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WGT says OB

• Woodoworkery 3,498 Posts

  Tue, Aug 23 2016 3:01 PM

  Will someone please look at this ,with camera 2 and tell me if its OB when it landed in the fairway

  http://www.wgt.com/replay.aspx?ID=513ea965-72be-4527-a8d2-a66b01695898

• alosso 21,088 Posts

  Tue, Aug 23 2016 3:21 PM

  Woodoworkery:

  http://www.wgt.com/replay.aspx?ID=513ea965-72be-4527-a8d2-a66b01695898

  OAK #4 tee shot to the 5th FW.

  You hit it too far right. It disappears when it lands on the right half of that FW. This ball would be perfectly fine IRL, but not here. There's a system OOB which is valid only on #4. There are a few, also on STA. Apparently, these become active when there are no pictures towards the flag for the next shot. I've had a ball disappear in flight there ;)

• Woodoworkery 3,498 Posts

  Tue, Aug 23 2016 3:43 PM

  Thanks Alosso, so WGT wins again, and I'm out a ball

   

• garyk49 2,333 Posts

  Tue, Aug 23 2016 3:46 PM

  In a couple of the views it looks like it landed in the ditch.  Try blowing it up a couple of times. A couple of the views carry it out of picture when blown up to see exactly where it landed. Don't think it actually landed in the fairway, as one view shows.

• TopShelf2010 10,968 Posts

  Tue, Aug 23 2016 3:48 PM

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• Robert1893 7,729 Posts

  Tue, Aug 23 2016 3:53 PM

  alosso:

  Apparently, these become active when there are no pictures towards the flag for the next shot. I've had a ball disappear in flight there ;)

  Exactly.

  A while back, in practice mode, I tried hitting into an adjacent fairway on one course to test if it would give me a shot (it may even have been Oakmont). Even though the ball clearly landed in the fairway each time, it came up as "out of  bounds" and resulted in a lost ball. Obviously, I did the test with starter balls.
  
  So unlike real life, there are times that adjacent fairways are not going to be in play.  

• pmm711 5,772 Posts

  Tue, Aug 23 2016 5:55 PM

  You can hit it to the 1st fairway at St. Andrews when playing the 18th.  I'm not sure what the reasoning is on the various holes and courses.

• alosso 21,088 Posts

  Tue, Aug 23 2016 11:10 PM

  Their photographers may have fanned out there more than on other tracks. One notorious "OOB" spot is on STA#7 where some try to avoid the long rough by bailing out to the FW on the far left. Only a small patch of that FW is available, further left costs a ball.

• PaulTon 10,731 Posts

  Wed, Aug 24 2016 4:30 AM

• mystry78 880 Posts

  Wed, Aug 24 2016 5:59 PM

  Lol Paul, Always loved this band. I saw them in a club back in '83 and it was without a doubt the most fun show I've ever been to.

  It was a memorable night as I had seen Elvis Costello at another venue earlier that evening.

  Frank