golfurr
I am happy.
Good job wadesworld, 92 sounds like a fine score for a first event in C. I play in the Columbia SC group, and it sounds very similar to your experience, though our group is smaller. Our events are normally 50-60 golfers. I play in C flight and this is my third year, though I played in D for most of my first year. I enjoy it. Some of my friends think it is too expensive, they will say "eh, I can play Woodlands for $25 with my discount coupon" where it is $70 for the tourney, but I consider it worth it as I prefer the feel of tournament competition rather than a casual round, and with the full schedule of events it gives me more chances to get out and play. Plus if you do well you can win back some or more than your entry cost. Our group pays out in Dick's Sporting Goods gift cards.
We normally play ball-down, full USGA rules with exception of triple bogey max for a hole for pace of play. They did lift and place in fairway at an event a few weeks ago though because we had so much rain, but that is not usually the case. We also do no slope-enabled lasers, and guys use the smartphone gps, but I've never heard it discuss about it being specifically allowed.
Our side-games are little different. We do $5 for closest to pin per-flight. $5 for flight skins where they group D-C-B together and A and Champ together. Then they do a super-skins which is all flights $10 entry. Sometimes I enter that stuff but half the time I don't. Seems like if I get a birdie it rarely holds.
I have learned a lot through playing in these events. I have found that sometimes there will be someone out there that drops in a low score, but more often than not, there are guys having problems and everyone kind of scoring higher than their "normal" score.
We normally play ball-down, full USGA rules with exception of triple bogey max for a hole for pace of play. They did lift and place in fairway at an event a few weeks ago though because we had so much rain, but that is not usually the case. We also do no slope-enabled lasers, and guys use the smartphone gps, but I've never heard it discuss about it being specifically allowed.
Our side-games are little different. We do $5 for closest to pin per-flight. $5 for flight skins where they group D-C-B together and A and Champ together. Then they do a super-skins which is all flights $10 entry. Sometimes I enter that stuff but half the time I don't. Seems like if I get a birdie it rarely holds.
I have learned a lot through playing in these events. I have found that sometimes there will be someone out there that drops in a low score, but more often than not, there are guys having problems and everyone kind of scoring higher than their "normal" score.
