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Re: Ranking Courses?

• theorioles 14 Posts

  Sat, Aug 6 2011 8:13 AM

  Has anyone tried to rank the available courses in terms of difficulty? In other words how easy it is to score under par?

  Thanks!

• JaLaBar 1,254 Posts

  Sat, Aug 6 2011 12:46 PM

  Let's see... for me they go: (easiest to hardest... by 9s)

  1) Back 9 - Kiawah

  2) Back 9 - St. Andrews

  3) Front 9 - St. Andrews

  4) Front 9 - Bethpage

  5) Front 9 - RSG

  6) Front 9 - Kiawah

  7) Back 9 - Congressional

  8) Back 9 - Bethpage

  9) Back 9 - Oakmont

  10) Back 9 - RSG

  11) Front 9 - Congressional

  12) Front 9 - Oakmont

• piztaker 5,743 Posts

  Sat, Aug 6 2011 12:58 PM

  It can depend on your tier. Kiawah back 9 is a lot harder for Legends.

• JaLaBar 1,254 Posts

  Sat, Aug 6 2011 1:21 PM

  piztaker:

  It can depend on your tier. Kiawah back 9 is a lot harder for Legends.

   

  Perhaps... but as my first round as a Legend, I entered a CC tourney at Kiawah, not realizing it was single play until I had entered play LOL.  Missed birdie on #1 and looked for restart but found only withdraw so I continued.  I shot a 30 on the back 9 after a 32 front 9.

• borntobesting 9,701 Posts

  Sat, Aug 6 2011 1:43 PM

  JaLaBar:

  piztaker:

  It can depend on your tier. Kiawah back 9 is a lot harder for Legends.

   

  Perhaps... but as my first round as a Legend, I entered a CC tourney at Kiawah, not realizing it was single play until I had entered play LOL.  Missed birdie on #1 and looked for restart but found only withdraw so I continued.  I shot a 30 on the back 9 after a 32 front 9.

  Piz is correct. Take # 16 for example. It goes from nothing more than a wedge from the master tees to anywhere from a 9 iron all the way down to a 3 iron from the legend tees.

  Also if you had already entered than tourney before you advanced then even though you are now a legend you would be playing under tour master conditions. 

   

• JaLaBar 1,254 Posts

  Sat, Aug 6 2011 10:09 PM

  I didn't.  It was a newly created CC tourney and believe me, the first thing I did was to check distances.  It was Legend tees.  And I am really glad I was able to keep the score.  I paid to enter it thinking it was unlimited, and if my score had been a few strokes higher I prolly wouldn't have kept it.

• DarSum 1,440 Posts

  Sun, Aug 7 2011 12:46 PM

  theorioles:

  Has anyone tried to rank the available courses in terms of difficulty? In other words how easy it is to score under par?

  Thanks!

  Easy to hard from black tees assuming wind is low and actual legend tournament speed greens. With high winds it's a crap shoot.

  STA

  KIA & BPB - Tie

  CCC

  RSG*

  OAK

  *I've only played RSG 10-15 times total. Probably should of just left it out.

• SgtDoodles 3,112 Posts

  Thu, Aug 11 2011 6:24 AM

  My personal easiest to hardest:

  1. STA

  2. RSG

  3. CCC

  4. KIA

  5. OAK

  6. BPB

  However, this is off Master tees. RSG and CCC are a lot shorter off Master tees E.G. On RSG back 9 I can have 5 wedge approaches with the right wind.