Blaming
the caddie means the player made a mistake. Nothing could be further
from the truth. This statement is wrong. The truth is that it means the player did not make a correction to a mistake made by the
game.
I asked for a simple fix that many would love, that is to allow the player
to turn off the caddie. If you like what you do then the caddie box would make
no difference to you and you would not have to check it but to many that I know
they would save more than one bad shot a day. Almost every putt, almost every
full shot and almost every pitch chip or flop the club selected is wrong and
with the short shots the shot selected is wrong as well. I am changing the club
almost every shot already but distractions at home or from the players in the
group make it easy to forget to check the selection made by the caddy. Between
chat, figuring out the effect of wind, elevation, green speed, and slope and
running dots and changing cameras, using the zoom, trying to miss trees, sand traps and the rough while aligning your shot, is
time consuming. More for some than others but I see a lot of people that use
over 60 seconds on every shot preparing for the shot. Most consider a 45 second
clock a pretty fast game because there is so much to do preparing for every shot. I would
rather not have the game give me a wrong club and I would rather pick the
correct club from the beginning. If the caddie was right most of the time then
this would not be an issue but the caddie never considers the wind, it's
direction speed or angle, it never considers the slope and speed of the green,
in fact, it never considers elevation for any shot, and it doesn't considers
all of the clubs you own. It almost never picks the right wedge for approach
shots and one of its biggest errors is to pick the 100 foot putter just because
you ball is on the fringe. It does all of these things wrong all of the time. I
believe it would be a lot easier to offer the off switch than repair all of the
issues with the caddy. This is an easy solution to a problem that is
bothering many players.