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Just bought that "notebook"

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Sun, Dec 22 2013 2:25 PM (20 replies)
  • doran908
    288 Posts
    Mon, Dec 16 2013 11:15 AM

    oh ok, i just figure it in my head

  • robnov
    143 Posts
    Mon, Dec 16 2013 11:43 AM

    doran908:

    oh ok, i just figure it in my head

    Lol D . Good answer. We all have different methods to our madness in figuring out this crazy game. I also have never used help aids in playing this game. Like yourself, it's all been trial and error for me, over 3,400 ranked stroke rounds and countless ALT and M.P. games. Whatever might help people progress and get better honestly, i'm all for it. I think this notebook idea is a good one to start off with. I just received a course notebook from a friend, figured it out how it works and i know i'll be using it occasionally but i'll never completely abandon my "old method" of playing this game by trial,error and feel.Gotta go now, work is beckoning me back from lunch. Cya all on the courses. 

  • srellim234
    2,077 Posts
    Mon, Dec 16 2013 3:47 PM

    Bear in mind, too, that WGT rolled out the notebook with serious design flaws and is promoting it anyway. A serious grab for Christmas money that wasn't thought out very well.

    Notes can't be taken in multiplayer games. WGT claims it is to speed up the games but if we're playing with a timer the clock will eliminate those players that take too long to enter notes. If the player starts losing because of it, they'll quit doing it. The time claim by WGT is not particularly valid.

    Each course is treated as a separate course. The "Best of" holes are separate from the same hole in the actual courses. Thus, notes taken for SA #18 when playing SA don't transfer to the hole when played on the BOFH and vice versa.

    When practicing in single hole mode through the "WGT Community -> Golf Courses" route the notebook opens only to hole #1 of the course and not to any other hole you may have chosen. With no way to scroll through the book it is worthless.

    In CTTH single player the player must enter notes before each shot is taken, not after the results of the shot are known.

    In stroke play notes must be entered before a shot is holed, whether by putting or not. The game automatically records the score and moves on with no way to get back to notebook other than taking a mulligan and not counting the shot that went in the hole..

     

  • ckinfidel
    156 Posts
    Mon, Dec 16 2013 4:22 PM

    agreed in all. I don't think this will help my game at all except on the off chance POSSIBLY 1/500 chance I actually scribbled a not and conditions were near exact, hole placement same, distances sam..etc, I had fun for all of nine holes jotting notes and now? I think I wastd 500 credits on something I probably will not open very often at all

  • srellim234
    2,077 Posts
    Mon, Dec 16 2013 6:21 PM

    ck - I can see some uses for it. Quickly referring to a note that tells you how much room you have around a pin set in a "bowl" beats dragging the aiming marker all over the area to figure it out every time.

    It will hold a lot of value in CTTH putting where you can note where to aim and how many feet the shot plays.

    You can save a lot of time on tee shots. Particularly doglegs where you can note to "play the shot with full backspin to hold the fairway aiming over the right side of the bunker" for example., Or note how to hit a shot to avoid trees, especially those invisible ones that are out there.

    Many people successfully use notebooks more extensively than that. The major problem with this one is that WGT failed to design this one in a very useful way and programmed it very poorly.

  • ckinfidel
    156 Posts
    Mon, Dec 16 2013 7:37 PM

    Again, good points. I forgot about CTTH as holes rarely change.

    I've been currently marking out ever so slowly the courses that hit me hardest, Oakmont( especially greens and approach to greens), Olympic and yesm, trees, I think wgt should give me a "Tree-MEGA& MULTI-decimator" award for some of my games; let's see, oh greens at Kiawah are always tough and all of Merion.

    later maybe Whistler.

    I do think it'll help but so far as one person wrote, I play a lot by feel however it's obvious by my inconsistent scores I am hoping this notebook will give me some sort of baseline and a bit more stability especially as my next great leap is legend status...then the notebook will have to be changed lol

    Thanks for your input.

  • dacrash
    475 Posts
    Thu, Dec 19 2013 10:03 AM

    I too purchased this item.  I usually play multiplayer games and not being able to make entries makes the book worthless.

    I just played a CTTH and there is no way to take notes after the shot.  Again this makes the book useless.  I don't know what notes to put in before I hit the shot. 

    Like the saying: there's one born everyday.  I'm that person I guess.

    Oh well, maybe it will get fixed.

  • ckinfidel
    156 Posts
    Thu, Dec 19 2013 10:52 AM

    I've been TRYING to use it the last few days and adding points after the shots just as we've both found out cannot happen. The next game you play it might  be helpful but yes, I've noticed all the same anomalies and it IS frustrating I cannot make notes in a tournament or even playing with friends.

    in a big way it's worthless but  I think after a time after taking copious notes and needing a little advice for a shot the notebook will help...of course that's a hope and you still have to take the SAME shot and hope your index finger( or whatever finger you use) hasn't fallen off by then.

     

    As like many folks, I play a lot by feel and what's in the old memory but am hoping the notebook which many golfers use will work out later on.

     I think it's a good idea but needs to be formatted a little better to be able to take notes at any time and open the book in any tourney, after all, you did the work, you played the courses so why should we not be able to use it when needed sometimes the most?

  • PeterHopper
    1,315 Posts
    Thu, Dec 19 2013 11:19 AM

    I think it will help if you get used to using it.

     

    Four areas:

    1) When the approach shot need to be hit a little stronger than the yardage says, and a certain type of spin needs to be added. Especially on a hole you don't play often. How many of us find the rough or bunker of hole and curse ourselves as we should have remembered.

    2) Green slopes - see comment about holes not often played.

    3) Holes where you can get some extra fairway yardage by adding lots of top spin.

    4) Dodgily mapped putting greens. Little reminders that warn you when the putt does something different to what the dots tell you. Some players don't bother with certain courses because of this.

    But, if you take notes, you have to get into the habit of using them.

     

     

     

  • ckinfidel
    156 Posts
    Thu, Dec 19 2013 11:37 AM

    agreed. I have a whole notebook full written long form I usually have in my lap while playing. I am in process of transferring some of those notes to notebook.

    I will have to change notes as per tees since I'll be turning legend sometime soon but the greens and approaches won't change..umm, yes they will but I DO use my notes, just haven't used the notebook much yet since there are times wgt doesn't allow me to use it.

     

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