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• phykel 4 Posts

  Mon, Jun 5 2017 2:11 AM

  st Andrews 9th hole is showing incorrect yardage, see screen shot; http://i.imgur.com/SCYVIHN.jpg, ?

• garyk49 2,330 Posts

  Mon, Jun 5 2017 8:20 AM

  phykel:

  st Andrews 9th hole is showing incorrect yardage, see screen shot; http://i.imgur.com/SCYVIHN.jpg, ?

  I think you would have found, if you moved the aim triangle to the pin the yardage would have been correct.

  Upper right is telling you the distance to the pin.  There are no clubs that hit that far.  What the aim triangle is showing, is maybe what you can expect for distance, or the yardage of your club.

  This will not be the only time you will see this happen.  You have to pay attention.  The aim triangle is not always on the pin, you need to check it.  You see this a lot from the shorter tees.

• alosso 21,069 Posts

  Mon, Jun 5 2017 9:04 AM

  On STA and other older courses (*), the scorecard length of Par4s and Par5s is measured directly to one of the pin positions. Thus, the distance from the tee (before the first shot) to the other pin is indicated incorrectly.

  On PC, you will see the correct distance when hovering over the blue dot on the miniature map or after whiffing the first shot, e.g. with a putter.

  In contrast, the distance is always correct on the Par3s.

  (*) like BPB, RSG, KIA, CCC...

  Newer courses have a different concept of scorecard length.