Played last night for the first time in about 3 weeks with some friends on-line.Was playing the Wetlands course (selected it because it was not a course any of us were familiar with).I don't remember the hole... but I was a pitching wedge distance out under benign wind conditons to a pin sloping pretty severely away from me. The ball landed 10 feet past the hole and spun 30 feet back uphill. Leaving me a 20 foot downhill putt. I thought what the heck? Until one of my playing partners spun his back even further.I expect the ball to actually kick forward and check at best leaving me an uphill putt.Especially since a few holes earlier I hit the same shot to a green sloping towards me where the ball settled and dribble only a few feet back to the pin.The ball physics can seem pretty inconsistent at times... including some invisible breaks on putts.

Ball phyics is the worst i've seen in any golf game.

The ball physics is Egregiously Abysmal and I have just lost patience with it. From another post, the lip hangers and plastic wrap effect were mentioned. There was another post that mentioned the excessive backspin bringing ball backwards. It happened to me in Wolf Creek when I had a 71 yard finesse shot carrying a backspin that drove my ball backwards 69 yards; the net gain is 2 yards. This feels like full contact golf where Bills defenders are driving the Bengals rusher back to line of scrimmage. This is what the OP is seeing from this post. Other examples of bad ball physics is when the ball goes in opposite direction of the wind. I still picture the “works most of time” conversation in this case as well. Other golf games including all Tiger iterations, Rory and 2K do not have ball physics issues.

I think much of what you said defines the overall play experience across many of the courses and often irrespective of the skills that a player does or doesn't have. I also think that your subject line is what the programming team said. 😉

@ELF014 I don't mind a challenge, but with the way WC plays it just feels like a punishment tournament, especially with 4 rounds of it. On my good days, I disable as many of the assists as I can and enjoy playing the game at the little more challenging level, on my rough days I need the assists; neither type of day are good days at WC though.

@PalomaMarvel24 Did you have to mention 'W*** C****' and the truly insane backspin there? I'll have nightmares now... 😉 That is one of the courses that is beyond terrible for it, in my opinion. Some of the shots see the backspin being enough to roll back tens of yards, when at best it would halt after a very short distance due to the angle of the slope. It just feels unreal when you watch a ball spin backwards uphill that far on a short shot.

Struggling to understand the ball physics in this game

20 Replies

Noya_Wesa
Seasoned Veteran
3 years ago
I think much of what you said defines the overall play experience across many of the courses and often irrespective of the skills that a player does or doesn't have.
I also think that your subject line is what the programming team said. 😉
NIGHTSTOCKER59
3 years ago
Ball phyics is the worst i've seen in any golf game.
PalomaMarvel24
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
The ball physics is Egregiously Abysmal and I have just lost patience with it. From another post, the lip hangers and plastic wrap effect were mentioned. There was another post that mentioned the excessive backspin bringing ball backwards. It happened to me in Wolf Creek when I had a 71 yard finesse shot carrying a backspin that drove my ball backwards 69 yards; the net gain is 2 yards. This feels like full contact golf where Bills defenders are driving the Bengals rusher back to line of scrimmage. This is what the OP is seeing from this post. Other examples of bad ball physics is when the ball goes in opposite direction of the wind. I still picture the “works most of time” conversation in this case as well. Other golf games including all Tiger iterations, Rory and 2K do not have ball physics issues.
Noya_Wesa
Seasoned Veteran
3 years ago
@PalomaMarvel24 Did you have to mention 'W*** C****' and the truly insane backspin there? I'll have nightmares now... 😉
That is one of the courses that is beyond terrible for it, in my opinion. Some of the shots see the backspin being enough to roll back tens of yards, when at best it would halt after a very short distance due to the angle of the slope. It just feels unreal when you watch a ball spin backwards uphill that far on a short shot.
PalomaMarvel24
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@Noya_WesaWC is one of the most unrealistically terrible courses and no real PGA Tour Tournaments are played there. This course alone has so many physics defying cases. A large portions of lip-hangers happen here.
The worst of that course is the hole 3 par 3 where I have to emulate Maverick’s mountain climb from Top Gun Maverick. In reality, only an increase of one club is necessary, but this hole needs 3 club increases to pull off a Maverick.
When winds of 10 mph or greater are in WC, the backspin is more turbulent and is dislodged like the Mic Cardi B threw on stage. If this game is like NBA Jam, there might be an NPC of Cardi B throwing the ball to the original position to simulate the excessive backspin.
Noya_Wesa
Seasoned Veteran
3 years ago
@PalomaMarvel24 Yeah, it is one that could easily be replaced with an official tournament course, and I wouldn't shed a single tear for the loss.
I completed the mastery for it, wiped my shoes on the way out of the gates and swore to never return.
After reading this thread though, I think I'll keep note of other weird backspin moments and keep adding them here as and when.
ELF014
3 years ago
@Noya_Wesa I don't mind W*** C****, knowing what to expect I always hit to a flat spot on the greens usually beyond the pin.

As you play you learn how to navigate these courses. But things would be much better if the game just played more consistent and true to life.

Just because you can score low doesn't make it a good game.
PalomaMarvel24
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@Noya_WesaThere were posts on replacing Evian and I have no problem with that course. I was able to get better at that course by taking advantage of the power game. My power game is neutralized at Cardi Creek (aka WC) along with its Maverick 3. I would not mind having a real PGA Tour Tournament like TPC Twin Cities replacing Cardi Creek. I think Cardi Creek belongs in Quick Play and Challenges Only
Noya_Wesa
Seasoned Veteran
3 years ago
@ELF014 I don't mind a challenge, but with the way WC plays it just feels like a punishment tournament, especially with 4 rounds of it.
On my good days, I disable as many of the assists as I can and enjoy playing the game at the little more challenging level, on my rough days I need the assists; neither type of day are good days at WC though.
PalomaMarvel24
Seasoned Ace
3 years ago
@Noya_Wesa wrote:
@ELF014 I don't mind a challenge, but with the way WC plays it just feels like a punishment tournament, especially with 4 rounds of it.
On my good days, I disable as many of the assists as I can and enjoy playing the game at the little more challenging level, on my rough days I need the assists; neither type of day are good days at WC though.
I am hoping that a one round tournament option is implemented soon. Cardi Creek would be that course where a one round tournament is warranted. It is a nightmare playing 4 rounds of CC (aka WC).