Sorry, I got pissed, guys. But honestly, if the OP had been an old time Legend, would you have been quite so quick to dismiss the idea with such a condescending attitude?
Yeah, it's a brain fart, but we all have them. However, like I said, if you use the wrong meter on a putt, it's just one stroke, but if you click the wrong button and Tee Off on a single play tourney, it can screw up the whole tournament.
And a little more on the Enter, but not immediately playing thing. I always enter all the free weekly and monthly tournies when they first come out, to see the playing conditions. I don't play them right away, because I have a week or a month to do so. And when you play a multi-rounder, after the 1st round, since you've already entered, that Tee Off button is always looming.
I don't enter RGs, then go mow the yard, go shopping, or take a nap. But I might go warm up with a CTTH and use a cheap ball. Then, come back an tee off the RG, and find I still have that freaking cheap ball.
And there's a recent thread where several old timers admit they have played tournies with the wrong equipment.
I've been casually looking through leaderboards before, and next thing I know the game is loading up. I hit Tee Off instead of a leaderboard and didn't even realize it.
And sometimes, though this has never screwed me up, but I imagine it could, the game client can lag a little, and though you've clicked on a different tourney, the interaction box for the previously highlighted tourney stays up for a few to several moments.
You got to admit, there are several things here that are backwards. Tournaments have definite finish times, but they don't have definite start times. You have to confirm quitting a tournament, but you don't have to confirm starting a tournament.
I just think it would be nice, if when you hit Tee Off, that your equipment came up so you could see it, and hit Confirm or Cancel. If you confirm the wrong equipment, then yes, you should have to play with the wrong equipment.
Yes, I know, that Edit My Clubs button is there right beside the Tee Off button. But, that also makes it easy to hit the wrong button. Just like having the Leave CC button up there right beside the Create CC Tourney button has apparently led to a lot of folks accidentally quitting their CC, because they aren't asked to confirm it.
I don't come here asking WGT to change the whole freaking game, because my shots don't go where I think they should, like some folks. But there are a few things that WGT could very easily do that could save some of us a lot of frustration, and this is one of them.