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#4 Chambers Putting challenge

• hakman123 2,119 Posts

  Fri, May 15 2015 3:50 AM

  Hi there MARKDMK -- you appear to have wasted even more of your time responding to these posts - I take it that means Icon owes you more sleeves of balls???

  Or maybe you could just realise the Challenge IS possible, you were only wasting your time because you didn't understand it - and try to EARN your sleeve of balls like the rest of us??!!?? It is actually fun!!

  The Hakman

• eggiesworld 296 Posts

  Fri, May 15 2015 11:39 AM

  Finally after hours of trying one dropped!

  no Christmas card for icon this year max pro + if 10 havent completed yet.

  http://www.wgt.com/replay.aspx?ID=dfe5491d-66e1-4a05-a12d-a4990132b434

• MARKDMK 231 Posts

  Fri, May 15 2015 5:43 PM

  hakman123:

  Hi there MARKDMK -- you appear to have wasted even more of your time responding to these posts - I take it that means Icon owes you more sleeves of balls???

  Or maybe you could just realise the Challenge IS possible, you were only wasting your time because you didn't understand it - and try to EARN your sleeve of balls like the rest of us??!!?? It is actually fun!!

  The Hakman

   

  It is my time and what I do with it is my business.

  Why you guys care if Icon owes me any sleeves of balls, it is not like you gonna pay for it.

  I have never stated that this challenge is impossible.

   

• hakman123 2,119 Posts

  Sun, May 17 2015 4:13 AM

  Time is almost up - I have noted 8 entries of 75 yds or more as follows:-

  Icon's 2nd Putting Challenge
  Chambers Bay 4th hole - min 75 yds
  1	fmagnets	75 yds
  2	Jimbog1964	76 yds
  3	Tekoma	78 yds
  4	xlviii	76 yds
  5	andyson	79 yds
  6	Hakman123	82 yds
  7	mapewest	83 yds
  8	eggiesworld	75 yds
  9
  10
  current longest putt - 83 yds
  First 10 posts = 1 sleeve of balls
  Longest putt of these = 3 sleeves
  Challenge expires - Sunday 2pm PST

  Congrats mapewest on the 83 yd putt - super effort!

  Please advise if I have missed anything.

  The Hakman

• Corwyn 2,410 Posts

  Sun, May 17 2015 5:47 AM

  Thanks for keeping track of this Hakman!

  I was really hoping a couple of others would have come along by now... I so don't want to feel tempted to keep trying, lol!

  I've come incredibly close from a couple of locations.

  Here are some near-misses at 86 yards (which now shows as 257ft on the replay):

  Lip-out #1   |   Lip-out #2   |    though both of those were coming in too fast to have much chance, this try was the cruelest one, which in real-life showed from a slightly different reverse camera angle which really looked like it was dropping :(

  (I won't reveal how many times I've tried this challenge!)

• hakman123 2,119 Posts

  Sun, May 17 2015 7:40 AM

  Corwyn:

  Thanks for keeping track of this Hakman!

  I was really hoping a couple of others would have come along by now... I so don't want to feel tempted to keep trying, lol!

  I've come incredibly close from a couple of locations.

  Here are some near-misses at 86 yards (which now shows as 257ft on the replay):

  Lip-out #1   |   Lip-out #2   |    though both of those were coming in too fast to have much chance, this try was the cruelest one, which in real-life showed from a slightly different reverse camera angle which really looked like it was dropping :(

  (I won't reveal how many times I've tried this challenge!)

  No worries Corwyn - I feel it is my fault everyone is so frustrated - after all it was me who designed this challenge. So I am obliged to track the results - my penance if you like. In my defence - the last one was too easy and I was after something that took a bit more finesse.

  That said - I too have tried Maaaaaaaaaaaany times. Have similar looking shots to the ones you posted from 84, 85 and 86   lol   and my wife is probably drawing up the divorce papers!

  I think it is great we found something a bit different and interesting.

  Happ Hacking

  The Hakman

• xlviii 502 Posts

  Sun, May 17 2015 1:05 PM

  hakman123:

  No worries Corwyn - I feel it is my fault everyone is so frustrated - after all it was me who designed this challenge. So I am obliged to track the results - my penance if you like. In my defence - the last one was too easy and I was after something that took a bit more finesse.

  That said - I too have tried Maaaaaaaaaaaany times. Have similar looking shots to the ones you posted from 84, 85 and 86   lol   and my wife is probably drawing up the divorce papers!

  I think it is great we found something a bit different and interesting.

  Happ Hacking

  The Hakman

  I love this challenge...only because I made one of the putts. Without being so lucky, I could have easily spent a lot more time before either making a putt or destroying my computer. It is nice to have something a bit different though. I have to say it's a lot more fun to look back on :)

  Edit: looks like only 1 hour left and two spots still open.

• mapewest 499 Posts

  Sun, May 17 2015 2:00 PM

  hakman123:

  Time is almost up - I have noted 8 entries of 75 yds or more as follows:-

   

  Icon's 2nd Putting Challenge
  Chambers Bay 4th hole - min 75 yds
  1	fmagnets	75 yds
  2	Jimbog1964	76 yds
  3	Tekoma	78 yds
  4	xlviii	76 yds
  5	andyson	79 yds
  6	Hakman123	82 yds
  7	mapewest	83 yds
  8	eggiesworld	75 yds
  9
  10
  current longest putt - 83 yds
  First 10 posts = 1 sleeve of balls
  Longest putt of these = 3 sleeves
  Challenge expires - Sunday 2pm PST

   

  Congrats mapewest on the 83 yd putt - super effort!

  Please advise if I have missed anything.

  The Hakman

  Ty, try a lot :)

• hakman123 2,119 Posts

  Sun, May 17 2015 2:41 PM

  Time is up!!

  The results are unchanged. Thanks everyone for participating. I hope you enjoyed it.

  Icon - here are the balls listed:-

  3 sleeves
  mapewest	to be advised
  1 sleeve each
  fmagnets	Nike Black
  Jimbog1964	Level 81 Nike
  Tekoma	Nike Black
  xlviii	Level 48 Nike
  andyson	Level 71 Nike
  Hakman123	Nike Black
  eggiesworld	max pro +

   

  mapewest - please tell Icon what balls you want

  Happy Hacking

  The Hakman

• WGTicon 12,511 Posts

  Mon, May 18 2015 3:11 AM

  Thanks everyone.

  I hope you all had fun. I will try to get these processed tomorrow.

  If you have some other fun ideas for me to run fo the community, feel free to contact me privately

  -wgticon