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Practice Green?

• royphillips1 1,278 Posts

  Thu, Nov 13 2014 11:46 AM

  Wgt have said a Definate No to a Practise putting green in the past, and l exspect the answer  to this Request is still a No

                                                           Roy.

• borntobesting 9,767 Posts

  Thu, Nov 13 2014 12:11 PM

  Stefano0178:

  hpurey:

  With the mulligans feature in practice rounds, you can do all you'd need to on a practice green and more.

  WGT can focus on more important things, like new courses and such.

   

   

  This is only partially true, because on a putting green you CHOOSE your distance, conditions, and so, while with mulligan on a standard course, you just repeat and repeat what your approach shot created for you. And having to repeat the approach shot dozens of time to be on the right spot it's just a wast of time, if you have only so much time to spend and you'd like to practice putting.

   

  Don't you understand? A practice green unless it mimics the exact breaks of the greens in the game, which it wouldn't ,would be worthless. With the mulligan feature you are practicing on the greens that you really play on. An even better option for practice would be to  have the play single hole from the community page match your tier's green speed so you could play and practice on the holes that give you trouble. 

• Stefano0178 200 Posts

  Thu, Nov 13 2014 9:28 PM

  borntobesting:

  Don't you understand? A practice green unless it mimics the exact breaks of the greens in the game, which it wouldn't ,would be worthless. With the mulligan feature you are practicing on the greens that you really play on. An even better option for practice would be to  have the play single hole from the community page match your tier's green speed so you could play and practice on the holes that give you trouble. 

   

  I understand, and I still don't agree, but I don't pretend to be right, either.

  Simply put, real life putting greens do not replicate an actual hole green. Just a green with breaks, slopes, speeds, and so, in order to teach you HOW to play on a green, and not how to hole a shot on that particular green from that particular spot.

  I was not talking about memorizing the sweet spot for any green in this game, I was talking about learning how to putt in this game for the courses that now are here, and for the course that one day may be we will see. Practicing does not means "rinse and repeat", like the mulligan feature is.

  It is, however, a good point to have the possibility to practice a single hole, it would be at least a time saver situation.