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07-22-2011 08:17 AM #181
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No you haven't as the group pace of play is not in effect locally in any OVGA or Golf Quebec sponsored tournaments.
Why do you feel speeding up play by this means is "very harsh?" Most players would agree that a faster pace usually results in little or no waiting and better scores. As reported above, an early round yesterday was 4:30 but a lot slower later on. Sadly, this is being accepted as the norm. With roughly 60 players scoring in the 70's/60's on Thursday, the course setup was obviously not the problem with pin positions not causing slow play, as they do in some other tournaments. So why are players so slow? (A topic for another thread)
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07-22-2011 08:39 AM #182
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07-22-2011 09:00 AM #183
BTW, in the the RCGA system, do I select blue tees or black for the Equinelle round?
You only get out of something what you put into it
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07-22-2011 09:10 AM #184
They usually publish a combined rating, but without that I would say blue. They used very few black tees yesterday.
I can use that as an excuse. Practice rounds were mostly from the black.Not fat anymore. Need to get better at golf now!
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07-22-2011 09:25 AM #185
By my calculations, there were 9 black and 9 blue tees yesterday.
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07-22-2011 09:38 AM #186
65 and -7 for a round...Holy Crap...that is some good golf!!!
I may have to try this next year, shot 80 last week at equinelle with a triple on #7.
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07-22-2011 10:13 AM #187
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79 for me.....with 37 putts. Only 14 back, LOL. Now if I can have 18 putts Monday, I'll have a chance.
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07-22-2011 10:56 AM #188
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I heard in the afternoon draw the guys that started at 2:30pm finished at 6:45pm on one side and 6:50pm on the other side so that's a great pace for competitive golf. The heat probably kept them wanting to move a bit quicker and they didn't want to stand around forever on the greens. Kanata will surely separate the field as it's not an easy track.
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07-22-2011 11:03 AM #189
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I also understand that Dwight beat the old course record by 4 strokes. Well done Dwight!!!!!!
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07-23-2011 08:46 PM #190
Kanata's rating and slope are way too low. 72 and 127 from gold? Pffff that's predator's rating!
You only get out of something what you put into it
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07-23-2011 08:54 PM #191
Bad practice round?
According to the scorecard info on the Clublink page (http://en.clublink.ca/golf/golfcours...COURSE_ID=1510), the course rating is 72.5... and remember it's only a par 70. I would agree that the slope rating is a bit low though.
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07-23-2011 09:01 PM #192
Oh yeah, par 70. Still needs to be higher slope.
Practice round tomorrow around 5pm.You only get out of something what you put into it
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07-23-2011 09:08 PM #193
I should be just walking off 18 around then.
What do you think the next cut will be at? I'm thinking I've gotta shoot in the 70s to have any shot... no small feat for me on that course.
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07-23-2011 09:39 PM #194
Could someone please tell me how you can join?
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07-23-2011 10:21 PM #195
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07-24-2011 07:41 AM #196
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Predator is 7009 yards while Kanata is 6714. Since 90% of a course rating is based in distance, that explains why it's rating is comparable to Kanata's, with a few points taken off for its openness. (72.4/72.5)
The slope is a measure of "difficulty" for the bogey golfer (Bogey rating - RCGA rating X 5.381) and relatively meaningless for the caliber of player playing in the tournament.
It would be interesting to compare scores of players playing from the tips of both.
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07-24-2011 10:43 AM #197
not sure this makes sense. just because a course is long doesn't make it difficult. If you take two courses, both 7000 yds and one is tight with tree lined fairways and the other is wide open, a bogey golfer is going to have a much harder time on the tight course. This only leaves 10% of the slope rating to things like this (not including other factors).
also, I would like to see a comparison of rounds between the 3 courses, equinelle, Kanata and EC. People say equinelle is easy and Dwight shot the lights out from the blues but by the scores from the blues (mostly), it didn't appear easy. Yes weather was a factor it seems but I'd imagine the tees would have been moved to the tips if the weather was better.I got a fever. And the only prescription is more golf equipment.
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07-24-2011 04:51 PM #198
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Rain / thundershowers forecast tomorrow. Definately not the best year weather wise. Good luck to all.
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07-24-2011 07:30 PM #199
Played a practice round at Kanata Lakes today. I was surprised at how receptive and (relatively) slow the greens were. I seem to recall that KL's greens are generally hard as a rock and very fast but my short irons were pretty much one hop and stopping today.
Anyway, I played really well today so I'm likely doomed for tomorrow.
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07-24-2011 07:31 PM #200
You're right, I played 9 today and they were in good condition in terms of receptiveness, which I guess makes them slower too.
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07-24-2011 07:53 PM #201
I agree greens were kinda slow, but there are so many crazy breaks on those greens. Gonna be tough day of putting if irons are not accurate.
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07-24-2011 08:59 PM #202
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07-25-2011 07:54 AM #203
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The problem with the "group pace of play" policy is that it can, and will, penalize players that have nothing to do with slow play. As a faster player, all I can do is be ready to play when it's my turn, and gently encourage my FCs to keep pace. Failing that, what else can be done? If a player is not at fault, there is absolutely no way that he should be penalized. Frankly, it sounds like an unwillingness by ROs to tell the slower players to hurry up or else....and then enforce their threats once in a while (this may have something to do with the lack of ROs, I understand that. Can't be everywhere at once). Also, it might be a good idea to start making field sizes smaller.
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07-25-2011 08:04 AM #204
I really dont have a problem with it, but the problem is its gonna fall into a grey area for ruling, and as we know there are no grey areas with the amount of rules, how can you penalize 1 guy when 2 guys are slowing up play, or penalize 2 guys cause 1 guy is slowing play, doesnt make sense.
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07-25-2011 08:21 AM #205
Crap. Looks like those fast running fairways from yesterday at Kanata Lakes won't be there today.
At least it looks like the heavier stuff will be done before the afternoon...
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07-25-2011 08:36 AM #206
Good luck today guys, play well. I think i'm going to come out and watch some of the action tomorrow at Eagle. Will the mens tee times be in the afternoon or morning?
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07-25-2011 08:45 AM #207
I would guess that all of the tee times will be in the afternoon.
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07-25-2011 08:51 AM #208
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07-25-2011 09:17 AM #209
Well... there's generally a dinner/banquet after the round is complete which has been around 6 or 7pm if I recall correctly. Working backwards from that, I guess some of the tee times might be in the late morning but I suspect the majority of them will be in the afternoon.
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07-25-2011 09:28 AM #210
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