Winds

[datruth415]

New to the game but been playing golf games since Links LS thru TW14.

Having a terrible time in high winds, so much worse than any other game.

I'm long and short and just can't seem to calculate a formula. 

115 yard shot, dead headwind (15mph), no elevation or any other variable.

How do I consistently calculate this? 145 and 175 let's say as well.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

[wmr5277]

Biggest tip I can give you is that for downhill shots (especially 50+ feet downhill)....

During high winds the ball is effected a lot more than flat elevation.

Also' a 9 iron will be affected by wind more then a 3 hybrid for example because the ball goes much higher with the 9 iron.

[Deleted]

May 3, 2019 15:16:47 GMT -5 datruth415 said:

New to the game but been playing golf games since Links LS thru TW14.

Having a terrible time in high winds, so much worse than any other game.

I'm long and short and just can't seem to calculate a formula. 

115 yard shot, dead headwind, no elevation or any other variable.

How do I consistently calculate this? 145 and 175 let's say as well.

Any help or suggestions would be appreciated.

Everyone has their own methods. I started recording how far each club went (carry distance) on perfect tempo shots into or with the wind. If you hit a shot that should go 150 and you’re into a 10mph headwind, it would go maybe 137-140, so next time you have one where you need 137-140 and you’re into a similar wind, you’ll know to hit the shot for 150. Obviously the shorter irons are affected more because they’re hit higher, longer irons less as they bore through the wind. Eventually you’ll just have a feel for it - there’s no substitute for practice 👍

[datruth415]

I wish there was a way to set the wind on the driving range. Thanks for the replies, right around where I'm at. Like you said, just have to practice more!!

[illinoisgator]

May 3, 2019 16:36:14 GMT -5 datruth415 said:

I wish there was a way to set the wind on the driving range. Thanks for the replies, right around where I'm at. Like you said, just have to practice more!!

I think you have to do that by building yourself a practice area in the designer. Never done it myself but i think i've read where others have built a flat north facing design with water so that they can set the wind and see how far the ball will travel without rollout.  

[pc17]

In the beginning I tried to work out a formula for wind, but gave up pretty quickly. In the new game you can hook/slice your shots far more than you could in the two previous versions. So if you hook your ball into an 8 mph wind, it will cancel at least half of this out straight away, and slicing your shot with the wind will exaggerate it. Because I tend to hit most shots from L to R, I would make more adjustment for wind if it was blowing from L to R, and less if blowing from R to L, and hope I get lucky.

[AngusMoses]

May 15, 2019 8:39:30 GMT -5 pc17 said:

Because I tend to hit most shots from L to R, I would make more adjustment for wind if it was blowing from L to R, and less if blowing from R to L, and hope I get lucky.

I do the exact same thing. I assumed it was just some quirk I have. I'm curious as to whether it's everyone that tends to hit L to R or just a few of us lucky ones. 

[illinoisgator]

May 15, 2019 9:36:34 GMT -5 AngusMoses said:

May 15, 2019 8:39:30 GMT -5 pc17 said:

Because I tend to hit most shots from L to R, I would make more adjustment for wind if it was blowing from L to R, and less if blowing from R to L, and hope I get lucky.

I do the exact same thing. I assumed it was just some quirk I have. I'm curious as to whether it's everyone that tends to hit L to R or just a few of us lucky ones. 

I'm naturally moving the ball R to L in this game when i'm hitting my normal shot

[donkeypuncherben]

This doesn't work perfectly and it is all affected by the height of the shot and crosswind and elevation change up or downslope of your lie and other factors, but my rule of thumb for a stock 150 yard shot into a straight headwind is 1 yard per MPH from 0-9 then 2 yards per mph from 10+. So a 20 mph headwind should require 31 extra yards (11 times 2 + 9 times 1), a 12 yard headwind should require 15 extra yards, and 8 mph headwind requires around 8 extra yards. Then I just kind of eyeball adjustments from there based on other factors or how I want to use the loft box.

Tail winds are much harder nut to crack, I have nothing that has seemed to work consistenly from roun to round.

It's been a few months since I saw the exact wind speed anyway as I turned the MPH indicator off for all my play to get used to the PGA tour settings, so I can't say if recent updates have changed the accuracy of that formula

[1958model]

May 3, 2019 16:36:14 GMT -5 datruth415 said:

I wish there was a way to set the wind on the driving range. Thanks for the replies, right around where I'm at. Like you said, just have to practice more!!

Is this not something we can put at the door of the designers?  Would love to have the following available on the driving range:

1.    Select wind speed and direction.
2.    Pitching practice:  Select sand, fairway or rough pitching practice individually.
3.    All balls played remain on screen until you "reset" to clear practice area.


Any idea how and where we can "beg" them?

Dries

[cephyn]

May 20, 2019 8:28:00 GMT -5 1958model said:

May 3, 2019 16:36:14 GMT -5 datruth415 said:

I wish there was a way to set the wind on the driving range. Thanks for the replies, right around where I'm at. Like you said, just have to practice more!!

