silly course

[duncanmathieson]

Well that course should not be used for stableford lol.
will be deleting from courses asap.
good luck playing this one guys

[davefv92c]

yep i looked at that tourney and the scores and decided not to play it this week
tbh this course should be used for any tourneys other then maybe, tough stuff and hazard

[NIBNOB]

This course does have it issues(Fairway roll offs...glitchy greens..etc)....but i still enjoyed the challenge

[whattashot]

Frankly, my opinion is that it doesn't matter what the course or conditions are in any of the tournaments. Tough Stuff, Hazard, Stableford, Skilz. They are all bogus. The same 9 or ten people are in the top 10-15 every week in every one of them. Sometimes they switch places on the LB for a couple of weeks, but its always the same guys.

These 9 or 10 or 11 guys obviously know something or do something that none of the rest of us know or do. They HAVE to hit the snap (if they are even clickers) PERFECT 95% of the time to post these scores week after week after week. My game, and I suspect the rest of those who are never in the 10 or so is this: if I miss a snap even a teeny weeny little bit..I mean 1% or less..either way and its a minimum of 30 to 40 feet, and that's is if somehow a miracle occurs and these constant hard pan fairways, even when the conditions say SOFT..don't shoot the ball another 45 feet off the green. There's no way these guys are missing snaps and making birdies EVERY hole from 30+ feet.

NO ONE offers to help players learn this game. Its all trial and error, and even with a really good snap....maybe minus 4 or 5 for 9 once in a while. There are NO videos or tutorials to teach people what all of those little bitty break lines mean when you are running the aiming marker around the green...you line up a putt that breaks 22 inches until it gets right to the hole and the BLI shows and the little white dots show it breaks the other way, but there is absolutely NOTHING to tell you HOW MUCH. Its just a guess..at least for us ordinary players.

The guy who sets these up every week has to have a gimmick every time. Slice around a tree...hit a green from 261 yards in the fairway with a 26% power loss and a 21 mph wind in your face. He doesn't need to to do that. He's just penalizing the bottom players. Those other guys never miss a beat.

Like I said, those 10 or 11 guys know something. Until everyone else figures it out its not going to change.

[whattashot]

This course does have it issues(Fairway roll offs...glitchy greens..etc)....but i still enjoyed the challenge

THIS course??? hahahaha....every single one...huge bounces off the fw...huge bounces over the green...hard fairways/soft greens...you play short to get the bounce on...dies...just like the fw was soft too...all of them doesn't matter the course.

[Affo]

Advice, hints have been offered about how to improve your gameplay by many. Watch some of my videos, you can see exactly how I play.

It really is just about learning how the ball will react with the different surfaces. Moving the dot around the ball on different surfaces will give different results. Is it true to actual physics, most of the time, some reactions are odd but you just got to learn them.

As for hitting the snap, yes mostly, I am lucky enough to have good hand eye co-ordination, always have and enjoys many sports that these are needed in. Sometimes though not hitting the snap is beneficial too.

You ask how much a putt breaks using the BLI...well, the length of the white line indicating which way there is a break tells you that, longer the line, steeper the slope.

Anything you would like to know, ask away, there aren't any secrets I have to keep which the top players have or know about the game, happy to help.

[duncanmathieson]

excellent point Andy. Like many players, I also miss the snap a few times but not trying to over hit the ball also helps (less dramatic affect on ball ) eg. veering to left or right.Take Andy's advice on putting and you will get thre in the end m8. good luck

[whattashot]

Advice, hints have been offered about how to improve your gameplay by many. Watch some of my videos, you can see exactly how I play.

I went to YouTube and could find no videos by "Affo" for Perfect Golf. Perhaps if you would include a link?

I think you and Duncan have sort of missed my point. The game's inconsistency is what bothers me. I'm a decent snapper, and I played Links for 27 years, so I understand ball mechanics and all of that. I'm not looking to shoot -18, that's one of the reasons I left Links to come to this game.

Examples:

Breezy wind, direction and speed change while you're half way up the meter. What? And a typical change has the wind going from 9mph to 14mph in milliseconds. A huge impact on shot distance and placement. What was the point of the shot set up?? Show me, even in the British Open, where wind affects shots like that.

Gusty wind is not gusty in this game. Sometimes it will sit on a specific wind speed and direction for several seconds. That's what breezy should do.

Windy..sometimes 30 mph wind right in your face is 50 yards short, sometimes its only 28 yards short (assuming the same club, snap, and power). How can you calculate a shot like that...or LEARN how to hit in those conditions?

Many fairway and green reactions seem to be determined by the designer instead of the chosen conditions. Tournament says Normal/Soft, the fairways play like they are soft too. No high bounce, just dies on impact. How can you LEARN to hit in those conditions when they are never the same?

You have a 37 yard pitch to a flat green straight in to a 31 mph wind. Sometimes there is ZERO affect from the wind, the ball goes sailing over the green. So, the next time you don't consider the wind. You end up 15 yards short. How can you LEARN to hit in those conditions when there is ZERO consistency?

Its actually easier to play in Stormy than Windy because its the only time the wind is stable. If you set up on the tee with 37mph from the right, that's what it will be when you hit.

Generally, again still some inconsistency, if a player hits the snap, calm wind, breezy wind under 20mph has no effect on the ball so its useless to try to compensate for wind.

I use the short and long snap to fade and draw. The place to hit short or long is so inconsistent, I just give up and try to play the wind with a snap. The problem with that is if you miss it, even 005, the effect is unreal.

Watching a video will only teach if the video maker patiently explains why and what they are doing at shot setup, and what they expect the result to be.

[Mwh65]

The YouTube link is in his signature ...

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWQQ0c ... dgs0U6nODQ

[whattashot]

The YouTube link is in his signature ...

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCWQQ0c ... dgs0U6nODQ

Thank you. Didn't even think to look there.