Talk about swinging strait to make putts

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@thepractice3816 wrote:

I come to realize, my issues with not being able to putt is not being able to read the green. Now before anyone starts providing me links to youtube tutorials, trust I've seen them all and most of them are great and very informative, but the my real issue is not so much not being able to read the green, Its not being able to swing strait. left stick, right stick it doesn't matter. I have decent skills and specs. I am at a 94 Ovr and a 46 XP and cant be consistent with staying under par. My drives are good, my approach is more than average, but on the green, my games are constantly ruined because I cant swing strait to make the putt. I am really starting to believe I will never find the solution to this. I do not like 3 click, it feels like It's not me playing the game when I do 3 click. As far as my swing, the read out line is always wobbly never strait and there is no way around this. Its sucks when you have a game you want to call your favorite but cant succeed. I can never make the cut from the Korn Ferry to the point I don't even play career no more. All I do is quick plays and tournaments for VC and XP. Im ready to just move on. Respect to all of those who can play and get good numbers. I just don't understand.

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I agree with you on the 3 click, it does take me out of the game so to speak as well. That said, i have issues with swinging at times too, that's what is great about this game though. Before i swing i have to take a few practice upstroke swings to make sure i'm lining up the stick correctly, if i don't do this i'm all over the place with the downstroke(laughing.) The good news is this, if i can do it, i'm sure you can too. It just takes a little time and concentration 

I'm sure there's a solution to your problem. I struggled a bit at first with my swing path 6 or 7 years ago when I switched over to Playstation from Xbox. Had a tendency to push slightly right at the top of my swing. To counter this, using right joystick, I rotate my right hand counter clockwise and get the joystick deeper down my thumb, more under the knuckle, holding the controller more 'side on'. I think in terms of the latest EA game, how far you pull the stick back can have an effect on your types of path and tempo, at least for me it does. For example, if I pull the joystick right back to its fullest so it hits the casing (on putting) on the backswing, I always get far better & straighter results. If I only pull the joystick back midway to three-quarters so it doesn't hit the casing, I tend to get a little left hook at the top of my swing. On approach though, it's vice versa but with tempo.

In terms of 3-click, I've put in over 200hrs on the swing stick and I'm finding 3-click currently more enjoyable and challenging with only a 70 overall rated golfer, with 2 points assigned to power, 2 points on driving control, 2 points on approach control, 1 point on short game accuracy, 3 points on short game control and 1 point on putting.
If I don't hit at least 8 under par on the swing stick (sim style gameplay no grids hard) I've had a poor round, on 3-click hard with mentioned stats, breaking par is a good achievement.
I'm sure you'll find a solution to your woes, keep grafting!

@thepractice3816The fix for this is actually really simple. I figured it out once I was able to turn off the putting meter.

YOU DO NOT, have to push the joystick all the way forward to the top of the controller to execute a putt.

Try turning off the putting meter for now (you may actually like it better, I do). When putting try to get some feel for stroking the shot. Pull the stick down slowly, and then gently bring the stick back just past the impact zone of the ball.... meaning just past center (or the dead zone) of your controller. Just use a nice smooth motion.

I was swinging to the top of the controller, you don't need to do this to hit a putt. Just smoothly swing until you contact the ball.

You should hit most of your shots on line now.

Hi Par-Jaffa, 

Until you learn to read the greens, just use the putting line they give you in Arcade or Pro. They already set the distance for you with the marker, which is either set ahead or before the hole, depending on if the putt is uphill or downhill. Pull the marker all the way back to the putting line as far as it can go. Align the marker exactly in the middle of the line. Then push the marker back up to the distance they gave you. Then you make your putt. What matters then usually is just tempo and a smooth strike. I usually kind of push the ball forward with my stroke. You will still get some misses, and you may need to make little adjustments now and then, like if you want to power through putts, you push the maker back further and align it dead center of the hole for example,  but for the most part, it is pretty much bang on. 

Now, after missing the first two cuts on the Korn Ferry Tour, I finished tied for 8th in the third one, and won the last one I played. If it gets too easy, I'll just keep shoving the AI difficulty up, until it is competitive again. And eventually, I will learn to play without the line, which I am starting to get better at, as I do want to play in career above Pro, and want to keep pushing myself. But until you learn how to read the greens better my friend, I would suggest using the putting line. It saves a lot of frustration and cursing.  lol

Glenn