Long Drives Don't Count as Stated

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Product: EA SPORTS PGA TOURPlatform:PlayStation 5Summarize your bug The in-game stated requirement is 'Long Drive = A Driver + Power of 100% + a Fairway in Regulation' but it seems the actual requirement is something different. How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Either try a challenge that requires long drives to be completed, or set up a custom round of a single par 4 hole, hit a drive onto the fairway and then complete the hole to see if the final stats include a Long Drive (like I did for the videos I'll share below).What happens when the bug occurs? Not all shots that meet the stated Long Drive criteria are counted as such, and it seems to me that this is affected by player character development in some way.What do you expect to see? All shots that meet the stated Long Drive criteria are counted as Long Drives.‌Product: EA SPORTS PGA TOURPlatform:PlayStation 5Summarize your bug The in-game stated requirement is 'Long Drive = A Driver + Power of 100% + a Fairway in Regulation' but it seems the actual requirement is something different. How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Either try a challenge that requires long drives to be completed, or set up a custom round of a single par 4 hole, hit a drive onto the fairway and then complete the hole to see if the final stats include a Long Drive (like I did for the videos I'll share below).What happens when the bug occurs? Not all shots that meet the stated Long Drive criteria are counted as such, and it seems to me that this is affected by player character development in some way.What do you expect to see? All shots that meet the stated Long Drive criteria are counted as Long Drives.‌I've done some testing to expand on this thread where multiple users have been having issues with Long Drives being triggered in challenges: https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Long-Drive-Fairway-Challenges/m-p/12475403#M2240I completed the challenges OK myself so I can't retest them but I've done some testing on a single hole to see if the end of hole stats show that a Long Drive has been achieved. I used hole 17 at TPC Boston since this is used for the Skills Trainer 'Driving Challenge 2'.If I use a brand new character (zero skill points or specs applied) I can get long drives to count OK. Here's an example, with the tee shot right at the start and then jumping to the end of the short clip you'll see this counted as Long Drive:PGA Tour_20230517100811 - YouTubeIf I switch to my main player I can't get the tee shot to count as a long drive despite meeting the stated criteria as far as I can see. Here are two examples, with the first using shot-shaping to bend it round onto the fairway and the second where I deliberately clip the tree on the right to stop it running off the end of the first section of fairway. This character is level 46 and I have Dustin Johnson's driver spec equipped.PGA Tour_20230517103231 - YouTubePGA Tour_20230517102642 - YouTubeI'll spare you another video but I did try giving my new golfer the DJ driver spec and the long drive still counted.For main gameplay it's no big deal if shots count as Long Drives or not but as the thread I linked to shows this has been causing some frustration when it comes to challenges. My guess is something needs correcting behind the scenes but if not the stated criteria for what counts as Long Drive needs to be updated so at least players know what they need to do. Right now I at least can't figure it out.&nbsp;

richac · Answer

@Ultrasonic_77&nbsp;wrote:Product: EA SPORTS PGA TOURPlatform:PlayStation 5Summarize your bug The in-game stated requirement is 'Long Drive = A Driver + Power of 100% + a Fairway in Regulation' but it seems the actual requirement is something different. How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Either try a challenge that requires long drives to be completed, or set up a custom round of a single par 4 hole, hit a drive onto the fairway and then complete the hole to see if the final stats include a Long Drive (like I did for the videos I'll share below).What happens when the bug occurs? Not all shots that meet the stated Long Drive criteria are counted as such, and it seems to me that this is affected by player character development in some way.What do you expect to see? All shots that meet the stated Long Drive criteria are counted as Long Drives.‌Product: EA SPORTS PGA TOURPlatform:PlayStation 5Summarize your bug The in-game stated requirement is 'Long Drive = A Driver + Power of 100% + a Fairway in Regulation' but it seems the actual requirement is something different. How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Either try a challenge that requires long drives to be completed, or set up a custom round of a single par 4 hole, hit a drive onto the fairway and then complete the hole to see if the final stats include a Long Drive (like I did for the videos I'll share below).What happens when the bug occurs? Not all shots that meet the stated Long Drive criteria are counted as such, and it seems to me that this is affected by player character development in some way.What do you expect to see? All shots that meet the stated Long Drive criteria are counted as Long Drives.‌I've done some testing to expand on this thread where multiple users have been having issues with Long Drives being triggered in challenges: https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Long-Drive-Fairway-Challenges/m-p/12475403#M2240I completed the challenges OK myself so I can't retest them but I've done some testing on a single hole to see if the end of hole stats show that a Long Drive has been achieved. I used hole 17 at TPC Boston since this is used for the Skills Trainer 'Driving Challenge 2'.If I use a brand new character (zero skill points or specs applied) I can get long drives to count OK. Here's an example, with the tee shot right at the start and then jumping to the end of the short clip you'll see this counted as Long Drive:PGA Tour_20230517100811 - YouTubeIf I switch to my main player I can't get the tee shot to count as a long drive despite meeting the stated criteria as far as I can see. Here are two examples, with the first using shot-shaping to bend it round onto the fairway and the second where I deliberately clip the tree on the right to stop it running off the end of the first section of fairway. This character is level 46 and I have Dustin Johnson's driver spec equipped.PGA Tour_20230517103231 - YouTubePGA Tour_20230517102642 - YouTubeI'll spare you another video but I did try giving my new golfer the DJ driver spec and the long drive still counted.For main gameplay it's no big deal if shots count as Long Drives or not but as the thread I linked to shows this has been causing some frustration when it comes to challenges. My guess is something needs correcting behind the scenes but if not the stated criteria for what counts as Long Drive needs to be updated so at least players know what they need to do. Right now I at least can't figure it out.&nbsp;For me the issue is that I was using power drive.&nbsp; Has to be a regular drive shot with driver going over 300 yds with !00% or more power.

