Pachter believes that if copyright and amateur rules were changed, the inclusion of player likenesses and names could result in higher sales for all college video games.
But he won't be studying videos of his triumph before he tees off on Thursday, looking to retain a trophy that bears the names of Gary Player, Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods among others.
In the monograph, Carroll sketched out a 32-player tournament using letters instead of names, and showed how a winner could be determined, using this approach, in nine rounds.
Although Wasps insist that Vickery is "recovering well" from the surgery, the fact that he cannot start training for a minimum of eight weeks makes him highly unlikely to be part of England boss Martin Johnson's thinking when he names his new Elite Player Squad for the tournament on 13 January.