Jonnydanger81

I only get the "too slow" thing when using my lowly character, so I'm assuming once you have a better swing you can hit the ball with better tempo. I've played with half of the pros and on a lot of the shots I'd hit a "perfect" shot. I also read that on the hardest setting you should only get perfect tempo and swing length one out of every 9 times. On Tour Pro with the pros I was getting it pretty consistently.

Whenever I get invited to a club I typically expect to pay for the round. If however the price is higher and that person is always asking me to go to their club because that's the only place they want to play, I may hint at a free round here or there. It happened before and I wasn't even that big of a fan of the course, but it was near his house and cheap and he wanted to get his moneys worth. The only time I don't expect to pay is when it's a client inviting me in exchange for doing business with them, or some times for a tournament.

For putting I always hit it harder and take some of the break out of the line, although at Augusta and some other places it tototally kills you on downhill putts. I just can't get it to the right spot consistently enough. For chipping, I put some loft on it and take about half the recommended swing length and accelerate like crazy through the ball. For those weird distance pitches I've been putting a lot of loft on it, moving the cursor 5-10 yards short of the hole and then giving it a full shot. I'm on Tourpro and playing with my own crappy charecter. I won the amatuer events and now I'm playing the Nationwide and am at -16 after a few rounds and everyone else is at +3. I haven't tried it on the hardest setting yet but I think that might be coming.

I'm psyched to hear all these dad stories because I just had my first kid (avatar pic) and can't wait to get him out to the course and I hope he remembers the time we spend together golfing and grows up to love it. My dad left us early, but in the summer when my mom worked there was a local course that would give a free lesson on Monday then let you play as many holes as you want afterwards. My mom would drop a few of us from the neighborhood off there early morning, we'd get the lesson then golf the rest of the day. Kids membership there was like $80 for the summer, so probably 2 or 3 days a week we'd get dropped off their by someone and mess around the putting greens and the course. They let us have a locker and everything so we didn't have to haul our clubs every day. Just wish I stuck with it all my youth.

I almost always walk. Every two times I walk it saves the cost of the next round. I have a pull cart for the hilly courses and just carry for the flat ones. Early year a lot of places are cart path only anyways. Sometimes I'll go golfing with clients and one of us are able to expense the round for business. I keep a full water and some nature valley bars in my bag all the time rather than stopping at the turn. I usually don't drink beer while playing either. Early evening rounds in the summer are awesome. Some places it's $20 for all you can play after 3 or 4. We always get more than 18 in. I don't really go cheap on the equipment or balls or anything. I'll go in with some friends on a big bucket of recycled balls but that's about all. I figure with the amount of times I play I want stuff that is going to hold up.

I just put a Masters Tournament up on PS3. 4 rounds, unlimited tries. Put the green grid on, swing meter on, pin positions are Saturday, course plays fast, real time weather. Should be running for the next 4 days.

Game acting up? Typical Xbox crap. Just kidding. I haven't seen anything yet on PS3 though. You can change the angle of your player to see the swing meter. For PS3 it's the R2 button. It's for situations when you're blocked so you can still see what you're doing. I've chipped in 4 or 5 times, at Augusta. Everything seems to roll and roll and go in. I hate the short pitching though. Taking the club 75% of the way back is crap. The swing feels way to long to produce a 12 yard chip/pitch. I'm not a huge fan of the chipping either.

