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Well Scottie Scheffler didn't leave much doubt as to who was going to win the Masters after the 9th hole on Sunday. But the three winners of this pool were very much in doubt and took a lot of tie breaking methods and digging to see who read and followed the rules. Unfortunately as happens every time in these contests, there several entries that tied for the best scores, but did not follow the rules by making a post in the contest thread. But to those who did, congrats on your outstanding picks and thanks for reading and following the rules. Since Titleist/Vokey was generous enough to give all three winners 3 wedges each, there technically wasn't a need for 1st, 2nd and 3rd. But to give proper credit. Congrats to the following: @kstroupe and @BigJohnB78 both finishing -15 @Speck was the only one finishing -14 who followed the rules! You all will receive a PM from me shortly on what to do next. Thanks again to everyone for a great turnout and we hope to do it again in May for the PGA Championship!

Thanks everyone for your partic8ipation. A new thread will be up shortly announcing the winners.

Woof!! I saw be was either -1 or even around hole 12. When i looked at the missed cut list and saw his name and thought it must be last yesrs. Then i went and checked oit his scorecard. Oh man that was frightening. Glad i ddint have to watch it.

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Important Reminder: The winner of the pool is not official until I verify the following: 1) That the entry is in fact a registered member of the forum BEFORE the entry deadline. 2) That the entry made the qualifying post in this thread, as a note there were over 1100 entries and less than 600 posts here, so simple math will tell you half the entries are already invalid. Some complain about those rules, but they are there to "protect the field" or in other words, do our very best to make sure the prize goes to a contributing member of the forum. So hold off on any victory dances until I post the winner sometime Monday!

Cut Line +3 Low Am Stewart Hagbestad Good Luck Everyone

Yes of course it's still on. And everyone who has signed up for the stay and play is well informed of everything, a nearly 20 page PM with all the details has taken care of that. As has said many times, the golf only info if even available, won't come until much closer to the date.

Chiming in here regarding the left miss on @bens197 wedges. and the upright lie. I'm a 2 upright and 1/2" over guy as well, except for wedges. At my TPI fitting a few years ago, he said I should paly them standard lie, as the added length is going to make them a bit more upright to begin with, and players tend to turn their wedges over more than they do the longer clubs. It has seemed to help reduce my left miss with wedges, not eliminate, but greatly reduced.

Oh man ...Look at this two perfect entries in a row...you guys are setting the bar high! Ok, I'll stop with that now, I think everyone has a good example. Yet sadly there will be plenty who miss out!

Everyone This is how it's done! Perfect Entry! All 3 rules followed. It's not that difficult! Thanks NM!

#LetsGoLetsGo!

NOT ONE, NOT TWO, But THREE winners of VOKEY SM10 Wedges Courtesy of Titleist and Vokey Wedges A big thank you to the entire Vokey Team for their awesome support of the Forum and this contest! Read THE Entire post or you may be in danger of missing out on a crucial Step. We don't want any DQ's here! Wedge play at Augusta National can be the difference between winning and losing...just ask Larry Mize 1987, Tiger Woods 2005--remember that one---or even Zach Johnson 2007-laying up to a wedge on all 4 par 4's all four days. So with that we are happy to announce that Titleist Vokey Wedges is sponsoring our 2023 Masters Pool. Read below for the details.... 2024 MASTERS POOL SPONSORED BY VOKEY WEDGES-- Everyone picks a team of 6 golfers. Add your best 4 of 6 golfers scores to form your team score. The best team score wins the pool. Cut golfers (and anyone who doesn’t finish 4 rounds) get 80 for any rounds not completed. Playoff holes do not count. HOW TO JOIN THE POOL Pick your team of golfers here: Join the MGS Vokey Masters Pool Here Follow the action live Live Leaderboard MY Golf Spy Rules for This Contest Please read the 3 Rules Below, there are only two, but if they are not followed completely, your entry will be disqualified. 1) You MUST be a registered member of the Forum to win 2) Your entry MUST be your FORUM USER NAME! as the Team Name when you register!! (NOTE-If the contest will not aacept your exact user name due to punctuation-send me a DM for instructions on how to proceed) Any names that don't match and do not contact me will be DQ'd. 3): please make a post in this thread before the event begins with the following two answers-Note these tie breakers come into play after the Tie Breaker inside the actual contest. If any of those rules are not followed your entry will be disqualified! Also Multiple entries not allowed. Any duplicate entries will be deleted 1st Tie Breaker What is the Cut Number. Such as -4 and better makes the cut 2nd Tie Breaker -Who will be the low amateur If a tie still exists, the winner will be selected at random by the moderation team PRIZES!!! 1st Place: The first Place winner will receive a set of 3 Vokey SM10 Wedges-Your choice of loft, grind and finish. 2nd Place-Three Vokey SM10 wedges of your choice, loft and grind and finish 3rd Place Three Vokey SM10 wedges of your choice of Loft and Grind Entries will close at 11:59 EST Wednesday April 10, 11:59 EST Entries will automatically lock then. NOTE: Not required, but feel free to go to the Vokey Wedge Selector Tool and find out which wedge would best fit you, and feel free to share your selections here. If you win, you will still have time to submit your final specs and choices to us. This is purely for fun, and perhaps to get you ahead of the game if you win! Vokey Wedge Selector Tool

If you're ever up in the Baltimore/Annapolis area, PM me, I'm sure our Super who has been in the business about that length of time as well, would love to have you out for a round. We're a 36 hole municipal course, he keeps it in phenomenal shape given the challenges.

