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Losing Oakmont

• drmoose 3,546 Posts

  Wed, May 17 2017 6:44 PM

  Oak is gone, Andyson is gone. We ain't gettin' either back. Life sucks an' we try to move on. As a realist, our beloved game will never be the same, but, we can try to keep some spark of what we had alive. I implore my fellow WGT members to bring whatever positive and humorous posts they can to the forums, this is, after all, our home. Let's treat it with respect, to honor those who did so before us, and brought a much needed smile to our faces countless times. You know who you are, do not let our loss diminish the community we were building which went far beyond the game itself.

  Doc

• JFidanza 1,676 Posts

  Wed, May 17 2017 7:05 PM

  drmoose:

  I implore my fellow WGT members to bring whatever positive and humorous posts they can to the forums, this is, after all, our home. Let's treat it with respect, to honor those who did so before us, and brought a much needed smile to our faces countless times. You know who you are, do not let our loss diminish the community we were building which went far beyond the game itself.

  Doc

   

  +1

   

  I remember when I got my gold starter putter & thought Oakmont #17 with a 47 footer was grand, and it wasn't special, but somehow I thought it was fun.The Yancy shows on twitch w/ the Pinehurst Egg Pods...I want to bring that back.

   

• overtheedge 5,885 Posts

  Thu, May 18 2017 7:44 AM

  drmoose:

  Let's treat it with respect, to honor those who did so before us, and brought a much needed smile to our faces countless times. You know who you are,

  TY doc,,,,,

  Some smiles add, A LOT OF INSANITY,,,lol. 

  All I ever did was try to say what I always said,,which was,,,hmmmmm, I forgot now.

• EasyEdward 13,507 Posts

  Thu, May 18 2017 8:06 AM

  YankeeJim:

  ApexPC:

  It's my understanding being included entails a substantial cost to the golf course.

  I doubt that. More like the other way around, WGT does the paying.

  YJ:

  Your assumption is incorrect. 

  As an Oregonian, when it was announced that Bandon Dunes was going to have a course on WGT I was thrilled.  Well that was until I heard that it was going to be the Best of Bandon Dunes Par 3 holes (IIRC they had 29 to choose from among their 4 courses).

  Once I saw that I called the CEO of Bandon Dunes to lobby for doing one of the three main courses they had at the time.  After all, Pacific Dunes course was ranked second best golf course constructed in the last 50 years and 3 of the courses there rank in the top 100 best golf courses by Golf Digest.

  The CEO put me in touch with the Chief Operations manager and he explained to me the economic reality faced by Bandon Dunes in making their decision.  Bandon Dunes had to pay the cost of WGT photographing, mapping and programming the holes.  Simply put: one Par 5 hole would cost more then four Par 3 holes as the amount of photography, course mapping and programing is way more complex if it is more then a tee box and the area around a green.

  EE

   

• YankeeJim 25,827 Posts

  Thu, May 18 2017 9:51 AM

  Still doubting it. The courses are licensed to WGT to use and that license isn't free. On top of that, I can't imagine Oakmont or any other VUSO course paying WGT to provide their course to a very small market that isn't very well known. 

• pukiebear 72 Posts

  Fri, May 19 2017 11:03 PM

  YankeeJim:

  Still doubting it. The courses are licensed to WGT to use and that license isn't free. On top of that, I can't imagine Oakmont or any other VUSO course paying WGT to provide their course to a very small market that isn't very well known. 

  I agree with you. Why in the world would a golf course have to pay for WGT's production costs?  It doesn't make sense. If  WGT wants to include a course for their game, it seems logical that they would have to pay for everything, including a license fee to the course once it's available in game.