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Dinged shots

• tanneralis 419 Posts

  Mon, Feb 22 2016 3:39 PM

  What's the point of hitting the ding if the ball takes off 10-15 feet right or left of where you aimed it......you may have not aimed spot on for a crosswind or whatever but the ball should at least start where you aimed it 

  During the same round i hit a 150 yard club 100% with full backspin (both dinged) with slight cross breezes and no elevation to worry about........one shot landed at 150 on the fly when it should have landed at about 145-146......the other landed at 138 which also should have landed at 145-146.........please explain that one WGT..........and don't tell me to clear my cache because i do it regularly.

  Bewildered.

• alosso 21,069 Posts

  Tue, Feb 23 2016 10:27 AM

  tanneralis:

  What's the point of hitting the ding if the ball takes off 10-15 feet right or left of where you aimed it......you may have not aimed spot on for a crosswind or whatever but the ball should at least start where you aimed it 

  No it doesn't. AFAIK, ball flight is only an approximation, while the point of halt is fixed from the beginning.

  Once we stop the meter, the whole shot is calculated in a split millisecond before the ball starts to move. From then on, the outcome is fixed and the visuals are secondary. So, it may happen that the ball starts further off than we expect, forestalling the physical movement (not excluding that there might be an error in these calcs). Still, the outcome looks o.k. in most cases.

  tanneralis:

  During the same round i hit a 150 yard club 100% with full backspin [snip]

  I can't really explain this but I know that full bs may importantly shorten the shots - see your 138.

  For the other outcome, I call VEM *waving the magic wand*.