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Funny...My Shots Didn't Go Where Their Shots Went

• giantfan5611 135 Posts

  Fri, Jun 14 2013 6:14 AM

  I spent about an hour watching top tier WGT members play rounds on Youtube. I had WGT in one window and Youtube open in another window. I watched where they started their shots on the meter and aimed my ball the way they did, yet where their shots were landing was nowhere even CLOSE to where mine were landing. I'm not talking about length of shots, I'm talking specifically about location of shots. There was one hole in particular which was a par 4 with a 17mph wind blowing dead right. The player I watched then hit the meter to the far right of the middle, and i said to myself "oh thats in the rough".....but they somehow landed it perfectly on the fairway. I aimed and hit mine the exact same way and my ball sailed dead right (as you would expect it to) into deep rough. Now how did they miss the meter so far right with the added dilemma of a dead right 17mph wind....and land it in the middle of the fairway anyway??? These were normal tee shots, so skill is basically taken out of the equation. Why didn't my ball land where their ball landed???????? Mine was seldom a good shot while their shots were always perfect time after time.

• chrisironsbones 3,524 Posts

  Fri, Jun 14 2013 6:35 AM

  It all depends on the round you're getting.  Some rounds are set up by WGT to be LESS forgiving, so you might have strong side wind and you miss ding yet wind wont seem to have an effect and you land left or right of where you aimed (or on aim point).  You could play same course but under different conditions and the same shot might be much more forgiving and react normally to the wind.  Unless you've played the exact same tournament as whats filmed then all bets are off.

  I've also just looked at your profile.  You're using starter equipment, so unless the videos were also with starters then they're obviously going to be way off.  And even If the vids did use starters, there's a much bigger deviation circle with them as they're much less precise

• courteneyfish 15,796 Posts

  Fri, Jun 14 2013 6:45 AM

  Can I just add that having youtube open at the same time as WGT is asking for trouble.

• mickb74 290 Posts

  Fri, Jun 14 2013 7:20 AM

  courteneyfish:

  Can I just add that having youtube open at the same time as WGT is asking for trouble.

  why?

• bubbadork 984 Posts

  Fri, Jun 14 2013 8:02 AM

  It siphons off cpu time and internet bandwidth. You might have some to spare and you might not.

• jsweetcr 1,209 Posts

  Fri, Jun 14 2013 8:19 AM

  its doesn't even matter about his usage, as Chris says, it sounds like it isn't even the same clubs.

  I didn't look but if he has starter gear, then you are talking like .5 dot on forgiveness and about the same maybe a bit more on precision. If he is purposely missing by a lot his circle of deviation is enormous, compared to the people who on youtube probably using g20, or r11s, or maybe even r1, which all have min 4 dots on precision and min3 dots on forgiveness, with r1 having more on both. If someone one with one of those misses badly the circle for deviation is far less, you can't even try and compare the two

  I didn't check vids or OP gear, cuz it really isn't that important, just know it is impossible to try and compare the two

• TeacHa 186 Posts

  Fri, Jun 14 2013 8:27 AM

  So the shots with starter clubs don't go where the shots with R11 Irons go? Ohhh!
  
  Sigh, you're one hell of an annoying troll here with all your crap about hack and vem conspiracy.

  We all know it exists to an extend but you're literally blaming your pathetic play on the cheats (in that other thread) and on 'massive manipulation' on every single shot, eh?