Catman and Buckeye
Just to confirm 3 wood and 5 wood settings. Speed setting needs to be the same as your Driver setting depending on your ball and turf type. We have had mixed results here. Those with average swing speeds, ie 95 to 105 seem to find 100%D is spot on, whereas those in the 110 range seem to have to reduce to 90% or even 85% D. I would say we need to be sensible here. I would class them the same as we currently do the Driver, set them to correct Speed and then set to correct distance. If evidence shows people are hitting 3 wood because its longer than there Driver due to incorrectly setting these Distance setting then that is straight up cheating in my book, and if your gonna cheat just set ya pitching wedge to 500%, to me its the same thing.
We can look at this but there quite a subjective club I think.
Mike and Willymakit
To befair to Willy I was initially expecting those of you hitting real balls on thick turf to require a Speed % Increase. As has been tested this doesnt appear to be the case, which I find odd as using a thick turf with a foam ball on the foam ball setting clearly lowers the speed read by Optishot. From you figures Willy it seems whilst it is reading your drive 10mph slow it is only showing your yardage 10 yards short. With a ratio of 2.5 if we increased your Speed % to get you your 10mph Swing Speed increase you would gain 25 yards, not 10 so be 15 yards too long.
As you have external evidence to back this up simply get the video / print out from HD golf stating your Swing Speed Average, not your best, but your average over say 20 swings, and your average Distance over those Swings and if Board accept it as evidence under rule 8 you could be allowed a custom setup, which I would say would result in an increase in Swing % to probably 105%, and a Distance % reduction to probably 85% in order to keep your ratio at the correct level .
From your HD data if your averaging 285 Optishot needs to reading your Swing speed at 114 so actually only reading it only slightly slow, and to Average 285 I would say you are hitting further than the vast majority on here and as such the guidelines may be a bit restrictive on you.
I believe AurinCoynen may also fall into this category as he too has a powerful swing speed up towards 120 and again under rule 8 if you Aurin feel the guideline settings don't provide real world Distances then as long as evidence to back this up can be submitted the request can be dealt with on a case by case basis.
The guidelines have been throughly tested now and for 95% of people hopefully they will be OK and provide pretty near results. They may not be absolutely perfect, but up until now you have all be using settings that were FAR from perfect so has to be a bit of compromise, however Rule 8 will be in place to allow any modification should you be able to prove it is required.
As to to what the board will accept as evidence for a change under Rule 8 that is not my remit or decision. As really are not whether these proposed rules, become rules but hope they do as for many many of us I think it will bring a far more realistic level of gameplay
Just to confirm 3 wood and 5 wood settings. Speed setting needs to be the same as your Driver setting depending on your ball and turf type. We have had mixed results here. Those with average swing speeds, ie 95 to 105 seem to find 100%D is spot on, whereas those in the 110 range seem to have to reduce to 90% or even 85% D. I would say we need to be sensible here. I would class them the same as we currently do the Driver, set them to correct Speed and then set to correct distance. If evidence shows people are hitting 3 wood because its longer than there Driver due to incorrectly setting these Distance setting then that is straight up cheating in my book, and if your gonna cheat just set ya pitching wedge to 500%, to me its the same thing.
We can look at this but there quite a subjective club I think.
Mike and Willymakit
To befair to Willy I was initially expecting those of you hitting real balls on thick turf to require a Speed % Increase. As has been tested this doesnt appear to be the case, which I find odd as using a thick turf with a foam ball on the foam ball setting clearly lowers the speed read by Optishot. From you figures Willy it seems whilst it is reading your drive 10mph slow it is only showing your yardage 10 yards short. With a ratio of 2.5 if we increased your Speed % to get you your 10mph Swing Speed increase you would gain 25 yards, not 10 so be 15 yards too long.
As you have external evidence to back this up simply get the video / print out from HD golf stating your Swing Speed Average, not your best, but your average over say 20 swings, and your average Distance over those Swings and if Board accept it as evidence under rule 8 you could be allowed a custom setup, which I would say would result in an increase in Swing % to probably 105%, and a Distance % reduction to probably 85% in order to keep your ratio at the correct level .
From your HD data if your averaging 285 Optishot needs to reading your Swing speed at 114 so actually only reading it only slightly slow, and to Average 285 I would say you are hitting further than the vast majority on here and as such the guidelines may be a bit restrictive on you.
I believe AurinCoynen may also fall into this category as he too has a powerful swing speed up towards 120 and again under rule 8 if you Aurin feel the guideline settings don't provide real world Distances then as long as evidence to back this up can be submitted the request can be dealt with on a case by case basis.
The guidelines have been throughly tested now and for 95% of people hopefully they will be OK and provide pretty near results. They may not be absolutely perfect, but up until now you have all be using settings that were FAR from perfect so has to be a bit of compromise, however Rule 8 will be in place to allow any modification should you be able to prove it is required.
As to to what the board will accept as evidence for a change under Rule 8 that is not my remit or decision. As really are not whether these proposed rules, become rules but hope they do as for many many of us I think it will bring a far more realistic level of gameplay
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