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ICONS EXPLAINED

• Birdman19520 47 Posts

  Wed, Dec 27 2023 5:03 PM

  As a newbie, I've got quite a few questions.. such as .. is there an explanation of icons during gameplay such as the golfball in the lower right corner with the green dot that you can move up and down.. also in the same corner there is an arrow pointing up and down and when you click ....on  it , the arrows go horizontal..... I'm just wondering where I go to look on for the answers to questions like these.. TIA... 

• Rick6208 2,214 Posts

  Wed, Dec 27 2023 6:08 PM

  The green dot on the ball adds or takes away back spin on the ball , moving the green dot to the bottom adds maximum back spin but also takes about 5 yards off the club’s distance! Example 150 yard club with only go about 145 yards but will hit and most likely roll back . Also the more spin you put on the ball the more a cross wind will effect the balls flight ! Most of the time I move the green dot down to about halfway down the ball to get the distance stated for that club and to hit and stick without much roll back

  hope this helps

• Birdman19520 47 Posts

  Wed, Dec 27 2023 6:14 PM

  Thanks Rick... 

• bossbird 2,232 Posts

  Wed, Dec 27 2023 11:09 PM

  I am not aware of a generic place where all your questions will be answered. If you want I can friend you and we can play and I can explain during a game . The more you play the more you find out but I am happy to assist if you want .

• ElfriedaHahn 1 Posts

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• BlackBogey 534 Posts

  Tue, Jan 16 2024 11:08 AM

  The vertical/horizontal arrows are used for reading the dot flow on the greens.  By default it will give you the horizontal "left to right" or "right to left" dots to indicate how much a putt will break.

  I'm not even going to get into the vertical dots because I'm still trying to figure those out myself.

• Yiannis1970 3,306 Posts

  Tue, Jan 16 2024 2:39 PM

  The vertical dots are only there to determine the right speed of the putt. If you open it up, you will see some dots going faster and others slower.

• BlackBogey 534 Posts

  Tue, Jan 16 2024 4:32 PM

  Yiannis1970:

  The vertical dots are only there to determine the right speed of the putt. If you open it up, you will see some dots going faster and others slower.

  I've been told that if you are a dot counter, you open the vertical dots first and the fastest one is the one you use to decide which row of horizontal dots to count for the break, but I'm not always finding this to always be true. 

  So far, the only thing I'm really finding the vertical dots helpful for are that you might discover that a putt might say -3 for elevation, but if you look at the vertical dots you might notice that it's -5 at the beginning, but then actually +2 for the few feet, which would indicate you might want to hit it a little harder and play a little less overall break.

• Yiannis1970 3,306 Posts

  Wed, Jan 17 2024 4:24 AM

  BlackBogey:

  Yiannis1970:

  The vertical dots are only there to determine the right speed of the putt. If you open it up, you will see some dots going faster and others slower.

  I've been told that if you are a dot counter, you open the vertical dots first and the fastest one is the one you use to decide which row of horizontal dots to count for the break, but I'm not always finding this to always be true. 

   

  Not true according to my experience of course. There is no logical explanation behind about what you have been told, so i leave it here.

  So far, the only thing I'm really finding the vertical dots helpful for are that you might discover that a putt might say -3 for elevation, but if you look at the vertical dots you might notice that it's -5 at the beginning, but then actually +2 for the few feet, which would indicate you might want to hit it a little harder and play a little less overall break.

  Exactly.

   

• SamSpayed 5,021 Posts

  Wed, Jan 17 2024 11:17 AM

  BlackBogey:

  So far, the only thing I'm really finding the vertical dots helpful for are that you might discover that a putt might say -3 for elevation, but if you look at the vertical dots you might notice that it's -5 at the beginning, but then actually +2 for the few feet, which would indicate you might want to hit it a little harder and play a little less overall break.

  That's part of it, but not the complete picture.  

  A lot of times, you will have an offset putt... for example, one of those putts like on Kiawah where your avatar (and the grids) do not line up squarely with the hole.  In those cases, if you look at the vertical dots, you will see that they move in such a way that - because of their movement angle relative to your putting line - they either add to the break or subtract from it.  I suspect that probably 99+% of the time, players that don't look at the vertical dots are the ones complaining bitterly and saying things like "That putt showed break but didn't break!" or "That putt didn't show anywhere near that much break!" or "It's VEM!" 

  As for using the vertical dots to determine which (single) horizontal dot to use to determine your overall putt break, well, that sounds like a shortcut to me.  If it works for you... great... but personally, I look at all the dots (both horizontal and vertical) on every putt between my ball and the hole to determine what the ball is going to do.