The History of Wii Sports Resort Golf World Records

So I know what you're probably thinking, how do you make a quick run at Wii Sports Resort

golf

? It sounds like a joke, what are you doing just hitting the ball as hard as you can trying to make hole-in-one after hole-in-one? Well, that's not exactly the reality. Is it much more complicated than simply having to plan all your moves in advance? Do calculations in the moment while under pressure. Aim with impeccable precision. Take incredibly difficult shots knowing you're at

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record pace. Almost no one is up. to the task and over the years only a few have reached the top to claim the

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record over a period of time this is their story wii

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resort

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is a strange speed race given that it is a wii game the way How you make each shot is by swinging your arm using the wii's motion controls, the harder you swing the farther the ball will go, it sounds simple enough but given the small target you're aiming at you have to be super precise, you can also Choose which club to use drivers and irons.

They are best for long shots, while wedges and putters are good for shorter distance shots. The first race we are going to see was done by a guy known as a yaboi. True, there were probably people who sprinted before him, but he appears to be the first person with recorded sprinting on wii

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golf. He did a series of races in February 2015 before setting his best time, which was 12 minutes. and 46 seconds. true's goal was quite simple: go through the 18 holes as quickly as possible. It all started Right here, on the first hole, he used the driver to hit the ball down the fairway, then an iron to hit it further toward the green, and then he used the putter to hit it into the hole.

Three pretty easy shots, well, another thing you had to keep in mind. Taking into account was the speed and direction of the wind, it can be one of eight directions and range from perfectly still to 20 miles per hour. He had a 20 mile per hour wind out to the west on the 1st hole. Therefore, he had to aim all of his shots pretty far away. a little to the right of where he thought they needed to go, it worked out pretty well and he was able to get a birdie for grab 2. The hole is close enough to the start that he could make a hole in one, but it didn't really happen that way. .

I don't want to do that because of the internal system of the game that more or less controls the speed of the game, ran the replay system, although making really impressive shots like holes in one or chip-ins seems fast, in the end they end up wasting time because if the game thinks your shot is good enough it will show you a long replay of it the game system is complicated but replays are usually activated if one of three conditions is met if you hit the ball outside the flag or cause the ball to hit the flag and lands close to the hole if you hit the ball from a distance or with a curved angle or if you hit the ball from very far and it lands on the hole as a hole in one or on lanes a few feet from the hole the distance at which The ball can fall from the hole and still trigger a replay depending on how far from the hole the shot was, so True's strategy for hole 2 was to hit the ball on the green but not so close to the hole that it would cause a then put it in the hole made it successfully on the 3rd hole he accidentally hit a tree but was still able to make a solid birdie on the 4th hole he missed the putt on a shot that could have triggered a replay if it had come out Then in hole 5, overcompensated for the slope of holes 6 and 7 of the green, on the other hand, presented long putts that barely reached the hole.

The 8th hole presented an interesting situation, he hit it very close to the hole, but then it started. rolling since it took him so long to stop moving and go to the next shot, it would have actually been quicker to land further away. It's just another example of accurate shots not always being the fastest. The 9th hole had another pretty bad missed putt, so it was true. On the back nine, the 10th hole featured a very long putt, then the 11th hole had this shot that probably missed the replay by half a foot. Good approach. The 12th hole has two paths you can take, you can go right around the fairway or aim for this one. a small patch of grass to the left, the left path is a little faster on average, but depending on the wind, the right path is sometimes the best move.

True, it went left and across the 13th hole, it's an example of how a bad score can Still, True's first shot landed in the bunker, but that meant it didn't roll after landing, so he was able to prepare very quickly for the second shot and then take advantage of the third. Remember that a worse score on a hole does not make it worse. This doesn't necessarily mean it was slower. The 14th hole is famous for its trees that line the part of the course you want to target. He actually made one with his first shot, but still made it a birdie after a good shot to the green later, unfortunately.

He missed another tough putt on the 15th hole and then on the 16th hole he had to make a tough decision. Once again, there are two paths to take here: turn left or risk a straight shot through the trees to just barely reach the green. The right path is undeniably faster and he was actually lined up to try it, but then he saw that the wind was blowing to the west, which would have made his shot much more difficult, so he backed off and went to the left. He still made a birdie, but it wasn't as fast.

