There have been a few comments regarding the low scores. I will try to summarise the reasons. I am playing in the tournament.
The hoops are Atkins (Quadway) Stainless steel hoops and are set marginally more generously than the NZ Open, of which I played in. These hoops are more rigid than the cast iron traditional hoops.
The ground is very hard meaning the hoops are quite unforgiving.
The games are timed to 2.5 hours.
The temperatures on the first day were about 30 degrees C and maybe a little lesser today.
The lawns are patchy. Meaning patches of green and patches of brown of which there is no control of the balls. Hoop 1 approach, on lawn 3, for example, is bare. This is the lawn that the score of 6-2 was recorded.
I don't know what speed the lawns are running at. Maybe 11ish seconds. But that would be an average over brown and green. Definitely slower than the lawns at United where the NZ Open was held last week.