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Preemptive Post on RGs

• 912 Posts

  Sat, May 17 2014 11:58 AM

  Yes like Chris said with everyone shooting scores so low, doubling your money in a 100 cr or 200 cr rg you are basically paying to play. assuming you avrage 5th place you getting 100 or 200 creds profit minus hitting the ball either 29 or 58 times.

  50 cr's if you double your money you actually lost a bit after hitting it 30 times.

  Would be nice to see a 1000 credits,  the last few times 1000 cr and 500 cr have been an option they fill so quickly, especially on beth, cabo, andies etc.  If it's about them filling up quick enough why have so many uneven lies and tour legend rg's? they take forever.

  If you add 1000 and 500's it would make the list better and in the 3 weeks we normelly get to play before list changes we get a chance to play them at least 10 times which is well worth it.

  please add bigger ones. Leave a few smaller ones for the people who want that. but for many they are boring and relitively useless.

• 912 Posts

  Sat, May 17 2014 12:02 PM

  yea true jcsweet. all we asking for is 1000 x 1 500 x2. that's 3 rg's on a long list. then do your 300, 200,100,50

• chrisironsbones 3,524 Posts

  Sat, May 17 2014 2:17 PM

  I went to count the Ready go lists turn over in the last 7 days to help come up with a conclusion about what ready go's work and which ones are dead wood.

  Uneven Lies Olympic 50c turnover 5 times in 7 days.  The same Olympic front normal lies 100c was 10 times, twice as much.

  Whistler Uneven Lies 100c  only had 3 turn overs in a week whilst the same course for 50c on NORMAL LIES turned over 24 Times in 7 days.  The Uneven Lies for $5 at Cabo only turned over ONCE in a week while normal lies for $4 at Kiawah turned over 8 times.

  There was a uneven lies for $3 which turned over once while $3 normal lies at Merion turned over 5 times.  The best of par 5 uneven lies for $3 turned over once as well.

  I found that there was only ONE Tour Legend ready go at St Andrews that turned over during 7 days yet there are NINE tour Legend Ready go's on offer.  It seems most tour legends are entering normal ready go's because Its too dificult to post a score to win $$ and they take too long to turn over

  I havn't the time yet to go through every single ready go to make a graph of the most popular (will do it tonight hopefully**), but all ready you can see that uneven lies are DEAD WOOD and only turn over ONCE in a WEEK along with the Tour Legend ones

  **Because you can only make a graph of the ready go's which are on offer this past  7 days Its hard to point out which ones are really popular because you would need a list from a few months to get a accurate account because St Andrews at any price is very popular, so is Cabo $5 (even from pro tees) so you cant really get an idea from this months ready go's.

  Kiawah is popular at any price, so is cabo & st andrews, so are best of.  These are the ones that seem to fill up quickest.  Its nice to throw a curve ball in now and again like the par 3's tour legend ready go's at present off short tees.  The consensus is DON't give us $5 uneven lies we want them on normal lies instead.

  Another idea, Have a monthly READY GO CHOOSER TOURNAMENT, the winner gets to choose the ready go's for that month (or at least half of them with WGT Icon or who ever choses them)

• 1,417 Posts

  Sat, May 17 2014 7:15 PM

  I refuse to play the TL RG's because they take forever to turn over... The last SA took about 3 weeks to turn over.  No more for me.  I'm not at all interested in the UL game, but I'm sure others are.

  I like the Cabo and Whistler RG's, regular lies.  Tonight I signed up for the Cabo RG with high winds and got headwinds on the first 4 easy holes, followed by 20 mph tailwinds on the 2 par 3's (6 and 7)... lol... Message recieved, WGT.  I'll stick with the freebies tonight...

• stevenharkin 1,921 Posts

  Sun, May 18 2014 6:36 AM

  jsweetcr:

  1 x 2K 18 holes, 1x 1K 18 Holes, 1 x 500 18 holes, 1 x 500 9 holes, 1 x 400 18 holes. 1 or 2 x 300 18 holes, 2 x 200 18 holes, 2 x 200 9 holes, 2 x 100 9 holes, 2 or 3 x 50 9 holes.

   

  Not rocket science but well put ^

   

• MolotovSolution 10 Posts

  Sun, May 18 2014 7:18 AM

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• Jimbog1964 8,378 Posts

  Sun, May 18 2014 7:24 AM

  stevenharkin:

  Not rocket science but well put ^

  Been leaving them alone for a while but interesting reading all this.  I did check to see where the TL RG at RSG was at.  I must have entered a month ago grabbing 12th spot, and a month later there are still 30 spots left...Very last TL one I enter for sure.

  stevenharkin:

  jsweetcr:

  1 x 2K 18 holes, 1x 1K 18 Holes, 1 x 500 18 holes, 1 x 500 9 holes, 1 x 400 18 holes. 1 or 2 x 300 18 holes, 2 x 200 18 holes, 2 x 200 9 holes, 2 x 100 9 holes, 2 or 3 x 50 9 holes.

  Not rocket science but well put ^

  +1 except maybe x3 100 credit and 2 max 50 credits unless cabo or Whistler as 50 credits is a nice way to have a go there.  I also have no interest in the UEL ones.

   

   

• 1,417 Posts

  Sun, May 18 2014 7:05 PM

  Tried the Cabo high wind RG again tonight, and first 5 holes?  headwind, headwind, headwind, headwind, and .... headwind.... WTF?  Two nights in a row with this crap.  Maybe... someday... they will change this and make it the same for everyone.  I still don't understand why they can't/won't/don't do that.... same conditions for everyone.  Is that hard?

• BolloxInBruges 1,389 Posts

  Sun, May 18 2014 7:10 PM

  CMcCartney727:

  Tried the Cabo high wind RG again tonight, and first 5 holes?  headwind, headwind, headwind, headwind, and .... headwind.... WTF?  Two nights in a row with this crap.  Maybe... someday... they will change this and make it the same for everyone.  I still don't understand why they can't/won't/don't do that.... same conditions for everyone.  Is that hard?

  You want random winds also for RGs, you just don't realize it :)   It increases the volatility/variance of the scoring, enabling 'fish' to occasionally taste victory keeping them playing RGs longer which means more credits for you to enjoy in the long run.

• duffer19 3,670 Posts

  Mon, May 19 2014 12:28 PM

  yes please - more 50c 9 holers -

  it's more about affording the rg experience than winning (clearly as my results will show lol)...........for me anyway.

  thanks for the post js - someday perhaps the higher stakes will call me, but not likely any time soon :)