As it could have been his first shot on the 17th hole, he reached the green but was far from the hole, he had to make two putts to get in and finally he was on the 18th hole, a hole made up of several islands to shoot. He reached the green in two shots, he missed the putt and then hit it to complete his world record speed run. There were obviously a decent amount of mistakes in this race. He missed six putts in the 18 holes, for example, there were also many mistakes. It is true that he did well, he finished 13 under par and wasted little time between shots lining up the next one very quickly.

It was a solid start, but there were still improvements to be made; However, for the next three years, no one else ran the game at the highest level in early 2018, the real time of 1246 was still the world record and no one else came close to it, but everything changed in February 2018. because, seemingly out of nowhere, one of the world's most famous sprinters started racing the game, the racer surprisingly. Enough was enough with Super Mario Bros. world record holder Darbian Darby learning the game for the 12-hour challenge, an event created by Speedrunner Golden where you pick a game and learn how to run it in just 12 hours, Derby, and you ended up deciding on Wii Sports Resort Golf. and he quickly discovered how difficult it was to aim accurately at each stop.

It's like he screwed up every one of these parts, but he improved a lot and after he finished the challenge, he continued running the game and was successful. him cutting his personal best close to the world record using mostly the same strategies as True on February 7th. He was just 5 seconds away from the record. Later that day he got a run that was 5 seconds ahead of the record thanks to a really accurate shot on the 2nd hole. Note that his splits are compared to his personal best, not the world record. He missed an easy putt on hole four, but the record player missed putts on holes four and five, so after hole five the derby was 15 seconds. ahead of True's record, unfortunately the next few holes were not ideal.

He should have done it. He should have done it. No, that was bad. Yes, that's too much. In the juice department, he lost 26 seconds on the 6th, 7th, 8th and 9th holes. That meant he was 11 behind the record but there was still plenty of time to save some missed putts and other bad shots in the first half of his last few. nine so darby and he went to work to get it back that's beautiful that's that's beautiful darby was actually a second ahead of the record when he reached the 15th hole. he was in a good position and if he didn't miss a putt he had a good chance of beating the record and perhaps that pressure was on his mind when he got to the end of the full 15th.

Not that, oh, he went to glory, this was a very good run on the 16th hole. He was committed to going for the side strategy right. The best scenario here was to get it in three shots, one shot to put it in the bunker. or somewhere near the hole, then a shot to get it in position for a realistic putt, then a shot to sink it, that's what he was looking for, this is what happened. Good shot, yeah, you can't make that shot. The ball slid out of the bunker just enough to slow it down and cause it to land just short of the hole.

It was crazy and worth it. Darbian was now 23 seconds ahead of the world record. His last two holes didn't even have to be like that. Great and they weren't. He had to two-putt on the 17th hole and took an extra shot to get close to the 18th hole. But it was still enough to get the world record. Oh man, this Wii Sports Resort Golf speed race. It is a perfect example of a law that I call the derbian effect. The derbian had several hundred and even thousands of spectators watching him play wii sports resort golf, a category that had only six races and a world record that had not been seriously challenged in three years when a rider of his popularity attracts so much attention to a game with a small speed racing scene that will surely give it a big boost and as a result of the current derby just a few days away from its record, wii sports resort golf had three new racers in search of the world record alaska xp 2 md cross and 10 dog The first to reach was Alaska He lowered his personal best several times in early February, on February 11, just four days after the derby record.

Alaska had a great run after the first seven holes, only making one real mistake up to this point, a single missed putt on the 4th hole. Unfortunately, this was his total 8. Of course, no, damn it, buddy, luckily, Alaska cleaned up the race quite a bit on the back nine. He hit this super long putt on the 13th and then evened the derbies on the crazy 16th hole. After a par on the 17th and. a birdie on 18, Alaska had a new world record and the next one was cross. He had a unique skill set. He quickly became known for being extremely good at shooting, but struggled to avoid reps and use the best routes, for example, take this run of his.