I've hit the roof of a moving cart before, which wasn't entirely my fault as the cart came onto our fairway after I hit my drive. My cousin totally skulled an iron off the tee of an opening hole so badly that it went pretty much perpendicular and shot across the practice putting green, barely missing 1/2 a dozen people. Worst encounter ever was on a short par 4. Course was crowded and the ranger was on our ass, as they always are at this course with anyone under 40 y/o. I think the hole plays 288 from the elevated tees, elevated green with bunkers in front which is a common place to land your drive if you go for it. 2 guys hit iron, one guy hit driver into the bunker and I went last but I was going to wait for the guys to get off the green. The ranger gave me some attitude, telling me to just go, so I did. Of course I hit the drive of my life, takes a hop right into a guy on the green. The ranger was screaming at me, telling me I shouldn't have hit if I thought I could reach, blah blah blah. The next tee is right near the green and I went over to appologize to the guy, it really just bumped into his leg off the hop and we could tell from the tee he wasn't hurt, and I explained how the ranger told me to go and whatnot. All he did was ask me if I made the putt. I didn't.

Valley, I'm not using the Move controller but I did try to import my face and it looked more like a zombie than it looked like me. I got a similar thing with the blemishes because of the shading in the picture. In The Road I think I won 2 out of 3 of the amateur events then went to the Masters and played the first round at +4. It's pretty hard on Tour Pro with hardly any power or spin on the ball and crappy clubs. No matter what I do I always swing slow too. I've got the backswing tempo down but it still says I'm always slow. Also, I'll make everyone in the PS3 country club an Admin or whatever so everyone can set up tournaments and such.

Not to hijack this thread, although that's exactly what I'm doing, we're doing a 4 day trip to Pinehurst at the end of April and need one more course. So far we're got Legacy, Hyland, Foxfire East and West, Pinehurst 1 and Whispering Pines. I've played Pinehurst 3, 5 and 8 before and really don't want to pay for 2. I've also played Pine Wild and Southern Pines in the area, as well as Tobacco Road. I was wondering if anyone could offer up an opinion for our last round of the trip? Trying to stay under $150. Dormie Club might be a little high but I'm trying to pressure the other guys into it. Didn't realize I've played so many courses down there until just typing that out. Thanks!

1. Tiger Woods - 275 2. Luke Donald - 277 3. Rory McIlroy - 278

On PS3 the club leader, or Admin (up to 5 per club) can set up tournies. I set one up but rushed through it and it's kind of a sucky tournament. Lots of options to select. I'll set up an Augusta one on PS3 this week.

Yeah, sorry about that. I didn't know they were so many options. You can press Triangle to get the caddie's read of the green and they do a pretty good job of pointing you in the right direction. I played it with my character who is horrible and was right around even par. I'll either change that one or set up another one that is more user friendly.

Put up the first tournament on the PS3 Sand Trap CC. I've only played 2 rounds total so far, so I'm not too sure on how a lot of it works but we'll figure it out along the way.

It let me join on the EA website, but not on the PS3 itself. So I made one for PS3. If there's a way to cross platform I'm still cool with that. The game plays a lot slower than '12. Created myself, played in the first amateur tournament and won it at +2. Made a few birdies, couple bogies, overall it wasn't too bad. I have it on Tour Pro and I'm not sure I'd even be able to putt if the meter wasn't there. I constantly overswing and have slow temp but the ball goes where I want it. Oh well.

I'm on PS3 and can't find it, must not be cross platform as someone said. I'll create one. The Sand Trap CC I'll do a logo up and something. Too bad Xbox and PS can't play nice

I went online and joined it, logging in with my password on the TW EA Sports site. I think that's actually linked through my old Xbox360 account so when I use my PS3 when I get the game I have no clue what will happen. Hopefully it transitions over to it.

Faggets? Awesome. Listening to people spew shit like that on headsets is what made me stop playing COD and all those games in the first place. I joined the CC online but I don't have the game yet. I'll pick it up sometime this weekend probably. I look forward to taking over the new double bogey record.

Maybe you can make it so the inputs you want to do are optional? That way if you want to do just straight score and GIR FIR that's fine, but if you want to go indepth you have the choice. I'm decent with excel and could do something pretty straight forward, but I don't know c++ or anything actually useful.

