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Re: New courses

Thu, Feb 2 2012 9:14 AM (43 replies)
  • zagraniczniak
    1,984 Posts
    Wed, Feb 1 2012 11:31 AM

    BOXALL:
    I hope I'm wrong here but WGT may not be continuing their association with the R & A. The Official British Open website contains a Longest Drive Simulation game which has a cartoony appearance and is most definitely not done by WGT. I may be barking up the wrong tree but there may not be any more Open courses being done. Hopefully WGT can confirm one way or the other very soon.

    Indeed. As has been observed before, WGT and the R&A were pretty quiet about their cooperation and never made the clear commitment that we see with the USGA. It looked like a 'wait and see' attitude to me with St. A's. We waited and finally did see RSG. Another wait.... shall we see.

    Hope the R&A sticks around long enough to give us the whole rota of courses. The US Open has a longer list of classic courses it keeps going back to, but no fixed rota.

  • SPINO1
    5,394 Posts
    Wed, Feb 1 2012 3:05 PM

    I was indeed making assumptions concerning the R&A,if correct it would give wgt the oppotunity to move away from the links stlye courses used on this side of the pond to maybe open it up to others across the globe, heres hoping.(Cape Kidnappers in New Zealand looks something special)

  • zagraniczniak
    1,984 Posts
    Thu, Feb 2 2012 9:04 AM

    Would be great to see WGT get involved with the Asia/Pacific tour. Seems like a no-brainer. Not that we would want them to sacrifice getting the whole British Open rota into the game. Over time, as non-British courses are rolled out, the number of links courses would be balanced by the fact that courses elsewhere are predominantly parkland courses, or at any rate not links courses.

  • Doublemochaman
    2,009 Posts
    Thu, Feb 2 2012 9:14 AM

    No more links courses until Chambers Bay in 2015!  Uh, small correction, Pebble Beach would be okay... though it's not truely a links course.

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