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Post by marino313131 on Sept 12, 2015 10:02:21 GMT -5
Is it fear, dread, indifference that I'm feeling right now? Or just not looking forward to the grind (round 3). I just have no ambition to get into it today. I've psyched myself up all this week that this is the course for me to make or break, I play it well in practice, want to finish top 30 or better and erase all strikes or off to E I go. Yet I just feel like I can't be bothered. I haven't played in 2 days, been playing Forza 6 since it came out. Did one round last night on the Friday course and it was like "come on lets just get this round over with" Wondering how the 2-3 day break is going to affect my play, think I needed a break, just hope it doesn't cost me in the hurricane that is known as round 3. Only once have I seen 21+ winds and that was when they released the tropical theme and I played one of their official new courses at the time, 2 holes, I laughed, shook my head in disgust and exited and went to play somewhere else. Guess I will grind it out later today and see what happens. Buckle down brother. RD 1-2 are easy peasy but then the beast destroys golf balls. They went soaring like jets. I suggest ghost balls for some help
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Post by TimB on Sept 12, 2015 10:21:24 GMT -5
Thats the only saving grace for me, I play the course well in average conditions, winds up to 14 mph. Hold the PC course record for the Sunday setup (-13) and top 5's on the other setups so I know I can play this course. I guess I got what asked for a few weeks ago, in the conversations about wind I said that the high wind rounds should be the 3'rd or 4'th rounds, that putting the high winds at the start causes people to lose interest and basically give up by round 2. At least this way people can get some good scores in round 1&2, suffer through 3 then have 4 to make up lost ground. I think that is the perfect way of doing it. (I know its all random) Keeps people motivated, so as much I will hate the round 3 winds, I think its set up perfectly. Will play a short practice with recent ghost balls just to see where everyone is going but come tourney I just take what it gives me and dont pay much attention to them, I get too caught up into the "how did he do that, or where is he going?", Takes my focus away from my play. Buckle down brother. RD 1-2 are easy peasy but then the beast destroys golf balls. They went soaring like jets. I suggest ghost balls for some help
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Post by canthitstraight on Sept 12, 2015 11:34:14 GMT -5
Tim: With the scores that you post on Steam, I don't see why you haven't moved up to CC-D yet. I played each of the four days of Timberwolf 5 times this week and your score was most certainly always a top tier one. You had a -9 record for one of them, which I finally was able to match yesterday.
If you can set your mind to scoring even within five strokes of each of your course records, you should be able to get an exemption out of CC-E.
For that insane third round, mix in draw/fade with the angling of your player. Easier said than done, however, as we won't get too much of a chance practicing 18+ mph winds.
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Post by TimB on Sept 12, 2015 12:34:00 GMT -5
Thanks. I'm actually in CC-D now, got demoted from C a little while back. It's what I can't figure out, I play great just doing casual practice then when the tournament hits I find a way to blow it all to hell. Some of it is nerves, I get too nervous at the start, mess up then its a race to catch up. Now I've got myself into a revolving circle, I know I am going to blow it on the 1'st hole so over compensate and make things worse. I'm hitting this one with a different mindset (I hope) and try and be more relaxed, hit a good drive, play conservative, and hope my short game saves me. It's funny before the CC tour we had the Champions and I earned a promotion (playing on exemption) to Champions A (by one shot last round, sorry Orion) and was always in the top ten on the leaderboards, now I'm struggling to keep my head above the water. I've had a good two day break from the game and hope that helps me today. Off to do a quick 9 on the Saturday setup, watch the abuse the ghosts get from the winds, then I'm going in. Fair warning to those who follow me, there may be pieces of broken clubs scattered throughout the course, please don't trip and hurt yourselves. Tim: With the scores that you post on Steam, I don't see why you haven't moved up to CC-D yet. I played each of the four days of Timberwolf 5 times this week and your score was most certainly always a top tier one. You had a -9 record for one of them, which I finally was able to match yesterday. If you can set your mind to scoring even within five strokes of each of your course records, you should be able to get an exemption out of CC-E. For that insane third round, mix in draw/fade with the angling of your player. Easier said than done, however, as we won't get too much of a chance practicing 18+ mph winds.
