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Re: 17 @ Kiawah

• alosso 21,069 Posts

  Mon, Apr 16 2018 11:42 PM

  LEDzZzEPP:

  You, like many others in this forum have the mania to comment on ALL posts just to say redundant and extremely obvious things

  I'm afraid that your post beat me to it, being redundant and about the obvious.

  Next, you picked on me by "bad", "mania", and can't tell a reason (I asked "why" to no avail).

  Your final line takes the cake, answering yourself!

  O si tacuisses...

• MainzMan 9,591 Posts

  Tue, Apr 17 2018 6:00 AM

  I'm not sure why the OP feels the need to get so pissed at those trying to offer advice.

  My first thought that when Paul said quit the game it was taken to mean stop playing WGT completely.  This would account for the first outburst.

  However, it appears the meaning of this advice was correctly interpreted, just badly taken.  Despite it being good.  Why stand hitting balls into the lake when you can just say Sod this and walk off the course?

  As has already been pointed out, this is a very old and well known error in the programming.  I hesitate to call it a bug as I don't think it is, they just programmed the drop rules wrong.  Almost any lost ball results in a drop in a silly location, on all the course.

  It's just one of the things we have to live with, annoying for sure but you have to ask yourself whether it's worth getting so worked up over.

• TopShelf2010 10,915 Posts

  Tue, Apr 17 2018 6:16 AM

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• alosso 21,069 Posts

  Tue, Apr 17 2018 6:21 AM

  Thanks - I wanted to express and should have said "quit THAT game".

  To me, there are no drop rules programmed but rather dropping zones - and I agree that there are quite a few "unfortunate" or plainly faulty ones.

  At KIA #17, you may end in the sand on the opposite side - from some tee and for some wayward shots (mind you, only red stakes allow for the opposite side drop), and I remember  CCC #10 where it depends from which tee you splash the ball to either get a replay from said tee or another unfortunate shot from the rough, but never from the drop zone which should be there IRL...

• MainzMan 9,591 Posts

  Tue, Apr 17 2018 11:00 AM

  Don, this isn't actually a rant on his own behalf, he said he was playing with someone and it happened to them.  Meh, teach them to hit the effin' green eh?  ; )

  @Paul. I don't understand why they don't give you the option to play the shot from the original location, a stroke and distance penalty.  The code is already partly there, use the mulligan code but add a stroke.

  How hard can it be?*

   

  *Thank you Mr. Clarkson.

• alosso 21,069 Posts

  Tue, Apr 17 2018 11:16 AM

  It's not about hard but about unwanted...

  These dropping zones follow the game's iron principle of "no choice in the game" - everything goes straight on, you can only take your shot.

  The introduction of the Mulligan (in practice games) was a dangerous deviation from that principle, but they refrained from adding it to the game as a "shot and distance penalty" feature which would fit in perfectly :(

• TopShelf2010 10,915 Posts

  Tue, Apr 17 2018 11:50 AM

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