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Wind drift on approach shots

• vanmol 35 Posts

  Fri, Mar 20 2020 11:48 AM

  Hi, Need help for something like this. Approach shot to green 100 yards out. Wind from 3 o'clock telling me the drift is 10 yards. Is there a tool available that ill show me what 10 yards looks like on the green or is it just a guessing game on all courses?

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Fri, Mar 20 2020 12:47 PM

  The flagsticks are 7 feet high but 4 inches of it is in the cup so basically what you see is 80", or just under 7 feet. 

• Dave33200 2,955 Posts

  Fri, Mar 20 2020 2:26 PM

  vanmol:

  Hi, Need help for something like this. Approach shot to green 100 yards out. Wind from 3 o'clock telling me the drift is 10 yards. Is there a tool available that ill show me what 10 yards looks like on the green or is it just a guessing game on all courses?

   

  What version of the game game you playing? Flash, PCEA, mobile. 

   

  On PCEA & mobile, I use 5 feet for each square. On Flash the aim box is 10 feet. On the flash version I use Scott Hopes ruler. Look on his profile page. 

   

   

  edit: sorry, it's feet not yards.  I fixed it. LOL

   

   

   

• ScottHope 10,427 Posts

  Fri, Mar 20 2020 3:11 PM

  Dave33200:

  On the flash version I use Scott Hopes ruler. Look on his profile page.

  Er.....I think you mean Young46 there Dave.  ; )

• Dave33200 2,955 Posts

  Fri, Mar 20 2020 3:25 PM

  ScottHope:

  Dave33200:

  On the flash version I use Scott Hopes ruler. Look on his profile page.

  Er.....I think you mean Young46 there Dave.  ; )

   

  LOL... your right. Heck, I go to your page just for about everything else. 

   

  Dave.

   

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Fri, Mar 20 2020 4:50 PM

  Dave33200:

  Heck, I go to your page just for about everything else

  LMAO.

  QFT.  ;-)

• Fartman56 65 Posts

  Fri, Mar 20 2020 5:31 PM

  It cant be done with any regularity because WGT is so unpredictable. They may tell you the wind speed at ground level. In the air the wind may be 2 to 3 times harder.

• KenBTEXAS 308 Posts

  Fri, Mar 20 2020 6:32 PM

  "I go to your page just for about"

  first place I look for anything :O

  the answers to all of your questions are there 'grasshopper'

  LoL

• borntobesting 9,701 Posts

  Fri, Mar 20 2020 6:50 PM

  My question is how did he come up with 10 yard or 30 feet wind drift on a 100 yard shot? At 3 O’clock or 45 degrees a 100 yard shot the drift would be well over 40 feet with St. Andrews 30 mph gale force wind. But as a tour pro I don’t think he is seeing those kind of winds.

• KenBTEXAS 308 Posts

  Fri, Mar 20 2020 7:27 PM

  I have a feeling he is misunderstanding or misstating the wind effect on the ball......

   

  here is young46's video on wind aiming.... It may help the understanding ..

   

  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3T6efTARqg&t=7s