TGC Spring Tour - WGC Bridgestone

**ProTee United** · 06-27-2016, 02:58 PM

**penrose** · 06-27-2016, 03:52 PM

looks like another great course this week. If anyone wishes to read about it before play or has they play each hole some info is below.

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**rsuslow** · 06-29-2016, 04:37 AM

Played my two rounds tonight, and realized I played them under Robert Suslowicz instead of Rsuslow. Anyway to transfer it over? Or should I play them under Rsuslow now that I fixed it. I shot an 83 and an 85.

**rsuslow** · 06-29-2016, 03:58 PM

I see I am up there now, thank you.

**Boerdoc** · 06-30-2016, 12:33 AM

Ugh. Started off ok but the wheels fell off. round 2 will be better. This course is not that hard, I just could not make solid contact.

**Tekbud** · 07-01-2016, 01:40 AM

Quite the story of two rounds for me this week. First I played a great opening round 66, the best I've played on the sim on any course/game thus far. Then I continued on and had a rough go of it before quitting that night. Picked round back up last night and continued the rough play to finish the front nine 9 over only to play the back nine 1 under. Not a rough course if you're driving the ball well but start getting off with the driver and the trees are tough.

Very much enjoyed playing the end of the round with turn order turned on to play along some of the tour players. Keither and longhorn you guys drive the ball so well. Very impressed. Wbond I wish I had your consistency. Fun stuff!

**BamaGambler** · 07-01-2016, 02:21 AM

Awesome round with the 66! I'll definitely set you as a ghost so I get to watch that round.

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**gene438** · 07-01-2016, 03:52 AM

Not sure what to say... How do you explain following up a stress free round of 77 with a pain filled, struggling round of 90..... I have no explaination.... Can only say I feel like somebody beat the hell out of me.. Tired and sore......

**Mel Gallia** · 07-01-2016, 04:26 PM

You forgot " Old"

**gene438** · 07-01-2016, 04:39 PM

I should have known that my real life golf nemesis would slither in here and make a comment on my misery.

**Bubba22** · 07-03-2016, 03:13 AM

Great rounds mthunt!

**MainStGolf** · 07-03-2016, 03:39 AM

Am I the only one that continues to grow more and more frustrated as these tournaments continue. I must be the only one because I don't hear anyone else noticing the differences. Before the update my short game was unbelievable. I was able to make up so many strokes around the green with my putting and chipping and sand play. Ever since the update I can not find an ounce of consistency around the green. I just continue to get more and more frustrated. Two sand shots tonight that both went in the teens and then a third one that went like 25 and it was the same swing. I had one chip that I have over 3000 backspin that should have stopped on a dime that rolled out 6-7 yards. I just can't find a consistent swing to give me the same results time after time like before the update.

And what is even more frustrating is still the shot shaping on the driver. I find that there is next to no room for error on the simulator. If you get just slightly out of that VERY narrow window you either have a banana slice or a duck hook. I'm definitely "capable" of hitting a banana slice don't get me wrong, but I played 18 IRL today and I didn't have a single one. I had plenty of baby fades, but most were dead straight or pulls. I did have a couple of pulls on the sim in the two rounds, but I had a ton of banana slices. That's frustrating because you don't know where to aim, because you don't know what shot's coming down the pike. And that's not happening IRL and so it's frustrating to come inside and see the ball going all over the place.

I was able to finally find that VERY narrow window in the second round for the most part to give myself a chance, but I sure which I could find that consistency that I was having before the update. Maybe I need to set the stimp back to the original 7 and see if that does it. I wouldn't think going up to 8 would make that big of a difference. But maybe it does. I may give that a go on the next tourney.

I went up to try and match JNPG, but I haven't played that in about a month, so there's really no need to do that I guess :-). And the 7 is probably closer to our IRL greens.

ON TO NEXT WEEK!

**Tekbud** · 07-03-2016, 04:12 AM

For some reason I was thinking the default was 6 on the greens?

Maybe your launch monitor is out of alignment somehow? I would try just hitting some drives on the driving range of JNPG as a test to compare.

