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HoustonHorn

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  1. Also gotta say, nice coin stack. I'm about half that. I had $100M and quickly dropped to about $45M as I started playing Tour 10. Went back to 9 and have built it back up to about $110M. About ready to start T10 again. Would be less pressure with an additional $100M in coins. Studying this video now for the shootouts on T10. I hope I don't play her. I think its a girl or a 10 year old kid. I think the biggest difficulty I've been having with the various T10 shootouts is that several of them change how you play them depending on the wind. On T9, there are very few times I can't hit the same shot depending on the wind with only slight changes to account for the wind. So its easy and repeatable. Here you have to really remember the different approaches to each hole depending on the wind. I also learned my issue with the first shootout hole I listed above - she was using 35% over-adjustment for wind. I've been playing 20-25%. which was why I wasn't getting close. Should be better now. The others is just a matter of appropriate setup depending on the wind. I don't always use a P1 ball, so I'm sure this will have to be tweaked for different balls. I may start with some W5 P1 balls like the Kraken or this seasons ball to get used to the shootouts. Then go from there to other balls.
  2. Let me ask a question here. If you play against "Friends" which I guess is through Facebook, can you pick the course and/or holes you play? Probably my biggest issue in tournaments is that I am usually trying to play holes I'm not real familiar with and trying to hit other people's shots with clubs I don't use that often. It seems like the guys who play consistently well in the tournaments are able to play those tournament holes ALOT to practice and get their notes for each hole down exactly. I realize I can just go play the tours those courses are on, but in the middle of a match that counts, I'm not going to be focused on how to shoot 25-under in the tournament, I'm going to be trying to win the hole. I don't really want to play through FB, but if it does allow you to better prep for the tourneys I might have to give in.
  3. That's a great round. I never felt comfortable on that course. Shot -20 and parred the 8th/17th both times. Would have made the cut but it wouldn't have mattered. I was never going to shoot near - 26, much less - 30 or whatever will win. I don't know how much preparing you do, but the best shot on the 1st/10th is a guardian shot with nearly full backspin and I believe 3 right spin. Set up about 3 squares to the right of the hole on the front fringe. Erelic and quite a few others have videos on their walk throughs on YouTube. Guaranteed hole in one almost, assuming perfect. I even made one the first time through using that method. The amount of prep these guys do is crazy. I don't enjoy that as much as just playing matches.
  4. That's pretty badass, thanks for the link.
  5. Do y'all get the different balls? I play with the Katana/Titan/Kingmaker alot. I've had a lot of luck playing level V wind balls, regardless of power. The Easter (Chocolate) ball is great. Has 2 power, 2 sidespin, and 5 wind. I play with the Kraken or Season 21 balls when I don't need any distance at all. On tour 9, there really are only a couple holes where you need extra power. And it makes the shootouts much easier with low wind. Much easier to be consistently close. The Coast ball for sale now is a good power ball. There are a couple driveable holes down wind with Power 4 and 5 balls so I like having some of these as well.
  6. So on the first one, the video from GC Tommy has it hitting the left island and bouncing short of the hole and rolling up to the pin. Probably due to elevation, but I can't get that to bounce right and have ended up in the water. So the other times I've played out to the left and used the slope. But haven't figured out where to aim to get it really close. I can probably figure this out once I play enough games and see where people hit it who get it close. On the second one, the videos say hit the very front of the fairway and I've done that but always end up around 4 yards away. Lots of other people play shots other places and get it within two yards. But there's literally an unlimited number of places to hit it. I hit it onto the front of the fairway once, but hit a "Good" shot which was way off line to the left. It bounced way to the right, hit another dip and bounced left and got about 2.5 yards. The guy I was playing against (after he stopped laughing) hit a Sniper into the front right bunker and rolled out to about 1.5 yards. Other people have played middle left or right and found a "flat" area to land, but I don't really know the elevation so I can't make the proper wind/ring adjustment to land where I'm aiming so it doesn't end up well. I need a strategy on this one because very few people play it the same way. On the third one, I hit a Sniper onto the first island, bounce to the third island and then onto the green, but it is really inconsistent as to where it lands on the green and how it rolls back to the hole. Hit a couple close, but if I'm inside 10 yrds its a pretty good shot for me right now and that loses every time. I need a strategy on this one because very few people play it the same way. On the last one I think its just a matter of getting the elevation/wind adjustment down as I play it more. I seem to overshoot that fairway landing spot every time and the times I've hit it I've had a ball that doesn't have enough curl/spin combo to get all the way to the left where it can fall down next to the hole. I can figure this one out once I play it enough.
