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In-game green-side tape measure and contour map

Sun, Feb 17 2013 8:33 AM (4 replies)
  • gr8flbob
    592 Posts
    Sat, Feb 16 2013 10:02 AM

    Shown below is the reverse green view of 10th hole tee shot for the Par 3 course. With either CHIP or PITCH shot selected, note the nice grid that appears if you hover your cursor over the aiming point arrow and left-click. Regardless of zoom or view camera used, that grid is always a 10 yard square (in appropriate camera perspective), centered on the aiming point! (FYI, the diagonal of the aiming grid is a tad over 14 yds; how the box is presented can be skewed by camera views that are offset from your aiming line.)

    Each box in the grid is a 2foot square.

    If grid is too small because of camera position, use the right-click Zoom-in option that Flash offers (hover cursor over area of interest first!). I've zoomed-in for the view shown.

    revzoomapproach.jpg

    (Click on the above image for a larger view.)


    While left-clicking the aiming arrowhead, move that grid around - as long as any part of the 10yd grid touches green you can see the contours (and moving dots!) for the entire area around the green.

    In this case, I've aimed ~4 yds left of the pin (as viewed from tee-box), to compensate for light L-R cross wind and the expected right kick on landing due to backspin I've applied. Kick expected because green in landing area slopes down to right side.

    WARNING! When completed with aiming adjustment, do not forget to re-select the shot type and club you actually want to use for the shot! In this case it would be embarrassing at the least to attempt this tee shot with a PW in pitch-shot mode and get less than half-way to the hole.

    (Ed note: Yes, I know I'm not the first to discover this valuable tool! For instance I believe I've seen it used by Bollux in some of his YouTube vids of games played. I just didn't want to bury this clarification of the method via replying to one of the musty pinned threads. If  I did, which thread would I choose, lol?)

  • YankeeJim
    25,827 Posts
    Sat, Feb 16 2013 10:12 AM

    gr8flbob:
    (Ed note: Yes, I know I'm not the first to discover this valuable tool!

    Maybe not but I've seen that view very briefly before, usually when switching to putting view from the fairway,  and never knew how to get it to stay put. Think you just enlightened me, Bob.  :-)

  • RJThom
    115 Posts
    Sat, Feb 16 2013 10:12 AM

    Pretty cool! Thanks

  • WillyBigg
    2,135 Posts
    Sun, Feb 17 2013 6:05 AM

    Thanks, very useful. I had no idea

  • Hewsey
    1,957 Posts
    Sun, Feb 17 2013 8:33 AM

    YankeeJim:
    Maybe not but I've seen that view very briefly before, usually when switching to putting view from the fairway,  and never knew how to get it to stay put. Think you just enlightened me, Bob.  :-)

    +1     Thanks

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