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I'm starting this thread for anyone interested in joining in a discussion we were having in the "Wanted" section that ended up a little off topic.

I own a PGA Tour Golf Team Challenge machine and learned of new and exciting developments that may allow us to unlock all courses, players, player edit options, and enable online tournament play once again. If anyone has any of the PGA machines this will be a great place for all of us to discuss new developments and hopefully schedule tournaments!
 
Absolutely. I'm not sure how many of us there are out there but I know that if online tournaments start up again you will see popularity increase. I love this game!

I'm looking at buying a shelled out PGA Tour Golf cabinet right now and eventually completing it for my brother as a gift. I can see us playing online while drinking some beers well into the night!
 
i was told by ed12 that he will be making up a disk with everything on it for us not so computer literate folks. that will not be till he gets everything figured out and finalized. i am kinda waiting for that because i know i'll fuck something up if i have to enter lines of code.

bricknivy, back to your question from the other thread. my computer is not loading again. i just need to open it up and redo the bios again but i just haven't had time the last week. this is the third time this has happened so i think i have a much bigger problem than i can't fix myself. im not a computer guy, im a heavy equipment operator.


i'll get my machine going tonight. lets have a little contest open to anybody with a pga machine. lets make the contest for the first(easiest)course. it has 2 catagories.
1. what is your best score without any mulligans
2. what is your best score with mulligans

remember your on the honor system for no cheating.
i'll play my games after i get my game back up and running and post my scores tonight.
 
I found a gutted out PGA Tour cabinet and bought it for $50. The cabinet is in great shape and has the control panel but no monitor, computer, etc. My original thought was to slowly rebuild it to it's original condition and give it to my brother as a gift but now I'm thinking of something else.

I think I'm going to modify that cabinet by hacking the top off and making it a pedestal type cabinet like you see with the current Golden Tee Live machines (just the pedestal, control panel, and a stand for an LCD/LED TV)! I figure by the time I find a nice monitor for $300 to put in the gutted machine I might as well grab a 42" LCD for another $100.

I've seen the conversion kits that HAPP sells for older golden tee machines to convert to the newer pedestal cabinet style but the asking price is well beyond my budget. I have seen a couple threads of people that have done something like this with their Golden Tee machines but I've never seen one done on a PGA cabinet. I'm thinking that the general design and concept can't be too far off. As a side business I make cornhole (bags) games so I have plenty of tools to work with.

Any thoughts or ideas with this one? I'm kind of digging the thought of having PGA TOUR TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP using a pedestal. Once I get the design down I think it would be fairly easy for me to rebuild the pedestal from scratch without tearing down an existing cabinet.
 
I found a gutted out PGA Tour cabinet and bought it for $50. The cabinet is in great shape and has the control panel but no monitor, computer, etc. My original thought was to slowly rebuild it to it's original condition and give it to my brother as a gift but now I'm thinking of something else.

I think I'm going to modify that cabinet by hacking the top off and making it a pedestal type cabinet like you see with the current Golden Tee Live machines (just the pedestal, control panel, and a stand for an LCD/LED TV)! I figure by the time I find a nice monitor for $300 to put in the gutted machine I might as well grab a 42" LCD for another $100.

I've seen the conversion kits that HAPP sells for older golden tee machines to convert to the newer pedestal cabinet style but the asking price is well beyond my budget. I have seen a couple threads of people that have done something like this with their Golden Tee machines but I've never seen one done on a PGA cabinet. I'm thinking that the general design and concept can't be too far off. As a side business I make cornhole (bags) games so I have plenty of tools to work with.

Any thoughts or ideas with this one? I'm kind of digging the thought of having PGA TOUR TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP using a pedestal. Once I get the design down I think it would be fairly easy for me to rebuild the pedestal from scratch without tearing down an existing cabinet.

That sounds really cool. I don't own a machine, but I'm interested to see where the development goes with this.
 
If/when we get some type of linked challenge going, you guys will be running to sell your machines and look for golden tee completes after I whoop your A$$ on any/every course of this game.

Can't wait for the update. :)
 
If/when we get some type of linked challenge going, you guys will be running to sell your machines and look for golden tee completes after I whoop your A$$ on any/every course of this game.

Can't wait for the update. :)

I already had a gt complete. I'm shooting around -14 to -19 pretty regular with an occasional -20 to -24.
 
