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Putting Grid no longer visible from off green

• cappy11 1,173 Posts

  Wed, Feb 26 2014 7:08 AM

  Maybe they are fixing it quickly as I just played a hole each at K. Island, St. George and Congressional where it worked when you held the mouse button down.

  Not Working at any of The Best (sic) Of's WGT, Oak, Merion, Olympic, St. Anns or Bethpage as of 5 minutes ago.

               cap

• paul167 154 Posts

  Wed, Feb 26 2014 7:08 AM

  bigger dots but they still lie!!

• tinybo 11 Posts

  Wed, Feb 26 2014 7:11 AM

  is anyone getting the dots on the green looking a lot bigger than normal??...

  can anyone from wgt tell me if this is a new glitch or a supposed improvement????

  i`m finding this really off putting......concentrating on the dots more than the actual break (facepalm) i have the problem with grid not showing up on pitch view aswell...have to go to putter view and back again...either of these changes are not good or needed imo

• oilyrag 875 Posts

  Wed, Feb 26 2014 7:12 AM

  the cut off is 50 yards

  once inside 50 yards to the pin the putting grid appears

  it can then be changed to chip pitch etc

   

  it will then work reverse hitting up the fairway

   

  outside 50

  

   

  inside 50

  

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Wed, Feb 26 2014 7:14 AM

  I like the new beads. Nothing changed, as stated, just easier to see, as stated.

• chuddlymccannon 298 Posts

  Wed, Feb 26 2014 7:23 AM

  Reading everything in this thread makes me wonder what was said in the "NO DOTS IN CHIP MODE" to get it exploded.

  Still waiting for someone to produce that list of who asked for this ?

  Think we'll ever see it ?

   

• Steve2golf 930 Posts

  Wed, Feb 26 2014 7:56 AM

  Foresight0311:

  Steve2golf:

  Lizard69:

  Maybe WGT fixed it quickly?

  To fckn late, their busted now but fckn good.

  Steve, is the putting grid visible to you now?

  Still gone.

   

• frappefort 3,994 Posts

  Wed, Feb 26 2014 8:08 AM

  WOW ,i knew last nite the putting grid would be different ,  but honest  we did not need this , who come up with this  bad idee .?   I will get used to it , but WGT dont you think you should ask  some long time players what they think before you go and make changes?     Now the beautiful greens  are not so good looking , as  a mater of fact  it looks cheap  like the golf game of the 80,s .    I do not complain much  but this is not a good ideal WGT.      Frapp  .        One more thing  WGT explain to me and others why you change something that was not a problem  to start with?????    

• CerinoDevoti 3,232 Posts

  Wed, Feb 26 2014 8:19 AM

  oilyrag:

  it looks like ......

  the putting / chip pitch grid appears only when within about 50 yards of the green

  I tested and confirmed this^ to be true. Also, we have to click on the putter first and make the green grid appear as if we're going to use the putter from within 50 yards.  After that, click on pitch, chip or flop to see our "normal" grid for those shots. Don't know why but it appears to be the case. Seems like we have to wake up the green grid first or it doesn't work from any distance away from the pin while off the green. I figure within a day or two, I'll be used to this workaround like so many of the others.

  "IMO"... this is going to hurt new players the most. The long timers with tons of rounds played have a pretty good idea of the topography of every green when needing to get up and down and from fairway approaches. The newer players won't have that course knowledge built up yet and won't be able to see the green breaks before they hit approach shots from outside of 50 yards. Me thinks WGT needs to make a tutorial on how to "wake up" the green grid and send an e mail link notification to all members ASAP. Unless of course they find a way to reverse this ASAP. ;)

• Lizard69 2,006 Posts

  Wed, Feb 26 2014 8:29 AM

  CerinoDevoti:

  oilyrag:

  it looks like ......

  the putting / chip pitch grid appears only when within about 50 yards of the green

  I tested and confirmed this^ to be true. Also, we have to click on the putter first and make the green grid appear as if we're going to use the putter from within 50 yards.  After that, click on pitch, chip or flop to see our "normal" grid for those shots. Don't know why but it appears to be the case. Seems like we have to wake up the green grid first or it doesn't work from any distance away from the pin while off the green. I figure within a day or two, I'll be used to this workaround like so many of the others.

  "IMO"... this is going to hurt new players the most. The long timers with tons of rounds played have a pretty good idea of the topography of every green when needing to get up and down and from fairway approaches. The newer players won't have that course knowledge built up yet and won't be able to see the green breaks before they hit approach shots from outside of 50 yards. Me thinks WGT needs to make a tutorial on how to "wake up" the green grid and send an e mail link notification to all members ASAP. Unless of course they find a way to reverse this ASAP. ;)

  I will add to this if I may?

  Once you "waken" the grid up by changing to putt mode, you can then see the grid from 200yds out, yes, I smacked the ball all the way back up the fairway to test it lol

  So the lesson is easy, change to putt mode and the grid should "waken" and then appear in pitch mode after that.

  I think this bug will be repaired but if not, at least those that use the grid from distance now have a workaround.

  Luckily, this doesnt affect me but I can see how it may upset some folk.