Putting...So unforgiving

[spybee007]

First off, I love this game. It's a great golfing experience and does feel somewhat true to real life. I don't struggle with reading the winds, my lie and club distances, I struggle with putting. I have given up so many birdie chances and even par chances because my ball lips out of the hole. I can get within a decent putting distance to the flag and I am 2 putting for bogey.

It's like trying to get a ball to roll into a hole that is the exact size of the ball. Anyone have any tips to control power? I read the grid and count the lines with the break then apply clicks on the d pad to counter the break. My system seems to be pretty close if I am lipping out of the hole so much. Any putting tips? Thanks!!


Ryan 

[pc17]

Join the club spybee. I use the same putting method for this game as I did in the original, and in a round the other day I lipped out on no fewer than 13 holes, and some of those putts were from a long way out, very frustrating, but if you are that close then you aren't doing much wrong.

[Andrea]

Jul 7, 2017 12:21:18 GMT -5 spybee007 said:

First off, I love this game. It's a great golfing experience and does feel somewhat true to real life. I don't struggle with reading the winds, my lie and club distances, I struggle with putting. I have given up so many birdie chances and even par chances because my ball lips out of the hole. I can get within a decent putting distance to the flag and I am 2 putting for bogey.

It's like trying to get a ball to roll into a hole that is the exact size of the ball. Anyone have any tips to control power? I read the grid and count the lines with the break then apply clicks on the d pad to counter the break. My system seems to be pretty close if I am lipping out of the hole so much. Any putting tips? Thanks!!


Ryan 

Best tip I can give you to control power is to set in your mind two points of reference: one on the putter and one on the golfer's body (like his shoe or smth); then you go on the test green, or even better you create one compeletely flat, and you start hitting putts without even aiming at the cup, just to see how much distance do you cover when you hit the stick forward exactly where the two markers previously set alligns. In that way you've created a fixed point of reference from which you can start adjusting. You obviously need to check your base reference distance for every green speed available in game, if you wanna do things neat and tidy 

[spybee007]

I really appreciate the reply and tips.. I went on the practice putting green and turned auto mulligan on and there really isn't constancy to the putting, I bring the head of the putter back to the end of my foot and sometimes it lips, sometimes its wide and sometimes it's in the hole. I have no base to judge and it's like a shot and pray it goes in. I can't get pinpoint accuracy bringing the analog stick back to the same point everytime. 

[spybee007]

I feel like they need to input a 3 click at least just for the putting since it's so critical you get the combination of the break adjustment and power ratio dead on. Otherwise, it's a matter of rolling your approach shot withing 3 yds to the flag every hole if you want to make birdie. If that's the case I guess i need to really refine my shot approach, so I am no longer than 5-3 yds every hole... which seems impossible on mid-fast greens with elevation changes on the green.. 

[stuartgibson]

i was struggling on putting at first, but then slowed my putts right down. my putts werent breaking like it showed, and thats because i was hitting it too hard.
now im playing to the cup and theyre breaking like it reads, and no word of a lie ive gained 7 strokes a round

[spybee007]

So you aren't pulling back as far? My putts lip the hole most times or just cut the edge.. I feel I don't have enough precision on the analog stick to make the 5 to 8% adjustment less on the pull back. I messed with the marker to try and compensate, but it seems to do nothing for shots within 30-50 ft.  

[spybee007]

I dont think it's my xbox one controller that the problem.. I have 3 and tested all of them out. I hit perfect/perfect and a straight line 95% of the time on my swings..

[yyzleafs]

Jul 7, 2017 13:56:22 GMT -5 stuartgibson said:

i was struggling on putting at first, but then slowed my putts right down. my putts werent breaking like it showed, and thats because i was hitting it too hard.
now im playing to the cup and theyre breaking like it reads, and no word of a lie ive gained 7 strokes a round

Same. More break and less speed equals more one putts and more two putts.

[mcbogga]

Jul 7, 2017 13:53:29 GMT -5 spybee007 said:

I feel like they need to input a 3 click at least just for the putting since it's so critical you get the combination of the break adjustment and power ratio dead on. Otherwise, it's a matter of rolling your approach shot withing 3 yds to the flag every hole if you want to make birdie. If that's the case I guess i need to really refine my shot approach, so I am no longer than 5-3 yds every hole... which seems impossible on mid-fast greens with elevation changes on the green.. 

You mean sort of like golf?

The hole feels slightly smaller in TGC2 but the better cup physics evens it out.

Comparing to real life some of the best putters in the world make about 60% from 8 feet.... It is a game about hitting it close.

[spybee007]

I'm totally cool with that concept. But how are players currently leading the boards with -15 to -20? There is a system, like any golf game and these players have figured it out.. You cant tell me they are hitting 3-5 yds every pin on their approach shot. So there must be a system, a algorithm to putting. I played ?TW since the franchise was born, there was always a system and then on top of that was some finesse. This was a analog stick franchise as well and tthere was much more confidence in using the analog to adjust percentage of swing. On this game you rely on de-lof and clubbing down more, which works but it does not work for the putting.

[spybee007]

Jul 7, 2017 14:02:27 GMT -5 spybee007 said:

So you aren't pulling back as far? My putts lip the hole most times or just cut the edge.. I feel I don't have enough precision on the analog stick to make the 5 to 8% adjustment less on the pull back. I messed with the marker to try and compensate, but it seems to do nothing for shots within 30-50 ft.  

Seems to be helping. Thank you Im a few holes in... I'll repost to confirm

[KenTremendous]

Jul 7, 2017 14:29:51 GMT -5 spybee007 said:

I'm totally cool with that concept. But how are players currently leading the boards with -15 to -20? There is a system, like any golf game and these players have figured it out.. You cant tell me they are hitting 3-5 yds every pin on their approach shot. So there must be a system, a algorithm to putting. I played ?TW since the franchise was born, there was always a system and then on top of that was some finesse. This was a analog stick franchise as well and tthere was much more confidence in using the analog to adjust percentage of swing. On this game you rely on de-lof and clubbing down more, which works but it does not work for the putting.

Without being big headed...i knock an obscene amount of 10-20ft putts in and plenty much longer, anything under 10 ft is more or less automatic, thats how i and others are getting -40 or better over 4 rounds.

Whats the magic secret?

There isnt one, its practice, practice and more practice, learning how to read greens, learning where to put the putting marker, learning how and when you can ram putts and take the break out and when you have to hit it dead weight and allow for more movement.

Its many, many hundreds of hours playing, and building knowledge and muscle memory...no magic to it.

Dont expect to pick this game up and be able to putt with the best of them - takes a long time to get to that stage.

[spybee007]

Your post is useless, you told us all how you make tons of great putts and you didn't tell us how, but you said practice. So maybe you can re-post with a strategy that you use? Posting with, well I am better than you all cause I practice is so lame man. We don't care if you are better, we care about tips and something that will help us be better. 

[spybee007]

I made this thread to help people who are struggling with putting alone. I didn't ask for DBs to come in and give us all a bs answer like practice more... We've all practiced plenty. Get out of my thread if you have nothing to offer. I am looking for solid tips, not I am better than all of you bs.