it was nice to see what 8 and 11 where suppose to look like … both holes were not pretty for me…
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Personally, I think it’s about time we had an NLU competition on camera where no strokes are given. I understand why some people are wanting strokes, but like you noted, basically every other competition NLU puts on camera there are strokes involved. The Club Championship should 100% be a no strokes event.
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I liked having it non-handicapped as I was legitimately curious whether DJ or, to a lesser extent, Randy could steal a spot on a combination of lightning in a bottle day + low cap imploding, but (with truly all due respect as someone who’s had their teeth kicked in at events I had no chance of winning) it also felt almost punitive/pointless having KVV & Casey also tee off as equitable competitors
Having 4 different tee boxes but playing straight up would’ve helped to balance the fairness and added to the #content and interest for me (womens / high cap / mid cap / low cap)
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Having an unhandicapped score is fine when there are so many NLU members around scratch, but why not have both a gross and net winner? Gross winner is the NLU Club Champion, net is the Popper of the Year or something else fun and silly.
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+1 for this. I play my dad straight up all the time, but he plays from 1-2 in front of me and we always have great matches. I think it also likely makes the course play as the architect intended for each skill level (assuming some level of GCA competence)
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Based on Casey’s yardages I’d be hitting hybrid into those par 3s. Not sure I’d get out of some of those bunkers after knocking hybrid in
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doubling back to my follow up post - I’d also vote to have you playing a different tee box that better fits your yardages!
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Casey played her own set of tees.
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Watched like 5 minutes.
Just so far in on @ChickPhilA trousers. No notes perfection.
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Because you and Casey are like 20 shots different…
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When was the last time NLU put a competition on camera where no strokes were given and it wasn’t a straight up match because the players had basically the same handicap?
The + handicap wanted to play a straight-up gross event?
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i think there should be a gross and first flight. Gross being whoever wants to play straight up with no handicaps and then first flight for those that want a handicapped event. I would assume it would be a pretty even split of contestants between flights and keep it fun for all involved.
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I want to say Ben and Neil actually played straight up at Pinehurst, and I think Ben and Soly played straight up last year. Am I correct @sundaybag?
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Net Scoring for Day 1:
Ben: Net 76
Soly: Net 79
Tron: Net 78
Cody: Net 76
Neil: Net 76
D.J.: Net 80
Randy: Net 80
KVV: Net 81
Casey: Net 90ish
Cody in. Soly out is the only change we would have seen.
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Please see the second part of my post for relevant information.
whats the difference between a “straight up” match and a match between two competitors of equal hcp? If the strokes wash, isn’t it the same thing?
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My point was I cannot remember a time where we’ve had everyone from NLU get together in a single place to do a full on stroke play competition where strokes were not given.
My 109 went down to 105! LOLOLOLOLOLOL
I did not have my best stuff that day, but still had some good holes and some great shots that didn’t make it in because, well, I was far out of the competition. I bested my score from there last year though so there’s that!
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Define this. Ben is like a +2.5 and Neil is currently like a 2. Not sure what they were when it was filmed. But 4 shots is still a notable difference and if you were playing a match against someone and their index was 4 shots lower than yours, I’d bet you want shots.
This doesn’t mean that we can’t have a straight up, no strokes competition, but maybe include a net portion along with it, or have flights for the different index groups.
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