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Whats is the blue highlighted bar

• TurkishTerror 2,177 Posts

  Tue, Mar 29 2011 6:05 AM

  Will someone please tell me what that blue highlighted bar is.   The one that is of equal distance from the center and decreases slowly if you hold your stroke for an extended period of time.  

  THANKS.................

• Soulcatcher 1,970 Posts

  Tue, Mar 29 2011 6:34 AM

  Basically it is a forgiveness zone.

  When you are in the rough or a bunker you will notice it is narrower so slight mishits affect the shot more.

  If you hold too long and the zone starts to shrink, your forgiveness shrinks as well.

   

  Happy hitting

• lvietri 3,326 Posts

  Tue, Mar 29 2011 6:54 AM

  Soulcatcher is right on .. based on much reading and discussion here is how I envision it.

  Think of a circular target when you aim your club out in the fairway or on the green ... much like a dartboard on the ground.

  Each club has a precision rating ... the higher the rating .. the smaller the dartboard.   So a club with 2 dots of precision will have a larger circle than one with 4 dots of precision.

  On a perfect shot ... no wind ... perfect hit .... the ball will land somewhere randomly within the circle "the dartboard" on the ground.    It won't hit the center .. it's random ... but it will hit somewhere within the dartboard.   If that dartboard has a diameter of 10 yards (across).  the ball could land 5 yards either side or 5 yards long / short of the center point.   It's Random.

  As SC said --- the lines are a forgiveness zone ... As long as you swing before those lines start to move ... the circle will remain a constant size.

  Once those lines start moving in towards each other ... the circle will get larger ... thus the shot will not be within a 10 yard diameter circle .. but it will grow larger .... maybe to 12 or 15 yards or more.    Even if you ding the shot and hit it perfect ... it's still Random where the ball will land within the size of the circle ... so it's to your benefit to hit when the circle is the smallest ... before the lines start moving.

  I don't know the exact circumference of the circles, i'm not sure anyone does ... i made up these numbers as an example... but this is how I believe it works.    Perhaps someone from WGT can confirm.

  My recommendation is ... if your not sure of your shot ... figure out how much backswing you want ... make sure you know it .. then let the meter run through the first swing.  On the 2nd one ... bring it back and release before those lines start to move.  

  Just my opinion ... Thanks,

• TurkishTerror 2,177 Posts

  Tue, Mar 29 2011 8:29 AM

  Man, thats a long post. :)  Yeah i figured thats what it was.  When i see it beginning to shrink, i just reload my shot.......

   

  Thanks guys........

• Cleworthy 3,468 Posts

  Tue, Mar 29 2011 8:51 AM

  That is good information and something I did not know.  I appreciate the clarification - (it doesn't appear that WGT explains this anywhere in their FAQ's).  

  Now can you tell me what the little "Hits" bar is in the lower right corner?  Is this something to do with how many hits you have had on the current hole?  Do you know if there are a maximum number of hits on a hole?

• Cleworthy 3,468 Posts

  Tue, Mar 29 2011 8:57 AM

  Just figured out the answer to my own question about the "Hits" bar.  I believe it is the number of hits left on the current ball you are playing.  Correct?

• lvietri 3,326 Posts

  Tue, Mar 29 2011 10:51 AM

  Yes sir .. each ball has a certain number of times you can hit it (i.e. durability)... this does not include putts.   

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Tue, Mar 29 2011 11:28 AM

  lvietri:

  My recommendation is ... if your not sure of your shot ... figure out how much backswing you want ... make sure you know it .. then let the meter run through the first swing.  On the 2nd one ... bring it back and release before those lines start to move.  

  Good advice but this revelation might not go over so well with those that hold the back swing for a count of 3 to let the meter calm down.  :-(

• zagraniczniak 1,984 Posts

  Tue, Mar 29 2011 12:20 PM

  Gobsmacked.

  Stunned.

  If this is so I'm been playing the game wrong since ... (checking my profile) ... the 28th of December, 2009.

  Now you've set me to experimenting, and I don't see it. As I take the backswing the lines move closer together the bigger the backswing, but it doesn't matter how long I take to do this. But sometimes if I hold it down a very long time, directly on the bar, after a while the lines do mover closer together. If I hold the backswing but with the cursor somewhere away from the bar itself, the lines do not move.

• lvietri 3,326 Posts

  Tue, Mar 29 2011 4:40 PM

  YJ .... as long as you let go before those bars start moving towards each other .. you don't change the forgiveness zone.   I haven't found that holding it for 3 seconds helps or hurst the meter performance.    I let it run through once first.   I do know once the lines start moving .. it effects your forgiveness zone.

  Zag ... you got it right .. the bigger the backswing, the less forgiving the zone gets.   It's when you hold it back for a while they start moving .. this is what you want to avoid as it makes your target zone bigger and decreases your forgiveness zone.   If you've found a way to NOT make the lines move  --- God Bless You ... I'll have to give it a try.