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Make Wgt more realistic

• Robert1893 7,719 Posts

  Mon, Feb 5 2018 10:57 AM

  Rabbit274:

  Not so Rody. On my 'real' golf course, we have yardage books, yardage markers on or close to the fairways. Even the bog standard scorecards have yardages on the course info. WGT doesn't have the ability for a golfer to pace out distances from markers, so they give them to us instead. Pretty realistic in my view.

  
  
  Agreed.
  
  Even the "cow pasture" course I played when i lived in rural West Michigan during my high school and college years had yardage markers, not that they did me any good! (I was never exactly consistent in hitting any of my clubs.) Well, I suppose that's not exactly true. I was consistently bad. :-) 
  
  Regardless, I would guess that most people play the same course or courses on a regular basis. One would get to know the yardages through play. And even if you don't know the yardages, one would learn by experience which club works or doesn't work based on previous play. 

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Mon, Feb 5 2018 12:09 PM

  Robert1893:

  I would think the biggest variable that they can't know with any precision is when a gust of wind might occur and how strong it will be. 

  This is exactly what WGT implemented when they dropped the fixed wind number and made it a range. Gusting was all of a sudden a factor and you see it quite often in AS matches-second tee off gets the opposite of what the first tee off got. One player with a tailwind is saying "What wind?" and the other is saying "Wow, that carried."  LOL

• Robert1893 7,719 Posts

  Mon, Feb 5 2018 12:19 PM

  @Jim
  
  I didn't know that. Thanks for the info; that explains a lot. 

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Mon, Feb 5 2018 12:26 PM

  Robert1893:

  that explains a lot. 

  Heh, my first thought when that change happened was that it was a convenient way to explain (cover up?) shot deviations. When the number was fixed, the complaints in the forum about specific results was a daily happening. Gamers were going nuts because the numbers weren't working. Variable winds pretty much ended those complaints. Now it's about that dang gusting.  LOL

• Roderickjan 121 Posts

  Tue, Feb 6 2018 9:09 AM

  Rabbit274:

  Not so Rody. On my 'real' golf course, we have yardage books, yardage markers on or close to the fairways. Even the bog standard scorecards have yardages on the course info. WGT doesn't have the ability for a golfer to pace out distances from markers, so they give them to us instead. Pretty realistic in my view.

  I on purpose said "guess" the distance. In real golf you have much tools to guess the distance but you never know the exact distance and nobody hit's like a computer.  In Wgt it's to easy to calculate almost exactly how you must hit the ball. There are players who can place every ball within 5 feet of the hole and can't really putt. If you let the players "guess" the distance ,  putting would be more important.

  Rody     

   

• Luckystar5 1,638 Posts

  Tue, Feb 6 2018 11:33 AM

  I guess I'm at a loss here.  Even knowing the exact distance to the pin, my shots vary quite a bit.  Many times I have chosen an iron to hit a prescribed distance and I've either come up short, hit it long.etc.   I've never been able to hit a club the exact same distance every time.  Every shot I hit is a guess, maybe an educated one, but none the less a guess. 

• Luckystar5 1,638 Posts

  Tue, Feb 6 2018 11:36 AM

  That goes for on here, and in real life. 

• LouisPeter0 713 Posts

  Tue, Feb 6 2018 6:52 PM

  Agreed. And isn't that part of the enduring appeal of the game? That there are some variables that can't be accounted for with pin-point accuracy? Wouldn't it be boring if we could be absolutely certain of all of our shots all of the time?

• Lutjanid 697 Posts

  Tue, Feb 6 2018 7:21 PM

  The Laser range finders are the best in RL. Just aim and push the button, instant yardage to whatever your aiming at. Some also come with a feature to factor in the uphill or downhill of the shot. Although this can only be used in practice. Us golfers are running out of excuses.....

• Raina78 8 Posts

  Tue, Feb 6 2018 9:55 PM

  Roderickjan, you are missing the bigger molecule hidden with the interior of the second atom containing hydrogen and chromozonal peptides. When one does not know the distance, Tis it not wiser to be willing to travel ANY lengths imagined to taste that sweet sweet milkshake that brings all the boys to the club. I could show you, but I would have to charge. Ba ba ba ba ba. Warm it up. My milkshake brings all the golfers to the course.