On February 13 he made putt after putt on the front nine, but then accidentally hit this shot on the 10th hole. It triggered a replay that lost some time and then two holes later on the 12th hole. Still, thanks to having making most of his putts, he was 9. ahead of the record after the 15th hole. He didn't make the crazy full 16 that Alaska had and missed the putt on the 17th hole, but an excellent 18th hole was enough to beat Alaska with a 12 19. Is it correct? it 12 19. boom alaska and cross would lower the record once again over the next three days.

These two races followed the same pattern of crosses, they were generally more accurate with their shots, but took longer to prepare and finally had the record of 1212 by February 16 before 10 dogs were in a race at a record pace , the next day ten dogs loaded the game via USB, which reduced loading times between holes by about 6 seconds overall, this method of playing would later be banned, but tendog was allowed. Anyway, to use it right now, tendog missed the putt on the 5th hole and caused a replay on the 6th hole, but was tied for center after the front 9th.

After practically keeping pace with him, he arrived at the 18th hole just a few seconds behind. the world record if he could get an eagle instead of a cross birdie he would barely get the record he would have to pocket the ball after this shot regardless of where it landed this was going to be difficult he missed the world record by a second That's when a fourth competitor came on the scene, Sir Tyler, lowered the record to 1207 with an unrecorded run, but on February 20 he lowered it to 1205 with a video. Unfortunately the video quality is pretty lousy, this race isn't worth watching too. up close, so here's where the situation was: Less than two weeks had passed since Darby set six new world

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in that time and the last race clocked 1205 six seconds in a sub-12-minute race with four tall competitors. level.

Go for it, it was a mad fight who was going to get the first 11 minute time right the day after Sir Tyler's 1205m center was in position to crush him, he was practically perfect for eight holes and even after missing a difficult putt in a total. nine, he was five seconds ahead of the world record, had a clean 10 and 11, then nailed the left side strad into the hole12 to go 12 seconds ahead, he continued to hit all his shots, even hitting the flagpole on the 14th hole, and then it was time. for the 16th hole. a hole that Tyler pretty much ruined his record, all cross could do was aim to the right and hope for the best first time i saw him step up to the duel cross was now an incredible 33 seconds ahead of the world record with time to save on the 17th hole as Tyler only made a par he was on pace to get an 11 20 x this was amazing unfortunately he just missed this putt on the 17th hole so his pace dropped back to 1130 , but this was a massive world record shot, I just had to get through the 18th hole.

Get up there Get up there I'm so bad at this game A triple bogey on the 18th hole missed the record by six seconds Under 12 I'd just have to wait until Later that day, oh, he realized that he gets up, you're about 12. Oh my God, we're about 12. So Cross had barely taken the record to a sub 12. But he clearly had the potential to go much lower. a repeat on hole five and holes seven and fourteen were pretty disastrous, plus I had just made a run at 11-20 pace on the last few holes and even that run wasn't perfect, so yeah, there was a 1159, but the community work wasn't done yet, the top four runners were still there, ready to run up to the 11 minute range, so over the next few weeks, this is what they accomplished, oh my god what and at this point something.

Something very interesting happened after a guy known as the Roadrunner tied the record with 1134. Tyler began to take off while the other competitors stayed in the background. Tyler moved on, he wasn't doing anything drastically different, he was just hitting almost all of his shots and wasting no time, the under 12 had been crushed, the under 11 was a real possibility now 11 16 and then something big was discovered while tyler was in In the midst of his routine to lower the record, he and Tendog made a forum post detailing a new strategy that would forever change the way golf was played.

Wii Sports Resort Pin Manip The location of the pin refers to the location of the flagpole and subsequently to the hole on each of the 18 greens its exact position is random each time you play which speedrunners simply had to accept the pin sometimes The location would be favorable for making an easy putt, while other times it would be on a slope or in a much more difficult position, but in March 2018, tendog made a post on the speedrun.com forum explaining how the system is not as random as it seems. It turns out that there are a total of six pin locations on each hole three are a pins while three are b pins the b pins are easier than the a pins are usually located in the center of the green usually away from the slopes the a pins in On the other hand, they are further from the center and on slopes, the way the game determines whether it will give you an a or a b pin is your overall score.

