I have run into this issue too much to believe it is an issue of perception, but instead must be one of coding. Across many rounds and using many clubs, and on two different PCs, I have found that if you get the meter *almost* perfect relative to the center mark--the tiniest bit off to where there's not even a gap between the mark and where you clicked--your player will yank or push the shot HARD, as if you were a good half inch away from center, instead of just being gently off center as you'd expect.
I can't see what else this could be but a bug and presumably it ought to be an easy one to trace and fix with testing.
Has anyone else run into this issue?