WOW, is allI can say about my match with Ben. WAs a tough match and I was sweating the whole way through. I enjoyed the match a lot and ben is a great player. I definitely left some stuff on teh table early in the match and with Ben's great play that came back to bite me and I had to work very hard to comeback.
As Ben was, I was rather dissappointed it ended as it did. Would have been much more entertaining to go to 18 1up and have to play the final hole for the win/tie
As for my scores as far as I can remember them.
1 P( Ben Bogeyed hit drive in bunker, first hole jitters i suspect), 2 B, missed eagle putt, 3 par, 6 par, 7 would have been par, 8 par, 9 Birdie, 10 i think we both birdied, 11 i made par, burned edge for bird, 12 par, 13 made a 13 ft for bird to save hole, 14 made another 10+ ft to save hole, 15 birdie, 16 hit that dart to 3 feet and made bird, 17 par and Ben would have parred without the penalty
As for the tourney I think it was run amazingly well and I was pleasantly suprised how well things did go,especially in the team matches. Kudos to you Corwyn for taking that on and making this happen and to the Captains as well for their time, and everyone else for participating and showing up and playing, I enjoyed it
I think qualification is only needed when you have a huge turnout. Seems this time around there were just enough people to make it happen. If there were more then I think you need to do qualifiers to make it fair. As far as match pairings I think you did it as its done in real life, so all good there. I know slightly modified but it has to be that way as we have schedules to consider
I think worst ball was a good alternative to alt shot. Can only hope the WGT will add UEL to alt shot
I think having a messaging system would be fantastic. Even one you could set a group up in, like a chat room that e1 can log into. Challenge here is if all involved would be willing to download and use such software etc. Would be nice if WGT just had some kind of chat client we could use from the WGT page. Not sure much more could be done as far as getting people the info. You posted on the thread, sent pms, told the players to send pms to each other. All that is left is callling them or going to their house, which is a bit much. If you can't follow a thread and read a pm that lays out all instructions as you did Corwyn, then you probably shouldn't be playing in WGT at all, let a lone a community based event like this.
I felt the time frame was fair. Sure faster would be nicer, but as we saw some peoples schedules only overlapped once per week, especially with team events. Seeing as virtual golfing isn't our profession, well at least not for most of us, we all have lives outside of here, work and family and playing other WGT events. So giving a week to complete each part of the event, I think was a fair amount of time. More time would be too much I think and less time I think would be good but I don't think you would get all the matches completed unless you had a lot bigger teams with more alternates, with alternates on standby for just about every match.
I would be open to both suggested events. I agree with mags not abig fan of starter kit, but I woul give it a shot and certainly would do an UEL on pinehurst when it arrives
Again Great job. Had a blast. Good luck to those who have matches remaining