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• Heath021 378 Posts

  Mon, Jul 18 2011 3:24 PM

  *** you and your *** inconsistencies of this *** game!!!! When the putting says you are 1 inch above the hole then be 1 inch...how the *** are we supposed to know to put an extra 2 foot on the put when we are not really standing on the *** green to be able to read the putt.  We rely on the information we are given to make the correct adjustments...thats the only way we know how to hit a shot.  We are not out on the *** course to be able to take other parameters into consideration.  Ive been playing this game for a long time, but ive noticed lately more and more of the inconsistencies.  To be honest...if you cant already tell...im starting to get really pissed off.  I shoot a *** 58 in the Open Qualifier thinking I made the cut...then all of a sudden poof it goes to *** 57.  Then when I'm on the verge of shooting 57 the *** meter goes bazzerk or some other *** inconsistency bites me in the ass and I miss the cut by 1 or 2 strokes!  Or the breaks in the putts...especially on Kiawah...they are so misleading.

• renniw52 5,385 Posts

  Mon, Jul 18 2011 3:41 PM

  Heath, you are a legend with a 61.8 avg. If you are having trouble just imagine what I feel like. I can't shoot a round under 32, does this make any sense? Hell no. I have bought all the clubs, all the balls, and still cannot do it. I have been 6 under many times on different courses with 2 or 3 to go and it goes south. Guess I get the yips, meter sometimes, distances way off and wind not even close to what it indicates happens way too often. Remembering everything, taking notes, I don't buy it for a second. Accusing, never, not at all, just a matter of some have it, some don't. I don't, but I keep swinging. Many times last night I had a drive go nuts in AS games. The other players go that had to be a meter!! I just said doesn't matter, the ball landed where it is SORRY P and played on.

• piztaker 5,743 Posts

  Mon, Jul 18 2011 9:43 PM

  I think the distances should be more exact. The other day I had a dead straight putt which said 10ft. So I hit it accordingly and it came up 10 inches short. The info then said, "Distance travelled 10ft, distance left to hole 10 inches" If it had said 10 ft 10 inches then I'd have hit it harder, even if they had rounded it to the nearest foot it would have been more accurate.

• MrSecki 1 Posts

  Mon, Jul 18 2011 10:34 PM

  This game is great except for putting and short game shots.  It blows, sucks the big one, and is very frustrating.  Chip shot says 27 yards...hole is 12 yards away....set the strength of the shot at about half way and the ball goes 2 feet!!!!!!  WTF is that?  I HATE chipping and putting in this game because it is NOT fair or at all accurate.

• gfsullivan 196 Posts

  Tue, Jul 19 2011 4:05 AM

  for what its worth, I NEVER use chip shots, only Pitch shots.

• chrisironsbones 3,524 Posts

  Tue, Jul 19 2011 4:15 AM

  piztaker:

  I think the distances should be more exact. The other day I had a dead straight putt which said 10ft. So I hit it accordingly and it came up 10 inches short. The info then said, "Distance travelled 10ft, distance left to hole 10 inches" If it had said 10 ft 10 inches then I'd have hit it harder, even if they had rounded it to the nearest foot it would have been more accurate.

  If it was 10.1 then rounding it to the nearest foot would be 10 foot, 10.6 would be 11 foot, personally i always hit my putts a touch harder to compensate for this, so if i miss the putt i'm usually 2 foot past, but yesterday i had a 14 foot putt on 2 ins down slope, hit with 9 foot of power go 30 feet yesterday???

  Do legends get more "deviation" shots when playing a lowered tier player?, because that's how it seems when i play a tour master/master

• BillyTBudMan 100 Posts

  Tue, Jul 19 2011 4:57 AM

  piztaker:

  I think the distances should be more exact. The other day I had a dead straight putt which said 10ft. So I hit it accordingly and it came up 10 inches short. The info then said, "Distance travelled 10ft, distance left to hole 10 inches" If it had said 10 ft 10 inches then I'd have hit it harder, even if they had rounded it to the nearest foot it would have been more accurate.

