Tips, Tricks and Observations

[Downing11]

Here are the some of tip, tricks and observations I've noticed in the game. Please add your own too. In no particular order:

1. The higher the difficulty you play, the more status points, XP and coins you earn. When you go into settings and change them, it shows you the difficulty multiplier you have.
2. Similar to last year, I have noticed that no matter how fast I think I am pushing the stick forward, I still always get slow swing speed. What I do is do an over swing on my backswing and then the slow swing speed going forward. Those 2 seem to offset each other and the shot goes the distance that it says the club will go.
3. I noticed today that my driver was at 11.5 degrees. That is not realistic for professionals so I changed it to 8.5 and I picked up about 10-15 yards on my distance off the tee. I hadn't changed anything before so I think 11.5 might have been the default.
4. It is essential to move the ball forward in your stance to create more loft on clubs to make then stop, especially on uphill approach shots. This usually requires taking a longer club and hitting it higher.
5. When creating more loft on shots, note that doing this with wedges are very sensitive meaning that increasing the loft even a little bit will make you hit the ball much shorter. The longer the club gets that you do this do, the less distance you lose.
6. Don't be a hero on par 5 and hit 3 wood on your second shot if it is going to leave you 40 or 50 yards to the pin. Find an ideal distance that you hit a 9 iron on PW and lay up to that area. You'll be closer on your 3rd shot from 120 yards out than 50 most times.

That's it for now, let me know what you guys are seeing.

[jsence2]

Here are the some of tip, tricks and observations I've noticed in the game. Please add your own too. In no particular order:

1. The higher the difficulty you play, the more status points, XP and coins you earn. When you go into settings and change them, it shows you the difficulty multiplier you have.
2. Similar to last year, I have noticed that no matter how fast I think I am pushing the stick forward, I still always get slow swing speed. What I do is do an over swing on my backswing and then the slow swing speed going forward. Those 2 seem to offset each other and the shot goes the distance that it says the club will go.
3. I noticed today that my driver was at 11.5 degrees. That is not realistic for professionals so I changed it to 8.5 and I picked up about 10-15 yards on my distance off the tee. I hadn't changed anything before so I think 11.5 might have been the default.
4. It is essential to move the ball forward in your stance to create more loft on clubs to make then stop, especially on uphill approach shots. This usually requires taking a longer club and hitting it higher.
5. When creating more loft on shots, note that doing this with wedges are very sensitive meaning that increasing the loft even a little bit will make you hit the ball much shorter. The longer the club gets that you do this do, the less distance you lose.
6. Don't be a hero on par 5 and hit 3 wood on your second shot if it is going to leave you 40 or 50 yards to the pin. Find an ideal distance that you hit a 9 iron on PW and lay up to that area. You'll be closer on your 3rd shot from 120 yards out than 50 most times.

That's it for now, let me know what you guys are seeing.

#6.....ok mamby pamby. Real men go for the green in two.

GET IN THE HOLE!!!!



just kidding, good tips.

[Downing11]

Haha, good stuff.

[Cnasty]

Awesome tips

Especially the driver thing. I am getting new clubs all the time as I level up and wondered about that.

I still get confused with where the arrow is on the floor and actually where it will go. I know wind and elevation and such is a factor but i seem to over hit the flag a lot.

Does the swing arc adjust length based on where you place the distance of the club?

If that makes any sense at all

[Downing11]

I should have added this too.

Don't always just look at the arrow when you move it around on the green. Look in the top left and it will tell you how far you are from the hole to figure out what club you should be using.

[Downing11]

Another thing to looks out for is the course conditions. Slow conditions will accept more spin from the ball on the green, but less roll in the fairways. Tournament conditions will be vice versa. Approach shots sometimes will require one less club to let the ball roll onto the green instead of hitting the green and rolling off the back.

[Downing11]

When hitting from a sidehill lie, making sure you hit the ball on center is very important and should be simple with the sticky setting. However, even if you hit it in the center, the ball will still go left or right depending on the lie. I use a lefty golfer so with the ball above me feet, the trajectory will be to the right so make sure you take that into consideration when aiming.

[autiger730]

Awesome tips

Especially the driver thing. I am getting new clubs all the time as I level up and wondered about that.

I still get confused with where the arrow is on the floor and actually where it will go. I know wind and elevation and such is a factor but i seem to over hit the flag a lot.

Does the swing arc adjust length based on where you place the distance of the club?

If that makes any sense at all

Yes, the arc adjusts based in your aim. If you are going uphill, aim longer. Downhill, a little shorter. Uphill, the ball usually rolls a little more than down hill.

[autiger730]

One thing I have never understood is why you can't move left or right on the tee box.

[autiger730]

Does everyone's hybrids seem to hit way shorter that what it says? I used to just use irons and woods but I switched to the 2 and 3h a few tournies ago and I've noticed they never go as far as they should, even if I get red on both swing gauges. If there is any wind it really seems to kill them. Example: last night on 16 at kiawah, had 4-5 mph wind towards me, left to right. Pin was on the front at like 220-something to it. I aimed a little left, and hit a full 3h, which is about 240 for me, going right at the flag, but it falls in the water about 25 yards in front of the green. Do they have that high of a loft that a 5 mph wind would knock off that much yardage? They are always 5-10 yards short, but that one really caught me by surprise.