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Re: Bad shots on good meter stops.

• InspectorVol 1,915 Posts

  Wed, Oct 7 2009 10:32 AM

  Anyone else have the problem of hitting the ball right on center yet have it careen off course by 20 yards or more?  Quite frustrating.

   

• molideha 213 Posts

  Wed, Oct 7 2009 11:46 AM

  never happened to me...i hit perfect tee shots to the center fairway and usually stick the pin to within 5' on every hole...

  then i wake up and realize it was all a dream...lol

  seriously, what you have witnessed is what is affectionately called "the beast", aka "deviation"...feel free to search the forums for the many references to the beast.

  gl

• Snaike 3,678 Posts

  Wed, Oct 7 2009 3:52 PM

  In other words... It's not a bug, it's a feature.

  Sorry.

• TarheelsRule 5,566 Posts

  Wed, Oct 7 2009 4:42 PM

  I asked this last week.  It only seems to happen to me on iron shots or maybe those are the ones that you notice more.  My example was on #14 at Kiawah where I hit a perfect shot dead center and it misses the green right.  They called this the Beast, it reminds me of the movie Broken Arrow, where they lost 2 nuclear weapons.  They called in a code Broken Arrow, which is code for lost nuclear weapons, the guy said he didn't know which was worse, losing the weapons or knowing we had a code for this happening.

  I think we should rename the BEAST to an appropriate 4 letter word.