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• Wheels65 744 Posts

  Thu, Aug 21 2014 4:19 PM

  For PBaldwin: My (limited) experience has shown me that a slight "miss the Ding" hit (like within 2-3 widths of the desired "ding" line) will cost me  around 2 yards of total ball travel - on SA, BPB, OAK, etc. & with any Iron in my bag!
  Your comment as to "perfect mapping", introduces a slightly different variable.  I believe that if you will "map" your irons, as described above, ((same ball, same golf course, only record "dings", hit ball in both directions (averaging the ball travel distance), with FBS, No Spin and FTS)) then you will have a pretty good foundation on which to  base your play.
  But this does not address your observation that the clubs' behavior change over time .........    If I play SA in the morning and play it, again,  in the afternoon, I fully expect to see no difference in the way that my shots behave - HOWEVER - when I play SA the morning following (my hypothetical game here), I expect the club/ball combo to behave a bit differently!!
  Why? 
  No conspiracy here, just my observations and the wild guess that the main WGT program varies the game's environmental conditions (just a bit) at some random interval (but rarely in the middle of a day).
  This is not a joke, play a practice round, if only 3 holes, before you compete in order to learn how the ball/club/course combo is behaving that day.   I could be wrong but I have found several threads that allude to the same observation.
  Maybe I should just add this, to my last post,  as #7: The game is very consistent. If your shots seem to be going a bit longer today, it's because of internal WGT environmental conditions may have changed - so take a bit of power off of future shots!
  
  For BTBS: You are a better player than I am and you are correct in that "No wind" tourneys are excellent for "mapping" clubs - at that particular course. I still maintain, however, that each course plays (consistently the same) but differently from any other course and further, that WGT environmental "tweeks (SP?) must to be considered. If you use SA as the base for your data, you would expect that every #2 hole on every other course will play short. This is not the case. While each course plays a bit differently, BPB seems, from observation, to be the best "baseline course".
  
  I'm thinking about starting a new thread on "Accuracy" in order to get the input of some of our real "player stars".

• dyashpal 286 Posts

  Sat, Oct 4 2014 5:21 AM

  Wheels65:

  For PBaldwin: My (limited) experience has shown me that a slight "miss the Ding" hit (like within 2-3 widths of the desired "ding" line) will cost me  around 2 yards of total ball travel - on SA, BPB, OAK, etc. & with any Iron in my bag!
  Your comment as to "perfect mapping", introduces a slightly different variable.  I believe that if you will "map" your irons, as described above, ((same ball, same golf course, only record "dings", hit ball in both directions (averaging the ball travel distance), with FBS, No Spin and FTS)) then you will have a pretty good foundation on which to  base your play.
  But this does not address your observation that the clubs' behavior change over time .........    If I play SA in the morning and play it, again,  in the afternoon, I fully expect to see no difference in the way that my shots behave - HOWEVER - when I play SA the morning following (my hypothetical game here), I expect the club/ball combo to behave a bit differently!!
  Why? 
  No conspiracy here, just my observations and the wild guess that the main WGT program varies the game's environmental conditions (just a bit) at some random interval (but rarely in the middle of a day).
  This is not a joke, play a practice round, if only 3 holes, before you compete in order to learn how the ball/club/course combo is behaving that day.   I could be wrong but I have found several threads that allude to the same observation.
  Maybe I should just add this, to my last post,  as #7: The game is very consistent. If your shots seem to be going a bit longer today, it's because of internal WGT environmental conditions may have changed - so take a bit of power off of future shots!
  
  For BTBS: You are a better player than I am and you are correct in that "No wind" tourneys are excellent for "mapping" clubs - at that particular course. I still maintain, however, that each course plays (consistently the same) but differently from any other course and further, that WGT environmental "tweeks (SP?) must to be considered. If you use SA as the base for your data, you would expect that every #2 hole on every other course will play short. This is not the case. While each course plays a bit differently, BPB seems, from observation, to be the best "baseline course".
  
  I'm thinking about starting a new thread on "Accuracy" in order to get the input of some of our real "player stars".

  Wheels65

  I totaly agree with what you say -I am a 'feel' player not much given too mapping etc. Level 97 Nike's have improved by PIN approach PROVIDE I 'DING' OR AM NEAR DING. Normally I get better shot results when I pre-ding by a pixcel or 2.

  But yes day to day play varies on WGT basically I feel its what happens to most people at actual golf. I don't think anyone can consistantly & accurately hit a particular club the EXACT SAME DISTANCE EVERYTIME there has to be variation.

  dyashpal (Dee)  

• SplashLewis 369 Posts

  Mon, Oct 6 2014 8:24 AM

  don't play with a ball with over 4.0 spin.   Ideal spin is 3.5 IMO as it still gives you enough spin to play your wedges perfectly.   I play FBS on all iron shots and see consistency from iron to iron.  High spin balls gave me fits with these irons.  If I must play high spin balls, I pull out the faster meter R11's.  However, the Nike 97s allow me to play the "cheap" nike balls with better results than the R11