Reply #11: I've been messing with this

[Ohio Joe]

I jumped in and just did some play before starting my career. I started using the three button set up but either my reflexes have slowed waaaaaay down or this is much faster then what I remember, heh, it was not pretty. I decided to see if using the stick was any better and it was not... until I realized I was doing it all wrong. I assumed the speed I moved the stick translated to the power of the swing... yeah, no, it does not work that way :D I eventually figured out that I can move the stick in a slow and smooth manner and that the longer I waited before my forward movement would translate into power... much easier. I can now hit FIR on almost every shot and even GIR most of the time (in the first career round I did 5 FIR and 8 GIR). The short game is tough, as was said earlier (Lazarus, I think) getting 40% on a swing takes work. Putting is not bad... of course not great either.

I started my career and finished the first 9 hole round in first, going +1 and I'm now sitting here trying to decide what to improve on my character. Since I'm OK with everything but my short game for now, I think I'm going to put everything into putting for now.

To go off topic a bit for a moment... I fucking hate that Nationwide is in the game. That company was such a great place to work until the bankers took over the top spots and destroyed the place... fuckers. I do kind of wish I could be there at the end of 2012 when their systems get crushed by the Y2K bug :D Back in the 90's when we "fixed" their systems they went the cheap route and did a logical expansion instead of a physical expansion. They also insisted on a 12 year window... and for the routine to be written in assembler... and for the module to be a static link... and there is no one left there that has any idea what we did or why. They have many months of work to do to fix it and no one there even knows they are going to get hit with it... ahhh, good times to come :D