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Par 5 front nine ready go high winds

• stevietwotimes 1,327 Posts

  Sat, Sep 7 2013 8:35 AM

  chrisironsbones:

  Today you might get wind in the face and struggle, but play tomorrow and because you did poorly the previous day, wgt gives you favorable winds and a helping hand

  i was thinking how the hell does someone shoot a 33 here after having not many holes where i could make an eagle cos all winds were in my face but on about the 5th go of trying i had favorable winds and shot a 33.. ty WGT :)

• 1,417 Posts

  Sat, Sep 14 2013 8:24 PM

  Tonight I played a number of RG's, many of them with high winds... the winds were against on every par 5, every reachable par 4 (on Cabo), but I kept going.... The odds were due to turn in my favor, right?  4 tourneys with high winds... yeah, right.. lol..  I'm a MORON for thinking it would be any different than it turned out! :)

• geraldlarousse 1,986 Posts

  Sat, Sep 14 2013 8:35 PM

  CMcCartney727:

  Tonight I played a number of RG's, many of them with high winds... the winds were against on every par 5, every reachable par 4 (on Cabo), but I kept going.... The odds were due to turn in my favor, right?  4 tourneys with high winds... yeah, right.. lol..  I'm a MORON for thinking it would be any different than it turned out! :)

  Lol, yup i get wind into on every par 5,,,,,and then wind behind blowing, lol, on every par 3.

  Hmmm, whats up with that? Very interesting to say the least. Play a regular round in CC or regular stroke play and that doesn't happen.

  Hmmm....???   ;)

• 1,417 Posts

  Sat, Sep 14 2013 8:44 PM

  Absolutely... the only helping wind I had on the Cabo RG was a 20 mph tailwind on a par 3...  I guess my only consolation is that others see the same thing.  I still wish WGT would make it so that everyone has the same conditions... is that not possible?

• geraldlarousse 1,986 Posts

  Sat, Sep 14 2013 9:20 PM

  Yeah..CM i've only been playing ready gos for about 3 months now. I have learned a few things in my short time, lol.

  1st....Don't play any high wind ready go unless i'm one of the first 10 to enter.

  2nd...Don't play any 18 hole ready go.....hate to have the killer front 9...only to discover i forgot how to play on the back, lol.

  With ball cost as it is, can't afford to forget how to play...know what i mean??

  :)

  Edit: When you play 9 hole ready gos,,,,you find out right quick like what is going to happen,, lol.

• Tightrope 1,072 Posts

  Sat, Sep 14 2013 9:38 PM

  chrisironsbones:

  Today you might get wind in the face and struggle, but play tomorrow and because you did poorly the previous day, wgt gives you favorable winds and a helping hand

  That's true, but if I pay credits to enter a tournament, I want to have a decent chance to compete in that particular tournament. Not the next one.
  
  All tournaments and competitions in real life attempt to make a conditions as fair and equal to everyone as possible and I do believe that WGT is making a huge mistake here. Yes, there is the distant possibility that people would share wind information so that some will enter knowing in which way the wind blows, but seriously - does it really matter? The top ten in any RG knows how to calculate the win anyway, they would not take someone else advice and even if they did, there is enough random variables in there to make any pregiven information pretty much useless.

  I played a RG at StA today and I had headwind for every single hole. I used to believe that it was reasonably balanced and that if I have headwind on this, then some other have it on that, but it is obviously so that the wind each hole is randomized without any "fairness2 mechanism built in. If you get 20mph head wind on a par 5 you wont get a chance for an eagle and you will struggle for par. A lost birdie is lost credits.

• geraldlarousse 1,986 Posts

  Sat, Sep 14 2013 9:59 PM

  Tightrope:

  chrisironsbones:

  Today you might get wind in the face and struggle, but play tomorrow and because you did poorly the previous day, wgt gives you favorable winds and a helping hand

  That's true, but if I pay credits to enter a tournament, I want to have a decent chance to compete in that particular tournament. Not the next one.
  
  All tournaments and competitions in real life attempt to make a conditions as fair and equal to everyone as possible and I do believe that WGT is making a huge mistake here. Yes, there is the distant possibility that people would share wind information so that some will enter knowing in which way the wind blows, but seriously - does it really matter? The top ten in any RG knows how to calculate the win anyway, they would not take someone else advice and even if they did, there is enough random variables in there to make any pregiven information pretty much useless.

  I played a RG at StA today and I had headwind for every single hole. I used to believe that it was reasonably balanced and that if I have headwind on this, then some other have it on that, but it is obviously so that the wind each hole is randomized without any "fairness2 mechanism built in. If you get 20mph head wind on a par 5 you wont get a chance for an eagle and you will struggle for par. A lost birdie is lost credits.

  I totally agree Tightrope. I just finished the St. Ands front nine ready go just now. Now.....yesterday struggle for a 29, and the day before had wind in face whole round and shot 31.

  Just now...had helping wind on every hole......but, lol, had wind against on #8 the par 3 which was sweet,, because i hit it 1 foot, lol.

  Was a easy 28 and if not for a bone head putt on #2 would have been 27. When playing any course the wind has everything to do with how you will score.

• GARRYCARTER 1,533 Posts

  Sun, Sep 15 2013 12:26 AM

  I think the wind in tournaments are totally unfair tbh look at week2 nation thing,What chance do we have at long drive in head wind against a drive with cross or tail wind should be the same for all I think,Before you say about real life this is not real life we need some sought of fighting chance IMO.

  GC.

• Funkyjunkie3000 722 Posts

  Sun, Sep 15 2013 3:43 AM

  lol had the same yesterday 8 headwinds and finally a CROSS wind on 9 lol luckily i holed 1 out for eagle but yea its pure luck in a set RG tourney with the set 50 enterys we should all get the same winds

• TWOMINUSONE 2,580 Posts

  Sun, Sep 15 2013 3:48 AM

  It would be interesting to see if either Icon or Shoe could tell me the date of my last RG played? I think the last 1 was about 5 months ago, and then another year before that. The RG played about 5 months ago told me what i already knew, and that is to forget about playing these things. As Gerald said, headwind city, and always will be.

  Edit: As a matter of fact, it seems the only games i get decent winds, or a decent round in is when i set up a game with somebody. All other games are just farcical.