PGA 2K25 Refuge Tour - Info in post 1221 - S28 starts 3/16

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Our Season 25 Butt Cup winner is @NotThatMorrissey! Extremely well played especially in round 2, to achieve a net score of -54 at the end!

The podium places are rounded out by @Broth at -50, and @TonyPres at -49, well played to all!

Low gross is determined by a tiebreaker and goes to @akdarling! Shoutout to one of our OGs @chunKerr for being right there.

Thank you to all for helping make the inaugural season on 2K25 a success, and we look forward to running it back soon! Announcement forthcoming for what’s next on our calendar.

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Here’s what is next on our schedule. Season 26 will start on 7/8. In the meantime I will have some silly szn stuff thrown on the schedule for a bit of a break from the normal events. The first one will be our version of the Impossible Challenge, which for those who don’t know is at the course known as Dante’s Hole II, very high wind, and very firm and fast everything. For the ā€œrealā€ challenge it’s supposed to be on TGCTours master swing settings, but we’re just using our tour settings with Pro. The goal is to break par, that’s it. If you want to see a good player attempt it multiple times, check out the RespawnTwo channel on YouTube.

Season 26 spreadsheet is linked below to get everyone started, at some point tomorrow I’ll work on the informational post with everything in it for the new season and get the thread title updated.

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Thank you for all you do online @Jeff_M

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In my career I decided to up the difficulty to the max and MAN was that a mistake.

Between Quail and Canada I can’t hold any green and any chip that doesn’t stop a foot from the hole rolls off the green.

Yeah, the course difficulty setting aren’t worth cranking up IMO, it doesn’t give any extra XP or boost, at least to my knowledge, only the swing difficulty and aids boost XP. Quail, St George’s, and East Lake all have unplayable pins with fast greens, so for those at least it’s a good idea to dial it back.

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We missed the cut by a mile at Quail. Currently having my own version of Breaking 80 at St. George’s to try and make the cut

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First career playthrough I lost the PGA because of one unplayable green in particular, can’t recall which, but kept having a chip shot go within inches of the cup, then come right back off. Had to do a whole other season to get back around to complete the related quests.

@Albinobluesheep its going to be a birdie fest this week in CC-G, good luck

Also I had an eagle and hole in one back to back in round one (I was feeling it tonight)

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This Dante’s Hole course is brutal. Tough closing stretch lol

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Go ahead and take the max on 18… it’ll save some time.

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Think I went +60 something purposefully trying to make the aggressive shot whenever possible.

I see how 18 is supposed to work but I could not figure it how to get my ball to go down there

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This is fine

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Is there any interest in a match play bracket that would run separate from the normal stroke play events? For handicapping I’d have to use the strokes gained data from last season so players who posted less than about 10 rounds probably couldn’t be eligible. Or if there is a large enough contingent of players who want to play straight up we can do that as well.

Answer the poll if interested and I can make decisions from there

  • Would ONLY play in a handicapped match play tourney
  • Would ONLY play in a non-handicapped match play bracket
  • Would play in either
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@Jeff_M does the current even run through tonight? I had to do a 6 hour round trip after work last night to pick up a golf bag for my wife and didn’t get a chance to compete yet.

It should be running through tomorrow! A true sicko if you want to be put through the blender that is Dante’s Hole II on ramped up settings

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Well, that was infuriating.

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I can’t wait!

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Update +25 and +30 that shit is crazy.

Also anyone know where the support tickets are for 2K? I still haven’t gotten my US Open bucket hat for watching twitch streams.

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Awesome that almost 4 months after launch they still haven’t figured out how to get rewards working properly

https://support.2k.com/hc/en-us/requests/new

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Thank you and honestly it’s 2k I’m just glad the game works good ish and we can play societies and tgc tours

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