Rory McIlroy PGA TOUR Available Today - Post Your Impressions Here

[hawley088]

How's the play from the rough and sand? Do you still have to do some math based on the lie and club length or is it just set it and swing? I haven't played in a couple years but I used to love being stuck inbetween clubs and having to nail a 70 percent swing, is that still part of the game?

[OnlookerDelay]

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(Originally Posted by DivotMaker) Why are you looking at your Golfer's FEET? He does not swing the club with his feet. I hope they give the option to remove the green ball, but I don't see it anyway, so I am good either way....LOL...."too close to my golfer's feet"....

Quote: Originally Posted by Madd4400

Amen bro thx you. Well said

I was the idiot who made the original statement to which DivotMaker is responding. I think I might have played better if I'd have quit looking at my golfer's feet during the swing...

Seriously though, I did a very poor job of expressing what I was trying to communicate... I *meant* to say that I have a hard time ignoring the swing fill meter during the swing, even though it's beneath my golfer's feet. A person with an average or better level of concentration should be able to ignore the meter if they're trying, since it's that far away, but I'll confess that I'm less than average in the concentration department. Hopefully, that doesn't sound quite as idiotic, does it?

[calbearlover]

3-Click Impression


Tee to green the gameplay is very good on 3-click. You actually do spray the ball sometimes left or right which is what I look for in a golf game and became very frustrated with in The Golf Club.

Now the short game and putting is easier on this game but that's much better than having tee to green being easy and boring and the putting and short game being much harder.


It is a very fun and exciting golf experience and having the crowds and presentation is a much needed change from The Golf Club and Perfect Golf which I'm currently playing.


Now with that said, the game is far from perfect. As many have stated the game needs many more courses, a more robust career, more difficulty options added, and overall more options for us to play how we want to play.


Lastly I'd like to let people know out there how to play this game at the hardest difficulty since it still seems to be discussed. Bear in mind I'm a 3-clicker so how this applies to swing stick im not sure. Go into settings and custom set up. Set everything off or to hardest difficulty (I play with green grid on).


When you set up your shot for some reason its already set up to dial a distance for you (Lame). All you have to do (PS4) is hit square and it maxes out the distance for the club you have. Now from there you can change type of shot to what you want or loft or deloft the club. Now you actually have to think about your shot and how hard to hit it on the meter. I use the same method for putting and pitching. Chipping since there's different roll outs depending upon the lie I will actually dial a distance and it's still hard to place it close.


Anyway A few house rules and its a very rewarding golf game so far. Here is to hoping EA does actually support this game with updates, patches, and much more DLC.

[fistofrage]

Quote: Originally Posted by VTKombat

Spieth put a few in the rough at the John deere and still made some birdies. The pros nail 8 foot putts like they are nothing but I struggle with anything over 5 ft with a break in rmpga. Helps keep my scores in check. I checked the stats and my FIR is 79 percent which is good for first but my GIR is much less and is around 60th best in the league. By no means a cakewalk but I think the drives could be a little more punishing.

That's kind of my point. That course wasn't difficult so putting it in the rough still gave him shots at the pin, heck he even went up the other fairway in round 3 and dunked one in. For pros, the course is what makes golf hard for the pros. They hit some errant shots, but rarely multiple consecutive bad shots, if the course doesn't really penalize them for a bad shot, they are going to get right back to shooting darts on the next shot. On Sundays, the leaders are dunking 15+ footers like its a walk in the park. Infact, I'd almost say on the pro tour, the caddie is just as or maybe more important than the golfer in a lot of cases. They are the machine operator and the golfer is the machine. They tell the golfer exactly where to put it and the golfers for the most part can do that with regularity.

[calbearlover]

Quote: Originally Posted by hawley088

How's the play from the rough and sand? Do you still have to do some math based on the lie and club length or is it just set it and swing? I haven't played in a couple years but I used to love being stuck inbetween clubs and having to nail a 70 percent swing, is that still part of the game?

It's not incredibly difficult but there's two ways to make it more difficult and realistic. Move the aim marker to the exact yardage the hole is away and now you have to adjust your swing power to account for roll out or spin back. Or move it 50, 100, or more yards away and do the same thing, similar to links golf (if 22 yds from pin move max distance to 50 and calculate swing power) Keep in mind I play 3-click.

[TheBleedingRed21]

Two things are making this game very unpleasant, everything else is great.

1) putting, oh dear god, worst putting mechanic for any game. Period.

2) the celebration or frustration animations.. It's about to the point of just looking completly silly.

[Klocker]

Quote: Originally Posted by calbearlover

... Lastly I'd like to let people know out there how to play this game at the hardest difficulty since it still seems to be discussed. Bear in mind I'm a 3-clicker so how this applies to swing stick im not sure. Go into settings and custom set up. Set everything off or to hardest difficulty (I play with green grid on). When you set up your shot for some reason its already set up to dial a distance for you (Lame). All you have to do (PS4) is hit square and it maxes out the distance for the club you have. Now from there you can change type of shot to what you want or loft or deloft the club. Now you actually have to think about your shot and how hard to hit it on the meter. I use the same method for putting and pitching. Chipping since there's different roll outs depending upon the lie I will actually dial a distance and it's still hard to place it close. ....

Preach it


makes the game much more realistic for me.




Its hard to dial it in when you move the marker to full but it is more realistic imo. I like trying to get that 3/4 shot (or reduce swing speed) to get that in between custom shot. yes I don't score as low but it's a good challenge and let's of recovery opportunities

[PRO_TOO]

Quote: Originally Posted by Klocker

Preach it makes the game much more realistic for me. Its hard to dial it in when you move the marker to full but it is more realistic imo. I like trying to get that 3/4 shot (or reduce swing speed) to get that in between custom shot. yes I don't score as low but it's a good challenge and let's of recovery opportunities

I'll test that today! Wish we could set it to permanent. Makes sense what he said remembering the gp from older titles. I found this custom setting kinda weird yesterday too and was asking my friend about it. Now calbearlover came up with this explanation! Thank you man!!