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Sat, Feb 4 2012 10:43 AM (20 replies)
  • alosso
    21,073 Posts
    Fri, Feb 3 2012 9:05 AM

    What about playing back to the tee?

    (don't beat me pls!)

  • frappefort
    3,994 Posts
    Fri, Feb 3 2012 9:34 AM

    not a bad idee  wen  i am confused  to scare to try something, like the shot the we see in this post, i at time go back to fairway  with a wedge .......better the water or triple bogg  :) 

    alosso:

    What about playing back to the tee?

    (don't beat me pls!)

  • CMcCartney727
    1,417 Posts
    Fri, Feb 3 2012 10:50 AM

    alosso:

    What about playing back to the tee?

    (don't beat me pls!)

     

    Well, I'm playing a tournament and I've already hit one ball in the water... I hit back to the tee and I'll be hitting 4 from the tee box...  looking at a triple at best...  I hadn't had that drop before and was more stumped by that than anything else.  Apparently I'm not alone.

  • alosso
    21,073 Posts
    Sat, Feb 4 2012 1:27 AM

    Obviously, another wet ball won't be helful, either.

    Like in RL, I'd prefer to cut the losses then.

     

    As a note to WGT, the choice between a drop close to the water and a 2nd tee shot or maybe a dropping zone on a shorter tee box might be cared for a bit more realistic by the program. There has been another description lately (Congressional 10?) with a similar unfavourable drop.

    Player's dream would be a personal choice, but I keep my eyes shut during such dreams :)

  • mantis0014
    8,946 Posts
    Sat, Feb 4 2012 3:09 AM

    I have noticed lately that if I miss the ding just slightly on the right when there is a lake, the ball will make an unnatural curve to the water...lol. More often now this year (as in the last month)...grrr.

    I've never been in that drop zone before, but I'm sure I will be sometime....lol

    My way of thinking is... the game will drop the ball where it thinks you crossed the water at a set spot.. eg 20ft back from water.

    That 20ft could be anywhere... in weeds, bunker, fairway. The game doesn't know where it drops it... it just knows to drop 20ft back (saying 20ft just as an example)

    Cheers

       Roger

     

     

  • chrisironsbones
    3,524 Posts
    Sat, Feb 4 2012 6:19 AM

    I withdrew from that winter tournament on hole #5. Although i birdied the first 4 holes, i got to the par#3, was 1 yard from pin, steep break i adjusted right for it, ball went STRAIGHT (JUST LIKE #11 AT CABO).  The sn2 putt i had for par, had NO MOVING DOTS, i aim for centre of pin, hit ding, PUTT GOES RIGHT!.  That made me just withdraw instantly.  MY BIGGEST AND I MEAN BIGGEST hate of WGT are the "FAKE BREAKS", or vice versa, no moving dots visible, but ball goes right/left of hole.  Most places i have remembered SOME, of these fake breaks, but unles your a geek and have written them all down on a notepad (i have better things to do with my time) its easy to forget where they are.  When these Fake brake's occur, i just quit instantly, i cant be bothered anymore wasting time on bad mappings of the greens.

    I give credit to wgt for most of the greens accuracy, most courses the breaks do their job right in turning the ball, but there must be about 30% of places which are inacurate (+slope indicators included) because i dont mind missing due to me not reading putt, but having an easy putt sail wide as the moving dots showed a break which was not really there and decides a tournaments outcome, then this is a very big annoyance of mine!"

    And to the OP, if you shank near lake, then you got to know whats coming, but as for the drop, this is another issue wgt needs to fix, how about using the aim marker to pinpoint a place you want to drop ball and then stick your avatar there.

    But with the drop issues, i think its a lot too do with not being able to stick avatar on right edge of green as the camera man could not take a shot from the lake, you notice this when trying to get front view on congressional 18, due to that would send poor camera man into lake you only get reverse view.  But it wouldn't stop iyou being allowed to drop more inland!

  • DAZZA501
    5,972 Posts
    Sat, Feb 4 2012 6:44 AM

    Fake breaks, dinged shots dropping 20yards short and the meter that doesn't stop when you click are the things i hate most. You can give me every hole in to the wind but as long as the shots react how they should i'd be happy. I'm fed up with paying to enter a tournament only to be f***ed over in the 1st few holes.

  • KJHAWK2
    567 Posts
    Sat, Feb 4 2012 7:25 AM

    I actually like the randomness especially the wind and the greens. Have you ever hit a putt that made your head shake in real life? Tiger does it every week! LOL. I would actually see slight gusts in the wind as well. Just my opinion.....

    HAWK

  • DAZZA501
    5,972 Posts
    Sat, Feb 4 2012 8:44 AM

    KJHAWK2:
    I actually like the randomness especially the wind and the greens. Have you ever hit a putt that made your head shake in real life? Tiger does it every week! LOL. I would actually see slight gusts in the wind as well. Just my opinion.....

    I have no problem with the wind. It can blow 30mph all day as far as i'm concerned. But if the wind is blowing sideways right to left then i expect it to move the ball right to left and not just stay where i aimed just because that happened to be towards the water (8th at ccc for example)

  • CMcCartney727
    1,417 Posts
    Sat, Feb 4 2012 9:00 AM

    chrisironsbones:

    MY BIGGEST AND I MEAN BIGGEST hate of WGT are the "FAKE BREAKS", or vice versa, no moving dots visible, but ball goes right/left of hole.  Most places i have remembered SOME, of these fake breaks, but unles your a geek and have written them all down on a notepad (i have better things to do with my time) its easy to forget where they are.  

    And to the OP, if you shank near lake, then you got to know whats coming

    I'm glad I'm not the only one who experiences these 'mirages'...  I see them often on Cabo ( I recognize a few when I'm on the hole, but can't recall the hole number), but really it happens quite a bit on putts in the 5-7 foot range everywhere.  The dots are moving and the ball goes straight, or vice versa.    Or the game doesn't show any dots at  all between where your ball is and the hole- is this to mean there's no break, or they're just not showing it?

    Also, I didn't 'shank' the tee shot... my post states I missed the ding by the slightest of margins..  I understand that this game will do that (the tee shot on Kiawah #11, with the water on the right.. missed ding by a hair and the ball goes dead right sometimes), usually in the middle of a good round in a tournament ;)

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