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MISLABELED WINDS AND GREEN SPEEDS

• donsprintr 2,063 Posts

  Tue, Apr 19 2016 3:23 PM

  Hey WGT .... hire someone who can properly label the winds and green speeds in bracket tournaments ... ok??????????????

  Can I get an amen from bracket shooters?

• Robbo81303 417 Posts

  Tue, Apr 19 2016 6:20 PM

  Aw, c'mon....they sorta mostly-ish get it right

  The CC Bracket tourneys are usually correct.  The Free Bracket tourneys are usually correct (once one realizes that "very fast" means tournament 11), and the 1st round of the Premiums are usually okay.

  That's at least as high a percentage as completed Alternate shot matches.

  I guess they can't let the multi-players have all the fun.

• lonnieskinner 1,677 Posts

  Tue, Apr 19 2016 7:05 PM

  Don it changed some time back.  The first round will be as advertised and then two rounds will be variable then you will get the advertised wind and speed again eventually. Thats the reason I quit playing them. At least I know what i get in rgs.

• K7JBQ 1,468 Posts

  Tue, Apr 19 2016 11:01 PM

  Since the conditions are the same for both you and your opponent, what difference does it make? The entire game of golf is about adapting to conditions.

• donsprintr 2,063 Posts

  Wed, Apr 20 2016 7:56 AM

  lonnieskinner:

  Don it changed some time back.  The first round will be as advertised and then two rounds will be variable then you will get the advertised wind and speed again eventually. Thats the reason I quit playing them. At least I know what i get in rgs.

  Thanks Lonnie ... I had taken a couple months off so I didn't know that ... nothing like starting a round expecting low winds and very fast greens and finding heavy winds and fast 9 green speed ... what a stupid idea by management ...

   

• donsprintr 2,063 Posts

  Wed, Apr 20 2016 8:01 AM

  K7JBQ:

  Since the conditions are the same for both you and your opponent, what difference does it make? The entire game of golf is about adapting to conditions.

  The difference being you might equip some different clubs for different conditions ... having the wrong club(s) can put you at a disadvantage ... it's a stupid idea , period ...

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Wed, Apr 20 2016 8:30 AM

  Hey Don...you were missed. How ya been ?

  ~ L ~

• andyson 6,415 Posts

  Wed, Apr 20 2016 8:44 AM

  donsprintr:

  The difference being you might equip some different clubs for different conditions ... having the wrong club(s) can put you at a disadvantage

  Obviously, I'm not there yet.  It must be graduate level course.  Is that covered in Club Selection 501? ;-)

• MBaggese 15,367 Posts

  Wed, Apr 20 2016 8:54 AM

  K7JBQ:

  Since the conditions are the same for both you and your opponent, what difference does it make? The entire game of golf is about adapting to conditions.

  They may be the same...i/e heavy winds and fast greens...but it's the winds that are not really the "same" for everyone...Heavy winds are a crap shoot...I/e look at a par 5 heavy wind 9 hole round...A player with side and tail winds has an advantage over a player with headwinds.

   

  MP is only the true "same conditions" for both players.

• Jresh0817 1,414 Posts

  Wed, Apr 20 2016 9:11 AM

  This is 100% correct

  MBaggese:

  K7JBQ:

  Since the conditions are the same for both you and your opponent, what difference does it make? The entire game of golf is about adapting to conditions.

  They may be the same...i/e heavy winds and fast greens...but it's the winds that are not really the "same" for everyone...Heavy winds are a crap shoot...I/e look at a par 5 heavy wind 9 hole round...A player with side and tail winds has an advantage over a player with headwinds.

   

  MP is only the true "same conditions" for both players.

  MBaggese:

   

  K7JBQ:

  Since the conditions are the same for both you and your opponent, what difference does it make? The entire game of golf is about adapting to conditions.

  They may be the same...i/e heavy winds and fast greens...but it's the winds that are not really the "same" for everyone...Heavy winds are a crap shoot...I/e look at a par 5 heavy wind 9 hole round...A player with side and tail winds has an advantage over a player with headwinds.

   

  MP is only the true "same conditions" for both players.