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• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Wed, Jul 6 2011 10:14 AM

  SGTBilko:

  sometimes they forget to change what the caddie did suggest.

  This is exactly what gets fixed by knowing your shots. IRL you're planning your next shot as you walk  to it. Here you should be doing the same thing and have that thought in your head when it's your turn. 

  41 yards off the green the caddie is telling me to pitch. It doesn't know that's a perfect punch with the Satin 64w but I do so I find it easier to just plain ignore the caddie. It isn't hard to get into the habit and IMO will help a lot. GL

• hpurey 11,521 Posts

  Wed, Jul 6 2011 11:31 AM

  YankeeJim:

  SGTBilko:

  sometimes they forget to change what the caddie did suggest.

  I find it easier to just plain ignore the caddie.

  Me too

• JaLaBar 1,254 Posts

  Wed, Jul 6 2011 1:03 PM

  I'm mostly to that point with shots around the green.  My bigger gripe now is with meter variations on putts.  Case in point, a round I just (almost) finished, I withdrew.  I had a 13' putt, 2" downhill, for par.  It gave me a 30' meter.  Admittedly, I didn't check it.  Also admittedly, I hit it too hard anyway.  Careless because it was dead straight in and I knew I made it.  So it ripped past the hole with a little hop at the cup and landed 14', no elevation.  15' meter.  WTF??

• JeffGooch 263 Posts

  Wed, Jul 6 2011 2:11 PM

  Just like in real golf (agreeing with YJ)  have a routine and stick with it.  The caddie is there to get you close to the right club.  It's easier to scroll up or down a club than start each shot with say a Driver in your hand.

  Read the shot,  decide what kind of shot to take. check what you've got in your hand.  If it's right,  more power to you. If not you can't be more than a scroll and a hover/click away.

• FuzzyBallz 179 Posts

  Sat, Jul 9 2011 12:14 PM

  I see these types of post all over the place. "Meter Glitch sucks" / why is it the club it gives with settings is not the best  / this club has good forgiveness but if I don't hit the ding it is out in rough / for the life of me I can not figure out why it is the Games fault or WGT's fault.

  Caddie - Who Cares the caddie is not the guy trying to hit it - I am so it is for me to decide just how do I want to hit this 6' up hill lie 54 yards out, on to a green that is fast break away to the back left side with a 23 mile wind pushing from right to left.

  If I do what the caddie says use the PW for 110 yards aiming right at the flag, I know the way I play pulling everything left I am going way left and short, because the game sets contact point of ball in middle. I switch clubs to my 75 yard club full back spin to get it up in the air, and go about 3/4 power then I hope for the best after aiming more right the need be to allow for pulling shot left and wind pushing shot left.

  When I miss it is my dumb luck not the blame of WGT ,or the game.