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NEW L98 Driver

• Allen63 364 Posts

  Mon, Mar 18 2013 7:43 AM

  Level is NO indication of skill. It ONLY reflects the amount one plays. So, If I were to just grind all day long smacking starter balls all over hell's half acre and completing 20 rounds/day, I could be considered a top player?

  HAHAHAHAHA......ha.

  And just to be clear, I could care less about the level requirement as it is. 98 is silly IMO, but whatever. The thing that I take issue with is the "open" availability of such a powerful club.

  I do quite a bit of shooting (guns) as well, and I can't shoot my Barrett at the indoor range. It's too powerful. Anything less than the back tees for this driver and you're shooting the Barret indoors...wrong.

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Mon, Mar 18 2013 8:14 AM

  Allen63:

  Anything less than the back tees for this driver and you're shooting the Barret indoors...wrong.

  +1

• Glossopade 518 Posts

  Mon, Mar 18 2013 8:43 AM

  Like I said in another thread...... these new high level clubs are really of no interest to me, or those at a level from the higher 80's into the lower 90's.

  '  Even the level 45 R1 driver, off shorter tees, would leave me that far behind..... I'd need to send smoke signals to my opponent ! The L98 driver doesn't concern me as I'm only a L91 Legend, and as such...... pretty much 'Pond Life' ! '

• quakerdarlo 7,058 Posts

  Mon, Mar 18 2013 8:57 AM

  Purchase what u like,at whatever level, they will never perform consistently, most of us know it, hit big bertha in2 a 7mph crosswind that amazingly turns into a 20mph crosswind & your as good as a hack, today i,ll play $hite regardless of what i do, 2morrow will be better coz  WGT deems it........FACT

• TarheelsRule 5,591 Posts

  Tue, Mar 19 2013 9:50 AM

  This has been a long and amusing thread.

  In WGT as in real golf, players will jump on any driver that they think will give them extra yards.  I know this from personal experience.  I'm an 'experienced' golfer who have been playing for 45 years now.  Back 20 years ago when Callaway came out with the Big Bertha driver at a cost of $250 (I think) everyone said no way they can sell those at that price but when they watched their playing partners hitting it 15 yards by them, they bought and so it has been since then.

  I'm at level 98 and recently bought the R1 driver to replace my R11s.  Granted if I had known that the R1 would have been available I would probably not have upgraded to the R11s but I didn't so I bought the extra step.  Once you hit the higher levels it takes forever to get to the next level, my view is that WGT is trying to encourage more play by putting these new toys at higher levels, more so than the price of the new toy, think of the balls that it takes to move from 95 to 98.

  I like the R1, you do have to rethink a few shots since it doesn't go as high but that can be easily done.  The draw / fade is more difficult because it is more foregiving on mishits, BPB #2 becomes more difficult with a wind left to right for example.  It is longer on most shots, I haven't played enough to master the b/s or t/s yet but I'm getting there with it.  

  It would be nice for WGT to publish a new equipment guide for the next year so that you can manage your buying a little better, always hate to buy a club only to find out I'm only 3 days of play away from a better one.  I doubt we will see this but it would be nice so that we don't over buy.

• Jimbog1964 8,378 Posts

  Thu, Mar 21 2013 7:46 AM

  TarheelsRule:

  This has been a long and amusing thread.

  In WGT as in real golf, players will jump on any driver that they think will give them extra yards.  I know this from personal experience.  I'm an 'experienced' golfer who have been playing for 45 years now.  Back 20 years ago when Callaway came out with the Big Bertha driver at a cost of $250 (I think) everyone said no way they can sell those at that price but when they watched their playing partners hitting it 15 yards by them, they bought and so it has been since then.

  I'm at level 98 and recently bought the R1 driver to replace my R11s.  Granted if I had known that the R1 would have been available I would probably not have upgraded to the R11s but I didn't so I bought the extra step.  Once you hit the higher levels it takes forever to get to the next level, my view is that WGT is trying to encourage more play by putting these new toys at higher levels, more so than the price of the new toy, think of the balls that it takes to move from 95 to 98.

  I like the R1, you do have to rethink a few shots since it doesn't go as high but that can be easily done.  The draw / fade is more difficult because it is more foregiving on mishits, BPB #2 becomes more difficult with a wind left to right for example.  It is longer on most shots, I haven't played enough to master the b/s or t/s yet but I'm getting there with it.  

  It would be nice for WGT to publish a new equipment guide for the next year so that you can manage your buying a little better, always hate to buy a club only to find out I'm only 3 days of play away from a better one.  I doubt we will see this but it would be nice so that we don't over buy.

  Disagree on WGT wanting encourage more play unless restarts counted..............be nice if they got both but................My feeling on when equipment should be issued and why long since done......cheers

• burchell123 362 Posts

  Sat, Mar 30 2013 7:37 PM

  Well i knew that WGT wouldn't change there minds on this one,im around 10-15 yards behind the top guys after drive in my rg's but hell thats what the challenge of this games all about,13months on the game so my level not up the big boys and im punished for not having enough experience to get a bigboy club at 58 avg lol.it's like saying to rory your a damn good player and prospect but nick faldo gets the good clubs because he has more experience LMAO

• 893 Posts

  Sat, Mar 30 2013 8:47 PM

  i have hit a trees on 4 at congressional, 2 at beth and even 1 at olympic. I have lost more rgs with the driver so i use my 88 for the higher ball flight. The 98 is is good on andies and royal but has no effect in the way i score by any means. I havent even used it in last 4 days.

• TarheelsRule 5,591 Posts

  Sat, Mar 30 2013 8:58 PM

  Only hole that I am having any issues with is 2 at BPB and that is because the driver won't 'hook' the ball with an early hit.   Still a 3 wood off that tee will stop short of the rough, I'm finding it 10 yards longer than the S version of the R11 and more on STA and RSG.

   

• Chinajohn 1,190 Posts

  Sat, Mar 30 2013 9:12 PM

  My opinion, for what it's worth. I like the system the way it is mainly because allowing clubs out to all regardless of levels and tiers plays right into the multi accounters hands (even more than it already is).

  How did this system come about? I think that is an interesting question and my opinion is that the system we have is an accident NOT a design.

  The original idea was I believe, designed so that as you progress through the game playing almost exclusively stroke play you would be 'rewarded' with experience at about the time you needed the new equipment. (If you only play stroke play as I do, this is STILL the case). Then people started sandbagging, this brought about a lot of complaints and so they introduced the 'new' system that promotes players quickly for winning matchplay games etc. The trouble is they either didn't consider or didn't care, that this quick promotion would be seen by some as a good thing rather than a punishment for 'using' the system.

  The way I view is it is much like someone else said earlier, yes, you can walk into any pro shop on any golf course and buy whatever you want, BUT (and it's a huge but) without the experience (at golf) you probably won't be able to use it fully (if at all). As this is not real golf we can usually use any virtual club regardless of our skill level, therefore 'experience points' is a way of mimicking this skill in the virtual environment.

  Of course there are those genuine players who suffer for this, but I see no way around this without giving even MORE ammunition to the multi accounters who in effect steal credits from the naive and gullible.