Club head speeds [SOLVED]
Posted: June 21st, 2021, 2:28 am
This weekend I have paid a lot of attention to the US Open played in Torrey Pines.
According to data I found online Torrey Pines South has a stimpmeter of 11. Hence that can be reproduced. (Mc/Mc or roughly that).
I paid close attention to how the golfers were putting, the nasty trajectories the balls were often traveling and I have to say that LINKS with the challenging settings can reproduce that. It was nice to see that they barely broke EVEN in the 4 rounds because that confirms the realism of the game with the suitable settings.
However, I know Torrey Pines South very well, among the courses I know best. When I select the challenging settings for the pins, they were not placed like they were for most holes in the US Open 2021! But, maybe the course has been modified a bit with respect to the most recent available in Links. I am saying this only to make a point that when going for Mc/Mc or faster, one has to be aware that difficult pin positions could not be suitable at all.
I decided to check also club head speeds for the PGA. I used the data from the site below.
https://www.pgatour.com/stats.html
and for instance
https://www.pgatour.com/content/pgatour ... .t010.html
Now, it would appear that the average for the PGA is around 115 mph, but there are players whose averages are considerably higher in the mid 120mph to low 130's mph. In Links, in RTS, I consider myself pretty good at driving. But my average speed is 110mph and my top speed ever is 120mph! Reasonably below what one should achieve in a realistic version of the game.
I noticed that in Classic Swing it is possible to hit further than in RTS, although not by a huge amount. My personal experience: smacking the ball at full throttle in Classic I was getting 10-15 more yards than in RTS. Those 5 to 10mph or so can make a difference as it could be the difference between sending a second shot on green or just nearby on a par 5 hole. And more. But, I am not sure that there is a way to increase the speed in RTS. I tried everything I could think of, but in almost 1 year of playing that is my best and I can tie it, never managed to bit it, not even by 0.1 mph.
I will continue playing in RTS because, as far as I am concerned, I just prefer it to Classic Swing. However, I am a bit disappointed as I made big strides to bring realism to my game (thank you to the help of other users here), but I feel that club head speeds will not match what I can see in PGA tournaments among the "fastest" players, at least, no matter what I tried. I even tried several mice, but really that did not make any difference. In some cases the way they handle can be beneficial or detrimental, but eventually, once I get used to them, they reach the same speed and the shots go the same distances.
According to data I found online Torrey Pines South has a stimpmeter of 11. Hence that can be reproduced. (Mc/Mc or roughly that).
I paid close attention to how the golfers were putting, the nasty trajectories the balls were often traveling and I have to say that LINKS with the challenging settings can reproduce that. It was nice to see that they barely broke EVEN in the 4 rounds because that confirms the realism of the game with the suitable settings.
However, I know Torrey Pines South very well, among the courses I know best. When I select the challenging settings for the pins, they were not placed like they were for most holes in the US Open 2021! But, maybe the course has been modified a bit with respect to the most recent available in Links. I am saying this only to make a point that when going for Mc/Mc or faster, one has to be aware that difficult pin positions could not be suitable at all.
I decided to check also club head speeds for the PGA. I used the data from the site below.
https://www.pgatour.com/stats.html
and for instance
https://www.pgatour.com/content/pgatour ... .t010.html
Now, it would appear that the average for the PGA is around 115 mph, but there are players whose averages are considerably higher in the mid 120mph to low 130's mph. In Links, in RTS, I consider myself pretty good at driving. But my average speed is 110mph and my top speed ever is 120mph! Reasonably below what one should achieve in a realistic version of the game.
I noticed that in Classic Swing it is possible to hit further than in RTS, although not by a huge amount. My personal experience: smacking the ball at full throttle in Classic I was getting 10-15 more yards than in RTS. Those 5 to 10mph or so can make a difference as it could be the difference between sending a second shot on green or just nearby on a par 5 hole. And more. But, I am not sure that there is a way to increase the speed in RTS. I tried everything I could think of, but in almost 1 year of playing that is my best and I can tie it, never managed to bit it, not even by 0.1 mph.
I will continue playing in RTS because, as far as I am concerned, I just prefer it to Classic Swing. However, I am a bit disappointed as I made big strides to bring realism to my game (thank you to the help of other users here), but I feel that club head speeds will not match what I can see in PGA tournaments among the "fastest" players, at least, no matter what I tried. I even tried several mice, but really that did not make any difference. In some cases the way they handle can be beneficial or detrimental, but eventually, once I get used to them, they reach the same speed and the shots go the same distances.