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• drivnchaos 286 Posts

  Sun, Mar 29 2009 7:50 PM

   chili tonite...and hot tamale...

  LOL

  Enjoy your play

  Mike

• Middle4man 368 Posts

  Mon, Mar 30 2009 6:50 AM

   Or, may I add, from the late George Carlin, aka Al Sleet, the Hippy-Dippy Weather Man:

  Tonight's forecast...DARK. Continued mostly dark tonight, with widely scattered light in the morning.

• Thetruth67 158 Posts

  Wed, Apr 8 2009 8:45 AM

   Hey WGTAlex just a quick question.....

  On the 1st page of the post you said, "The wind variations for each particular tournament are the same for everyone who plays in your tier."

   

  In the week 15 nine hole tourney the wind variations are not the same.  I have played it a couple times and I have had the wind on the 1st hole has been at my back 1 time and in my face twice.  Is this because it is unlimited play?

• WGTalex 2,087 Posts

  Wed, Apr 8 2009 1:29 PM

  Hi truth, what I meant by "variations are the same for everyone in your tier" is that if for example the wind is set to "medium" for your tier, then everyone will get about a 11-14mph wind (in any direction). This is just an example--we don't necessarily have this wind setting at these speeds, but this will give you an idea.

• drivnchaos 286 Posts

  Wed, Apr 8 2009 7:41 PM

  Lighting never strikes the same spot twice...The wind should not be the same speed and, or direction from shot to shot. 

  Keep up the good work !

  Realism is key.

  Enjoy you play

  Mike 

• Teamster174 43 Posts

  Sun, Apr 12 2009 12:14 PM

   

  23 mph winds? Why not have a tornado touch down while your at it?

• Noodon 56 Posts

  Thu, Apr 16 2009 8:00 PM

  So I have been playing practice rounds with different wind speeds low med high etc....

  get to the tournament and winds are 25+. At least put those wind speeds in ranked rounds

  and normal play so we get a chance to play them.

  Sorry pretty bogus just throwing those out in a paid tournament or at least inform before you enter what the maximum winds will be...

  Also you need to work on your putting breaks, they are very inconsistent as to the

  actual break vs. distance depending on the time you play, how a

  put stops on a 12 in down hill when putted at the exact distance of the hole I will never know.....

• tibbets 1,043 Posts

  Thu, Apr 16 2009 8:30 PM

  The wind strength is listed for each tournament after you register for it.  The course and wind conditions(Low, Medium, Strong etc, are provided before the tournament is started,  so it's not like they just 'threw it at you'.  Besides, everyone has to play in those conditions for those tournaments, so it can hardly be considered unfair.

  There are some tricks to learn for putting. Don't expect that after a few short rounds you'll have it all figured out.  There is in fact nothing wrong with the putting system, you just have to pay attention to all the variables to get the correct read.  The greens are actually more true to how they read than they have ever been.

• Noodon 56 Posts

  Fri, Apr 17 2009 9:46 AM

  Well that's a given, believe me most of us know this stuff....but the putting in this case was a bug, I'm not new to this game....unless they are factoring in the 25mph wind on putts. I was 15ft...pin down 8in....hit it the 15 foot power on putting bar...yes I know the putting bar....and it stopped way short.....sorry buddy this was complete bs in a tournament

• WGTalex 2,087 Posts

  Fri, Apr 17 2009 4:15 PM

  Hi Noodon, which tournament was this, specifically?