If you're doing well and are significantly under par, the game tries to make your life harder. and gives you a pin if you're struggling and your score is worse the game throws you a bone by giving you a pin b now the speedrunners are pretty good at the game so without exception they were getting pins on every hole and that just made sinking all of his putts was even harder, so this new understanding of how bowling worked was nice and really mattered, it didn't until Tyler and Ten Dog figured out how to use it to their advantage.

It forces you to give up and move on to the next hole after missing enough shots, so on hole one you can just hit the ball in the water over and over again until you move on the hole too. It takes six shots to give up. hole one and this is approximately four seconds slower than the traditional strategy of making a birdie; However, it also puts your score at plus 8, which means you are set to get the easiest pins on almost every hole until the end, so even if you lose a few seconds on hole 1 it makes life a lot better in the long run, All those missed putts from previous races would now be much easier with PinManip in your favor.

Tyler kept making attempts, scoring an unrecorded 1107, and then on March 19, he made a big run early, gave up on the first hole, and then kept moving thanks to better pin placements. He was making birdies and eagles on a lot of different holes. He wasn't perfect as he still missed a putt on the seventh hole, but overall, it was obvious that the pin locations were helping a lot. He made a couple of pars on the back nine, but still had a slim chance of making the under 11 after a solid birdie on the 16th hole. The 17th hole was another birdie and then he responded to the 18th hole.

He could get an eagle here by completing the hole in three shots I had a chance at sub 11 but I needed to play perfectly that's definitely there I'm going to need a five iron with all the backswing I can get yes yes yes that's good, tell me it's good, oh God, yes, oh , yes, oh my goodness, just 10 59.1, so the Wii Sports Resort golf world record was reduced to less than 11 minutes. It's important to note that this was still happening in March 2018. Darbyian's record was just a month and a half earlier, over the course of those six weeks, everything had changed.

Six different runners set 19 new world

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, bringing the record down to almost two full minutes, but after this, 59 Tyler and most of the rest of the community took a break. He was cemented at the top of the leaderboard with no one else within 30 seconds of him and had lowered the record again and again over the last month and so, for the first time since Darby's record, the world record remained stagnant for a month that started in April 2018, Tyler spent the next few months running the category on and off, as mentioned above no one was even close to him so he was the only hope of continuing to lower the record even though the world record was under 11 minutes there.

There was still time to save Tyler. He was able to avoid the few missed putts he still had left, get more birdies and eagles instead of pars and be faster between each of his shots, so he worked on that, he achieved consecutive records in the 10 50 in April. Before returning for more in June, he had a run that was 13 behind the record after the front nine thanks to some missed putts, but he did his best on the back nine with birdie after birdie with eagles mixed in, it would end up being a big world. record of 10 40 and given how far behind I was at the beginning, this race proved that a time in the 1020 was possible.

A few more months passed after this record, but in September something absolutely crazy happened, something that no one could have predicted and that It changed the way viewers would do it. watch wii sports resort golf speedruns tyler got a capture card armed with a clear video stream. Tyler would continue to make attempts and lower the record throughout 2018. His attempts counter showed that he had made over 13,000 golf runs, that's a lot. of tries and a few months later he would start using a trick that gave him slightly better odds than a new wind minute record in March 2018.

Ten dogs explained that, like the pin locations, the wind was also not completely random, as mentioned above. There are eight wind directions, the game is forced to select one of the eight directions for each of the first eight holes without repeating any, then do the same for the next eight holes before randomizing two directions for the last two holes, so whatever direction you get for the On the first hole you can guarantee that you won't see again until at least the full nine. This comes into play on holes three and five, two holes where eagles are generally only possible if the wind is not blowing south in any of the three directions, if you get a southerly wind on hole one, which means that The specific wind direction for holes three and five was removed as it cannot be repeated, so if Tyler saw wind on hole 1 that wasn't pointing south in some way, he would restart immediately and try. again hoping to increase your odds a bit by removing one of the southerly winds, naturally this would increase your try counter as over half of your runs were restarted just seconds later, also convenient due to a new method of timing that the runners began.

