TGC 2017/2018 Winter Tour - Farmers Insurance Open

[ProTee United]

TOUR CHALLENGE
2 rounds at Torrey Pines - South Blue 7051



RULES
Gimme : within 2 yards / 1.8 meters
Handicap : Not required
Wind: OFF
Green Grid : ON
Club Suggestion is ENABLED.
Boost: OFF (+/-5% max on club settings)

The Farmers Insurance Open runs from TODAY - January 28.

Purse: $7,500,000

HOW TO PLAY
From the main menu select PLAY-> PLAY TOURNAMENT -> ALL TOURNAMENTS -> SET FILTER TO PUBLIC COMPETITIONS

You can play by yourself, offline with friends or ghost players or online.

Please turn on Shot Recording! Instructions on how to setup Shot Recording:

https://golfsimulatorforum.com/forum/protee-golf-simulator/online-play/89550-how-to-turn-on-shot-recording

Tournament Rules:

https://golfsimulatorforum.com/forum/protee-golf-simulator/online-play/133650-tour-rules

For live tour talk and support visit ProTee TGC Discord:

https://discord.gg/W8RExqW

GOOD LUCK AND HAVE FUN!

[ProTee United]

NET LEADERBOARD

GROSS LEADERBOARD

[sb944]

I am so all over the place, 87 and 73. Was going to brag about my massive inconsistency, but sorry kchogan obliterated my efforts, 87 and 69. Barely breaking 90 and breaking 70 in the same day, epic!!!

[kchogan]

Ha! No break between rounds either. My skytrak was giving me some crazy reads midway through the first round, so I spent the last six or so holes of rd 1 trying to get it to work right (reboots, angle adjust, case adjustments, etc). Finally got it dialed in by the 18th hole, so had to keep on playing round 2!

[sb944]

OK, so you still not doing a rewind when it's a crazy read? I had a couple of reboots, really hot again this week in the garage. I had a few "bad" reads, but nothing crazy, so no rewinds. I also implemented the putting patch, thanks Bob Chung for the link. I must admit this makes a difference, any chance of a chipping patch to do the same thing. I feel like about 50% of chips go the direction I hit it at the moment. It doesn't really make a difference on the scorecard, but it's still frustrating to see 50% of chips just go hard right or left when I clip it nicely.

[kchogan]

I'm done with rewinds. I have crazy chipping/pitching reads all the time. I can hit dead center of my screen and get 8 (or more) degrees left or right 50% of the time. At the end of the day, I just don't care anymore. All the fake money I have won still won't buy me a GC2

[sb944]

Also, took a video of two my better drives:towards the end of the round, felt like things were going freely:

http://youtu.be/leNOrV2risw

[jrz]

What camera(s) are you using?

[sb944]

Just a Samsung Galaxy 8. Many cameras support 120 or 240 fps recording, can watch it in slow mo on the phone too. I use it for verifying swing changes. It goes something like this. "Wow, this swing change seems so foreign to me, I wonder what it looks like?" Take a video, watch it in slow mo, and it usually looks exactly like it did the day before. I don't record every shot, just turn it on when I want to see something.

[bballer320xu]

What camera app do you use? I'm a recent Samsung convert (Note8) and haven't found a great video app yet for slow mo...

[Timdm3]

Ugh Concede Hole button got me on hole 1 of second round. ProTee United are you able to cancel this for me or do I just bite the bullet?

Thanks,

Tim

[kalcormier]

I'm glad to know I'm not the only one!

[Timdm3]

Cream? Anybody want cream? OK, no cream.

[KPaas]

Really tough course! I can not for the life of me get the ball to sit on the green lol
like a full 52 from 120 yards and it rolls 10 yards across the green lol
Practice I guess lol only 3rd tourney round so far. Having a blast tho with my sim and this forum and tour!

[allen2be]

What ball you using? I've been loving the few Kirkland's I have left, chromesofts, and Nike platinums that all bite real good. Being cheap, I just got a bunch of top flite gamer tours and used it for my match play round last night and they didn't seem to spin worth a S and actually read like 100 backspin on some chips, so maybe my skytrak is struggling to see this ball.

Anybody else try the top flite gamer tour with a skytrak yet? Thoughts?

