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Re: Putting is stupid

• dacrash 475 Posts

  Tue, Jul 16 2013 12:16 PM

  NowhereMan7:

  This game is ridiculous.  I played games 25 years ago that were more intuitive and precise than this one.  The graphics hardly make up for annoying play tools.  Have fun losers.

   

  Perhaps you should try thinking by todays standards and not 25 years ago.  Just saying.

  The putting on this game is really not much different from other games.  You have to know the speeds and how to read breaks.  The speeds of the greens are very well documented and there are a ton of threads here to help.  Reading the breaks is another issue all together and takes time and experience to get to know them.  Just like when you go to a new course.  When you play the course the first time you don't know how the greens break or the speed. 

  There are several different green speeds and each one requires different techniques.

  Try reading the putting tips in the forum before being hasty and dissing a real good golf game.

  If you are looking to shoot 59's like on TW it will take you some time.  Mostly this plays like real golf.  Lots of things go into making a shot and as in real life all shots are not perfect.  This is not a game where a newbie will shoot great scores to start with.  It is more related to earning your way to the upper levels and better equipment through improving your game.

  Keep trying and I think you will get hooked too.

   

  dacrash

• chris5214 1,937 Posts

  Tue, Jul 16 2013 12:22 PM

  NowhereMan7:

  This game is ridiculous.  I played games 25 years ago that were more intuitive and precise than this one.  The graphics hardly make up for annoying play tools.  Have fun losers.

   

  kids nowadays

• alanti 10,564 Posts

  Tue, Jul 16 2013 1:58 PM

  wisdom22:

  [absolutely correct in what you have said, you have just said it in the wrong manner . I have found that if you do not spend money on here then your games are fixed most of the time, I think some people call it VEM . I have become a Tour master and all of a sudden I have only won about maybe 3 or 4 games in as many weeks, Its no wonder the game is destined for the bin and so few people are playing it now.  The wgt  money men do not care about how this game is progressing now as they have a regular income from advertisers and are probably more interested in promoting their other game.  You will get the usual comments on here from the long term players that have the best gear and suck up to wgt  but even some of  those are getting tired of this game now]

  Another pearl of wisdom.

  As you appreciated "the lyric" thread so much I will add a new tune into the mix

  "Cry Me a River"

• StrayedFairway 379 Posts

  Tue, Jul 16 2013 2:14 PM

  The Worms will convene outside Brixton Bus Station. We'll be moving along at about 12 o'clock down Stockwell Road.

  Edit: sorry wrong post

• renniw52 5,385 Posts

  Tue, Jul 16 2013 2:15 PM

  My putting looks like a fish riding a bicycle, I am working on holing every approach shot, that isn't going so well either. But I keep trying. Someday I will be as proud of myself here as I was when I made Eagle Scout in 1963. Never dream, never have anything to look forward to.

• mara43 1,674 Posts

  Tue, Jul 16 2013 2:32 PM

  NowhereMan7:

  Have fun losers.

  Good place to post in 'Welcome to WGT - Community Help' .......not

  lmao.....me thinks ' the lunatic is on the grass.....'

• NowhereMan7 7 Posts

  Tue, Jul 16 2013 3:00 PM

  I forget sometimes that most of the players of these games have a chronological and/or mental age of about 12, so naturally they could only respond with insults and their mother's homilies.  This game is just a GAME.  It ain't real anything gang, but it could at least be better than the games of 25 years ago.  At least those games didn't try to sell me products everyone ten seconds.  Thanks for all the constructive advice on sucking.  I suspect that's something you know how to do well.

   

• Mushy01 2,567 Posts

  Tue, Jul 16 2013 3:26 PM

  wisdom22:

   I have become a Tour master and all of a sudden I have only won about maybe 3 or 4 games in as many weeks, Its no wonder the game is destined for the bin and so few people are playing it now.

   

  Really?

• pjctas0822 4,608 Posts

  Tue, Jul 16 2013 4:43 PM

  NowhereMan7:

  This game is ridiculous.  I played games 25 years ago that were more intuitive and precise than this one.  The graphics hardly make up for annoying play tools.  Have fun losers.

   

  Very stupid. Show me one game from 25 years ago that can compare to this one. Thats dumb.

• gr8flbob 592 Posts

  Tue, Jul 16 2013 5:07 PM

  alcaucin:

  Choppography:

   Seems the opposite is happening these days.  I know things come and go in waves, but this one is wearing on and on.  

  Weird, I've been sinking everything for the last 48 hours.

  We must all be on different cycles :-)

  I discount the OP and his opinions, however ....

  ... speaking of cycles, I have noticed that the speeds of the moving dots (that indicate local slope when putting grid is on) are varying over a short period - almost as if the green was draped over a slowly breathing creature, lol. Could this be a poorly hidden programmed putting variable?

  Take a good long look at the putting grid where there's a moderate cross-slope. A complete 'breathing cycle'  takes ~ 8 - 10 seconds to go from sharper slope to minimum slope and back to max again. I haven't (consciously, lol) experimented with the impact on actual roll of making the putt at the extreme max and min of break indicated by the moving dots. 

  My preferred putting method is to set up the line with the grid on, but execute it with the grid off - just to eliminate the distraction of the grid lines and moving dots so I can concentrate strictly on the meter and where I want to hit, relative to the ding line. But do I set the line to max expected break or minimum, relative to slowly oscillating speed of moving dots? Or somewhere in between?