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Re: Driving Range and Putting Green

• PinkRaven 52 Posts

  Mon, Jul 25 2016 11:13 PM

  I know this has probably been suggested many times. Which may offer a clue to it's value to us players.

  1: Driving Range. So we could Map our Clubs properly. Test Wind Shots. Test Roll out. Whatever suits our fancy. Fairway and Putting Green type landing zones. The ability to not only change winds speeds from Full Heavy to Absolute Zero, but also All Green Speed's available in game Landing Zone as well in this format. Ball Durability could still be active at say half of normal "decrease reate". Unless you wanted to be very generous and allow us to buy a "range" ball version of the "ball we use" at a lower rate. Say a Level 90 Nike Black RZN that we could buy for maybe 100 Creds that would give us 100 Hits. 50 Creds for 50 Hits. 20-10- so on and so forth. This would only help to increse a players confidence, ability, and all around mood toward hitting. Which will in turn have us playing more. More playing means more ball usage.

  2: Putting green with the ability to test All Green Speed's available in game. No need for a "range" Ball in this instance. But I would say cut the Shot durability "decrease rate" in half when on the putting green. Make it fair guys. We are buying your Homes, Cars, Diamond Rolexes for you after all..lol

  Just some thoughts I had to help us players become better.

  Thanks for the opportunity to offer a suggestion.

  Pink Raven

• lonniescott711 4,206 Posts

  Tue, Jul 26 2016 2:46 PM

  PinkRaven:

  I know this has probably been suggested many times. Which may offer a clue to it's value to us players.

  1: Driving Range. So we could Map our Clubs properly. Test Wind Shots. Test Roll out. Whatever suits our fancy. Fairway and Putting Green type landing zones. The ability to not only change winds speeds from Full Heavy to Absolute Zero, but also All Green Speed's available in game Landing Zone as well in this format. Ball Durability could still be active at say half of normal "decrease reate". Unless you wanted to be very generous and allow us to buy a "range" ball version of the "ball we use" at a lower rate. Say a Level 90 Nike Black RZN that we could buy for maybe 100 Creds that would give us 100 Hits. 50 Creds for 50 Hits. 20-10- so on and so forth. This would only help to increse a players confidence, ability, and all around mood toward hitting. Which will in turn have us playing more. More playing means more ball usage.

  2: Putting green with the ability to test All Green Speed's available in game. No need for a "range" Ball in this instance. But I would say cut the Shot durability "decrease rate" in half when on the putting green. Make it fair guys. We are buying your Homes, Cars, Diamond Rolexes for you after all..lol

  Just some thoughts I had to help us players become better.

  Thanks for the opportunity to offer a suggestion.

  Pink Raven

  You are right this has been requested before . In fact so much that if you would have done a search >>>>>>>> you would have a months worth of threads to read about it . You have practice rounds on all stroke play courses and a putting challenge to play as well . The Mulligan feature will allow you to rehit shots to your hearts content from tee to green . Dont practice with paid for balls always use the rock .

  What WGT should do is add the practice settings to include all of the CTTH courses and the Putting Challenge too . The programs are already in place and used by the country clubs so it would be easy to do .

  But for what you are asking WGT would have to write a bunch of new programs just to make it happen .Also you wont get the same results of a driving range or putting green as practicing on the courses .

   

• borntobesting 9,701 Posts

  Wed, Jul 27 2016 1:36 AM

  What would help more than anything else would be to link the courses on the community page to your tier. Then you could play single holes in the practice mode from your tees and using you default green speeds.  Practicing on holes that give you trouble.

  As it stands now playing a single hole from the community page you hit from hack tees using hack green speeds. 

• PinkRaven 52 Posts

  Wed, Jul 27 2016 8:31 AM

  Sting. Check this video out. It will walk you through how you can change the Tee Box and the Wind for single play practice holes.

  Credit: ScottHope for this Video

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  Pink Raven

• borntobesting 9,701 Posts

  Wed, Jul 27 2016 2:03 PM

  Tee length and wind speed is not the trouble with playing single hole games. It is green speeds. They are always hack speed. Even if Scott knows how to change that as well it would still be much easier if WGT set the conditions for the single hole games to our tier. 

• PinkRaven 52 Posts

  Wed, Jul 27 2016 4:12 PM

  I just looked back to make sure I was not crazy. Yep. You mentioned having to hit from "Hack Tee's" twice. So. Yeah. I was offering at least some help for you.

  Raven