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Speculation of future updates and priorities.

• Tresclub 934 Posts

  Sun, Mar 28 2010 1:30 PM

  o  Match play improvements

  In this option definitely needs to be:

  1.  Multi-Player/Team match play, where teams can actually play match play

  2.  Alt-Shot match play (also Alt-Shot stroke play)

  3.  Concede button

• OaktheToke 409 Posts

  Sun, Mar 28 2010 3:06 PM

  Snaike:

  Perhaps taking a cue from the fluctuating Pro/Master line.... the top 5% of Masters would get their own tier.

  Sure, but also how do you quantify the tier?  On any given day the community spotlight showcases a Master player with an AVG in the 50's yet the player cherry picks their rounds and posts a fraction of their play.   That's fine and their own business, but that player will sit in the top 5% but hardly ever actually compete in a tournament.  This may be an issue when creating a Legends division.  These score whores may clog up the top 5% but never actually play.

  How many of these players are there?  I'd love to see a top-down avg list for sh*ts and giggles.  

  Something to chew on at least.

• chipshotcharlie 538 Posts

  Sun, Mar 28 2010 3:36 PM

  YankeeJim:

  (IMO you have to be dead to be a legend.)

  Very glad to here this Jim as this is a saying in Australia.Legends are dead and anyone who calls him or her self a legend is a WANKER.

  If all tournies were based on earnings it would cut out all the crap as sandbagging would have no effect as soon as you win a few times you get bumped up anyway.It would truely sort out the cream from the milk so to speak.

  JMO CSC

• WookieAce 7 Posts

  Sun, Mar 28 2010 4:47 PM

  Hey everybody, I am still working on getting to Masters after 3 weeks of constant playing and am pretty hooked. I dont get to hit the golf course much these days with a 1 yo baby boy bouncing around the house so this is the next best thing.

  I have a couple of suggestions re improvements (noting that I am still new to it so things are pretty fresh!):

   

  • for approach and bunker shots and par 3's it would be great to be able to see the lie of the green so you have a better idea of where to aim your shot for best result;
  • what about a 4 round tournament each month like a major for each different category of players plus an open 4 rounder  for everybody
  • like the idea of sidehill, uphill etc would really add a further element of reality to the play
  • more consistency on the rough lies, sometimes I hit it crap and it goes perfect and other times I middle it sweet and it goes nowhere!  Particularly when chipping out of 2nd cut rough - but I have seen a few posts on this so I guess someone is working it through
  • last one - for the major tournaments, I used to play EA Sports PGA Tour Golf game and they had commentary and crowds thrown into the mix.  That was awesome particularly Peter Allis telling me what a sh*t shot I just hit with "oh, he could have done better there!'

  OK enough from the newbie, totally loving it but my wife hates it already!  

  Cheers

  Scott the Aussie

   

   

• jayjonbeach 689 Posts

  Sun, Mar 28 2010 4:59 PM

  chipshotcharlie:

  YankeeJim:

  (IMO you have to be dead to be a legend.)

  Very glad to here this Jim as this is a saying in Australia.Legends are dead and anyone who calls him or her self a legend is a WANKER.

  If all tournies were based on earnings it would cut out all the crap as sandbagging would have no effect as soon as you win a few times you get bumped up anyway.It would truely sort out the cream from the milk so to speak.

  JMO CSC

  Agreed, this is the one major thing they need to get right with handicaps.

  Handicaps are ONLY calculated from TOURNEY'S, period.  If someone wants to "jimmy" their handicap, they will have to lose credits or the possibility to win them, at least a bunch of times, and ranked rounds shouldn't even be counted, too easy to sandbag. 

  A properly implemented handicap system would be a great addition, allowing some people that are not normally competitive to actually compete.  

  Like Oak says we don't want to necessarily be rewarding suboptimal play or mediocrity but what I think would be good would be to have maybe HALF of all tourneys be based on handicap, let anyone have a chance in half of them but keep some available where the best players will rise to the top.

  As for the "Elite" tier, good point on the Legend distinction guys, I was thinking around 61.5 or so, again more weight should be put on tourneys to alleviate potential problems here, like not enough people in the top tier or like Oak says not enough "competing" people and also so people that don't belong (like me....LOL) don't end up there.  

   

• Snaike 3,678 Posts

  Sun, Mar 28 2010 5:27 PM

  That's it!

  The Legend/Elite Tier should be based on earnings.

  What the cut-off is can be determined when appropriate.  This way the 'cherry-picked' scores are taken out of considerations.

• jayjonbeach 689 Posts

  Sun, Mar 28 2010 5:47 PM

  Well I'm not so sure earnings should be all that is considered, but it could be part of it for sure, the important thing is to base on it on tourneys played and not just ranked rounds.

  What I also think is the Elite players should be excluded from the free tourneys that involve top scores, since it isn't fair to anyone to have the top 1% always picking these clean and they have plenty of other opportunities to get credits in paid tourneys anyway, or at least put a cap on free tourney earnings, like 3000 or 5000 free credits or so from free tourneys per year (after 3 months I am at a whooping 50 credits or so....).

  Of course the random draw tourneys should still stay open to everyone.

• OaktheToke 409 Posts

  Sun, Mar 28 2010 5:49 PM

  Snaike:

  That's it!

  The Legend/Elite Tier should be based on earnings.

  What about frequency of play vs quality of play?  Some Masters may earn more because they play in more Ready-Go's or have the eligibility to do so in the first place. :)

  So much to consider. :)  Much like Alicia Silverstone........I'm clueless.

• Snaike 3,678 Posts

  Sun, Mar 28 2010 6:21 PM

  OaktheToke:

  Snaike:

  That's it!

  The Legend/Elite Tier should be based on TOURNAMENT (excluding RGs) earnings.

  There.. fixed it.  =^)

• Faterson 2,902 Posts

  Sun, Mar 28 2010 11:14 PM

  Not everyone has access to all the tournaments, so that would be discriminatory as well. If I remember it correctly, a guy like Sabbath won $4,000 or so worth of prizes in a single tournament that was only available for US players (maybe also Canadian ones).