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Re: Plantation course Hawaii

• jasme845 2 Posts

  Tue, Mar 3 2015 5:17 PM

  Sure would like to have this course on WGT

• CerinoDevoti 3,232 Posts

  Tue, Mar 3 2015 5:41 PM

  WGT doesn't take requests.

• ApexPC 3,164 Posts

  Wed, Mar 4 2015 8:36 AM

  jasme845:

  Sure would like to have this course on WGT

  Then you might need to do a couple of things.

  1. Convince the golf course it is to their advantage to be associated with WGT. 

  2. Send WGT a check for the $250,000 or so it costs to hire a helicopter for several days of aerial photography, and to have up to 12 photographers over a 2 week or so period make the 200,000 - 300,000 ground level photos w/GPS info needed to make the course available for play here on WGT.

  Once the photos are made WGT will then need 6 or more months to edit all those photos and to marry the photos to the game programming.

  The Making of WGT

• andyson 6,415 Posts

  Wed, Mar 4 2015 9:22 AM

  Actually, a resort course pays WGT to use their course.  Part if not all of the cost to produce a new resort course (only WGT knows) is covered by the advertising fees the course pays WGT to have their course on WGT's site.  It puts their name and course out there in front of (ahem) "millions" of golfers.

  Source:

  EasyEdward:

  I spoke privately with Bandon Dunes management after that post asking as an Oregonian myself (begging actually) that they not go with a Par 3 course. .....

  After 20 emails back and forth the response from their COO was simple. Bandon Dunes would have had to pay too much money to WGT to have a full Par 4 course so they opted for a Par 3.

• alosso 21,072 Posts

  Wed, Mar 4 2015 10:22 AM

  The money argument may be second only:

  None of their tees is in any way sufficiently long for this game.