   

  Mr Piztaker....I find an inaccuracy with you're above statement.  Please don't take this the wrong way, as you seem to be quite a knowledgeable player solely based on the number of posts you have made.  Unless you are just a chatty person then perhaps i am wrong in saying that.  However, you did not hit your putt accordingly, or at least going by what you wrote it would seem you didn't.  Had you hit your putt accordingly you would have attempted to putt the ball anywhere between 11.5 and 13 feet.  Thus allowing you be guaranteed a minimum travel of 10' (assuming you are not putting uphill, and also assuming the distance you were given was not off by two feet, if it was and that is your gripe, then i apologize in advance and you may disregard my posting).  With all that said, i will admit I'm no golf pro, but one thing i do know that has been, is, and always will be certain is 100% of putts that come up short do not go in.  Perhaps you should grab a Bud or 12 and have yourself a nice relaxing round.

• xtabent 2,281 Posts

  Tue, Jul 19 2011 5:11 AM

  use full S/W ..full back spin ..all the time ..just ajust for distance .you'll master it after a while.

• chrisironsbones 3,524 Posts

  Tue, Jul 19 2011 5:28 AM

  BillyTBudMan:

  Mr Piztaker....I find an inaccuracy with you're above statement.  Please don't take this the wrong way, as you seem to be quite a knowledgeable player solely based on the number of posts you have made.  Unless you are just a chatty person then perhaps i am wrong in saying that.  However, you did not hit your putt accordingly, or at least going by what you wrote it would seem you didn't.  Had you hit your putt accordingly you would have attempted to putt the ball anywhere between 11.5 and 13 feet.  Thus allowing you be guaranteed a minimum travel of 10' (assuming you are not putting uphill, and also assuming the distance you were given was not off by two feet, if it was and that is your gripe, then i apologize in advance and you may disregard my posting).  With all that said, i will admit I'm no golf pro, but one thing i do know that has been, is, and always will be certain is 100% of putts that come up short do not go in.  Perhaps you should grab a Bud or 12 and have yourself a nice relaxing round.

  Billy, Pizztaker is right in what he says, as a PRO you would be playing off slower greens than us, where you need to hit the ball 13 foot for a 10 foot putt, the greens are only slightly faster than standard, but i can asure you tournament greens are a different battle all together (it took me days, even weeks to get used to the different pace), for a 20 foot putt, i need only give 14 foot of power, 10 foot, 7 feet of power, but i've even had 50 foot putts where i only have to give 32 foot of power due to a ins or 2 downslope.  And if we had a 10 foot putt with 2 ins downslope, you could sometimes sail past the hole with 5 foot of power.

• BillyTBudMan 100 Posts

  Tue, Jul 19 2011 7:03 AM

  Mr. Chrisironsbones...I guess my point is regardless of what green speed, or how many feet of power equals a certain distance, had the put in question been hit accordingly, it would've been hit to go several feet passed the hole, whether it be with 5, 7, 14, or 2 feet of power.  Am i wrong in my thinking?  It is my understanding after reading your post, that on tournament greens, a 10' distance putt, hit with 10' feet of putting power, will travel approximately 14 - 15 ' on a level green, and a 10' foot distance putt hit with 7' of power will travel 10', but a 10' putt hit with 6.5' or 6' may travel 10', but may also only travel 9' 2", leaving the putt 10" short.  I suppose my question is was the putt in question hit with the proper amount of power (min. 7') or was the distance given off by 10"?  In my opinion it matters little what the answer is, as any and all putts should be hit to travel an absolute minimum of 1' passed the hole, which in this particular case, even if the distance was off by the 10", the putt would've still gone in as it would have had the extra 2" of travel causing the ball to end exactly in the center of the cup, as the cup is 4" (approx.) in diameter.  Another question i have is are the measurements given to the cup measured to the front edge of the cup, or to the center of the hole?