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What has this game done to us

• Woodoworkery 3,498 Posts

  Fri, Mar 2 2012 9:07 PM

  Why  am I feeling bored and  beating myself up when I don't birdie every hole, and I want to WD as soon as I make 2 par's in a game.

  Just don't get it, the game use to be fun , gave you something to work for , better clubs, better title, lower AVG. Now your avg moves , I should say crawls down. I have tried  and tried to shoot in the mid to upper 50's.... well that 's not going to happen.

   Guess I'm in limbo, I have done my best to master this game, but my best is not good enough. It's hard to accept that I have reached the top of my game and I am just an average player. As for as what  to do about it , well I don't know . I can't quit that's out of the question. Just play by myself, that gets boring. Need to give it some more thought.  

• mantis0014 8,946 Posts

  Fri, Mar 2 2012 9:50 PM

  Woodoworkery:

  Why  am I feeling bored and  beating myself up when I don't birdie every hole, and I want to WD as soon as I make 2 par's in a game.

  Just don't get it, the game use to be fun , gave you something to work for , better clubs, better title, lower AVG. Now your avg moves , I should say crawls down. I have tried  and tried to shoot in the mid to upper 50's.... well that 's not going to happen.

   Guess I'm in limbo, I have done my best to master this game, but my best is not good enough. It's hard to accept that I have reached the top of my game and I am just an average player. As for as what  to do about it , well I don't know . I can't quit that's out of the question. Just play by myself, that gets boring. Need to give it some more thought.  

  Interesting you should say this... I feel the same way...lol. Every point you made is pretty spot on the mark.

  Felt like having a rest, but I shoot a low score and I'm itching to get back...lol.

  Ok, I think I've got over thinking like that (maybe)... I don't worry trying to shoot in the 50's anymore. I think I have just about levelled out now... around the 60 Ave mark and that would be it I think.. which is great.

  I'm playing alot of multiplayer games now too... they are fun and I'm enjoying it. I try and find the comps that you are hitting from the shorter Tees... (the Winter Qual at St.A from the whites). Still not shooting the low score from the whites, but it's fun.

  -Roger

   

• Milfshake 1,260 Posts

  Fri, Mar 2 2012 9:56 PM

  I bet a better lobby would do wonders for this game.

• frappefort 3,994 Posts

  Fri, Mar 2 2012 10:26 PM

  good post , i feel the same way you do  ,but like you ; i love to just try to be like them gifted ones  ,like you my best dont compare to the mid 50 rounds, mid 60  i think i did good LOL ....beating the unbeatable  that what keeps me trying ,just in case i get lucky LOL....glad you like me, will keep trying to get or post lower score , a verry good round  gets me dreaming and playing harder ..........   :)

• MBaggese 15,367 Posts

  Sat, Mar 3 2012 2:21 AM

  Milfshake:

  I bet a better lobby would do wonders for this game.

  Best post of yours I have seen yet.

  For sure we need a better lobby.

  Heck, even a decent one would suffice.

• JeffSpicoli1 88 Posts

  Sat, Mar 3 2012 3:06 PM

  the game just isnt the same. perfectly executed shots arent ending as close as they should. putts arent falling anymore. deviations are worse than ever before. dinged shots end up in the rough. everything is just out of wack. 

  i cant tell you how many times ive shot 27-33, or 28-32.

  front 9 everything falls. hit all fairways. hit all greens. even mis hit a few shots and they still hit the fairway and green. one putt every hole.

  back nine nothing falls. two putt inside 8 feet three holes in a row. slightest mis hit and the ball lands way into the 50-60 stuff. ball rolls right over the cup and doesnt fall. 

  idk what it is. this game will not let me break 60.

  with so many players complaing about this exact same issue it cant be just a mental thing. 

