53:55 GMT -5
I finished my q-School a couple of hours ago i rather enjoyed untill round 6 that was very laggy
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Post by enef56 on Sept 26, 2015 12:57:31 GMT -5
What I found today playing the q-school and as a course designer who has submitted my first course for the tour over the last few day's is all the things they say they don't want you to design a course like ie: narrow fairway, fairways pinched in on landing areas, really sloping greens, etc: etc: three out of the six courses had all theses things in abundance, to the point where quite a few holes were bordering on the unfair, unless they are testing your course management to reject a shot because off the unfairness and see if you'll lay up and accept the best you can do on this hole is a par, or a cricket score. I finished +7 overall because I played conservatively and accepted some of the courses were crazy I was hoping a course in q-school would be the best of the best not a reason to take a Valium, they reminded me of my early courses where I must have been in a fiendish mood while creating them, I play my old courses now and wonder what the heck I was thinking, I didn't expect similar ones to turn up in q-school.
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Post by misternic on Sept 27, 2015 14:13:53 GMT -5
I think the goal was to set the bar high with those courses. It helps really differentiate the players from one another. if everyone was at 48 under it would be hard to differentiate. You will find a good mix on the tours for courses imo. Welcome
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Post by coggin66 on Oct 30, 2015 17:49:48 GMT -5
I think the goal was to set the bar high with those courses. It helps really differentiate the players from one another. if everyone was at 48 under it would be hard to differentiate. You will find a good mix on the tours for courses imo. Welcome Having done Q school in July and played the tour for 3 months now I partly disagree with this. Q school differentiates the top 20% for the top tours but the rest are a lottery. Q school really differentiates who can manage extreme winds (or did when I went through) compared to what you face on the CC tour, especially when you consider how new to the game most people are when playing Q school. People are shooting -50 in lower CC tiers having presumably recently shot nearly +100 in Q. That to me makes a nonsense of Q school. [From a frustrated CCD player who is shooting 60-70 shots better than Q school but has not moved].
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Post by Hootbleet on Nov 19, 2015 12:42:11 GMT -5
Played the first 3 rounds of Q-School now and have steadily improved. Iirc, Mount Yeti was +13, Whispering River +7 and I think Copper Creek was -3. Most of the greens I've found are okay to read, but judging the power of the putt (just by using the view of the back swing) rather difficult. Enjoying it so far though, and looking forward to getting my tour card
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Post by canthitstraight on Nov 22, 2015 16:44:04 GMT -5
Played the first 3 rounds of Q-School now and have steadily improved. Iirc, Mount Yeti was +13, Whispering River +7 and I think Copper Creek was -3. Most of the greens I've found are okay to read, but judging the power of the putt (just by using the view of the back swing) rather difficult. Enjoying it so far though, and looking forward to getting my tour card Holy moly! Copper Creek is a very difficult course. The fact that you improved 16 strokes on CC over your Mt. Yeti score is an amazing feat.
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Post by Hootbleet on Nov 22, 2015 18:48:49 GMT -5
Cheers pal, I think that may have been the score that got me the CC-B card lol. Did okay in the remainder of Q-School, struggled in the 1st round of the Cracked Open but just done okay in the 2nd. If I finish my debut tourney under par, I'll be happy.
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Post by phoenixjay on Nov 28, 2015 20:23:42 GMT -5
mount yeti is the best of the 6 and will admit that the desert course is not bad apart from the fast greens, the other 4 you can throw in the bin as 4 of the worst made courses ever made on this game. For me im not worried if they are to prove a challenge, they are the worst of the worst and seen ive seen rookie designers make better on their first trys. I had scrambled through the first 5 in +2 then got a +10 on the last round because of 12-17 winds in my face which caused my full drive to even come up short of one fairway and have to lay up from 50 ft down a cliff lol, if it hadnt been too early in the day the whiskey would have been out to distract me lol.
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