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Club tuning recommendations - 9/23/2008 3:04:40 PM

luckyea

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I shank putts. And drives. And approaches. Yada yada.

So...

Can someone (SW, Marco, anyone?) recommend a club tuning that will help me stay in bounds?

*I've tried every controller on the market. At 0% sweet spot I have to pay entirely too much attention, just to keep from shanking it.

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RE: Club tuning recommendations - 9/23/2008 3:06:04 PM

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Lucky mine are tuned to 95% and I shank very few shots these days ..... Im on the 360 but I dont think its that much different between them this year....

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RE: Club tuning recommendations - 9/23/2008 3:08:13 PM

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That's hard for me to fathom....I have yet to shank a single shot (knocks on wood) and my sweet spot is at 0%. My guess would be to tune your clubs so you get a bigger sweet spot, maybe take away some of the workabilty, or just learn to swing straight.

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RE: Club tuning recommendations - 9/23/2008 3:42:10 PM

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Lucky mine are tuned to 95% and I shank very few shots these days ..... Im on the 360 but I dont think its that much different between them this year....

Actually I disagree, I have my 360 clubs tuned to about 80% so I don't shank and on the PS3 mine are tuned to 100% because I don't shank... I know that tuning applies to the controller more so than the system, but there are differences between gameplay on the consoles that have lead me to tune clubs differently.

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RE: Club tuning recommendations - 9/23/2008 8:10:51 PM

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I dunno, Chris.

I just press the button that says "coach's recommendation".

I figure he knows better than me.

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RE: Club tuning recommendations - 9/23/2008 8:59:59 PM

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Cool I've tried to put the workability all the way down. That gives you a 14% sweet spot, and still plenty of workability. However, I still wasn't 100% straight. So I'll go for a 70-%80 club tuning, and report back later. Thanks all.

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RE: Club tuning recommendations - 9/24/2008 12:14:33 AM

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Sems to be working out fairly well. I'm at the minimum workability, and 87% power which = 26% sweet spot. My wedge 's are minimum workability, and 91% power which = 21% sweet spot.

Pro's: It's not that you swing any straighter. It's just that it barley effects the ball, unless you totally shank it. Missing a little left or right is still in teh fairway, and on approaches were talking about a foot or two here or there. Spinability makes it negligable. So goal accomplshed thre.

Cons: I'm losing about 10 yards on drives. There are some holes I won't be able to drive. Not too many though. In the lobby, it's been working out fairly well. Leaning towards 9 holers instead of 3 holers, in case I hit a bad hole for me, distance wise.

So far so good, I guess. I like not having to concentrate on the swing stick so much.

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RE: Club tuning recommendations - 9/24/2008 12:14:57 AM

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If you've shanked with this controller I don't know what to tell ya.

Tried the HORI? Maybe you have terrible luck and all your controllers are lemons...it happens from time to time.

Anyway....I think there is a "swing bias" in the club tuner. If you shank in the same manner all the time, you could change the bias to straighten it out. But, when you actually swing straight you might end up shanking if you set it up that way.

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RE: Club tuning recommendations - 9/24/2008 1:03:25 AM

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I've tried everything. I have a HORI, a Type 6, a Silver EA sports Intec (arguably the best, along with yours), another intec, one of ZBalata's, and of course a six-axis.

I just don't pay attention enough to swing exactly straight.

*HORI wins by far for me, overall.

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RE: Club tuning recommendations - 9/24/2008 6:25:05 AM

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kept all my clubs at 80 and almost never shank. i find that im more than competitive in all ladder matches.

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RE: Club tuning recommendations - 9/24/2008 7:27:37 AM

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My guess would be you jerk it when you start back up Lucky. I am bad about this at times. Try not thinking about slamming the stick forward and just start forward a little earlier. What does you swing (on the ball to the left) look like?

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RE: Club tuning recommendations - 9/24/2008 12:25:34 PM

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Sometimes it's a little left on the follow through. Sometimes it's a little right. On occasion the backswing and follow through are off a bit. More often than not, it's exactly straight. I'd say I fail to keep it 100% straight about once every 4-5 holes.

I agree with Area 401. I am more competitive at 75%'ish %. Won a LOT of games online last night. Moved up a couple of levels.

