jakestanfill7:
Cmc,
Been at this for quite a while at a fairly high level of play. I don't for a second believe that the game sees you playing well and decided to make it harder or deviate more all of the sudden just to screw you. How the heck do people score, myself included, shoot 25-27 from the Legend tees?
That said, I too see some wild deviations from time to time in the 15 -20 yard range. Those are very rare but they happen. Deviations seem to come in waves. Wish there was a cap set to max out at around 3 a side but we all have to deal with it. I had a spell a month or two ago just like you speak of when I was almost better served to mishit than ding. Seemed like a third of the shots I hit for a week weren't within the same area code they should have been.
Best advice I can give is just to brush up on your putts from the 20-30 foot range. That's the big disparity you see in scores. Those that can rebound from devs and meter spikes by nailing the long testers rise to the top. Recently had a wild night of meter spikes and devs but also nailed 195 feet worth of putts on 9 holes to shoot 27 and win the ready go.
I may be wrong has been known lol but this is from the quote about deviation
The shot data is spread out amongst all users, so there will be times when you run into a lot of "edge cases" (aka deviations, aka outside edge of the precision circle) and times where you seemingly can't miss the center (even when you mishit). This is the ebb and flow of the game and it's always been there. In the short term you will have "bad" days and "good" days.
to me that reads that there is a percentage of shots determined in your round (maybe over a day or a tournament, I don't know).
If the data determines that 50% of shots will be the edge case, 25% will be inside and 25% will be spot on what the post is basically saying is that maybe the 25% spot on data has been used, and whats left is 10% of inside shots and 50% of edge shots, so expect to be further from the pin than usual (and if you miss the ding on edge shots you're even further away.)
That probably explains why some days you hit great rounds, the next you can't hit a bucket and if this is the case - isn't that wrong? your shot outcome is already affected by 'shot data'