Patch Notes 9 feedback on the future of the franchise.

The news that they were finally going to start increasing the lie penalties and "resistance" as they put it, on St. Andrews with this patch, was very exciting to many of us.  I guess that means for them to increase the ridiculously easy rough and tall grass issues, they have to do it one course at a time.  It was encouraging to see in the patch notes that they were addressing this with St. Andrews first.

However, at least at this point, it seems to be a total non starter.  See this link at Operation Sports for very specific screen shots and situations where I tried purposely to hit into the nastiest stuff at St. Andrews, and never saw less than 93-97% lie, with any shot type or club.  It just *didn't get changed*.  Very, very disappointing.  

https://forums.operationsports.com/forums/golf/1011492-ea-sports-pga-tour-impressions-console-233.html#post2050853308

I love this game and play it every day, over 450 hours at this point since pre launch.  The most glaring issue with the game at this point, other than not being able to play on the couch with your friend or wife as created players, is how there is literally no penalty or "resistance" for hitting the ball in the rough, let alone weeds up to your chest at places like St. Andrews (and every other course).  I was encouraged when I saw they were addressing this with this patch, but after 3 hours of trying to prove myself wrong about how it didn't change anything, it's obvious nothing has changed with the lie penalties at St. Andrews.