SweetiePie:``````and so Mr. Cow, as I was saying, be sensitive to what scores you post because they can haunt you when you begin to knock on the TL door. It is interesting to me to read comments that tell you "it doesn't matter", "don't bother with it", "500 this" , "saturation that", 'turn in those 75's", and so on. It is of interest because the same people giving this unrealistic advice are the ones, aware; keeping exact detail, even to the point of spreadsheets dealing with the nature of it all while telling you it doesn't matter....it matters.....
Different takes on it and fair enough, but I am one who would absolutely say do not worry about what you turn in. I never have kept a SS, and my notes easily fit on one side of A4.
Those notes are my yardage chart for irons which is nice to check when needed I find; also have my wedge yardages from 4 through 107 yards really (well a few numbers that I massage around with varying shot types / spin settings); lastly I have a very basic % speed reminder for the varying speeds that come up in CC / RG comps.
I never have and have zero intention of playing practice rounds more than three times a year, just use those for mapping after a club swap. All I see is less XPs with those to protect what some WGT average / tired from day 1 stats- my view of it. I do not have 60% 1 putt, but not far. I see some comment on their 70 1 putts, and then I look at their score history and its no wonder with what they turn in from where. Comes to single play real comps hardly ever see them as off shooting 26 in multi-play somewhere easy. That's not knocking the red tee average chase at all that is separate and this is away from that.
I should add that I am not knocking practice either of course, just that practice rounds I can't personally be assed with for this game, and frankly poor scores make squat difference unless you need that badge or are in a red tee average chase comp.
My first RR as Legend as was 72 at Andys, and that was my average. That is when I came to the forums thinking WTF, and Lizard gave me great advice on mapping. I worked at that and by the time I hit TL I was breaking 60 at Oakmpnt (sometimes). Once the 500 RR saturation point is reached those old scores are simply zapped out of the calculation. I had lots of bad scores, and so my average plummeted fast as they got zapped to the ether. I also had all the XP from those scores handed in :)....These days I really only WD from RGs if I blow out early, and zero chance of getting close to the economic limit. CC stuff is usually round robin and single play stuff and in all conditions, and I never WD from that - really would be poor form.
Below the headline WGT average the other WGT stats will lurch forward in their own slow WGT poor way, slowly, roughly in the right direction remaining too antiquated largely.
Yep IMO 100% forget all about average, and just fire away, and enjoy. Shoot 110 at Oak tomorrow and it will have zero impact on how long you take to reach TL (if you care). Choose not to hand that 110 in, and it will delay you leveling up.
Play all the courses as a L in real conditions too IMO. Get to TL, and the conditions are only tougher on real course comps. Do not make the mistake of comparing L leader-boards to TL ones for that reason.
PS - yes my average is low, but look how many RRs I have. I am a campaigner for a rolling average and a new tier, but WGT make it so I saturated:).....My score history is not anywhere near that same as anyone is not often playing to their "saturated" average in the high level comps..I say new tier so as to leave the red T comp alone and those that like saturated stuff too - loads elsewhere but just said that as not an elitist thing nor wishing to get in the way of what others like in any way.