There are a lot of things I wish EA would add or change in the game such as having Replays for one. However, I want to focus on one thing today. The game does not punish you if you miss a fairway. Whether you land in the rough, sand trap, heavy rough, bunker, etc... It always shows roughly the same ball lie %. Very little change. So why even try to land it in the fairway, when it makes no difference if you land in the rough.Here's a suggestion: If your ball lands in the First Cut, make the lie percentage 97% - 94%. Rough; 94% - 80%. Heavy Rough or Deep Rough; 79% - 65%. Landing in a bunker, depending how the ball landed in the sand, should be anywhere from 97% - 64% if it's buried.This is just a rough idea and a suggestion to make the game more realistic. It's way to easy the way it is. So EA needs to step up and correct all these things in the game so it's more realistic and challenging to play.

@PalomaMarvel24 I play arcade and agree with you. At the same time it’s a little broken. You can actually hit further out of the rough and occasionally you’ll find a 23% buried in the rough ball that you can’t hit anywhere. It makes no sense.This all falls under their “randomness”, though. They don’t want us to have an arcade experience. More like a randomly generated participation experience.

Rather than a percentage they should have let us zoom in to the ball. We could determine on our own how deep the ball was in the rough or sand. The type of lie, and the direction of the grass to see if a flyer was a possibility.All these decades of golf games and they still cannot get it right.

I am hoping there is an option to turn this off if the change happens. I am an arcade player who prefers casual play. I would not want the mechanics changed again where I need to relearn the game. Changing the mechanics can cause more bugs.

@MadTiger64 I see lots of variation in bunkers and roughs. Also, depends on which club you have selected.

I agree. It seems like all these years doing this, they would come up with common sense decisions on how the game needs to be. There is so much more room for improvement. EA needs to pay attention to all of our forum comments and act on them.

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ELF014
3 years ago
@SlimDown57 wrote:
@MadTiger64 wrote:
I agree. It seems like all these years doing this, they would come up with common sense decisions on how the game needs to be. There is so much more room for improvement. EA needs to pay attention to all of our forum comments and act on them.
What you think needs to be done and what i think needs to be done are miles apart someone is always going to be disappointed. On the other PGA golf game I have no problem getting - 12 on easy setting. Hear i'm lucky to get -1 or -2 on arcade.
If you are only shooting -1 or -2 on the arcade settings you must only be just getting into the game. I play basically on sim settings, with all the additional aids disabled with the exception of wind direction and the green grids. And will regularly shoot in the low 60's with the occasional round in the 50's.
Even without the green grids I average about -5 under calm conditions.
And I don't consider myself good at the game.
I don't think it is uncommon. I am sure most people with the game have shot in the 50's, especially after they have leveled up their characters.
7AnimalMother
3 years ago
Seems pretty good to me if you are shooting like that on SIM!
I can do low 60s (occasional 50s) on my modified Tour mode that I use for career (basically tour but swing/putting set to hard), and zoom and flight path turned off.

I just can’t seem to get the hang of sim though. For the life of me, I can’t tell the breaking direction of putts without the beads unless the break is extreme. Wind also screws me. It’s not like in real life where I can look at trees bending or the flagstick flapping (or pick up a few blades of grass and toss them in the air) and determine how many extra clubs I need.

I agree with the overall premise of the OP though. Penalty for bad shots is not enough (at least on modes above arcade).

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