**Ironstrokes** · 07-03-2016, 07:41 AM

Originally posted by MainStGolf View Post

Am I the only one that continues to grow more and more frustrated as these tournaments continue. I must be the only one because I don't hear anyone else noticing the differences. Before the update my short game was unbelievable. I was able to make up so many strokes around the green with my putting and chipping and sand play. Ever since the update I can not find an ounce of consistency around the green. I just continue to get more and more frustrated. Two sand shots tonight that both went in the teens and then a third one that went like 25 and it was the same swing. I had one chip that I have over 3000 backspin that should have stopped on a dime that rolled out 6-7 yards. I just can't find a consistent swing to give me the same results time after time like before the update.

And what is even more frustrating is still the shot shaping on the driver. I find that there is next to no room for error on the simulator. If you get just slightly out of that VERY narrow window you either have a banana slice or a duck hook. I'm definitely "capable" of hitting a banana slice don't get me wrong, but I played 18 IRL today and I didn't have a single one. I had plenty of baby fades, but most were dead straight or pulls. I did have a couple of pulls on the sim in the two rounds, but I had a ton of banana slices. That's frustrating because you don't know where to aim, because you don't know what shot's coming down the pike. And that's not happening IRL and so it's frustrating to come inside and see the ball going all over the place.

I was able to finally find that VERY narrow window in the second round for the most part to give myself a chance, but I sure which I could find that consistency that I was having before the update. Maybe I need to set the stimp back to the original 7 and see if that does it. I wouldn't think going up to 8 would make that big of a difference. But maybe it does. I may give that a go on the next tourney.

I went up to try and match JNPG, but I haven't played that in about a month, so there's really no need to do that I guess :-). And the 7 is probably closer to our IRL greens.

ON TO NEXT WEEK!

I hear you on the greens, I set my stimp to 7 as that mimicked the roll on my carpet in the garage and just now getting the feel for it, think I was too used to hitting it hard when it was defaulted to 6 for us before we could change it after the update.

I played great the first round, hit most of the fairways and greens and felt like I could have scored even better. Second round was a different story, I was all over the place with my driver and irons, but just hit great chip after great chip to save it and ended up with a lone birdie and double bogey (annoyingly on one of the fairways I actually hit that round, 125 out, bad iron, bad chip and a 3 putt took care of that for me haha) and the rest pars and that was probably the best I possibly could have scored that round with how I was hitting it.

Ive been trying to get used to playing with the short chip correction OFF to continue to feel it out and after taking the time and just recently zoning in my distances with it, I'm actually impressed and starting to enjoy it more and more. Sure you can still get the odd low spin reading on what was seemingly a well struck chip and/or get stuck on that very short chip that will never read....but Ive been getting lucky the last few rounds and have had nice readings and have been able to whack a putt though the rough on a few of the non reading short shots and get lucky to get within the 6ft. I will say it is nice getting the little extra spin on some of the shots under 20 yards as you cant really get above 1900 with the chip correction ON with those shots. Hopefully you can get a little more consistency with it soon, took me a crap load of practice in the last few weeks to finally get a little used to it. Just gotta trust the distances and assume its going to read the right spin as I feel it does most of the time. Cant wait to see what the "super putting mode" fix SkyTrak_Seth said they've been working on give us.

I do still feel like on some courses the greens take off much more than others for whatever reason (excluding approach shots hitting into a downhill slope that obviously will take off). On a lot of courses the only thing that seems to want to hold the greens are my 8 iron and under and I usually hit the ball pretty high with solid spin. I felt these greens were decently receptive but I'm gonna post a video of me elsewhere on the forum of me playing a round at the new NGLA national course that I saw Craig just recently ranked #1 on his top 100 course list (finally knocking off Whistling Straights) and anything over a 8 iron there just barely seems to want to hold the green at all.

On an additional note, I did end up scoring pretty solid on NGLA so may try to post it on the HB forums as well so the designer can see it. I like how enef56 posted my video over there when I played his course "Havasu Falls" (im also gonna do a play through on your new course as well soon). I don't think the designers always check over here to see how we are enjoying their creations. Something I definitely appreciate about Enef. Gotta imagine it has to be good showing them some love over there with playing their courses, definitely cant hurt our chances of getting more and more protee friendly courses (even though I know we have some great representatives fighting the good fight on that over there all the time)

TGC Spring Tour - WGC Bridgestone

TGC Spring Tour - WGC Bridgestone

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