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Re: Learn the hard way - flop

• jeffmatulich 482 Posts

  Wed, Jan 16 2013 1:25 PM

  Yup - Flop doesnt work on the greens.

  Was stuck behind the pot bunker on STA 17 but on the green - back left pin placement.  I was like what the hell do I do here......pitch was scaring me due to the down hill landing area behind the bunker so I tried a flop.....bad idea....went two inches.  Pitch was the shot but it would have been nice to have been able to put b/s on it.  Why no b/s on green pitches I wonder?  In real golf you can clip the ball well enough to impart spin helping it to check up - why is it disabled here?

   

   

   

• 9,041 Posts

  Wed, Jan 16 2013 4:17 PM

  jeffmatulich:

  why is it disabled here?

  Was getting too easy to get around the greens, you can still use it but practice is needed.

• gr8flbob 592 Posts

  Wed, Jan 16 2013 5:12 PM

  alcaucin:

  jeffmatulich:

  why is it disabled here?

  Was getting too easy to get around the greens, you can still use it but practice is needed.

  Is that true? My experience is any of flop, chip, or pitch shots have EVER worked on green in WGT-land. Punch and full shots do, at a ~50% loss of distance.

  What was recently disabled is the ability to put spin on either.