WGT is getting even more weird. The News mentioned new awards. I played Bethpage tonight. I birdied the first hole and won 6 awards. At the end of the round (I shot a 37), there were 2 more awards. But today I also won the "April Edgewood Tahoe Challenge Gold Skill Challenge Cup" award. My memory was a little hazy, but it turns out to be a tournament I entered on April 1. I finally found the Leader Board. On that page it showed a little box with my current average and "Position 4539." The Leader Board shows the top 250 in the tournament. I wasn't among them, so I guess I was 4539th.
Is there a link to something that explains the point of the awards. I assume we all have a ton of awards. So what? But I really don't get that Gold Skill Challenge Cup award. Why doesn't WGT explain what I did to earn that award? Was it because I placed 4,539th? What did the golfer who placed 4,000th get -- the Unbelievably Brilliant Unsurpassed Talent Diamond Belt?
WGT is like a world assembled by robots who have studied golf and humans, but don't quite get either one. I suppose they can't send someone a message saying "Congratulations on placing 4,539th." But awarding that person a Gold Skill Challenge Cup is equally bizarre.
Oh well, back to the problems of the real world -- meter skip, and puzzling over how a 120 yard club can hit a ball 131 yards uphill into a 10 mile an hour headwind.