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Speed meeter

• SubGolf 28 Posts

  Sun, Mar 31 2013 9:55 AM

  I'm sure the subject of the speed meter sticking & jumping has been brought up many times. It is difficult at best for beginners to adjust for the right distance on the speed meter including the easy swing clubs. I have improvised an overlay on the speed meter into 10 equal increments. This allows me to calulate my shot distance 10 times faster & easier. When you play by yourself you have all the time you want to adjust your shot, but in multiple player games you'r on the clock. No matter what club distance you need, it is quick & easy to calculate, 1/10th of 225 yards = 22.5 yards etc. This leaves more time to adjust your shot due to wind speed & direction as well as potential hazzards and pin location. It should be relatively easy for your IT team to improvise this software adjustment to the speed meter in order to make the game more enjoyable for everybody.

  Sincerely, SubGolf

   

• PaulTon 10,731 Posts

  Sun, Mar 31 2013 12:50 PM

  I would never use this but apparently it has been deemed as not cheating -

   

            http://labs.revota.com/swingmate/               

• TravisT3 53 Posts

  Sun, Mar 31 2013 1:30 PM

  SubGolf:

  I'm sure the subject of the speed meter sticking & jumping has been brought up many times. It is difficult at best for beginners to adjust for the right distance on the speed meter including the easy swing clubs. I have improvised an overlay on the speed meter into 10 equal increments. This allows me to calulate my shot distance 10 times faster & easier. When you play by yourself you have all the time you want to adjust your shot, but in multiple player games you'r on the clock. No matter what club distance you need, it is quick & easy to calculate, 1/10th of 225 yards = 22.5 yards etc. This leaves more time to adjust your shot due to wind speed & direction as well as potential hazzards and pin location. It should be relatively easy for your IT team to improvise this software adjustment to the speed meter in order to make the game more enjoyable for everybody.

  Sincerely, SubGolf

   

  Swingmate does the same thing. It is an Adobe overlay w/ built in calculator.

  It is divided into 10 parts like yours or you can enter the yardage for a specific club.

  The ONLY differences in this and and WGT Putter pal is A it's free and B it has a calculator built in.Everything that other people use or do in their head is provided for you . It does not tell you where to aim or when to hit the ding or improve your putting.

  It is an overlay with calculator built in it, that's it .

  I look at it this way, if your going to treat it like real golf . Put away your calculators and charts, turn off all yardage markers and grids, and cover the swing meter and  Use ONLY the the swing animations. Try it . It's fun. I played alot of tourneys in Links 2003 that way

   

• Steve2golf 930 Posts

  Sun, Mar 31 2013 1:59 PM

  I have used swingmate or quite sometime and do not recommend it for any calculations.

  It is a putter pal and great for pitch and chip and partial power shots. The putter pal alone is well worth the price of admission IMHO.

  You should still do your own calculations using many of the tools found around here or make your own which is what i have done.

  I loved links, links 386 etc have played them all.

• TravisT3 53 Posts

  Sun, Mar 31 2013 2:29 PM

  Steve2golf:

  I have used swingmate or quite sometime and do not recommend it for any calculations.

  Definitely agree on the calculations part . Even if you understand how the ones work that it is based on it still requires you know the course. With this game very few things are written in stone.

  Steve2golf:

  It is a putter pal and great for pitch and chip and partial power shots. The putter pal alone is well worth the price of admission IMHO.

  You should still do your own calculations using many of the tools found around here or make your own which is what i have done.

  I loved links, links 386 etc have played them all.

  Agreed . I like to go full club as much as possible. Since the clubs aren't linear in there movement  that has helped a lot.  I'll glean tips that work for me and come up with a general game plan.

  WGT may be the best online golf game but the Links series is still the best offline game I've played. Played the series from beginning thru Links 2003. They still have a following.

   

• courteneyfish 15,796 Posts

  Sun, Mar 31 2013 10:10 PM

  A cut down post-it note with a few pencil marks does it for me. It's even sticky.

• ApexPC 3,164 Posts

  Mon, Apr 1 2013 10:46 AM

  Another Putter Pal like, non-WGT putting/stroke aid is also WGT Caddy.

  I use WGT Caddy in % mode 100% of the time.

  http://www.wgt.over.cz/

   

• bubbadork 984 Posts

  Mon, Apr 1 2013 11:38 AM

  I wrote my own with python, including wind calculator. I've been asked for it, but I won't distribute it because I don't want to put the work into it to make it configurable for club/ball/screen resolution/etc.

  I select a club, type in the distance I want to hit after considering elevation, lie, and spin, correct for the wind, and get a visual indication of the percentage of the meter to set.

  I'm too lazy to even put in auto corrections for elevation, lie, and spin; I just have figures in my head.

  Unfortunately, I also still have to hit the ding (pretty good) and estimate putt breaks (horrible). Still, it makes a great tool. I estimate my distance and wind errors are about half what they would be without it.

   

• Proruff 94 Posts

  Mon, Apr 1 2013 12:48 PM

  I have it down to a routine with the Windows calculator:

  Enter yardage to target (either indicated in the GUI, or determined by me for the required shot).

  Divide that by the maximum yardage of the club my caddy hands me.

  Multiply by the length of the power meter (only the part where the power bar actually starts on the right to the extreme left: for me it's 73.5mm for all clubs except my putter which is 72mm).

  This gives me a BASE power meter setting (in mm's).

  I then adjust for my lie (nothing for fairway or add a few mm per length of rough cut, etc.), the wind, elevation, green speed and contour(s), etc.

  Then I decide on whether to use that club, or shoot my caddy and select the correct club and re-calculate.

  Then I use my 150mm ruler and place my thumb at the required power point on the meter.

  Haul back to that point and whack. 

  For putting I sometimes add a bit of power for drastic off-dinging, especially if I have to move the target marker for extreme green slopes.........

  I can usually do it all in about 30 seconds, and it's sort of a combination of automation, skill, and experience from practice.

   

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