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Re: A logical question for WGT

• gerryniswonger 1,890 Posts

  Sun, Jun 15 2014 6:19 PM

  When I set my putter meter for 100 feet and hit a level putt 50%, it travels 50 feet.  Or hit it 35% it travels 35 feet.  (I've tested this)

  But!!!!!!!  When i hit my 100 yard Gap Wedge 80% it DOES NOT go 80 yards as it should, but much shorter!  Even 90% only goes 84 yards.

  What causes this discrepancy please?

• WGTadmin2 1,152 Posts

  Sun, Jun 15 2014 7:42 PM

  This is the best that I can do to explain it.  I do not fully understand it but, all the power meters are not linear EG: 50% meter does not equal 50% distance.  The putter is the closest to linear.  We are slowing making more clubs approach linear but in reality our game is based in physics where power and distance are not a linear function.  If you apply 2x power to a cannon ball it does not go twice as far.

• TeeTimeSmitty 1,973 Posts

  Sun, Jun 15 2014 8:40 PM

  Wish that canon ball was aimed at that explanation!   Sorry    but true.

• MainzMan 9,593 Posts

  Sun, Jun 15 2014 9:58 PM

  gerryniswonger:

  But!!!!!!!  When i hit my 100 yard Gap Wedge 80% it DOES NOT go 80 yards as it should, but much shorter!  Even 90% only goes 84 yards.

  It took 1,635 ranked rounds to realise this and make an issue of it?

  I think the problem is that phrase as it should.  WGT has never stated that hitting a 100 yard wedge with 64% power makes the ball go 64 yards, this is something you expected to happen, it was never promised.

  I found the explanation perfectly reasonable and plausible.

• mkg335 5,491 Posts

  Sun, Jun 15 2014 10:09 PM

  +1 Mainz...

  In real life, if you take a half swing with your driver, do you expect the ball to go half as far as it does with a full swing?  Of course not, because physics won't allow it.  That's what the "not linear" part means.

• fatdan 3,379 Posts

  Sun, Jun 15 2014 10:44 PM

  1st of all I don't know how you tested those putts but if you play on tournament greens and if you hit a level putt at 50% on a 100ft scale it goes 65- 70 ft on tournament greens and 35% closer to 50 ft....

  as far as the wedges go, I had the lower level Max  wedges once...that 100 yrd wedge goes 102 yrds dinged full power, 92-93 at 90%, 87yds at 85%....

  they reduced the spin on yours Max wedges but your using a ball with very high spin and distance rating so w/ that combo god only knows what the distances would be but I guarantee you it's further than 84yds at 90% power....hit it with a little topspin and see if you don't get better results...