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[stuss02]

I tried my best to search but didnt get alot the answers i was looking for. I have had my SkyTrack for about 2 weeks and it is awesome. I feel its very accurate but do have a few questions.

1. When playing JNPG I cant get anything within 30 yards to stay on the green. When i play on a real course i have a nice flop shot and little 2 hop check chip. No matter what I do on JNPG (hitting of a Country Club Elite) everything roles out when im that close. I know the greens are faster the alot more slope then my local course but it can be crazy bad at times. I hit what i know is a high flop shot it lands beside the hole and runs off the back of the green by 50 feet.

2. How does hours of practice time normally carry over to the course. Just in 2 weeks i feel my ball striking has dramatically improved. Seeing the data watching my swing and correcting things have me much more consistent. My concern is that I might be learning to play the simulator and it might not carry over to on the course. Just curious of some of the experts thoughts.

3. Is there a way to save your scorecard after the round in JNPG. I want to go back and look at it after the fact and see how and what i can improve on.

Thanks

[zmax - sim]

On OGT Sim Tour, we play with greens set to soft.   That seems to be the most realistic setting.  For most guys, sim golf has helped their real golf, myself included.  

 

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[grumpter]

1. I am not sure there is a way to solve this. Try setting the greens to the lowest stimp rating and to soft but it still doesn't go nearly far enough in my experience.

 

3. I don't know of a way. The only thing I can think of is to take a screen shot of the Scorecard. Not nearly as useful as having a database record of your round(s) but maybe better than nothing.

[Crow357]

3.  Currently, you'd have to take screenshots of your card at end of round.

[grumpter]

1. Stimp Meter = 8, Green Firmness = Soft , Green Quality = BUMPY . Had much better results with this tonight but maybe I am just getting used to the faster greens. Still seemingly too fast for some of the public courses I have played. Being able to go lower on the Stimp would probably do the trick.

 

edit: and my next question is going to be can I set those 3 things in the autoexec.cfg file?

[shimonko]

2. How does hours of practice time normally carry over to the course. Just in 2 weeks i feel my ball striking has dramatically improved. Seeing the data watching my swing and correcting things have me much more consistent. My concern is that I might be learning to play the simulator and it might not carry over to on the course. Just curious of some of the experts thoughts.

 

Somethings will improve just because you'll be hitting a lot more than usual, but it, IMO, very much depends on how you go about it. Some simulator guys do whatever it takes to score well on simulator - forgiving mats, alignment aids, viewing shot data, suspending rounds mid way when playing poorly and resuming later, being very mathematical in calculating effective distances due to elevations and wind and then hitting shots with a particular ball speed in mind. Others try to keep it as close to real golf as possible at the expense of scoring.

 

If you compete against others IRL, then that's what you need to do in sim golf too - where distractions, nerves and adrenalin kick in. I thought sim golf had cured my yips until I found myself playing the sim Ryder Cup where every match was critical and I had a team to let down.

[Jwheels9876]

1. I see the same issue. Some guys swear they don't. IRL I use a 52 degree wedge to chip from off the green within like 15 20 yards. On here gotta use a 60 degree or it will just roll and roll. So try using a higher lofted club and plan for the roll out unless you're hitting from a bunker uphill or something.

2. If you're striking the ball well on the SIM it will carry over. Your score may not because of the obvious different issues you run into outside that you don't indoors like bad lies, rough etc..

3. When I first started I downloaded one of the phone GPS apps and just loaded up whatever course I was playing on the SIM and kept the score on it to see later on if I played it again to compare. I still do this sometimes when friends come to play. When they shoot like 135 on pebble beach I send them the screenshot of their score from the app lol.

[grumpter]

1. I see the same issue. Some guys swear they don't. IRL I use a 52 degree wedge to chip from off the green within like 15 20 yards. On here gotta use a 60 degree or it will just roll and roll. So try using a higher lofted club and plan for the roll out unless you're hitting from a bunker uphill or something.

If you haven't done so try setting the green quality to bumpy and firmness obviously to soft. Tried this last night and I was able to stop chips faster, even had a full 9-iron spin back a little and a full 5 iron land soft. I was using a 60 degree for the chips though as I have had much the same experience as yourself and stuss02. Might tryout the 54 degree and 48 for some chips tonight.

[Acrilix]

If you haven't done so try setting the green quality to bumpy and firmness obviously to soft. Tried this last night and I was able to stop chips faster, even had a full 9-iron spin back a little and a full 5 iron land soft. I was using a 60 degree for the chips though as I have had much the same experience as yourself and stuss02. Might tryout the 54 degree and 48 for some chips tonight.

 

As far as I know bumpy or realistic will have no effect on distance, only direction, as it adds a small deviation to putts to knock them off line. I've never noticed a single chip be affected by them at all since they were introduced, though I've seen reports by others that claim they are.

[grumpter]

As far as I know bumpy or realistic will have no effect on distance, only direction, as it adds a small deviation to putts to knock them off line. I've never noticed a single chip be affected by them at all since they were introduced, though I've seen reports by others that claim they are.

It would be nice to get Admin confirmation on that. Could be just the softness difference that I was seeing or that I am either getting used to the speed or just had a lucky night.

 

Edit: I guess just getting used to the putting speed and greens set on soft. At least I now have one less setting I need to change every time I create a new game.

[Armand]

1. Stimp Meter = 8, Green Firmness = Soft , Green Quality = BUMPY . Had much better results with this tonight but maybe I am just getting used to the faster greens. Still seemingly too fast for some of the public courses I have played. Being able to go lower on the Stimp would probably do the trick.

 

edit: and my next question is going to be can I set those 3 things in the autoexec.cfg file?

 

 

I don't think you can set game-specific settings like those in the autoexec.cfg file.  First, you'd have to find a console command to control them (the only one I may have found is r_quality, but I don't know what quality this setting is for!).

[wjf67]

Hi,

Is it possible to set up JNPG to repeatedly playing into the same hole, say a tee shot to your favourite par 3?

[zmax - sim]

Yes, you can.  Set game mode to Practice.

 

Come check out the JNPG simulator discord chat community.

 

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[wjf67]

Thank you.

To get multiple shots, do I set the unit for 8 players, or is there another option?

[zmax - sim]

Set post shot screen to auto continue in like 4 secs.   you'll be able to hit same shot over and over.

 

Btw, saw that you came in on Discord.   Best way to learn the game is to play multiplayer scramble with a few of us.  Must have a mic.