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Post by unclefester75 on Feb 28, 2016 22:24:03 GMT -5
-4 (with a triple bogey) -9 Through 2 rounds.
Damn it. Needed a shot that was not in my bag. Had 3 shots roll back on me trying to use a short flop on a par 5. Hole 12 I think. Could have been right there. Guess I am hoping to make the cut now.
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Post by feng187 on Feb 29, 2016 4:40:13 GMT -5
yes what a sad place this has become after loudmouth number one @mvs85 left you and got his euro card on his first try no pun intended @ anyone but I'll humour you this time as I need some answers if anyone knows about this new phenomena I recently heard about called ball squirt I never believed in this thing until today funilly enough I have never hit it as unstraight as I did today so whats the deal with that? Usually when you start playing army golf IMO . It's a song your anolog has became warn and loose making hitting it straight harder . Personally I buy a new pad when this happens. Ball squirt is a lag issue that gives you sub 100% scores at random I beleave nothing to do with direction. I think ball squirt is something HB threw into the game to give randomness and has nothing to do with the 90% shots although they could be related 9/10 of those 90% ones are down to a poor backswing by the player. As far as I know they put the squirt in to originally combat straight shooting but it seems to punish you if you are playing well and most of the top players always hit the ball straight so out of nowhere they get given a random squirt and the ball takes off line in a certain direction, smurfblade88 could probably explain it better but it is there in the game. As for the joypads I don't know what you boys do be doing with them to warrant buying new ones, I have kids with sticky hands continually dropping mine and I still have the same ones and they work fine.
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Post by Moe Slorkman on Feb 29, 2016 4:58:04 GMT -5
Playing other games namely Fifa & COD loosens out the analogues now saying that I am on my third pad and thats after 2+ years its not like im changing every month haha.
But everytime I get a new pad my play gets better just look at my finishes pre Christmas compared to after Christmas this year.
Maybe its in the mind like when you buy a new putter and start putting better although its clearly just confidence of a new putter rather than actually having a new putter.
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Post by feng187 on Feb 29, 2016 5:58:48 GMT -5
Playing other games namely Fifa & COD loosens out the analogues now saying that I am on my third pad and thats after 2+ years its not like im changing every month haha. But everytime I get a new pad my play gets better just look at my finishes pre Christmas compared to after Christmas this year. Maybe its in the mind like when you buy a new putter and start putting better although its clearly just confidence of a new putter rather than actually having a new putter. I'd say the lads in GameStop love you Moe "Here comes another rube" You know what they say Moe a fool and his money are easily parted! I have the same pads since launch and they are fine. Maybe you are throwing them around when your hacking or something but I think your improvement in form is more down to your increased play time on better courses with strong fields, also don't forget your play testing for the scheduling
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Post by hmammoth on Feb 29, 2016 7:47:27 GMT -5
This is a fantastic course, it's smart, clever and well constructed, that's also where the problem lies, as I am not smart, clever and well constructed( just the usual genetic mutations). Courses like this can cause me problems as sensible shots are needed at times while my style of play tends to be risk. So today, I will have to try restrain myself, lay up more than go for the green, let's see can I do that or will temptation prove to much for me. My plan to resist temptation failed on the first hole, I tried, I really did, I thought about the shot for five seconds and everything, a par on the first my reward for being stupid. The second was to tempting as well, this time I played a good shot giving myself a good eagle chance, my putt was slightly off line, tap in birdie. My tee shot on the third was not great, played it well beyond the hole, I lagged close for a safe par. On the fourth, I left my approach to far from the hole again, the green firmness was catching me out a little, something I needed to pay more attention, a good putt did bring birdie though. I did it, I played smart on the fifth, I feel like I should be in Mensa, so this is what smart feels like, very strange feeling. I layed up for easy birdie, not very exciting but a good result. With my newly found intelligence, I decided to invent a complex mathematical formula to guarantee birdie, it involved combining wind resistance, air density, ball rotation per second minus the dampness of the dew on the grass, I dropped a shot on the sixth, intelligence is over rated. I got the shot back on the next hole, I left myself a twelve inch birdie putt, to non Mensa members, that is one foot. Two disappointing approach shots resulted in par for the last two holes of the front nine, I am going to abandon my formula for the back nine, I think one vital calculation is missing, ability to play a game well.
