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The magnetic shot

• Fraenkel 2,252 Posts

  Wed, Jul 10 2013 3:12 AM

  For the series, physics is not a bug, this awesome shot at Oakmont.

  This roll is generally called "magnet" and the reason you'll find out just watching the replay. I sent a message to the WGT Staff just to see if it's can be consider a missed eagle or a problem on the physics of rolling to the hole specification.

  By the way, can't stop watching it, feels like something magnetic.

  Ciao,
  Davide. 

• TNP56 510 Posts

  Wed, Jul 10 2013 4:15 AM

  ...........yeah seen that b4.....it's weird that's 4 sure

• xtabent 2,281 Posts

  Wed, Jul 10 2013 5:03 AM

  Iv'e had a few of those over the years. Definitely a glitch 

• Fraenkel 2,252 Posts

  Thu, Sep 26 2013 5:32 AM

  Just passed a couple of months and here I am again.

  This time the "magnet" shot appears at Kiawah Island Resort, hole #10 and after a 148yds approach shot. This one really disappoint me just because ok, I got a full backspin but physic seems disappears. That should be an eagle in a ready go tour, and all of us know how it's important score an eagle in event like this.

  Well, the replay it's up to you gentlemen.

  Salut,
  Fraenkel. 

• donsprintr 2,063 Posts

  Fri, Sep 27 2013 11:23 AM

  Oh yeah ....had that happen on Beth #11 once .... with the original pin. No bounce, just sticky tape. I think they're using duct tape around the circumference of the cup ....

  Which would explain putts screeching to a halt at 1 to 2 inches from dropping in .... lol ...

• Fraenkel 2,252 Posts

  Sun, Oct 6 2013 1:29 AM

  Ok, I apologize for having opened a discussion on a hypothetical bug, but that is nothing more than a relationship with reality.

  This a shot from Brendon de Jonge, my favorite player (if you watch him, you watch me) and, as walked away from the pitch of the tee during the Presidents Cup, he whispered: what a magnetic shot.

  In many cases, we were proven wrong just from reality.

  Thanks Brendon, Thanks WGT.

• Fraenkel 2,252 Posts

  Fri, Dec 5 2014 11:24 PM

  It was an year since my last post but finally the "magnet" shot cames back with this great line on Merion #16 while just down with 2 and 3 holes left, shame with this because it had could be a great vantage.

  Damn, this time was so close.

• JLeary1 416 Posts

  Mon, Dec 22 2014 1:29 PM

  Not questioning your arguments Fraenkel, but is Brendon de Jonge's shot a "magnet", or did it plug?

  I was surprised to watch the video and the commentators said nothing much about this shot to the green. I'm going: "What? How? Did it plug?".

  My only question is, if it didn't plug, and it was somehow "magnetic" then what physics laws are we seeing here?

  And if it is a rare physics event, or combination of events that creates this, wgt must be a very smart model of reality to make what happened to you occur and not be a bug/glitch. Or maybe wgt just models all the individual physics sufficiently at a low level to cause these sorts of things. I mean, I know wgt is a great game, but we are talking in rarity terms like seeing gravitational lensing in everyday life..?

• Fraenkel 2,252 Posts

  Fri, Jan 2 2015 2:43 AM

  Hello Jay.

  Sorry to reply at your post with a little delay but I check my previous threads rarely. I perfectly understand your point, was my same thought in the first cases, this until I saw the video of Brendon. In addition to the physical laws you need to take into account the statistics in relation to the games played and the chance of or in the condition to have a shot like the ones in the links or the video.

  It is rare shot that can be influenced by the swing, the spin, the wind and the speed of the green just like here in WGT or in everyday life as happened to Brendon.

  I do get used then coming to think that it is simple randomness.

  David.

• JLeary1 416 Posts

  Fri, Jan 2 2015 7:05 AM

  Thanks David.

  Yes, you some up the logic of the statistics of this occuring, and why, very well.

  What is also interesting is that the WGT game, just perhaps by modelling all the lower-level physics sufficiently well, can give rise to these sorts of stranger and rarer events.

  Sort of like the logic behind "the whole is greater than the sum of the parts", if that makes sense.

  Cheers, and thanks for a fascinating thread.

  Justin