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Whats is the blue highlighted bar

• don300 36 Posts

  Tue, Mar 29 2011 5:55 PM

  The lines seem to move faster on long putts, I don't notice much movement on drives or approach shots.

• bearclaw27 553 Posts

  Tue, Mar 29 2011 6:52 PM

  zagraniczniak:

  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.

   

  YJ is right... Until recently (a month or so ), if you held the backswing more than a few seconds, the bars would move closer together...

  Howver, recently that has changed, and they ceased to move...I think wgt changed this to help with meter probs..

• WGTicon 12,511 Posts

  Tue, Mar 29 2011 7:05 PM

  lvietri:

  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,

  Since I taught lvietri everything he knows, I agree with his statement.

  -wgticon

• Ripped1 56 Posts

  Tue, Mar 29 2011 7:45 PM

  Why does the ball travel right(slice/push) MORE when your between ding and the "next" line, compared to going slightly after the "next" line, especially with right to left wind? In fact, I got meter once(I wish only once) and hit almost at end of total meter.  The ball went straight, however it was a worm burner.

• lvietri 3,326 Posts

  Wed, Mar 30 2011 5:53 AM

  Would you be able to re-phrase this ... not sure I understand what your asking.  In fact not sure if anyone does .. :) ... Thanks,

  Bearclaw .. not to disagree but .. on my game the lines still move towards each other when you hold it down for more than 3 or 4 seconds    If yours doesn't .. your lucky 

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Wed, Mar 30 2011 6:25 AM

  I think what he is trying to point out is that when you miss the ding but not all the way to the first mark you get a certain, expected result. But, if you miss the same way and go past that line the result isn't as severe. It's almost as if whatever penalty you get for missing in the first place maxes out at a certain point when you miss against the wind.

  btw, I've been paying attention to the moving lines since this subject came up and  for whatever reason mine have stopped moving! Go figure.

   

• zagraniczniak 1,984 Posts

  Wed, Mar 30 2011 7:16 AM

  Trying this again, I do get the lines moving closer together after a while, but only when putting.

• gbarto 141 Posts

  Fri, Dec 23 2011 7:03 PM

  thank you much  for this post very enlightening fundametal to improve ones game.too bad this vital info is not easier to find in these posts!!! ty again

• gr8flbob 592 Posts

  Thu, Dec 29 2011 11:07 PM

  The error bars may not move for off-the-green shots anymore, but they certainly do when you're putting. Once you've made your back-swing for the putt (ie, applied the putting power) the error bars start narrowing (ie, circle of error grows) after about 3 seconds.

  For this reason, I make it a point to start the through-stroke as quickly as possible after I've applied the desired putting power.