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You get credits for every round of golf you play in the career mode, even if you play the quick rounds and not the full rounds, if you do poor in the tournaments, you will get less experience/points. or none if you dont make the cut. although u still earn some experience.
the wind is affected by alot of things, not just wind. The ball lie, your characters lie, type of swing, swing consistency, swing momentum, swing percentage, ball arc, ball apex, type of shot, up hill shot, down hill shot, and so on.... learn these and then use the wind to adjust your shot. However even accounting for all that, if it is a variable wind. you will not be able to hit the same shot everytime down to 1 foot, hence Variable Wind Speeds. You live with it or play a custom round and turn wind off or to a fixed wind speed.
Commentators are great but yeah, needs more accuracy in whats going on in their surroundings,
This is all really pointless as EA has lost the majority of the developers that created this masterpiece....
This sucks because its a really good game and way better than 2k with its gimmick swing(cheaters everywhere using mods), and crappy course looks with fake depth perception where everything looks flat, Lidar tech my behind lol.
I just add this, Thanks EA for giving us another game after Rory in 2015.....
I hope you make another one and focus on what u did right in this one.... which was most of everything lol... and keep the Masters License...