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Fri, Feb 20 2015 12:24 PM (5 replies)
  • kcalw
    152 Posts
    Tue, Jan 20 2015 7:31 AM

    Since I have been complaining about this for years I was wondering if someone from WGT could answer this question..Why can"t WGT have some tournaments with below 10mph winds? Why is every friggin free tournament above 11-13 mph winds???

     

  • alosso
    21,093 Posts
    Tue, Jan 20 2015 7:52 AM

    ... except of those with zero wind...

    Furteron I doubt that "why?" questions will be properly answered.

  • Sechrest
    3 Posts
    Sun, Feb 15 2015 4:38 PM

    I agree, being a life long golfer in the real world...wind speeds are not consistent with the real world!!!  Not many golfers would even think about playing with winds speeds over 20 mph, especially on rock hard greens... heck with winds as high as that, there should be rain and temperature changes... knock the winds down or at least let them change from hole to hole... Less wind and more courses, please!!!  Thanks

  • ApexPC
    3,164 Posts
    Tue, Feb 17 2015 10:03 AM

    Frankly, WGT is to easy as it is, even with 20 mph wind...........................

    The best players should have scoring averages no more than 2 or 3 under par, or 68 or 69, not 10 or more strokes less than that at less than 60. But everyone likes making birdies so WGT keeps it easy to score if a player learns how to manage their virtual play. If you're having trouble scoring, regardless the conditions, you might want to make some changes to how you play WGT.

    It takes 6 or more months for WGT to put together all 18 holes of a new course, and WGT has to have permission from a course to use it here at WGT. First they have to make 200,000 to 300,000 photographs of the course, then edit all of those photos, and then add the game programming.

    WGT has an agreement with the USGA to add US Open venues. About May 1 we will get Chambers Bay, the 2015 US Open venue.

    We already have the 2016 US Open venue - Oakmont, so in 2016 WGT doesn't have to produce a US Open venue. 

    In 2017 we get US Open venue Erin Hills and in 2018 we get Shinnecock Hills.

    Pebble Beach for 18 hole stroke play should be in the can and ready for whenever WGT decides to release it. Many of us thought we would have PB by now but apparently PB is on hold for some reason. BTW - PB is the course for the 2019 US Open.

     

  • kcalw
    152 Posts
    Fri, Feb 20 2015 11:01 AM

    I can appreciate you wanting to have difficult conditions to test your game. That is fine for you. But there are some of us that would just like to play a nice comfortable game.. i am not suggesting that they have no high wind games. I am only asking that they have some low wind games for those of us that DO NOT ENJOY THE 12MPH PLUS games,

  • 19368110
    61 Posts
    Fri, Feb 20 2015 12:24 PM

    It's not just the tournaments..Try cabo, st andy, and a few other..13-15..12-14..

    I've mentioned this before and it does no good. I am a legend and score pretty fair when I try. That isn't the point, the point it gets pretty damn old. Makes no sense that every course in the world has those high winds every time you play. 

    stupid is as stupid does. Just sayin'

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