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Thoughts on Olympic

• piztaker 5,743 Posts

  Mon, May 7 2012 7:41 AM

  I'm allowing 5% less than Tour Master speed.

• Infinito3010 3,689 Posts

  Mon, May 7 2012 7:49 AM

  The HD photos on this course are fantastic.  WGT, you out did yourself on this course.  You obviously spent allot of time with the detail.  Now, who took all those photos in the woods.  You can see the pine needles on the greens, the grain,and the players who need to learn how to walk on the greens.

• LOLserver 3,522 Posts

  Mon, May 7 2012 7:57 AM

  piztaker:

  I'm allowing 5% less than Tour Master speed.

  lol, I am trying very fast speed & still short on many greens.....what a disappointment  :-(

   

• Richard4168 4,309 Posts

  Mon, May 7 2012 8:00 AM

  The qualifying round looks a lot better then the links to Olympic everyone was playing this past week.

  I agree with LOLserver. Its tough adjusting to the "very fast" green speeds. I can see a lot of yips occurring.

  The wind seems to be reacting correctly now as well.

• tiffer67 1,764 Posts

  Mon, May 7 2012 8:02 AM

  LOLserver:

  I am having big time trouble with the greens speed, it stands "tournament", but the qualifying greens are not tournament speed! They are much slower...why??!!

  They certainly are slower than tournament and it took me 3 rounds to adjust my putting accordingly. Left many putts short in rounds 1 & 2, which is very unusual for me.

   

• strrretch 98 Posts

  Mon, May 7 2012 8:15 AM

  Love the course.  I don't think my 85 will get me far in qualifying but saw a lot of the course.  Greens are either very fast or slow - gee just like in real life.  Go figure.  WGT u have done an awesome job in preparing the course.  Those players that can shoot in the 50's for qualifying - absolutely amazing!!

• Richard4168 4,309 Posts

  Mon, May 7 2012 9:06 AM

  Watch your tee shot on hole 5. Ive hit that darn tree five times now. The fix, don't use backspin on the tee-box. This worked for me my last go at qualifying.

  GL everyone!

• 2,114 Posts

  Mon, May 7 2012 12:12 PM

  There's a lot of shot shaping involved in playing this course. You can't just use full backspin with a good tail wind and smack the crap out of the ball. Even on some straight shots there are trees overhanging the fairway that you need to adjust for (like the #5 Richard4168 pointed out). Other than the green speed issue previously mentioned, I think it's a nice, challenging course to play.

  Kelsey

• piztaker 5,743 Posts

  Mon, May 7 2012 12:28 PM

  On some holes it's better to lay up, rather than risk cutting across the trees.

• row2seat2 1,441 Posts

  Mon, May 7 2012 2:04 PM

  Whats with the tree limb hanging down over the middle of the fairway on #5, has to be a dead limb and someone needs to pull it down ASAP.