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Re: Tournament with high wind

• pontus50 142 Posts

  Tue, Jan 21 2025 1:17 PM

  Wondering one thing that is very annoying, namely all these tournaments that have high winds. As long as everyone does not have the same conditions with the wind, it will be a lottery to play. I have played many tournaments both 9 holes and 18 holes with 75% of the holes with a head wind or side. I'm TC and with good equipment and expensive balls, but with 23-30 in the headwind with so many holes it will of course be very difficult to try to get a good result in comparison if you had 75% of the holes with tailwind instead. It would have been good to approach what it looks like in reality, where the wind is almost the same for all beginners. Hope Wgt can solve this in the long run.

• callaghan159 6,422 Posts

  Wed, Jan 22 2025 12:45 AM

  Its all about ball hits and lost balls which generates income for wgt which is why I switched to a lower cost ball. I dont mind losing a lower cost ball and I dont really care about my scores or average anymore. Cheers

   

• pontus50 142 Posts

  Wed, Jan 22 2025 11:21 AM

   

  If you enter a competition, the goal is to win, right? Nothing with balls or average for me. Just want to compete on the same terms, which is not the case in competitions with high winds.

• BlackBogey 597 Posts

  Thu, Jan 23 2025 7:47 AM

  pontus50:

  If you enter a competition, the goal is to win, right? Nothing with balls or average for me. Just want to compete on the same terms, which is not the case in competitions with high winds.

  WGT has the ability to set consistent winds now (where every player gets generally the same strength and direction), but unfortunately they seem reluctant to roll this out for use in anything but their high dollar events. 

  If they have the capability I don't know why they refuse to use it.  I believe Nico said at one point that they were only doing certain tournaments in case there was an unknown glitch it would be easier to redo one tournament instead of all of them, but that was many updates ago and I don't think the consistent winds have caused any unforeseen issues. (Unlike their avatar "improvements")