Sort of a waste of a machine really. You can buy the wood to build a control panel pedestal pretty cheap. If you are going to drop an LCD in then just use the biggest one you can fit in the cabinet.

I found a gutted out PGA Tour cabinet and bought it for $50. The cabinet is in great shape and has the control panel but no monitor, computer, etc. My original thought was to slowly rebuild it to it's original condition and give it to my brother as a gift but now I'm thinking of something else.

I think I'm going to modify that cabinet by hacking the top off and making it a pedestal type cabinet like you see with the current Golden Tee Live machines (just the pedestal, control panel, and a stand for an LCD/LED TV)! I figure by the time I find a nice monitor for $300 to put in the gutted machine I might as well grab a 42" LCD for another $100.

I've seen the conversion kits that HAPP sells for older golden tee machines to convert to the newer pedestal cabinet style but the asking price is well beyond my budget. I have seen a couple threads of people that have done something like this with their Golden Tee machines but I've never seen one done on a PGA cabinet. I'm thinking that the general design and concept can't be too far off. As a side business I make cornhole (bags) games so I have plenty of tools to work with.

Any thoughts or ideas with this one? I'm kind of digging the thought of having PGA TOUR TEAM CHAMPIONSHIP using a pedestal. Once I get the design down I think it would be fairly easy for me to rebuild the pedestal from scratch without tearing down an existing cabinet.
 
Personally I do like the pedestal style and thought that it would be a little more portable if I wanted to push it into a corner or even take it to another location. I have a Target Toss Bags machine as well that would play well within a pedestal. I figure for a $50 investment (the empty cabinet) it would be worth the learning experience. Not trying to waste a cabinet or machine.
 
I have done this several times to a pga cabinets. Much cheaper to get a nice 37" LED and do it up. In fact, I am about 90% done with my third one right now.

I will take some pics when I get a chance.

Keith
 
I would really appreciate if you could upload some pics. I think I found a second cabinet now and would love to give these out as gifts (minus the LCD TV)! Thanks for the reply!
 
I have done this several times to a pga cabinets. Much cheaper to get a nice 37" LED and do it up. In fact, I am about 90% done with my third one right now.

I will take some pics when I get a chance.

Keith

Any chance you could upload some pics this weekend? Kind of curious how you did yours. Thanks!
 
So I have my machine set on the MEDIUM setting for PGA TOUR TEAM CHALLENGE. I did NOT take any mulligans. This is about the 5th time I've played this so it's not the best score but something to get the competition going I guess.

COURSE: St. Andrews Links (The Old Course)
MULLIGANS: No
MACHINE DIFFICULTY: MEDIUM
Score: -16
GSP: 45300
BIRDIES: 13
EAGLES: 2

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I don't have team challenge installed yet, but st. andrews in on the version I have.
I will have to make sure my settings match yours and get a screen shot.

for the record if you use mulligans, your high score won't count as the course record. It will still show up on the leaderboard, but won't count as the high score that is featured when the course is chosen.

I think I am at 21 under on st. andrews on my machine so I'd better check the settings, take a picture and prove it.
 
Sorry for the delay. Excuse the sawdust, I still have to finish up (t-molding, etc.).

This is my first one where I left the depth of the cabinet the same. The others I chopped 13" off the back to make it smaller but in the end by the time you make a monitor stand the depth is still the same.

So on this one I gave the cabinet a little rise which allowed me to reuse the speaker section of the old cabinet. Then flattened out to a shelf to allow me to place my LCD monitor on its factory stand.

Thanks,

Keith
 

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Looks good. Initially I was thinking that I would prefer a smaller footnote but I kind of like the idea of being able to use the factory stand for the LCD if you aren't putting it on a wall. Thanks for sharing!
 
I don't have team challenge installed yet, but st. andrews in on the version I have.
I will have to make sure my settings match yours and get a screen shot.

for the record if you use mulligans, your high score won't count as the course record. It will still show up on the leaderboard, but won't count as the high score that is featured when the course is chosen.

I think I am at 21 under on st. andrews on my machine so I'd better check the settings, take a picture and prove it.

I will be in the garage for another couple rounds of St. Andrews tonight. I will post anything below my original score tomorrow!
 
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