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What on earth is going on?!?

• oilyrag 875 Posts

  Fri, Jun 22 2012 8:58 AM

  xXxxMARCxxXx:

  Not even a Moderator response......hmmmmmm

  a question for chad ....... that won't get answered then :)

   

• SPINO1 5,394 Posts

  Fri, Jun 22 2012 3:52 PM

  What a shocking display from wgt this is.................. no reply wgt ! This thread surely warrants a reply. Your biggest tournament has become a sham.

• 912 Posts

  Sat, Jun 23 2012 1:38 AM

  This is not a sham At all from WGT BUT ITS OUR OWN FAULT no one elses, although there may have been confusion about the dates this will be clarified in future, so no need to worry.

  This is a response i got fromChad, and please be open minded. as Stated It is only confusion and not a sham at all.

  We realize there is confusion with the dates posted and this is something we have scheduled to fix for an upcoming release.  Stay tuned and thanks for the kind words!

  - MisterWGT / CN

• mantis0014 8,946 Posts

  Sat, Jun 23 2012 4:15 AM

  Everybody has to play within Wgt Times and dates... If you ask me on the other side of the world, I have no Idea what those times are...lol.

  Eg; in the Last Nation Open... I played my 3rd round on Sunday Morn and just by chance.. checked my standing on the Leaderbourd and it said that round4 is open, this was Sunday night(same day)... If I played that round the next day (my Time) I would have been too late...hmmm

  We all have to be careful with times and dates..

  I've noticed in the past with all the High Stakes R/Go's... they might take ages to fill, then all of a sudden in the last minute they start to fill up... Just like somebody clicks there fingers....lol... As somebody said before... Does it matter if you play the game first or last.

  -Roger

• JaLaBar 1,254 Posts

  Sat, Jun 23 2012 8:10 AM

   

  We realize there is confusion with the dates posted and this is something we have scheduled to fix for an upcoming release.  Stay tuned and thanks for the kind words!

  - MisterWGT / CN

   

   

  Except I complained quite loudly and vociferously last year at the Brit Open when qualifying ended 'a day early' as this round did, and they compensated me, but they left the dating of tourneys the same.  At that time, 11 MONTHS AGO, I also sent them an e-mail stating "Everyone else in the world considers the use of a hyphen seperating dates to mean 'X through Y', please change your dating policy to reflect that".  Had they had their heads out of their orifices 11 MONTHS ago, this would not have happened.

  And of course, I find it quite freaking annoying that when it burned me, they didn't feel it needed changing, but NOW they realize it's a problem.

• thebigeasy707 5,885 Posts

  Sat, Jun 23 2012 9:18 AM

  We realize there is confusion with the dates posted and this is something we have scheduled to fix for an upcoming release.  Stay tuned and thanks for the kind words!

  - MisterWGT / CN

  ok folks WGT have recognised the issue. Time to let it go. Certainly no sham.

  i was more surprised by the treacle green speeds on round 2.....because it's given people too long to practise playing darts.

  championship greens & mod winds was what i expected.

  looking forward to Muirfield next year.....if WGT can get the Muirfield Stuffyheads to accept.

   

• TarheelsRule 5,581 Posts

  Sat, Jun 23 2012 9:31 AM

  While I can feel the pain that you must be feeling of making the cut and not getting to play, you have to take responsibility.  You didn't read the rules, you can't use the excuse that I never read the rules - ask Dustin Johnson how that played out in the PGA a few years back.  If you are playing in a PGA event, a local club event, etc. you have to check to make sure you know your tee time, nothing different here.

  WGT is played all over the world.  The time can't be stated in terms for every player in the world.  There are overlaps in terms of days.  It is Saturday here but Sunday if I go more east.  It is the players responsibility to take control of things like this.

  The countdown clock is good, saved me a few times when I wanted to keep my days played bonus going.  A few times I have forgot that the cut off time is not based on midnight in my time zone............that is my fault not WGT.

  The green speed, I'm not in the tourney this year.  I did play a practice round with a fellow club member under those conditions.  I think it is great, what a curve ball that WGT threw at the players.  Going from championship green speed to slow.  Green speed and winds are the only real variable that WGT has, I think it was a stroke of genius and the fact that people are talking about it is the proof.  Similar to championship green speed at Oakmont when we played there or the 30 plus MPH winds when we played at St Andrews and Royal St George.

   

• oksymoron 110 Posts

  Sat, Jun 23 2012 9:55 AM

  jeffdos924:

  Unless someone is a total newb, there's not a lot of excuse for making that mistake.

   

  then we all are newbs

• Minkywinkster 1,777 Posts

  Sun, Jun 24 2012 7:32 AM

  Show me a man who reads the rules for every WGT tournament and I'll show you a man who either has a lot of time on his hands or is an out and out liar

• TarheelsRule 5,581 Posts

  Mon, Jun 25 2012 11:14 AM

  I agree with your statement Minky but my comment would be that if I play in a tournament and don't read the rules then I have no basis to complain when I do something that would have not been done if I had read the rules.

  I admit that I often play without reading all the rules and I also agree that WGT should have a countdown clock for tournaments, esp a major like the US Open.  That being said, a simple check of the rules would have solved this problem.

  I can understand WGT not responding to this.  What can they say, they had the rules set forth correctly.  The time issue is something that everyone has to deal with, obviously it is more difficult to those outside the US but once again the rules state the time.