MBaggese:
I think the reason I don't get too frustrated is that I don't play to "calculations".
I just "take a little off" the club or add some TS to get a bit more here and there.
If I'm 20 feet long or short I just say to myself "guess I took to much off, or added too much to the shot"
I guess that keeps my sanity intact, never knowing that "92.3% power
of this club into this wind should yield 163 yards" when it goes 173 or
153.
Thats an excellent observation Mike. The ones who use calculations/spreedsheets will notice it first because of defined expected result. Playing alt and goofing around with friends I never notice or care. Its just when playing solo tourneys that trying to hit nail on head where the frustration sets in for me on those wtf shots. I grinded the blair tourney for 2 weekends and played hole 2 231 yrd par 3 over 200 times Im sure. So many times I'd hit shot like wanted to only to see ball leave the clubface in completely different angle than I was expecting. Call it VEM, Random Deviations, Conspiracy, or whatever , it does happen more these days than ever before. When Olympic opened up was when it really got noticeable to me an increase in "Wtf" shots.
Its entirely possible this was done without any malice from WGT. Just the programmers goofed up a bit of the code so that wind doesnt always act as it should or greens that are 10ft 3 down are really only 10ft 1 down. We've all seen the numerous unexpected bugs in games. Programmers aren't infallible and could be just honest mistakes in coding.
Meh, nothing better to do so Im screwing around again with different clubs and ball combinations to see if specific to r11s and nikes or is it spread across the spectrum.