World Golf Tour is experiencing great success with its virtual U.S. Open courses.
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World Golf Tour game says virtual golfers have played 10M virtual U.S. Open rounds

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World Golf Tour announced today that more virtual golfers have played more than 10.3 million rounds on its U.S. Open Championship courses in its online golf game.

WGT first launched its Virtual U.S. Open online course for World Golf Tour in 2009, and it has now added a variety of courses and tons of new virtual goods items, such as special golf clubs, said Yuchiang Cheng, the chief executive of the San Francisco-based WGT, in an interview with GamesBeat.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.