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does anyone measure the wind left or right?

• Vayavaya 1 Posts

  Sat, Feb 16 2013 3:29 PM

  +1

• SwingingRoofer 456 Posts

  Sat, Feb 16 2013 5:50 PM

  wat he show u lol?

   

• MainzMan 9,591 Posts

  Sun, Feb 17 2013 3:47 AM

  I'm also very interested to hear what Mr. Crusher showed you Jim, seems to me WGT puts the aim marker directly in line with the flag on tee shots and directly at the hole on approaches.  I guess a pretty severe missed ding might get you where you want to be but it seems a bit, for want of a better phrase, hit 'n' miss.

  Your advice about which side to miss the ding is spot on, I hope somebody else picked up on it and is using it.  Depending on shot length and wind strength I aim 2 to 4 yards too far into the wind for two reasons.

  Firstly, if I miss with the wind the shot will probably move several yards off line, aiming too far into the wind to start with minimises this somewhat.  As Jim already said, missing into the wind will have little effect and I'll still be within a few feet for a birdie chance.

  Secondly, in high winds and particularly with short irons or wedges the ball will usually roll a couple of yards with the wind after landing.  This is in addition to how far the wind blew the ball off line in the air so needs to be accounted for.  The slope of the green obviously has a big effect too, St. Andrews #13 needs you to aim quite a bit too far right when playing to the front pin as the green slopes a lot from right to left.  With the wind from right to left I'll usually aim 4 yards or so further right than the wind suggests.

• SwingingRoofer 456 Posts

  Sun, Feb 17 2013 5:05 AM

  MainzMan:

  I'm also very interested to hear what Mr. Crusher showed you Jim, seems to me WGT puts the aim marker directly in line with the flag on tee shots and directly at the hole on approaches.  I guess a pretty severe missed ding might get you where you want to be but it seems a bit, for want of a better phrase, hit 'n' miss.

  Your advice about which side to miss the ding is spot on, I hope somebody else picked up on it and is using it.  Depending on shot length and wind strength I aim 2 to 4 yards too far into the wind for two reasons.

  Firstly, if I miss with the wind the shot will probably move several yards off line, aiming too far into the wind to start with minimises this somewhat.  As Jim already said, missing into the wind will have little effect and I'll still be within a few feet for a birdie chance.

  Secondly, in high winds and particularly with short irons or wedges the ball will usually roll a couple of yards with the wind after landing.  This is in addition to how far the wind blew the ball off line in the air so needs to be accounted for.  The slope of the green obviously has a big effect too, St. Andrews #13 needs you to aim quite a bit too far right when playing to the front pin as the green slopes a lot from right to left.  With the wind from right to left I'll usually aim 4 yards or so further right than the wind suggests.

   u say u aim 4 yrds away how can u tell how many yars u are away side ways?

• Tigerpaw509 1,285 Posts

  Sun, Feb 17 2013 6:01 AM

  Bet those super players are using golfmeter.....you know perfect ding every time.

   

• saltiresfan 2,266 Posts

  Sun, Feb 17 2013 10:58 AM

  Tigerpaw509:

  Bet those super players are using golfmeter.....you know perfect ding every time.

   

  Even if they were it wouldn't help for aiming with wind which is what this thread is about! I find pitchview on the reverse camera works very well. Gives you a scale to work from and I can now aim fairly accurately in under 10 seconds.

• MainzMan 9,591 Posts

  Sun, Feb 17 2013 11:19 AM

  SwingingRoofer:

   u say u aim 4 yrds away how can u tell how many yars u are away side ways?

  If you switch to pitch view you get a contour grid around the aiming marker.  This grid is roughly 5 yards from the aim point to the edge, if it's a bit diagonal then it's slightly more than 5 yards.  Use the forward or reverse green view to see the green properly.  You can right click on the screen and zoom in for a better view if needed.  Right click again to zoom back out.

• theshortdriver 138 Posts

  Sun, Feb 17 2013 9:03 PM

  I always have the flag stick animation check box on and the flag is then moveing,you can In my view control and judge wind beter ..compared to the..black arrow.. top right..just PS...when u put it on..click save or it only stays that one round

• LeGeNdCrUsHeR 2,067 Posts

  Sun, Feb 17 2013 10:47 PM

  You are missing the jest, it is NOT the "aim marker".  It IS the "yardage markers" around the green.  

  

   

  Ok, here goes.  

  First, look at the wind.  Here it is marked with the blue arrow.

  Second, look at the black yardage markers.  One of these is the distance you need to hit.  This one here is marked with the red arrow.

  Third, you will notice the wind was ticking towards the 11 o'clock position.  One of the markers will be the aim point. Move your aimer out to the same distance as the hole, line up the arrows by sight.  This one is circled in green.  

  Finally, the key to these shots is to know what your club can do.  Adjusting your spin for each approach is vital.  I play almost all of my approach shots without spin (unless I am trying to be cute).  This shot I added 1 dot of top spin to knock the ball down from the wind a bit.  I landed at 70 yards even with 1 yard hop/roll.  Tap in for birdie from 1 foot.

  Almost all approach shots is like this one demonstrated.  You may find a few that vary, but not by much.

  Hope this helps. 

• LeGeNdCrUsHeR 2,067 Posts

  Sun, Feb 17 2013 10:57 PM

  Tigerpaw509:

  Bet those super players are using golfmeter.....you know perfect ding every time.

   

  Bet those that cant play well say those that do use a golfmeter......you know, we cheat because you play poorly.

   

  That's my opinion on your opinion.  Hope that helps too!