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[HANDSWARD_EA]

Chiming in on 2 key points here:

1. You don't have to learn your club distances. That information is given to you. The max distance each club goes is in the HUD. The swing mechanic has you set up your shot by adjusting your aim and shot setup to the shot you are trying to execute. When you make these adjustments, the aiming marker tells you the distance for the shot you have created.

2. Something overlooked is the fact that the aiming marker can tell you distances to key landmarks. It is like a Bushnell Yardage Pro. If you want a distance to a bunker, as long as it is in range of the aimer, you can move your aim to the front edge of that bunker and know how far it is to it. I realize that some obstacles on the course can be difficult to see from back at the golfer. This does make what I am saying harder. But a thing that can help in this regard is that the aimer moves with the height of the terrain. A bunker is likely going to drop down a few feet. So if you know a bunker is on the right side, and you move the aimer around by it, where you see it drop is probably where it is.

[kehlis]

Quote: Originally Posted by HANDSWARD_EA

2. Something overlooked is the fact that the aiming marker can tell you distances to key landmarks. It is like a Bushnell Yardage Pro. If you want a distance to a bunker, as long as it is in range of the aimer, you can move your aim to the front edge of that bunker and know how far it is to it. I realize that some obstacles on the course can be difficult to see from back at the golfer. This does make what I am saying harder. But a thing that can help in this regard is that the aimer moves with the height of the terrain. A bunker is likely going to drop down a few feet. So if you know a bunker is on the right side, and you move the aimer around by it, where you see it drop is probably where it is.

That's good to know,

And I really don't have a problem not being able to zoom and I love having to aim from the golfers perspective. No issues with that whatsoever and as I've already said I love the new more difficult swing with more going on.


All I really want is a yardage book with green diagrams. It shouldn't be a guessing game for me if I'm 175 out as to if the green is sloping to the left or the right or if there is a false front.

Those are things that are essential on approaches and every professional golfer knows every step of the green and knows where they want to land on the green.

And for Divot, I am in no way saying I want to HIT exactly where I'm aiming, I welcome user error and mistakes.

I just want to have an actual educated plan before taking my swing. As it stands (In this mode) I would have to guess where I should land it on the green.

Seems like it's all moot since there is a fully customizable mode, just trying to show my stance.

[Love13]

Quote: Originally Posted by Jet Sufferer

Best I've ever been was close to plus 3. Still not good enough to compete at a national level, lots and lots of good players out there. Lot of plus 4 to 6 guys running around broke. Calculating a tour pro's actual handicap is impossible because you can't use the normal course rating. They're playing courses with the greens sped up and tough pins and the course rating would be higher and they're still throwing up mid 60's rounds. A great round for me is like 4-5 under, if a pro was playing with me at my courses they would probably shoot 8-9 under regularly and threaten 59 sometimes. Like any other sport the guys that are in the top .000001 percentile are off the charts. I'm better than over 99% of all golfers statistically. That and 2 dollars will get me a cup of coffee! Plus I don't hustle people, and my friends want too many strokes! It's harder for me to perform to my handicap than my friends, try giving a 4-6 handicapper 5-7 strokes. They're good players and if they just par the stroke holes I'm at a big disadvantage. Nice to see hands here. I'll join the CC when season ticket hits, you can add me on xbox, raging poodle

Yeah I've played with a few plus handicap golfers, in fact I was good friends with the best am in our state when I was about 16, he was like 23-24 I think. I played a lot with him, and wow he was amazing, then he decided to turn pro at the Utah championship web.com tour (Nike tour back then) and it was amazing how out classed he was, after tearing up the same course a couple months earlier at the Utah open, he was getting his but kicked all day. And that's not even the top talent by any means. He started playing in more local pro tournaments toward the end of his am career and faired very well, but when he turned pro and tried out the tour, it did not take long for him to realize how out classed he really was. Just incredible the type of talent and skill is out there in this sport. Any sport for that matter.

[PhantomPain]

For some reason I thought there may be some hope that something changed in career mode but that seems like eons ago that I read that hope. Has there been a developer blog that I missed, or if not, will there be something that talks about the changes to the career mode?

[HANDSWARD_EA]

Quote: Originally Posted by PhantomPain

For some reason I thought there may be some hope that something changed in career mode but that seems like eons ago that I read that hope. Has there been a developer blog that I missed, or if not, will there be something that talks about the changes to the career mode?

There are plenty of changes to look forward to. I just wrote a blog about it today. Not sure how long before it hits the website. I'm hoping tomorrow but that is being optimistic. More likely early next week. But stay tuned.

[Love13]

Quote: Originally Posted by HANDSWARD_EA

There are plenty of changes to look forward to. I just wrote a blog about it today. Not sure how long before it hits the website. I'm hoping tomorrow but that is being optimistic. More likely early next week. But stay tuned.

Sweet, I know you put in the new format of q school then to the web.com tour then to PGA. But I'm excited to see what else is in store. That is the reason I buy the game as I don't really play online much at all.

Has there ever been the idea of bringing back the ryder cup but not as a end all to a career but instead have come every other year like in real life or have presidents cup or something on the schedule that we have to qualify for?

And where can we find these blogs hands?

[HANDSWARD_EA]

Quote: Originally Posted by Love13

Has there ever been the idea of bringing back the ryder cup but not as a end all to a career but instead have come every other year like in real life or have presidents cup or something on the schedule that we have to qualify for? And where can we find these blogs hands?

Like everything else in the world of golf, the Ryder Cup and President's Cup require us to get the official license. Our licensing costs add up fast, when you factor in each tour, each golfer, each course, all 4 majors like we have this year. Basically, you have to stop somewhere.

And blogs all get posted here: http://www.easports.com/tiger-woods/news

[Seymour Scagnetti]

Quote: Originally Posted by Love13

Sweet, I know you put in the new format of q school then to the web.com tour then to PGA. But I'm excited to see what else is in store. That is the reason I buy the game as I don't really play online much at all. Has there ever been the idea of bringing back the ryder cup but not as a end all to a career but instead have come every other year like in real life or have presidents cup or something on the schedule that we have to qualify for? And where can we find these blogs hands?

The EA website is the place you want to see these blogs firsthand. Join the forum there and the devs are always active there to answer your questions. Myself and several others here are frequent posters over there as well and and it's a good place to shoot new ideas about future versions and the devs will listen to the community. A couple of years back I thought an AI scoring slider would be a good idea and the next year the different AI levels was introduced. I don't know if they got that from me but that's my story and I'msticking to it.

And some good news about career mode that I just found out today from the EA site. Apparently season stats in career is back in there (shouldn't have been taken out in the first place) so some good news for us stat hounds who like to see how we fare against the rest of the AI field during the season.