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• lonniescott711 4,206 Posts

  Sat, Jan 21 2012 8:48 PM

  Why not rotate the courses for stroke play? With all of the courses that are available, it only makes sense. And whats the deal with Pebble Beach? When is it ever available for play?And while you are at it can you throw in Augusta and TPC Sawgrass?Im just sayin

• MainzMan 9,591 Posts

  Sun, Jan 22 2012 2:09 AM

  By rotate do you mean have a different course each week for thge weekly tournaments?  Because this already happens.  If you mean make some of the ones currently only available for CTTH full courses this isn't possible.  Those courses weren't fully photographed and mapped.  Just enough was done to get the CTTH working.

  And I'm afraid throw in is a bit of a simple expression to describe the work and time that goes into getting a course added to WGT.  There's a lot more to it than going out and taking a few photos, as far as I know about 100,000 of them.  The terrain also has to be mapped which is probably a massive amount of work.  Then there's the small matter of paying for the licence.

  We all slag WGT off now and then but seriously, it is an incredible achievement to get such a realistic looking golf game running.  It has it's flaws but what doesn't?

• borntobesting 9,701 Posts

  Sun, Jan 22 2012 4:59 AM

  lonniescott711:

  Why not rotate the courses for stroke play? With all of the courses that are available, it only makes sense. And whats the deal with Pebble Beach? When is it ever available for play?And while you are at it can you throw in Augusta and TPC Sawgrass?Im just sayin

  You can't throw in courses that they don't have the rights to use. Many courses like Augusta National and TPC Sawgrass are owned by companies with contracts with EA Sports and unless that changes those courses will never be on here. That includes all the TPC courses with are either owned by or licensed by the PGA Tour and The PGA Tour and EA Sports have had a contract granting EA Sports exclusive rights to All TPC courses for close to 20 years.

  As for the courses they do have the rights to use it takes around 6 months to make the course. They have to take around 100,000 hd photos then map the course and program it. The time and money involved are mind boggling. Something like $250000 to make a course. 

• TeeWade 1,216 Posts

  Sun, Jan 22 2012 8:37 PM

  borntobesting:

  Something like $250000 to make a course. 

   Pocket change   :)