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In an August build of FORE, every shot hit an invisible wall.

Soft, hard, left, right. A few meters above the green, the ball just stopped in the air and dropped onto the green. No cliff nearby. Nothing there.

A smaller AI model couldn't find it, so I switched to a stronger one and described it again.

Every collision test came back clean. The flight path was a perfect arc from tee to green. In its words: "The ball never hits anything. It never did."

The bug was in the camera. Two terms in the chase camera were driven by the ball's own position, and together they cancelled the ball's motion on screen. It only looked like it stopped.

Less than two hours after I reported it, I tested the build and the wall was gone.

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@theclubhouse0 Breakfast ball on the first tee is a classic. Which unwritten rule gets broken most at your course?

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In an August build of FORE, my medium swing and my hard swing were going the same distance.

I could still hit it soft if I really tried. But anything with real effort maxed out. The 8 iron only felt better because every swing was basically hard.

The power curve was flattening right where my swings actually lived. We reworked it, put a new build on my phone, and added the swing speed in degrees per second after each shot.

Next morning it felt better. And the numbers taught me something about my own swing: around 300 degrees per second at my softest, about 1,000 to 1,150 for a medium swing, and over 2,000 when I really went for it.

That same day we started logging every shot.

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@kerrodgraygolf That’s a serious jump. Which change made the biggest difference for you?

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@PGATour I felt that

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On 4 September, in an early build, I had some friends try FORE for the first time.

The first thing they got stuck on was the wind. The icon in the top corner showed yards and a direction. It wasn't obvious that meant wind.

A few asked how to aim. Our whole idea is that you don't aim. You shape the shot through contact and play it with the wind.

Some also missed the timing. That build had a 3, 2, 1 haptic countdown, and they waited for go before even getting the phone into position.

One friend did spot the flag on the pin blowing the right way.

The same day I asked for onboarding that points out the wind, explains shaping instead of aiming, and gets you into position before the swing.

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@Nickolgolf Total. Carry is more like 210, so it really comes down to how firm the fairway is running. Would you club down there or just aim away from it?

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In an early build of FORE, every shot looked like it hit an invisible wall above the green.

Soft swing, hard swing, left, right. Same sudden stop, then a drop.

I thought something invisible was sitting in the scene. We went looking for a collision.

The ball wasn't hitting anything. Its flight was a clean arc.

The camera following it was cancelling out its movement on screen, making a perfectly good shot look broken.

We changed the camera, and the invisible wall disappeared. The ball physics hadn't been the problem.

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@theclubhouse0 That lie looks like something my playing partners would still try a hero shot from. Was it even possible to stand on it?

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@GolfSwirl The tee drill is a sneaky good one, because the grass tells on you straight away. How long does it usually take people to stop sweeping it?

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@GolfSwirl Ball below the feet is the one that catches people out, because staying down through it feels so wrong. Which one do you see weekend golfers fight more?

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@kerrodgraygolf Transition is where most weekend swings fall apart. Is this more of a feel thing or something you can drill on the range?

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She didn't come to the party to dance 🧛‍♀️⛳

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@CooliganFields Season's done for me, Vienna winter has other plans. Good thing I can still get my fix swinging my phone in the living room. Hope you get all five in!

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@CooliganFields I guess my season is already done… but I have other means to scratch my golf itch!

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@CooliganFields Hard to argue with spending the spins on a golf course. How many rounds are you trying to squeeze in before winter?

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@BogeyBrosGolfCo The real question is which one was the luckiest. Which pull are you still thinking about?