I, for one, appreciated the clarification concerning the British Open courses. I was grateful to hear that there is an ongoing relationship with the R&A. While it is a lot to ask a club to open up its course to the cameras and mapping and so on, if the relationship between WGT and the R&A were more clear and up-front it would help the clubs to think about the Virtual Open as more or less a package deal that comes with the honour of hosting the actual Open. Just as, when you host the Open, it is understood that you have to open up the course to the TV cameras, security crews, thousands of spectators and so on.
The clubs should come to see the quality of the WGT experience and think of the Virtual Open as a way to share and promote the whole golf experience with the countless, devoted fans who will never have a chance to play those courses in real life. It is not cheapening. It is a kind of educational, and good for golf.