The back nine did not start well, I over hit my chip shot, the line was fine but the ball hit the edge of the cup at speed leaving me with a ten foot putt that I just could not make. I had a great chance to make that shot back on eleven but misread the green to leave a nine foot putt short.I did get the shot back on twelve, I did go for the green in two but could not reach, a blessing in disguise I guess as it allowed me to put the ball close for a easy birdie. I promised myself after practice that I would never go for the green in one on thirteen but when I saw the direction the wind was blowing, I had to take the chance, I played a pretty good shot around the threes leaving myself in the rough but just eleven yards from the cup, a good chip shot left me close and birdie was made. Fourteen was the perfect distance for a par five with a headwind, it was not possible to make the green so all risk was taken away, it was all straight forward after that, centre of the fairway and short pitch for my third birdie in a row. The crosswind on fifteen was awkward for both the tee shot and approach. I played my tee shot very short to give myself a longer iron shot to the green, I played into the wind allowing that to slow the ball down to leave myself a very make able ten footer. It was downhill but straight and dropped in the centre of the cup. I played that hole well from start to finish, does not happen often but feels good when it does. I could not keep the birdie streak going on sixteen but happy with the par there, I left myself with a tricky downhill putt that could have easily gone past the hole by a distance. My caddy tied me to a tree on seventeen so he could hide my driver but the joke was on him as the wind allowed me to go for the green with three wood anyway which I nearly put me in the water off the back. I had a tricky second shot which I did not play that well as I over hit it, I also had a tricky putt which I did play well, it was not that long but was breaking heavily, I was surprised to see it drop, normally I miss those. After getting my driver back, I headed to the eighteenth which I played as well as I could have hoped, a six foot birdie putt was the icing on the cake of what was a strong back nine to finish eight under.
That went so much better than I hoped it would, a couple of silly mistakes but outside of that I played well. Before the round, and based on my practice here, I would have been happy with five under. Taking six birdies from the last seven holes was particularly pleasing. I did not play as safe as I should have but it worked out ok. Now I should really play safe tomorrow, not risk any of today's hard earned birdies, the chances of that happening, slim to none, have fun all.
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Post by Moe Slorkman on Feb 29, 2016 8:15:37 GMT -5
hmammoth I can honestly say for the first time I read your round summary from start to finish . Great score out there and as you pointed out this course has so many risk reward areas. In practice i've gone for every shot but before I play my rounds tonight I am going to meditate for an hour have some herbal tea and move all the furniture in my sitting room around to get the Feng Shui in alignment. During my round I will have incense burning and ocean sounds playing. My daughter will be asleep and The wife will be in bed watching tv. After my first round Ill get into a hot bath with all the salts and that jazz and soak for 30-45minutes. I will air dry myself and repeat. Surely this process will stop me John Dalying my way around and keep the rage at bay! It will won't it???
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Post by naldy89 on Feb 29, 2016 8:59:16 GMT -5
Usually when you start playing army golf IMO . It's a song your anolog has became warn and loose making hitting it straight harder . Personally I buy a new pad when this happens. Ball squirt is a lag issue that gives you sub 100% scores at random I beleave nothing to do with direction. I think ball squirt is something HB threw into the game to give randomness and has nothing to do with the 90% shots although they could be related 9/10 of those 90% ones are down to a poor backswing by the player. As far as I know they put the squirt in to originally combat straight shooting but it seems to punish you if you are playing well and most of the top players always hit the ball straight so out of nowhere they get given a random squirt and the ball takes off line in a certain direction, smurfblade88 could probably explain it better but it is there in the game. As for the joypads I don't know what you boys do be doing with them to warrant buying new ones, I have kids with sticky hands continually dropping mine and I still have the same ones and they work fine. Feng, i believe you are correct on this. As far as I know, ball squirt has been removed from the game as far as taking a straight shot slightly off line. I can't really speak to the "random" 90% power shots as i have never really experienced the issue. I guess I was always just lucky.
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Post by ErixonStone on Feb 29, 2016 9:18:05 GMT -5
Had 3 shots roll back on me trying to use a short flop on a par 5. This is a staple of Andre's courses. You're better off being 55 yards out instead of 25.
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Post by nickweis on Feb 29, 2016 9:32:31 GMT -5
The risk reward of this course got me into a lot of trouble. Knowing that I wasn't registered for the tournament this week, I found myself taking more risks than I normally do, and it was paying off with a very nice scorecard coming down the stretch. Until I got to 17... the temptation of going for the green off the tee got me. I thought, if I can kill a 3 w into the bank in front of the green, it might bounce up and hold the green. I could have a tap in eagle and really put up a score to make the boys nervous.
Instead, it skipped, rolled over the green, trickled down the bank, and plunked into the water. I wasn't thrilled to see where the game decided to drop me, about 80 yards behind the green in a bad heavy rough lie, and in hinesight probably should have just taken my drop at the tee. However, decided to get cute and put two more in the water before I finally got back up onto the green, and made my 9.... let this be a warning, the risk may not outweigh the reward on the evil 17th @ Whonnock Lake .
