Ahead of the new game in August, I have been enjoying playing the current game this way, which involves my own ghost rounds. Maybe others reading this would like to try it.... I have favourited 80 courses. I set up a solo society season using the first 40 of my favourites. One round shootout, back tees, pin set 1 on each course. Difficulty set up ‘hard’. I play each round by trying my absolute best. If I have a really bad hole and run up a triple-bogey or something, I regroup and try my best again. Keep trying to shoot the best I possibly can, never just give up.
First goal then, win every one-round shootout, finish top in victories and as many other season categories as you can. In my case, I did this with my first 40 favourited courses, then again with the second 40 of my favourites.
Then, I set ghost rounds to ‘my rounds’, and ‘hide ghost scores’. I then set up a matchplay game on my first favourited course, playing against my own last ghost round, which was a round where I knew I had tried my hardest on every shot, at every hole. Having played 80 rounds before going back to my first favourited course, I had completely forgotten my score, if I’d done something brilliant during that round, or something totally stupid. The task now is to treat your own original ghost as the enemy, to crush them, and keep a score over the 80 matchplay rounds, trying to come out on top in ‘the series’.
Currently, I am leading my ‘enemy’ by 10-7 in wins in the matchplay series. Some of the shots I sat and watched my own ghost playing made me say to myself ‘I remember that one!’ or equally ‘what the hell was I doing!?’. It’s a fun way to play the game, you know you’ll need to play well to beat your ghost, because as I say, even though the scores are hidden, the one thing you know is that you tried your hardest, so you’ll need to be even better to beat yourself...
10-7 up in my 80 series matchplay knockout challenge. My previous self is getting hammered again tomorrow!
