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Re: Courses

• petersputter69 1 Posts

  Sun, Apr 23 2017 5:29 AM

  We need more Golf Courses to play, not enough courses to play

• K7JBQ 1,468 Posts

  Sun, Apr 23 2017 10:29 AM

  Looking at your stats, I'd suggest learning the courses we have now rather than clamoring for new ones. 

• ApexPC 3,164 Posts

  Sun, Apr 23 2017 4:35 PM

  Erin Hills, all 18 holes for stroke play, will be added soon.

  WGT has an agreement with the USGA to add US Open venues WGT doesn't already have. We got all of Pebble Beach a couple of years early. 

  Courses have to want to be added. It's my understanding they also have to fork over some pretty substantial $$$$$$$s to get added too. If you can find a course that wants to added and can afford to pay the entry fee for them, more power to you.

  Plus it takes WGT 6+  months to put together just 1 new course after they spend the 2 weeks or so it takes a team of photographers to make the 300,000 or so photographs they need to produce their 'photo realistic' online golf course.

  https://youtu.be/M8h8XYbvum4

• borntobesting 9,700 Posts

  Sun, Apr 23 2017 7:20 PM

  ApexPC:

  Erin Hills, all 18 holes for stroke play, will be added soon.

  WGT has an agreement with the USGA to add US Open venues WGT doesn't already have. We got all of Pebble Beach a couple of years early. 

  Courses have to want to be added. It's my understanding they also have to fork over some pretty substantial $$$$s to get added too. If you can find a course that wants to added and can afford to pay the entry fee for them, more power to you.

  Plus it takes WGT 6+  months to put together just 1 new course after they spend the 2 weeks or so it takes a team of photographers to make the 300,000 or so photographs they need to produce their 'photo realistic' online golf course.

  https://youtu.be/M8h8XYbvum4

  Think you got one thing backwards there. The courses don't pay WGT. WGT pays the course a lisencing fee. Not sure if it a one time fee or a recurring annual fee.  That and the cost of shooting and programming the course puts the price upwards to a $1/2 million.

• garyk49 2,330 Posts

  Mon, Apr 24 2017 7:19 AM

  petersputter69:

  We need more Golf Courses to play, not enough courses to play

  Have to agree with K7.  You do seem to play most of them, just not very well.  Learn to score better on them, then the asking might be taken more seriously.  Others have also given you information about what it takes to get a new course.

  You are far from needing more courses.

   

• Olduffer 153 Posts

  Mon, Apr 24 2017 11:01 AM

  I have been on WGT since 2009 and when I started we didn't have anywhere near the courses that we do today. Most of us were happy to play this game using courses that are real in real life , not just some computer program generated course.  Also, think about it, golfers who belong to an actual country club pay several thousand dollars annually in dues to play the same course over and over while you get to play several actual USGA courses for free.  If you were to play Pebble Beach in real life, it would cost you $ 500 dollars for one round.  You, my friend, are a spoiled hack.  Get a life.

   

• Chris1973M 1,832 Posts

  Mon, Apr 24 2017 2:08 PM

  HUM..thanks for the idea ..I am gona push for my local course Pete Dye ,French Lick..heck we have a casino mabey they have the money to fork over..