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Lorena Ochoa is an inspiration to us not only because she’s the best female golfer in the world, but also because she’s real. An accomplished athlete and budding philanthropist, she is known to be humble, caring, and generous. That is why we are cheering her on this week as she attempts to tie the LPGA record of five consecutive wins at the SemGroup Championship in Oklahoma.
As female golfers gain recognition and respect—Ms. Ochoa became the first woman to earn more than $4 million in one season—interest in the game is growing ever more quickly among women. Many of you have asked us for female avatars in WGT, so we wanted to give you a preview of one that will be available in our next release. Below is one of three different outfits you will be able to choose from, modeled on one of three different face/body combinations.
Did I mention Ms. Ochoa’s sense of style inspires us as well?
Enjoy,
Alex
Congratulations to the following WGT players for winning prizes in our March drawing:
RadarGolf System: flyboy08mr (check out Radar Golf here)
TaylorMade Burner: allen11119
World Golf Tour Shirts and TaylorMade Balls: AstroStud, cambeiro, PirateDan, Bbooks76, butte99
Congratulations to the winners. The next drawing will be the first week of May!
We will be launching a modified skill challenge on Thursday, April 3rd, with some new shots from Bali Hai! We didn’t have too much to work with in terms of photos, but I hope this holds you over for a little bit. With the new challenge we are going to wipe out the current leaderboard and start new. You will be able to keep your awards and teams, but your scores, stats and replays will be deleted.
Thanks for your patience as we are working hard on our full version which will launch this summer!
Tibbets shot a 34.34 and now has the #1 spot on the leaderboard. He has overtaken Noah382 by a mere .51 points! The battle for the top spot is getting pretty fierce. Anyone else out there have a record-breaking round in them?
We have checked the log data for Tibbets and he is legit. There is no cheating going on. We can’t wait to hear from him how he has made 56 hole in one’s! Some people are just lucky I guess!!
Great job Tibbets!!!
Congratulations to the following winners for our January prize drawing! We will have another drawing the first week of March so check your email for a message from us.
TaylorMade Burner Driver
Harzsy
World Golf Tour Golf Shirt and Balls
Amoitep
links89
ptindc
sk1913
toohotjoe
PatrickBrendan
pbakerchi
T.O.W.
Wampum
Thanks for continuing to play the game and for your patience as we get ready to roll out our new features later this year.
Noah382 has scored a 37.24 to take the lead from Whiteshadow. The score is truely amazing considering I can’t even come close. Everyone can be assured that we have checked Noah382’s game history and everything looks legit. The term “These Guys are Good” really applies to our leaders. Congratulations Noah382, but watch your back, a few players are only one good round away.
- Ted at WGT
WhiteShadow carded an unreal 38.99 in the Charity Challenge! He’s the first one to beat Sammy! I would imagine that his palms were a little sweaty as he lined up his shot on #9. Great job WhiteShadow!!
Let’s see if anyone can take over the #1 spot from him…
WhiteShadow was kind enough to offer some tips to let everyone know how he plays the game. I think many of you will find these helpful.
WhiteShadow’s Top 5 Tips
1. Practice the Perfect Swing – there’s no penalty for whiffing. Let the green bar run through without clicking to help get your timing focused for the Perfect Swing.
2. Skip Holes, Restart and Take Notes – skip holes you’ve already mastered to work on others. Since you can’t “really” skip a hole, just swing quick without worrying about score and move on to the next hole. Take notes vigorously. Note the wind club, stance, spin, swing and shot quality – distance to the pin and perfect swing mark. Like whiffing, there’s no penalty for restarting. Use Restart to quickly exit a bad round when you’re shooting for the low score.
3. #4 – with the wind at 2 MPH left-to-right, position arrow to the left of the pin by about one pin-length while in green view, move ball up about half-a-tick mark in your stance, set full backspin and take a full swing with the 2 Hybrid. You should be within a few feet every time, if not a hole-in-one.
4. #7 – with any wind, use the PW, full backspin and ball all the way up in your stance. Depending on the right-to-left wind strength, position the arrow further and further right of the pin. For example 3MPH position in the middle of the fringe off to the right, 4MPH a little further and so on. You’d be surprised how far right you need to position the arrow for 6MPH. Take a full swing and don’t get worried when you hear a heartbeat.
5. Turn the sound off if you are at work!
We were thrilled to see an article in Fortune Magazine this month about the World Golf Tour! It is quite an honor being compared to Einstein’s theory of relativity. Clearly, the author really enjoyed our game. Just wait until we have a full 18-holes to play. Productivity could truly come to a screeching halt.
With all of the new people joining the site and playing the game it means a lot more competition. Will Sammy’s record score of 41.62 remain on the top of the leaderboard? We will send out a WGT golf shirt to anyone who beats his score! Time to hit the links!!
You can see the Fortune article here: http://money.cnn.com/2008/01/16/technology/online_golf.fortune/index.htm
This is just a short reminder for all players to play at least one round of our Charity Challenge to qualify for a chance to win some great prizes such as a TaylorMade SuperQuad, Burner, R7 Irons and WGT golf shirts! Complete a round by year-end and you’ll be entered into the drawing.
Congratulations to the winners of our most recent drawing.
TaylorMade Burner Driver:
Tkid
World Golf Tour Adidas Golf Shirt:
AgentZero
bms225
carrizo
ChipNASA
jbs1723
ToddMac
DynoMite
ejherd
The World Golf Tour would like to wish everyone a very happy New Year!!