ScottHope:
I know I have seen those videos before because they are quite memorable, but I don't think I found them via this website, I was probably searching YouTube for something WGT related. How long did it take you to make one?
I've seen people putting before using a punched driver, but not playing every shot like it. I'd be there forever, lol.
What took the longest was trying to get material that might be of interest. I think it normally took a couple of days to make the video (put the text together, type it all in, add various hand gestures etc, iron out any anomolies). The hardest part sometimes was getting the built-in text-to-speech to pronounce the words correctly, so sometimes you have to misspell something to get the right pronounciation. Strangely, my name was pronounced correctly with the correct spelling! You can tell the text-to-speech sounds quite archaic, i'm sure they would be far better now. I do remember that Chad Nelson enjoyed it because he even had something in his profile status about it :)
On a lot of courses it's virtually impossible to play the punched driver shot every shot, particularly off the tee, because it wouldn't reach the fairway and then you would struggle to move it out of the rough. That was also a problem on St Andrews, but the bigger problem to begin with was getting it over the burn. Most would just go straight over it in front of the green, but your ball would always end up in the rough at the back, and then almost impossible to get it back onto the green without it running into the burn, then you had to get it over the burn again. So my way of doing it was to go left side of the fairway towards the cloest part of the burn to the tee, then you could play a fuller shot to jump over the burn. you could never get to the green in two that way, but at least you had a chance of no more than a bogey, and possibly even a par if you got your 3rd shot close. A couple of years ago I did try another course, but can't remember which one now... might have been Oakmont F9 -it was too tough!
I did hold a CC competition about 3 years ago using just a punched driver, and Poppypeux and I did actually manage to finish the front 9. Unfortunately I don't have the scorecard any more, but I'm pretty sure we both scored in the 40's, Poppy 1 shot better than me I think. The card may still be in the Aphrodite CC forum somewhere.