Favourite VIC Champs venue

[Courty]

I've had some discussions recently with a few VIC Champs regulars about favourite venue, and have subsequently decided to throw it to the people. I've devised a 'March Madness' style knockout tournament to get this done:

• I listed out all of the Thursday-Sunday official courses.
• Due to some duplicates I was short a few, so I threw in a couple of the better-attended Monday venues and a special 'wild-card' to round it out to 32 courses.
• They were then seeded based on their 2020 Top 100 ranking, with the unranked courses in random order.
• I have a table with all of the matches which will be posted here shortly.

I'll provide a link to a Strawpoll each day, which will end at 7pm the following night (I've allowed an extra day for the first poll). The first match will go a bit longer. The results will go up in this thread/ post, and the next link will be provided. I'll update this post with anything else I've forgotten.

Now, the important stuff... your vote should be for your 'favourite' Champs venue. It has nothing to do with the best architecture or conditioning. The Top 100 rankings already does that for us.

Which course invokes the best memories, where did you feel like you were in golfing heaven on earth, which course suited your game better, where did you have the most fun etc? That is the sort of thing you should consider in casting your vote.

To jog some dusty memories, here is a quick summary of the courses and related info:





Round 1
Match 1: https://strawpoll.com/d7p9dy93
Match 2: https://strawpoll.com/s74hr799
Match 3: https://strawpoll.com/6b99ek8e
Match 4: https://strawpoll.com/k76g49ss
Match 5: https://strawpoll.com/6r2efhb8
Match 6: https://strawpoll.com/2ywpff39
Match 7: https://strawpoll.com/xre5zec3
Match 8: https://strawpoll.com/ck4gpf45
Match 9: https://strawpoll.com/313a7sr2
Match 10: https://strawpoll.com/w6p74g5d
Match 11: https://strawpoll.com/f8e66a7b
Match 12: https://strawpoll.com/p4wwg369
Match 13: https://strawpoll.com/xrr8ghcb
Match 14: https://strawpoll.com/y3fkdyya
Match 15: https://strawpoll.com/82aaf24e
Match 16: https://strawpoll.com/w6xr546k

Round 2
Match 17: https://strawpoll.com/chh7keh7
Match 18: https://strawpoll.com/wk9f29k8
Match 19: https://strawpoll.com/2d198ppe
Match 20: https://strawpoll.com/p7pfsfza
Match 21: https://strawpoll.com/4ge41x78
Match 22: https://strawpoll.com/pf927e77
Match 23: https://strawpoll.com/zzghh3x3
Match 24: https://strawpoll.com/fgz747fs

Round 3
Match 25: https://strawpoll.com/s9brgy6y
Match 26: https://strawpoll.com/1xz94kp8
Match 27: https://strawpoll.com/6rgrhyd2
Match 28: https://strawpoll.com/cg2w34be

Semi Final
Match 29: https://strawpoll.com/awse5rrb
Match 30: https://strawpoll.com/8cer86yr

Finals
Match 31 (3rd/ 4th final): https://strawpoll.com/ba8bcag3
Match 32: Grand Final: https://strawpoll.com/5g6g6gba

[BUSHY]

Please. My balls still haven't refilled from all the jizz I left over RMW.

Haven’t played it in an OzGolf day so it’s void.

[LeftyHoges]

Haven’t played it in an OzGolf day so it’s void.

So therefore if it was RMW vs Portland you'd have to vote Portland?

Not sure I like how this is all going to pan out...

[BUSHY]

So therefore if it was RMW vs Portland you'd have to vote Portland?

Not sure I like how this is all going to pan out...

Well... I didn’t make the rules.

[LeftyHoges]

Well... I didn’t make the rules.

Seems like no one did.

It's ****ing anarchy in here.

I'll be paying zero attention to the inevitable BD win then, so that's nice.

[3Puttpete]

I raise you Mick’s jizz showering PF. Took every minute of the shutdown with full greens staff to clean up and even then I doubt they got it all.

They’re not the only ones who haven’t recovered

[AndyP]

Now, the important stuff... your vote should be for your 'favourite' Champs venue. It has nothing to do with the best architecture or conditioning. The Top 100 rankings already does that for us.

This is the only criteria.

[BUSHY]

This is the only criteria.

So doesn’t matter if you didnt play it during a champs event. Good work.

[AndyP]

Well, there's a little bit extra, but it is very subjective.

Which course invokes the best memories, where did you feel like you were in golfing heaven on earth, which course suited your game better, where did you have the most fun etc? That is the sort of thing you should consider in casting your vote.

[WBennett]

This is the only criteria.

I can understand why you wouldn't vote for RM.Losing the UCW to me on the last would be sad

[AndyP]

I can understand why you wouldn't vote for RM.Losing the UCW to me on the last would be sad

I wasted the experience with a bad hangover. Actually, that's a lot of Champs rounds.

[SundayHack]

I wasted the experience with a bad hangover. Actually, that's a lot of Champs rounds.

You get hungover? That usually doesn’t happen until the Tuesday after. Can’t get a hangover if you stay drunk.

[BUSHY]

You get hungover? That usually doesn’t happen until the Tuesday after. Can’t get a hangover if you stay drunk.

Spoken like a true Veteran. Those that know know.

[AndyP]

I think that is how I survived PF until late in the round. I had a couple of beers during the round to stay drunk. If I had have taken more, perhaps I'd be the champ.

[SundayHack]

I think that is how I survived PF until late in the round. I had a couple of beers during the round to stay drunk. If I had have taken more, perhaps I'd be the champ.

Yeah there wasn’t much time between last drinks Saturday night (Sunday morning) and pre car trip to PF CC and drys.

[JoeS]

Not in an OZgolf day...

We're voting on best OZgolf experience at a course, not which is the better course.

Fare enough.

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[JoeS]

PF in a canter then.

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[JoeS]

I think that is how I survived PF until late in the round. I had a couple of beers during the round to stay drunk. If I had have taken more, perhaps I'd be the champ.

Sounds like an excuse

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[Courty]

Portsea wins comfortably.

Next match link is in the OP

[shazza_rs]

Don’t think you, Shaz or Pete have played Nash Old in a champs trip have you. By lefty’s reasoning only he and Courty get to vote in the poll.

I’ve played Nash old with an Ozgolfer (not Pete). That counts

[AndyP]

Sounds like an excuse

One of many. The Portland round was the outlier, and I actually did well to hang on as long as I did at Port Fairy, considering the circumstances.

[Courty]

Curlewis takes the comfortable win.

Next match link is in the OP.

[Captain Nemo]

Tough vote for me here....
Obviously had one of my standout rounds ever at the Creek course, which I’ve played a few times now and thoroughly enjoyed...
Moonah Legends is a very good test of golf, I had en even handicap round there on my way to winning the Aus TCC weekend.
Id happily stay and play at both venues anytime in the foreseeable future...

[LeftyHoges]

Easy vote, Legends is just meh, had no feel about it whatsoever.

Creek is an enjoyable stroll with some underrated holes, and I personally feel it's superior to Beach.

[SundayHack]

Creek, easy. That round ranks up there with the most enjoyable/fun rounds I have had in vic champs. The Captains back 9 was probably the best nine holes I have seen by an ozgolfer. The pterodactyls were heard around the entire 13th Beach.

[Captain Nemo]

Awe......miss you big fella!
yep, there was some wild screeching going on that back 9!