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Error Hole#7 Bethpage Closest to Pin

• tibbets 1,043 Posts

  Thu, Jun 11 2009 8:49 PM

  The lie is reported as "Bunker 50-60%", but this isn't how the ball plays.  You can hit a full 55yd(SW Tour Starter) out of it and the ball will go 50 yds.  Try that in stroke play under the same conditions in the same bunker and the ball will go half that distance.  This is not indicative of a 50-60% lie in a bunker, at least not compared to how the rest of the game plays.

  Also, can you fix the reported lie percentages on some of these holes?  Nowhere in stroke play do you ever encounter a 2-5% lie, so why do you have one in the Closest to Pin challenges?  It makes no sense to have such inaccuracies on the same courses.  It's been this way on all courses since the beginning, and it's a little glitch that needs to be fixed up.

• WGTalex 2,087 Posts

  Fri, Jun 12 2009 4:28 PM

  Thanks tibbets, we'll look into the first issue to see if there is an error there.

  The 2-5% lie is intentional because the ball is being placed gently on top of the sand.

• tibbets 1,043 Posts

  Sun, Jun 14 2009 5:23 PM

  It's not just in the sand where these oddities occur. 

  Wolf Creek #2, 2nd cut rough, 10-15%?  We never see that .

  Wolf Creek #3 1st cut rough, 2-5%?  We never see that either.

  I can understand about hand placing the ball and such to give favorable lie conditions, but still, I think that somewhere, sometime in stroke play we would encounter the same lie conditions and we don't.  These 'one-of-a-kind' shots that we encounter in the Closest to Pin challenges are a little strange, and it would just be more consistent if you'd give us conditions we actually face in stroke play rather than these % oddities.