BigInigoMontoya:I am supposed to leave town Friday evening and I'm not sure if I will have any time this weekend to complete my round at Merion.
If anyone is available to mark for me on short notice either Thursday evening my time (central time USA) or Friday morning (central time USA) I could use some assistance to get my final round in. If not I may need to ask for a time extension.
Sorry to hear that James is sick. Do note though that the final round was planned to go through to midnight Monday anyway, so everyone has an extra day through the weekend.
Inigo, if you still need a marker, can you repost with some more precise times this morning? Thanks!
And don't forget you (and James) are very much in the running for the GIR prize. You need to hit 12 GIR to overhaul Russ who is currently in 2nd place, and 16 to catch up with me.
togemag: Oneeyedjohn and I just finish the forth and final round, had fun in the game, not with the loading. Couldn't change clubs, distances or directions at time's. But it would have missed up Oneeye, so I found a way to get thru it, "TUFF IT OUT" (pun intended). I think we had fun chatting, I know I did, gotta laugh. But I'm crying looking at these, LOL. Thanks Corwyn, CD and all that put up with the lag that I had.
Gosh, Dale, that sounds awful with the loading... and an heroic, selfless endeavor to finish the round for OneEye. That's real generosity from you. Thank you!
And great shooting OneEye! That's your second really strong round of the tourney to go with your 71 at RSG as well.
ColumbusStorm: fun round for me, finally shot par or better on a round in one of these TIO tournaments.
Congratulations Russ! What a fabulous score. It's wonderful to see you achieve an under-par round in TIO conditions. That's the Holy Grail! Bravo!
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Leaderboard has been updated. We now have 8 players resting their weary legs in the Merion clubhouse.
Several pairings are likely to be weekend-only, but please do post here in the thread so we know that you are scheduled.
Ben and I are almost certainly playing Saturday night.
Also, fyi, I heard from Matt (bfghd) who forgot to let us know he was on vacation last week (and turned out not to have internet access), so has now officially WD.
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4th Round Pairings: Merion
All details are on this new sheet of Time Availability
played
deedles77 & BogieZed
fredsf & Wesdogg75
ColumbusStorm & Legaci
Corwyn & bhoese (set for the weekend, almost certainly Saturday night)
unclenewy & CerinoDevoti (no firm date/time yet, perhaps this weekend; Neil travelling)
BigInigoMontoya & jlucky3333 (James sick... Inigo perhaps needing marker)
DAZZA501 & MatildaIgaly
hobbe95 & Kurtsbuford
JayO92 & GolfingJMan
Macduff10 & filmslayer
Geagle1 & seemorehair
hyena64 & ljbast
Please let us know your scheduling plans. Thanks!
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And don't forget the special prizes on offer at Merion. So far, only 1 player has posted a CTTH pic from #5 (oneeye with 35ft)...
Corwyn: CTTH competition at #5: Post screenshot showing closest-to-the-hole location after your 2nd shot on this hole, and replay links would be great too.
(1 sleeve of balls of players choice. sponsor: bhoese)
and, for fun... 2 prizes to be judged by the organizers based on screenshots provided in the thread (organizers decision is final):
Worst Lie factoring in upslope vs. downslope, severity of sideslope, burial % and rough/sand/fescue/brush. Screenshots should be taken with the aimer at the default position. (1 sleeve of balls of players choice. sponsor: bhoese)
Best Save: to be judged similarly - the difficulty of the worst situation on the way to a par. Screenshots should be taken with the aimer at the default position, and replays of the resulting shot will be needed too.(1 sleeve of balls of players choice. sponsor: bhoese)
Other prize standings are reviewed in this post from a few days ago.