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Any one qualified for open lately?

• bigcountry317 4,269 Posts

  Wed, Jun 25 2014 2:25 PM

  LOL, nice way to say "I qualified"!  Excellent approach, congrats on the qualification and welcome to the party. :-) 

• chrisironsbones 3,524 Posts

  Wed, Jun 25 2014 2:35 PM

  Look at page 3 of the full virtual open leaderboard, there's a guy who has a WD next to his name.  How can you have a WD from a unlimited tournament. ??  Maybe asked to be withdrawn??

• MBaggese 15,367 Posts

  Wed, Jun 25 2014 2:52 PM

  chrisironsbones:

  MBaggese:

  chrisironsbones:

  Well at least i will know every inch of the course if i do qualify.

   

  I just spit out my soda!

  I was -7 on front birdied 10,11 got exactly the same as i have last round on 12 where dinged shot started off at pin not where i moved marker, another par, any way i was -11 at 14th i PARRED 15, and headwind on 16 so had no chance of birdie and thought here we go, but i birdied 17 to give me more FALSE HOPE, -12 on 18 & i have 161 yard approach on 18 with awkward direction wind and end up doing this due to my nerves: DAMN WGT:

  http://www.wgt.com/replay.aspx?ID=bcbfb59c-f11d-469a-aa15-a355015826ec

  Awesome Chris!

   

  I knew ya had it in ya!

  96

  chrisironsbones

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• MBaggese 15,367 Posts

  Wed, Jun 25 2014 2:54 PM

  chrisironsbones:

  Look at page 3 of the full virtual open leaderboard, there's a guy who has a WD next to his name.  How can you have a WD from a unlimited tournament. ??  Maybe asked to be withdrawn??

  Last year, I saw one on my friends list with a WD as well, apparently if you don't play/log into WGT for some period of time after you qual, the WD pops up.

   

  He told me he spoke with WGT, they say it's a glitch, and not to worry about it.

• GlassMan27 573 Posts

  Wed, Jun 25 2014 2:56 PM

  chrisironsbones:

  there's a guy who has a WD next to his name.  How can you have a WD from a unlimited tournament. ??  Maybe asked to be withdrawn??

  That's a familiar name.... I remember a year or so back he came out of nowhere and was winning almost every single RG he entered. Never a withdraw, and won 19 out of 20 (with a lone tie for first as the only blemish) at one point.

• mkg335 5,491 Posts

  Wed, Jun 25 2014 3:37 PM

  Chris, well done!  Now let's hope all our 57s hold up.  I think we're safe, but that's what the passengers on the Titanic thought, too.

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Wed, Jun 25 2014 4:51 PM

  mkg335:

  Chris, well done!  Now let's hope all our 57s hold up.  I think we're safe, but that's what the passengers on the Titanic thought, too.

  Here's a fun thought for ya-WGT relaxes control and throws the course open to 56's for the weekend. All of a sudden the cut's at 56 and there's a mad scramble, meanwhile saving WGT however many 2000 credit awards when they shut the door Monday on the easy scoring and the 57's don't make it to 56.  LOL. 

  That's just plain mean.  ;-)

• mkg335 5,491 Posts

  Wed, Jun 25 2014 5:09 PM

  Nah, that's not mean, that's life.

  ;-)

• Woodoworkery 3,498 Posts

  Wed, Jun 25 2014 5:20 PM

  YankeeJim:

  Woodoworkery:

  I been trying my butt off, can't get past hole 5

  Unless you're only  parring the first 5 holes (doubt it) you're probably shooting yourself in the foot. You can par 5 of the holes on the course and still qualify so instead of restarting after 5, just count down the pars you make until you get to the 5th one and then restart if you don't birdie out.  :-)

  nope  2 pars by the 5th hole , your just waisting ball life and time Jim

• tiffer67 1,764 Posts

  Wed, Jun 25 2014 7:29 PM

  tiffer67:

  On this course however I have found it extremely difficult to pitch in, the ball seems to pull up just short when it looks good on first bounce.

  Sometimes the answer is staring you in the face and you just cannot see it. After posting the above earlier I decided to change from my normal Nike ball to a Callaway lvl 35 ball figuring it'll run that wee bit more when pitching/flopping. 31 completed qualifying rounds playing a Nike ball and hadn't come close to a 57. 2 rounds with the Callaway and 4 shots holed from off the green. I had a putt on 18 for a 57 in my first game, then just there I shoot a 56. Finally a qualifying score in the nick of time.