Disagree:
The greens are way too slow.
These seem to vary by course with Augusta being the fastest. There are a few courses (like the Wetlands, where I would agree seem to slow); however, most seem reasonable to me.
The ball physics don't feel right at times. I have hit wedges into greens that slope into me that will roll out... and on the very next hole on a green sloping away from me have the ball spin back uphill 30 feet.
I don't really experience this since the very early iterations of the game.
The lack of spin on mid irons is also odd an odd combination for how easy it is to stick shorter clubs. The fall off seems quite extreme.
I also don't experience this (or maybe we define mid-iron differently? I consider them 7-9 based on sets I play personally.) I would imagine this may be due to you not allocating skill points. All irons through 6i seem to have a reasonable progression for spin to me. I would say at the 5 there is a bit of a leap that could be tightened up a bit, but it isn't anything that can't be accounted for.
Overall, the game is far too easy. I don't play SIM because I don't like 2-dimensional putting, but I have no trouble shooting 18+ under par on Tour or Tour+ settings (Tour + = I remove the zoom and shot shaping in career). I also allocate all my skill points, though I have removed them from putting in order to give some challenge.
I think we are pretty much on the same page. My prime example for green speeds in this game is the 16th hole at Augusta with the day 4 pin location. Any ball that is feeding down to the hole from the upper right tier shouldn't stop on the slope. It has happened a copious amount of times to me. Plus the ball when putting doesn't seem to stop naturally to me. It lacks some rollout... it stops a little to abruptly.
And I agree with you about the irons... 7-9 I can live with... but somewhere around the 5-6 irons things fall off the table. Some adjustment is needed. They apparently have this off trackman data you would think it would be better.
And your last statement sort of validates my post. You have no trouble shooting -18 on Tour... Playing on FULL SIM, which is EA's SIM settings plus whatever else I can reasonably disable, and no skill or specs I was still averaging -5 on rounds.
This game is great for the more casual player but lacks gameplay for the more serious golfer. But maybe that is the market they are trying to capture. I was just hoping they were looking for a bigger marketshare.
