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    Default Favourite VIC Champs venue

    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
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    Quote Originally Posted by BUSHY View Post
    After walking off 2nd green I’m struggling to find something to dislike the entire way home.
    For me, 1 and 2 are good opening holes, and 3-7 are solid. I could take or leave 8 and 9.

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    Results?

    Match 4?

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    Lost Farm wins with 83%

    Match 4 link in the OP
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    Quote Originally Posted by BUSHY View Post
    After walking off 2nd green I’m struggling to find something to dislike the entire way home.
    3-6 is awesome as stated, 7 is pretty dogshite. 8 is good to solid, nothing more. 9 is pretty meh.

    Home to the best shot of the champs though.

    10 is about the same as 8, 11 is great for a blind tee shot hole, 12 is same as 8 and 10 (and 1, coincidentally. LFs weak point may actually be its par 5s, upon reflection).

    13 is ok, as is 13a. 14 is cracking, 15 is very good, 16 is ok, 17 is good, 18 is awesome, 18a is ok.
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    Match 4.
    Birdie the last, still lose the hole, and subsequently the match.

    Versus a 2am departure from Canberra with Kev to meet a bunch of people from the internet I hadn't met before, getting there 3 hours early so cans in the car park, a busted arse front 9, then a massive comeback from 4 down to square Iain in UCW1.

    I can't believe Southern experience beats a day at Victoria, but here we are.

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    Quote Originally Posted by WBennett View Post
    Match 4.
    Birdie the last, still lose the hole, and subsequently the match.

    Versus a 2am departure from Canberra with Kev to meet a bunch of people from the internet I hadn't met before, getting there 3 hours early so cans in the car park, a busted arse front 9, then a massive comeback from 4 down to square Iain in UCW1.

    I can't believe Southern experience beats a day at Victoria, but here we are.
    Yup, meeting the majority for the first time, going 2 red on the back nine to snatch the important match from Courty, watching LarryLong topple Marto, captaining The Confeds to the initial Uncivil War win;

    vs

    Giving BITS 5 shots in what was the most inevitable result imaginable and the Union getting their first Uncivil War win.

    Easy vote.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LeftyHoges View Post
    Yup, meeting the majority for the first time, going 2 red on the back nine to snatch the important match from Courty, watching LarryLong topple Marto, captaining The Confeds to the initial Uncivil War win;

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    Giving BITS 5 shots in what was the most inevitable result imaginable and the Union getting their first Uncivil War win.

    Easy vote.
    Gee what were you off? Golf link goes back 5 years and 5th May 2015 I was off 3.4


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    Quote Originally Posted by backintheswing View Post
    Gee what were you off? Golf link goes back 5 years and 5th May 2015 I was off 3.4
    Shows how hard you were "Nedding" it, you were off 4.8 (so 6) in Feb.

    Was actually only 3 shots in the end, must've just felt like 5 cos even giving you 1 was bullshit.
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    It’s a tough one for me.

    Didn’t play at Southern but was official photographer with 5 week old Miss P as my companion.

    Victoria. Had to give oldracer plenty of shots and got towelled up 7/5. Had the most fun playing the back nine in bare feet with LarryLong.


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    Ahhhh Vic GC.
    Home of my famous victory over Monsta, set the tone for most of his NAGA efforts.
    Oh and that first tee shot!

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    Vic wins with over 84% of the vote

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    Kingston Beach. Playing 18 holes with the Manager, who organised sneaky beers to be delivered halfway around the place.

    Good bloke that one.

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    2 rounds at StAB for the VIC Champs, one was a one-over 71 for 40 points. The other I thought I was going to ****ing die. Still managed to scrap out the best 32 points of my life.

    Don't know which way to vote here...
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    Quote Originally Posted by WBennett View Post
    Kingston Beach. Playing 18 holes with the Manager, who organised sneaky beers to be delivered halfway around the place.Good bloke that one.
    I played with 2 blokes who might just enjoy the sound of their own voice more than anyone else I know and I barely said a word. It was, in fact, a very enjoyable walk and listen.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LeftyHoges View Post
    2 rounds at StAB for the VIC Champs, one was a one-over 71 for 40 points. The other I thought I was going to ****ing die. Still managed to scrap out the best 32 points of my life.

    Don't know which way to vote here...
    Does that include the secret round?

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    Quote Originally Posted by BUSHY View Post
    Does that include the secret round?
    I didn't. Think I should?
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    Quote Originally Posted by 3puttpete View Post
    I played with 2 blokes who might just enjoy the sound of their own voice more than anyone else I know and I barely said a word. It was, in fact, a very enjoyable walk and listen.
    I am guessing you were in my group. I can't remember. Lots of beers that day.

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    Quote Originally Posted by LeftyHoges View Post
    I didn't. Think I should?
    Depends on how it would affect your vote?

    Does that tilt it in favour of one or the other?

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    Quote Originally Posted by BUSHY View Post
    Depends on how it would affect your vote?

    Does that tilt it in favour of one or the other?
    It really was the average of the other 2 rounds, so changes nothing! LOL.

    35 points, loved some of it more than I remember, hated some of it more than I remember. Nil-all draw, really.
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    Quote Originally Posted by LeftyHoges View Post
    It really was the average of the other 2 rounds, so changes nothing! LOL.

    35 points, loved some of it more than I remember, hated some of it more than I remember. Nil-all draw, really.
    Surely the company smashes it out of the park, though?
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    St Andrew's Beach wins with 86% of the vote.

    I'm expecting a titanic battle for the next match. Link in the OP shortly.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Courty View Post
    Surely the company smashes it out of the park, though?
    Maybe human interaction isn’t the experience he was looking for?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Courty View Post
    I'm expecting a titanic battle for the next match. Link in the OP shortly.
    Surely a whitewash

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    Easy win for Metro. The scene of 3pp and my glorious battle for a half. It was the match that neither of us wanted to win


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    Quote Originally Posted by shazza_rs View Post
    Easy win for Metro. The scene of 3pp and my glorious battle for a half. It was the match that neither of us wanted to win
    I always tell people I didn’t want to be mean to the girl and deliberately halved the match.

    I assume you say the same thing.


 

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