Has anyone hit a flagstick lately?
One of my biggest pet peeves with this game was hitting the flagstick. Everytime it was hit, it careened 30-40 feet away from the pin. Regardless if it was a 15 yard flop... or 120 yard approach shot...
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@ELF014 I have hit the pin many times. Sometimes with a 2W and sometimes with approach irons and sometimes with all the different pitch shots. The point is that you do not have any idea what the result is going to be. Yes there are ricochets that end up off the green and there are ones that stop dead and about 3 now have plugged into the holes. It is golf. Accept what you get and make the next shot. What is with the whiners? Don't like it? Don't play. It is taking time to learn all the shots and when to play them and how to get close to pins by modifying the lofts and reading the winds. Best is to play to the middle of the greens and learn to move the balls after they land. It is not easy but it is rewarding.
@LemonDropKid wrote:
@ELF014I have hit the pin many times. Sometimes with a 2W and sometimes with approach irons and sometimes with all the different pitch shots. The point is that you do not have any idea what the result is going to be. Yes there are ricochets that end up off the green and there are ones that stop dead and about 3 now have plugged into the holes. It is golf. Accept what you get and make the next shot. What is with the whiners? Don't like it? Don't play. It is taking time to learn all the shots and when to play them and how to get close to pins by modifying the lofts and reading the winds. Best is to play to the middle of the greens and learn to move the balls after they land. It is not easy but it is rewarding.
You seem to have the wrong idea. I asked if anyone noticed a change in the number of pins being hit of late.
I don't remember complaining about it... other than the fact that more often than not how hard it hits the flagstick is unrealistic.
You seem to be implying that I am not very proficient at this game. I got tired of scoring low in this game that we now play without skills or specs, just a stock 67 character on SIM settings and manually disabling other features. Since SIM presets don't disable everything.
By the way, even with these settings we usually still shoot under par. I was -5 at Evian last night.
And the game IS easy... and not really that rewarding in it's current state, especially, if you have a fully skilled and spec character.
I was not referring to you at all Elf14. I was referring to all those that are moaning and biatching. They seem to think that they are on Twitter. :-)
@LemonDropKid wrote:I was not referring to you at all Elf14. I was referring to all those that are moaning and biatching. They seem to think that they are on Twitter. :-)
In that case my apologies... since you quoted my post I assumed it was directed at me.
But I still feel people are entitled to their opinions even if I might not agree with them. There are times in life where I am wrong... and I don't have a problem saying I'm wrong. You just need to convince me, which is why we need discourse.
Sometimes there is no right or wrong... there is just an opinion and that is okay. I feel we should be adult enough to accept that too.
That we don't need to separate into corners, but stay together and learn to accept our differences. Afterall we are all here for the same reason... to talk about this game.
- @ELF014 Well said. I totally agree. Every person is living their own life journey for sure.
