A reminder to all players that qualifying starts this week. Technically will start tonight at 8pm ET or shortly thereafter. What I’m planning to do is end the current “season” in the society so I can start fresh with the full events.
The first official event will then start on 4/1, and will have a VC purse - the 10VC buy in from everyone, plus a 5000VC bonus from me. For our version of the Masters, that will also have a purse. Events with purses after that will just depend on how much VC I am able to earn and put into the society, but at least planning for the event that runs adjacent to the USWO, maybe the men’s US Open as well but that will depend on how much I have left. Every event will have a buy in of 10VC so that will help fund the society bank.
In the future, we can explore the possibility of larger buy ins for majors to fund larger purses, but for the first season I want to keep the barrier to entry as low as possible.
Having some trouble with the society, it seems to think there is still an active event so I don’t think it’s quite ticked over yet. Quali wasn’t supposed to start until tomorrow anyway, I’ll plan to have it set up either later tonight or tomorrow to play.
They improved this over the last game. If you used the caddy suggested weight on a 2 foot uphill putt in the last game, it was pretty accurate. If you used on a 3 inch downhill putt without adjust, you’d go 12 feet past. I’m leaving a lot more uphill putts short in this game because I haven’t fully adjusted yet.
You’re right on uphill putts, especially on slow or medium speed greens if you don’t give it some extra welly it will likely end short. I played on super fast greens for a couple of the TGCT test events and I definitely had to take some weight off the suggestion on anything resembling downhill.
Quali event is up. The game limits how long an event can run, and it will cut off on 3/29 in the society. I’ll let quali scores get posted through 3/30 though, so if you need to play on 3/30, dial up the round in quick play. I didn’t want to put another event on for 3/30 and force all 4 rounds on it.
Playing a quali round with @PurpATL and @Jeff_M’s ghosts is either the best thing I could have done or the worst thing. Seeing so many putts slightly longer than my drop for par or birdies when I missed them by half a cup was incredibly demoralizing or educational, cant sort out which.
I was debating trying to find and dial up chunKerr’s ghost, might not be good for the confidence though. I missed so many putts I thought could have dropped, there were definitely instances of “Game, what do you want from me?!”. One round to go for redemption.
It is certainly plausible there is a delay, or somehow it could be limiting to those on the same console if you’re also on PC. That would be silly considering the entire game is cross play, but ultimately not surprising. Maybe there is some technical reason for it if that’s indeed the case.
I think my favorite part of the game so far is o can’t play it at night. My connection seems to always be bad and I’m sure it’s the servers and not my internet.
Played my qualifying rounds yesterday. Same story as always if I could eliminate my blow up holes I would shoot a close to par. One bad swing or stupid mistake such as not accounting for wind or elevation and I’m looking at a quad. Did get my first hole out eagle from the fair in my fourth round though.