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The Golden Tee series began as a project at Incredible Technologies to create a large scale golf simulator for sizable family entertainment centers. The idea was scrapped, but not before programmer Larry Hodgson had already written software to create virtual golf courses. Rather than discard his work, Hodgson retooled the concept to develop a golf game for regular arcade cabinets. He worked with co-designer Jim Zielinski, who initially rendered the courses using Deluxe Paint. Instead of a regular joystick and buttons for controls, they used a trackball, which Incredible Technologies had previously used for Capcom Bowling.[3]

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The first Golden Tee was play-tested in a bar, a venue which would become the most popular location for Golden Tee cabinets. Released in 1989, the first iteration was sold exclusively as a kit that could be used to convert existing arcade machines to Golden Tee. It sold relatively well, but the series would find greater success with Golden Tee 3D several years later.[3] The 1995 Peter Jacobson's Golden Tee 3D Golf (featuring Peter Jacobsen) was the first in the series to support online networked play. Rather than being networked to each other, the cabinets were all linked to a central computer which compared scores for tournament play. The first test tournament, held on 24 game cabinets in the Chicago area from November 24 to December 17, 1995, awarded real money to the winners, including a $1,000 grand prize.[4] The first "real world" tournament was held mid-June to July 7, 1996, on 145 cabinets across six states, and was considered a major success.[5] By the end of 1996, 1,250 cabinets were installed across 32 states.[6] The tournament gave rise to a large competitive play scene for the franchise.[7][8][9] Ryan Bourgeois has won the US national championship three times.[10]

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In the past, Golden Tee has offered boutique editions outside of the arcade, ranging from luxury $1,000 home cabinets to flip-phone era novelties on the Symbian OS. There was a brief flirt with the PlayStation years ago. In neither case was Golden Tee using technology that both accommodated the game's unique, variable tactile control and also was available on a widely used, inexpensive platform.

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ok just came back from round 2 and that round was UNFORGETTABLE! me and one of my old high school buddies named jack were in the finals, and i was 4 strokes down. jack hits it down the cliff at timber bay 3, i make it safely over, he pars, i chip and putt for birdie,but jack aces the par 3 4th, i miss the green, and goes 5 up on me! he then made this AMAZING pitch for eagle at hole 11 from the trees and i was 5 back with 7 to play. but he screws up and bogeyed 12 and double bogeyed 14, but then i miss the green and then fuck up my short game and eventually made double on 15 and go 2 back with 3 to play! jack has a 1 shot lead on 18, i have honors, setup was REALLY tough, so i lay up, put the ball a little too far and find the rough. jack also laid up but he found the water TWICE! i am just off the green in 2, have a 10 foot par putt, down 8, right 7, and jack`s chip for bogey was past the hole, it rolled back and was headed straight for the cup, but it fell 9 FRIGGIN INCHES SHORT! all of us were like, how the fuck did that not go in? jack had his double, i have a 10 foot par putt that was now for the win, i rarely miss those kinds of putts, i stepped up to the trackball, pulled back to c to prevent a rollover, and smoothly pushed the trackball forward, the ball rolled close to the hole, but it ended up MISSING! all of my friends were stunned at this miss, and i just put my hands over my head, stepped away from the machine, and put my head on a nearby SSB game. it was time for sudden death. we each birdie the 1st 2 holes, as always, but then jack hit it down a cliff again at hole 3! he parred the 3rd hole, i made it through, but a poor 2nd shot gave me par also. i water myself off the 6th tee, and jack found the green, but then he shockingly 3 putted and it was our 7th sudden death hole. the water on 7 at timber bay had bitten jack the 1st time we played the hole in the finals. he found the water off the tee again and then hit a rock on his 3rd shot and ended 7 with a double bogey that cost him the tourney. i was safely on the fringe in 3 at 7, just missed my long birdie putt, and tapped in for the win!

i happen to be cb on these 3 comments, winning a tourney like this was a great golden tee experience for a total hacker like me, i showed all my friends that i did have some game, which i do even though i keep telling all of you i suck ass at golden tee!!!!!!!!!

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Terry Farr, boss of Cosmic Video Amusements (CVA), distributor of Merit machines in this country and one of the leaders in the market, is convinced that we are on the verge of an explosion in tournament gaming.

"There has been a buzz around tournament games for two or three years but it's only now that the market is starting to mature," he said. "We are selling more machines every year and I believe there is an opportunity to double the size of the market." googletag.cmd.push(function () googletag.display('text-ad1'); );

Meanwhile, progress is being made with both the machines and game design. CVA recently launched PGA Tour, which enables players to compete on virtual versions of real PGA golf courses, adopt the personality of a star golfer and contend with daily changing tee and pin positions and wind directions.

Licensees can also expect to take a cut of the cash that goes into the slot. It costs a minimum 2 play to enter Playpool of which 80p goes towards prizes and the rest is split between the machine operating company and the pub.

As well as the big national tournaments, linking machines at more than 500 pubs, CVA organises local competitions in which 25p out of a 1 play goes into prize pot. This has so far produced a record monthly pot of no less than 1,400, although 300 to 400 is a more common figure. That represents a lot of activity on the machine and a busy pub.

One licensee, Douglas Stoneley-Hulme of the Antelope at Kearsley in Lancashire, took that task very seriously when machine operator Leisure Link introduced a new game called Phil Taylor's Darts on its ITBox terminal, which is on some 1,800 sites. In fact he went on to win a fat prize of 5,000.

Bill Knowles, machines manager at Punch Pub Company which has about 400 tournament-linked machines on its estate, agreed that the idea works best at pubs where the regulars have a "competitive mentality". "If you already run a successful pool tournament, for instance, you should be able to do the same with video games."

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