We crave the feeling that Rory felt as he ripped his 3 wood to within 7 feet on the 10th at Valhalla. If the publisher of a golf sim could somehow enable us to become Rory for a fleeting cyber moment - if through the power and technological magnificence of computing - we could possibly come within even the slightest frisson of how Rory felt then that publishing entity would then become , not only the most successful gaming house on earth, but the most admired and exalted of all gaming houses and stand proudly atop a mountain of human achievement, And I don't say that lightly.
But how could this be achieved? What you cannot do is have every Tom, Dick and Harry clicking their crappy little plastic mouse ( even the horrible nomenclative form of rodential (why is there a red squiggly line under every unusual word) description of the method of whacking a cyber golf ball demeans and belittles the action) and doing what Rory did with that unforgettable shot. No, no no.
One has to earn that beautiful moment through experience, training, dedication, nouse, commitment and a little bit of luck. Just a little bit, just a little bit of bloomin' luck. (RNG). That is want I want in a golf sim. I want a birdie to be a reward for my intellectualism and my skill and good luck and not something that I expect every hole. I want to set out every round on my course and battle for every par let alone birdie or eagle god forbid. We don't need 50 courses (of dubious quality) - we could actually play one course for ever until we mastered every bounce off every hillock or grew accustomed to the nuances of every green. IRL, In REAL LIFE, we would gladly play the same course every day, every morning and every afternoon because we want to beat the course. I was appalled when someone said the artists were dedicating their time to building 50 courses (and from what I've seen they are of dubious quality) instead of allocating time to gameplay. Someone said, "well we have to have something to play on" - One bloody course is all we need. I get so angry.
One day, ONE DAY, we will have the golf sim we deserve.