I just made Legend staus and it seems that my distance control has gone out the window. I had my irons dialed in. Now they seem to go long or short, regardless of the wind. Also putting seems alot harder. Anybody else notice this?
Batorthopa, the game is created to get harder as you move up in tier. Legend is a brand new challenge as you already know. The green speed are faster, the tees are further back and the winds are increased. For putting on tourney greens i use distance plus or minus elevation divided by 4.5 and then subtract the difference. As you are further away after your drive now you are forced to use a higher club so your ability to stop the ball is harder. When you get to lvl 79 the new rocketbladz irons are very nice. Also the Rocketbalz driver is a much longer club than the g20 you have now. It will take a month or so for things to settle down. Enjoy.
Getting moved to the back tees changes the elevations and lies in the landing areas you're used to. There's a difference between dialing in your distances and dialing in your shots so you will have to "re-dial" those shots. The distances aren't affected by the new tier, just the shots you now have to use. Your 3, 4 and 5 irons are where you need to focus. GL and congratulations. :-)
I also just made legend 2 weeks ago and found the same problem. Mind you I also bought a new set of irons so that didn't help matters. It's like playing a whole new game. The learning curve starts all over again. I find it fun and challenging which is what the game of golf is all about, real or computer.
Congrats! Everyone's comments are bang on as to changes. One other thing about the putting is that there is more break on the faster greens and the speed is much more as well (elevation is very more pronounced). Just takes time to adjust and even then it isn't easy! Good luck and you'll be fine soon, just don't expect as many low scores for a while ... but if you can get to Legend, then they will start coming as you obviously have a great game.
Congrats ,on making Legende, like all mentionned here ,you will get adapted fairly fast , then it becomes automatic ... :) Have fun