first, welcome to the game :)
second, my advice is get yourself in a nice country club,
read more about country clubs here:
http://www.wgt.com/help.aspx#cc
and "shop around" here:
http://www.wgt.com/forums/18550.aspx
best thing about joining a country club
is having friends to play with.
if the cc owner is good, he won't tolerate quitters,
so when you play with your cc members, most chances are
they won't quit on you.
another option is to play alternate shot or skins,
ppl tend not to quit as much,
since there's no individual scoring involved.
good luck ;)