[sb944]

I can't hit a 52 120y, but a full 50/54/58 will hop once, and either stop in it's tracks, or suck back a bit. I'm using Srixon XV tour, got a great price in a bundle deal, with extra 20% off ebay, and these balls last a very long time before being battered much. They don't spin as much as the Titleist prov, but those things are 4 times the price when you factor in durability, and I'm not good enough to need that extra precision.

[KPaas]

I got a box of srixon marathons, they use them at my local golf shop in there test bays. They can take a beating and long. But I have a feeling the spin rate is really lacking. I’m gonna try some higher spin balls. Recommendations??

[CW35]

I use middle of the road Srixons for range sessions and pre-round warm ups. For the actual tourney rounds, I use a pro v1 (only 1 ball). The spin numbers will be considerably different. You can get a lot of rounds in before needing a new one, at least in my experience.

[bballer320xu]

I follow the same approach as CW35, but I buy mint used 2017 ProV1s to use with my sim exclusively. I try to use a ball until it gets rough to keep the net in good shape. These balls hold up really well as he said. When the ball starts to get roughed up a bit it can do quite a number on the net.

[KPaas]

Ok I’ll try some prov1s. And some other balls. See how it goes.
im trying to understand the leader board lol
how come the guys tied for 11th place have two different scores, 194 and 156?

[andygg1986]

The top leaderboard is the net score (including handicap). So both of those guys shot 12 over their handicap over two rounds. The bottom one is the gross (without handicap)

[LotharFriend]

Any one ever do a quick test on the Pro V1s vs. other balls for spin rate on the Skytrak?

I know we are all not Iron Byron but with enough data and shots from a pitching wedge, the spin rates should start showing some trends.

[Jwheels9876]

When I had my skytrak I did some tests with a bottom of the line top flight distance, Srixon soft feel and ProV1 1x balls. Huge difference in spin numbers. Usually around 2000 more backspin from ProV1 to Top flite and around 1000 more from ProV1 to Srixon on average.

[CFRIEDL90]

Hey guys still having trouble getting an official TGC handicap. Shot 96 92 last week and assumed I’d be adjusted as of Tuesday, but shot 84 at Torrey this AM and still no handicap. Am I missing something?

[Sandbar]

CFRIEDL90 You have to play 5 rounds before you will get a handicap. You can play the q school's 5 rounds or play 5 tourney rounds then wait until the following Tuesday when they are calculated. It will then be updated every subsequent Tuesday assuming you play rounds in the tournament during that 7 day stretch.

[Michael Baas Becking]

If I’m not mistaken you need 5 scores to get a tour hcp

[CFRIEDL90]

Ok thanks for the response. I didn’t realize that I had to play five TGC tour rounds. It’s comfusing since when you first start the golf club game it says you need to play five approved hcp rounds to get your calculated handicap. Looking back it makes more sense now. Appreciate you putting up with stupid questions

[abirdie4me]

This course is all about the driver, if you aren't hitting that club well it will be a long day. I played it in real life once, and I'm impressed by how accurate the game is. From my memory of that real life round, I only missed 3 fairways but still shot 84 (in my younger days when I was a 5 handicap).

[andygg1986]

I went to UCSD which is walking distance from Torrey pines and could play the south course for $40 and the North for $25, so I played both lots of times. I used to be a scratch golfer and a solid round there from the middle set of tees would be high 70's. It really makes you appreciate how good the pros are. The only thing that gets me about this version is that there is no water on 18. I think it has to do with the fact that you can only set water at one elevation in the course designer. Other than that it is very accurate

[mthunt]

Rewinds are still being abused. Should I start posting names?

[Sandbar]

I am still probably considered a newbie here having a skytrak for only a year but to put my neck on the line and offer my 2cents if it’s even worth that much(plus not being 100% sure if this is a rhetorical question)...1st time offense pm since it might be an oversight or system issue. Offense two....the powers that be use judgement on the public disclosure.

[mthunt]

I stated this when the rules were set. First offence is a PM and warning. Repeat offence without valid reasoning is a tour ban under the discretion of the tour committee. Me, Keith and Bubba and the owner of ProTee. We also change the cap to -36.

[Sandbar]

Guess that means the question actually falls into the rhetorical question realm...my bad. But the work you all do is definitely appreciated even though enough thank yous aren’t thrown your way