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• GoodyChamp 595 Posts

  Thu, May 12 2011 5:15 AM

  

• AvatarLee 1,644 Posts

  Thu, May 12 2011 5:18 AM

  Narrow fairways!  And greens are VF at best (slow for tournament)

   

  First Eagle here..... http://www.wgt.com/replay.aspx?ID=1886262a-0747-4675-8167-9ee100cb7d23 ... watch out for that water on the 6th!!

   

  **Edit** Posted a 63 first time out with a dumb bogey.... and left a LOT of shots out there because of the slow "tournament" greens and being rusty....  Watch out folks, scores are gonna go low for this one!

  The course looks gorgeous!!! Excellent work as usual WGT!  And this has to be the best finishing hole in the game so far, what a thrill.  

  P.S.  all you lost ball complainers watch out!  Plenty of opportunities to get wet with this one!!!

• lucas27 17 Posts

  Thu, May 12 2011 5:29 AM

  yesssssss,congratulations WGT,LOVE IT

  BEST REGARDS FROM PORTUGAL

• chrisironsbones 3,524 Posts

  Thu, May 12 2011 5:49 AM

  Best stay out of rough & bunkers, they're brutal 50% rough or worse, and some of the camera angles are very difficult, otherwise top top course, not much posted on leaderboard yet (maybe due to site crashing earlier LOL)

  But we could do with fade/draw for congressional, for all the tight awkward fairways, anyway, best go out and carry on, WGT, what a beautiful course congressional is.Thanks

   WGT members have had Christmas come early this year, especially when Royal St Georgey-porgy comes next month too.....

   

• PGAbound67 565 Posts

  Thu, May 12 2011 6:02 AM

  Pretty sweet course, I just woke up and wanted to get a round in before work so I played super fast and shot 69 with 4 bogies. I agree with Lee, scores are gonna get low....and man how bout that 18th, what a hole. 

• seanobrien 296 Posts

  Thu, May 12 2011 6:05 AM

  Narrow fairways from elevated tees. Course management very important here.

  Font 9 easier than back nine because your approach shot to gree will be shorter.

  Hole 10 is frightening (until you actually hit your shot)

  VEM/Beast still there, and Caddy should be shot for a couple of reads that are way out on the greens.

  Camera angles are difficult on some holes as chrisironbones says.

  Shot 7 birdies and 4 bogeys first time of asking, but I would say -9 or -10 will be cut.

   

• AvatarLee 1,644 Posts

  Thu, May 12 2011 6:05 AM

  Early prediction of 61 to qualify....

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Thu, May 12 2011 6:09 AM

  AvatarLee:

  Early prediction of 61 to qualify....

  Yes, my 63 guess looks a little high. I can also see what's coming for the Championship-just like last year-High wind and Champ greens that nobody gets to practice on ahead of time.  Oh boy.....  :-)

• gotstewart 201 Posts

  Thu, May 12 2011 6:15 AM

  Wow and I thought Bethpage had some tight fairways.  I'm glad this was low wind.  High winds will be a son of a gun.  I agree with previous posts.  Green speeds seem more in line with TM tourney (not complaining since that is what I'm used to).  Shot a 66 with one bogey.  Putts seem to break more than what the read says it should, to me anyway.  But nowhere near as penal (break wise) as Oakmont. I also agree with the some of the tricky camera angles when in the rough and fringe on the edge of the greens.  The 18th scared the heck out of me.  Having to take a choked r-11 hybrid to attack the flag, thought better of it (in cased I missed the ding) and took a 3 iron to middle of green made par and got the heck out.  Very nice course WGT!  Worth the wait! 

• chrisironsbones 3,524 Posts

  Thu, May 12 2011 6:18 AM

  Watch out for Caddy, i was -6 at the 9th, 7 foot from hole, caddy gave me a 50 foot putter increment, not 15 how it usually is, messing me well up and giving me first bogey (probably first of meny if what i hear of back 9 is true), and landing in water at 18 ruined a decent round.

  but the 9th & 18th what hole's!!!!!