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Re: Enhanced course options

• EagleTexas 149 Posts

  Sat, Feb 14 2015 6:53 AM

  Hey guys ... while it is nice to be able to play closest to the pin on PGA courses like Pebble Beach and Valhalla ... how about opening up the ability to fully play these courses.  Since you've already done the programming work on the greens and some of the fairways it would only require some finish up for tees and additional fairway work.  Would be a great addition.

  Oh yes ... while your at this, how about adding some avatars for some of us "over the hill" older golfers ... you know, some bald, fat, beer drinkers ... lol

  Thanks for your work and giving some of us "home bound" folks an opportunity to remember what it was like on real grass ... 

• ApexPC 3,164 Posts

  Sat, Feb 14 2015 10:46 AM

  WGT wishes it was that simple.

  WGT would have to return to those golf courses and make 200,000 or so additional photographs to add the views needed for all 18 holes to be available for stroke play.

  As it is WGT did exactly that with Pebble Beach last May after WGT and PBGL renewed and expanded their use licensing agreement.

  Though we expected to have all of PBGL by now, it's release has apparently been postponed until sometime after the next USGA US Open venue, Chambers Bay, gets added on or about May 1.

  So I don't expect to see PBGL for 18 holes of stroke play until the second half of 2015. 

  Here are a couple of videos that show/talk about the process: