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Green Speed

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Wed, Nov 20 2019 6:46 AM

  borntobesting:

  YankeeJim:

  DonCaron:

  I'm at tour legend now and wont be to long until Champion.

  So? Nothing changes when you get there.

  Just more competition. Tour Legend is just a short Layover to Champion. Not many players stay at Tour  Legend very long. And with Tour Champion now Champion might be the same way.

   

  I think he's expecting a different green speed by the way he's anticipating the change.

• DonCaron 5,502 Posts

  Wed, Nov 20 2019 12:22 PM

  YankeeJim:

  borntobesting:

  YankeeJim:

  DonCaron:

  I'm at tour legend now and wont be to long until Champion.

  So? Nothing changes when you get there.

  Just more competition. Tour Legend is just a short Layover to Champion. Not many players stay at Tour  Legend very long. And with Tour Champion now Champion might be the same way.

   

  I think he's expecting a different green speed by the way he's anticipating the change.

  Thank You. I got the impression from other TC's that 14.5 was far worse than 14 greens.

  Not that I was going to worry a lot about it, and that we deal with the changes at every level. 

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Wed, Nov 20 2019 4:38 PM

  DonCaron:

  we deal with the changes at every level. 

  Do you understand that the green speed is the same for everybody TL and above? It's 13.

  The only time you see those 2 speeds -14 and 14.5- are in select weekly single play WGT events. 

• DonCaron 5,502 Posts

  Wed, Nov 20 2019 5:37 PM

  YankeeJim:

  The only time you see those 2 speeds -14 and 14.5- are in select weekly single play WGT events. 

  Thats what I was refering to Jim. I Play the inter club 9 hole single play every week and it is 14 greens. Tour Champions get 14.5.

  The only other time I have gotton them was in clashes. They were 14.5.

• K7JBQ 1,468 Posts

  Wed, Nov 20 2019 7:52 PM

  Used to be true, but by the time I got to TL, the saturation point came in at 750 rounds. Some layover!

  borntobesting:

  Just more competition. Tour Legend is just a short Layover to Champion. Not many players stay at Tour  Legend very long. And with Tour Champion now Champion might be the same way.

• DonCaron 5,502 Posts

  Thu, Nov 21 2019 4:12 AM

  K7JBQ:

  Used to be true, but by the time I got to TL, the saturation point came in at 750 rounds. Some layover!

  borntobesting:

  Just more competition. Tour Legend is just a short Layover to Champion. Not many players stay at Tour  Legend very long. And with Tour Champion now Champion might be the same way.

  By the time I saturated, it was 790 RR because of the custom courses. I have gone down .47 in my average in 7 days.

  Champion is 1,000 RR. 

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Sat, Nov 23 2019 12:13 PM

  DonCaron:

  Thats what I was refering to Jim. I Play the inter club 9 hole single play every week and it is 14 greens. Tour Champions get 14.5.

  The only other time I have gotton them was in clashes. They were 14.5

  This week's UEL single play is at SA with 14.5 greens. You can get 70-80 practice putts. Just don't accidently sink one.  ;-)

• Cleworthy 3,468 Posts

  Sat, Nov 23 2019 12:32 PM

  In our country club I set the greens at 20 once in a while. It's a fun test as long as you don't use it for Bethpage back 9 - #15 is almost unplayable at 20. ;-)

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Sat, Nov 23 2019 1:47 PM

  Cleworthy:

  In our country club I set the greens at 20 once in a while. It's a fun test as long as you don't use it for Bethpage back 9 - #15 is almost unplayable at 20. ;-)

  LOL. I use that when I'm ready for the abuse. Last one was at SA-best of the best only got a 30.  :-D

• DonCaron 5,502 Posts

  Sat, Nov 23 2019 2:49 PM

  Cleworthy:

  In our country club I set the greens at 20 once in a while. It's a fun test as long as you don't use it for Bethpage back 9 - #15 is almost unplayable at 20. ;-)

  I can imagine, that is one nasty hole