Oh man…classic choke. I was down two strokes to you with 6 holes left. I can make that up…yep…
Bogey.
Bogey.
Birdie.
Bogey.
Par.
Ouch.
That was fun chasing you…but I just couldn’t keep it together. That wind was pretty brutal. Hard to adjust to aiming a whole fairway width out to the left or right…ugh…
Oh man… 
that was so close. I was convinced you were going to do it.
At least you have your driving sorted. You’d have done better on your first round otherwise.
The next one is going to be very interesting. 
So I guess next week will track with the PGA event on the following week - Torrey Pines (South) in San Diego…
I still can’t figure out the tee placement options when setting up. The setup screen makes it look like red tees are between the blue and black. I always thought the order (with regards to distance from shortest to longest) was: RED, WHITE, BLUE, BLACK. Not sure where GOLD ever came in…
Anyway - Torrey Pines looks nice. Default conditions for Round 1, light winds Round 2, then we get a nice little storm coming in on Round 3 (softer and slower greens), drying out a bit for Round 4 with some medium wind velocity. I think it doesn’t start for a few days and runs for five days…
Usually you play off the same tees and just change the pin location.
Round 1 complete. I started with a rare 1st hole birdie. Two bogey on the front 9 and an eagle cancelled them out. -2 at the turn. Interesting course, I found the greens challenging.
Dress code for this round was traditional. 
We had slightly different rounds with the same outcome. You were doing really well on the par 5s - I was struggling to just make par on them. Had a pretty consistent and steady round but seeing you on the leaderboard constantly keeping a stroke pace on me despite me feeling I was playing well was disconcerting and making me feel nervous that just a single errant shot would put me out of contention.
The greens were really challenging. Those pin placements seemed like final round difficulty…I was really having a hard time finding the proper tier. And on some of them, there was not enough landing area to get the ball stopped prior to trickling off. And to top it off - all the greens felt convex…in that the edges all seemed to slope off…so beware the long putt or bad pitch. 
Did you manage to hit the green in two on any of the par 5s? I was having to go driver / 3-wood into pretty much all of the par 5s and still needing a short iron to get on. I might need to call up DeChambeau and find out what supplements he is taking…
I forgot to ditch my Aussie hat…I’ll have to change that…
I think I did, only on one and I can’t remember which it was. It wasn’t the one I hit the eagle on, That was a chip in.
Nice job on the birdie on the last hole, knowing you needed that must have been pressure! 
All round I was thinking, “Dammit, Beach is bound to be on the green”, after putting my second shot in the bunker.
Funny how a round can go one way or another just based on a few lucky shots. I probably had three of those severely breaking 6 to 8 foot puts that miraculously had the right pace to break into the hole. Could have just as easily been a -2 round instead of a -5 round. I like that course though…I think I actually hit quite a few of the fairways in regulation, which is unusual for me.
Three glasses of Gascon Malbec in me…ready to commence Round #2
Hmm…Round #2 was an unexpectedly sane round with not a lot of craziness. Had one moment in a bunker where I wasn’t sure - will this clear the lip and stop or not? Gotta love those sand blasts that hit the lip and come rolling back in for another try (that did not happen this time). Bogey on 17 soured my round, but tried to make it up with a birdie on 18. I’ll never make that 18th green in two with the water guarding it…I don’t have enough club unless there is a big tailwind. Round #2 is near dead calm winds…so the course feels very “aim and shoot”. Probably the most fairways in regulation in recent history for me. Manged a couple lucky breaks with getting on the right tiers of the green…left a few strokes on the course because of lagging puts that I should have went for, but always scared I’ll roll them too far past on these undulating greens.
@Keets has a -6 round coming our way for Round #2 I think.
What I really like about this game, is that it has that same thing as RL golf.
Sometimes you can have a blinding round and everything clicks, driving, irons and putting. You start thinking, “finally, I’ve got this nailed”. Then next time out you shoot 20 over your handicap. 
I’ll be chasing you on this one, a different kind of pressure.
Errrr… I didn’t expect that.
Front 9, I couldn’t do anything wrong. Every approach shot landed quite close to the pin. Back 9, I had to work a bit more, but 3 shots out of bunkers landed a foot away. Blind luck, because I then played 18 on the PGA tour and shot 4 over.
I’ll play the 3rd round and see if it continues.
Ok, third round is very very windy.
I struggled to get to grips with it on the first 6 holes and didn’t aim enough into the wind. Hole 16, I decided to take a driver and overhit out of bounds.
Wow…what a card! You beat Tiger Woods!!
“The “Old” South Course record is 62, by Tiger Woods in 1999 (third round Buick Invitational, eight birdies and one eagle).”
I am here to report that all of the sandtraps on the course are of legal depth, fill, and contour. That is all I have at this time.
I swear - I cannot beat that Korn Ferry Tour Championship tournament (TPC San Antonio) to advance to the PGA Tour. I’ve played it about 6 times now and always tank… I’m playing on normal difficulty settings and the field is generally smoking me…not helped by some of my awful holes.
I know I didn’t win it, I was just in the top 25, which is all you need. Something which may help, as I was struggling as well… I played ultra cautious with a lot of lag putts on anything long, leaving me a par tap in, rather than trying to sink the 30 footers and rolling 12 feet by the hole.
I’m still laughing at your gif above, as well as the irony of Beach finding the sand…
I wonder sometimes if there’s a momentum/confidence element they have coded in somehow. I’ve noticed that at times I can’t buy a birdie, even if its 2 feet away. Yet if I sink a few longer putts, or make a good approach, these shorter ones suddenly start dropping and I can make the more ambitious longer putts.
An example, I put my tee shot in the water on the tour and then the next 3 or 4 holes I barely made par.
I’ll do the last round tonight and see whether you need to break the new course record for the win.
Congrats to @keets on the win last week - a blowout for sure!
This week - lather up with some Deet and we will tackle Gator Creek Country Club (it was trending on TGC…so what the heck…). Four rounds starting today through Feb 6th I think. Round 1 on default - which seems fast and firm, Round 2 a deluge came in overnight and slowed things to a crawl. Day 3 and 4 clearing with mushy conditions improving to fair.
The course features a TON of water…but most of it really doesn’t come into play. With the winds that might be less true…but it certainly looked worse than it played…
The greens are a blast and will require being read from the fairway approach shots since you’ll need to anticipate the path after landing moreso than some other courses.
Should be some fun…good luck!
…Assuming the lack of power meter doesn’t take you by surprise on the first hole, when you know something is different, but not sure what.
Its so much more fun than playing the AI. Nice course with some trickiness and uncertainty brought in. I was doubting some of the approach shots, not sure if I’d hit it hard enough or too hard.
I have a feeling you could be taking a lead into round 2.
