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Re: Give it a rest with the high wind RG's... puhleeeeeze

• 703 Posts

  Thu, Nov 12 2015 7:03 AM

  JoeMaverick:

  CMcCartney727:

  Find no enjoyment in playing these... like trying to navigate a ping pong ball in a typhoon...  Chambers Bay, 2 of the first 5 holes I could not get within 50 yards of the green in two on par 4's.  Scroll on by, WGT... nothing to see.  Why am I typing this?  Do they even read these forums, or are they too busy checking their bank accounts?

  I like to play in heavy wind, because when I'm playing I don't forget that it's the same nightmare for the other players :p

  The proof is that I've just won the RG on Chambers Bay despite one bogey and a global score of "only" 64. I was not able to reach the green on #1, no eagle on #4 and #12, was very short on #6 (but made the long putt for birdie) and a heavy side wind on #15 sent the ball in the bunker (bogey). I prefer playing that kind of challenge instead of Bethpage in low wind. Too boring.

  +1

• lonniescott711 4,207 Posts

  Thu, Nov 12 2015 8:55 AM

  jayw4862:

  Jhorn188:

  Also master tee doesn't play that long.

  That's pretty much the difference-maker. Playing in any High (and some courses, even moderate) winds, can make some holes impossible to reach in regulation. CB No.1 with a big headwind can't be reached in 2 shots. 

  It's a lottery in the sense that if you don't get a good/decent wind set, you're screwed. 

  Bandon and Chambers Bay are difficult in big winds. The rest are OK, unless you get a nasty wind set the entire round (big headwinds on Par 5's and bigger tailwinds on the Par 3's).

   

  Pin placements are not always the same either . So between the wind patterns and pin settings you will definitely have a different game .

   

• HoylakeHunter 904 Posts

  Thu, Nov 12 2015 1:29 PM

  JoeMaverick:

  because when I'm playing I don't forget that it's the same nightmare for the other players

  NO, you know sumone not getting 16 holes headwind !!

  tune it down wgt

  Hell, unless u lv89 ya can't reach sum p4 holes on BoH rg 

• Jhorn188 40 Posts

  Thu, Nov 12 2015 4:35 PM

  Golf has never been a sport of total fairness!

  Real golf is just the same:

  • Winds picking up during the day, making half the field play in calm winds in the morning and the the other in stronger winds in the afternoon. Or wind changing direction during the day.
  • Rain coming in making greens harder to read and clubs slippery, for some but not for all.
  • Playing late in the day when the area around the holes are full of spike marks. 

   

  ...and so on...These things can make it almost impossible to win if you get unlucky with the weather. But that's golf!

   

  donsprintr:

  By "good/decent wind set" Jay means wind directions ...

  Yes ... sometimes it's a lottery. In many ready gos, if you're scrambling for par on very many holes, you'll find yourself finishing in 34th position or just withdrawing. More than just your couple of strokes.

  Oh I get it now, that makes sense. 

  However the OP was talking about something else than winds making it unfair for those with lucky or unlucky "wind set". He was talking about the winds making it too hard to play to even be fun:
  
  "like trying to navigate a ping pong ball in a typhoon...  Chambers Bay, 2 of the first 5 holes I could not get within 50 yards of the green in two on par 4's"

  Which I don't agree with.

• 703 Posts

  Thu, Nov 12 2015 9:37 PM

  HoylakeHunter:

  JoeMaverick:

  because when I'm playing I don't forget that it's the same nightmare for the other players

  NO, you know sumone not getting 16 holes headwind !!

  tune it down wgt

  Hell, unless u lv89 ya can't reach sum p4 holes on BoH rg 

  Better not to reach few of the holes than to barely reach it tbh..

• adeypa 1,151 Posts

  Fri, Nov 13 2015 6:43 AM

  Of the 15 even lie RG's that are currently available to Champ tier players, 5 of them are high wind. Considering there are only 3 wind strengths to chose from, I'd say that 33% is a fair split.

  If you don't like, or can't play high winds, don't enter them.