Saw this yesterday. I'm not sure if that would have been fun or just miserable. I think after a while I might have had fun with it.
Tournament had a 2 handicap shoot a 123........ Player records a 12 putt! Brutal conditions.
Tournament of Champions Carnage
Whoever shot 78 in those conditions had to have elected to put the whole course, good word, that’s insane. I would be eaten alive in those conditions. If you let the ball off the ground I can’t see anyway of controlling it, in fact I almost think the guy had to have cheated to score that well or the conditions were WAY better early in the day.
I would have either not started or withdrawn, no way I’d put up with that shit for a whole round. They really should have canceled.
DC300 From what I read the 2 low scores were the first ones out before the conditions turned ridiculous. I think playing in those conditions might be a new challenge. I wouldn't want to do it in a competitive round though! Watched one video of a guy 6 putt from 4 feet way. It was pretty insane.
I think that meets the definition of "unplayable conditions."
IMO, the entire tournament committee should be forced to play 18 holes completely naked, with plastic toy kiddie clubs, on national television, wearing a mask of course, but over their eyes.
Good luck to them with finding anyone to compete in that dumpster fire next year!
DC300 Punch shots every shot! Read one guy say he would hit a driver 175 yds one hole then hit one 350 on the next.
Those are known as Santa Ana winds, I've played in them before...BRUTAL!
We played one of the oldest courses in OC "Willowick" one time during the Santa Ana's,
the course lost like 20 trees that day, branches and shit was blowing everywhere.
Only reason we didn't quit, stupidity and a bet!
I play all summer long in our twilight league at Poppy Ridge in Livermore, Ca. It doesn't have a whole lot of trees, but it gets very windy. I have played on days that are very close to that many times. The downwind holes are fun but the side-wind holes are horrible (a few specific ones with OB in the direction away from the normal wind direction).
No way I'd ever play a whole round in that kind of wind. I've been out a few times when storms were rolling by and had to endure it for a couple of holes. I don't often remember individual holes from years past, and certainly can't remember all or even any of the bad ones caused by wind, but for some reason I can remember the good ones. They stand out just from the sheer joy of overcoming a ridiculous wind for a birdie or even a green in regulation. My one and only round at Kiva Dunes on the Alabama coast had many holes with 30 mph or more winds and I remember several holes from that round even though it was almost 20 years ago.
johnnydoom No way I'd ever play a whole round in that kind of wind. I've been out a few times when storms were rolling by and had to endure it for a couple of holes. I don't often remember individual holes from years past, and certainly can't remember all or even any of the bad ones caused by wind, but for some reason I can remember the good ones. They stand out just from the sheer joy of overcoming a ridiculous wind for a birdie or even a green in regulation. My one and only round at Kiva Dunes on the Alabama coast had many holes with 30 mph or more winds and I remember several holes from that round even though it was almost 20 years ago.
When it is like that, you just have fun with it. Hit a gap wedge as hard as you can and see how much distance you can get out of it (downwind), things like that.
I've played in wind close to that several times. To the point of running a six iron shot up toward the green from 65 yards. Or to the point where we my scramble team hit driver three wood on a 315-yard par four. One time I hit driver, 3-wood, 3-wood, 4-iron on a par five and was still just short of the green.
Depending on my mood, sometimes l kind of enjoy the challenge. It's exhausting, though.