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The US Open with Uneven Lies?

• Richard4168 4,309 Posts

  Tue, Apr 30 2013 11:12 AM

  No - if there is not an option to play either Uneven Lies or regular stroke-play mode.

  Besides, I believe it's too late, from a Developer stand point, for the WGT U.S. Open to be played from Uneven Lies.

  I believe WGT would have posted a statement if they were going to even consider giving a choice to play the U.S. Open with Uneven Lies.

• Kriztjan 1,437 Posts

  Tue, Apr 30 2013 11:23 AM

  heres the shortgame in a nutshell....

  //www.wgt.com/replay.aspx?ID=6f668e9c-7859-4b56-8d14-a1b0012e0738

   

  aimed about 3yds right of the hole and put about 90% power on it, 17yds pitch shot.

  shortgame is flawed, cost me about 3-4 shots on that round. 

• GlassMan27 573 Posts

  Tue, Apr 30 2013 11:27 AM

  hyena64:

  just like golf.  Uphill takes off distance, side lie takes off distance.

  Unless they are very extreme, sidehill and uphill lies do not take distance off a shot IRL. And, IRL, I have the option to make multiple changes to my stance, ball position and swing arc to compensate for any 'uneven' lie I encounter on the course. Uneven lies have been around for literally decades in other golf games, but those other games gave players the option to adjust stance, use cut or draw spin, etc. to overcome sidehill lies. Until WGT does the same, their version of uneven lies is complete garbage IMO.

• mnshiner 1,382 Posts

  Tue, Apr 30 2013 11:31 AM

  See they got you folks worried. Good thinking on their part.

  More balls used more money.

  Look out a Knuckle Ball might be coming your way.

• mnshiner 1,382 Posts

  Tue, Apr 30 2013 11:34 AM

  GlassMan27:

   Until WGT does the same, their version of uneven lies is complete garbage IMO.

  If its so bad why are you still trying to master it?

   

• thebigeasy707 5,885 Posts

  Tue, Apr 30 2013 12:03 PM

  If they use unevens in the open...I'm far from worried lol. Let them be the architect of their own misfortune.

  I joined WGT to play something which resembles the real life game. Uneven lies is nothing at all like the real life game so it doesn't interest me whatsoever.

  It's all about the enjoyment factor with me....nothing more nothing less...and if I'm paying real life prices for virtual balls, then I do want to be enjoying myself. Quite simple really.

• GlassMan27 573 Posts

  Tue, Apr 30 2013 12:11 PM

  mnshiner:

  GlassMan27:

   Until WGT does the same, their version of uneven lies is complete garbage IMO.

  If its so bad why are you still trying to master it?

  I'm not, never hinted that I was. I've played it a few times in practice mode, but the way UL's play now I have no interest in playing them, everything about how they play (in comparison to golf IRL) is absurdly unrealistic. I am still trying to master uneven lies (and every other aspect of the game) on the REAL golf course.

   

• thebigeasy707 5,885 Posts

  Tue, Apr 30 2013 12:17 PM

  try same shot on WGT uneven lies to see any comparison lolol.

  ok i grant you......there's a golfer...a club and a ball involved but any comparison ends there.

  i don't see this guy aiming 25 yrds to the left or right....but then again....it's mostly about a player's balance and stance.....club face is pointed mainly in direction of the green.

• mnshiner 1,382 Posts

  Tue, Apr 30 2013 12:27 PM

  No need to yell about a real golf course this is far from it.

  And if you have really played the coursers on here in UL you should know that maybe a driver and a wedge is not your best choice of approaching certain holes.

  RSG for example you really have to search for a flat spot for your drive to end on( might be a 3 wood could be something else) and then you still have to run the ball up onto the green and not attack the pin.

  School Work!

• chrisironsbones 3,524 Posts

  Tue, Apr 30 2013 12:31 PM

  How would making the open uneven lies let the most skill full players do well??  Its just a lottery, you might as well make it a sweepstakes because how can you compensate for a shot like this, green lie with medium moving dots. AIMED OFF THE SCREEN RIGHT!! in 14 mph left to right wind and this happens!!

   http://www.wgt.com/replay.aspx?ID=a2f7ddf6-28ea-470f-8ed7-a1b0013fe3e3

  would you ever see a shot get effected like that on a nice smooth fairway in real life by decent players???  I'm not that goiod at golf, but even i could have hit ball straighter.  At its current form, uneven lies is just CARTOON GOLF or crazy golf here in UK, a prestigious tournament shouldn't be made up of joke shots, should be our skill not wtf shots

  MINIMAL LIE, hardly a moving dot on the screen and my 210 iron full spin goes this far!!

  http://www.wgt.com/replay.aspx?ID=df883445-bda2-4a7a-b648-a1b0014351ce

  This uneven lie is just an excuse to place your ball any where on the course,While i'm at it the resulting shot left me 18 yards from pin on green lie with fast moving dots, i decided to use 33 yard pitch shot no spin and i get 10 yards. 80 yard wedge from a virtually flat lie in 16 mph tailwind and it goes 71 yards.  Lottery golf

  It took me just 6 holes to realize WHY I DONT PLAY UNEVEN LIES.  COMICAL.  Keep it, do any one from wgt actually test it?

  Bethpage uneven lie ready go, might have well flushed $3 down the toilet, would have had a bigger satisfaction, yet WGT have INCREASED the amount of uneven lie ready go's, one or 2 maybe but FIVE! please dont take away the normal ready go's & replace them with lying golf