Random game setup

[tarheel]

If you aren’t trying to approximate real world weather for a casual round of golf, do any of you have a randomizer routine you follow? Obviously, pin can just be a d6, but wondering what you all do for greens and winds.

I’m thinking of using:
d20 greens
1-5 wet
6-15 normal
16-20 dry

Winds:
1-9 mild
10-16 medium
17-20 strong

On a 20 I might use Gusty if I feel masochistic

+4 when playing a links course w variable fog or set fog
+3 when playing a desert course
+2 when playing a mountain course w variable fog or set fog
+1 for parkland
+0 for woodland

[Galen_Golf4676]

I wrote a Visual Basic program that you might find useful. That is if it works. It is just a little more than 1 MB.
https://hamhoctours.com/conds_picker.exe

It will randomly pick conditions for a four round tournament.

[tarheel]

Thanks! This will be helpful

[SteveHorn]

tarheel
I draw a card from a deck of cards to determine all conditions. They aren't divided up equally since some conditions are rarer and others are more common. I shuffle them for every round, and I do have some rules. Example can't go from short ruff to the next round being long ruff. You can do the opposite though because the ruff got cut for the next round. Wind conditions anything goes but gusty winds are much less common than calm winds. So many more cards are for calm (4 through 10) then gusty (A + 2 jokers) 28 to 6 card ratio.

[BradTheDad]

I couldn't get Galen's randomiser to work. Anybody else have better luck?

[Galen_Golf4676]

I couldn't get Galen's randomiser to work. Anybody else have better luck?

As I suspected it won't work as a standalone program. It needs the other Visual Basic files. I will provide a new link soon.

[Galen_Golf4676]

https://hamhoctours.com/Randomizer.zip

Extract to your hard drive but avoid either Program Files folders. There is a readme text file included. You'll want to create a shortcut to the executable named conds_picker.exe for your desktop or taskbar. This ought to work. Let me know if it doesn't.