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Ability to concede a putt to a competitor.

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Wed, Mar 15 2017 5:02 PM (4 replies)
  • c17n
    13 Posts
    Tue, Mar 14 2017 6:47 PM

    Description: I'd like to submit a couple of feature requests:

    #3. Give me the ability to concede a putt to my competition.  
    - If it's 2.1-5 feet and a high handicapper is struggling... do I really want to watch their round turn sour after a 5 putt on slick greens?

  • alosso
    21,070 Posts
    Wed, Mar 15 2017 2:37 PM

    No offence intended, but you're a gamer, not a golfer, right?

    In the genuine Rules of Golf, competitors in strokeplay must not concede putts, while they may in matchplay.

    WGT follows these rules.

  • alanti
    10,564 Posts
    Wed, Mar 15 2017 2:56 PM

    c17n:

    Description: I'd like to submit a couple of feature requests:

    #3. Give me the ability to concede a putt to my competition.  
    - If it's 2.1-5 feet and a high handicapper is struggling... do I really want to watch their round turn sour after a 5 putt on slick greens?

    I would suggest you play solo rounds then. The social aspect does not seem to be one of the reasons you play.

    I am happy to play with players of any ability, and that is part of the learning process. You could offer guidance and advice to the :high handicapper".

    In fact, playing with better players helped me as I went through the tiers, most were helpful.

  • c17n
    13 Posts
    Wed, Mar 15 2017 4:58 PM

    You miss the point entirely.

    I'm only interested in making the game more interesting for players that are just starting.  It gets old very quickly when you have 3-4 people in a row see they are playing a legend and forfeit prior to hitting one ball.

    The moment the other player is 14 strokes behind and four holes in... does it really matter if I start getting liberal with conceding putts?  Seriously who would force someone to do that in a 1:1 round?  Tournament fine, totally different... but this?  Nope.

    Frankly all of the above just makes me think there could / should be a differentiator between tournament style rounds (with no putts conceded) and more casual rounds.

    Further I too have gotten a lot of enjoyment out of getting pointers from higher tier players and giving advice to lower tier players.  But just like in real golf, it isn't always well received. That speaks more to the character of the player struggling through the hole, rather than an additional feature needed in a game. I'm also surprised you made assumptions about my personality and reasons for playing this game based on a feature request intended to bring more enjoyment to all levels of players in this game.  

     

     

  • c17n
    13 Posts
    Wed, Mar 15 2017 5:02 PM

    You raise a very valid point.  

    But This only makes me feel that there needs to be a differentiation between casual rounds (where you could concede a putt), and a tournament style round where you absolutely count all strokes.

    I know if played via a computer you can already concede putts during match play, but match play isn't implemented on mobile versions of this game.

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