Today match at Kiawah:
I was at fairway 245yds distance, used 245wood, against the wind 9mph, hit the ding and I was aiming little bit to left side of hole. and what happened ? ball flew away 260yds + totally at right side and out of bounds (lost ball). At the moment I was thinking that I have hallucinations and could not believe what I saw. Next try totally same setup and ball landed very nice close the hole. But its not the end. Opponent (friend) was at fairway too, 242yds distance, he used 240wood and ball flew exactly at the same place like my first shot and same distance 260yds. It was like copypaste shot. We both were angry and could not believe it. Its was totally weird ! And sometimes I think about same thing as you. Did they implemented some script for it to force players to buy balls more often?.?. This crazy things were so rare at past (years ago) but nowadays it is standard thing in game and happens at one game per month minimally, and sometimes maybe more often. But new owners = new rules. And did you looked what updates they brought for last year? Its full of new shop items but no gameplay updates for long. I know they will say that they did updates at backround without public information about what they did and this is so strange for me ! Because every online game give players list of things with info about updates, fixes etc...with detailed information about it !
It would be nice if wgt bring same update log like all developers ! Because how we can know what they change, and how to be aware of changes if we dont know what they did !
And for your problem with customer support: check spam or other folders at your mail, because I have only great experience with wgt support ! Its the best customer support so far. And I play many other online games, and sometimes I need to wait for answer for weeks, sometimes months ! Especially Valve support is one of the worst and Valve is company worth around 2 to 4 billion $. And their number of employees is around 360 people (imagine that Valve is Steam owner and they have 10,504,795 online user right now) ! ! But they support sometimes looks like there are monkeys behind pc and copypaste same answers to you without any interest about what you asked for.