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Re: How to measure on a green

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Thu, Jan 11 2024 12:50 PM (8 replies)
  • Birdman19520
    47 Posts
    Tue, Jan 9 2024 1:14 PM

    So I calculate that I need to aim 30 feet right of the hole for my wind adjustment on my approach shot. How do I measure 30 feet on the green without any grid to help me measure?

  • ScottHope
    10,445 Posts
    Tue, Jan 9 2024 3:15 PM

    There is an approach grid in the game settings, try setting that to on.

  • Birdman19520
    47 Posts
    Tue, Jan 9 2024 3:39 PM

    Thank you ,Scott.  So I turned on the grid but I don't know how wide one grid is? 

  • SamSpayed
    5,021 Posts
    Tue, Jan 9 2024 5:42 PM

    Birdman19520:

    So I turned on the grid but I don't know how wide one grid is? 

    For the approach grid, 1 square = 3 yards.  Unless the squares are super-tiny.  The super-tiny squares are 2 ft each.  You see the super-tiny squares on some holes sometimes, eg. Kiawah #3 and St. Andrews #17.

  • Yiannis1970
    3,306 Posts
    Wed, Jan 10 2024 5:05 AM

    Birdman19520:

    Thank you ,Scott.  So I turned on the grid but I don't know how wide one grid is? 

     

     

  • Birdman19520
    47 Posts
    Wed, Jan 10 2024 8:02 AM

    Thank you, Yiannis

  • Birdman19520
    47 Posts
    Thu, Jan 11 2024 9:45 AM

    Hello Yiannis..would you happen to have a chart that shows how much the wind moves your ball right or left on your approach shots? I really appreciate all the information that you have been providing 👍

  • Yiannis1970
    3,306 Posts
    Thu, Jan 11 2024 12:35 PM

    Birdman19520:

    Hello Yiannis..would you happen to have a chart that shows how much the wind moves your ball right or left on your approach shots? I really appreciate all the information that you have been providing 👍

     

    Hello. I just paste the response i gave to a friend who was asking the same thing.

     

    Most of the excel sheets consider 2 or 3 parameters. Many people think that each grid = 3 yds of length. That is not correct. I have the proof on the video above. Now...about aiming. As i said there are too many factors involved, such as: Is the wind correct? It shows 7.30 as you are about to hit and after your shot you realize it was 6.30. What kind of shot you are going to take? Flat, top spin, bs? How much? Move along....which iron are you going to use? PW, 9, 5, 3? Move along...how much power are you going to play? 100? 98%? 95? So, to make the long story short, there are too many variables to come up with a precise formula on wind aim for every distance and type of stroke. If you add to that the VEM factor, you realize how complicate becomes. Ooops...forgot the balls you are using too or the irons you are using!!! And all the above is only with ding!!!

     

  • Birdman19520
    47 Posts
    Thu, Jan 11 2024 12:50 PM

    Thank you, Yiannis....

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