• BOBTX61 311 Posts

  Mon, Mar 5 2012 5:54 PM

  Nice post!  Well.....I've only been on this WGT site for 65 days, played approx. 150 rounds and am sitting at an average of 77.3.  And I feel STUCK here, struggling to improve.  I'm using "starter clubs" and equipment....and I know the equipment makes a difference in your game...just don't plan to spend $$$ here.  I'm having to settle for enjoying the game and not beating myself up too much over my scores....because, I see so many golfers on this site with OUTSTANDING averages, like you.  I have managed to hit (8) hole-in-ones on the "closest to the hole challenges"...one from 88 yards on the Wolf Creek course my ball never even hit the green...it went straight into the hole!  So, feel I have to enjoy shots like that...along with other approach shots or very difficult putts.  When I have played REAL golf in the past....it ONLY took 1 or 2 great shots to get me back out on the golf course....and that pretty much is hold true for this "virtual golf".

• tiffer67 1,764 Posts

  Tue, Mar 6 2012 2:56 AM

  Woodoworkery:

  Guess I'm in limbo, I have done my best to master this game, but my best is not good enough. It's hard to accept that I have reached the top of my game and I am just an average player.

  That sums up my recent feelings on the game perfectly. Realising I was never going to be one of the very best really was hard to take as it was what I'd strived for from day 1. I know all the shots, I can putt, I know how to play every god damn hole blindfolded but there's just something in me that stops me from going as low as others.

  I've accepted it now after months of belligerent denial. I'm playing a lot less as a result but enjoying it more when I do.

   

• hpurey 11,505 Posts

  Tue, Mar 6 2012 4:28 AM

   

  mantis0014:

  Woodoworkery:

  Why  am I feeling bored and  beating myself up when I don't birdie every hole, and I want to WD as soon as I make 2 par's in a game.

  Just don't get it, the game use to be fun , gave you something to work for , better clubs, better title, lower AVG. Now your avg moves , I should say crawls down. I have tried  and tried to shoot in the mid to upper 50's.... well that 's not going to happen.

   Guess I'm in limbo, I have done my best to master this game, but my best is not good enough. It's hard to accept that I have reached the top of my game and I am just an average player. As for as what  to do about it , well I don't know . I can't quit that's out of the question. Just play by myself, that gets boring. Need to give it some more thought.  

  Interesting you should say this... I feel the same way...lol. Every point you made is pretty spot on the mark.

  Felt like having a rest, but I shoot a low score and I'm itching to get back...lol.

  Ok, I think I've got over thinking like that (maybe)... I don't worry trying to shoot in the 50's anymore. I think I have just about levelled out now... around the 60 Ave mark and that would be it I think.. which is great.

  I'm playing alot of multiplayer games now too... they are fun and I'm enjoying it. I try and find the comps that you are hitting from the shorter Tees... (the Winter Qual at St.A from the whites). Still not shooting the low score from the whites, but it's fun.

  -Roger

   

  Same here guys. What has helped me is the fact that I don't expect to shoot well anymore, just try to focus on the fun of playing with some good friends here.  

  tiffer67:

  I know all the shots, I can putt, I know how to play every god damn hole blindfolded but there's just something in me that stops me from going as low as others.

   

  Same here.....  I think my biggest fault for not going low is my meter reflexes, and lack of ability to take my time on each and every shot.  I realize that you can play well without having to hit the ding every single time, it's just for me,  I miss the ding on the wrong side a majority of the time.

   

   

  Maybe, just maybe,  since the real golf season is approaching, my scores here are getting higher just to prepare me for some real life scores.  ;-)

• tiffer67 1,764 Posts

  Tue, Mar 6 2012 5:03 AM

  hpurey:

  Same here.....  I think my biggest fault for not going low is my meter reflexes, and lack of ability to take my time on each and every shot.  I realize that you can play well without having to hit the ding every single time, it's just for me,  I miss the ding on the wrong side a majority of the time.

  I think for me it's a question of concentration, I always seem to let something slip during a round. Yesterday I was 6 feet away on the 18th in the 18 hole single play. A nice easy putt for a 58, I hit the ding late and pushed it wide. 59 is no disgrace in heavy winds but 58 now leads.

  The other issue for me is that I don't play par 3s well enough. Something takes over me and very often I throw a fit and hit shocking shots into the green. It's as though I panic and I never understand why?