  7. These specifically I don't have a consistent strategy. Tour 9 I'm pissed if I'm more than 2 yards away but these I can't get close consistently.
  8. Let me see how the next week goes in Tour 10. If I can get comfortable with the holes and get back to winning 50%+ then I'll see about jumping. I don't see a problem with 6k. 10k is pretty steep though. I can win 60%+ on Tour 9, but Tour 10 I'm probably at 30% right now. So I'd have to stick with Tour 9 unless my Tour 10 stats improve and that's 20% less trophies per win. Switching to the TH driver on Tour 10 so I can hit it close on that stupid par three with three island fairways. I can't get it close on that hole using a sniper. There's a few other shootout holes that are giving me fits as well. Getting better at the regular holes, but does no good if it goes to a shootout that I suck at. Almost an automatic loss if I get one of those.
  9. Its a game changer. I played with the standard ball through Tour 7 and into Tour 8. My biggest issue was trying to be so exact with the wind and needing to do that because I couldn't curl the ball. I lost a lot of shootouts just barely hitting the rough or a bunker because I was trying to cut it too close. With the wind rings, it just makes a huge difference in consistency (except tour 10 in my limited experience). I'm sure I'll get Tour 10 down after a while. Its getting a little better after I've dropped about $50M. But definitely understand the elevation adjustments as well - +10 or +20 for downhill shots and -10 or -20 for uphill shots. You just apply the % to the wind adjustment so if you need to go 4 rings, but its 10% downhill, then its 4.4 rings. The elevation is huge on Tour 9 and 10 where you have tight windows to land your ball. I haven't been consistent enough on Tour 10 to get over 3,400. Seems like I run into someone who is ridiculous every few games. Nobody misses much with a wedge, either. Thought I was in good shape on a lot of holes until they holed out. What is your name/clan? HoustonHorn-->Bababooey! here.
  10. I'm about done with Tour 10. pretty much every hole I hit it in the water or rough. None of the distances work out. Fuck it. I lose 8 of 10 games and I've gone from 100M to 70M in a day. Complete shit holes quite honestly. Bunkers in the middle of fairways. Crazy shit where the ball doesn't go where the guide says its going and it ends up in the water. Not fun. And I had 3 holes in one on Tour 10 yesterday. I realize they have to add some craziness because of the skill level to make it a challenge, but the holes are just stupid. Most of the holes on the Gokasho course are somewhat reasonable but the other two are simply garbage. </endrant former golfer/wanna be course designer>
  11. T10 is costing me a lot of money. Win a few but lost quite a few more than I've won.
  12. You could always come be a mercenary on our team. 😁 When does next season start? Certainly send me the teams. Not sure if they can check my stats to verify if I'm good enough/play enough but its HoustonHorn on there too. I'm going to make one more push to get more players on our team, but I really only play against players on pretty well established teams and I'm guessing most of those people don't want to switch to a 4 (really 2.5) man team. Do people jump around alot? What's the key to getting them to switch since you can't really chat in the game (which is an AWESOME feature btw). Makes it very enjoyable. If I can't get more players then maybe I'll jump for next season. I can get to 6k pretty easily, especially if I start improving on Tour 10. Last season was 7600 and a lot of that was on tour 8. So playing Tour 9 and 10 exclusively should bump those numbers up some. If I can get better at tournaments I can pick up some more points there too. I've never finished top 50. This was the first time I really tried to study up on the holes and the shots I need to play, but its always difficult to use different clubs and different types of shots than I would normally hit and its so exact that if you miss, you don't get an eagle. Although I did make two albatrosses on the 4th? hole of the Ventura tournament using GC Tommy's method. But 3 pars on the first nine holes of the opening round did me in. -9 on the front, -13 on the back. Finished in about 80th place on Pro. But I should have easily been 25 under in that round if I didn't screw up trying to make the hole in one or the eagle. Left myself in a few bad spots. Not sure if -25 would have been enough though. It would be nice if you could just play the courses instead of the 1 on 1s. Would help to get comfortable with the shots. Maybe you can do that on Facebook, I don't know. On the wind/elevation, once you play the holes enough, you can get pretty good at winging it, especially on the shootouts where you know if its downhill the wind is going to affect the shot more. But I definitely hole out from the fairway a lot more than I used to. Had 2 hole in ones today and a couple of other long iron hole outs and one other with the Sniper. For me, the wind charts make a big difference, but damn if I don't have to rush a lot of shots at the end.
