I once shot -28 in Tiger Woods Golf in a single round with medium wind, tiger tees, long rough -- basically the hardest settings without using gale force wind (just one click lower, breezy it might be called). No mulligans, etc, etc.
You wanna know what that means?
Absolutely nothing.
If someone runs 20000 balls in virtual pool or -28 in Tiger Woods golf - who cares. In Tiger Woods golf, your swing is always perfect and once you understand how the game figures break/speed, you make the adjustment and make putts from wherever. Same with the wind/elevation, when you know how much the wind/elevation affects you from what distance, you adjust and get the heartbeat every single time.
In VP, your stroke is as straight as a beam of light. So, it's the same thing. Assuming the aiming thing was indeed turned off and once you get the hang of where to aim, you just move the mouse and make the ball.
It's like guys that get 100000000000 points in Pac Man on a single quarter because they know the ghost patterns for every level.
Well then: Let's see you run that many balls in VP. You probably couldn't run 10 balls. The original poster is talking about how hard it is to run 600 balls in VP, NOT IF IT MEANS SQUAT OR NOT.
Tiger Woods golf sucks the big one. Jack Nicklaus Golf was simply the best. Hell, you could even design your own courses. I hated it when Windows progressed beyond Windows 98 where Jack wouldn't run anymore.