WGT Golf News

The World Series of Golf will be hosting "Get Acquainted" events at the Las Vegas Paiute Golf Resort on February 23, March 30, and April 20. This is your chance to explore the courses and hone your strategy in a real tournament atmosphere before the actual competition during the week of May 11, 2009. The buy-in is $10,000 with the winner receiving $300,000. Learn more here: http://www.worldseriesofgolf.com.

We've all been there—you're in the middle of your best game ever, and you need to take a call, or leave for an appointment, or your kid/wife/mother-in-law (you name it) is calling you from the other room. Worst, you hit Menu / End Round/Main Menu thinking you could resume later, only to discover that you've lost the game.

Remember that whether you're playing a tournament or ranked round, choose Save & Quit if you need to continue the game later. In a multiplayer round, if you need to drop off be sure to finish it later...you'll keep a lot more friends that way.

Cheers,
WGT

Congratulations to ZACHT, who sunk an amazing 100 foot putt and won the first-ever community-organized putting competition. See the replay here!

We have a new video tutorial on how to putt, for those of you who are new to the game or just want to brush up. We have also updated our "How to Hit the Ball", "How to Aim", and "How to Start a Multiplayer Game" tutorials (please note the links have also been updated):

• How to Putt
• How to Start a Multiplayer Game
• How to Hit the Ball
• How to Aim

Remember that there is also an in-game tutorial that walks you through the basics of gameplay. You can view it by clicking on MENU and selecting TUTORIAL.

Enjoy!

We released some upgrades to the product earlier today and here are the highlights:

• Top Players list ordered correctly
• Leaderboards showing both tiers
• Resolved some cases of the session time-outs in game
• Resolved some cases of swing meter stuttering
• Improved messaging for cancelling a tournament, noting it will forfeit your tournament entry

Thanks for your support.

WGT

We made some updates to the product today, and here are the highlights. As always, you can check the Announcements & Latest News forum for full details on our system updates.

• Progress bar loader – a new game loader shows you the progress of the load, so you know how far along you are.
• Online status sort – the WGT Players list is now sorted by online status by default, making it easier to form multiplayer games.
• See More Friends – you will now see up to 250 of your friends in the Friends widget on the left hand side of your screen.
• Screen resolution alert – if your screen resolution is lower than the recommended 1024x768, you will be alerted.

WGT players from 170 countries have now completed 2 million rounds and hit 20 million golf balls since October. We'll keep the features, prizes and tournaments coming, so keep playing and thanks for all your support!

The 2008 Crunchies is TechCrunch's second annual competition to celebrate the most compelling startups, internet and technology innovations of the year. Help us get WGT nominated for a "Best Time Sink Site" Crunchies award!

http://crunchies2008.techcrunch.com/nominations/?nominee=World%20Golf%20Tour&category=10

Thanks everyone!

Since WGT players from the United Kingdom, Germany and Canada became eligible to compete in WGT tournaments on November 1, we've gotten many questions about when eligibility will open for other countries. As you can imagine, different countries have different requirements for contest and sweepstakes, but we are steadily working through them to open up to as many countries as we can. Stay tuned, because there are definitely more to come!

Check out our newest video tutorial on how to start a multiplayer game. Learn how to create your own game and invite people to play, and how to make yourself available for a multiplayer game.