YankeeJim:
It's nice to think 2019 finds WGT still at it. :-)
WGT won't make it to 2019: Prices for balls and clubs will continue to spiral out of control over the next year, and in an effort to protect par the 2014 Virtual US Open at Pinehurst will feature uneven lies. This also begins WGT's plan to slowly transition into uneven lies being the game's default game mode.
But of course, uneven lies is badly implemented, many of the top players and/or the top spenders start to get fed up. Then a rival online golf game comes out with a business model that allows 'non-paying' customers to be competitive if they put enough time and effort into the game, challenging gameplay that's more reliant on user input compared to WGT's so-called 'VEM' system, and Pebble Beach Golf Links and Spyglass Hill as it's first two courses, thanks to a deal with the Pebble Beach Company.
This new game becomes popular very quickly, at the expense of WGT as many of it's top players migrate over there. This in turn puts a serious dent in their profits, and by the 2015 Virtual US Open at Chambers Bay, they're barely making any net profit. Management knows when to fold them, and announces that they will be closing down WGT by the end of 2015. The remaining players of WGT are sad to hear the news, and collectively build a memorial webpage for this once great game...
Epilogue: The 'rival' golf game meanwhile, acquires the USGA license left behind by WGT. They then host the 2016 Virtual US Open at Oakmont. And after a gruelling 4 rounds of golf, BolloxInBruges wins with some excellent play under pressure, birding 17 and 18 in difficult weather conditions. But all of this is;
Ok, so maybe 6 years is a long time when you think about it. But other golf courses have had to wait a lot longer between majors; Merion in particular went 32 years without hosting another major after 1981. And of course, there's always the 2016 Barclays between now and then.