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Mon, Oct 5 2015 3:54 PM (13 replies)
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  • Dubosto
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    Thu, Oct 1 2015 12:23 AM

    i'm really hitting a wall here and i'm sick of giving back 2 strokes on a perfectly good round. I know below the hole is the best bet but even that is suspect.

  • JFidanza
    1,676 Posts
    Thu, Oct 1 2015 12:42 AM

    from my notebook & forum notes:

    Par: 4

    check for fade drive

    My ATTEMPT: shot hit a little softer to end up 'under the hole' went the distance but side putts suffer the heavy cant, maybe hit even softer and keep the line, cross wind L2R did blow ball hole right.

    >>  forum " Make sure you not go long, it not an  easy putt from back of hole." " If I play shot with no backspin I find that it a good plan to play shorter than the distance WGT say it are"

    FORUM:  ???  the best option I have found is to keep the approach below the hole for an uphill putt. I would rather be 15ft below than 3ft above the hole but remember to add a bit to the uphill putt because anything too short will simply roll back down to you!

    18th green at Cabo

    Lately I shoot 5 yds short and to the right of the hole. This way the ball path crosses below the hole and chances are good for a straight(!) 15 ft uphill putt plus a tap-in for Par.

    Hit your tee shot into the hard sand (dark coloured) on the right.... then you have a straight shot too the hole. The only thing doing that is if you get into the soft sand,  you're in trouble. 

    p.s. I haven't played it a lot, and I haven't been there in a while FWIW

    Thanks to the original authors of any of the suggestions.

  • jayw4862
    3,364 Posts
    Thu, Oct 1 2015 4:19 AM

    I play (if at all possible) into the hard sand (not the sandy sand). Doesn't have a huge impact on your shot, and you're coming at the hole from a fairly straighter (per the green slope) angle.

    Here's how I play it. Skip to the end. The video is Cabo Back 9.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRA5-UU9Mxc

  • ScottHope
    10,409 Posts
    Thu, Oct 1 2015 5:06 AM

    You can specify a start time for your video Jay by adding a parameter to the video URL...

    ?start=[desired start time in seconds]

    eg   ?start=300    will start playing the video 5 minutes (300 seconds) from the beginning.

    So your regular video URL....

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRA5-UU9Mxc

    becomes...

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRA5-UU9Mxc?start=300

    Then you use that modified URL to post your video to the forum in the usual way.

    Or.....if you have already posted the video, in which case you will have this text in your post...

    [‍View:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRA5-UU9Mxc:500:0]

    You can edit it to add in the start time...

    [‍View:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRA5-UU9Mxc?start=300:500:0]

    Voilà!.....

    (Wish I could score like that)  : (

  • jayw4862
    3,364 Posts
    Thu, Oct 1 2015 8:30 AM

    ScottHope:
    (Wish I could score like that)  : (

    Wish I could figure out those instructions :-(

    If I'm reading correctly, I simply put ?start=(and whatever time I want the vid to start) at the end of the url itself.

    I'd rather be able to figure computer stuff out than be good at a game. But, I guess if I could figure computer stuff out, I just might get to where I'm "too good" (wink, wink).

     

  • andyson
    6,415 Posts
    Thu, Oct 1 2015 8:46 AM

    jayw4862:
    If I'm reading correctly, I simply put ?start=(and whatever time I want the vid to start) at the end of the url itself.

    Yes, but put the time in seconds.  i.e.To start at 1 min 30 seconds into the video put

    ?start=(90) at the end of the url

  • jayw4862
    3,364 Posts
    Thu, Oct 1 2015 9:16 AM

    andyson:

    jayw4862:
    If I'm reading correctly, I simply put ?start=(and whatever time I want the vid to start) at the end of the url itself.

    Yes, but put the time in seconds.  i.e.To start at 1 min 30 seconds into the video put

    ?start=(90) at the end of the url

    OK, thanks Andy.

  • ScottHope
    10,409 Posts
    Thu, Oct 1 2015 9:59 AM

    But don't put the number of seconds in parentheses.  ; )

  • razza31
    703 Posts
    Thu, Oct 1 2015 10:48 AM

    I just played it on Champ 14s and tried something different when left just off position with the approach...I played it purely for par.I wasn't directly under the hole so basically hit the 1st putt 7 ft away just so it doesn't roll back 17 ft and instead rolled back only 4.5 ft with slight R-L..

  • andyson
    6,415 Posts
    Thu, Oct 1 2015 11:27 AM

    ScottHope:

    But don't put the number of seconds in parentheses.  ; )

    whoops!  my bad!  Thanks Scott!

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