Wind information please

[whattashot]

I'm wondering if someone can explain the wind directions shown on the tournament course/conditions for each tournament. For example, this week's American tour is at California Golf Club, and the wind is shown for each round, respectively, round 1, 165 degrees, rd 2, 190 degrees, rd 2, 170 degrees, and rd 4, 155 degrees. What does that mean, exactly? 165 degrees from where? Since Mike Jones skipped half the stuff you need for an online golf game, there are no scorecards showing the entire layout of the course, therefore the player has zero direction bearing. When you are standing on the tee for every hole, you have no idea what direction you are facing. So, what does the degrees of wind have to do with anything? I've been playing for almost 3 years, and my experience, regardless of what the conditions say, is that 3 out 4 par 5s will ALWAY be into the wind, and if its over 580 yards the wind will be at it strongest. Plus I have played courses with a par 5 and 14 mph wind in your face, and the next is back the exact opposite direction (based on seeing the next fairway on the overhead camera), and the wind is still right in my face. The other day, I played a course that was a 90 degree L dogleg. 14mph wind in my face. I hit the ball 260 yards straight down to the right hand turn, and on my next shot the wind was 14 mph right in my face! So, I'm thinking this wind thing is bogus.

I realize that I could go to Google earth and look at the course from above and plot the directions, but why should I have to do that? Besides, half of the "real" course aren't even close to being real. Look at the gum trees on California Golf Club, there are no gum trees there in real life.

Does anyone know about the wind?

[charlie]

Go to Ladders - createAgame Manual, and I think it will make more sense.

Conditions can be created for any course, such as wind conditions...including wind direction.

[JMK59]

99.9% of the real courses in PG have the holes routed in the proper North-South direction. North is 0 or 360 degrees, East is 90 degrees, South is 180 degrees, and West is 270 degrees.

I used ProVisualizer to screen grab the real California GC. (found here https://www.provisualizer.com/features/atoz.php)
This is the clubs true layout.

I created a spreadsheet utility to read the course file description of any PG layout. I can view and change the wind direction in the sheet. I set the wind at 143 degrees, or SSE ( South South East). It also creates a scorecard and shows the pin positions for every green.

The wind direction isn't constant in PG. Often times it changes from a side wind to a head or tail wind ( seems like it does this to me just as I swing ).

Hope that helps,

John

[whattashot]

Excellent replies. Thanks for the information, Charlie and John. Not sure it will help my game, but I'll understand why I suck so bad.