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Flop shot from the green

• IvanWackinov 9 Posts

  Tue, Mar 17 2009 2:09 PM

  Not sure if this is a bug or was intended, but either way it is highly unrealistic.  When you try to shoot a flop shot while on the green, even on a perfect shot the ball just does a weird little hop and goes no-where.

• tibbets 1,043 Posts

  Tue, Mar 17 2009 4:21 PM

   Umm, yeah.

  Ever seen a golfer on TV do a flop shot from the green?

  That's what I thought.  Greens are for putting. 

  Now, what were you saying about 'unrealistic'?

• TrickMilton 27 Posts

  Tue, Mar 17 2009 5:24 PM

  I actually have seen Pro golfers hit at least a chip or pitch from the green. There are courses played on the Champions and other tours that have bunkers in the middle of the green and sometimes they have no choice but to use some club other than a putter. Have you ever heard of the steimy? A while back when golfers were not required to mark their balls on the greens, if a ball was blocking yours, you would have to chip over it to hole yours. This was perfectly acceptable and had no penalty. IMO as long as there is no damage done to the green, I don't see a problem with a chip or pitch. Currently, if you try to chip on the green it goes about half the distance stated by the club. I don't think a flop on the green, however, is necessary.

• tibbets 1,043 Posts

  Tue, Mar 17 2009 6:18 PM

   Yeah, I can understand the chipping and pitching from the green in certain circumstances.  The problem here was that too many people were using their lack of skill with the putter as an excuse to flop from the green.  The flop used to be, and still is, ridiculously easy to hit and control in this game considering the difficulty of the shot in real golf.  I guess as a compromise they kept the flop easy to use, but denied its use on the green.  I can live with that.

• Jeremiah2L 28 Posts

  Wed, Mar 18 2009 7:35 AM

  I actually have seen a flop shot from the green, though it was one of those wierd greens with total opposite pin placements and rough as an obstruction between you and the hole.  I agree that the flop is far to easy in this game to be allowed on the green.  No one in their right mind would flop a 20 foot downhill put in real golf.

• beamer750 38 Posts

  Wed, Mar 18 2009 8:06 AM

   

  Who cares..putt the Ball!!!!

• driving 51 Posts

  Wed, Mar 18 2009 2:10 PM

   not the place to ask but could the option to remove the flag on chips from the fringe be added hit many flags that missed and without flag could have counted with ball traveling at putting speed

• pdxpack 75 Posts

  Sun, Feb 20 2011 5:31 PM

  Then why even allow the option - why cost me a stroke by letting me try? Not a tough fix to only allow putter when on green.

• gsoup 2,929 Posts

  Sun, Feb 20 2011 5:53 PM

  IvanWackinov:

  Not sure if this is a bug or was intended, but either way it is highly unrealistic.  When you try to shoot a flop shot while on the green, even on a perfect shot the ball just does a weird little hop and goes no-where.

  not being an ass or anything ..but

  if the greens keeper at the at course i played saw you do that

  you would be hanging by your testicles from the nearest tree.

  just sayin

  -G

• MioKontic 4,654 Posts

  Sun, Feb 20 2011 6:30 PM

  It may be frowned upon G, and may even be a local rule sometimes that you cannot chip on the green, but it's not against golf rules.  I've not only seen John Daly chip whilst on one of the St Andrews greens, he holed it too.  Might have been in the 1995 Open when he won it.  Then again, might not have been that specific tournament.