when you get to the long drive hole in a scramble and you feel you have a decent chance to win the thing do you stick with your normal golf ball or do you switch it out for something else?
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I never feel I have the chance to win unless I am in the last group.
I stick with my normal ball and play like any other hole.
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Yes. I have seen too many closest to the pin and long drive holes won by the last group to trust anyone in a scramble.
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Yes. I have seen too many closest to the pin and long drive holes won by the last group to trust anyone in a scramble.
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I win long drive probably 75% of the time, and there's only been once that I've had a serious doubt that I was cheated out of winning.... based on how well I hit it & what the size/athleticism of the guy who beat me.
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I win long drive probably 75% of the time, and there's only been once that I've had a serious doubt that I was cheated out of winning.... based on how well I hit it & what the size/athleticism of the guy who beat me.
Really. Let me get this straight. To win 75% of the time that means you have to hit 75% of your fairways, since you can't use mulligans in a long drive competition. Which is interesting because even Bubba Watson (59.20%) and Dustin Johnson (52.24%) couldn't win 75% of the time. On top of that, each time you hit the fairway , you have to hit it well enough to beat all your fellow competitors.
Well...
quote:played with a guy that was a legit 25 yards longer than everyone else in the tourney off of the tee and was a 60% fairway guy. I was his partner on one occasion that he got screwed (he hit the ball 340 into the middle of the freaking fairway and the tourney director DQ'd him for cheating). That was the third time in 3 years he complained about that happening.quote:
I win long drive probably 75% of the time, and there's only been once that I've had a serious doubt that I was cheated out of winning.... based on how well I hit it & what the size/athleticism of the guy who beat me.
Really. Let me get this straight. To win 75% of the time that means you have to hit 75% of your fairways, since you can't use mulligans in a long drive competition. Which is interesting because even Bubba Watson (59.20%) and Dustin Johnson (52.24%) couldn't win 75% of the time. On top of that, each time you hit the fairway , you have to hit it well enough to beat all your fellow competitors.
Well...
quote:I think this is a nearly-annual topic where I'm reminded how much cheating there is in scrambles in Texas. I don't think it's much of a problem in Colorado. I've won a bunch of scrambles here with -13 to -16.quote:
Yes. I have seen too many closest to the pin and long drive holes won by the last group to trust anyone in a scramble.
Agreed.
Scrambles are at least 50% cheating. Closest to the pin, long drive, and scores.
quote:Growing up, the Westinghouse teams (read asians) would alway put the pin 2 feet behind the hole, so they would never have more than a 2 footer to clean up any misses.quote:I think this is a nearly-annual topic where I'm reminded how much cheating there is in scrambles in Texas. I don't think it's much of a problem in Colorado. I've won a bunch of scrambles here with -13 to -16.quote:
Yes. I have seen too many closest to the pin and long drive holes won by the last group to trust anyone in a scramble.
Agreed.
Scrambles are at least 50% cheating. Closest to the pin, long drive, and scores.
quote:That's nuts. Are you talking gross?
I've only played in 2 charity scrambles were -16 would have placed/won. They were both for a church group raising money for water wells in Sudan and there were probably only 12 teams total in it.
Every other scramble I've played in -18 didnt even place. If you weren't -18-n where n is the number of par 5's then you weren't winning.
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Long drive is usually only one hole during a scramble. He's not saying he outdrove everyone on 14/18 holes every round... If you're a long and semi-accurate off the tee, I don't see why you couldn't win a lot of long drives at scrambles.
quote:Really... and there's posters on here who can vouch for me.quote:
I win long drive probably 75% of the time, and there's only been once that I've had a serious doubt that I was cheated out of winning.... based on how well I hit it & what the size/athleticism of the guy who beat me.
Really. Let me get this straight. To win 75% of the time that means you have to hit 75% of your fairways, since you can't use mulligans in a long drive competition. Which is interesting because even Bubba Watson (59.20%) and Dustin Johnson (52.24%) couldn't win 75% of the time. On top of that, each time you hit the fairway , you have to hit it well enough to beat all your fellow competitors.
Well...
quote:Yeah. Talking gross. I think most of the one's I've played in are known for cheating though. Although it's entirely possible that they just brought ringers in that play college golf. I know this was the case one time and I don't doubt that 3 college golfers and 1 3-4 handicap could birdie every hole and eagle all the 5s.quote:That's nuts. Are you talking gross?
I've only played in 2 charity scrambles were -16 would have placed/won. They were both for a church group raising money for water wells in Sudan and there were probably only 12 teams total in it.
Every other scramble I've played in -18 didnt even place. If you weren't -18-n where n is the number of par 5's then you weren't winning.
I won a scramble at Black Horse-North in Houston with -14 last year. And it was a huge oil/gas tourney (IPAA).