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St. Andy's yardage error on #10

• slmpickins 65 Posts

  Tue, Apr 24 2012 9:16 AM

  I searched the forum and found nothing about this, but there's a discrepancy in the yardage on tee-off. The yardage next to the pin icon in the upper right corner shows 330yds, but on the flag at the hole on course picture says 318. 318 is the right yardage.  Am I nuts or have others seen that?

• AvatarLee 1,644 Posts

  Tue, Apr 24 2012 10:26 AM

  You're not nuts, but maybe next time put the aim marker in the middle of the green and see if it matches up with the displayed hole distance.

• piztaker 5,743 Posts

  Tue, Apr 24 2012 11:23 AM

  It's 366 from the black tees and shows 352 from the tee box.

• helen1972 347 Posts

  Tue, Apr 24 2012 12:02 PM

  I just whack the crap out of it and see where I end up !! LOL

• LizzieRossetti 1,545 Posts

  Tue, Apr 24 2012 12:53 PM

  Finally! 

  Someone who knows real course management, and I thought I was alone. I find that having whacked out the cr*p on the drive, the ball becomes meek and willing to do as instructed on subsequent shots. Windage? Yardage? elevation? Mehh. Just hit it relatively hard like you mean it, and the rest as they say, is herstory.

   

  Lizzie xx

• alosso 21,070 Posts

  Tue, Apr 24 2012 1:05 PM

  It's a known discrepancy but rather a feature than a bug.

  (Severe wording error corrected)

  The distance indicated on the (not green) tee(!!) is one invariant number (exception see below). On real courses, it's from the rating point on the tee to the green center.

  Here in WGT, it's from the tee to one of the pins (at least AFAIK). With the different pins it only changes on Par 3s (e.g. at STA and BPB). On the other holes, the display up right is different from the real distance to the other hole.

  You'll find the real distance when hovering over the blue dot (avatar position) on the hole overview down right.

• helen1972 347 Posts

  Tue, Apr 24 2012 6:50 PM

  LizzieRossetti:

  Finally! 

  Someone who knows real course management, and I thought I was alone. I find that having whacked out the cr*p on the drive, the ball becomes meek and willing to do as instructed on subsequent shots. Windage? Yardage? elevation? Mehh. Just hit it relatively hard like you mean it, and the rest as they say, is herstory.

   

  Lizzie xx

   

  Mwuh xxxx lol

   

   

• MioKontic 4,654 Posts

  Wed, Apr 25 2012 12:41 AM

  LizzieRossetti:

  Finally! 

  Someone who knows real course management

  Having been on many courses, I think I know course management.  You turn up at 9am, or maybe a bit before as you don't want to look a fool being the only one who is late, find the room and meet the tutor.  Then there's the usual 'who I am and why I am on this course' revelation which is always so uncomfortable.  Then you get paired up, usually the person you least want to be paired with.  Finally you get down to the business, and then at the end of the course you have to say how good the teacher was, who relevant the course was, etc, etc.

  But, enough of that.  As much as I tried and restarted, I couldn't get the hole to set up with the other pin, so I can't say one way or t'other, at this point in time, if the yardage changes for the different pins on the same hole.  To be honest, I thought it did, but I'm not 100% sure.  I do know it changes for par 3's though, that is a certainty.  And if it did change for the par 4's, then it can only mean the hole length is taken through the middle of the fairway, whilst the blue box shows the distance in a straight line.

• MioKontic 4,654 Posts

  Wed, Apr 25 2012 12:46 AM

  I just remembered, I had 2 CC comps set up on Bethpage where they used the two different pins on hole #1.  I checked and the yardage is 430yds for both, so that distance must be to the middle of the green as Lee says.