TGC Tour - Shell Houston Open

[Joko]

Yeah I definitely noticed playing more break helped quite a bit. I always change my aim in game to compensate for this and then hit straight.

[MainStGolf]

Watching the IRL tournament via the PGA Live app and the course is absolutely stunning! Really wish I wouldn't have taken such a LONG time away from golf, because my interest in the game overall took a break as well and we never went to any of the tournaments either in Humble or The Woodlands while we lived down there :-(.

[Vincent_Vega]

As the spring approaches I thought I would just stop using my sim room. After playing around 1 - I'm pretty sure I'll keep this up. Had a great time playing against 3 ghosts. Shot 84 with so many 3 putts I lost count. Really need to figure out putting on TGC.

You'll get the hang of it. A couple of tips that I've kind of learned... 1.) Play more break than you think you should. 2.) This one is kind of goofy to me and maybe a small flaw in putting physics with TGC, but it's exactly the same on the console version as well. If your ball is sitting directly on a grid line and the moving dot is showing moderate to significant break, then count on your ball jumping right or left immediately off the putter face. This causes the ball to start on a line much further offline than you're probably anticipating, then you have to take in to account the break between you and the hole as well. You should play more break in this situation.

[mthunt]

You and me both brother.

[Mickey]

As the spring approaches I thought I would just stop using my sim room. After playing around 1 - I'm pretty sure I'll keep this up. Had a great time playing against 3 ghosts. Shot 84 with so many 3 putts I lost count. Really need to figure out putting on TGC.

[Bubba22]

So your just basically like the rest of us long. Lol.

[Sascha1818]

I had Vincent and you as a ghost.he had a awesome round, I'm sure we will see some really low scores this week. Seems like high 20s are in the picture

[Sascha1818]

76, nice job

[ks-man]

Keeping the videos coming...

I had a nice first round and our foursome did quite well (though nobody came close to Vincent_Vega). I really enjoy this course though I couldn't make a putt. Not many straight putts near the hole. Looking forward to round 2.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWSQF8ayrgc

[Sascha1818]

I played a practice round and my first round last night. I like the course a lot. Had a good round other than my brain farts on 2 ( 8 ) and 17 . Had a nice chip in bird on 4 and another bird somewhere. Also had my first ever ghost shot at 14:33 in my video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByFn1gZyzD8 ) I tested video recording my rounds with a free software called open broadcaster. Since i play on my laptop and shadowplay is not working on laptops, at least yet. Hope they will change that. I will put the webcam pic in a different corner in my next videos. If you guys want to watch a bad golfer your more then welcome, you just might want to watch it on mute or without kids around lol . Here my practice round video as well https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AjATJRvgLAM

[longhornlove]

9 over on the front and 1 under on the back on my first round. My golf game is schizophrenic.

[MainStGolf]

I'm done for this week. I played both rounds last night :-). That gives me a week to get things "ironed" out ;-). Actually I think I've figured out my driver. I widened my stance and that has straightened me out significantly. I'm not sure why I was so sporadic with the more narrow stance, but I'll stick with the wider stance for now.

[Bubba22]

Always have round 2 to pick it up MainStGolf.

[MainStGolf]

Well I played round one tonight and ended up with a 10 over just like my practice round. Didn't play nearly as well as my practice round, but found a way to scramble on some holes. Driver is still all over the place as you can see if you play my ghost ball. EMBARRASSING really. I was not happy and had some time so I went ahead and played my second round tonight as well. Still wasn't striking the ball very well and all, but again was able to cut three strokes off and finish with a +7 for round 2. I have the new Titleist wedges and absolutely love them. I switched to my normal prov 1x ball in round two and the difference between the Nike Soft (green) ball is night and day what I'm able to do on the green. I'll only be playing my IRL golf ball from now on. Unfortunately it didn't help my driver or iron play. Even my 3 wood which has been HOT was off today :-(.

[goatbarn]

As a designer you only have the option for light rough or heavy rough. If only light rough was used, it may have looked strange. I'd say that's the reason why it is the way it is. The course designer does not allow for variations of rough length beyond those 2 options.