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Re: flag

• phil6904 65 Posts

  Sun, Aug 5 2018 9:05 AM

  There is a big bug in the game with the flag. Normally, in the real game, if you hit the flag with a 7 or 4 iron or even  with a wood, the ball stays on the green and often near the flag. The flag cushion the shot. But here in WGT, the flag can send your ball 30 yards away.

  I have never seen, in reality, the flag send my ball in the water or out of bounds!!

  Have you ever seen a player remove the flag from a par 3, in real life? 

  Usualy, you hit the flag after a realy good shot. You don’t have to be punished for it!!

   

  Phil

• TopShelf2010 10,932 Posts

  Sun, Aug 5 2018 4:52 PM

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• borntobesting 9,709 Posts

  Mon, Aug 6 2018 2:24 AM

  phil6904:

  There is a big bug in the game with the flag. Normally, in the real game, if you hit the flag with a 7 or 4 iron or even  with a wood, the ball stays on the green and often near the flag. The flag cushion the shot. But here in WGT, the flag can send your ball 30 yards away.

  I have never seen, in reality, the flag send my ball in the water or out of bounds!!

  Have you ever seen a player remove the flag from a par 3, in real life? 

  Usualy, you hit the flag after a realy good shot. You don’t have to be punished for it!!

   

  Phil

   

  It can and does happen.Just watch Tiger Woods @ the Masters in 2013 hit the stick on #15 and end up in the water. 

   

• Robert1893 7,722 Posts

  Mon, Aug 6 2018 6:28 AM

  borntobesting:

  It can and does happen.Just watch Tiger Woods @ the Masters in 2013 hit the stick on #15 and end up in the water. 

  Exactly. It's not that uncommon of an occurrence on the tour.
  
  Still, here are a couple of threads with my favorite flag hits on WGT (not my shots; they're by others). The one is a 9 iron that goes over 500 yards and the other launches toward the moon. :-) 
  
  
  http://www.wgt.com/forums/p/312939/2221504.aspx#2221504

  http://www.wgt.com/forums/p/449423/3066620.aspx#3066620

• Robert1893 7,722 Posts

  Mon, Aug 6 2018 6:40 AM

  phil6904:

  There is a big bug in the game with the flag. Normally, in the real game, if you hit the flag with a 7 or 4 iron or even  with a wood, the ball stays on the green and often near the flag. The flag cushion the shot. But here in WGT, the flag can send your ball 30 yards away.

  I have never seen, in reality, the flag send my ball in the water or out of bounds!!

  Have you ever seen a player remove the flag from a par 3, in real life? 

  Usualy, you hit the flag after a realy good shot. You don’t have to be punished for it!!

  Phil

  Yes, hitting the flag can produce some very odd shots. No doubt about that. But if players are really that concerned about it, then it's easily fixed by taking a couple of seconds to pull the flag.
  
  And you're correct that no player would pull a flag on a par 3 in real life. It would take too much time. But, at the risk of the belaboring the point, it can be done on WGT without delaying the game.
  
  Personally, I don't think it's that big of an issue, even given the odd shots that happen from time-to-time. Besides, I've saved as many shots by hitting the flag as I've lost due to hitting it. 
  
  So, yes, it's a bug. No, in my opinion, it's not that big of a deal. And as the other poster noted it happens on tour (maybe not to the extreme on here). But there have been some pretty bad/unexpected results on tour by those who have hit the flag.

• TopShelf2010 10,932 Posts

  Mon, Aug 6 2018 7:26 AM

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• phil6904 65 Posts

  Fri, Aug 10 2018 3:28 AM

  You're right.

  But you can go in he water also without hitting the flag on this hole:

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b73NC0gRO1g

  What a terrible time for him..