The Masters

This week we’re back with yet another topic to discuss here on the forums. The club distances in game have always gotten a lot of attention and comments directed their way…primarily the Driver distances. So we’d like to start gathering your feedback earlier this year so we can better utilize it when we adjust these club distances for future versions of Tiger Woods PGA TOUR.

So let’s open up this discussion primarily to Driver distances and what you’d like these to be. However, you can also feel free to comment on any other clubs in game that you feel hit inaccurate distances when compared to their real-world counterparts.

Again, this is open to players of all difficulty levels and gameplay styles. If you like to bomb it off the tee 430 yards, we want to hear from you too.



Thanks everyone!

No problem with the driver distance here, BUT there should be something in the swing that the further you try to hit it the more difficult it is to keep it on the intended line. That's the tradeoff in golf, distance vs. accuracy.

Links did it quite well where you could overswing or increase your clubhead speed while doing so gave you a much smaller margin for error in hitting an accurate shot.

(Going to keep this post short rather than my usual missive in order to make sure the point is not diminished)

I personally love driving 338 yards, it's a great distance!

For those that use Horis (Itll continue to happen) the Tuner should be changed so that it isn't as sensitive as it is now!

This way everybody would be able to drive this far but you'd still get the risk of hitting it out of bounds!

However i agree with Fred that driver should be somehow harder to hit straight once you get up to the max distance of 338!

i think as long as its the same for everyone, i dont care how long the drive is.

my suggestions on clubs though.

like what is said above, maybe incorporate the higher percentage hit into slightly more random in the landing circle. i.e. if i hit 75% it is pretty accurate, but if i crush it 122% its fairly random in the circle. i know many will say then just club up 1 or 2 and hit 75%, but its just an idea.

and 2. i would like to see the clubs individually tunable.

anyway, great game.

As long as there's going to be a club tuner than individual tuning is a great idea lav.
I'd really rather see the Club Tuner disappear all together.It just allows clubs to be manipulated to a point that could never happen to a real club.Go back to giving everyone the same clubs.

Personally,Id say maybe another 10-20 yds off the distance would be good.Get it down to around the Pro's level somewhat.

As far as the other clubs I'd say as long as they stay in proportion to what the driver hits then they're ok.

The distance the driver goes is fine with me. The distance on the pitch and flop needs to be decreased a little.

I think you guys need to change where the SW and 5iron can be removed from our bags. For years I have never understood why you guys design the game where we have these 2 clubs locked and we can not take them out of our bag.

Di,
i think its a pga rule that you have to carry certain clubs. like you have to carry a putter. maybe someone can verify this.

ps3.lav01 wrote:Di,
i think its a pga rule that you have to carry certain clubs. like you have to carry a putter. maybe someone can verify this.

The pga rules are you are only allowed 14 clubs . One of those clubs must be the putter. The rest of the clubs does not matter except on Tiger Woods pga tour game.

if thats true, then that requirement for the game is dumb. i dont know much about real golf other than i suck. much like this game sometimes. i just thought they required certain clubs to be in the bag. and the 14 club rule.

Overall, I love the game, but one thing has bothered me for the last couple years. The thing I don't like is, no matter what your attributes are, the clubs don't fly their true distances that they say and they come out way too low. In real life, a pro knows how far they will carry the ball with each club. With any other club than a wedge, you are almost always forced to overclub by 1-2 clubs on the shot just to get it to carry and it will never sit in time because it is coming in way too low. I did a test with Tiger and hit a 3 wood, which says it goes 260 yards, and aimed over a bunker which was 200 yards away. Not only did the ball go in the bunker, it rolled in, not flew, but rolled. This is not very realistic and it needs to be fixed. I am very confident in saying most tour pros could fly a 5 iron around 200 yards and get it to stop reasonably quickly, especially Tiger.

CSO_SUB.DlhardUNCFAN wrote:The distance the driver goes is fine with me. The distance on the pitch and flop needs to be decreased a little.

I think you guys need to change where the SW and 5iron can be removed from our bags. For years I have never understood why you guys design the game where we have these 2 clubs locked and we can not take them out of our bag.

I agree with Di. Driver is fine. Having to use a SW and 5 iron is annoying.

I will add that the irons go a little too far. It seems to me like you guys changed the Driver and woods distances last second and now the irons go so far to the point where you don't even need a fairway wood this year. I go from Driver to 1 iron. Just scale back the iron distance about 10-15 yards on the longer irons and 5-10 yards on shorter irons and wedges.

CSO_SUB.DlhardUNCFAN wrote:

ps3.lav01 wrote:Di,
i think its a pga rule that you have to carry certain clubs. like you have to carry a putter. maybe someone can verify this.

The pga rules are you are only allowed 14 clubs . One of those clubs must be the putter. The rest of the clubs does not matter except on Tiger Woods pga tour game.

I just read through the USGA rules and nowhere do I find a rule saying you have to have a putter.
Under rule 4 all it specifies is that the max you can carry is 14.
The PGA Tour follows the USGA rules.

The driver is still a bit too far IMO. I can't think of too many PGA Tour players who can CARRY a golf ball 350 yards off the tee. There are still way to many driveable par 4's in this game and that's one of the big reasons scores are so low.

Your driver should read 300-310 with a carry of about 330. And that's still crushing the golf ball...there are only a handful of professionals who can carry the ball that far. Hell, Tiger isn't even one of them.

I don't think the irons are too bad but you could probably dial them back a bit.

Wedges are dependent upon how much you deloft them and that's where the club tuner needs tweaking. You can tune your SW to over 190 yards. That is simply ridiculous. This kind of extreme delofting of the club makes pitches flops go distances that jsut aren't possible. And no one is hitting there SW 190.

Driver distance is perfect

but the long irons are too long and the short irons are good and the pw is a little long

wedges can we please get rid of the 90 yard flop and the 200 yard A wedge
i think about +and-6 degrees of loft should be the limit on wedges

cem_ea_id.ER1CKSON wrote:The driver is still a bit too far IMO. I can't think of too many PGA Tour players who can CARRY a golf ball 350 yards off the tee. There are still way to many driveable par 4's in this game and that's one of the big reasons scores are so low.

Your driver should read 300-310 with a carry of about 330

I'm not trying to pick a debate with you but if you play in tour mode, the distance is around 330. If the distance of the driver is any less, it would be pointless to play in tour mode anymore. I think Ea is trying to compromise with both Amateur and tour mode players in my opinion.

Di