fmagnets:
Congratulations Mags, on another very worthy Tough-It-Out win, an impressive follow-up to last month's victory at Cabo.
The tourney ended last night, with several challengers coming close but not able to find enough birdies to catch Mags the front-runner, who is surely without doubt the most outstanding player on WGT.
A forum thread a little while ago asked the question who was the best player here, but no-one mentioned versatility. None of the other top players mentioned in that thread demonstrate the same level of skill at different forms of the game, whereas Mags has mastered Uneven Lies, and play with Starters as well as dominating the VT placings and earnings lists in the flat-lie game.
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Here's the TIO @ Whistler wrap-up:
I believe I've captured all the club proof/card/stat submissions onto the Special Prizes Stats spreadsheet.
Please check to make sure there are no mistakes or omissions. You have until midnight Sunday 1/24 to submit any late cards/screenshots and/or correct errors on the sheets.
As it stands, I see the following prize-winners:
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LEADERBOARD PRIZES:
A sleeve (sent by WGT) goes to each of the top 5 verified finishers on the final leaderboard (i.e. those who provided club proof for both rounds). They are: fmagnets, Corwyn, BunkerBuzzer, buey1950 and tied 5th: StrollinAlong, ColumbusStorm, OleFernando.
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SPECIAL PRIZES:
These were the sponsored prizes (fuller report and wrap-up will follow next week). The winners are noted below and their results are shown in the Stats Spreadsheet for the tourney:
Note: these may change based on any late entries!
1) Highest overall % of GIR (tiebreaker: Ave Distance to Pin) SPONSORED: Corwyn WINNERS: BunkerBuzzer, fmagnets, StrollinAlong all tied with 28 greens hit in regulation (spreadsheet rounding up shows fractionally different results of 77.5-78%). Because their Ave. Distance to the Pin totals were also unbelievably close (separated by 0.25ft) I am going to award all 3 a sleeve!
2) Closest Ave. Distance to the Hole SPONSORED: Corwyn WINNER: DaniUnchained is the front-runner with 12.8ft and is probably uncatchable.
8) Most 1-Putt Saves (as determined by scorecard) SPONSORED: Corwyn WINNER: razza31 is the front-runner & almost certain winner with 8 (including a stunning 6 in R2)
7) Most Number of Birdies or Better SPONSORED: fmagnets WINNER: Corwyn is the certain winner with 11, just edging out five players with 10 (fmagnets, BunkerBuzzer, buey1950, StrolinAlong, DaniUnchained)
I am also going to add bonus sleeves for our regular putting prizes which did not get sponsors earlier:
3) Greatest overall total distance made putts SPONSORED: Corwyn WINNER: HIOSoon with 178.05 is the front-runner (I confess I'm sponsoring this prize in part to reward Paul for truly toughing-it-out after posting a 9 on the card in R1!)
4) Longest putt made SPONSORED: Corwyn WINNER: AdamK70 is the front-runner with a 35.4ft effort in R2
The late entries that could come in that might affect Stats prizes are from the following finishers: Jerm65, Wesdogg75, CJMolander, and Zayante.
If prize-winners could also please post their desired sleeve(s), that would be great. Thanks!