Week 8: The RBC Heritage

[Tuffguts]

Stupidly played Rd1 last night when really not in the "USE state of mind". It's a frustrating course at the best of times, particularly when tempo is out of whack. I think I hit a +6.
Looking forward to some wider fairways in the near future.

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Nov 5, 2020 0:30:44 GMT polekatt/josia said:

First hole in one on 2K21!!!

Check it out,  R3,  Hole #4.    whoohoo!

Congrats on your first ace Josia! Hope you saved the replay, that'll be tough to beat for Shot of The Week!

[artvandelay]

Nov 5, 2020 0:30:44 GMT polekatt/josia said:

First hole in one on 2K21!!!

Check it out,  R3,  Hole #4.    whoohoo!

Congrats Josia, where is the replay?

[artvandelay]

Round 1, enjoyable.



Nice position on the LB.  Some PC heavy hitters yet to start.

[artvandelay]

Back to back levels, although round 2 had more drama.



Still in a good place on the LB.

[Tuffguts]

As they say in the classics.....ONWARDS!!!

[hammers1man]

Nov 5, 2020 11:34:19 GMT artvandelay said:

Nov 5, 2020 0:30:44 GMT polekatt/josia said:

First hole in one on 2K21!!!

Check it out,  R3,  Hole #4.    whoohoo!

Congrats Josia, where is the replay?

I'll record it for him when I play his ghost in round 3 if he hasn't saved it.

[hammers1man]

First round with new member wimi and Dave C. Was going really well till the 8th hole, perfect drive down the middle but ended up right behind a tree made a mess for a double bogie to bring me back to E. Went to pieces a bit from there, pushed my tee shot ever so slightly off swing line into the water on 14. Made the same mistake as davec187 and took a drop into an impossible situation on the next fairway with trees in front of me. Like Dave I had a horrid score on 14. Hole 4 round 2 was totally putt off by tree shadows moving really fast, made a mess of 4 putts for a triple bogie. 2 shot penalty for me on 18 as I hit a splash from rough thinking I had picked pitch. Frustrating blow ups as my tempo was really good.

[andersnm]

Third round - no double bogeys or worse - and putting is really getting better. I am going to continue to use the LT overhead view with full back and forth. 100% short, and 40% medium putts this round. But 11% GIR.. that is just not good enough. Felt I hit the ball okay, but had a few bad spots, like hitting behind a tree on the right side of the wide 18th fairway - that is just a huge mistake.

[polekatt/josia]

I did favorite it, which I think saves it, but I didn't feel like going through the whole OBS making it into a youtube video thing last night. 

[SimChars1968]

Round 3 and had a double bogey on holes 1 and 9 and one other bogey, otherwise all pars for +5. My card for Round 4 and another pretty solid effort. Very pleased with things this week on a very tight course.

[andersnm]

Fourth round - total disaster - started really bad where I did not adjust for the faster green speed. So wimigbg - you beat me this time All I can say is - Onwards!

[hammers1man]

Nov 5, 2020 21:35:48 GMT andersnm said:

Third round - no double bogeys or worse - and putting is really getting better. I am going to continue to use the LT overhead view with full back and forth. 100% short, and 40% medium putts this round. But 11% GIR.. that is just not good enough. Felt I hit the ball okay, but had a few bad spots, like hitting behind a tree on the right side of the wide 18th fairway - that is just a huge mistake.

The greens in reg in this course is not always a true reflection of approach shots. I hit a lot of good approach shots in round 1. The greens are small on this course and with being firm I found it hard to not just roll off them , also the pins were pretty close to the edge of the greens so GIR can be a bit misleading and I hit 33% in round 1 and 72% FIR. My first round average proximity to the hole was 28 foot which isn't too bad. Lovely course Anders, I hit 1 practise round could of done with a few more as bad course management cost me quite a lot of shots in my first 2 rounds.

[andersnm]

Nov 5, 2020 22:14:16 GMT hammers1man said:

Nov 5, 2020 21:35:48 GMT andersnm said:

Third round - no double bogeys or worse - and putting is really getting better. I am going to continue to use the LT overhead view with full back and forth. 100% short, and 40% medium putts this round. But 11% GIR.. that is just not good enough. Felt I hit the ball okay, but had a few bad spots, like hitting behind a tree on the right side of the wide 18th fairway - that is just a huge mistake.

The greens in reg in this course is not always a true reflection of approach shots. I hit a lot of good approach shots in round 1. The greens are small on this course and with being firm I found it hard to not just roll off them , also the pins were pretty close to the edge of the greens so GIR can be a bit misleading and I hit 33% in round 1 and 72% FIR. My first round average proximity to the hole was 28 foot which isn't too bad. Lovely course Anders, I hit 1 practise round could of done with a few more as bad course management cost me quite a lot of shots in my first 2 rounds.

Yes - some of the greens are small - but I need to be more accurate. I was intentionally a bit left on the 14th all rounds - and I think I had no bogeys on the 14th. I was also not good enough off the tee - though I do have some intentional long shots on some holes - like the 9th tee shot. Had some really great pitches on my last round, and almost eagle on the 8th (but ofcourse missed birdie putt). All in all, I feel better about my game, now that I think I am on the right track for putting. If I can get back the accuracy I had tee to green on Augusta, and putting like the 3rd round here - I am sub par. Just a note to self, to adjust to new green speed before hitting the tee

Also - missing fairway on the wrong side on this course can lead to all sorts of trouble. Tried to be creative to make some hard approach shots, but not always a success..

[hammers1man]

Nov 5, 2020 22:22:03 GMT andersnm said:

Nov 5, 2020 22:14:16 GMT hammers1man said:

The greens in reg in this course is not always a true reflection of approach shots. I hit a lot of good approach shots in round 1. The greens are small on this course and with being firm I found it hard to not just roll off them , also the pins were pretty close to the edge of the greens so GIR can be a bit misleading and I hit 33% in round 1 and 72% FIR. My first round average proximity to the hole was 28 foot which isn't too bad. Lovely course Anders, I hit 1 practise round could of done with a few more as bad course management cost me quite a lot of shots in my first 2 rounds.

Yes - some of the greens are small - but I need to be more accurate. I was intentionally a bit left on the 14th all rounds - and I think I had no bogeys on the 14th. I was also not good enough off the tee - though I do have some intentional long shots on some holes - like the 9th tee shot. Had some really great pitches on my last round, and almost eagle on the 8th (but ofcourse missed birdie putt). All in all, I feel better about my game, now that I think I am on the right track for putting. If I can get back the accuracy I had tee to green on Augusta, and putting like the 3rd round here - I am sub par. Just a note to self, to adjust to new green speed before hitting the tee

Also - missing fairway on the wrong side on this course can lead to all sorts of trouble. Tried to be creative to make some hard approach shots, but not always a success..

I do like the creativity that comes into play with not having splash outside of bunkers. We both had roughly the same distance shot from the rough on a par 5 of about 20 yards. I hit a pitch to about 8 foot and you did the same with a chip and we both holed for birdie. With splash that's an auto shot, so much more skill is required without it. Everyone I played with in the first 2 rounds hit some great pitch shots also some bad. I do think it brings a more realistic scrambling element to the game I hit 62% in round 1. I probably got up and down with half of my pitch shots in the first 2 rounds.