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Option To Kill Caddy

• thebigeasy707 5,885 Posts

  Sat, Jun 9 2012 6:50 PM

  How about an option to switch the useless caddy off? It more a punishment than anything else.....He's like VEM on legs.

  Let's face it.....it costs players more strokes that it could possibly gain.

  Usual butthole prank is to give us 60 ft meters when we're 5 ft from pin...and been using the 30 meter all game. If that was a real life caddy doing it during a game he'd have $3 of gas tossed over him and set alight.....then we'd see who was smokin'

  Yes I know we should always check the meter.......but when we're putting can't we just have a switch to turn the uselss SOB off.

  tbe

• walterjordan 134 Posts

  Sat, Jun 9 2012 7:05 PM

  If you need a alibi, I am your man ...or we could criss/cross, like from the movie Throw mama from the train.

• labordayk 389 Posts

  Sat, Jun 9 2012 8:42 PM

  thebigeasy707:

  Usual butthole prank is to give us 60 ft meters when we're 5 ft from pin...and been using the 30 meter all game. If that was a real life caddy doing it during a game he'd have $3 of gas tossed over him and set alight.....then we'd see who was smokin'

  In real life, the caddy just hands you the putter, it's the player who hits it too hard.  So maybe self-immolation is in order.

  Anyways, maybe a blank space with no club until you select one?

  That way you can blame no one but yourself....and the grid, and the green, and the putter, and the deviation, and the wind, etc., etc.

   

• alosso 21,094 Posts

  Sat, Jun 9 2012 10:48 PM

  It's ok to get a club preselection even if we'd have to change it frequently. Thus we need not start from scratch for each shot.

  OTOH, there are some obvious and repeated errors of the "caddy" which might be fixed easily.

  One is to offer a 90 ft putting scale when the ball is on the fringe, regardless how short the distance (sometimes 150 ft for 60s putts). It would be better to offer a reasonable scale just like from the green.

  The other, possibly driving many a noob crazy, is the "chip" selection for a certain distance around the green (up to 20 yds?) regardless of the conditions. I dare bet that it's more often wrong than right, leading to hacking orgies and frustration until they figure out. For all of us, it's a pain to go adjust the stroke so often. It would be better to default to "pitch" IMHO.

• thebigeasy707 5,885 Posts

  Sat, Jun 9 2012 11:27 PM

  labordayk:

  thebigeasy707:

  Usual butthole prank is to give us 60 ft meters when we're 5 ft from pin...and been using the 30 meter all game. If that was a real life caddy doing it during a game he'd have $3 of gas tossed over him and set alight.....then we'd see who was smokin'

  In real life, the caddy just hands you the putter, it's the player who hits it too hard.  So maybe self-immolation is in order.

  Anyways, maybe a blank space with no club until you select one?

  That way you can blame no one but yourself....and the grid, and the green, and the putter, and the deviation, and the wind, etc., etc.

   

  most likely your approaches usually end up so far from the hole, getting handed that 60ft meter for your 1st putt on the green is like second nature.

  thanks for the laugh though.

  there's nothing wrong with having a rant..or venting.

  stay lucky and hit 'em straight.

  tbe

   

• MainzMan 9,593 Posts

  Sat, Jun 9 2012 11:29 PM

  My biggest gripe with my caddie, apart from him never buying the drinks, is when I have, for example, a 17 foot downhill putt with a tricky break.  He gives me the 25' putter scale, fair enough but because of the downhill run I switch to the 15' one.   When the break is hard to read I change to pitch to get a better idea of how the ball is going to roll.  So now I know where to aim, switch back to putt and blast the ball past because changing back to putter has given me the 25' scale again.  I know it's my own fault and it's only a problem if you change putter scales but it's incredibly annoying when a birdie chance turns into a 12' putt to save par. 

  This obviously also happens with a 14' putt with a 3" rise and you get to see the ball roll halfway there and die.

• labordayk 389 Posts

  Sun, Jun 10 2012 12:24 AM

  thebigeasy707:

  most likely your approaches usually end up so far from the hole, getting handed that 60ft meter for your 1st putt on the green is like second nature.

  Oh, that's just the VEM, though, right?  Not my fault.  WGT just likes you more than me.

  ;)

• MBaggese 15,378 Posts

  Sun, Jun 10 2012 12:26 AM

  I hear ya TBE.

  I used to toss a pile at posts like yours but in the past few weeks I have been bit so many times on to big of scale form DH putts.

  Scenario

   

  Birdie

  Birdie

  Birdie

  Focus in on that 14 footer with 6 inch drop and whammo!  Dang default was at 30 range

  Ya my fault..  But suggest to WGT default every putt, even on the fringe, to the lowest putting scale, then players will always know it may need to be changed.

• gsoup 2,929 Posts

  Sun, Jun 10 2012 12:34 AM

  MBaggese:

  Focus in on that 14 footer with 6 inch drop and whammo!

   

  and i thought i was the only one

• pollux2728 13 Posts

  Sun, Jun 10 2012 1:13 AM

  And what about when ball lands over the ringe??, by default, the putter is powered, to top reach, if dont paid attention, is a sute putt fron coast to coast of green!