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Re: Koele Challenge

• TTEST47 18 Posts

  Thu, Jan 9 2014 11:58 PM

  In my humble opinion,the wind and distance calibration on this new course are inaccurate. Case in point: a head wind directly against the player, going straight (north to south on an imaginary compass) and the shot is "zinged" on the swing meter and the ball lands about 10 yards to the right of the hole. There were other instances I experienced while playing the course a couple of times.but this is the most blatant and obvious example. I honestly don't think this can be chalked up to inaccurate playing or computation. Anyone else experience this?

• courteneyfish 15,796 Posts

  Fri, Jan 10 2014 12:19 AM

  Surely most holes on each course are inaccurate. You just take notes and hit them differently next time.

• Crystalwax 7 Posts

  Fri, Jan 10 2014 2:21 AM

  courteneyfish:

  Surely most holes on each course are inaccurate. You just take notes and hit them differently next time.

   

  It seems that the 5th plays much longer than it should.

   

  Overall, Quite hard I should imagine to shoot below 50 for the 9 challenges until a few attempts have been made.

   

• fmagnets 3,640 Posts

  Fri, Jan 10 2014 4:57 AM

  TTEST47:

  I honestly don't think this can be chalked up to inaccurate playing or computation.

  The course is fine. The clubs you are using have only medium precision, which means several shots per round will not go particularly close to where you aim them even when dinged. A shot starting off line in a direct headwind will be even further off line by the time it lands.

• borntobesting 9,707 Posts

  Fri, Jan 10 2014 5:02 AM

  TTEST47:

  Case in point: a head wind directly against the player, going straight (north to south on an imaginary compass) and the shot is "zinged" on the swing

  I honestly don't think this can be chalked up to inaccurate playing or computation. No just poor clubs. If your clubs had a good precision rating then you might be correct but your Rapture irons while very forgiving have very low precision rating. And those 2 starter wedges are even worse. They have virtually no precision and are not very forgiving either. It you ding a shot with high precision clubs and have the shot lined up well you will get close. But even a dinged shot with low precision clubs can and do go anywhere. And though the Raptures are very forgiving if you ding the shot the forgiveness doesn't come into play as forgiveness only helps on mishits.

  Ninja'd

• SPINO1 5,394 Posts

  Fri, Jan 10 2014 6:46 AM

  borntobesting:

  But even a dinged shot with low precision clubs can and do go anywhere.

  A ding is a ding ffs.

  I'm not disagreeing with you, just the game btw....If you ding it it should go where you aimed ,simple ! Not ahh hes dinged it but we'll fk him over anyway.

• andyson 6,415 Posts

  Fri, Jan 10 2014 8:08 AM

  borntobesting:

  I honestly don't think this can be chalked up to inaccurate playing or computation. No just poor clubs. If your clubs had a good precision rating then you might be correct but your Rapture irons while very forgiving have very low precision rating.

  I played Raptures for a long time, and IIRC the precision rating was 2 or 2.5 depending on which model or level they were. That IMO is not very low.  Forgiveness was 4 dots. 

  No one seems to think a 10 yard, (30 feet!), deviation on a dinged shot is way out of line?  I do.

  Something else is at play and it would help to know which hole was being played so we could see how the shot is aligned by the game.  Could be what appeared to be a direct head wind was actually at 5 or 7 o'clock and ended up, in moderate winds, a 4 or 5mph cross wind.

• thebigeasy707 5,885 Posts

  Fri, Jan 10 2014 9:17 AM

  andyson:

  No one seems to think a 10 yard, (30 feet!), deviation on a dinged shot is way out of line?  I do.

  I do too.

  On the question of courses / yardages / wind etc. All courses will play differently just as they do in real life regardless if the yardages / winds are similar or even the same. 

  There are other factors that effect real life ball flight. Humidity comes to mind and also the course temperature. Balls travel further in areas of a higher air pressure and hotter areas.

  Have WGT factored this into their alogarith? Why not? It would be easy to do and would explain the differences in club yardages between courses.

• Boomerboy44 1,514 Posts

  Fri, Jan 10 2014 2:47 PM

  I noticed on the no wind tourny's they had awhile back that on a dinged shot the closest I ever got to the pin was 2 yds.( I was playing  best irons they offered at that time) Never on the pin, some times 3/4 yards away. I always thought hitting the ding was supposed to be your best shot at an accurate shot,............... guess not.

• rollone 777 Posts

  Fri, Jan 10 2014 4:19 PM

  SPINO1:

  borntobesting:

  But even a dinged shot with low precision clubs can and do go anywhere.

  A ding is a ding ffs.

  I'm not disagreeing with you, just the game btw....If you ding it it should go where you aimed ,simple ! Not ahh hes dinged it but we'll fk him over anyway.

  AMEN