MBaggese:
thebigeasy707: m teeing off up at St Andrews for real in around 3 hours...
Have a great time !!!
6FT Tall Open....The New Course.
Well.....as the scorecard reveals.......real life scores do vary greatly compared to virtual scores.
Front 9 ....the conditions were very light wind but on the back 9, I have this conspiracy theory that Icon dialled in the his trademark HEAVY winds after catching this thread because it was like a totally different course on the back 9, but having said that, I got a few monster headwinds but also a few monster tailwinds which resulted in the the slow playing 4ball Italian tourists playing in front of us turning round to give us a few WTF glaring looks as drives flew right over their heads on 2 occasions.
Turned out to be a normal round for the pair of us which ended in a draw. On the New Course over all I'm up 4-2 up after 6 rounds.
Scores could have been a lot better but failure to ding a few putts or hit on favourable side of wind cost us a few strokes.
Also.....on WGT we hear a lot of "Why are St Andies bunkers so hard to play out of?"
Here's a photo of a normal St Andies bunker. I'm standing in the middle of it. There's not a lot of room to move around in many of them. I'm 6ft 3" and this is what you're faced with a lot of the time....this was probably one of the easier bunkers :)
So if you go into one of these...and the ball's up against the wall, you're taking more than 1 stroke to hit it out backwards or even sideways. You'll break both wrists & club attempting to hit it out front ways and the ball will still be sitting where it was.