richac · Answer

@RichAC&nbsp;wrote:@Ultrasonic_77&nbsp;wrote:Product: EA SPORTS PGA TOURPlatform:PlayStation 5Summarize your bug The in-game stated requirement is 'Long Drive = A Driver + Power of 100% + a Fairway in Regulation' but it seems the actual requirement is something different. How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Either try a challenge that requires long drives to be completed, or set up a custom round of a single par 4 hole, hit a drive onto the fairway and then complete the hole to see if the final stats include a Long Drive (like I did for the videos I'll share below).What happens when the bug occurs? Not all shots that meet the stated Long Drive criteria are counted as such, and it seems to me that this is affected by player character development in some way.What do you expect to see? All shots that meet the stated Long Drive criteria are counted as Long Drives.‌Product: EA SPORTS PGA TOURPlatform:PlayStation 5Summarize your bug The in-game stated requirement is 'Long Drive = A Driver + Power of 100% + a Fairway in Regulation' but it seems the actual requirement is something different. How often does the bug occur? Often (50% - 99%)Steps: How can we find the bug ourselves? Either try a challenge that requires long drives to be completed, or set up a custom round of a single par 4 hole, hit a drive onto the fairway and then complete the hole to see if the final stats include a Long Drive (like I did for the videos I'll share below).What happens when the bug occurs? Not all shots that meet the stated Long Drive criteria are counted as such, and it seems to me that this is affected by player character development in some way.What do you expect to see? All shots that meet the stated Long Drive criteria are counted as Long Drives.‌I've done some testing to expand on this thread where multiple users have been having issues with Long Drives being triggered in challenges: https://answers.ea.com/t5/General-Discussion/Long-Drive-Fairway-Challenges/m-p/12475403#M2240I completed the challenges OK myself so I can't retest them but I've done some testing on a single hole to see if the end of hole stats show that a Long Drive has been achieved. I used hole 17 at TPC Boston since this is used for the Skills Trainer 'Driving Challenge 2'.If I use a brand new character (zero skill points or specs applied) I can get long drives to count OK. Here's an example, with the tee shot right at the start and then jumping to the end of the short clip you'll see this counted as Long Drive:PGA Tour_20230517100811 - YouTubeIf I switch to my main player I can't get the tee shot to count as a long drive despite meeting the stated criteria as far as I can see. Here are two examples, with the first using shot-shaping to bend it round onto the fairway and the second where I deliberately clip the tree on the right to stop it running off the end of the first section of fairway. This character is level 46 and I have Dustin Johnson's driver spec equipped.PGA Tour_20230517103231 - YouTubePGA Tour_20230517102642 - YouTubeI'll spare you another video but I did try giving my new golfer the DJ driver spec and the long drive still counted.For main gameplay it's no big deal if shots count as Long Drives or not but as the thread I linked to shows this has been causing some frustration when it comes to challenges. My guess is something needs correcting behind the scenes but if not the stated criteria for what counts as Long Drive needs to be updated so at least players know what they need to do. Right now I at least can't figure it out.&nbsp;For me the issue is that I was using power drive.&nbsp; Has to be a regular drive shot with driver going over 300 yds with !00% or more power.i was wrong i gave up on the challenge.

gorfen · Answer

The solution is that you have to move the landing point (the sight) as far forward (with the D-pad) as possible before you shoot. By default, it is placed just almost at the front and then the problems you describe occur.

jwillson33 · Answer

Keep playing, it’s just delayed. Took me until hole 4 before hole 1 registered on the TaylorMade Beat Dustin Johnson at Torrey Pines with 10 long drives challenge.

manbearpig7777 · Answer

I was having the same problem and found two issues.
1) It doesn’t always update right away. By the third shot it generally caught back up

2) Adding spin to the ball while it was in the air caused it not to register as a long drive

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