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• renniw52 5,385 Posts

  Sat, Dec 11 2010 1:56 PM

  I have played this game for hundreds of hours and it is very enjoyable.

  However, in the past month it has been just like a slot machine, you keep

  playing and playing, hoping for a good game but you just keep feeding it

  money and the great game never comes. You get so close that if you just

  feed it more money it will happen. Guess what? It doesn't. I don't mind buying

  balls, I have all the clubs but they do what they want and balls just fall into the

  water for no apparent reason. A fourty yard pitch shot with no wind or elevation

  should not go 6 yrds one time and 46 the next. Either in the water or in the weeds.

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• SGTBilko 1,686 Posts

  Sun, Dec 12 2010 7:39 AM

  To be honest with you renni you are a victim of yourself. You like so many others have played the 2 easiest courses on here over and over and never developed your short game and your stats show it. Your sand % is in the 20's and your scrambling is in the 30's. To often newer players are more interested in their average or scoring low than developing there game or thinking this is their game. They avoid Beth Page and Oakmont because it is hard to shot under par. Someone once said that the top players on here do not bogey! At first I assumed they meant that they could ding every shot, birdie or par every hole because they always hit the fairway and greens. What I later learned is that they had developed their short game to the extent their scrambling and sand %'s were in the 80's+.

  Now the hard part and your going to have to not worry about your average or scores for now, if not you will pay for it even worse when you make master. My advice is to stop playing SA and Kiawah and start playing the other 2 courses. Work on your Pitch, Chip, Flop. Take a look your wedges compared to others. Again, this is just my opinion, take it for what its worth.

  GL and hit em straight!

• renniw52 5,385 Posts

  Sun, Dec 12 2010 8:45 AM

  Sgt Bilko, thanks for the insight, I just played Beth Page 6 over. May have been par

  except for my putting. Tough reads, will keep trying, shoot their eyes out.

• SGTBilko 1,686 Posts

  Sun, Dec 12 2010 12:34 PM

  renniw52:

  Sgt Bilko, thanks for the insight, I just played Beth Page 6 over. May have been par

  except for my putting. Tough reads, will keep trying, shoot their eyes out.

  Your very welcome, I hope it helped and I am glad you did not take my insight the wrong way, good luck on improving and if I can offer anymore insight just look me up!

• renniw52 5,385 Posts

  Sun, Dec 12 2010 3:04 PM

  Shot the back 9  1 over makes ya think. I am open to any advice you can give.

  I'M IN THIS FOR THE LONG RUN AND WELCOME ANY TIPS.

  Thanks

• Soulcatcher 1,970 Posts

  Mon, Dec 13 2010 4:34 PM

  Read this, Chip and Pitch Tips and this Putting Tips.

  The first one should be required reading for all members.

  Both can always be found on the right under FAQ.

  The guides were written by members that are now staff of WGT and two of the best to have played the game.

   

  Happy hitting