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Post by andersnm on Jan 30, 2020 22:24:45 GMT
The ultra sim experience tour travels this week to south central England and Berkshire to play the Mill Ride Classic at Mill Ride Golf and Country Club. Mill Ride Golf and Country Club was designed by Donald Steel and opened in 1990. The course measure 6885 yards from the back tees. You are greeted by a landscape of perfectly manicured and cross cut fairways intermingled with lakes and the mounding and hollows which give this Championship Golf course a unique parkland design coupled with an inland links feel to the starting and closing holes. Seven lakes is located on the course. The testing course has hosted numerous professional tournaments such as the European Seniors, South Region PGA Championships and the Master Card Tour.  The weather forecast for the week: Wind: medium, high, very high, low Wind direction: east, west, south, north Weather: default, overcast, light cloud, default Time: default, morning, afternoon, dusk Green speed: medium, fast, very fast, fast Green firmness: moderate, firm, very firm, soft |
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Post by paddyjk19 on Jan 30, 2020 23:30:14 GMT
Great write up as always Anders.
As the designer and former member here I thought I’d add to this with a quick rundown.
The layout of this course requires thinking and strategy plus a fair bit of local knowledge, I’d advise a practice round!
There’s also lots of OB and Water, often on the same hole so check the map before launching!
I’ve set up Rd 3 to be a brute, the southern wind is often the hardest despite normally being the warmest! This round is supposed to recreate a pro event I played in there in 2007. It was a national event and some fairly good players (challenge tour and euro pro). The course was playing super long in a gale and one player broke par over 36 holes, i was even fairly happy with 84 and 86 as my scores 🤣
It will be a challenge but I hope you’ll enjoy it. Just be smart!
The key holes are:
Hole 2: After hopefully picking up a birdie at the first you will be faced with a horror tee shot - if you hit driver you need to aim over the water and must avoid slicing OB or hooking into the drink. An iron leaves a long approach but maybe a safe option early in the round
Hole 8: On paper an innocuous looking 150 yarder through a narrow shoot but I’ve made 5 on this hole more times than the 450 yard 9th.
I’ll let you guys explore this for yourselves!
Hole 10: This will divide opinions, a unique Par 5 (a bastard par 5 in rd 3) a long and very straight drive leaves you a chance in two but hitting the narrow fairway is tricky with driver and if you find the rough it’s a tough shot to carry the hazard which often means a pitch layup and a long third shot. Can be a destructive hole
Hole 11: Just a horror Par 3, short is dead. Long leaves a horror chip and I’m yet to find a wind that works on this hole. Enjoy.
Hole 16: There’s many different ways to approach this hole but it’s easy to get out of position and a difficult green means it can be an easy bogey despite looking tame on the surface.
Hole 17: Don’t go left. Don’t go right. Just nail the fairway or this will get difficult.
Hope you all enjoy your rounds next week and hopefully I’ll see you out there!
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Post by LKeet6 on Jan 31, 2020 9:05:24 GMT
Great stuff guys  |
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2020 11:20:22 GMT
Hope I'm not out of line asking this, but why do events like USE, TST post upcoming weather forecasts for a tourney?
As I understand, those are what you can expect at some point.
Seems to me, it appears all conditions can occur...and if so, why even forecast?
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Post by paddyjk19 on Jan 31, 2020 11:22:49 GMT
I agree to be fair.
I think Green speeds should be posted as we can’t go on the putting green before hand, maybe firmness too as you would get a feel of that before you tee off in real life
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Post by hammers1man on Jan 31, 2020 12:00:05 GMT
We have weather forecasts in real life, with a rough idea of how windy it's going to be close to the start of the tournament.
Last year in my real life society I knew I would be playing in 40 to 50 mph winds the day before I played.
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Post by al on Feb 1, 2020 7:04:38 GMT
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Post by andersnm on Feb 2, 2020 18:13:11 GMT
 First round: 42% fairways for me. And mostly heavy rough. Bogeyfree round and started off with an eagle. I saved my approach shot from the rough on the first for "shot of the week". Think I played smart even with so many fairway misses, and not that many strokes behind unclevirt - so I think it was a very good round even if I felt I should have puttet at least two more birdies from under 10 feet. |
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Post by andersnm on Feb 2, 2020 18:50:32 GMT
 Second round: another round with 42% fairways, and a little more off with the putter (also more distance to pin due to wind). Highlight is a flop in for eagle on the 10th, but then I hit water on the 17th for a bogey, and my sand shot on the 18th was just too short. Still, another good round |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2020 20:16:45 GMT
Super happy about my first round. After being -4 thru 3, for sure thought the blow-up was inevitable. Stupid double bogey on 11 killed me as I went splooooooosh. ![]()  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 2, 2020 21:04:49 GMT
Putt from off the green on 18 for eagle went in....-2 second round...-8 halfway.
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Post by andersnm on Feb 2, 2020 22:08:15 GMT
 Third round was a roller coaster for me that did not end well with a triple bogey on the 15th. +2 for the round due to that triple. Fourth round was again solid, but some mistakes and short putt misses made it not so good as the first two rounds. All in all I'm happy with the end score, so the bar is set hammers1man |
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Post by paddyjk19 on Feb 2, 2020 22:17:43 GMT
Been struggling recently and haven’t been playing loads but wanted to put a good tournament together at home.
-5 and -4 first two rounds was ok but then lit up the third round with a -9 including a few chip ins.
-18 with a round to go and I lost focus and scrapped an E in the final.
-18 at the end but at least I can savour the 3rd round
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Post by LKeet6 on Feb 2, 2020 22:38:35 GMT
Been struggling recently and haven’t been playing loads but wanted to put a good tournament together at home. -5 and -4 first two rounds was ok but then lit up the third round with a -9 including a few chip ins. -18 with a round to go and I lost focus and scrapped an E in the final. -18 at the end but at least I can savour the 3rd round Shame not to push on from -18, but a good tournament, well done |
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Post by gavlaar124 on Feb 2, 2020 23:41:01 GMT
Off and away with a bogey free -4 ... Struggling to get the required fasts with my new controller and missread quite a few putts and deffo lipped out more than a few but we soldier on! Haha will play the rest tomorrow night as it's superbowl time!!
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