Wow , look what I have been missing as I have never been on this site before
I just looked at the tourney to remind myself of the courses but fundamentally I don't see windy as getting in the way of good scoring. I feel I can birdie or eagle any hole just the same as in no wind. In a more recent tourney my windy scores beat my no wind scores.
I totally disagree that a slight miss snap will give a 30 foot putt in windy. It can but it doesnt often. A big miss snap maybe or a shot with overswing when the wind has just gone a lot stronger at the last second has that effect. Ole is right to that I do think a little about where the wind could take me with my likley miss snap and allow a bit to compensate.
In the tourney in question the first round was Kap Village and a -19 round I do not see as exceptional. It contained 3 pars which is 3 mistakes i didn't recover from. I must have recovered from a few others as I see I only hit 8 fways.Wessex in round 2 even from forward tees is always tough. My 2 troubles I remember in that round was I played the par 5's badly ( only 3 out of 4 available eagles is not good) and my putting wasn't good. It isn't just about distance from the pin on putting it's about slope. Wessex never seems to give a flat putt and from any distance is very hard indeed and I was well pleased with -15.
My Gleneagles round was in no wind and I would say -20 from middle tees isnt great but quite solid. so after 3 rounds I was doing well but not great. The Mauna round though I did play really well and hit some great shots on reachable par 4's plus holed some great putts I recall.
I did get 2 pars which I remember well. On 1 I went for the green through the trees!! It got through and I had a chip for an eagle which I hit a bit too hard to 7 feet or so and missed a putt I should have holed. On 14 also I tried a silly shot to the green( the plan was to fall 40 yards short and chip on as I always feel a chip could drop in) I hit a tree and it went behind the T. My next shot was some 75 yards away in a nasty rough lie on a massive up slope which somehow I hit to 11 feet and holed a boomerang putt.
Mauna though was the sort of round where its possible to get into chipping range quite often from the T and then the wind hardly comes into the 2nd shot. The key to the score then was getting the T shots right ( + putting ) on the eagle holes. AND playing a windy round is not about taking ages and ages. Yes its a bit slower than no wind but I would still do it in less than 45 minutes.
As for new pc causing me problems I might be finding out sooner rather than later. I am comfortable though that my meter is not slow as I have played on otrhers and I reckon mine might be the fastest I have played on. It's all about getting used to it. Maybe I will start hitting the snap more and improve.
explained that mant years ago ( END OF HIM !! Pls!)
) mullies as you prolly had to take