I've played most of the TW games in the series. At least IMO when you're on the hardest difficulty (Tour Pro I think?) the hardest thing to grasp is the putting because there is no meter, no line, nothing. When the cup is on a sloped lie you can easily 4 putt trying to get it just right. If you're shooting 65 on the top level then that's some good stuff. I try to play that level but a lot of the times I'll end up making the cut and finishing towards the back becuse of a few 3 and 4 jacks on the greens.

If you're going to do a phone app for use during the round, that's cool, but I know personally I'll always use a scorecard. Again this is just me, but I input all the additional info above score (misses, # putts, etc) after I get home after the round. Maybe you can even make it so the program has prompts that come up and automatically give you the next input that you need to fill in. On a typical Par 4 you could have the program "ask" these questions in an order which makes sense like you're running through the hole in your head. 'which club did you use off the tee' 'did you hit the fairway' if not it will ask which side. 'how far to the green did you have' 'which club did you use' 'did you hit the green' 'if answered no where did you miss' 'how far were you from the hole on the green' 'did you make your first putt' 'did you make your 2nd putt' etc, etc, then the program should be able to go back and calculate certain things like GIR, FIR, # putts, save %s for your round, and even give you how far you typically hit your driver, irons, your most commons misses, # of total putts, all that good stuff. I know it seems like a lot of questions per hole, but I think if you make the prompts intuitive enough then you should be able to breeze through the selections and have a lot of good info on your round.

Oh man, I did that photo face thing before. I think I did a better job replicating my face on my own, and that thing took forever. At one point it asked me to make a sandwich to kill time.

I'll do it. I do one through Yahoo already.

I thought the Scorecard software that Iacas was associated with was pretty good. The most important thing when it comes to keeping track of stats is that it should be smooth to enter them in. Having to TAB around or move the mouse excessively when trying to put in stats is a pain in the butt. I think the stats (inputs and outputs) are pretty generic when it comes to what you can actually do and what you can record during a typical round, but having it be user friendly is a huge key. Personally I think that's what would separate a good program from a poor one. A few of the better stats I've seen that help out are: Misses (green and off the tee) to the left or right (one of my favorite inputs), distance to the hole once on the green or distance of first putt (another awesome stat to note), distance to the hole and a space to put the club used so you can get an idea of how far you hit your clubs on the course, # of putts, sand save %'s, up and downs. Then from there you can write some programs that can go back and calc your GIR and FIR, driving distance, etc. Good luck.

Colorado is a great place for golf, and some amazing weather that time of year (May/June) and if you play up in the mountains you'll notice how the altitude gives you some distance. Fossil Trace is a fun course to play once, but it's not something that I'd want to play every week. It's tricked up but in great shape. Worth it for the rock formations and coolness factor, but not a place for scoring. Vail Golf Club has some amazing altitude changes, and you get to walk through Vail which is pretty cool. It's about 1.5-2 hours from Denver. I used to live 5 minutes from Keystone and Breck, and both those courses are nice, but nothing that will really blow you away for the price. You pay for the views once you get into the mountains, and they're some pretty great views, but typically golf courses as Colorado goes. If you do go to Keystone or Breck, there's a ton of really cool places to eat and grab some micro-brews in both Dillon (Keyston) and Breckenridge. Definitely worth it if you're in the area not trying to squeeze in 36 a day or something. If you want to go on the cheap while you're in Denver, City Park is a muni course right in the middle of the city (across from the zoo). Best kept muni course I have ever played in my life. Very straight forward course, but if you just want to sneak out for a quick round while in town it's not bad at all, and they make a good breakfast sandwhich in the restaurant. If you're dying to play the second you get off the plane, you can hit a bucket, or play a round, at Green Valley Ranch which is right off Pena Blvd (the only road to DIA). I've stopped there a few times on my way back to the airport if I'm running early to hit a bucket. Like MEfree said though, I'd wait until June to play any course in the mountains (Keystone, Vail, Breck) just so the courses are in good shape and you don't risk any snow, although I did hear it's been light this year.