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Elevation changes ( + & - ) / Effects of wind speed & direction

• alosso 21,088 Posts

  Fri, Mar 1 2013 11:48 PM

  I don't get it how you can call this 12 line answer curt, and I still don't see any bashing in it.

  Perhaps you read a different 1st line, like "F..k off stupid if you are too dumb to use the search"?

  Alas, it was meant and written differently, factual, including a polite "please". As a on-liner it would have been curt anyway, but it continued. The whole answer contained not one unfriendly word, nothing but useful information, and it ended with a friendly line.

  Now I wonder which reasons/emotions may be hidden behind such unreasonable(?) critique by two fellow users - is it based on other posts of mine, is it something personal?

  Steve pointed to my posting number (which is of no importance for me), you may have found some harsh contributions in other occasions (mostly pointed to rude ppl). Nationality may have played a role - I can't tell. If you are prepared to show me some of your personal reasons, please write to my wall or apply for friendship, I agree to discuss such things in private.

• caucus 20 Posts

  Sat, Mar 2 2013 12:30 AM

  If, as you say, there are 6 million members of WGT where are they when you're trying to set up an alternate shot game? Frequently, when I attempt to set up a game with one or two friends and seek a random player all we get is a repeated choice of three or four players, all of whom decline the invitation.

• nolongerlonger 2,813 Posts

  Sat, Mar 2 2013 3:54 AM

  And in closing I would just like to thank everyone for their replies to my problem.  The information gathered is geatly appreciated.

  The strengh of the WGT is it's membership.  People helping other people is wonderful. I'm sure this was he design feature of the forum. Thanks to WGT for providing such a setting for all of us to share.

• Hogwired 82 Posts

  Fri, Jul 12 2013 10:00 PM

  alosso:

  This has been discussed multiple times - please use the search function ==>

  One general rule as an example, no pun intended:  Wind in face, hit longer. You imagine the others.

  The measures are widly dependant on clubs (trajectory etc), balls, spin, green speed, no all-in rule available.

  An example for uphill shots: The common rule of thumb is one yard more for every 3 feet of elevation. Alas, with Starter clubs, you have to add two clubs or three on serious elevations and choose the seniors' entrance to roll in. G20s and SD balls, not a yard to add for medium elevations - long&high flight and, no spin applied, good roll to even out the shorter flight. G20s and Callies, follow the rule of thumb and allow for serious corrections acc. to spin.

  Thus, it's practice & observation (& taking notes if you like) with your own set-up.

  Have fun!

   

   

  I used the search function, found this thread, and learned nothing.

• pjctas0822 4,615 Posts

  Fri, Jul 12 2013 10:15 PM

  For the record using the search feature is useless alot of the time.

  Now giving him a link to where he should start would be helpful instead of telling him how to do it show him where to do it.

  Personally I am too lazy to use the search myself but when I have tried it has failed more times then none.

• Rockitch 1,022 Posts

  Fri, Jul 12 2013 11:05 PM

  Hogwired:

  I used the search function, found this thread, and learned nothing.

  Then you didn't follow the three links I posted on page 1

  R.

• muttsnutts69 283 Posts

  Sat, Jul 13 2013 12:39 AM

  I don't think alcaucin is spanish, he has a very good grasp of english and a lot of it's saying's.

  Therefore I am willing to bet he is as English as me. and I am pedigree, not aristocratic, but nonetheless pure pedigree.

  Cockney if you really want to know.

• caucus 20 Posts

  Sat, Jul 13 2013 12:55 AM

  If the effects of wind & elevation are so difficult to define exactly and indeed are infinitely variable in any case, how come so many WGT players are able to record scores of 50 for an 18 hole round? On a par 72 course 50 is 22 under par which requires 14 birdies and 4 eagles. Any hole played in par will require an extra eagle.

  In real life a 55 was shot by a young Australian pro named Rhein Gibson. Gibson's is the most impressive of the 55s. It happened on May 12, 2012, at River Oaks Golf Club in Edmond, Okla. Gibson's course was a full-sized 18-holes, playing 6,850 yards with a par of 71.

  Gibson, beginning on the back nine, parred the first hole, then followed that with an eagle, a birdie, an eagle, then five straight birdies for a 26 over his first nine holes. Continuing to his "back nine" (but the course's Holes 1-9), Gibson carded two pars, then three birdies, a par, and three more birdies for a second nine of 29 and a total of 55.

  Just a week earlier, Gibson had set the course record of 60. His 55 became a course record that, you have to think, will be impossible to better. Gibson, originally from New South Wales, played collegiate golf at the NAIA school Oklahoma Christian. At the time of his 55, Gibson was ranked No. 1,444th in the world golf ranking.