There is still room, and actually kind of really need at least two more to sign up. Have you read all the details on the link to the registration signup link that was in the first post? Feel free to PM me or any of the MODS with questions you might have.

Yep, I work for Troon Golf as Tournament Director. Basically I sell and run over 150 golf outings a year at our 36 hole golf course. Ranging in size from 20 players to 280 players. It's a year round job, with the winter spent booking all the tournaments for the following year, and the spring, summer nd fall spent executing them. Then rinse and repeat. Also a certified fitter for PING and Titleist and assist in over 20 fitting days a year at our course. Then there are my MGS Duties which due to the above, I've taken on a lesser role the last two years and let @GolfSpy_APH and the others have most of the fun!

So your impromptu loft and lie bending woked. Ha I told somone todsy the best i have possibly ever putted was with the Sigma Tyne 4 i was fit for at PING HQ. Im really tempted to go back ro that.

I didn’t say that exactly. Ha

Yeah, i was stylin and profilin! That was on the tee of the third hole. So only 2 shots with the 6 at thar point.

Oh yeah, definitely more to come in detail, unfortunately looks like we are in for a bit of rain the next week. So not sure how much how often I'll get out with them. But they seem very hot off the face but with a nice feel and sound. Great looking club at address as well as in the bag, and yes they do have some shine to them

For starters the TD head is going to be a bit more fade biased in its neutral position. I would buy the driver with the loft you desire. The reason is that with most adjustable drivers when you add loft it closes the face, when you reduce loft the face of the club opens. As a result the club become draw or fade biased. Some setup/address corrections maybe necessary as a result. Buying the club at the stated loft means it's neutral at that setting. Due to this, it's best to test the club and loft you desire on a monitor to make sure it provides the desired results.

These made their maiden 9 hole voyage this week snd were very fun and pleasing to hit.

Just a bit of an update. I put in a lot of work yesterday on the Ex Putt (it was an all-day cold rain and couldn't practice outside) I discovered I wasn't really finishing my follow through on some putts, kind of a decel and once I focused on that for 20 to 30 putts, the 10 footers started dropping. Today while the course was closed drying out, the Head Pro and I went out to our putting green for a bit of a putting then pitching contests. Keeping the finish the follow through in mind, I putted much better with the speed control. I didn't win any money off him, but I was down 10 bucks at one point but won it back on our last challenge. So that was cool! He is a +2 after alll and has a killer short game. So Maybe I saved myself some $$$ from buying a new putter....For now anyway!

Agreed, and actually if you read my post, you'd see all the putters I use are Mallets and Mid Mallets. So yeah, kind of there already

yeah, generally putting is my strength, and I know we all have our off days, but it just seems since like the end of last year to the beginning of this year, it just hasn't felt right. Maybe something more consistent time practicing will help regain that feel. interesting comment about the face of the putter, my playing partner (superintendent) says he notice that, once I appear set I loosen my grip and regrip it and when I do that he swears he sees the face open at times. It's something he will mention mid round at times as a reminder and I'll try and be more cognizant of it. even though most of my putts tend to miss left, so I may be over rotating the face. But again I'll go back to Sasha's comment on the Proving Grounds that a small 1 degree open or closed in a putter is not going to be the primary reason for a miss. It was interesting on putts that missed right with an open face, I knew as soon as the putt left the head that I left it open. And sure enough the data backed it up. Yeah, Ex Putt is awesome and this is the first version form like I said 5 years ago or whenever we did the forum test. it has 4 modes and this mode above is the practice mode, just pick a distance and green speed you can pick from like 7 to 14 and just practice straight putts. Then the other 3 modes are more of challenges and playing mode.

Since this is MGS. I thought Id add a little data to my story So i did a quick Ex Putt session to ger some current. Now i will say i know EX Putt is not real putting. But having had this for probably 5 yesrs or so. It is very good on your path and face data. As you see my tendency is in to out path and slightly closed face. during this session i had prwtty good distwmce control and made 7 of the 20 putts from 10 feet. Which is 35%. Just below Tour average abd well above the 20% a 18 handicap wpuld have. My handicap is actually 17.1. right now. Now to be fair after this. I played a 9 hole ij challenge mode where you had putts from 26 to 51 feet with some uphill and downhill and big breaks. They place you on the green in regulation and you go from there. I had 22 putts so not much better than yesterday. Now i do think there were 3 putts that went in that it didnt catch. But still 19 would be too high. on a good round i normally have 29-31 putts i averaged 33.5 according to the GHIN stats