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Post by ABU_Bear on Sept 13, 2015 8:39:07 GMT -5
Thanks. I'm actually in CC-D now, got demoted from C a little while back. It's what I can't figure out, I play great just doing casual practice then when the tournament hits I find a way to blow it all to hell. Some of it is nerves, I get too nervous at the start, mess up then its a race to catch up. Now I've got myself into a revolving circle, I know I am going to blow it on the 1'st hole so over compensate and make things worse. I'm hitting this one with a different mindset (I hope) and try and be more relaxed, hit a good drive, play conservative, and hope my short game saves me. It's funny before the CC tour we had the Champions and I earned a promotion (playing on exemption) to Champions A (by one shot last round, sorry Orion) and was always in the top ten on the leaderboards, now I'm struggling to keep my head above the water. I've had a good two day break from the game and hope that helps me today. Off to do a quick 9 on the Saturday setup, watch the abuse the ghosts get from the winds, then I'm going in. Fair warning to those who follow me, there may be pieces of broken clubs scattered throughout the course, please don't trip and hurt yourselves. I can relate 100% Tim. I play fine in practice, even in up to 15mph winds I've shot 67's and 68's on every course we've played the past few weeks. Just something snaps whenever I hit the tournament. I'm routinely 3 or 4 over just 2 or 3 holes into my 1st round and I'm left struggling and trying shots I shouldn't right out of the gate. If I can start a round solid my scores reflect it (I.E. my 69 and 73 in rounds 2 and 3 @ Timberwolf), but as soon as I hit that double or triple bogey early...something snaps.
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Post by TimB on Sept 13, 2015 10:53:15 GMT -5
Jim, I think that 3'rd round score you have is going to vault you up the leader board. In my round yesterday the scorecards were awash with red, very very few birdies, these were top level players all coming in over par.
I find it funny I hit straight drives in casual play, then come the tournament it seems like the margin for error is reduced and its hooking and slicing all over the place. Find myself wondering if there is some coding in the game to make tournament play a little harder. Thats just my tin foil hat speaking so...
I got absolutely demolished and humiliated in round 3. All of a sudden I'm hooking and slicing way off the course, I can manage the wind but not when I'm slicing so far out of the cone the line looks like a semi circle. Hope no plays with my ghost, I'm embarrassed. I saw parts of that course that no one probably has.
So here I am, one strike, getting another for Isle, then probably another for this one, maybe not, had two good rounds that may help. But looks like I'm heading to CC-E soon. Time for me to re evaluate whether or not I want to continue on.
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Post by Royce on Sept 14, 2015 11:18:33 GMT -5
Just another of the good courses to look at but highly unplayable. Typical overrated course from the so called "great designers"....
So many better courses to use for tours than this.
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Post by HeMan1202 on Sept 14, 2015 15:10:11 GMT -5
Then design a better course. Otherwise stop complaining. Just because you played poorly on it doesn't mean it's a bad course. Just because the wind made it extremely difficult doesn't mean it's a bad course.
Your comment has no substance or merit. Why is it highly unplayable? I know a bunch of folks who played it just fine.
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Post by ABU_Bear on Sept 14, 2015 15:15:54 GMT -5
Wanna hear something really off the wall?
Play my ghost ball in round 3...I shot a +3 73 in a hurricane
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Post by HeMan1202 on Sept 14, 2015 16:16:14 GMT -5
Wanna hear something really off the wall? Play my ghost ball in round 3...I shot a +3 73 in a hurricane That is a great score in those winds. That round in particular was definitely unpleasant.
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Post by ABU_Bear on Sept 14, 2015 17:06:02 GMT -5
Wanna hear something really off the wall? Play my ghost ball in round 3...I shot a +3 73 in a hurricane That is a great score in those winds. That round in particular was definitely unpleasant. Too bad my other 3 rounds sucked...LMAO
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Post by theclv24 on Sept 14, 2015 17:13:39 GMT -5
Just another of the good courses to look at but highly unplayable. Typical overrated course from the so called "great designers".... So many better courses to use for tours than this. Wait, so if I am interpreting this correctly, this week's course is, in fact, not the worst course ever made? We must be making some progress then! In all seriousness though, how many more weeks in a row do you think you can go in declaring the course is awful? Better yet, how about using this post to recommend some great courses, as I appear too stupid to get it: tgctours.proboards.com/thread/4755/tour-year-course-suggestion-threadIn other words, can you provide anything useful at all? Or are you just going to blame the course each week for your performance?
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Post by ABU_Bear on Sept 14, 2015 19:50:01 GMT -5
Jim, I think that 3'rd round score you have is going to vault you up the leader board. In my round yesterday the scorecards were awash with red, very very few birdies, these were top level players all coming in over par. It's too bad I played round 4 in a fit of rage and carded a +14 84
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Post by TimB on Sept 15, 2015 5:05:34 GMT -5
I did the same thing Jim in round 4, and the last 9 of round three.
I can't believe I'm sitting in second place on the CC-D leader board still, expected to check this morning to see me slide down. It's going to be a game in itself to see how far I slide down after round 3 and 4 are posted, if I still stay below the 70 mark. Think I'll be bottom feeding again lol.
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Post by mikenym84 on Sept 15, 2015 11:05:06 GMT -5
This happens to me all the time. Practice all week and get 3-4 under consistently. tourney time rolls around and I puke all over myself. Carded a +1 round one; hopefully rd2-4 goes better.
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