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• Zws221 8 Posts

  Thu, Jan 30 2014 8:30 AM

  I believe yall should put Augusta national on stroke play for a new course this year, it would be great to get the masters course mixed in with all of the existing us open and British open courses. it would be fun and challenging all at the same time and it would allow yall to have a virtual us open and masters tournament.

• borntobesting 9,707 Posts

  Thu, Jan 30 2014 10:48 AM

  Zws221:

  I believe yall should put Augusta national on stroke play for a new course this year, it would be great to get the masters course mixed in with all of the existing us open and British open courses. it would be fun and challenging all at the same time and it would allow yall to have a virtual us open and masters tournament.

  WGT can only put a course on here if the owners allow them to do it.The owners of Augusta have given or more precisely sold the rights of Augusta to EA Sports and I doubt that they would allow WGT to use it.

• jayw4862 3,364 Posts

  Thu, Jan 30 2014 10:49 AM

  That's one course we or any future members 10 years from now will never see on here. It'd break the bank to get the OK and photo/filming permission from Augusta National. It took Bill Gates years of "begging and pleading" to shoot a round at A.N. The volunteers for the Masters get to play one round in May, as a fringe benefit, but the waiting list for volunteers is so long that it was closed years ago. It would be great to have that course, though (I've been there as a spectator, once). It is beautiful. Pinehurst is coming in a few months (hopefully) and Pebble Beach is supposedly going to be ready before years end.

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Thu, Jan 30 2014 1:07 PM

  jayw4862:

  That's one course we or any future members 10 years from now will never see on here.

   

  Along with The Los Angeles Country Club (north or south course), Pine Valley, Cypress Point, Oahu Country Club and others. C'mon, name some others

• jayw4862 3,364 Posts

  Thu, Jan 30 2014 1:26 PM

  SweetiePie:

  Along with The Los Angeles Country Club (north or south course), Pine Valley, Cypress Point, Oahu Country Club and others. C'mon, name some others

  You just did :)

• Zws221 8 Posts

  Thu, Jan 30 2014 4:44 PM

  yea I never thought of it that way

   

• ApexPC 3,164 Posts

  Thu, Jan 30 2014 5:26 PM

  http://youtu.be/M8h8XYbvum4

  In the video they say it takes 6 months to plan, photograph, and prepare a new golf course for 18 holes of stoke play here at WGT.

  A Forbes article about WGT mentions it takes about 3 weeks to photograph 18 holes (about 300,000 photos), at a cost of several hundred thousand dollars.

  This year we will get Pinehust #2 in USGA US Open condition, and a bit later an 18 hole collection of the par 3's on the Bandon Dunes Golf Resort complex of golf courses.

  Though not confirmed, because of a recent renewal of their agreement with WGT it seems Pebble Beach has been moved up to be available as an 18 hole stroke play course from it's previous scheduled inclusion date in 2019. 

  In 2015 we get Chambers Bay. In 2017 we get Erin Hills. In 2018 we get Shinnecock Hills.