Using races used to start by selecting 18 holes from the menu, but now started by pressing reset, meaning the timer now started with about 3 seconds added to compensate as the game starts faster after pressing the reset button during the following months. He took a few seconds off the world record, there were highlights like this race in which he made eagles on holes three and five, but missed several putts before recovering it with this shot on the 18th hole. In November 2018, Tyler had lowered the record at 10 35. He had set the last 13 world records in a row and simply seemed untouchable.

He had a 43-second lead over second place and the odds of either of them catching him were minuscule. It's remarkable to see someone so dominant in the game for so long, every now and then you see it in people like Andrew G with Super Mario Bros or Arcus with Ninja Gaiden, just like them, Tyler was unrivaled, he was simply too out there. ahead and there was only one person who could stop him. This is Danny, better known as him. The world record holder in the original Wii Sports Golf by a mile, his closest rival in that game was none other than Tyler himself, but Danny had a huge advantage, he was the undisputed Wii Sports Golf champion and had the same kind of dominance in that game than tyler.

Everyone at Wii Sports Resort was waiting for him to start playing Wii Sports Resort golf and he finally started in March 2019. Dany was pretty much the only person in the world with the skill to catch Tyler, so everyone was quickly monitoring his progress. recorded his first personal best on March 16th, this is where he got his time for April 6th, it became immediately obvious that Danny was going to fight for the world record, he was the only one who could achieve it, one of the great strengths of him. he was sinking putts with speed and precision, rarely missing and never taking more than a split second to aim.

It was remarkable to see just a few days later, he put together a run that looked good from the start. He made the eagle on the third hole, but didn't win during the five, but his front nine was almost perfect, as he sank putt after putt on each hole, kept it behind 9-2 and was 9 seconds ahead of the record after the 16th hole. Unfortunately, on the 17th hole, his first shot went into the water, causing him to lose his entire lead, but thanks to an eagle on the 18th hole he managed to finish just over two tenths of a second ahead. by Tyler.

It was just a new world record and he took it. Less than a month after starting, but Danny wanted more, so he kept playing and about a month later he had this streak. They looked innocent enough after making birdies on both holes three and five. After the front nine, he was eight seconds behind the record, but he wasn't out of it yet because he kept hitting putt after putt on the 17th hole, opted for a different strategy, intentionally gave up, repeatedly shot the ball into the water over and over again. time, similar to what he did on hole one, it's a couple of seconds slower than making a birdie here, but it's faster than par and given how difficult a birdie can be, it's generally safer to give up and lose a little bit of time, so he had a little bit of an advantage going into the last hole where he would need an eagle to break the record shot one was good but danny missed the next one he landed far from the hole an eagle seemed impossible but then he did this what went so well?

The flagpole at Wii Sports Resort Golf has some strange properties. It may look like a cloth flag, but it acts like a wall. If you hit it, the ball usually falls straight down, so Danny came out with a driver that shoots the ball faster than any other club and aims directly at the flag. It is very precise but it is possible to achieve that small goal. and danny did it at the end of a race at world record pace, it was amazing and was enough for a new world record of 10 27 for the first time in several months, tyler had been knocked off the top danny was the new champion and although Tyler He'd been so dominant in the past this time that he wasn't even trying to beat him, so Danny's record stood alone and then nine months later, Tyler returned.

He had a goal in mind, he beat 1027, for which he had divided to compare two and on attempt number eighteen thousand four hundred 402 he had a chance, he was half a second ahead when he reached the last hole, if he could get an eagle, he would get the record, all I had to do was make this putt and I would do it again. becrowned wii sports resort champion tyler had work to do he was back after 20,000 tries wii sports resort golf tyler went 10-24 once again he was alone at the top of the leaderboards but he wasn't done yet Mmmm , by June 2020, Tyler had lowered the record to 1014, which is where the world record sits today.

Tyler is the true Wii Sports Resort golf champion. It's hard to argue with almost 26,000 attempts and 19 world records. His name is currently at the top. of the leaderboard and will probably stay there for a while. How low can the speed go? Adding the fastest first nine holes with the fastest back nine gives 1005, but getting under 10 minutes is theoretically possible. MD Cross was the first person. To run 11 minutes, Tyler was the first to run 10 minutes, so who will be the first to run nine minutes? Thanks for seeing you.