LouisLewis:
It also shows WGT that scoring 53 or 54 on Kiawah is unrealistic. Yet it happens everyday on this game. Its something that should be looked at.
You said it yourself... this is a game. There's nothing to BE looked at.
Here we only have a couple of variables to factor in for every shot. If you can do some simple math, have decent timing and hand-eye coordination, and manage to avoid the necessary built-in deviations you can shoot ridiculously low.
Real life has a myriad of variables( just in course conditions) that will affect the outcome of any shot. Then figure in the human variables like adrenalin, anger, frustration, setup, etc. Your avatar never gets excited, never gets mad, always addresses the ball perfectly and has a 100% repeatable swing with every single club in the bag.
We play on near-perfect representations of the course... and that's where the realism effectively ends.