The game has always been the same and I'm getting close to 10 years playing it.
Can't help the crappy lies, just try to stick to fairways but Jump meter is another story. Was nitemare early on for me, then got a pretty powerful puter that could handle the workload.
WGT is a big game and loads a ton of graphics on it for each hole. I worked out the jump meter within reason is ya puter is still loading tree's and stuff in when your playing a shot. So basically you are playing a shot when the puter is loading in trees still causing it to jump. ...well that's my theory anyway lol.