MainzMan:
TWOMINUSONE:
Maybe the caddy is showing me the club i want to use, but in the background the settings are something different altogether, im not sure
Something that happens to me quite regularly is when I'm about to take my shot I notice something like this.
I've selected a 3 iron, I'm clearly holding an iron, even the image beside shot type shows an iron but it says putter. I've never hit a ball to see what the result is but maybe this is what's happening to you too. Obviously not as extreme as getting a putter instead of a 3 iron but if you actually have a 5 iron in your hand it might explain a shot like that.
And I agree with Dazza. Leave the caddy alone, he's pretty harmless in his own special way. If you try to educate him he might become dangerous.
I get this exact same problem at least once per round. It would be nice to see this fixed.
As for changing the caddie, if you're actually going to tweak it just turn off selecting the club and the type of shot. The caddie's suggestion should not be the shot we are already set up to hit. When a caddie suggests a shot to a player on a course he doesn't actually take the club out of the bag and hand it to the player before the player even looks at the shot.
I know in this game as I'm setting up a shot I always wind up checking the clubs to see different lengths each club hits and select again anyway. Clicking on the club I want is a standard part of my preshot routine, even if it's the same one the caddie selected.
Likewise, the shot type should be blank. Let the player select full, punch,chip, pitch, etc. Don't allow the shot until club and shot type have both been selected by the player. It will become the automatic shot routine for everyone who has the caddie turned off.
Have in place the distance each club goes while you hover over it in the bag. I'm sure the vast majority of the people that play this game play it for occasional fun and aren't keeping detailed notebooks including club yardages since the information is already there.
Simply put, I don't feel tweaking is really necessary. If you do, however, keep all the information while removing the suggestions. Just remove the pre-selection of club and shot type and add a button along the lines of "Display caddie's suggestion" for those who wish to see it. Use the current program's suggestion code for that.