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Oakmont...."Very, very soon."

• StrangeMagic 1,304 Posts

  Mon, May 24 2010 12:45 PM

  From MisterWGT's profile page:

   

  PEBBLE BEACH... historical experience now live! Oakmont full 18... VERY VERY SOON!!!

• Soulcatcher 1,970 Posts

  Mon, May 24 2010 1:05 PM

  The word is June 1st....For Oakmont.

• TheLighterDark 1,404 Posts

  Wed, May 26 2010 6:15 AM

  Soulcatcher:

  The word is June 1st....For Oakmont.

  Seconded.

  If not, then there will be riots in these streets.

• VanHalenLover 1,422 Posts

  Wed, May 26 2010 6:28 AM

  6 short days from now, I for one am looking forward to it! What a great way to come back from a long weekend!

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Wed, May 26 2010 6:33 AM

  VanHalenLover:

  6 short days from now, I for one am looking forward to it! What a great way to come back from a long weekend!

  Heh-I'm betting the first posted 61 there will be waiting for you. Friday is a good day to release an update and Sunday is next best-they've done it before.

• AtlantaCoaster 645 Posts

  Wed, May 26 2010 7:14 AM

  SPECULATION:

  We might be surprised.

  I am watching closely each morning when I wake up THIS week.  I will not be surprised IF we see Oakmont implemented and going live one of the next couple of nights.

  ONE YEAR AGO - we were hearing "June 1st" for Bethpage as well - and if memory serves me we got it JUST BEFORE the (U.S.) Memorial Day Holiday 3 day weekend - which is this upcoming weekend.  (Remember also that along with it came something entirely new - the MASTER Tier - up until then, PRO had been the top tier.)

  With History as My Guide, I SPECULATE "very very soon" indicates this week.  Imminent.

  (If one of the long-timers here remembers this differently, correct me - I think that the timing of the Bethpage rollout is how I described).

  Regards,  AtlantaCoaster

• EllisSpice 871 Posts

  Wed, May 26 2010 7:28 AM

  AC, I think the details about the BB rollout are correct, but I'm not too sure. If I honest, I don't think I ever cared that much when it first happened!

  However I think the tiers happened differently. I think Amateur was the highest, then Master and Pro were released together. I remember this as I went from Hack to Pro overnight. But I could be wrong...

• AtlantaCoaster 645 Posts

  Wed, May 26 2010 7:38 AM

  Hi Ellis...

  I quite distinctly remember that I was already at the PRO Tier when MASTER rolled out - and I was not low enough to qualify for Master (which I did not attain until December 2009).

  I think on that one I have it right because "Master" appeared and suddenly a bunch of guys (but not me) were suddenly reclassed (promoted) into Master.  Who knows - I'm not arguing...it is a discussion and anything that might help me remember, sso be it.

   

  Regards,  AC

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Wed, May 26 2010 7:45 AM

  AC-I remember it as you said. I joined May 13 and BPB wasn't in play. I then remember Memorial Day weekend trying to figure out how the hell to play a course where you couldn't get any realistic distance out of the friggin clubs because BPB was in play and qualifying had been announced. 

  The rest is an addiction drama.................  :-D

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Wed, May 26 2010 9:21 AM

  There were only two tiers at that time, Hack and Amateur. To become Amateur required an average of 68.0. Then overnight it went to the current four tiers.