Covenant:
For quite a long time now I find myself
wondering about the fact that the 95% shot, especially when over 140 is
needed, is constantly short
I know that every swing is divided in 20, what I call, nudges. Teh
full shot minus 1 gives me most of the time not a bit too short, but
often more than 20% of the needed distance short and I am simply fed up
with it.
Its plain stupid that you can hit further with the 90% one (2 nudges down. Is there a reason for it, is it a bug?
Are
you complaining that a 95% power shot does not travel 95% of the club's full distance? I
could be wrong, but in my experience, that is not the case and it is the case that 95% power shots really do travel 95% of the normal distance. It seems to
me that the relationship is pretty linear in the 90-100% range, but you
will start seeing balls fall short if you hit 60% and lower... for
sure.
I'm even more certain that, in my experience at least, a 95%
will go further than a 90% shot. There are, of course, a lot more
factors than just that to consider than just how much power you put into the shot, such as wind (large impact on the movement of the ball at
the end of its flight -- it can overpower backspin, or it can stop
forward progress of a ball and make it stop on a dime when it's not
supposed to), slope of the ground on impact (upslope will kill forward
movement, and vice versa), slope of the ground during the roll,
randomness of the shot caused by imprecision, etc. Long shots are also hugely impacted by wind, and how wind affect shots is still somewhat unknown to me. I've had an 85% drive travel over 330 yards, which was a huge surprise to me, so I think, even though we're both masters, that the game sometimes surprises us.
That said, I do realize you're a master, so I know you're aware of
most or all of this stuff, but I don't know what to say other than the
fact that what you believe is happening to use has not been the case for
me. In my experience, the game is very consistent. It will surprise me sometimes, but I'm usually just getting surprised consistently about the same things over and over again, until I say to myself "ok, this result isn't an anomaly... but it is the norm" and change slightly my brain's little prediction model for how a shot will turn out.