Blue Waters Golf Club C/C

[Harpo]

Yikes Doug. Think you got a couple questionable pin placements. Got to be some better pins on hole 10? Good thing there are no rounds with M/H conditions. Here was one of my putts: Also where did that tree off the 17th tee come from?

[RonnieSmith]

So I looked at the hole 10 pin positions more carefully after a 4 putt in round 4. Ironically, I think the pin position in Round 4 is the "easy" pin 0. It may be easy when you're not on C/C, but it's untenable for us. It looks like the playable pin positions are the "difficult" ones on the back right of the green.

Ronnie

[Harpo]

So I looked at the hole 10 pin positions more carefully after a 4 putt in round 4. Ironically, I think the pin position in Round 4 is the "easy" pin 0. It may be easy when you're not on C/C, but it's untenable for us. It looks like the playable pin positions are the "difficult" ones on the back right of the green.

Ronnie

Ron, I even took a boggy in Pro on the third round but that was my fault. Missed the snap early on the drive and had to hit my second shot from the sand. Did miss the par putt with less than 10 feet. Then again I missed 3 putts inside 10 feet in that round. Lippers.

Overall this course test us more than the usual (almost) straight in putts that we have a lot of time in setups for the PLSA C/C. And that is a good thing.

[RonnieSmith]

So I looked at the hole 10 pin positions more carefully after a 4 putt in round 4. Ironically, I think the pin position in Round 4 is the "easy" pin 0. It may be easy when you're not on C/C, but it's untenable for us. It looks like the playable pin positions are the "difficult" ones on the back right of the green.

Ronnie

Ron, I even took a boggy in Pro on the third round but that was my fault. Missed the snap early on the drive and had to hit my second shot from the sand. Did miss the par putt with less than 10 feet. Then again I missed 3 putts inside 10 feet in that round. Lippers.

Overall this course test us more than the usual (almost) straight in putts that we have a lot of time in setups for the PLSA C/C. And that is a good thing.

There were certainly quite a number of putts and chips where I just went, "I'll aim out here somewhere", which occasionally was outside the bounds of the aiming marker's acceptable spot (until you re-aim of course). And sometimes they even went in the hole!

Cheers,

Ronnie

[Harpo]

Looking at the first 12 players that have finished the 4th round in the pro division, only Roy birdied the 10th hole. I thought I would be sneaky and went up one on my shot and aim more left and hoped the ball would then kick right down next to the hole. NOT, I aimed a little too much left and left my approach short and above the hole. Was lucky enough to putt the ball close enough to salvage par. Will give the full data after the event is over.

Edit: So far out of the four of us that finished that fourth round in C/C, GoesForIt is the only one that has taken a par. The rest of us bogie or worst. Let's see how Doug, Dirk and Roy do.

[JackRussellTerror]

and even in AMMY, the 3 of us who have finished, only one birdied the 10th ........... *AHEM* me

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[RoyHiggi]

Tough challenge. If you dont have your A game you can really struggle. After nearly a 4 day break I started well with a good roun, carried that into round 2 before I completely lost it for a bunch of holes but recovered well.
I was committed to playing all 4 rounds back to back so off to round 3. RThe snap was iffy but 2 eagles early got me going but then a run of +1 in 6 holes brought me back to reality but some how -8 over the last 6 holes came from nowhere.

Round 4 was simply up and down by the time I go to the 10th. Most of the time I had hit a little strong at this hole so I took a bit off this time and typically missed the snap and didnt find the green. Schoolboy error as chipping onto that green is a no no. Played what I felt was perfect , the ball trickled close past the hole but didnt feel like stopping so the putt was 35 feet and massively uphill. Not a chance but glad it was only a bogey.

Bit concerned at this point, parred the next and then had the pleasure of back to back eagles. Overall happy to get through a tough course and on soft fast greens where once the ball started spinning back it didnt seem to want to stop.