I'd say it is. The environment of this game is based on HD photographs of the real courses, and it's more difficult to compose a course out of photographs than to create a semblance of the real course solely through artificial computer imagery.
I understand the usage of HD photographs is the reason for why we'll probably never get to see rainy weather in this game, why pin locations never change, and why it takes so long to make new stroke play courses available for play.