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Why aim a putt at all ??

• tanneralis 422 Posts

  Sun, Mar 2 2025 4:01 PM

  I move the aimer and try to hit the ding to start my putt on the line where I aimed it...please explain yo me WGT why after hitting the dong or being very close to it the ball jumps off the putter face 2 or cups away from the line I aimed for ?? 

  I don't have any issue with missing a putt if the ball starts on my intended line but when the ball jumps sideways off the putter what was the point of moving the aimer !!!

  Greg

• moto176 8 Posts

  Sun, Mar 2 2025 5:15 PM

  I agree, it happens even if you hit the ding, but not on all greens.

  Also I've played 5-6 games recently where my opponent has been disconnected even before we start and I've lost my coins for the game. I'm down over 12,000 coins

  No answer from help desk

• Lesthanpar 1,531 Posts

  Mon, Mar 3 2025 12:41 AM

  tanneralis:

  I move the aimer and try to hit the ding to start my putt on the line where I aimed it...please explain yo me WGT why after hitting the dong or being very close to it the ball jumps off the putter face 2 or cups away from the line I aimed for ?? 

  I don't have any issue with missing a putt if the ball starts on my intended line but when the ball jumps sideways off the putter what was the point of moving the aimer !!!

  Greg

  I have had it happen that the putt just mysteriously goes sideways off the putter even with a dinged shot, but it is very rare for me. I chock it up to VEM, just like other shots don't even go where I aim which happens but thankfully is rare. I just had one of those. 3mph left to right wind. 3wood lay up on a par 5 aimed slightly left for the slight wind dinged it thinking it was right down the middle, and it went 10 yards right into a bunker. I agree though, getting shots like that make me wonder why bother to aim, try to click it or even figure the shot if WGT is going to make it go wherever they want it to go anyway.

• J1mmyBenzzz 3 Posts

  Mon, Mar 3 2025 4:06 AM

  Don’t get me started on this subject! I had been kicked from tournaments or the games trying to to make the cut & because the person I was up against quit after his first shot, I ended up going bogey, bogey, bogey on 3 straight holes!!! Luckily they have fixed that but what really gets me is why the players that do quit early wether it be because a bad shot or disconnected on accident, aren’t they hit with some sort of penalty for things like this happening. I have left messages with these creators (I think?) only to never see or hear about anything being done to detour these “QUITTERS” from quitting! If they are worried about backlash because some people might be dealing with connection issues, then drop a “WARNING” prior to any match making it like a “play at your own risk” situation! That way we can make sure our connections are strong before hand thus eliminating the excuse that we were disconnected during game play! The lack of response on WGT’s part is definitely another problem that NEEDS TO BE ADDRESSED!!!  Sorry btw! I kinda went of subject on my rant! Frustration seems to get the best of me again! . . 

• SamSpayed 5,075 Posts

  Tue, Mar 4 2025 5:01 PM

  tanneralis:

  I move the aimer and try to hit the ding to start my putt on the line where I aimed it...please explain to me WGT why after hitting the ding or being very close to it the ball jumps off the putter face 2 or cups away from the line I aimed for ?? 

  There was a break at your feet that you didn't see or adjust for.  And if your putt started out with a sharp downhill, that break would have been magnified.

• Lesthanpar 1,531 Posts

  Tue, Mar 4 2025 11:57 PM

  SamSpayed:

  tanneralis:

  I move the aimer and try to hit the ding to start my putt on the line where I aimed it...please explain to me WGT why after hitting the ding or being very close to it the ball jumps off the putter face 2 or cups away from the line I aimed for ?? 

  There was a break at your feet that you didn't see or adjust for.  And if your putt started out with a sharp downhill, that break would have been magnified.

  This could be but I think a Tour Champ with 7909 ranked rounds as tannerailis has would be aware of this. Fact is there are random shots like that, like I said above it is rare for me, but I don't disbelieve it because I have seen it myself. There are random shots that just do not go where it was aimed, no wind or slope to take it where it ends up which can only be part of the variables programed into the game.

• tramilleo 1,913 Posts

  Wed, Mar 5 2025 12:21 AM

  Agree ^^^ with Les

• SimonTheBeetle 3,800 Posts

  Wed, Mar 5 2025 11:24 AM

  Lesthanpar:

  which can only be part of the variables programed into the game.

  Also known as VEM (http://www.patentbuddy.com/Patent/7806777)

  They claim they haven't implemented it in the game, but I don't know... From my experience, it definitely feels like it's there.

• Lesthanpar 1,531 Posts

  Wed, Mar 5 2025 11:23 PM

  SimonTheBeetle:

  Lesthanpar:

  which can only be part of the variables programed into the game.

  Also known as VEM (http://www.patentbuddy.com/Patent/7806777)

  They claim they haven't implemented it in the game, but I don't know... From my experience, it definitely feels like it's there.

  Yep, and that is why I chocked it up to VEM in my first post. Just part of the game. It does not really annoy me too much when I get a shot like that unless I am playing a ready go or a club tourney that I am really trying to score well in. Either VEM is there or some other mysterious variable.