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What piece of equipment do you want WGT to make?

• DDRoss1 1,809 Posts

  Mon, Jun 16 2014 10:30 AM

  Titleist Balls, they are the #1 played ball in Golf...Scott Cameron putter with the sligthly better specs than the Versa, Volkey wedges with different lengths, Cobra irons. Just a different assortment to choose from would be nice, Cally, Taylormade and Nike must be making a fortune on this.........Or even Titleist Irons and Woods ..thanks just throwing up an opinion.

• hpurey 11,505 Posts

  Mon, Jun 16 2014 10:42 AM

  DDRoss1:

  Titleist Balls, they are the #1 played ball in Golf

  My current ball in play for real life is the Nxt tour s,  because I found them as yellow.

  Pro V1 and 1x  would be my favorite ball to play followed by the Cally i(s) .

  I'll start my campaigning now, just in case.  ;-)

  

• fmagnets 3,640 Posts

  Mon, Jun 16 2014 11:01 AM

  cadaviar:

  Think you are talking about forgiveness(2.5) fmag. With that 3 wood you could miss by a hair and go off the planet or even hit the ding and have it go 5 yards off line. 4 forgiveness on the top irons and woods would do the trick. Wedges too.

  No, I'm talking about precision with dinged shots. Forgiveness is irrelevant with dings.

• cadaviar 29 Posts

  Mon, Jun 16 2014 12:54 PM

  fmagnets:

  No, I'm talking about precision with dinged shots. Forgiveness is irrelevant with dings.

  Bertha 3W: 4.5 precision 2.5 forgiveness

  R11S: 4.5 precision 3.5 forgiveness

  I've had dinged shots go off line with the Bertha and I don't remember it happening as often with the R11S.

   

   

• 9,041 Posts

  Mon, Jun 16 2014 1:16 PM

  A set of irons with the L97 Nike precision and meter speed but with the R11s spin, don't want extra spin on my irons ( which is why I haven't bought them ! ) 

  A touch of extra spin on the Max ball OTOH wouldn't go amiss ( but having asked for 18 months, I won't be holding my breath )

  Andy

• Jimbog1964 8,378 Posts

  Mon, Jun 16 2014 1:21 PM

  cadaviar:

  I've had dinged shots go off line with the Bertha and I don't remember it happening as often with the R11S.

  I had the L92 Max before, and I don't remember it wandering like the the L89 BB.  

  I have said on more than one occasion that I simply do not believe the intent was (?should have been) to have tee shots wandering laterally 15+ feet,so often, when dinged.  Fway shots are fine, but tee shots it's a surprise lately if it stays straight.

  Call me old fashioned, but my idea of accepting less forgiveness should be to take the medicine when I miss, not so often when I cream it (low wind inclusive). 

   

• fmagnets 3,640 Posts

  Mon, Jun 16 2014 3:33 PM

  cadaviar:

  fmagnets:

  No, I'm talking about precision with dinged shots. Forgiveness is irrelevant with dings.

  Bertha 3W: 4.5 precision 2.5 forgiveness

  R11S: 4.5 precision 3.5 forgiveness

  I've had dinged shots go off line with the Bertha and I don't remember it happening as often with the R11S.

  Just a question of perspective. I've used the Bertha, R11s and Max extensively, and they all ding 8 or 9 yards off line at the extreme. R11s was the worst offender for me. Anyway, the fact that any of these clubs can ding so far off line with 4.5 dots of precision for 245ish yards, whereas a 5 dot Nike iron with no spin goes 240ish in a 3yd circle is exactly why I would like to see other clubs with 5 dots of precision.

• Wontonamo 2,269 Posts

  Mon, Jun 16 2014 4:09 PM

  ive never understood why wgt brings out longer clubs with better precision and forgiveness - ive always been of the thought that if it gives u a longer distance then it should be married with LESS precision and forgiveness.

  personally i think darting them from 225y out is killing this game.

  if wgt wants to bring out more clubs for revenue id be suggesting they bring out longer clubs with more risk, not LESS.

  slower balls are now just taking the piss out of the meter - theres too much precision and slowness already - no need for more precison and length without the risk factor.

  who here wants to see more 53s and 52s being scored???

• alanti 10,564 Posts

  Mon, Jun 16 2014 5:00 PM

  I will take the unpopular view - from most players point of view and definitely from WGT standpoint.

  Equipment is too good as it is - the game has become too easy for those who have taken the time to really learn it (luckily, this excludes me). So we do not need better equipment - this includes balls. Sure give us choice but attributes are good enough (well too good).

  Equipment branding is irrelevant apart from the perceived marketing value, as they are just pixels in this game. A WGT ball could have better specs than say a Nike as they are just values assigned to that name.

  By giving 5 dots of precision, then should we not expect a greatly increased margin of error if we miss the ding?

  For example for years I used blades rather than cavity back irons - great when you hit the sweet spot, van be disastrous when you don't. These days I cannot use the blades as I am more of a casual player.

  So I hope if  WGT elect for higher precision/length the higher the risk ratio is.

  But this is a business, and WGT generally do not listen anyway.

• sideways4 595 Posts

  Mon, Jun 16 2014 5:34 PM

  Would like to see another set of high level Irons, with the L-97 NIKE specs, to bridge the gap between level 90 and level 97. All the new Drivers are good and the meter is 3.5 or so, but the L-90 R11s are 2.5 and the difference in the meter keeps you off a little, well it does me anyway. Just saying we have had a lot of Drivers come out, so why not a set of Irons? I am using the SLDR Driver and like it, and TM just came out with a set of SLDR Irons. It has been a long time since WGT came out with a high level set of matching clubs.