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Post by caspariius on Feb 29, 2016 9:33:41 GMT -5
Halfway through the last round and I'm not sure I want to finish, still got 11 holes to play and I have now lost about 7-9 strokes due to balls being magically hit at 90-92% as well as it putting me in the water 2x, one of which I had to tee off again... its so random and screws everything up. I have no issues with he designers, I find it never happens on some courses but does frequently on others (some sort of bug perhaps?), sometimes even specific rounds of some tourneys only. It occasionally makes me really resent the game and just kills the whole week for me... It cost me 3 shots over the last 4 holes of the second round, I might even miss the cut because of it, eugh.
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Post by Lino Zambito on Feb 29, 2016 11:40:17 GMT -5
Well gentlemen, as I said in my previous post, this is my first week on Web.Com, playing on an exemption. I most likely don't belong in here, more of a CC-C, B, player but I came in this week feeling good and confident.
I was wrong, so wrong.
1st Round: Went ok, my putter was cold as ice, managed to score a decent 67. At that moment, my mood was in the low 50's (on a 100 scale)
Then came Round 2, where everything fell in, so much that I scored 64! Mood was up in the 80's, felt very good, thought "Hey, this course isn't so bad after all"
Round 3: Didn't play very good, most of my shots were way off and with the wind, it was tough to place the ball on a decent spot on the green. Shot 68.
Then Sunday, all hell broke loose. I missed atleast 10 putts by an inch or so. The final nail in the coffin came in at 15, where I had a 14 feet putt for the birdie, 5 inches downhill. Well, I don't know how I calculated the putt, but the ball ended up all the way down the hill, 59 feet away from the hole, with 2 feet elevation. That is when I lost my composure and sent my microphone in a wall (Don't worry for the mic, the thing is as tough as a Nokia, I'm more worried about the wall at this point). I shot 70. Safe to say that my humor was at -0 at the end.
67 - 64 - 68 - 70 = -19
I'm just glad to pack my things and get the heck out of here. It was overall a very frustrating week, I don't know how many times I've cursed about the course and all, but most likely, it was only me playing very poorly. It was a very tough battle. I guess you grow up as a player in tough conditions. There were some times where I would be absolutely frightened on the tee like on holes 13,15, 17 and 18. Narrow fairways and water everywhere tend to scare me a lot.
Now hopefully this will be enough to grant me a Web.Com card. You guys seem to be a nice group and I would love to play with you for the next weeks/months, but I wouldn't be too sad about going back in CC. I guess everything comes to those who wait.
Have a nice week,
Lino.
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Post by hmammoth on Feb 29, 2016 12:07:24 GMT -5
Good luck on getting your card Lino. It really is hard to figure out what the cut will be this week and your first two rounds might be enough. If it is, you can forget about the last 2 rounds, use it as a learning experience. I think there will be a lot of higher scores on the last 2 rounds as from what I have seen from practice they do play higher. I know what you mean about feeling like a cc-b player,6 weeks ago thats where I was and yet some how found myself on the web. Still finding my feet here but am getting there and I am sure if you make the cut, it will not be to long before the same will happen to you. You got to play on the web for a reason, you were good enough to get a exemption which means you are good enough to play here. So with any luck we will see your name more often on this forums.
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Post by marino313131 on Feb 29, 2016 12:15:38 GMT -5
Hey Lino, it was not your math...it was impossible to stop the ball above the hole in a few spots. Had at least two chips on par 5's from 7-11 yards where I hit my lob chip under 50% and the ended up 20 yards away.
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Post by BMann1976 on Feb 29, 2016 12:16:14 GMT -5
Round 1: -6 66 Round 2: -4 68 Total: -10 thru 2
Doubt that makes the cut, but had my first tournament Ace in round 2 and was -4 thru 4 and that is where I stayed. lol Also had a double bogey in round 1. I think -12 will probably make the cut. Difficult course with the small, fast greens.
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Post by Crazy Croc on Feb 29, 2016 12:54:01 GMT -5
I can't putt to save my life. Saw it was that other crazy guy's course we playing and decided early Saturday morning to just wing this one without a sighter round and get it over and done with. No way I'll be any good here. Take driver off the tee, see pin, aim and shoot. Well, I drained a few crazy ones in rd 1. Missed a few too. Tried some silly sh%$ off the tee at times and pulling it off most of the times. Had only one bogey on the 6th. Had an 8 footer for birdie, 3 inch downhill, damn ball slided over the edge, my eyes skyward, i reached for a smoke, lit up and searched for the mouse for the par tap in - wait, the ball was still rolling! Got my tap in after pitching back to the hole. The 18th came up without me even noticing until the final scores popped up. 66. Maybe i'm not THAT bad a putter. Felt great about it, fired up rd 2 straight away, thought maybe i can even make the cut. Missed a few shorter ones, somehow ended up with a 62. Probably should have continued while the going was hot, but decided to quit while i'm ahead. This morning I noticed scores being posted on the leader board - seems like 66 ain't so hot after all. Maybe I can't putt. 16 under after 2, should hopefully be good enough to make the cut. Winging last 2 before I know whether its good enough or not. Nice course though.
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