  13. fuck me. That's a lot of games. I've got a little less than 3200 games. Win at about 52-53%. Finally started playing Tour 10 (because I was having a shit day on Tour 9 so why not). A couple rough holes to start, but then I made a hole-in-one to win a shootout. Won a couple more since then. The elevation is the toughest thing to get down for adjustments to where the ball is going to land. Doesn't help that "Perfect" is eluding me for the most part. Crazy how there are days you can't miss and other days you can't hit it. I won 11 in a row yesterday. Lost my first 6 or 7 today. I need to figure out what I'm going to do as far as a team. We have 3 other guys. The president who puts up about 700 points and then a relative beginner that may get a couple hundred. I put up 7600 last season and probably will do about the same this season. The last guy might toss in 50-100 points if we're lucky. We're at Pro 2 right now so its going to start getting tough to keep moving up. But there's no pressure to play, so that's a good thing. Not sure I want to get in a hyper-competitive team. On the flip side, I'm far and away the best player on our team, play tours the other guys don't, and with clubs/balls the other guys don't. So I'm basically learning on the fly. Would be nice to have a team that has a lot of knowledge to help out with clubs, wind/elevation, best approaches to holes, etc. Especially as I start playing 3,000 plus players all the time in Tour 10 and beyond. Other than playing against someone on a team, there doesn't appear to be a way to search teams. Maybe FB? I don't know.
  14. yep sorry, on the Facers. Which sucks, but I'll take what I can get. Should be pretty cool.
  15. Members of the Gourds and many others putting on a "house" show on Saturday the 25th at 7pm. James McMurtry, Kelly Willis/Bruce Robison and lots of others as well.
  16. There are still times i don't get a shot off trying to get the rings correct. Infrequent, but it really takes some getting used to. It cost me a lot of games at first but it makes a difference. I don't have that many games so I imagine the feel continues to get better. Finished 66th in masters 3. Not relegated but until I can play tours 11 and 12 is not worth sweating over. Fun game. Not sure what I'm going to do about a clan. We've only got a couple players and I'm really the one generating 80% of the points. We're pro2 currently. I'll probably be looking to change. How is your team doing?
  17. A little Pinkerton's for lunch.
  18. Took a while but I'm pretty good at Tour 9 now and fully maxed out. Opened up Tour 11 - $25M bonus which was nice. I've played probably 10 matches in Tour 10 and its always tough to start a new tour because you aren't comfortable with the courses. In any event, I've probably won 3 of 10. In any event, working to build up my bankroll so I can afford to learn Tour 10. Have about $75M now so probably enough, but trying to get to $100M because I know its going to be rough at the start. Playing Master III now and I've got about $250M and I'm not in the top 60. Obviously those guys at the top are playing the higher level tours to get into the billions/tens of billions. There are some ridiculous players in those Tours. I can usually hold my own, but its pretty clear I'm way outclassed by some of those guys when they are dunking it with 13+mph winds. Anyways, Tour 9 is pretty comfortable and I'm pretty solid at the shootouts so I can win >50%. Still a lot of good players though and anything more than 2yds on the shootouts has a decent chance of losing. Looking to take the step to Tour 10 soon. The biggest help for improvement was learning the wind charts, I was guessing up through most of Tour 8 and lost a lot of shootouts because I misjudged. Now that I understand the ring system, elevation, etc., I am much more consistent. I watch a fair amount of play-throughs on YouTube to get tips, especially for the tournaments. The problem is its tough to change "how" I play or with what clubs and my performance in those is mixed. Most I win or finish top 5 in the qualifier, then sometimes I make it to the final round, sometimes I don't. It's crazy how exact the top guys are in setting up each shot to shoot those scores. Not sure I'll get there. Still an addictive game, just not looking forward to the increase in losses in Tour 10 when I make the jump.
  19. I don't know about the handle on the pocket knives but I've had a set of the Lagoule steak knives for 16 years and they are fucking awesome.
  20. Good idea on the extensions. I have pretty large hands, so I can definitely use them.
  21. where is everybody buying bullets these days?
  22. All good suggestions. Getting two red ryders for some backyard plinking. Leaning towards a Savage Rascal for the next step up. Also picked something up for myself.
  23. Looking to get something to teach my kids about guns and how to shoot. Thinking either a Ruger Bearcat or Sr22. Thoughts or suggestions? 10 and 12 years old.
  24. Maxed out through 8, working on 9. I think I got up to about 2818. Only played a couple matches in 10. Won one, lost one, so I'm at 0. Crazy how good some players are though. Some crazy holes on 9 and 10 as well. Since I'm relatively new to them, I always hope the other player goes first on holes I haven't seen before. At least playing the higher tours makes it easier to move up. I finished 2nd a couple weeks ago with 70+M and lost by over a billion $. Damn game is addictive.
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