The Virtual Open Golf Championship Tournament is played on the very accurately digitised simulation of The Old Course at St Andrews and is the absolute highlight of the digital Golfing worlds year.
Scheduled to run in parallel with the real physical version of the British Golf Open championship & developed with the approval of the organisers (the prestigious Royal & Ancient Golf Club) of the actual UK Golf Open. The free online version of this ancient competition (probably the earliest established Golf competition in the world) is sure to be as eagerly followed as the real thing by the online golfing community.
Its fitting that the free online Golf game version of the oldest Championships out of the four 'majors' (annual Golf championships) played every year has been chosen to be put through the advanced technological process of digitisation. Mixing the best of the old physical game with new computer game development technology to bring a truly incredible computer game & virtual golfing experience.
The Open is the only one of the Golf 'majors' to be played in the UK and is played on The Old Course at St Andrews, usually every 5 years or so, the rest of the time you will find it being played on any one of the nine other UK Golf courses that can host The Open. The Open is not played exclusively on The Old Course but it has been very regularly since 1873. Due to its popularity and history it is the course that has been chosen for the virtual version of the UK Open.
The free online version of The Open will ultimately have 156 competitors in the actual tournament but they will need to qualify first and competition is expected to be very healthy indeed. Qualifying is now open and there is no limit to how often you can attempt to qualify so the quicker you start the more chances you will have and hence the more likely you are to end up playing in the Championship. Its possible of course you may even win one of the fantastic range of prizes on offer (unfortunately not the 5 Million pounds prize money in the real life version), not to mention the sheer enjoyment of the game and the standing you will be held in by your digital Golfing contemporaries for actually making the grade.
The game play also seems to have been improved even further, especially for the virtual open version, compared to the previous rounds I have played on The Old Course at St Andrews I have noticed a considerable difference. Whilst I did not think it was possible the game play is even more sensitive and responsive and much more difficult. The putting greens and fairways seem to have every single bump and depression accurately represented making it all the more challenging.
I have completed previous games on The Old course on par (well almost) but in my current attempts at qualifying I find myself scoring double bogeys on almost every hole and winning the bronze and tin awards for worst player. These improvements in game play have clearly resulted in a much more challenging course which should make the Virtual Open a very interesting tournament indeed.
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