Discussion for Royal Canberra ready for Women’s Open

Off to this tomorrow. Weather is looking good, 29 deg and a bit of cloud. Rain is predicted for the weekend, however.
There’s an interesting group teeing off at 9:10 I’ll be watching – Yani Tseng, Michelle Wie andLydia Ko. Should be a great day.

Tell me they’re not playing the ‘thomson’ nine????

nope, original 18.
wanna hope it doesn’t rain – they have put LOTS of water over the past few weeks to get the fairways and rough up to a standard. so much so that some of the flatter/lower areas turned a bit boggy. The rain last weekend kinda topped it all off.
Fingers crossed for good weather.

Lydia Ko shot an incredible 10 under to lead the “woman who was going to take on the men”, Michelle Wie, by just 11 shots after the opening round.

Ko’s round was all the more amazing because she started with a bogey and had another on the same nine as well. A total of just 21 putts – freaky!!!

nope, original 18.
wanna hope it doesn’t rain – they have put LOTS of water over the past few weeks to get the fairways and rough up to a standard. so much so that some of the flatter/lower areas turned a bit boggy. The rain last weekend kinda topped it all off.
Fingers crossed for good weather.

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Give us a good report Trickshot – look forward to hearing more about it.

It looked like they set the course up pretty soft. Those greens at 10.5 are money for jam. They could have tricked the course up so much tougher than that.

yeah, expect much trickier pin placements tomorrow. Drizzling rain here atm, might also have an effect tomorrow.

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Say no more

Not sure where the tees were but on the TV, it said the 18th was 485m. After her tee shot, they said Ko had 215m in (no way she hit a 270m drive). She then hit a hybrid to about 80m (hit it 135m or thereabouts)................great scoring for a shot hitter.
I think they could make the course a little longer though. Makes you wonder how good she is when Tseng and Wei we left in her wake.

I would suggest that the 18th is being played from the mens forward tee. Once you get to about 210m from there it is quite steeply downhill for about 30m or so.

The other thing to remember about distances this week is that the ball goes further in Canberra at this time of the year because the air is thinner since it is about 650m above sea level. I’d suggest that it is about a club shorter than usual.

Nice touch to see the Aboriginal flag on the greens flag poles.
Ko is shooting a game a professional golfer would be proud of. Good to see her win it from here.

Red yellow and blue mate. They love Romania at RC.

Yeah I spotted one of those after my op. are they all Romanian then???? If so I stand corrected.

Red yellow and blue mate. They love Romania at RC.

Anchoring is cheating.

I’ve heard the Canberra Gypsy Festival is a don’t miss.