Newbie playing in a tournament

[slamp]

I've had my sim up and running great for about 3 months now. This weekend I started to explore the tournament play. I have no manual so I'm just trying to figure out as I go. So I found a list of public tournaments and I joined one called 'Crooked Sticks'. It was a one round 18 hole tournament. I thought I played pretty well. Even though I hit the ball in the water three times I still finished with an even 80, plus 8 for the round. Problem is I got last place. I was 10th out of 10 and the player who got 9th place shot a 5 under 67. The leader shot about a 60. So I'm wondering did these guys miss there calling, should they be on the PGA tour? Or......did I just play against a bunch of guys who are playing on the video game version? I noticed that in the listing of the tournaments this one was listed as 'Protee' although I have no idea what that means. What is the difference between Protee and The Golf Club?

[dborden0]

They were probably not playing with a simulator. Just playing the computer game. You should play the protee tournaments. Go to q school and get your handicap. It's a lot of fun.

[slamp]

Ok, how do I go to q school?

[dborden0]

Blitz12 got it right. If you have any problems with shot recording, support is really helpful. Sometimes it is a little tricky getting it set up right.

[blitz12]

slamp if you go to the Online Play section on the forum you will see a sticky named 2018-2019 Q School. That thread will give you all the information on q school and turning on shot recording. Have fun!

[slamp]

blitz12 I played the first round of the Q school Magnolia tournament. The tournament is three rounds. I went back the next day and played another round. It thought I was playing the first round again. How do I go to where I left off and continue to play the second round?

[NetcheK]

Beware there are 2 tournaments with the same name. One is Q-school 2017/2018, the other is Q-school 2018/2019. The first is closed but you can still play it in TGC, but both appear with the same name in the list of tournaments.

[blitz12]

If you enter the same tournament it should have started you on the second round automatically. Do you see your score and name on the leaderboard in the q school thread?

[slamp]

blitz12 Yes, I do. I figured out how to continue the round, thanks! Why do some people have hdcp's in the tournament? Mine says 0. That is of course not right My name is Sean on the list of players.

[dborden0]

You will get a handicap after 5 tournament rounds. Q school help gets it quicker.

[dborden0]

I think handicaps are recomputed on Tuesday, so if you played 5 rounds already, you won't get a handicap until next week.

[keither5150]

We don't play on the same servers as the console players. There are certain factors that lead to the low scores. 6 foot gimmes, reading the green, perfect lie every time. If a player plays 10 sim rounds to every round IRL, his sim game will be better by far. Once you figure out chipping and putting, your scores will drop as well. Welcome to the tour.

[slamp]

Also, when the rules of a tournament say no wind do you have to turn that off in your settings yourself or do the tournament regulators turn that off for you?

[blitz12]

You have to turn off the wind in your settings. The tournaments have both gross and net leaderboards.

[calebm1001]

I love the last quote "Welcome to the Tour". Just got me really excited to finally hook up and install my TGC license tonight.