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Practice Rounds at Oakmont

• griffygriff 597 Posts

  Mon, Jul 12 2010 10:59 AM

  Wow, i've been waiting for this feature since Oakmont opened, the tournament greens and tees were just too hard for me. I can't believe there wasn't an announcement about it (or was there). Its got a random 3 hole feature as well... how cool.

  Often my wife and i use golfing analogies to work out the length of time we have, to do the dirty deeds. For instance if we don't have much time i'll say "fancy doing a quick 9 holes, before we go out" or if times on our side she might say" fancy doing 18 holes this afternoon" I can't till tonight when i introduce the new random 3 hole feature.......i can see 2 balls going OB before we've even started

• griffygriff 597 Posts

  Mon, Jul 12 2010 11:11 AM

  edit   I can't WAIT till tonight

• neildiamond11790 1,115 Posts

  Mon, Jul 12 2010 11:35 AM

  As long as you dont tell her "Lets get in a quick 9 holes as long as there is no 40-50% rough around the hole" you should be good.

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Mon, Jul 12 2010 11:42 AM

  It appears if you have qualified the stroke play option at Oakmont to practice is not available. When selecting stroke play there it immediately takes you to the Open window and your only choice is to play the Open.

  If this is the case then starting a multi player practice round there would be a workaround. 

  Given that according to WGTNiv it is available do you need to clear your Flash cache to get it?

• neildiamond11790 1,115 Posts

  Mon, Jul 12 2010 11:48 AM

  YJ, from the oakmont window click experienace oakmont, then play single player, then you can select playing 9, 18 and 3 holes, ranked or practice.  I have qualified and can click both options, you just need to go through the oakmont lobby, not the main single player lobby.

  Griffygrif, one more for the road.  I would avoid asking "think we got time to play the back 9?"  most women dont like that.

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Mon, Jul 12 2010 12:15 PM

  Thanks, Neil. I was afraid to try that for fear of winding up on the Open Tee. 

• neildiamond11790 1,115 Posts

  Mon, Jul 12 2010 12:30 PM

  me too, I have been staying away from the 18 hole ranked option for that reason.

• griffygriff 597 Posts

  Mon, Jul 12 2010 12:55 PM

  Hey Diamond, hows your ninja cats training going these days.........that post had me in stitches

• Richard4168 4,309 Posts

  Mon, Jul 12 2010 1:06 PM

  Hey WGT, now that we can play Oakmont in single player, and practice rounds, how about loosening-up the bunkers a little-bit. The bunkers are still set to tournament conditions, and are harder then Chinese math to get out of. Let's keep it real.  : )

• neildiamond11790 1,115 Posts

  Mon, Jul 12 2010 1:06 PM

  haha, that was funny. Little *** went rogue on me.  Had a nice 28 on Oakmont front in qualifying, then got me in the clicker finger with a tiny chinese star that only allowed for a -1 on the back.