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

[AndyP]

Can we please name and shame the 5%?

1 out of 20, and the person posted why.

[LeftyHoges]

I loves ya's all to varying degrees, but if anyone who played both votes PF over RM, you're a ****ing retard.

[BUSHY]

I loves ya's all to varying degrees, but if anyone who played both votes PF over RM, you're a ****ing retard.

RMW or RMC?

[LeftyHoges]

RMW or RMC?

RMW.

If we played RMC there'd be no point to this whole thread.

[Dotty]

RMW.

If we played RMC there'd be no point to this whole thread.

It would have pushed YM out of the top 32!

[BUSHY]

RMW.

If we played RMC there'd be no point to this whole thread.

Point taken, seeing as I’ve never played RMW....

[AndyP]

It sounds like a dare, and a nice way to trigger Lefty.

[WBennett]

Port Fairy any day of the week.

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Your reasoning is valid. Striped it all day, took all the bikkies.

[LeftyHoges]

Your reasoning is valid. Striped it all day, took all the bikkies.

Shouldn't be allowed to vote, didn't play RM. Skewed data.

[LeftyHoges]

Point taken, seeing as I’ve never played RMW....

You've played 12/18ths....

[Ron Burgundy]

Shouldn't be allowed to vote, didn't play RM. Skewed data.

Would be a very small sample size if only people who had played a champs round at every one of these venues could vote. You just don’t want to see RMW knocked out early and open up the draw for Barny to win the title!

[WBennett]

36 of us played RM
20 played Port Fairy.
And there are a few that would have tucked it out of their minds forever already...

[WBennett]

Would be a very small sample size if only people who had played a champs round at every one of these venues could vote. You just don’t want to see RMW knocked out early and open up the draw for Barny to win the title!

Courty, Lefty, Pete_RS, Me - and Shaz as an observer for year 1. I think.

RMW wins.

[Ron Burgundy]

Courty, Lefty, Pete_RS, Me - and Shaz as an observer for year 1. I think.RMW wins.

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.

[WBennett]

I've played 2 rounds at Old. It counts

[LeftyHoges]

I've played 2 rounds at Old. It counts

Not champs rounds.

[LeftyHoges]

I've played 2 rounds at Old. It counts

And WHY!?!?

[BUSHY]

Oooh, the voting criteria being critiqued mid tournament.


#Subjective

[Webster]

It's a Democrat conspiracy !!

(blame it on the Russians)

[JoeS]

Shouldn't be allowed to vote, didn't play RM. Skewed data.

I have played RMW,3 times

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[BUSHY]

It's a Democrat conspiracy !!

(blame it on the Russians)

Topical

[LeftyHoges]

I have played RMW,3 times

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Not in an OZgolf day...

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

[BUSHY]

Not in an OZgolf day...

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

PF in a canter then.

[LeftyHoges]

PF in a canter then.

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

[Ron Burgundy]

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

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.