Forums

Olympic US Open Course 18 bugs

• bblackh1 159 Posts

  Mon, May 7 2012 12:15 AM

  So I just finished the tournament for Olympic with a 78,

  and I am very disappointed.  The course played fine except for a

  few quirky problems/woes with the "gimme putts" algorithm

  which costed me at least 6 strokes on that game.  I will

  outline the WGT algorithm failures now:  I am not sure if there

  is anything that can be done to solve the glitches, but I am

  confident in the abilities of WGTICON to relay a message

  back to the "wgt mothership" that there might be a problem.

  I did NOT have any problem with the tournament speed greens.

   

  Olympic 18

  Hole 2 - Forced to miss gimme putt

  Hole 4 - Forced to miss gimme putt

  Hole 7 - Forced to miss gimme putt

  Hole 9 - Forced to miss gimme putt

  Hole 12 - Forced to miss gimme putt

  Hole 17 - Forced to miss gimme putt

  and

  Hole 17 - Green is not tournament speed

  (playing like very fast speed)

  Hole 18 - Green is not tournament speed

  (playing like very fast speed)

   

  bblackh1

• JAMESBALDINI 266 Posts

  Mon, May 7 2012 12:40 AM

  Played 2 rounds on 3 round shot 69 am in middle of the pack.Don't know how players score in the 50s pretty tough course and one super long par 5 over 600 yds

  james

• piztaker 5,743 Posts

  Mon, May 7 2012 12:44 AM

  The green speed seems to be about 5% below Tour Master tournament speed to me. I found no problems apart from my own shortcomings.

• Win1Soon 385 Posts

  Mon, May 7 2012 12:46 AM

  Hit the ball :)

• WGTicon 12,511 Posts

  Mon, May 7 2012 1:06 AM

  Each course has its own differences. Just because speed is set at same stimp meter, it does not mean it will play the same. Each course is unique with unique slopes (each hole is different too). Many courses have different type of grass.

  I think that after few rounds, the adjustments will make it seem normal. 

   

  -wgticon

• MUSTAQBAL1 270 Posts

  Mon, May 7 2012 1:07 AM

  very impressed with olympic. the fairways are narrow so you gotta keep your drives in the fairway obviously to have a good shot at the greens.  plays well and no problems or glitches noticed. tough course to play.

  q

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Mon, May 7 2012 7:35 AM

  Are you serious? What does "forced to miss" mean? Somebody have a gun at your head or something?

• jeffdos924 1,085 Posts

  Mon, May 7 2012 7:55 AM

  bblackh1:

  ole 2 - Forced to miss gimme putt

  Hole 4 - Forced to miss gimme putt

  Hole 7 - Forced to miss gimme putt

  Hole 9 - Forced to miss gimme putt

  Hole 12 - Forced to miss gimme putt

  Hole 17 - Forced to miss gimme putt

   2 problems with this.

   First, I agree with YJ.. how in hell were you "forced" to miss? That has to be near the top of the list for stupid statements.

   Secondly... there is no such thing as a gimmee putt, in spite of what you might think. I was playing last night.. lagged a 40 footer to .9 feet ( a gimmee par putt, right?). I ended draining the .6 footer for bogey. Like the dozen or so other short putts like that that I have missed in my 3+ years, I probably didn't pay attention and hit it either too hard or way too far off the ding to move the ball .

   

   

• zagraniczniak 1,984 Posts

  Mon, May 7 2012 8:29 AM

  Amen. Have to call BS on this post. No such thing as a gimme putt or being forced to miss.

  The only buggy thing I have observed was that on a 6-foot putt on the 9th I was giving conflicting readings: the front view showed the break going one way and the reverse view showed it going the other way. Since they can't both be right I consider it a failure of the mapping.

  (There are similar examples on the other courses, with the possible exception of Bethpage.)

• DAZZA501 5,972 Posts

  Mon, May 7 2012 8:36 AM

  I agree with Zag. No putts are gimme's.

  As for the speed of the greens i've found them to be spot on. Are you sure it wasn't uphill more than you think? 1 tip a friend gave me is to move the aim marker past the hole a few feet and see if it changes significantly. I've had a putt that was 2in uphill but just 1foot past the hole it went to 4in uphill. With this information i knew i could smack the crap out of it and not go to far past the hole if i missed.