First let me say I play this game because it's a game, and I'm a gamer. I like golf, but it's not what brought me here like many people on this site. This also means I follow other games heavily. No not Tiger Woods, I play WGT because it is the definitive golf gaming experience out.
I do feel that anyone who uses any kind of program is cheating. Notes are fine, real golfers use notes, so that's fine, but not a program that does everything for you. I personally don't even use notes. I only use my memory of the course and how it plays, for better or worse.
It would be a good idea to get all the top players out for a big live tournament, maybe even once a year would be fine. But there's a problem, that's not WGT's responsibility, and also 9/10 other game developers don't do it either. If there is a live in-person tournament for other games, it's usually organized by other parties and sponsors, not the developers. To ask that of WGT, when they sponsor all kinds of online tourney's in just unfair.
With other games, it's usually the players paying their own way into the tournament, and also their travel there. Sometimes sponsors pay that, but there isn't enough interest in WGT as a whole to warrant sponsorship and that type of thing. How many of you would pay for your own air travel to an organized in-person tourney? I'm not doubting anyone's passion for WGT, but other games, it's no problem and there are massive amounts of in-person tourney's.
Sure, WGT's popularity isn't what some of those really popular games are, so that narrows down who is willing to do that.
How many of you would even watch a live stream? With other games, live streaming is where a game's popularity can skyrocket, and it's growing more and more all the time.
I would really like to know how many would potentially watch a live stream of WGT games, from a moderately skilled no-name player such as myself. If there is enough interest, and it doesn't lag down my computer so much, I would consider it, and play against the viewers.
Even if not many would watch me, if Bollox or another well known player did live streams, how many would be interested and watch then?