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Re: Augusta National

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Tue, Jan 4 2011 7:30 PM (15 replies)

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cyl6

347 Posts

Tue, Jan 4 2011 3:00 PM

Agree on Pebble, but I think the one difference is that most people who have played golf sims have played Pebble at one point or another, as early as Links. I got to play the course in real life too, and it was amazing. I think the impact of Augusta National is that everyone knows the course, but they've never before let it be used for a golf sim.

I think we all prefer WGT to TW, but there's no disputing that WGT needs to get some courses out there. The ones we have are awesome, but with the same pin positions, etc. I understand it's complicated, it would just be a shame to have a great sim die bc of loss of interest or funding or anything along those lines.

jeffdos924

1,085 Posts

Tue, Jan 4 2011 3:24 PM

At least as far back as 2009, Augusta National had entertained the idea of entering the virtual golf world.

In fact, WGT ( maybe it was one of the admin, I haven't dug back through the old posts) had brought that possibilty to the community's attention. I know that ,in '09, they had posted a link to The Masters' website and asked us to post comments.

Sad to think that Augusta will be available on the TW games with those cheesy graphics and not on WGT, where the course could be represented so much better.

Doublemochaman

2,009 Posts

Tue, Jan 4 2011 3:27 PM

Point taken Cyl6. Though, when you think about it, Pebble turns up on TV more often than Augusta. Once every February and twice in the last 10 years for U.S. Opens.

I played the wonderful 1930's version of Pebble Beach on Links (without the garish multi-million dollar homes lining the 18th fairway). Also, don't know if you downloaded it, but there was a player-designed Augusta National on Links... whcih was very, very well done.