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How to control the ball in the air

• mek291269 1 Posts

  Thu, May 17 2012 1:17 PM

  I'm a new player and still try to figure out how to aim the ball after tee off. I tried everything, but it goes in different directions when I use the keyboard arrows left and right. Any idea and every help is appreciated.

• Spammage 694 Posts

  Thu, May 17 2012 1:52 PM

  Just to be clear - you are asking for way to control the ball AFTER you hit it?  This isn't Tiger Woods (not even sure if you can still control the ball after the shot in that series) and no such thing exists on WGT.  My suggestion would be to be diligent at controlling every thing you can before you hit it and then do your best to accept the outcome of the shot.

• Buggyyy 1,963 Posts

  Thu, May 17 2012 1:59 PM

  There is no way of controlling the ball mid-air. Check the tutorials on the right side of this page for some help with How to Hit the Ball, Reading Your Lie, Selecting Right Club, and more! Spammage is right. Set up before the shot, and hope for a good outcome.

• opyeuclid 6,710 Posts

  Thu, May 17 2012 2:21 PM

  Mek ,,  You will learn nothing with them EZ swing clubs ! 

  Look at how to EquipYour Bag in the FAQ,s  ,, over there ..>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

  You have a nother set of clubs that you  can use ,, Ditch the EZ swings !!!!

• DannyPhan 1,013 Posts

  Thu, May 17 2012 3:05 PM

  opyeuclid:

  Mek ,,  You will learn nothing with them EZ swing clubs ! 

  Look at how to EquipYour Bag in the FAQ,s  ,, over there ..>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

  You have a nother set of clubs that you  can use ,, Ditch the EZ swings !!!!

  then after you do that read this, How to Hit the Ball

  then Chip and Pitch Tips

  then Putting Tips

  Danny

• barry38372 55 Posts

  Thu, May 17 2012 3:37 PM

  hey its barry38372 , i did tyr to ditvh them the eq button wont allow me to sell them how do i ditch them , i missed tons of birdies because of this putter but the putt system sucks ,yeah i said it sue me.

• opyeuclid 6,710 Posts

  Thu, May 17 2012 5:54 PM

  barry38372:

  allow me to sell them

  Sir , you are not selling them ,, Click and drag the other set and save .

    On the FAQ,s >>>>>>>>>> Equip bag .

  Right under how to turn off the Putter Pal .

   

   

• Tightrope 1,072 Posts

  Thu, May 17 2012 8:47 PM

  I disagree. With the EZ swings you can learn a lot. Your learn how the wind affects the ball, the relative powers, different shots for different situations. Hard to do if you miss the ding all the time - you have no idea how much the error affected the shot. The motorics of getting a ding is secondary to how you read the and plan the shot.

• pjctas0822 4,598 Posts

  Thu, May 17 2012 10:29 PM

  Tightrope:

  I disagree. With the EZ swings you can learn a lot. Your learn how the wind affects the ball, the relative powers, different shots for different situations. Hard to do if you miss the ding all the time - you have no idea how much the error affected the shot. The motorics of getting a ding is secondary to how you read the and plan the shot.

  In a round about way thats true but your game will elevate once you figure out how to make missing the ding work for you not against you. Its humanly impossible to hit the ding everytime so when your setting up your shot leave room for error on either side of the ding.

   

  But even more so read those instructions and people s posts on how to hit the ball. I probably hit the ding 65% of the time but I leave myself room for error I sometimes (especially when putting) miss the ding on the left or right just  a little to compensate for wind and or line of putt depending on which way the grain or wind goes.

  This probably sounds like a foreign language to you right now but practice alot and you will see what I am talking about or do your homework in this forum by reading what some of the top players do. 

  Good luck and remember ...Grip it n rip it!

• Tightrope 1,072 Posts

  Fri, May 18 2012 4:10 AM

  I have never actually used the EZ swings, but I remember wishing I had something like that in the beginning, specially since I back than played on a Mac and the meter itself was a huge bunker with trees in it. 
  
  What I mean is that there is many aspects of the game to learn. Calculate wind effects, elevation, how rough and sand affects the shot, backspin (although I doubt you get any with an EZ) and so on. If you can experiment in those areas while having a solid reference 'ding', you can save time.