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HITTING A HOOK OR SLICE

• JAMESBALDINI 266 Posts

  Mon, May 6 2013 5:24 PM

  Does anyone know if there is a way to hit a hook or slice on purpose on wgt

  thanks

  james

• SHRUDE 5,835 Posts

  Mon, May 6 2013 6:26 PM

  The only real way to come close to a hook or a slice is to miss the ding into the grey area, either with or against the wind.

  Although there is no real Draw & Fade in WGT this is the best you will get.

• PaulTon 10,731 Posts

  Mon, May 6 2013 6:28 PM

  You can hit late or early on ding, but ball wont bend as such, it's only useful to counteract wind really, I think. If I'm wrong someone will let you know here.

• gil45 60 Posts

  Mon, May 6 2013 6:43 PM

  by hitting early or late is the only way but it's not really a hook or slice it's more like a fade or draw

• bubbadork 984 Posts

  Mon, May 6 2013 7:11 PM

  Shot shaping is not really good, but it can be done. I've put two Olympic #1 fades on my profile to show that it's repeatable. One is into a 2 mph wind, the other is with a 7 mph wind. I lose about 10 yards distance, but it's worth it to me.

  I move the aim point two triangles (on the mini map) to compensate and try to click where shown on the accompanying photo.

  I do just the opposite for a draw on an opposite dogleg.

  

• JAMESBALDINI 266 Posts

  Mon, May 6 2013 9:32 PM

  i want to thank everyone for the great information

  thanks

  james

• dario2589 202 Posts

  Mon, May 6 2013 9:48 PM

  gil45:

  by hitting early or late is the only way but it's not really a hook or slice it's more like a fade or draw

  The problem is that missing the ding you get a pull/push effect too, draw/fade is when the ball starts going where your aiming and then starts to bend, missing the ding by far makes the ball starts way off the aiming arrow and then you get a slight draw/fade curve... So for me its only usefull to compensate the crosswind.

• MBaggese 15,378 Posts

  Mon, May 6 2013 10:50 PM

  JAMESBALDINI:

  Does anyone know if there is a way to hit a hook or slice on purpose on wgt

  thanks

  james

  I can only make it work with Drive and 3 wood...3 H may work too, but I don't have one....aim right, hit in left dark blue area...draw shot...great for Beth #2...aim left...hit at line before blue dark blue..nice fade..careful..fade (IMO, seems harsher than draw.

   

  Best of luck, practice with cheap balls :)

• Scoton 174 Posts

  Tue, May 7 2013 3:22 AM

  MBaggese:

  Best of luck, practice with cheap balls :)

  Unfortunately, you can only get a tiny fraction of real-world curve using cheap balls. Bubbadork's shot from 05.06.13 is the best fade I've yet seen, and he had only 2 mph wind so it was a real effect. He used a Nike 20XI.

  IMO, this game doesn't do justice to shot shaping. 25 years ago I had a game for my Commodore 64 that did a much better job of it, Jack Nickalus' Greatest 18 Holes of Major Championship Golf -- though the graphics were stone-age by comparison. If a green was set up so you had a better line coming in from say 20 degrees left or right of straight in, you could hit it fairly consistently if you were very  good.  Inadvertently missing the center of the swing meter by a significant amount would make the ball curve off into the rough, not angle off like WGT does.

  IMO WGT's physics also could use improvement WRT putting breaks; there's a similar problem where putting across a slope will cause the ball to angle off the club face, rather than start out straight and then turn as it should do. But that's a subject for another thread...