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Sat, Oct 22 2016 2:48 PM (13 replies)
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  • jamesfox1973
    104 Posts
    Fri, Oct 21 2016 8:07 AM

    ball in rough 30/40%..distance to hole 13yrds...hit a wedge just over 50% (16.5 yrds)...ball fail to move even an inch....this wat makes this game a laughing stock....

  • Booze40
    2 Posts
    Fri, Oct 21 2016 9:37 AM

    Im a newer player and also trying to figure why sometimes shots in the rough dont move. 

  • Robert1893
    7,729 Posts
    Fri, Oct 21 2016 10:42 AM

    When you write you hit it at 50%, are you referring to 50% of a full shot? pitch? chip? flop? punch? 

  • YankeeJim
    25,827 Posts
    Fri, Oct 21 2016 11:01 AM

    And what was the shot?

    Default shot that close to the green is a chip and that sure would act like what you described.

  • alosso
    21,088 Posts
    Fri, Oct 21 2016 11:56 AM

    jamesfox1973:
    ball in rough 30/40%..distance to hole 13yrds...hit a wedge just over 50% (16.5 yrds)...ball fail to move even an inch....this wat makes this game a laughing stock....

    So 33 yds was the full scale of that shot? Maybe a pitch with the 100 yds Cleve?

    Wrong shot my friend, and wrong calculation. Add 6 yds (and more if severely uphill) and take a full or punch shot with your shortest wedge, with some bs.

    I wonder how you became a TM without the basic knowledge of pre-shot routines to overcome that bl$%&dy caddie(?)

    (refraining from usage of the phrase "laughing stock")

  • alanti
    10,564 Posts
    Fri, Oct 21 2016 12:10 PM

    jamesfox1973:
    ball in rough 30/40%..distance to hole 13yrds...hit a wedge just over 50% (16.5 yrds)...ball fail to move even an inch....this is what makes me a laughing stock....

    Fixed for ya

  • whooshdangit
    1,246 Posts
    Fri, Oct 21 2016 12:45 PM

    Hi

    Sorry, any excuse to bring this gem up again.

     

     

    These problems, with your wedges I mean, have been going on for two months now. I would have thought that's more than enough time to either work them out or replace them.

    Maybe a bit more time around the greens practicing and less in the bathroom  would help.

    Happy Hitting!

    Rich

  • PhilEStein
    1,269 Posts
    Fri, Oct 21 2016 1:34 PM

    No, Jimmyboy. It's what's making you a laughing stock.....Time and time again you post a thread that even Stevie Wonder would see as user error but you are unable to accept it.

    You say a wedge. A 52, 54, 56, 60 or 64 deg wedge? The degree of loft being very critical Or was it even a wooden wedge? Have plenty of those in my workshop.

    As for your "wedge" that hits a max of 30yds, you have me totally mystified. My loftiest wedge, the 64, I would expect to hit 55yds give or take from that lie. I really don't know where you get your figures or distances from.

    I'm not really one to disagree with Jim but I usually only chip when the ball is very close to the green fringe and is no more than 9 or 10 yds to the pin. I try to take out the borrows of the green as much as possible. But that's just my view.

     Assuming Stimp 12 greens running level I would have played that shot as a pitch with my 64 wedge  and FBS at 80%. There are many ways of skinning a rabbit and each to their own.

  • hatcojack
    410 Posts
    Fri, Oct 21 2016 1:51 PM

    jamesfox1973:

    ball in rough 30/40%..distance to hole 13yrds...hit a wedge just over 50% (16.5 yrds)...ball fail to move even an inch....this wat makes this game a laughing stock....

     

    30-40 rough,13 yds:   try a flop 16 yds w full BS 

  • DodgyPutter
    4,690 Posts
    Fri, Oct 21 2016 1:55 PM

    PhilEStein:
    I'm not really one to disagree with Jim but I usually only chip when the ball is very close to the green fringe and is no more than 9 or 10 yds to the pin.

    I don't think he was suggesting a chip was the best shot here, just that it was the shot that the game default would have given.  I'd agree with that and that it sounds like what the op hit.

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