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RE: Club tuning recommendations - 9/24/2008 12:37:56 PM

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If I'm not mistaken, workability has more to do with being able to hook/slice... which I never do intentionally. I just use the draw/fade in shot setup... so I change workability to 0 for everything and max the power, resulting in a reasonable sweet spot. I jerk my Hori once in a while but usually has more to do with bourbon than controller, are you u smokin something while you're playing?

or maybe you should consider smokin something...

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RE: Club tuning recommendations - 9/24/2008 1:52:00 PM

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Doing more than just smoking.

I'm a multitasker. If it's not the phone, the fridge, or the bathroom...then it's the smoke, the beer, the shot clock, or the computer. Suffice to say, I don't pay enough attention to hit it straight 100% of the time.

As for workability, putting it at its lowest possible level gives you a 14% sweet spot (if you're power is at 100%). You can still work the ball just as much as previous years, with this setting. You just can't work it 1000 yards left to right.

Probably 1-3 holes in the entire game that require max workability anyway.

Minimum workability combined with a 12% decrease in power (9% for wedges), and now I can slightly shank it and still hit the fairways and greens.

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RE: Club tuning recommendations - 9/24/2008 2:06:24 PM

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On PS3 everything is maxed. I can play with my feet and still hit it straight with my Intec. 360 is at 30% and I shank it still with a stock controller.

It is all about controllers on both consoles. It is a shame there is a disadvantage to using a stock controller. EA should figure out that their is an unfair advantage and change the sensitivity for default play. As I said before, even with my stock controllers their is a big difference.

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RE: Club tuning recommendations - 10/2/2008 8:29:03 AM

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I had the shanks real bad until I started focusing on my thumb more and the line on the ball. What worked for me was practicing a perfectly back and forth motion while putting. Once my putting was shank free...if that makes any sense...I then moved to the driver and had better luck.

Perhaps the most important thing is getting the backswing right. I focused on seeing the line on the ball turn into dots on the backswing. Those dots indicate a perfect backswing.

I use a mini Madcatz...which is far more sensitive to shanks than the big Intecs...so I just have to suck it up and pay attention to my swing.

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RE: Club tuning recommendations - 10/2/2008 11:15:25 AM

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On PS3 everything is maxed. I can play with my feet and still hit it straight with my Intec. 360 is at 30% and I shank it still with a stock controller.

It is all about controllers on both consoles. It is a shame there is a disadvantage to using a stock controller. EA should figure out that their is an unfair advantage and change the sensitivity for default play. As I said before, even with my stock controllers their is a big difference.

Agree 100%, I pay very little/no attention to the backswing or follow through,
On almost every backswing I pull back and to the right(you can see on the ball on the right ,my back swing mark is at about 4:30),but once I complete the swing, the marks alway end up exactly at 6:30 and 12:00 perfectly. You almost can't shank it, even a little, if you tried to.

Personally, I'd rather see all after market controllers be as sensitive, if not more, than the stock controllers are.
We should not have 100% straight shots everytime without even tryng.

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RE: Club tuning recommendations - 10/9/2008 12:30:47 AM

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That's hard for me to fathom....I have yet to shank a single shot (knocks on wood) and my sweet spot is at 0%. My guess would be to tune your clubs so you get a bigger sweet spot, maybe take away some of the workabilty, or just learn to swing straight.

I had the HORI set to the wrong sensitivity.

Switched it up, and I'm good to go...

...I'll probably go with 14% sweet spot (minimum workability).

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RE: Club tuning recommendations - 10/9/2008 12:44:55 AM

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Sweet

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RE: Club tuning recommendations - 10/9/2008 5:43:36 AM

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quote:

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That's hard for me to fathom....I have yet to shank a single shot (knocks on wood) and my sweet spot is at 0%. My guess would be to tune your clubs so you get a bigger sweet spot, maybe take away some of the workabilty, or just learn to swing straight.

I had the HORI set to the wrong sensitivity.

Switched it up, and I'm good to go...

...I'll probably go with 14% sweet spot (minimum workability).

I noticed that if you set the HORI to less then max sensitivity you dont get total control of spin direction .... mine is set to max and I rarely shank anything even at 100% settings

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