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Us Open 2015 at Chambers Bay

• LOLserver 3,522 Posts

  Mon, Jun 22 2015 5:45 AM

  roidrage03:

  Once you reach Level 200, you will be able to buy the latest Taylor Made driver with a maximum distance of 375. Only 10,000 credits. :-)

  Was thinking about the same but then again, if we get those iron distances the game would even be more ridiculously easy & not to say, more unrealistic.

  So, I hope not : ))

  Eric

• LOLserver 3,522 Posts

  Mon, Jun 22 2015 5:49 AM

  bhoese:

  LOLserver:

  zagraniczniak:

  Kind of like St Andrews where you can essentially have different holes because of the setup (reverse, using double fairways etc). Don't know if that tee will be available in WGT or not.  

  That would be cool, although I do not believe (I'm positive actually) WGT would invest manpower to create a new tee (in this case only for legend or TL) when they have already established the tee locations per level....from hack to legend.

  Great idea tho.

  Eric

   

  The alternate tee is (mostly) in the game, even if WGT hasn't set it up to be played from there yet:

  

  This is the farthest camera that I could find from the pin.  It looks good up to 197 yards from the pin or so, then the lower half of the avatar begins to disappear.  At 200 yards the avatar is totally off-camera and the view is from the green.  I got as far as 207 yards from the pin before going OOB.

  I pitched it around in that area and didn't find any "tee box" lies, so it hasn't been programmed that way.  That's the easy part for WGT.  The hard part is getting the photos and coding in all of the terrain, which they have.  It's possible that they could use the alternate tee in the future.

  The idea sound fantastic and possible of course but.....as that tee did not exist when WGT took Chambers pictures and that tee is only for championship players, WGT will never spend time & resources creating (graphically) a tee,and setting up the hole or the course for a new tee....I don't see it coming at all, unfortunately.

  Eric

• LOLserver 3,522 Posts

  Mon, Jun 22 2015 5:53 AM

  oneeyedjohn:

  I watched Rory all the way,and then he imploded on 15 & 17 & 18, could have won it.

  Damn....what a pity : (((, Rory was pushing like a train!!! playing amazingly well and showing why he is the no. 1 in the world!!!

  Got perhaps too greedy (in my opinion) and took LOTS of chances in the last holes, however, wonderful effort : )))

  Eric

   

• LOLserver 3,522 Posts

  Mon, Jun 22 2015 6:08 AM

  Corwyn:

  Fabulous finish to the event: glad I caught it live (went to a golf course to watch! Fun to see it with total strangers: huge groan went up at DJ's 3-putt but I have to say we all saw it coming)

  Corwyn:

  LOLserver:

  Perhaps someone can sponsor a "score" winner too

  I'll sponsor a "score" winner sleeve of choice, Eric. 

  And thanks for running this fun thread again!

  Most of the likely winners chosen already, but I'll go for Ian Poulter at -5.

  Well, I believe I myself was the only one to pick -5 as the winning score... not so right about Ian Poulter though, lol.

  1enigma1:

  OK,  Jason  Day is my pick, but likely the winner will have a "j" in their name i.e   Jordan , Johnson, Justin, Jason..  :)                :the Pacific Northwest stunningly beautiful as well as the course -4  or 5 might win it?, looks very tough..

  This is the only other entry I could find that was close to winning the sleeve prize... but I'm afraid enigma, that this goes down as "hedging your bets" ;-)

  Thanks Eric, for running this wonderful thread: I want to send you the sleeve instead. What would you like?

  ------------------

  P.S. Watching the real-life US Open and seeing the scores, I was curious if players here had an opinion about which club combinations on WGT might offer the best match to replicate the difficulty and experience the pros had. 

  I've been trying the challenge of shooting par with the full starters set using the VUSO Qualifier tourney set-up, but that's far harder than the best finishers experienced (pretty close to Tiger's woeful shotmaking though!).

  Perhaps the Tour Starter Clubs with low-level balls (e.g. Lexus or equivalent free balls given for tourneys)?

  Cheers Corwyn : ))), I mean it like an "extra" prize if the winner of Pick Winner competition was ALSO going to be right on the score...never mind, nobody was even close to that...LOL.

  Soon the course will be available for CC and single players with UEL : ))))...what a fantastic course for UEL, so bloody tricky and nasty if you miss the flat spots and, as the even lies, so challenging.

  I'll be watching the WGT Ryder Cup m8, for sure.

  Really want to send me a sleeve?....well, can't say no to such generous offer, as said I am not a big earner player and never ever play for credits, so thanks a lot Corwyn Nike RZN  black level 90 please.

  Eric

• LOLserver 3,522 Posts

  Mon, Jun 22 2015 6:10 AM

  

  Congratulations Jordan Spieth!!! you become a legend buddy ; )))

  All has been said gentlemen.

  Thanks for being part of this thread. See you all again at the next Us Open 2016.

  Eric

• Corwyn 2,410 Posts

  Mon, Jun 22 2015 6:17 AM

  LOLserver:

  I mean it like an "extra" prize if the winner of Pick Winner competition was ALSO going to be right on the score

  I know you meant it that way, but I was curious to see how close the guesses were, lol.

  lvl90 Nike RZNs on their way to you :)

  Thanks again, and yes, I agree, can't wait for all the options with UEL @ Chambers!

• oneeyedjohn 9,567 Posts

  Mon, Jun 22 2015 6:47 AM

  The twelfth hole is like a full stop for me, I can get there 6 7 or 8 under and I leave there 6 7 or 8 under, so I quit.

• andyson 6,415 Posts

  Mon, Jun 22 2015 7:28 AM

  MARKDMK:

  On the very last hole of this tournament Jordan Spieth in his second shot drove a ball close to 300yards uphill with an iron to have a chance for an eagle.

  Here I can not do it even with my 3W club.

  So my question is how come we don't have those long range irons clubs here on wgt?

  I believe you are mistaken about Spieth using an iron to reach the 18th green yesterday.  It clearly was a 3W as shown in this screenshot of a video on the USGA site:

  

   

• SweetiePie 4,925 Posts

  Mon, Jun 22 2015 7:45 AM

  LOLserver:

  Thanks for being part of this thread. See you all again at the next Us Open 2016.

  Eric

  Lovely work Eric....next year ?? Whoa there great one...not so fast. We have The Open coming soon. It will need your touch of magic....PLEASE, OH PLEASE !!!

  Just say yes,

  Lily

• roidrage03 399 Posts

  Mon, Jun 22 2015 7:49 AM

  andyson:

  MARKDMK:

  On the very last hole of this tournament Jordan Spieth in his second shot drove a ball close to 300yards uphill with an iron to have a chance for an eagle.

  Here I can not do it even with my 3W club.

  So my question is how come we don't have those long range irons clubs here on wgt?

  I believe you are mistaken about Spieth using an iron to reach the 18th green yesterday.  It clearly was a 3W as shown in this screenshot of a video on the USGA site:

  

   

  I assumed that Mark meant DJ, who hit a 5-iron into the green.