Is this not something we can put at the door of the designers?  Would love to have the following available on the driving range:

1.    Select wind speed and direction.
2.    Pitching practice:  Select sand, fairway or rough pitching practice individually.
3.    All balls played remain on screen until you "reset" to clear practice area.


Any idea how and where we can "beg" them?

Dries

They've moved on to the next game, and don't communicate with the community. You can post it in the HB forums, but you'll get no acknowledgement of anything. Maybe they'll see it, maybe they won't.

That said you can kinda do this already. Create a plot and bunker the whole thing. OB it all. Add a single hole. Then, go to play unpublished courses locally, set the wind and direction, and play. Every shot will be OB, and it will automatically re-tee.

[tylannister]

May 20, 2019 8:28:00 GMT -5 1958model said:

May 3, 2019 16:36:14 GMT -5 datruth415 said:

I wish there was a way to set the wind on the driving range. Thanks for the replies, right around where I'm at. Like you said, just have to practice more!!

Is this not something we can put at the door of the designers?  Would love to have the following available on the driving range:

1.    Select wind speed and direction.
2.    Pitching practice:  Select sand, fairway or rough pitching practice individually.
3.    All balls played remain on screen until you "reset" to clear practice area.


Any idea how and where we can "beg" them?

Dries
That would be fantastic! I especially liked the third idea, leaving all the balls were they end, just to hit 20-30 repeats and look at the results

Going back to the topic of the post, I would totally agree with the approximate distances given before (for winds up to 10 mph, simply add/substract 1 yard per 1 mph). From 10 mph upwards, the effect grows exponentially. A shot against a 15 mph front wind will not cause -15 yards but probably more than 20, even 25 yard effect.
As always at this game: practice, practice, practice
From my experience, I would recommend one thing more: As soon as you are more familiar with the game, dont try to use the available distance Excel spreadsheets or get too obsessed with mathematical calculations. Trust your gut. Roughly calculate elevation, wind, add some roll out... and hit it. Don't lose 3 minutes of maths per shot, that can get really frustrating when not reaching the expected results (because millions of other factors such as lay, green firmness, green speed, how straight your swing was...)

[echomike2]

May 14, 2019 22:01:25 GMT -5 illinoisgator said:

May 3, 2019 16:36:14 GMT -5 datruth415 said:

I wish there was a way to set the wind on the driving range. Thanks for the replies, right around where I'm at. Like you said, just have to practice more!!

I think you have to do that by building yourself a practice area in the designer. Never done it myself but i think i've read where others have built a flat north facing design with water so that they can set the wind and see how far the ball will travel without rollout.  

I built flat a par 5 and a hilly  par 3 in designer so i can hits shots, practice over and over. I know you can adjust green speed but couldn't find a way to adjust wind speed. That would be huge!!

[cephyn]

May 24, 2019 9:49:30 GMT -5 echomike2 said:

May 14, 2019 22:01:25 GMT -5 illinoisgator said:

I think you have to do that by building yourself a practice area in the designer. Never done it myself but i think i've read where others have built a flat north facing design with water so that they can set the wind and see how far the ball will travel without rollout.  

I built flat a par 5 and a hilly  par 3 in designer so i can hits shots, practice over and over. I know you can adjust green speed but couldn't find a way to adjust wind speed. That would be huge!!

Exit the designer to play a course, like you'd play any course in the game - one of filter choices is "My unpublished courses" - you can choose that and then set the winds to low, medium, high, very high, and the direction, just as you'd set the conditions for any other course.

You won't be able to take a ton of shots over and over, but you could hit a couple with shot preview, and then hit and declare unplayable to get back on the tee. should give at least 4-5 tee shots per hole.

[echomike2]

May 24, 2019 9:55:07 GMT -5 cephyn said:

May 24, 2019 9:49:30 GMT -5 echomike2 said:

I built flat a par 5 and a hilly  par 3 in designer so i can hits shots, practice over and over. I know you can adjust green speed but couldn't find a way to adjust wind speed. That would be huge!!

Exit the designer to play a course, like you'd play any course in the game - one of filter choices is "My unpublished courses" - you can choose that and then set the winds to low, medium, high, very high, and the direction, just as you'd set the conditions for any other course.

You won't be able to take a ton of shots over and over, but you could hit a couple with shot preview, and then hit and declare unplayable to get back on the tee. should give at least 4-5 tee shots per hole.

That's a good idea Kevin, I'm going to try that. I'm playing solo career and built my own schedule and courses as close to the 2018-19 PGA as possible  so I do that when is set up practice rounds. I set the conditions for the tournaments based on the weather reports for that area. I'm going to use par 4 or 5 to test distance based on wind and elevations. the reason I left CC-G was I couldn't compete, my ave is 72,  winners are  30-40 under par, the solo career is working out pretty good.