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Is this game geared to help you lose balls?

• FBudd 208 Posts

  Sat, May 18 2013 6:27 PM

  Just wondering why on hole #2 on Kiawah, i end up in 30% lie from a miss hit drive.. the game gives me my fairway driver as the default club to use.. being new and all i trust the game has given me a suitable club.. i hit the ball and it travels 130 out of 220 yards lands on the far side of the little weed/water way then bounces back into the weeds?? So i actually overshot the hazard and my ball decides to bounce on an imaginary hill backwards into the hazard... without any spin?

  SO why in the first place does it give me a club that shouldnt be used in lie (im assuming) and then why does my ball bounce backwards when there is no hill or seemingly nothing for it to hit?

  It feels very much like this game is geared to help you lose balls when you see this happening.

  Thoughts?

• lonniescott711 4,207 Posts

  Sat, May 18 2013 8:13 PM

  FBudd:

  Just wondering why on hole #2 on Kiawah, i end up in 30% lie from a miss hit drive.. the game gives me my fairway driver as the default club to use.. being new and all i trust the game has given me a suitable club.. i hit the ball and it travels 130 out of 220 yards lands on the far side of the little weed/water way then bounces back into the weeds?? So i actually overshot the hazard and my ball decides to bounce on an imaginary hill backwards into the hazard... without any spin?

  SO why in the first place does it give me a club that shouldnt be used in lie (im assuming) and then why does my ball bounce backwards when there is no hill or seemingly nothing for it to hit?

  It feels very much like this game is geared to help you lose balls when you see this happening.

  Thoughts?

  Yes its rigged .Dont ever trust the caddy ,pick your own club to play .Also always double check when on the green or the fringe , when putting . Again , never trust the caddy , and yes the game is rigged . Happy Swinging

   

• alanti 10,564 Posts

  Sat, May 18 2013 8:55 PM

  I don't nessasarily agree that the game is rigged, but the caddy should be shot at the first tee. NEVER trust your caddy is rule #1. I think if I took the caddys club/shot selection every shot it would add 10 shots to my score every round.

  That said # 2 KIA is a well known bug, and in 30% rough you will not clear the weeds so you have to lay up short and leave a longer third into the green - and still a birdie chance. On occasion I have managed to punch a 3 wood safely over, but always play percentages!

  If your ball did overshoot the hazard and went back you should submit that as a bug at the time - did you save it?

• courteneyfish 15,796 Posts

  Sat, May 18 2013 9:56 PM

  It might have been the right club but the wrong setting. A punch from 30% can work well. It's worth practicing the different settings with all of your clubs.

• MainzMan 9,591 Posts

  Sat, May 18 2013 10:20 PM

  I don't believe the game is rigged to make you lose balls.  The caddy is a moron but that's not his fault, it's just how he was programmed.  You absolutely have to check what shot/club he's given you, almost every shot.

  As to the game robbing us of balls I can't remember the last time I had a big WTF? moment and lost one.  I drop the odd one in the water at Congressional but 99% it's when I miss the ding on either #6 or #18.  I seriously can't remember the last time I went OOB.

  Maybe there are players who get screwed, losing balls even when they play perfect shots.  Nobody can know what goes on with someone else's game, I can only base my arguament on what I see on my screen.  And that's that a badly set up or executed shot will give a bad result.  If I play what I know is a great shot the result is almost always great.

  There are many who will claim this is because I buy credits with real money and have the best (most expensive) gear currently available to me.  They will claim WGT only messes with you if you don't continue to feed them the mighty $$.     It seems as if Courteney gets on fine with the game and she doesn't use real money.  Do you wear a tin foil hat to block those VEM waves WGT is beaming down to you?

• mmyers0 478 Posts

  Sat, May 18 2013 11:21 PM

  As a general rule, Nike balls aren't worth it until you reach high levels. As a Tour Pro with Rapture clubs, you can do just as well with GI-SD balls at a small fraction of the cost (65 credits a sleeve). Then if you do happen to hit one in the drink, you can just laugh it off.

  (I should know; I played a round on St. Andrews with GI-SDs yesterday and lost balls on consecutive holes thanks to a meter glitch and a brain glitch, respectively.)

• pjctas0822 4,609 Posts

  Sat, May 18 2013 11:37 PM

  mmyers0:

  As a general rule, Nike balls aren't worth it until you reach high levels. As a Tour Pro with Rapture clubs, you can do just as well with GI-SD balls at a small fraction of the cost (65 credits a sleeve). Then if you do happen to hit one in the drink, you can just laugh it off.

  (I should know; I played a round on St. Andrews with GI-SDs yesterday and lost balls on consecutive holes thanks to a meter glitch and a brain glitch, respectively.)

  +1 I think the more expensive balls come with extra VEM LOL . There really is no need at lower levels to have those expensive balls anyway. You certainly dont need the extra distance off the tees and usually your approach shots are under 160 yds so the extra spin is a waste unless you wanna be cool :)

  I played with the GI-SD's for a long while and still have 10 or so in the bag for practice or when I want to experiment some shots on certain holes. Dont get me wrong if I want to shoot under par I am pulling out my slow meter Callaways or my RZN Nikes thats for sure :)  Nut some good advice would be to stay with the cheaper balls until you get awesome sticks at the higher levels and then if your good enough try your luck with some RG's or MPC's but always remember .........its just a game :)

   

  Crap sorry OP back to the subject at hand.............Maybe it hit a stick or a rock in the weeds. I have noticed weird reactions when hitting into high weeds . I sometimes get lucky when I miss ding bad and my drives heads straight for the weeds and then it just seems to hit something and bounce back into the fairway....Sorry but in your case that fairway happened to be water :( . The good news is your getting some good free advice from your posting. Take advantage of it.

• Steven1163 2,912 Posts

  Sat, May 18 2013 11:51 PM

  I fired my caddy and put my girlfriend on the bag....but she scares me worse than the caddy i had......i have found out the hard way to never trust the caddy....it gives false readings....i check and double check the yardage and all aspects before i choose my club.... specially check the yardage set up for putting...specially on the fringe.....i learned the hard way....for some reason it will give you the largest  number on the putting scale..check wisely my friend

• WGTicon 12,511 Posts

  Sun, May 19 2013 12:56 PM

  HI

  No, we do not want you to lose any balls. Caddy's follow specific rules we have for them which often complicated by different situations, so clubs they give you are approximations. You should always adjust clubs and scale on the putter. 

  -wgticon

• renniw52 5,385 Posts

  Sun, May 19 2013 1:20 PM

  Well put ICON, the caddies follow the rules you have for them. OH MY. I have not used a WGT caddy for that exact reason. LOL. Way too many lost balls.