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Wrong distance to hole

• midwesternranger 15 Posts

  Tue, Dec 14 2010 4:18 PM

  Played this hole yesterday and something didn't add up! 345 - 260 doesn't equal 128 (unless things have changed since I did maths at school.)

  

  Didn't have much impact on the game but thought you might like to know...

• b0geybuster 2,574 Posts

  Tue, Dec 14 2010 5:06 PM

  IRL hole distances are marked down the center of the fairway, not the most direct route which your drive and new hole distance are calculated by!

  Cheers,

  b0gey

• Ripped1 56 Posts

  Thu, Dec 16 2010 11:11 AM

  Ya but shouldn't his direct route cause a decrease in total distance? Also hole 10 at SA said 330 yrds, I hit it 326 and it went 5 yrds past hole so that one's wrong too.

• borntobesting 9,709 Posts

  Thu, Dec 16 2010 11:54 AM

  Ripped1:

  Ya but shouldn't his direct route cause a decrease in total distance? Also hole 10 at SA said 330 yrds, I hit it 326 and it went 5 yrds past hole so that one's wrong too.

  But if you can't play the direct route because of a fairly large dogleg the distance to the hole will be much larger than the direct route. 

  let's see 326+5 = 331  that's only 1 yard difference and on the green the 1 yard might actually less than 3 feet. How often have we seen it say 1 yard and have less than 2 feet to the hole.

• midwesternranger 15 Posts

  Sun, Dec 19 2010 1:26 PM

  I appreciate the difference between going centre of the fairway or by some other route but if you peer closely at the picture I have gone pretty much straight up the fairway... and a difference of 40 metres is more than that would account for (I think).

  I think I had the same problem as borntobesting at SA Hole 10, drove past the green when I shouldn't have been able to reach it according to the distance given.

  I wouldn't mind seeing diagrams of how the hole distance are measured - more out of curiosity than anything else