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'Tough-It-Out III': The Trans-Atlantic Starter Clubs Uneven Open THIRD EDITION!

Mon, Oct 28 2013 3:55 PM (614 replies)

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CerinoDevoti

3,232 Posts

Thu, Sep 26 2013 1:29 PM

Corwyn:

But above all, we are relying on each other's honesty to preserve the integrity of the tourney. In a tournament like this, we depend on each player checking their partner, and being responsible to the whole field... just as in real golf. Golf prides itself on being one of the very few games where it's the players that uphold the rules, and call penalties on themselves. So, we can do the same, and ignore that box on the right of the screen that's trying to tempt us to take a gimme. After all, in Tough-It-Out with a starter putter, even a less-than-2-foot putt from say, above and beyond the hole on #13 at Olympic or from many other difficult spots, is far from a gimme!

So, just to be clear, Gimme's are NOT ALLOWED in Tough-It-Out tourneys.

I just got back and want to add to what Corwyn has already said here. Gimmes are not part of Stroke Play Tourney Golf of any kind. Frankly, I find WGT adding this feature insulting. Players must always stroke the ball until it's final resting place(the hole) entirely themselves. I can't imagine the integrity of the game being put second to "speeding up" the game.

Gimme's are NOT ALLOWED in Tough-It-Out Tourneys.

MatildaIgaly

1,822 Posts

Thu, Sep 26 2013 1:41 PM

CerinoDevoti:
Gimme's are NOT ALLOWED in Tough-It-Out Tourneys.

Thats a rubbish feature when you cant see it on score card. Maybe it will be fixed.

Me and Dazza had planned to play today and so we did, for 3 holes then on 4th wgt failed so we had to restart and once again when we are on 4th problems. So another restart and this time we just got to 1st hole. We then gave up.

We are scheduled to play our round saturday and hopefully things has been solved.

filmslayer

2,340 Posts

Thu, Sep 26 2013 4:27 PM

any idea when we may see round 3 pairings ?

Corwyn

2,410 Posts

Thu, Sep 26 2013 5:55 PM

Hi Slayer,

Well, we like to try and pair people up for both of the last rounds based, as closely as possible, on leaderboard position...

... so it's a little tricky to get pairings made yet, with so many 2nd rounds still to play.

I'll take a look tomorrow morning, and see where we are, and if I can least settle on some pairings for those already finished.

Thanks for raising the question!

Cheers, Corwyn

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Here's where the 2nd Round currently stands:

PLAYER PAIRINGS FOR ROUND 2: here's a new sheet of Time Availability

already played:

hyena64 & hobbe95

Geagle1 & ColumbusStorm

Corwyn & deedles77

Macduff10 & filmslayer

remaining to play:

Kurtsbuford & Legaci

BogieZed & CerinoDevoti (back 9 scheduled for Saturday)

MatildaIgaly & DAZZA501 (trying again at the weekend after poor connections today)

oneeyedjohn & JayO92 (set for Saturday, I believe?)

BigInigoMontoya & bhoese (playing tonight, Thursday)

fredsf & bfghd

ljbast & seemorehair

new pairings:

togemag & gsprink

GolfingJMan & unclenewy

Wesdogg75 & jlucky3333

unclenewy

334 Posts

Thu, Sep 26 2013 6:23 PM

Corwyn:
GolfingJMan & unclenewy

JMan and I have been in contact about our best timeslot, it could be tricky to hook up as he has internet issues at certain times of day and I have a busy weekend of the missus' birthday break with the family and then up to Scotland Sunday night.

Hopefully I can catch him tomorrow day or at some point on Sunday, but we also have a little issue of a 7hr time difference.

We both may need a marker or extend into monday to get played.

Neil

Corwyn

2,410 Posts

Thu, Sep 26 2013 6:53 PM

Thanks for the update, Neil. And I'm glad to hear you and JMan have been in touch.

Can you both share some more detail about when works for you over the next few days (anything that I can use to do some juggling if needed)?

Thanks!

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And please, anyone else, do share where you're at with scheduling, or if it isn't working out and we need to make any changes.

unclenewy

334 Posts

Thu, Sep 26 2013 7:05 PM

Corwyn:

Can you both share some more detail about when works for you over the next few days (anything that I can use to do some juggling if needed)?

Thanks!

Hello Neil,

Personally I'd rather play around 6-10PM PST. However, my internet isn't the best at that time - ask bhoese who marked for me. I'd hate to ruin my playing partner's experience with 5-10 second loading each shot. My internet is usually extremely smooth around 2-4AM PST. Saturday morning around 2-4AM PST is my Option A to get full 18 holes. Option B, sometime later during Saturday or Sunday. If we only get 9 holes in at a time, that's better than nothing.

Thanks,

JMan

This is his reply to my message asking what's best for him.....at the moment I have no chance of "Option A" and could possibly make some time on Sunday depending on whether I get called back to work Saturday night, which is very possible.

Ironically I have most of tomorrow free as the job I was on has been postponed (which is why it's very likely I could get called back Sat night)

I'm thinking that if either of us gets a chance to play with a marker, and even split it into two 9's, we should take it.

JayO92

172 Posts

Thu, Sep 26 2013 7:29 PM

Once again I was having what I thought was a good round, when... disaster struck on the 10th hole on RSG. It wasn't so much the fact that I found a greenside bunker, it was the fact that from that point right up until I finished the hole, every single shot I took did something unexpected; full LW bunker shot only going 4 yards, a fairway slope not affecting the length of a pitch at all, and a putt that displays break not breaking. Complete let-down after some promising practice rounds (I can tell that this is going to become a recurring theme)...