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More European Courses

• DuncanHadden 1 Posts

  Sat, Mar 19 2016 5:05 AM

  Any chance of there being a few more European courses? Ballybunion? Royal Birkdale? or Valderrama might be nice. 

• ApexPC 3,164 Posts

  Sat, Mar 19 2016 10:56 AM

  Probably not.

  Those courses would have to want to be associated with WGT and be willing to pay WGT to get added.

  For a time WGT had an agreement with the Royal and Ancient which is how we got the British Open venues St. Andrews and Royal St. George's. But apparently that agreement lapsed.

   

• daveparr 1,175 Posts

  Tue, Mar 22 2016 4:19 AM

  with 2, British courses l think we are doing good already, the games worldwide and many countries do not have a home course,  St andrews and R.S.G   are suffiicient l think

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• Marocon 4 Posts

  Tue, Mar 22 2016 10:27 AM

  As a Dutchman I would love to have one of our great courses on there, either a links course (for example Noordwijk or the Kennemer) or forest course, such as Hilversum, which is already available as a hole-in-one course. So I guess there was a contract of sorts with the Hilversumsche? Could it be extended?

  Mark

• ApexPC 3,164 Posts

  Tue, Mar 22 2016 9:02 PM

  I would bet the contract gets extended yearly - as a CTTH course only.

  Plus to make it an 18 hole course WGT would have to return, photograph the entire course, and then spend the 6+ months putting the photographs together with the programming. Of course Hilversumsche would pay for all that work.

  They photographed the entire Pebble Beach course (it had been CTTH only) which is just down the coast from WGT's offices - in May of 2014 - and we still don't have the back 9.

• zagraniczniak 1,984 Posts

  Thu, Mar 24 2016 1:05 AM

  Not sure who pays whom. For resort courses like Pebble Beach, Kiawah, Pinehurst, etc., featuring on WGT helps them sell greens fees. But for intensely private clubs with a long waiting list, like Merion, Oakmont, Olympic, RSG, etc., there's nothing in it for them. On the contrary, they are exposing every blade of their short grass to the rude gaze of the world.

• ApexPC 3,164 Posts

  Sat, Mar 26 2016 1:44 PM

  A lot of the courses we have come from the agreement WGT has with the USGA to provide US Open venues. Erin Hills is slated for addition in 2017. We already have this years US Open Venue - Oakmont.

  I have often speculated about who pays whom based on my knowledge of how use licensing works for software, photographs and property and expected that WGT would have to pay a use licensing fee to the golf courses to use their images of their property for a commercial use. 

  However, other here on the forums have insisted that the golf courses pay WGT, rather than the other way around. Like having their golf course here is advertising and so so WGT gets paid for the advertising space.

• craigswan 31,824 Posts

  Sat, Mar 26 2016 2:00 PM

  Donald trump has 2 Scottish courses - trump international at Aberdeen and turnberry .

  Maybe he can put a word in with wgt .

• Fencer100 2,064 Posts

  Tue, May 17 2016 3:39 AM

  Turnberry!

  Now that would be fun to play on here, the views would be magical too ! 

• borntobesting 9,706 Posts

  Tue, May 17 2016 5:17 AM

  By their own admission WGT has been cash short for awhile. And the cost of shooting courses is not cheap,Years ago it was close to 1/4 million. 4 years later that price has probably risen close to a million. Even more for courses outside the U.S.A,