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Re: showdown royal [and some other tournaments]

• weejohn5 68 Posts

  Wed, Jan 15 2025 8:41 PM

  If I shoot 5 under in 1st. nine holes why do I not start the next nine holes at 5 under? It's basically an 18 hole tournament, in "real" golf players carry on to the second 9 holes from the position they were in after the 1st nine !

• callaghan159 6,404 Posts

  Thu, Jan 16 2025 1:11 AM

  weejohn5:

  It's basically an 18 hole tournament,

  It's really 3 9 hole tournaments...different holes from different courses.

• kcjt1985 35 Posts

  Thu, Jan 16 2025 3:32 AM

  I concur with John on this one. Say you have two really good rounds, then fall off in the third, you end up with prizes that don't really merit the efforts of the first two rounds.

  Or you could basically just make the cut twice, then wind up with one great round and walk off with the best prizes.

• BlackBogey 583 Posts

  Thu, Jan 16 2025 2:36 PM

  If you only shoot 5 under for the first 9 holes you should be thanking your lucky stars you even made it to the 2nd round, you must've gotten a lucky draw with the grouping you were in.

  It's not basically an 18 hole tournament as you seem to think.  A Showdown is 3 completely separate rounds that have nothing to do with each other.  Think of it as bracket type event.  In a bracket tournament the score you shoot in round 1 has no bearing on the results of round 2 and so on.