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just not right wgt niv

• navigater 1,319 Posts

  Sat, Dec 10 2011 6:30 PM

  I have hit the flag stick many a time IRL.

  And in the 30+ years I've been playing,I have hit near the top a few times,And  when it hits dead on.It never goes more then a few short feet away.and some times it drops within 2 feet..but your code writers has the flag as a solid fix abject with no give.

  In my last game ,A fellow competitor hit it dead on near the top from 50 yards out,

  And it came back 60 feet.(st Ann # 6),I really hate seen some one get punished that bad  on a gr8 shot.Your code writers need to go out in the field and do some real life testing on flag hits..... Imho...

  ty vary mush,

  Ps,thats just the way it is don't cut it here

   

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• Yappy22 733 Posts

  Sat, Dec 10 2011 7:17 PM

  I agree, in real golf if you hit the flag stick near the top it lands within 3/4 yds of the pin at the most, usually within a couple. of ft. I hit the top of the flag stick at St. G's one time and the ball ended up 60 ft. from the pin. You should look into this problem.

• navigater 1,319 Posts

  Sat, Dec 10 2011 7:53 PM

  bump

   

• Yoda79 697 Posts

  Sat, Dec 10 2011 8:18 PM

  How about when you hit the "perfect" shot and you end up losing your ball. I'll explain. I was 164yds out on Kiawah Island, hole 6. It's a par 4. I go through my pre-shot routine, and off it goes. Looking pretty good to the hole. Then two things happen. One is the camera view switches to a far away view, (this usually happens when your just off the green and you chip in), and it makes the sound of the ball hitting the bottom of the cup! Then, just as fast as you here it hitting the bottom of the cup, you see the ball pop out and up and goes flying off the screen and out of bounds! :( So basically I got penalized with the loss of a ball for hitting my shot into the cup on the fly! It's not the loss ball that bothers me, (I can handle the loss of balls, it's a part of the game), but the fact that I couldn't of lined up my shot, factored in the wind, and played the perfect strength any better than what I did. Now I'm not a golfer, and I hardly watch it on TV. But surely that can't be possible in real life. Can it? I love this game and think you guys at WGT do a fantastic job! There are just a few things that need to be tweaked. Anyways, just thought I would throw this up here as something that isn't right. 

                                                                                                                 Master Yoda

• navigater 1,319 Posts

  Sun, Dec 11 2011 10:34 AM

  Do to the size and depth of the cup.It is impossible for the ball to go more than a few short feet away from the hole .that is, if it  pops up say 20 feet into the air.And since the stick is in the hole,and if it comes out after flying in .never more then a few inches.

• TNP56 510 Posts

  Sun, Dec 11 2011 10:53 AM

  .........ya know what the exact same thing happened to me today on the same hole......my ball hit right on top of the flag stick .....everybody playing couldn't believe it either

• mnshiner 1,382 Posts

  Sun, Dec 11 2011 11:53 AM

  You folks mean:

   

  Something Like this

   

  or

   

  This

   

• MainzMan 9,593 Posts

  Sun, Dec 11 2011 12:17 PM

  mnshiner:

  You folks mean:

  Something Like this

  or

  This

  The first one seems reasonably realistic, given you were hitting from over 200 yards away and the ball only bounced once before hitting the flagstick.

  The second one is just nuts though, you got well screwed there.

• TNP56 510 Posts

  Sun, Dec 11 2011 12:48 PM

  ......neither one of those.....mine hit exactly on the TOP of the flagstick  on the way down  i think it was from 74 yards out to.....the very point at the top of the stick !

• Tonto0206 460 Posts

  Sun, Dec 11 2011 12:54 PM

  The second one from mnshiner is very wrong, as it reacts off the flag just like a snooker ball would off a cushion - a 90’ angle.

  An easy fix if someone can be bothered.