Neil20
Club Champion
Score aside, what a great day GM put on at The Grove today, thanks to all concerned.
Some observations on the format:
I felt it wasn't a good multi-group format. It was great fun within the group and would probably add an extra dimension regarding the timing of taking a Powerplay if you only had to beat the guys you were with, but there seemed a little too much guesswork in terms of winning an entire tournament.
I thought the stroke indexing made it hard to set up the course. My instinctive reaction was to make SI1 really hard and SI18 really easy and make the low handicappers have a mor difficult decision than just taking powerplays on the holes where they have shots.
Having spoken to a low handicapper on the way home though, he was saying that it was bad enough already with the high handicappers getting a chance at 6 points on an easy hole with a shot.
Valid point.
It does seem however the course is set up, it would favour certain sections of the handicap range.
While the course was in great condition and the tournament very well run and there was the usual buzz around such an event, there didn't seem any EXTRA buzz generated by the powerplay option. Extra frustration maybe but the non powerplay holes lost a little by not being very important compared to what was gained on the powerplay holes.
In light of the above, it would be good if a way could be thought up to balance the stroke indexes more so as to keep the game strategic but fair (There's nothing strategic about 6 HC players picking SI 1,3,5 .... but equally it's not fair if 1,3,5 are impossible)
I'm naturally a little negative though, and don't want to put a downer on what I must stress was great fun in great company.
Some observations on the format:
I felt it wasn't a good multi-group format. It was great fun within the group and would probably add an extra dimension regarding the timing of taking a Powerplay if you only had to beat the guys you were with, but there seemed a little too much guesswork in terms of winning an entire tournament.
I thought the stroke indexing made it hard to set up the course. My instinctive reaction was to make SI1 really hard and SI18 really easy and make the low handicappers have a mor difficult decision than just taking powerplays on the holes where they have shots.
Having spoken to a low handicapper on the way home though, he was saying that it was bad enough already with the high handicappers getting a chance at 6 points on an easy hole with a shot.
Valid point.
It does seem however the course is set up, it would favour certain sections of the handicap range.
While the course was in great condition and the tournament very well run and there was the usual buzz around such an event, there didn't seem any EXTRA buzz generated by the powerplay option. Extra frustration maybe but the non powerplay holes lost a little by not being very important compared to what was gained on the powerplay holes.
In light of the above, it would be good if a way could be thought up to balance the stroke indexes more so as to keep the game strategic but fair (There's nothing strategic about 6 HC players picking SI 1,3,5 .... but equally it's not fair if 1,3,5 are impossible)
I'm naturally a little negative though, and don't want to put a downer on what I must stress was great fun in great company.
