To be real or not to be real?

[Maverick]

Set Optishot for real life distances or not?

[CatMan]

Wow. Been out of pocket for New Years and not sure I'll be able to catch up with all the posts in this thread. What did we decide, are we dialing down the drivers? If so, I like it. My swings speeds, personally, are pretty close with my driver. The distance however is not. So I would be reducing my distances in the form of the distance setting not the swing speed. So are we all just gonna go to the range and adjust our distances down until we get our real life results?

Yes Corey, this is what we would like all players to do...

[Buckeye]

Nothing has been decided yet Vincent_Vega. It is still being discussed.

Apparently only a couple of us have an issue with the currently rules and settings, so it might be up to us to "deal with it".

[CatMan]

Maybe we need to update guidelines with language of such

[Maverick]

Zmax, Hoganwoods what is your average Tournament Distance for your Sim

On average we play at around 6500 yards. We try not to play anything over 6700 yards. Exceptions are Majors such as recently played US Open at Pinehurst #2 which was at 7000 yards. And lets just say there were a lot cussing going on during those rounds....On TGC, we're limited to what designers give us. TGC doesn't have multiple tee boxes yet. Our current tournament is 6400 yards.

Outside, I personally play Blues and Whites or around 6600-6300.

[Buckeye]

Zmaxx what would you say your average driving distance is between the players on your tour?

[CatMan]

Nothing has been decided yet Vincent_Vega. It is still being discussed.

Apparently only a couple of us have an issue with the currently rules and settings, so it might be up to us to "deal with it".

No what you are saying Mike is you want it done your way... or the Highway

[Buckeye]

Maybe we need to update guidelines with language of such

If you are including language that says a player must dial down their driver I would only ask that you change the language to include all woods. Personally my 3w is about 10% long too and my 5w is an incredible 25% or so longer than real life. I hit my 5w here as far as or further than my driver is real life, it's absurd.

[Buckeye]

No what you are saying Mike is you want it done your way... or the Highway

Where did I say anything remotely close to that?

You take constructive criticism completely the wrong way. I have never given an ultimatum here or anywhere else for the matter. But you have to admit that the scores here are a joke and very reminiscent of a playstation, xbox, wii or golden tee. I am not the only one who has stated that.

[CatMan]

Adjusting the Driver distance is not going to change the scores ....... it the software itself,, But it still needs to be done

[Buckeye]

Then change the way you do handicaps, we discussed that privately.

What is your solution to the problem? I've heard just about everyone else offer a suggestion except you.

Lets discuss your idea.

[MrHogan]

Buckeye for some reason their is no appetite here for real golf. Lets just keep our clubs on 100% keep smashing 340yd drives, hell we can even boost our irons ive just read so lets up them too. I can just keep my driver wedge and putter and sell the spare clubs on ebay.

[MrHogan]

Ok that last post was perhaps a little too tongue in cheek!

[Buckeye]

Buckeye for some reason their is no appetite here for real golf. Lets just keep our clubs on 100% keep smashing 340yd drives, hell we can even boost our irons ive just read so lets up them too. I can just keep my driver wedge and putter and sell the spare clubs on ebay.

It just seems weird to me. Everyone claims pre online they had their clubs set to their swing. Now we are online everyone wants to be Tiger Woods. I really don't understand.

[CatMan]

I really don't care if its in the negative numbers, the results are the same.... That's not going to make anyone feel better about the driving distance, and is taking it off topic

[Buckeye]

I really don't care if its in the negative numbers, the results are the same.... That's not going to make anyone feel better about the driving distance, and is taking it off topic

Okay.

I asked if you had a solution to the driving and woods problems that you would like to discuss, since you seem to think my, and others, suggestions are ultimatums.

Or do you not see a problem at all?